Gilligan In Drag

This is a good site for keeping track of the air quality, tens of thousands of independent air quality reporting stations feed the map that is updated every hour or two. You can get an idea if its just the people in your village in a carbon for cooking fires production frenzy or is it a wider problem, also good to decide where to go for weekend and gives you a good idea of the level of nonsense we are fed from the climate change alarmists how it is all created by the west you can clearly see day in and day out 365 days of the year China, India and Thailand lead the world in air pollution. https://aqicn.org/map/world Smoke in the air does more than just damage your lungs, it wrecks your whole body, I have bladder cancer, supposedly a smokers disease and I have never smoked in my life, but I have lived in Thailand 24 years. Look around you, people routinely die in Thailand in their 50's and people will say that's a good ripe old age.I'm from a family of people on both parents sides who live well into their 90's, I will likely die in the next few years hardly above 60. Amazing Dieland I always call it. the aforementioned air pollution map:

I would not trust Thai doctors with my eyes, in fact my cataract is as a result of using medication prescribed by a Thai government university hospital doctor/opthamologist. I was alerted to the problem and warned off the medication by a third party by a pharmacist in Bangkok who was aghast regarding the medication I was asking to have refilled. He told me it was a ridiculously strong and dangerous medication to be using for my problem, he asked me with visble concern in his tone,"Who asked you to take this medicine? is this your idea or something? I said no I was given it for blepharitis by an eye doctor and due to go back to see her in a few weeks. His widened, "how long have you been using it, two weeks, three weeks?" I said "Four months." he nearly jumped out of his skin, "Oh my god man! STOP! DO YOU WANT TO LOSE YOUR EYESIGHT!" He kept asking me, "Are you sure you are still under the doctor's care and advice I said yes she keeps having me come back again and again, he said sounds like shes running an experiment on you and you need to stop using this medication and never go back to her office, Stop now!" My eyesight indeed was quickly degeneratingand I told him about it and he said surely its the medication. "That is the most disgusting thing i hjave heard all day, nobody uses that medication except for very serious conditions that won't clear up otherwise. i went to check with another specialist a Bangkok Hospital opthamologist who told me I now had a cataract and that the medication was a good cadidate for what caused the cartaract. She did want to get involved I don;t think and said she had never heard of the medication I was given and recommended I get surgery. The husband of a friend of my wife, has had his lenses in his eyes replaced and advised me "Don't do it. You'll be going in and out of the clinic to fix this fix that for the rest of your life, they trashed my eyes. They did a terrible job with the surgery and there's has been on and off complications for years" I think I'd rather go blind, utterly fed up with the medical profession.

And Merry Poppins is just the tip of the iceberg. Your just getting started with yer Merry Poppins and Dick Van Dyke and his top o' the morning to ya atrocities, and so It starts there and proceeds and before you know it you're in Shark bar on Soi Cowboy where the unspoken rule till after the fact of having ordered a drink is that a drink is actually two drinks, buy two and get only one and you have 15 minutes to drink it and get out or be charged for two more drinks and so on every fifteen minutes, but you didn't know that until you read about it 6 months later on Stickman. So what am I now, buying lady drinks for myself? Is that why I've come all the way from my turnip patch in Nova Scotia so that i can buy myself lady drinks? And then do something else they don't like, the first one being showing up anywhere near the bar in the first place, you should just leave them alone at the gogo bars in Thailand, theres plenty of supermarkets and great socks selections in the department stores in Thailand to spend your time on than to have to go to Soi Cowboy and they also have temples you can go to so leave the, alone stop imposing your culture and privilidge on them they want to be left in peace and quiet. So where was I? Oh yeah, do something else they don't like at Shark bar such as reject the two Pillsbury Dough girls who invited themselves to sit down with you initially and call someone else over who at least doesn't look angry and like they got run over by with the ugly rolling pin stick twice two many times for a drink logically leaving the only thing left to do with you is charge you for nine drinks, buy 9 get one and you can't drink it till you cough up the 3000 baht. We don't have any change and Throw 2 thousand more baht at them as a tip and the bouncers put you in a head lock and drag you out and you're good to go. But its OK, that happens to everyone now its just a misunderstanding that happens repeatedly fo 6 months to everyone who goes in there a failure of the bar staff to communicate, to learn quickly and they'll soon be putting it on the menus that you're under the gun as soon as you step in or so they tell me on Stickman!

I would guess the real intention is to help the big alcohol makers in Thailand create more barriers for smaller producers and importers of alcohol. As an importer you'd have to slap a label on the imports yourself. The upshot is people with little money to spend on alcohol are left the lowest quality stuff which is even more of a health hazard and encourages drinking for the sake of getting drunk only because it isn't enjoyable in any other way. But that is win for the alcohol companies because they likely invest in pharma and health care industries and piuck up more big money that way.

What complete crap the op is. Hey Wanchai, why don't you get a job! Or hey why don't you become a politician, you sound like one! Or here's a modest proposal, stop the thumb sucking and bed wetting and why don't write next week about how Thai people should vote for you because you are here to save them from these racist mysogynist draft dodgers! Draft dodgers?! Oh, I suppose they should just go and be slaughtered on the battlefields of Ukraine to help the Black Rock Investment group up their 13% direct control of the Ukrainian economy, right?! As MP and leader of the new Wanchai Hates Foreigners party you propose to Thai people just round up the scumbag draft dodger foreigners and put them in re-education prison workcamps, just like in North Korea that'll learn 'em! Out of the draft dodging frying pan and into Wanchais's Infierno!

They're trying to keep Stickman out of the country.

Not to dismiss the reality of this, as some kind of new thing, I suppose it depends on where you are from but my spidey sense is telling me this is all not going to come to anything. How long will it take them to actually enforce these rules, though I am not very well read on this issue, I haven't seen anything mentioned about how they plan to make this work. Are they really prepared to get the banks in on this, which I think they will have to, are they going to provide reporting forms in English, which they should if the idea is to start taxing foreigners. How many foreigners will just give up on paying taxes if they can't read the forms? Are they really going to send you a return if you overpaid? They are proposing to tax people who have very little income, about 3 thousand dollars a year is the starting point it looks like and you'll be paying them 150 dollars on that. If your income is 3 thousand dollars a year, you likely don't have 150 dollars lying around. And as you go up the scale, if i recall correctly, the percentage you owe increases very steeply, so I think even people earning a barely living wage will be hard pressed to pay the amount, its like 30 percent if you are making say 12,000 dollars a year. Again, on that kind of income, you won't likely be able to cough up 3,600 dollars. So have they got the fully armed with automatic weapons tax officials like the have in the United States to bust into your place and seize your asset, yes, thats singular, asset, as in a phone or a computer, if you don;t pay? I can't see that. Seems they will have to start working very closely with the banks and immigration, literally taking the amount before any money transfer arrives in your account. Thais don't like cooperating others if they feel they have significnt position or authority such as head immigration or head of a major nbank. I wouldn't think government officials would be trusted enough to be allowed near a bank and access to its files and operations as may ne needed in the case making the banks become arms of the government as tax collectors. Maybe things have changed recently, but I seem to recall a lot of talk about the Thai Tax organization, literally a family mafia, the Wongsawats having difficulty collecting taxes from most people. A good chunk of Thais do not respect tax authorities and rightly so. If you work for the government or as an employee of a registered business OK yes, your employer will have a motive to do tax collection for the government, but most people are rather lose ends and it is purely voluntary. Yer village papaya pok pok stand will not face any consequences for non-compliance. They may have the means to stop street vendors in Bangkok but theres another 40 million people at large outside of Bangkok. I'm suspicious that all of this is so that we don't completely forget who these people are. People on here say they are doing the right thing by paying, maybe if you are wealthy, otherwise I don't think so. You are not being left with enough to live on suddenly. You are depriving your family in lieu of handing a large chunk of your income to people who clearly are not benefiting the country and who themselves are not in any basic needs that you taxes will provide. For Thais, Education is not provided for, money for the old and disabled is a bad joke at 600 baht per month, health care for the poor is terrible, my step daughter has a serious condition, they say they will provide her meds, but they are often out of stock, and she would have a problem if she didn't pay out of pocket half the time. So I have a hard time believing, suddenly, the whole shabby mess has been whipped into shape and welcome to the machine, you will pay your tax whether you can or not, and no stone will go untaxed in Thailand.

The way I understand it is, If your country has a tax treaty with Thailand, and many do, you still only owe tax in your country if your country like the United States taxes you regardless of where you live. I don't owe th US anything because I make less than 70 thousand per year, so now it looks I'll have to pay Thailand taxes, unless paying no taxes because nothing is owed is considered paying taxes which I am sure they are not so generous as to alllow that.

Thailand must be getting obese, getting their snickers in a snot about fatso pants! Its simple dumbo, if you don't like it then with a flubbery heave to make your own elephant pants ya buncha Sponge Bobs! But noooooo, afraid of that, no easy fat bucks in any o'that so ya leave it to the Chinaman! Its your own fault Tuskar, no peanuts for you!

I filled out their form about a year ago, but they never answered. They are probably only interested in doing business with bars and stores which is what I'd like to know, where are these shops and stores because i will buy beer from them, these beers on this site are nowhere to be found anymore.

Thanks very much for that Ralf! Yeah there's som e good ones and a number I have never tried. The prices are low too!

Yes, I agree that sometimes they are bit old by the time you get to them. When Wish Beer was good I got almost entirely still good tasting beers, but I don't think there was a fifty bottle order that I ever made that didn't have a few bad ones, as in not stored properly and a bit off. Did you use the Oak Wine website I mentioned? They seem too good to be true and I hesitate, not to mention the nearest bank is 30 minutes away and thats the only payment they accept is a cash transfer. Still if I knew they were good I'd buy a few cases of stuff I haven't had in ten years because no one in Thailand will sell their beers despite for some people, those beers being the best in the world. I know, its a matter of taste, and you ask most Brits about Belgian beer and they respond something like "Yuck! Treacley crap!"

I mentioned in my post that I was aware of these beers and they are OK, Makro does not carry Leffe Ruby and Cuvee or any of their others, but yes I pick up a couple bottles of brown and blonde everytime I go to Makro or Tops up here in Roi Et. Villa used to have 4 types of Leffe and now only the blond and the brown. I think my point is I am looking for a way to get access to a wider array of ales and darker beers, such as was once available.

They used to carry these beers but no longer, there are no Trappist beers its just what you can get at the supermrket. They have listings of some of these beers but are constatntly out of stock, it looks as though there is no intention of stocking them.

I was just looking at Villa Market's web page and was glad it looks like I can order a lot of stuff I can't get up in Isaan. However, the selection of beers was really down from what was in the brick and mortar shops themselves say 5 years ago. To my taste buds and particular variety of alcoholism, just lots of the same beers but with different labels, IPA's, lagers and plain wheat beers leaves a lot to be desired. I really like heavier, darker beers, and it seems they are nearly extinct in Thailand now. Beer Lao dark is not really a dark beer in my book but more a lager with a bit of molasses thrown in. I was rather surprised that there were at least a hundred varieties of beer and cider listed on Villa, but not one stout beer. I've long noticed there is a thing about stout in Thailand, it's only ever available at certain bars, Guinness something available in corner shops just about all over the world has never been available in Thailand. Coopers, not my favorite stout but it will do, has seemingly completely vanished. Weinstephaner's line of beers is down to one basic wheat beer in the Tops supermarket in my town and not represented at all on Villa. Schneider Weiss, my favorite German wheat beer alchemist/brewer, makers of the phenomenal tap #6 Aventinus, and Eis Bock disappeared 15 years ago from Foodland, the alcohol section manager said there was a disagreement of some kind between Foodland and the Schneider-Weiss distributor, so the manager said Foodland was cut off. You could order it from Wish Beer, but Wish Beer is completely gutted these days, very little of anything. 7-8 years ago I stopped into Villa Market Tonglor and they had a very good selection of Belgian beers from the Kasteel company. I would be fully satisfied if I could buy those, their coffee Belgian Quadrupel and cherry quad are really pretty excellent I think. The proper Belgian trappist beers, made by actual Catholic Churches, well, maybe that's asking a bit much, but there were a couple of specialty shops who sold them, one European deli meats and cheeses shop on Suk Soi 19 had all the best Belgians, even an array of matching glassware for m,ost of the beers they sold. They went out of business in about 2015 or so. Hell, even Baccara gogo Bar on Soi Cowboy had Orval Trappist and Cactus Bar on Cowboy had a really good Belgian selection, John had Tripel Karamaliet and some others and he'd get new things in and tell you if he knew your were keen. There was the Roach Motel beers as I like to kiddingly call them, Rochefort 10, 8, and 6 the best of the lot at Cactus bar sometimes and in the above mentioned cheese and meats shop on Soi 19. But, Yes, you can get Duvel at Villa, and thats a good one. The basic Leffe's are Ok and they have the blonde and the brown, but Villa used to carry a few others by Leffe that are better I think the Cuvee and . They have Fuller's London Pride, but not their London Porter which used to be fairly easily had in Thailand. OK, thats about it for my sad song, "Oh Where Oh Winely Nag, Hath the Darke Beers Goneth?" Now time to ask about one seller in Thailand that I found and ask if anyone's had a go with them. They are called Oak Wine and incredibly they seem to have just about every kind alcoholic drink on planet earth, including most of the beers I have mentioned in this post. It seems a little too good to be true and they only accept direct bank deposits for payments, so that also makes me wonder if they aren't just on the take. Anyone tried them? Any other suggestions for where to buy beer for delivery, my internet searches are not yeilding anything really.