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We have four Manāw trees always willing to give up their juice for my Gin habit, it's always a dead giveaway when papa catches me with the big stick picking from high up, and then we have to lock the door...

Hospitals and private clinics, sure. My experience was a local farm village outfit, non-professionals charged with government work, paid by the government.

Nice, mature and intelligent reply. My post was half in jest, of course I know what it means, just astounded at the amount of times I hear it per day in our house up in the bush and keen to know if others in similar rural extended family settings hear it as often as I do.

Seriously?

pretty funny

not even half funny, American?

Kin khao How many times do you hear these words per day?

lucky!

What does it say about a country where the 7/11's are cleaner, more health conscious than an outfit charged with the health of babies and children? Dogs running around and humping people? Check Kids playing with dogs and trying to touch your baby? Check 'Staff' unaware of how to hold a 15-day-old baby? Check Scales (the operator didn't know how to set) on the floor? Check No masks? Check No gloves? Check Cross contamination from bags of unwashed eggs and other 'free food stuffs', other people, equipment etc? Check Time to get out of here when the danger to our infants health is most likely to come from the Thai Governments 'health clinics'

Hello Isaan dwellers, I'm stuck in Nakhon Phanom hospital for a few days and need to get out now and then for a falang debriefing. Falangs not essential but a reasonably shabby dark yet pleasant bar with cool drinks and maybe a happy face would be welcome. Thanks RR

I agree with most of this, there's definitely a tally, and this also applies to direct family members. With regard to the OP and having worked three years in a small office in the heart of BKK my advice would be to chill and sanook the daily office shenanigans. Unless you're the boss you're just fodder like your work buddies, falang or not, join in and care much less and smile a lot and donate unless it's going to kill you. Also agree with another responder having also working/living experience with other South East Asian countries, Thailand is uniquely bent and the most foreign place I have ever (and still am) experiencing. It's a blast, you'll kill yourself if you take anything here seriously and that's the point and is what makes this place hilarious and if you allow might also enlighten.

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You get used to those TWO bass notes pretty quickly, sort of meditative and a nice chanting trance like state should overcome you allowing a transcendence from all your regular daily woes like rooster crowing and dog howling

this one is purely to watch over the elderly home dwellers, and I'm pretty sure he would do a fine job should an intruder approach uninvited. Certainly a shed load faster than the local cops...

Good for you, buddy! You must have some add-ons to the standard (max) age pension, but still well done. I would definitely be getting out of OZ tho for way more bang for your buck. All depends on what is keeping you there.

Don't mean to pry or disbelieve, but I am very interested how you do as you say. Would it be possible to share your budget? Rent, Energy, Transport, Internet, Mobile, Food, Drink, Entertainment etc?

I'd be keen to know where I could buy supplies for a small home brewing op. Sold at the supermarkets back home and a lot of fun, would save me a fortune on father-in-law's daily Leo supplement bill.

They are nice dogs if they have their balls removed if they're male, can't comment on the bitches. A major problem I witness on a daily basis (the farm family has one) is they don't know their own strength and heft and are highly excitable, often bumping heavily into whatever is in the way. Often injuring themselves during these storm trooping thuds inside and outside, oh yeah and this one stinks from the exercise... But hey, he's golden and looks like a pig, so he's lucky lucky and ain't going nowhere.

Any falangy bars you fellas visit around Renu Nakhon? I see a few chaps hanging around the Nong Hi market area occasionally, but that's about it.

just another month before heading back. Have suggested she visits immigration today for an extension, cheers

Interesting, the Nakhon Phanom immigration lady said something similar (no need to do anything) - so I'm guessing you're right. Technically you've overstayed, but due to age they won't make a fuss.

Hi, asking for a friend (married to a US citizen) she's Thai and their son is a US passport holder granted a 30-day tourist visa. What are the best options for extension? Thanks RR

Down on the farm here, we sprinkle lime where we don't want them to be. Not the lime you use with gin or vodka or papaya salad. Doesn't kill them, or the earth just repels. Don't want to needlessly kill off a sustainable protein source, nor the fun in collecting them in season.

Well fellas' and perhaps a lady or two? Thank you very much for the colourful feedback on my request for doctor info for this seemingly controversial procedure. We will be visiting the docs this morning (wont say where) wouldn''t want to be met with a clangy lump of ol' men with placards, jars of preserved foreskin and tears. Seriously do appreciate the commentary, and it's not an easy decision and hence if we do go forward finding the most experienced medical professional would be our top concern. Enjoy the cool weather and standby for my upcoming manual versus electric breast pump post...

There's religious, health (based on religion) and as you rightly noted ascetic reasons for the procedure. I might leave my breast pump enquiries to another day ????