Doctor Tom

Well we all know that it no use asking Monks for any help. They showed their true colours during Covid, all me., mer. me.

If I had been, I would still be in Jail.

Just bought 3 tins of the excellent 'Harry Ramsden's Baked Beans', from my local farang food shop, cost total was 330 Baht. Happy to pay that for what I want.

I don't anticipate any situation here that would force me out, but I guess Penang would get my first look, followed by Costa Rica and Panama . But I don't expect to be moving any time soon, unless its to the local temple for disposal.

You people crack me up. You need to get it into your stubborn heads that you have no rights here, no come backs, Get with the programme, the Thais don't care about your hurt feelings, your western views on mild corruption/over charging/duel charging, and as for your over reactions, well good luck with that idea, see how far that gets you, except nearer to a stroke or heart attack.

Some will, very many will not. You do it, they either slice you up with the kitchen knives, or do the same to you, in spades, then the new boyfriend does you over, having robbed you blind. Thai women invented the word 'jealous'.

I never feel like a local, because I'm not one. Forgot to add, and neither do I want to be one.

Mine will come up soon and I intend to use an agent to do the grunt work of transfer. I believe that the cost is reasonable, I have heard circa 5,000 Baht mentioned.

The kids here, most especially in badly run rural locations, are hardly ever in school , doing serious learning. Too much, play, dressing up for various functions and festivals, etc. Add various and numerous holidays and days off and they all lose valuable learning time in those early years. I just don't get it, as Thailand has the examples of excellent education on their doorstep, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan , Korea. When my mixed race daughter was born, 24 years ago, we moved her to the West for her education, from primary, right up to and including University. No way were we going to leave her in the clutches of the Thai education system.

Then forget Lazada and go to 'Tuk Com' or 'Power Buy' and see what you are getting first hand. And talk to the people there. Its risky buying any technology on Lazarda, or other online outlets, where you don't know where the kit is coming from, or its authenticity.

Don't be naive, this is a war, 50 million died in the last big one, WW2, that's what war does, people die, supposed innocents die, true innocents die. War is a human condition,. it has been so ever since humans have roamed the Earth. It will always be so. Just hope that you and yours don't get caught up in one. And If you do, well, its one of the prices of being human and sentient.

I have never seen window condensation in my house. I operate a 'closed house', so doors and windows are closed unless doors are being used to entry/exit. A third of the house is aircon 24/7. Inside temperature ranges between circ 23 degrees in the aircon bit and 28 in the none aircon bit. There is no kitchen in the main house, that is in a separate building, although we do microwave and brew coffee in the main house.

Its her ass thats the wrong way around

The issues with that approach is knowing how you should feel and be like medically at your age. A set of test data points from a bog standard medical check really can tell you very little , unless there are other indications of ill health. The medical results are compared to a standard set of data points, that are far from personal to you, The PSA test is one such, as are many of the liver function tests. You end up asking yourself, well how should I feel at my age, I've never been this age before. You often don't get an answer from the medical people because they have never been your age before either. A good example of this is an enlarged prostate. That is entirely normal in older males. It doesnt mean cancer is present, or ever will be and even if it is, something else may well get you before that does. The uncomfortable fact is that we all die of something. My view is that if you have no other very obvious symptoms, bar those expected as you age, then just live your life and don't add worry to stress. Obviously, it seems sensible to remove the obvious negatives, don't smoke, eat well, eliminate sugar and, in my view, no alcohol at all. But this is all just my view of course.

My experience: spot on the neck that would not heal. Checked by Dr Poonsak, building D at BHP, biopsy, SCC found, removed, margins cleared, 10 stiches, cost, all in, was 62,000 Baht. Unfortunately, I'm going back to him next week to get a biopsy on another odd looking area. It's getting rather expensive, but it is what it is.

Its the 'United Kingdom State Pension', not the 'English State Pension'. Use the wrong terminology, especially with Government IT systems, and you are straight on the back foot with UK Civil Servants, who collectively, have the brain cells of a mouse. Good luck.

I suppose to you, judgmental that you are, say that my Father, and those like him, a Flight Engineer on Lancaster's during WW2, was a war criminal? You make me sick with your armchair judgments on the very people who give and preserve the freedoms you relish. Ever heard the term 'armchair Quarterback' ? You are a prime example.

Oh, here we go. Trying to make a moral equivalence argument. It won't wash.

They were in an enemy vehicle, in a foreign Nation, shooting back at me, good enough for me, and incidentally, the rest of the War coalition, including many Arab countries. Don't get on your moral high horse with me mate, you will lose ever time.

Not my war, I had left the military by then, but if I hadn't left, I would have followed my orders and gone, because at the time, I had no beef with the decision. Hindsight is a blind and ignorant basis for a view taken much later.

Really? What in Bosnia? In the Falklands? In Malaya as was? In Korea? I mean, really?

Well then I am your eyes. No doubt I may have killed a few 'bad uns', for which I do not apologise. The consolation for me is that 500 kts at 50 feet, over the desert, taking out Iraqi military assets was the best fun you could have with your clothes on.

You are wrong. Both legally and morally, individually or collectively, you are the citizen of your country and that collective responsibility cannot be shrugged off, unless you give up that citizenship. That is a fact. If my country went to war, I would go to war. Its why I spent 24 years in the UK military. Fortunately for me, my country is democratic and is not run by a bunch of psychopath criminals. My country is also not a peasant society, brough up to believe in blind obedience to mafia dictators.

We are not wingers, we just don't like a Nation and its citizens who are carrying out an illegal war and those here who, for whatever reason, are evading their responsibilities, either to follow their criminal government, or fight against it on the other side. So not winging. .

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