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Lorry

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  1. A thief once stole 45000 from a girl next door, she had it in her room, it was her tuition. In today's money, it would be more than 100,000. There were other students living there, some under 18. No hookers. And to shack up after 2 days is not that unusual with young Thais (or young people in many countries)
  2. Nothing went wrong. It seemed to me that it wasn't as effective as the Bayer stuff, but that was a very subjecive impression. I felt uncomfortable enough to spend several thousand baht more on Avelox. It didn't help that I didn't know the company, and few pharmacies carried their product.
  3. Sorry, my mistake. I confused BCDC with BIDC. (There's even a BSDC - can't these dentist be more creative?) I know nothing about BCDC. I asked mod to delete my post.
  4. Thailand is not a country where problems are solved through paperwork. This ain't Kansas.
  5. Interesting article in today's FT on the digital wallet as an experiment in central bank digital currency: The central government in Bangkok decides who gets it (not criminals, not who doesn't need it because they have already enough) when it can be spent (only whithin 6 months - save and lose your money) where it can be spent (only near your registered address - not in the City) what can be bought (no mobiles, no cigarettes) from whom you can buy (no criminals, only goverment-approved merchants) People love it. https://www.ft.com/content/9194ca11-7788-4a1d-a6cc-cffea18d0c9d One of the comments: The article only touches slightly on the evil that CBDCs represent. It is programmable money in the full sense of that word. It means it can be programmed with arbitrary conditions and clauses, as to what it can and cannot be used for, who can use it, what the interest rate is etc. It can easily perform economic ostricizm on any group deemed "undesirable" by the government. Do not fall for their talking points about it being "safe", "convenient" and "good", because then one day you might actually find yourself on the wrong end of the government policy.
  6. Mostly the tenant just keeps living there and paying the rent. Usually both parties are too lazy to produce new paper. It's different with farang, farang love paperwork
  7. I used to buy their generic moxifloxacin. I went back to buy Avelox from Bayer.
  8. It's fake??? We all thought it's you, handsome man
  9. Whoever laughed - why did you laugh?
  10. 3. Cialis (Tadalafil) 5mg daily. Same caveat about blood pressure as the alpha blockers. The side effects of Finasteride (basically, chemical castration) and Cialis (an ED drug) are quite the opposite. If combined, Cialis helps against the ED (you want but cannot) from Finasteride, but not against the loss of libido (you are not in the mood) from Finasteride.
  11. Its Dulcolax. Better to buy it in a pharmacy. BTW not to use regularly!
  12. I appreciate your post, but maybe you should include a clarifying footnote to tell readers whether it's meant to be a joke or not.
  13. Every doctor can tell you of many patients who left their BP untreated and had a stroke. GF's grandma was 73, average age at AN
  14. I can tell you some more things about immigration that are hard to understand...
  15. Some websites of embassies or consulates write that, they explain, that a tourist visa needs to be used within 3 months, so it's useless to apply earlier. They are talking about tourist visas.
  16. No. But I still wouldn't wait with my first entry until 2029. 5 years is a long time
  17. No problem. As this is not some aspirin, I would carry a prescription from my home country, just in case. It's not required but might make things easier if anybody is asking questions (very improbable). Nobody is going to count your pills, divide the number by the daily dose and find out that it's for 32 days instead of 30. This is not Germany. If anybody takes a look at all, it should look like it's for yourself, not for resale.
  18. A good "facilitator" - normally called interpreter - might actually save some money. Because the doctor can communicate better with the patient, he might see that some tests are unnecessary, or have been recently performed. Some medication may not be necessary to prescribe as the patient may have an equivalent from his home country. I have never seen a surcharge for an interpreter, it would be very unusual. The usual international hospitals don't do this, but God knows, maybe the newly opened private hospital at Nakhon Nowhere does?
  19. That's how real men do it. Jeffers is a whimp.
  20. He is not the top IO, he has nothing to do with immigration. He is a senior original from the MFA, a completely different branch of the Thai government. Now every embassy and consulate invents their own rules about the DTA. This was to be expected, even they are overseen by the MFA. How immigration will handle the DTA we just don't know. We will get a first idea when the first people re-enter, which could be any time soon. The real test will come in 2 or 3 years when immigration might not honor a DTV because "you live in Thailand, you are not a nomad" or "you are healthy now, no more need for medical". I wouldn't be surprised.
  21. That's the one I like most. Nice to hear it's healthy, didn't know that
  22. From China. I prefer locally sourced poisons, like cyanide. But, yes, I used to eat them, and I am still alive. And Goji are not food, they are considered a supplement. I am looking for Thai fruit as healthy as berries.
  23. This is what my current browser lets through from the international version. Note: I am nor especially security- conscious Just another Chinese spyware (remember Tiktok?)
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