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"so I took his keys" - please elaborate

Thais cannot leave I don't know any foreigner who cannot leave - certainly some think is not worth it. I know several farang who have left, all of them married, very settled in Thailand

How successful have you been? Dis Amoxiclav work? Where you able to get carbapenems?

You have never known any Thais?

Not to forget, the security Thai police and army provide.

Maybe a third-world country is not the best place to eat raw food?

Old news. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, flights from Europe to East Asia have become longer and more expensive. It remains to be seen, how many flights will still be possible if Netanyahu succeeds in creating an Iran - Israel war with involvement of the US. Lufthansa, for instance, has already canceled flights to Israel and Iran. In theory, you could still fly over Georgia - Azerbaijan - Turkmenistan. But it will get crowded.

Just arrived at BKK, the new terminal (that they don't call terminal 2), seemingly reserved for Chinese. But then, the whole airport seems to be reserved for Chinese. And they behave like Chinese. The IO might have been Thai, hard to say - his new booth is fresh from China. Only when I went to 7/11 and 5 staff were completely overwhelmed by the 2 customers patiently waiting in line, unable to handle this onslaught of people who wanted to pay - only then I knew I am back in Thailand. Different folks for different folks. Who am I to judge.

It was grab (or maybe bolt), often lauded as so safe by farang, as opposed to normal taxis.

Mailbox Etc usually has a fax machine, and some of their staff know how to use it Also some internet/printer/copy shops I know one but its very far from Rangsit

Yes. If you are bitten and never had pre exposure vaccination, expensive immunoglobulin is recommended. It's not only expensive (19,000 for human rabies immunoglobuline would be cheap), it's also very hard to get. Most places in rural Thailand don't have it, that's why you will hear from many people that they didn't get it. It just wasn't avalable, but, of course, nobody told them. In Indonesia it is almost impossible to get outside Bali and Jakarta, I have known people airlifted (by their travel insurance) from rural Indonesia just to get rabies immunoglobuline. (Others I knew flew in panic from Mexico to Miami to get it, thousands of dollars and some very exciting days) In Laos and Cambodia outside the capitals, no way you will get it (and I don't think you would find it in Vientiane, either)

This is all very obvious. Otherwise I would pay my rent, electricity, water, phone and internet from my bank account abroad. Also girls, hotels, whatever. Even 10B for the motorcycle to the BTS I would pay by WISE within seconds. Tax-free living in Thailand?! I have really never understood why this should be different with gift tax. But then, I have never understood Thai gift tax anyway. For a start, I never got clarity who is the one who owes gift tax? The receiver or the gifter? Or both?? Is the gift tax somehow "owed by the gift"? This is how this is always phrased, and in that case I could imagine a gift sent directly from abroad to the receiver in Thailand to be tax-free for everybody, sender and receiver. No idea.

Yes. Amlodipine works fast, correct. But it often has side effects quite early in the treatment, eg leg edema, very common. Valsartan works not so fast. See how it goes.

Unfortunately, I agree. If ww feels like it, I have someone better than us mere mortals with whom he can discuss this issue: HMRC. If Ms X sends some of her billions from her Indian bank account directly to her beloved husband's bank account in London, HMRC considers this a taxable remittance of Ms X's money. What TRD thinks, nobody knows.

Thx, didn't know this.

I agree. But there are many farang here who give genuine gifts to in-laws, ex-girlfriends, village orphans, (step) children at university, you name it. Not the wife or live-in gf whith whom they share living expenses. Not buying a car "for the wife" that you will drive. The TRD official from one of the embassy videos did say these were tax free (if they fulfill the other conditions, like "customary", "moral obligation " etc)

Not much better. There are so few cases exactly because people and animals got vaccinated. It wasn't always like this: I got my training with videos of rabies patients from Thailand. Nowadays, they make these videos in India.

I have returned something that wasn't defective (but useless for me). But whereas BigC and Lotuss' give back money, MrD only let me find something else (could be a completely unrelated thing) for the same price

How?

Candidate for poster of the year. If it weren't such a deadly subject. You cannot see that a dog has rabies - they don't turn purple. Of course, they carry a big sign "I have rabies", sure. But it's in Thai, a language I am sure you cannot read. And of course you don't know anybody who has or had rabies. Nobody in Thailand or South East Asia has ever survived rabies, and you probably don't frequent ICUs and cemeteries. UK and Australia don't have rabies, btw, don't know where you are from. There are rabies patients in Thailand, not many, fortunately. All die.

Too high. You won't feel much, or maybe nothing, but you are destroying your arteries. Imagine a water hose designed for a pressure of 110 or 120, overloaded by 50% every day, every week, every month, 24/7, for years and years. It might not last forever - the result being a stroke or a heart attack. If it doesn't go down a lot more on valsartan talk to a doctor. BTW you really should sit down for 5 minutes without moving a lot before measuring BP. Do something boring during these 5 minutes, like reading the Bangkok News on AN.

The maximum effect of valsartan develops slowly, over a couple of weeks. How much was your BP before? Did you measure it after 5 minutes sitting still?

Without tests...sure, in countries like Thailand, India, Colombia. Only with tests in countries like Taiwan, Austria, the US. Can you spot the difference? Of course, rarely. If it weren't rarely that people die from itraconazole it wouldn't be on the market. But it has happened, apparently healthy, young people died from treatment of a toenail fungus. 555 I don't think so Anyway, OP asked for a topical treatment. Even if this often doesn't work, he can give it a try, why not? For OP: the diagnosis of toenail fungus is not that easy. Many doctors just look at it and say "it's fungus", but they are sometimes wrong. OTOH, the microscopic confirmation of fungus - which should be tried in any case - is not easy, results may be false negative. In a case where a dermatologist thinks it's fungus but fungus wasn't found, I would not hesitate to try a topical antifungal treatment - but not an oral treatment.

Don't forget what @conndasaid: Young, healthy people have died from buying itraconazole OTC. This is not candy.

You are playing semantics games, as so often. The point is that Thais as well as foreigners need to identify themselves with their (ATM or ID) card. BTW you wrote foreigners could do that (depositing money without ATM card like Thais can still do today) in the past, too. No, foreigners never had a Thai ID card. Sometimes you trip over your own hair-splitting.