MichaelHunt

5 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

According to joint polls published by CNN and the SSRS Institute: A majority of Americans support stricter gun control law; and 64% of Americans support stricter gun control laws, while 36% oppose it.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_on_gun_control_in_the_United_States

You are breaking the rules of this forum by quoting a pseudo-scientific, conspiracy theory source.

1 hour ago, ozimoron said:

Shame about everyone who gets killed while the insurrectionists wait for the government to become totalitarian.

It is indeed a shame. But the proper comparison is not between those people who were killed while waiting for the government to become totalitarian and the few who might have been killed if guns were not available. The correct comparison is between the relatively few who have been killed while waiting for the government to become totalitarian, and the tens of millions who would be killed should the government become totalitarian. Just look at what happened to the unarmed Russians, and the Chinese, and the Cambodians, etc.

18 hours ago, Na Fan said:

If you look at the top restaurants, and then taste their food - it doesn't add up.

 

Anyone else experience this?

 

Are they now faking their scores there too?

Yes, I have noticed this too. I suspect that there are a lot of paid reviews there. I would even go so far as to say that there are probably companies (probably in India) that contact restaurants on TripAdvisor and offer to praise them in exchange for a fee.

One way to increase your odds of getting a fair review is to just ignore the review of any person who only has one or two reviews on TripAdvisor. TripAdivsor shows the total number of reviews that every reviewer has made (I myself have done something like 50 reviews, for example, thereby increasing my credibility, I think), and if it's only one - and that one is just for that one restaurant - then it is unlikely that it is genuine.

I also ignore the reviews of all Indians - as they appear to be the ones being paid to do the reviews, as mentioned above.

And finally, I also ignore the reviews of anyone who praises the staff of the restaurant (waiters, cooks, etc.) by name. How many of the cooks in the restaurants that you eat in are you on a first name basis with? Unless it's a pretty waitress, I don't bother asking their name.

I have an early flight out of Suvarnabhumi next week, so I won't have time to have breakfast at home. Can anyone recommend a place to have a good American or English breakfast at the airport - for after I check in? Thanks.

This is indeed tragic and will haunt this poor mother for the rest of her life. Sad.

I just had a look at the Zenni website, and they have a way for you to measure your pupillary distance (PD) directly on their website. You hold a standard-sized credit card up to your forehead (showing the back side of the card, not the side with the data. It just needs the size of a standard object for comparison purposes) and the website's measuring tool compares the distance between your pupils to the known size of the credit card. It then makes the calculation for you. My PD is 64.5mm.

I also intend to order these glasses with the progressive lenses from Zenni. (I had gotten the expensive Essilor ones from a Thai optician about 10 years ago, and they didn't work for me. So this time I'll try with the cheap ones, and if they don't work, I won't be out so much money.)

But I have a question: Can I just go into any optician and ask them to test my eyes for a prescription for glasses that I will buy somewhere else? I expect to have to pay for the prescription, but will they do it for me if I intend to buy the glasses elsewhere?

I have an account at that bank. I hope it wasn't MY money that they stole!

What did the husband's gout have to do with this story?

There's an easy way to tell if an amulet is fake or not. If it helps you to win the lottery or survive a traffic accident, then it's the real deal.

Farang already have money too much.

We should be happy that we don't have to PAY the banks interest for our savings.

On 6/19/2023 at 9:13 PM, ozimoron said:

Old is good. Greater wisdom, maturity and less testosterone fueled decisions. Noem Chomskey and RBG being classic examples.

How convenient (by which I mean ridiculous) that you consider the stated shortcoming of your preferred candidate (the senile, totally corrupt Joe Biden) to actually be a strength. And that you quote as an example of your point Noam Chomsky, friend of Jeffrey Epstein.

https://news.yahoo.com/renowned-academic-noam-chomsky-told-154837585.html

1 hour ago, Moonlover said:

Have you ever been there?

Yes I have, but not recently. Why? Do you think it is some kind of paradise?

If you ask the people in China if they approve of their government, they will of course say yes - because they have no choice. But there aren't many of them who would not leave on the next flight out if they could - and if they had somewhere to go.

I find the Chinese people's willingness to live in a nightmare totalitarian surveillance state as strange as they find our food.

I buy the 18.9 liter bottles of plain drinking water from Sprinkle, then I add four bottles of Singha soda water to it, or sometimes one big bottle of San Pellegrino. I just find the water more palatable when there is some soda water in it. I hope that there are also some health benefits.

I recently saw a video saying that drinking carbonated water is unhealthy. I was skeptical about that, but I was glad to see the above-linked video that says it's healthy. Thanks for sharing it, Dario!

I transferred money from abroad into my Thai bank account for the purpose of buying a condo. The person I intended to buy the condo from changed his mind about selling it, so I withdrew my money from the bank and used it to buy gold. If I find another condo that I would like to buy, can I sell the gold and deposit the proceeds into my bank account and use that money to buy the condo? And if that is doable, is there a time limit for buying a condo with that money? Or, does a condo need to be purchased with money that has never left the account?

The price doesn't necessarily have to be the same at all times of the day. If I were a motorcycle taxi driver, I would charge more at 4am. It's a matter of supply and demand. And, as has been mentioned already, being "overcharged" by 10 baht at most is nothing compared to how much foreigners are overcharged.

Has she tried exercising?

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/exercise-and-stress/art-20044469

There are websites that offer this as a service. Here is one of them, as an example:

https://onwardticket.com

I don't have any experience with this personally, but if I needed a ticket for this purpose, I would try it. 

There are people on this forum who have used this type of service before. I expect they will show up soon to offer more advice.

Good luck.

I just finished reading this book, "Lies My Government Told Me", by Dr. Robert Malone. Very good book. Eye-opening.

https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Govt-Told-Me/dp/151077324X/

I second Luang Prabang, as it is a lovely place - and a Thai would feel comfortable there with the food and the language and the culture.

Another couple of very nice places in the region are Sapa and Dalat in Vietnam. 

Maybe get her to lend some money to Madame Cyanide?

I wonder if this same rule would apply to pregnant men? And if you don't think men can get pregnant, you're just a hateful bigot, living in the past.