thecyclist

Thanks for the info.Good to know that running is permissible, might get myself some swimming goggles, to prevent sweat from running into my eyes while walking/jogging.

Will this specimen ever go away? Like a huge turd that won't flush. And now there is a third generation of these turds?? I need to hit the WC to puke.

Not a pool guy anyway. Yes, I moved from Thailand to Vietnam in 2017, and lived there till after the Pandemic. Since the borders opened again I have been biking or flying back and forth Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia. I shopped around in all 3 countries, been to dozens of eye clinics and hospitals. Decided to have it done in Vietnam, because a private hospital here is approximately the same price as a government hospitals in Thailand. Paid 14mil đồng =20000 Baht for a monofocal lens. Bangkok hospital Rayong, the Pattaya International hospital wanted 60 to 70k Baht for the same.

No, only one eye, the other eye is still 90 %, Interesting that you say improvement takes a few days I was expecting immediate 'clarity ', but 24 hours after the surgery, there is only a slight improvement, it's still pretty blurry. Also I have a halo around neon lights.I thought that was a common side effect of the trifocals. That was one of the reasons, besides cost, why I picked a monofocal lens.

Absolutely, although I heard that there are certain individuals with mushroom penises that don't want the world to know about their organ and its activities, and are willing to spend 130000 $ for non disclosure. What was his name again?

Yeah, the one about the racist Mountain Dew, which was good anyway....pause...I love you guys. JD is so full of sh.t., it's embarrassing even by MAGA standards.

That eye guard looks much better than what they gave me.I asked them for something like this ,but they said no, or they didn't understand what I was talking about. The Vietnamese are pretty much set in their ways, not the most flexible minds. Will see whether something like this is available in pharmacies. How are you supposed to sleep wearing these:

Don't forget, Donnieboy has been accused of sexual assault/rape by lots of women While I am usually somewhat skeptical about rape claims against affluent gentlemen by not so affluent ladies,in the case of the orange one ,his outsized sense of entitlement and infantile egocentrism, makes them highly credible.

I just underwent Cataract surgery in a provincial hospital in Vietnam. Most of the post operative instructions were given with the help of Google translate, and varied somewhat from nurse/doctor to nurse/doctor. It's unbelievable how many nurses and doctors attend to you pre and post surgery, more than 20 at least. I assume that they err massively on the side of caution. No exercise/sport for three weeks will be the Most difficult part for me to maintain. I am a very active person, and that long without it when you feel perfectly healthy ,and energetic, is almost tantamount to torture. Then there is the sleeping on your back with the protective glasses on for 3 nights. I have never been able to sleep on my back, and even if I managed to fall asleep after taking a high dose of Zolpidem, I would certainly roll over in my sleep, and the glasses would fall off. I know that there are many elderly, aging expats in Thailand that had cataract surgery. What are your personal experiences with the post operative care.Not talking about application of eye drops for 3 weeks, that is easy to comply with, and is no inconvenience. I don't want to take any unnecessary risk ,but if there is a 0.001 chance of complications, if I do sports again after a couple of days or a week, I am willing to take the risk.

Exactly, a good education and minimal intelligence makes you kind of Trump proof . I can't see how a decent human being can vote for DT. But there is a lot of resentment against the mainstream establishment(Biden is a part of it), that hasn't delivered for the working class in 40 years. Trump has harnessed that resentment. But he isn't going to deliver for the working class either, on the contrary he will screw them over big time to further enrich the super rich

Absolutely, it has to be crushed. It won't be easy,though, considering that the whole GOP has gone full MAGA.

It doesn't matter much. Every fascist movement in history was doomed from the start, because they always self-destruct in the end.Their megalomania makes sure of that.The only question is the toll.

The most dangerous aspect of Bangkok is the traffic, every time you cross a street you risk your life. Everything else is negligible in comparison, unless you consort with ladyboys.

There is a strong correlation between being a Trump cultist and low intelligence/educational level. The orange retard gets most of his support from the left behind non college educated white population. Fascists have always preyed upon the uneducated, that s why we get book banning/burning. As Bertrand Russell said, first they fascinate the fools, then they muzzle the intelligent .

I chose my university and lecturers carefully, so that couldn't have been me. Kind of doubt you ever attended a university, not even as a student, let alone as a lecturer.Unless it was Trump university.

If you want your brain to shrink, your IQ to drop to retarded level, get completely brainwashed, take a couple of social science lectures with Professor Yellowtail.

It's pretty synchronized in Vietnam:glasses are filled, everybody stands up, they shout something in unison, and then they all have to empty their glasses. Never seen it done with non-alcoholic beverages ,though.

A bottoms up kind of routine, for good health and luck, maybe.

I usually get my Cambodian e-visa in 2 days.With it you can use Poipet and Had Lek .Have never been asked for any additional payments with e-visa. No sticker either. Visa on arrival takes up a full page plus stamps. They usually ask you for an additional 5$ "stamping fee/bribe" on top of the 30 $ ,just say no.

The mysterious 7th person. A new Netflix crime series coming up soon.

A genius, really. Einstein was a genius. Musk hires teams of scientists and engineers to design things for him .some of them might be geniuses, Musk ,while certainly smart, is no genius, although, like a lot of the superrich they ecxel in ambition and insatiable greed.

Is it though??Yes the neoliberal order, the age of corporate fascism, allows individuals to amass unbelievable amounts of money/power, turn societies into pseudo democratic plutocracies, the likes the world hasn't seen since the Egyptian pharaohs. So , by any rational, moral, commonsensical measure, his wealth (and power) is illegitimate.

There are some bars in Pattaya where more than half of the girls had a boob job.Some look more natural than others. Usually they say they paid around 100k Baht. Better a boob job than a nose job, I can almost always tell when a Thai girl had her nose done, looks so unnatural with a farang nose You can't touch/squeeze the nose anymore , with the fake boobs fondle away

Most tourists maybe, but a sizable minority do want to stay longer, and some of them can't be bother with visa applications or extensions. I am one of them, several times over the post covid period, I stayed only 30 days ,would have stayed longer, but decided to spend more time ,and money, in Cambodia and Vietnam.

You are spot on ,but it's impossible to argue with the MAGA nitwits, and that beachfreak... is one of the dumbest of a retarded lot.