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50 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

The sailor said that Chinese were OK, but not foreigners.

Sounds like you bumped into a real Navy beanbrain

25 minutes ago, impulse said:

Okay.  I freely admit I was too harsh in judging this woman.  Have a look at a genuine hair care product... (Available on Amazon if you don't believe it's really a thing)

 

Not hard to see how she may have made a mistake in haste.

 

But hard to understand how this brand can exist...

6 hours ago, Bundooman said:

I bought a similar product at my  local, Chiangmai branch of a well-known UK Supermarket.

Could you tell us what the active ingredient of this sweetener is, so we can avoid it (or look out for reactions if we use it)?

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Tourists would still need to quarantine on the island but would not be confined to a hotel room, as is the case currently. Travel to other parts of Thailand would be restricted until tourists have completed 14 days on the island. 

Do they even understand the point of quarantine???

11 hours ago, webfact said:

(Reuters) - British television channel BBC World News was barred on Friday from airing in China, a week after Britain's media regulator revoked Chinese state television's licence to broadcast in the United Kingdom.

This only affects people staying in (upmarket) hotels: the BBC website has been blocked for years in China. (Apparently they like to get their revenge in early!)

Note to Bibi: bad idea.

19 minutes ago, pseudorabies said:

Man.... those knees in the first photo.  She must have been praying at the temple all day for her knees to look like that.

Whatever happened to the casting couch?

Alt headline: "Rihanna's Fenty's in a Twist?"

18 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

She has lots of fat and ugly women in her shows. No surprise nobody want to buy that. Who wants to look like this?

 

Oh to have such elevated standards...

19 minutes ago, Salerno said:

Trump's team is who I was talking about ... going for equity in the company.

Yes, I just wanted to point out the Mercers were involved in Parler - apparently from the start. I see a lot of complaints about liberal/progressive bias in the media etc, but in fact, ever since the Cold War there's been plenty of Right wing influence operations (and their beef arguably grazes on pure astroturf/d).

1 hour ago, ukrules said:

Buying and holding a cryptocurrency comes with little risk, if it goes down too much for your liking you can simply sell it.

Doesn't this apply to anything???

On 2/11/2021 at 5:45 AM, popabear said:

At the moment they are only allowing last years (from March ) visa holders

So not an option for most right now?

1 minute ago, J Town said:

By cracky you're right!

legendaryflamewars.com whois lookup - who.is

Not for long, I'll wager ????

11 minutes ago, peter48 said:

"Not necessary with a lockdown, just make sure the vaccine is given to risk groups and then open borders, ever heard about flock immunity?

Flock immunity: the ability to dine in Indian restaurants without eye pain?

5 hours ago, Salerno said:

But I did it nicely and answered his question at the same time 

Even TVF has off days ????

13 minutes ago, Shocked farang said:

True! Sorry, Buddhism is the right spelling! Lol 

Don't worry, I always spell it wrong too ????

1 minute ago, Shocked farang said:

As it's a Bhuddist country, this dream is called "Maya" or the illusion in Bhuddism

Perhaps Buddha made Buddhism hard to spell so we'd realize spelling is an illusion?

3 hours ago, Selatan said:

I think Sinopharm's and Sinovac's vaccines are much better because they are inactivated vaccines.

In theory, an inactivated vaccine produces an immune response just like a normal infection, so the antibodies produced may target more than one protein segment of a virus, which means it can potentially better protect against variants

I don't think this makes sense a priori: AFAIK, the mRNA vaccines all use an in-host produced segment of the spike protein. This has to fit the host's ACE2 receptor for it to replicate, so it can't change much. People vaccinated with them will only produce antibodies against that.

By contrast, someone vaccinated with an inactivated virus vaccines will potentially produce antibodies against all of its surface proteins. Many of these can change without altering the virus' functioning much. This part of the immune response generated could be rendered irrelevant by arbitrary mutations, which, precisely because they don't affect the functioning of the virus much, aren't even considered to be separate variants or strains.

Unfortunately I don't think we get to find out which of these strategies, which I guess could be summarized as conserved region vs whole-genome, works best until the vaccines have been in use side-by-side for a while. (And that's assuming the politics doesn't muddy the waters.)

3 hours ago, brianthainess said:

The only thing Miami and Pattaya have in common is vice, new series coming soon ''Pattaya Vice''   Season 1 Episode 1; RTP investigate RTP. (all rights reserved).

Starring: Long Johnson

25 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Thai toilet bowls -- the trendy new frontier in panning for gold.

Just follow the Thailand Elite Donut eaters...

18 hours ago, webfact said:

Rights groups and her family say Hathloul, who had campaigned for women's right to drive and to end Saudi's male guardianship system,

They made improvements on both these issues several years ago, so there's less for her to campaign about/reason to keep her in jail. It's a shame she was in jail so long (not to mention tortured).

But then Trump wasn't going to make much noise about it, and they now get to ingratiate themselves with Biden et al.

13 minutes ago, oldhippy said:

1 hour ago, bangon04 said:

Thai Parliament should adopt pre 1935 national dress for official functions

Yes!!! We want to see tits - without paying for the privelege.

Televised parliament doesn't have this covered?

13 hours ago, webfact said:

He wrote in his autobiography that his first sexual experience was with a chicken and told of having sex every four or five hours during a workday. After he was paralyzed, Flynt had penile implant surgery so he could continue to have sex.

Poor chicken never got a break