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On 2/22/2021 at 10:16 AM, richard_smith237 said:

Only one possible interpretation...  someone with connections opened a club. 

Someone let the cat out of the bag. BiB came along and went through the motions but protected the owners identity. 

Translation: all above board

(Someone needs to work on their connections a bit, and next time the police won't even go!)

3 hours ago, mommysboy said:

The vaccine has been so badly maligned that take up in Europe (particularly Germany) is dismal.

 

Effectively hundreds and perhaps thousands of lives have been lost because of scaremongering.

Apparently for the people in charge this is preferable to admitting they badly screwed up procurement.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Politicians were reserved for last place - just 0.48% thought they should get preferential treatment. 

7 hours ago, chakatee said:

While reading the whole article one could worry that this poll might affect political decisions. It took until the very last sentence to become aware that this poll will not be taken seriously by those in force, they might decide to just do the opposite.

But there aren't that many politicians. They can ignore that bit*, and continue to curry favour with the masses by implementing popular bits.

*There have already been scandals in several South American countries relating to politicians & their buddies 'somehow' getting access to vaccinations along with the legit first tier priority folks like medical workers.

On 2/16/2021 at 6:01 AM, webfact said:

Apparently the lowercase ‘s’ at the end of “Lotus’s” stands for “smart”:

 

Simple 

Motivate

Agile

Responsible

Transformative and Sustainability

What, not SEXY???

40 minutes ago, webfact said:

The popularity of coconut milk as an alternative to dairy milk has grown steadily during the past five years, says Avinash Desamangalam, research manager at Mordor Intelligence, a company based in India that studies the market for alternatives to dairy products.

1) Good to see Sauron's keeping busy. I hope the pay and conditions for Avinash and the other orcs fulfill PETA's stringent standards.

2) It does sound like the monkeys are being abused quite badly. But I wonder if there are ways to train and look after the monkeys humanely, that could be developed if PETA worked with the coconut farmers, rather than destroying their livelihoods. People are animals too, after all...

...waits for Nokia 3310 version...

13 minutes ago, OliverKlozerof said:

Just tried that at lazada and only thing similar is this 'waffle blanket.' Close, but not exactly it.

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/100-selimut-i2060396144-s6720368270.html

 

Looks good, if a little pricey.

4 hours ago, OliverKlozerof said:

Anyone know where I can find a (plain cotton) terry cloth blanket in BKK?

Isn't this basically a (large) bath towel?

That's rOckhounds, not* rAckhounds.

*the infinitely more common...

7 hours ago, connda said:

Wow!  They're way ahead of San Francisco and other large Blue state cities in the sanitation department where public defecation has been on the rise for years.

How's it flushing in Texas these days?

31 minutes ago, Leaver said:

 

Moral of the story, don't end up like "some rich white dude" in Thailand.  ????

Best to be poor

The specifics of these plans may be ridiculous, but at least there's some recognition that ASQ's too onerous...

13 hours ago, webfact said:

It found that to date, the United States, the European Union, Britain, Australia, Canada and Japan have already secured more than 3 billion doses - over a billion more than the 2.06 billion needed to give their entire populations two doses.

 

"This huge excess is the embodiment of vaccine nationalism," said Jenny Ottenhoff, ONE Campaign's senior director for policy.

If 'secured' means 'to have in-country stored in a horde of fridges, surrounded by evil developed country exploiters rubbing their hands with glee' this is bad.

If it means 'to have on order, as insurance against supply disruption, below par efficacy &/ failure to secure regulatory approval for use' this is just NGOs banging the inequality drum (donations that fund very nice champagne socialist lifestyles en route). And the countries with excess orders will release/donate them as the balance between supply & vaccination capacity/demand becomes clearer.

9 hours ago, webfact said:

The government will offer 2,000 baht subsidy for unlimited passes or buffet tickets purchased from local airlines.

If we're having buffet tickets, unlimited passes must surely be "all-you-can-eat buffet tickets"...

If all else fails, wear it and claim it's religious garb. Works for Muslims, Jews and Sikhs - why not for... Cycletraliens?

6 hours ago, Spellforce said:

Herd immunisation is the key, vaccines are not magical wands: when Pfizer and Moderna will publish the efficiency of their ARN vaccines against the new variants ?

https://www.google.com/search?q=Pfizer+efficacy+variant

Some data's come out in the last few days.

11 hours ago, 86Tiger said:

I'll just go with "No comment."

But that's a comment

2 hours ago, tingtong said:

I am more surprised that government/land office still insist that condo prices are rising, and tax on their fictional values not actual contract prices.

Given the bold bit, why are you surprised?

15 hours ago, timendres said:

 

Do the Europeans and Japanese know something the Chinese do not?

That Thailand is quite a bit farther away from them than it is from China, for one thing...

On 2/14/2021 at 8:44 AM, salsajapan said:

Is frozen chicken from the supermarket processed food ? or can we consider that it's just regular chicken that has been frozen, and consider it healthy ?

Don't they use a lot of antibiotics &/ hormones raising (factory farmed) chicken? If so I guess that's kind of pre-processed...

1 hour ago, Ron jeremy said:

Chang nobyl was 157

Land of radioactive beer?

8 hours ago, greenmonkey said:

I recently tried a 25 baht hot latte from the local 7 eleven coffee station and was very pleasantly surprised. Quality coffee, tasted good and was hot!

How is it being made? (I suspect those machines that take ground coffee capsules/sachets are easier to maintain than the 'real' espresso machines in Starbucks etc, and therefore produce more consistent results.)

38 minutes ago, rott said:

Ships at sea communicate in English. 

Aeroplanes communicate in English. 

Ships and planes can talk these days??