Dr B

I think you will find that it is basically the same as the box junction sign in some other countries, for example the UK and Australia. There is one in front of our local Lotus's, between the main ground level entrance and the Pizza Company opposite, which is also the footpath from Lotus's to the covered motorcycle park. I assumed that it meant no stopping, in accordance with your post. Some months ago I was driving across the yellow box, slowly but closer to the saloon in front of me than normal, on the assumption that he would not stop, when he suddenly did. I was too close to pass without reversing, so I tooted my horn. He signalled with his arm for me to pass, but at the same time the farang in the rear seat opened the offside door, so I still could not get past. Eventually made my way to one of the aisles in the covered car park, and was reversing into a space when the same car reappeared, stopped in the aisle, and the driver got out. I have no idea what would have happened, but suspect that it would not have ended well for me, as I had upset his ego. My wife intervened and apologised on my behalf, which I certainly would not have done, so knowing the "rules" doesn't always help. I still believe that he, as a professional driver, had absolutely no idea what the yellow lines mean.

There are 15 posts above this, including 3 from "quake" who got it wrong but then admitted it. 9 of the remainder could not even be bothered to read the OP properly before hitting the keyboards with their bile and venom. Pathetic and disgusting at the same time. There is nothing that says that Charlotte Austin went to Cambodia. That was Parichat who was paid to set up a Thai bank account. The group then scammed money from Austin into the Thai bank account, quite possibly using the same or similar routine as that described by "bfc180". Faced with documents that nearly fooled a judge, video calls that appeared to be from an official police officer and threats of prison, what would you superintelligent tough guys do? If you cannot be bothered to read, that's fine, just don't start typing.

The photograph on the front page shows an AOT member of staff, presumably a nurse, and wearing some sort of plastic apron. The photograph above appears to show and empty "Health Control" area, and two AOT staff wlking past. Presumably arriving passengers need to have placards round their necks clearly stating that they are carrying "Disease X", probably in 3 languages, so that they can be picke dout by the vigilant officials. That should work.

I had misunderstood the OP, because the TURP was described to me as a procedure, and was done as an outpatient. I had had an enlarged prostate for a few years (85 ml) with increasing issues of getting caught short, especially when driving. Had a TURP with no unusual issues, just a bit of stinging and bleeding for a few days, but the TURP debris showed some signs of cancer. Carried on for a few years monitoring PSA, which rose from 2+ to just over 4. Was then recommended either surgical removal or radiotherapy, and opted for the latter. Had to have a minor procedure to remove a bit of scarring from the TURP, and also have ADT. The combination of the TURP and the ADT had reduced my prostate back to 25 ml! That meant that I could have the more intensive radiotherapy in 4 weeks not 8. All went well and the therapy was very easy, would have gone back for more! The after effects, stinginag and bleeding, including blood clots, started a few months later and went on for18 months. Now all over, no more stinging, no more blood, quite often do not even need to go once in the night, e.g. last night 6 am. PSA has been between 0.1 and 0.2 since the therapy in late 2019, in Australia. I have now found an excellent urologist at Krabi Hospital. Carried out a endoscopy, and sees me very 6 months. Just one medication which my Australian urologist confirmed was good. Hope that helps.

It is a very obvous fact that there are many homosexual people in the world, and almost all of them, except perhaps for some of the very youngest, will have been raised by heterosexual parents since other options were not available when they were young. So you would be very hard pressed to show that the sexual orientation of the parents has anything to do with the sexual orientation of the children. My partner had three daughters, but the middle one was adopted by her elder, childless, sister and her husband, both of whom are heterosexual. That middle daughter, who has a well paid professional job in the global market, has a relationship with a female. Certainly no suggestion there that the family was any sort of influence on how her perferences turned out.

No dispute with that, but the plans had been there since 1975, so it was hardly unforeseeable.

Getting yourself fluent in Thai is fairly obviously a good goal, but will take time and dedication. There are a few things that might help in the meantime: 1 You mention tenses. Please understand that the Thai language does not have tenses in the Latin sense. They indicate the future by using the sound "ja", which translates as "will", and the past by using the sound "kui", which means "ever". This already shows the difficulty of writing in English sounds which we do not make in English. 2 Sentence structure. Following from the above, a sentence in English might be "I have never been ...." In Thai this would be "Mai kui pai ....", literally "not ever go". Similarly with "What do you want to eat? I will go and get ir for you." In Thai this becomes "Want eat what? Go buy come give." (Yak gin arai pai sue mah hai). 3 English sounds. Most Thais in Thailand who speak English learnt it from school here, like my wife. Her spoken English is not good, because the teachers are not fluent in English and teach English through Thai sounds. Her elder daughter also learned English here and has the same problem, even though she has lived In Australia for about 12 years. Her younger daughter learned no English in Thailand, but has learned it all in Austtralia where she speaks excellent English without an accent. So you need to adapt. Most people are nervous speaking in a foreign language in which they are not confident. Thais expect that people will laugh at them if they get it wrong. I find that, in reality, most foreigners finding a Thai who tries to speak English will be grateful and encourage them, and that is helped by the redundancy in the English language. I try to increase my confidence when speaking in Thai, and generally do OK. However I get frustrated when my wife finds my efforts amusing, so I can understand if your gf picks up your negative responses quickly, and reacts. When speaking Thai it is always complicated by the opposite of redundancy, through the tones. By using the wrong tone you are not just making the wrong sound, you are saying a completely different word, which has a meaning, even if the wrong one. That makes it much harder for the listener to guess what you were trying to say. Hope that helps

I have no idea why any compensation was paid to anybody. The land for the airport was bought by the Thai Government before 1975. The Master Plan for the whole site was public in the early 1990s, when design work started, and more so when construction of permimeter bunds and earthworks started in late 1990s. With the first two runways complete, work was already well advanced on the third runway in May 2006, see attached. It was no secret that it was planned that there will eventually be four runways, so it didn't need much "due diligence".

This one case is like a small scale model of everything that is wrong with the Thai political system and Thai bureaucracy. The Ministry has overall responsibility, but does nothing to check if the laws are being followed. The Department has the next level of responsibility, and issues licences, but does nothing to check on whether or not the licence conditions are being followed. The Board has responsibility for how the premises are run, and each member draws his or her salary, but does nothing to check on the actual running, and even reports its own staff to the police! The low hanging fruit, being the probably miserably paid staff doing the actual daily care without adequate training or resources, will be left to take the blame, and all those who could and should have prevented the abuse will walk free.

You have the right idea, which is much more than can be said for GammaGlobulin, who is best left locked in his compound, as he subsequently stated. Not knowing t, we are better to use v^2 = u^2 + 2fs in the vertical direction, so u = 0, f = g and s = max 10 m coming down from the 3rd floor. That gives the impact velocity less than 10 mph. "I try to never leave my gated house, my compound." was the best thing you said. Next try to not write about stuff you don't understand. Will a fall of about 10 m in fractions of a second air resistance is unquntifiable and irrelevant. Please enetertain me by showing how YOU CAN use F=ma to derive all the equations required to know how fast the car was travelling when it impacted the ground.

She has had nearly three months, and still needs more! With such incompetence how can she p;ossibly run the country?

If the statement in the OP is correct, then her lack of diplomatic skills is showing. As of now, and until 6 January 2025, he is not Presient Trump but President-elect Trump. President Biden is still the incumbent of the Oval Office.

I love it when people write scientific stuff that they do not understand. F = ma will only tell you the force the vehicle exerts on the ground, if you know its mass. I think you will need v^2 = u^2 + 2fs. Good luck. I think you will find that it is about 17 m/hr.

We can only hope that you do not drive at all, since there seem to be serious problems with your eyesight.

Just to get the facts straight, from what I have read about this since his return, he has never received a Royal pardon. His sentence was commuted from 8 years to 1 year, which is not the same thing, although the "journalists" employed by AN and Thaiger, as well as many on this forum, do not seem to understand the difference.