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4 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Shopping malls are not included

It's serious!

"Brexit is the EU punishing Britain"

FTFY

21 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

However, their businesses continue to follow disease-control measures, such as setting up safety screena, washing their hands regularly, using gloves and providing alcohol-based hand sanitizers, so as to restore customer confidence.

Not to actually prevent infections??

6 hours ago, carlyai said:

Sorry, but that's ridiculous. ????

The interface is a bit clunky, but I think it's useful. Just how effective IDK, I'll try to check back in a month.

1 hour ago, Shey420 said:

I brought insurance about a week ago and it cost roughly $230 for 3 months or covid. Plan is worth $500k. A small price to pay. Im 34

Seems incredibly expensive (even) compared a normal non-US health insurance policy.

Here.

It's an(other) SRS flashcard app, but it's free & was originally designed for Thai, so the order words are introduced respects the way they compound. It also includes a lot of dialogs, which you can listen to one line (& I think even one word) at a time. Since every word comes with audio & Thai script only, it's quite accessible to beginners (like me), doesn't confuse you with transcription, and provides contact with small chunks of script that I think will make learning the alphabet a bit easier (or at least less daunting, through sheer familiarity).

Some of the dialogs from the FSI course, so I think it's a good plug-n-play addon for that (& a nice low-stress alternative to speaking drills or for short unoccupied periods). 

26 minutes ago, wwest5829 said:

I am thinking just as important in Thailand is, if the bank reduces the loan value then someone made a bad loan.No one would want to lose face in having made a bad or non profitable loan ... Much the same with all the cars on the lots.

Possibly in the case of individual loans and/at the beginning of a property market downturn... But if the whole market is getting marked down, would it make sense that loan officers, bank managers & whoever was involved in lending decisions ALL lose face??

2 hours ago, Thomas J said:

I am not sure what the rules are here in Thailand. 

This is what I mean: the bank behaviour you describe doesn't make sense unless a) they're able to keep assets on their books at historical cost (with minimal loss provisioning), & b) they would have to take losses if they sold them. (ie normal historical cost accounting)

22 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

“It is forbidden to eat and drink during flight operations. In the event of an emergency or necessary Crew may consider providing drinking water to passengers, which is to be done in an area as far away from the other passengers as possible”, the order states. 

I'd have thought drinking from a bottle with a straw while wearing a mask is pretty safe??

9 hours ago, internationalism said:

It's already available in Singapore, but might mean 2x14 days quarantine. So not worth.

An expert on TV said that a single dose 'conferred substantial protection', and was recommending dosing as many people as possible with a single dose, with the second dose up to 3 months later. Forgot who & which vaccine, sorry...

I (non-expert!) suspect that a dose of vaccine A, followed by vaccine B should work about as well: most of the vaccines target a single protein (spike protein) and presumably include/produce exposed segments of that which trigger production of similar antibodies. (In fact, because some of the vaccine vectors, eg the adenovirus in the Astrazeneca vaccine, trigger immune responses themselves, it seems possible that using vaccines with different vectors would deliver more antigen/antigen-generating mRNA.)

Unless/until major differences in the safety profile are identified, it seems safest to take whatever becomes available locally (ideally has a few extra hundred k field doses, just to be sure no safety issues were overlooked).

On 12/28/2020 at 10:00 AM, EdrigoSalvadore said:

Beautiful story. Happy to read it. I wish that she will love you forever. 15 cows, makes it soundslike you were the gold digger in this case!

Butter, the oilier gold!

On 12/29/2020 at 1:31 PM, snoop1130 said:

“This is literally everything moves on a specific day and we have got to pray to God that we don’t have some extraordinary event happen in the market that creates high volumes,” Haynes said.

Excellent planning

5 hours ago, Victornoir said:

only an outdated Englishman still believes that the French eat frogs' legs.

I've seen them frozen in several supermarkets in Paris. That said the Chinese seem to eat way more frogs; there are even bullfrog restaurant chains ????

5 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I'm surprised it isn't 90% cancelled.

Amazing Thailand.

Maybe they only had 5 bookings?

21 hours ago, webfact said:

Britain will ban "buy one get one free" promotions for food high in fat, sugar or salt

"Attack of the Multipacks - the Story Continues"

7 minutes ago, biwog said:

Thanks. I've found the part on shopee after entering some keywords in thai. But I tried Lazada, too.

Great ????

It might be worth checking Lazada, I checked recently for Thinkpad keyboards & quite a few sellers had those.

3 hours ago, Nout said:

Dansat  in Loei is a centre for spirit mediums and their main gathering is the Ghost Mask festival in June.

The other area for spirit mediums are the Mah Sings who channel the dead and other spirits, enter trance states, walk on fire self pierce etc. The are a feature of the 9 God's festival every year in Phuket town.

And of course The Yak Sant tattoo festival

I attend all such festivals most of which were canceled recently due to covid.

Interesting stuff, thanks!

Just now, chickenslegs said:

More like Concorde - but much wider.

Watch out: if breast implants get too common, you'll have no runways left!

22 minutes ago, Nout said:

Many good points but you omitted the phenomenon that these grumpy, bitter, disappointed men then use a certain forum to vent and generally disparge Thailand and the Thai people

Cmaan, a lot more than Thailand & Thais gets disparaged in that forum ????

7 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

Personally, if I'd had my huge nose sculpted, my "wingnut" ears stapled back, or my man boobs reduced, I would keep it quiet.

To a plastic surgeon, you must look like a Mercedes

Might be easiest to count the clinics/adverts, or search for the Thai term on google trends.