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How does one show progress but no results?

No. Not at about US$2050/oz.

On 5/2/2023 at 12:49 PM, Bday Prang said:

Thank god for that I'll sleep easier tonight, as long as you're sure

Sleep well......................... I am sure.

On 5/2/2023 at 12:49 PM, Bday Prang said:

Thank god for that I'll sleep easier tonight, as long as you're sure

Sleep well; I'm sure.

14 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Its the closest the Thai's will ever get to an F35 after the Chinese sucking with subs  enjoy ????

I'm pretty sure that the Nimitz air group (CAG17) flies only F/A-18s of different varieties as their fighter/attack squadrons - no F-35s.

11 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

And yet Biden is delivering across the board.

 

 

Yep, delivering hundreds of thousands of undocumented, illegals and delivering for the Chinese and Ukrainians, after of course The Bidens.  For his own country, not so much.

On 4/15/2023 at 6:08 AM, nigelforbes said:

 "Despite trying to play the informed tourist guide role, she was convinced that virtually every Thai female she saw was a hooker and that the entire country had been given over to the sex trade......... "

 

Your niece is pretty smart. You're right.

18 Billion, 23 Billion............................just silly.

That's it?  A singing and dancing violation?  With every bit of chicanery indulged in to retain power by this military coup leader and authoritarian strongman with no respect for law, Thai people or anything else that doesn't line his pockets and those of his cronies and he gets a singing and dancing violation.

That should right the ship for sure.

6 hours ago, crouchpeter said:

I've been using Thai dentists for 25 years. I'm happy with the work and costs, (although starting to go up). I've had crowns, bridges, RCT's, fillings, and am in the middle of having an implant. The secret, I think, is to use female dentists. They don't have the problems of "face", "machoism", and racism that male dentists often have.

I think you're right.  My dentists in Thailand have all been women.

On 3/27/2023 at 6:10 AM, placeholder said:

Rupert Murdoch's  NY Post is now the far left?

Nah.  Trump and the Post are in a symbiotic relationship with the same objective - gaining ears and eyeballs.   Trump is first and foremost a showman, playing to the crowd - any crowd - with evocative teasers - anything to keep the camera/NY Post focused on him.

I recently read an older post on a travel site where the poster compared the Pattaya Beach to Jomtien.  Neither fared well.  Not much seems to have changed. Having been fortunate to see a lot of top ocean beaches from the States to the Caribbean, to Hawaii, Vietnam, Phi Phi, Kho Phayam, Koh Larn, Koh Phai and Abu Dhabi, I know a good ocean beach when I see one.  One wonders if the local authorities have ever actually ever been to the really best beaches/seaside resort towns among which high rollers can choose.

Course sand, opaque water and occasional reports of turds floating around aren't helping our "seaside resort" that publicly touts it's beaches as a major attraction, while in private many people think it must be the loose women.

Does anyone regularly report on the chemistry of the ocean water of the Pattaya or Jomtien beaches?  Say from 40 or fifty meters off shore?  "Face" being what it is, one wonders if publishing the bacteria counts once a week might be illuminating if not motivating.  I know publicly publishing the daily chlorine and PH levels of hotel swimming pools keeps everyone attentive.  There must be independent engineering firms who do this sort of stuff.  Maybe "Asean Now" could publish the data.

Thanks for the insight.  Covid likely did less damage to the local businesses and neighborhood than this travesty.

Is Civil Engineering one of those professions reserved for Thais only?

Soi 15 runs between Second Road and Soi Buakhao, behind "Avenue."  Construction to put in new six foot diameter piping and junction boxes has been going on since before Thanksgiving (November 2022).  Virtually no work has been done since before Christmas with about half the Soi finished, about a quarter of it in dirt/dust/mud with iron plates all over.  The part from Soi Buakhao isn't touched yet.

The dirt and dust is astounding, turning to mud and puddles when it rains or when local businesses throw water on the Soi to try to keep the dust down.  Traffic can be held up for a long time. 

Anyone know the story? 

I know, TIT, but geez....................

I don't know about your bank of choice, but Bangkok Bank has dollar denominated accounts so you can stash a chunk of the cash proceeds in dollars and play the exchange rate game as appropriate.  I've used it for almost four year with no problem,  Set up at the Central Branch here in Pattaya.

Civil engineering either in drainage or in road design are not particularly strong suits for many Thai people holding those jobs, particularly in Chonburi Province..

I was just in Chiang Rai for four days, three of which had steady rain, sometimes torrential.  Plenty of curbs, plenty of streets, no flooding whatsoever.  Pattaya is weird, torential rain for an hour or less (not three days) and the place is rivers and lakes.  Go figure.

Sad story.  COPD/Emphysema are very debilitating illnesses.  And they are preventable illnesses.  I lost a friend who had COPD who made it to 94, but was tethered to an Oxygen tank for her last fifteen years or so.  She quit smoking in her forties, but the effects finally settled in thirty years later.  I'm 77 and healthy thank God; I'm not sure there's a "Use By Date" for people and sure hope this fellow recovers. For the fellow who want to hang it up after a "full life" of sixty or seventy years, Godspeed. The speculation about this fellow's financial and insurance situation is silly and a little cruel.  Something is going to kill me, I'm sure of that, so while I have insurance, my plan is to not fight nature and take my licks. 

On 7/11/2022 at 4:03 AM, zzzzz said:

When ? as it certainly was not recently.  extra blank pages were stopped jan 1st 2016

 

Thanks for that information.  It was before 2016.  A pity, seemed like a quick and easy solution at the time.

I had this issue in China and the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai added blanks pages to my then current passport. Not sure what the U.S. Consulate in Bangkok might do.

Try the Dental Design Center, Soi 10 off 2nd Road.  I've been going there for ten years.  Cheap, compared to US prices, excellent work and painless.  Nice people.

It was a Tuesday, cloudy and damp, with a light dew on the grass and on the metal of my old Buick.  Alas, I said to myself..................it's over.

And it was.