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Please always keep in mind, in most cases, you get what you pay for. The materials, starting with the impression material, the special gypsum for the casts, the resin, the artificial teeth and so on, differ regarding price and quality. Cheap artificial teeth are used up after a few years; good ones may last for decades. Cheap pink coloured resin may cause allergic reactions or gum swelling with burning sensations and in the long term even cancer. On top of that, the procedures how the denture is produced may also differ. Did they just put your models from lower and upper jaw into a hinge articulator, which disregards all functional movements of the jaw or did they use a fully adjustable one, which simulates all the movements of the human jaw. Your joints will tell you in a few years when it is too late. How many years of experience does the dentist have? I would recommend studying the websites of those clinics and choose a dentist, who takes his time to answer all your questions and explain everything.

Do you really think, I would pretend my experiences with the other airlines and lie about their food? What would I possibly gain from that? During Covid Thai did not offer any flights for some time so I tried Qatar and Emirates and Lufthansa too. I even wrote reports about it in another forum but same Nickname. But yes, I love Thailand. There is a good chance I am biased. But you allege that I lied, just because I do not share your opinion. Not cool.

You are most likely right, as we all know, who else was living not far away from Munich.

I am shocked about all that negativity here with some people even stating, that Lufthansa is better than Thai Airways. I understand that everybody has his personal experiences and the way we recall those experiences is very much influenced by the emotions we had at that time. For the last quarter century, I have been flying with Thai Airways from Munich to Bangkok and back at least three times a year and I always loved it. Most important for me, it was a direct flight, and it was 25 minutes from my home in Munich to the airport and a little bit more than one hour from my house in Pattaya to Swampy. Sure, Qatar and Emirates have better airplanes, but I can't say the food was much better and I hated the stopover, running through those airports or waiting in some lounge feeling lost. As I have learned to speak, read, and write Thai over the years, I always enjoyed the conversations with the air hostesses on Thai Airways and generally spoken they are the most courteous and friendly staff. The Lufthansa staff on the other hand side Always makes me think, that they would be great mistresses with their own dungeons of pain. Like many of you I fell in love with Thailand and last year I finally sold everything in Germany and moved to Thailand permanently as I always felt more like home in here then in my birth country. And that is exactly how I have been feeling every single time when boarding a Thai Airways plane and sitting down in my business class seat – HOME. Now take me down to Pattaya city, where grass is legal and the girls are pretty, oh won`t you please take me home.

Did or do you live in both of these countries, that you can compare?

Actually, this is an interesting subject on which I had a few aha moments: 1. Many years ago my brother-in-law introduced me to his 15-year-old son claiming that he was the best pupil in his English class. I said, let me hear something and the son started talking. At first I was impressed; perfect grammar, perfect pronunciation, at least as far as I could tell, being a non-native speaker myself. Then I asked a few very easy questions in context to what he just had said and he was lost. He had no idea what I was talking about. I repeated the questions in Thai language and he could not answer in English. All they do at school is memorizing. 2. A few years ago I was invited to the international Congress of implantologists in Chiang Mai where different specialists give lectures about new inventions, new materials or new surgery techniques for dental implants. Normally those lectures are about 15 to 20 minutes long and afterwards you can ask questions. Well, in our countries, manners and politeness dictate that the listeners at least ask a few questions, no matter how boring the lecture was, to show interest because the poor guy has probably spent a couple of weeks of his free time to prepare it. Not in Thailand. Some professor from a Thai university gave his lecture and then told the audience to ask questions if they have any. The room was quiet; you could hear a pin drop. I felt terribly sorry for the professor, so I started asking questions - obviously to his surprise. And not only his, but the entire audience was also surprised looking at me as if I had just farted. In Thailand you don't question your teacher. By asking questions about a subject he just has taught, you are practically telling him that he didn't teach you well as otherwise you wouldn't have those questions, or you are proving that you are just dumb. No matter what, someone has to lose his face. Personally, I think these are huge obstacles in education but then again somehow this country seems to do well. I mean, look at their economy and compare it to ours. Or look at Pattaya; there are guys with huge knowledge about physics, chemistry, you name it, or have been running a huge company with hundreds of employees where they had to make difficult decisions after watching and analyzing the market and despite all of that they get ripped off by some bar girl with no education, who is too stupid to open the child proof lock of a medicine bottle. It is always our money that ends up in their pockets - never the other way round. Who are we to tell them what to learn or how to live?

Brilliant idea. Had a problem with my doorbell. Didn`t ring. Asked that young moto bike taxi driver, if he knows a licensed electrician. He said, yes, my brother. Minutes later his brother was at my door, could be his twin, was even wearing the same shirt and asked me, what he could do for me. As suggested, I asked him the questions mentioned above about Fleming and Ohm. He just answered, FARANG DING DONG. Clearly a real genius, I mean, how could he know about my broken doorbell without me even telling him. Later he asked me, where I had kept my safe with all my money and I answered, in the bedroom. He then suggested to install another bell in the bedroom so I would even hear it while asleep. Not only is he a genius, he is also a very caring person. He told me to stay in a hotel for two nights, as there is always a danger of explosion when installing bells. Jackpot!!

They`ll take the photos with their own camera. However, I tried to get an online appointment - full until July!

Every single medical treatment or new medication must be "evidence based". That means in most cases there must be double-blind studies with Thousands of test subjects. Just in case you don't know, let's say there is a new pill for headache. In a double-blind study half of the test subjects will get that pill in the other half will get a placebo, which in this case is a pill, that exactly looks like that pill but does not have any active ingredients. Neither the patient nor the doctor handing out the pill does know if it is a placebo or the real one. Later the patients report about the effectivity of that pill and the results will show if that pill really helps against headache or not. Now a group of medics started to do the same thing with all those alternative treatment methods. Sometimes it can be difficult to create a test setup, which leads to a waterproof result. The patients of a Reiki master might experience the placebo effect and report positive results. Reiki masters claim to have the ability to feel and even to guide the life force energy of a person through his body in order to promote healing, without touching the patient's body. So the test was actually very simple. They positioned a partition wall in the middle of a room with two holes in it. On one side there was a flatbed, where the patient would lay on and on the other side some seat cushion, where the Reiki master would sit and insert his hands through those holes to heal the patient without touching him. Now those Reiki masters weren't even asked to heal anyone. All they had to do was to report if the life energy of the test subject was ok and if not, what was his health problem. On the other side of that partition wall the test subjects would sometimes really lay on that flatbed and sometimes it was empty. Long story short all those Reiki masters completely failed, with some of them diagnosing cancer or brain disorders, while there was no one on that flatbed. Even if there actually was a person on the flatbed the Reiki masters would report completely different diagnoses; while one would say the patient suffers from bowel problems, the other master was sure, it was a migraine. I personally think all those healer wannabes should be executed.

Guys, are we done now? Both of you sound like my ex- wife.

Quite the opposite: They take estrogen plus medication to suppress their testosterone in order to make them more female. It actually makes them less aggressive but moody. That aggressive behavior towards competition is more likely caused by the lack of money to pay for certain substances, which if not consumed regularly drives them nuts.

Or worse. Can't forget the story of that Bangkok taxi driver just a few years before Corona, who had an argument with another one, while they were driving more or less next to each other and at some point, thought it might be a good idea to pull out his BB gun and intimidate the other guy by shooting at him. To his surprise the other guy pulled out a gun too and fired back. I think it is safe to say that his surprise didn't last for long, as the other guy had a real gun and after missing twice, hit him between the eyes. I`d love to know, what his last thought was.

I could not get rid of those bloody pigeons which were infesting the roof of our house, waking me up in the morning with their terrible sounds and <deleted>ting everywhere. Throwing my shoes after them didn't make them go away. Even a pressure washer didn't help but at least I got my shoes back. So, I got myself a BB gun from a hidden shop in Chonburi and the owner, former police officer, instructed me to shoot at their wings from the side not at their bellies or heads so they will definitely feel it but no harm or injury caused and the whole pigeon family will leave very soon. I said, if one pigeon family disappears the next will come to take their place, but he answered, don't worry, the first group will tell the others and within a few days you won't see any pigeons on your roof. To be honest, this made me doubt his mental health a bit but at the end he was right. Go figure. However, I asked him about the legal situation, as I did not feel comfortable with those guns looking like the real ones plus as a foreigner living and working in Thailand you better do not get involved in any illegal activities. He clearly answered me, not to carry them around and not to use them outside my property. In case I bring that gun to his place for a check or repair I should transport the gun and the magazine separately. As long as I use them only on my property to scare away pigeons, dogs or cats always making sure not to accidentally hit a person and only use the plastic pellets, it is according to the law. Using metal pellets is prohibited same as modifying that gun to use real ammunition. Oh, before I forget it, I haven't noticed any significant changes to my Willy since I bought that gun.

Sadly, once again the Israeli Palestinian conflict has shown the world the double standard of some countries in the western world, like the US, the UK and my home country, Germany. Human rights – of course! Freedom of speech – absolutely! No torture for captive soldiers – Sure! But … err … only if it is about OUR human rights, OUR freedom of speech and by the way, those POWs in Guantanamo were not soldiers, they were combatants. The UN voted about a resolution for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire a few days ago. A … HUMANITARIAN … Ceasefire! And Germany did not vote for it. Reason: “Err … well … that resolution did not state clearly enough that Hamas is a terror organisation!” Are you kidding me?? Everybody knows they are! In less than one month more Palestinian civilians have been killed than Ukrainians since Russia attacked them - and that was almost two years ago. I have no right to criticize the US or the UK but I cannot tell you how disappointed I am from my own government. We are so proud about how “intense and honest we did come to terms with our past revealing all the crimes of the Nazis and that every German now and for all times has the duty to make sure that such a thing will never ever happen again”. But obviously the sentence does not end there, one has to add: “… to Jewish people, everybody else we consider being minor, can be slaughtered as we or our forever Jewish friends see fit.” Some may call Hamas animals, but one thing is for sure, they are smarter than us. They knew from the beginning that they had no chance to win a war against Israel and that was never their intention. All they wanted was to cast a slur at Israel, which traditionally reacts very extreme on attacks like this and at those few countries, which support Israel, no matter what they do. And by doing so, widening the gap between those countries and the rest of the world, making them see our true faces and consequently distrusting us more and more, facilitating any kind of cooperation between them and our isolation from them.

Now THAT is a brilliant idea. Would definitely raise Pattaya's reputation.

As far as I remember there was no film crew involved. It was only her little speech, we had rehearsed before, the shocked faces of everybody and the few words the boss spoke to her on the parking lot. It was spoken in Thai and me, not being a native speaker in both languages, translated it into English, trying as good as I can not to let anything get lost in translation but of course this was not a word for word translation. Apologies for the confusion, should I have created the impression, that it was.

In my case that wouldn't have helped. It was a two-lane Street, central Pattaya Rd, to be precise and I was coming from Foodland and had stopped ad the intersection 3rd Road. I was riding a big bike and had stopped on the right lane behind a pickup. Left lane was free as most people ignore the red light and turn left so I would have been an obstacle for them. Nevertheless, in the past quarter century I have seen so many horrible accidents. Thailand has always been one of the leading countries when it comes to traffic fatalities with more than 20,000 killed on the street. Surprise, surprise more than 70% were riding a bike. My take on this is, if you ride a bike, especially in Pattaya and frequently at nighttime the question is not, if you will have an accident, it is, when. You might be a special case, able to analyse every possible danger from every direction and even include the 300 pound foreigner who made the balcony dive just above you but keep in mind the average farang, who is on the streets at night, his vision blurred by the sildenafil he took not to mention his mind, after those six beers he already had, might not be as sharp as you. You can't be serious about those Tuk Tuks. Isn't Pattaya`s air polluted enough?

I never trusted (or always was too stupid) to put my money in the stock market or funds or even fixed deposit accounts as there are always fees to open the account or to close the account or whatever, which nobody tells you about in advance. My very basic (or dumb) philosophy was: “invest in yourself, invest in things you have control of and invest in education.” In your special situation and without knowing the background of your wife and the age of your daughter I would suggest: 1. Invest in your daughter’s education or as my dad used to say: “what do you have in your pockets, can be taken from you. What you have in your brain, can't.” 2. If, like in most cases in Pattaya, your wife has a farmer background, buy some good farmland. It`s price will never go down and it can always be used to get food on the table. One way or the other. 3. Make sure that in case of your passing, your family has access to your money. I know cases where the wife was struggling, sometimes for years, sometimes in vain, to get the money, which her by then dead husband intended to be hers.

From what I have noticed or read in the newspapers in the last 25 years Bangkok Bank is actually one of the safest; same can be said about TMB, while Kasikorn Bank, well, I would be careful with them. @longngo217 My girlfriend's young sister is working in Bangkok Bank for more than 10 years now and there have been times when she came home totally stressed out or even crying. She started in Bangkok Bank and climbed the career ladder with incredible speed. But when that low interest era started and banks in general had difficulties, she was more and more forced to convince customers to sign contracts for unnecessary things. Every week her boss would gather all the employees around him, applauded the employee, who had placed the most insurance or CC contracts and then asked the one who had placed the fewest, why he had failed the company and all his colleagues. This new company policy created a toxic atmosphere turning former friends into opponents or even enemies by putting an almost unbearable pressure on them. And she, always being the best employee in her branch suddenly was turned into a loser and a burden for everybody. As I really felt sorry for her, I gave her some advice with her first reaction being: “I cannot say that. It is impolite.” I answered: “your boss has no problem to expose you in front of everybody unjustifiably calling you a failure. Is that polite?” In the next meeting like in most previous ones she was asked again why she had placed the fewest contracts and failed the company. To everybody's surprise and unlike the most previous meetings she did not look down on her feet and apologized quietly. She answered: “I've always been your best employee, the hardest working, always on time and always happy to help my colleagues. The job description in my contract says “financial services clerk” and not “insurance salesman”. “No Sir, I did not fail the company. The company failed me. Here is my notice of termination. And I'm going to find myself a bank to work for now.” Then she left the room, walking tall and everybody looking at her, jaws dropped. She told me, that she had never had such a feeling of relief in her whole life. To her surprise, when she had just reached her car, the fat and now sweating boss came huffing and puffing after her with a tortured smile saying things like “Wait, we should not rush things, I was trying to motivate you always having the best intentions for you in my mind.” Long story short: she got a fat promotion. So if you don't get any further I offer you to contact me privately. Maybe my by now sister-in-law can get some information for you. She, like everybody on her pay grade, has access to every account from Bangkok Bank. (That's why I secretly opened another at a TMB branch. Don't tell her.)

I don't know how well you read my post. I repeat: “Since a huge bus full of Chinese tourists hit me from behind, while I was standing at a red light waiting for it to turn green, completely destroying my big bike …” Or in other words: I was not driving my bike, my bike was not moving, when the accident occurred. And you answered: “just need to increase your riding skill, I see many making mistakes“. May I humbly ask, which mistake I made and how exactly “increasing my riding skill” would have prevented the accident?

Since a huge bus full of Chinese tourists hit me from behind, while I was standing at a red light waiting for it to turn green, completely destroying my big bike and the police officer later refusing to believe, I was sitting on the bike, when the accident occurred with the last thing, he asked me being “why you live?” I gave up riding a bike in Pattaya. With a car it takes a bit longer to get from A to B, interestingly not much and finding a parking lot isn't a big deal too, when you know the place, plus you are protected by a lot of metal around you in case of an accident and above you, should it rain plus you breathe filtered air and not the dirt and dust from the street. Yet, I gave up driving through Soi Buakaw. Same as Soi 6. And from my point of view the main problem are not the Baht busses. It is those street vendors who are infesting Pattaya now by the thousands. They park wherever they want forcing the cars to wait until they can drive around them. Even worse than in Soi Buakaw is Soi 6. When you drive into the Soi from Second Road, they are standing in a long row next to each other on the left side down to Beach Road and deliberately leaving only so much space that a car can only drive by very carefully causing a permanent traffic jam plus most of the bars on the left side losing business big time. Maybe once or twice a month some police car arrives causing all the vendors hurrying into Soi 6/1 and coming back seconds later once the police is gone. I really do not understand why nobody does anything against it.

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I´d rather say retiree. Don`t worry. You`ll get there. It`s inevitable.

The cinemas themselves were surprised in the early 80s when the first video tapes came on the market, as they were sure their business has come to an end. At that time, we had VHS, Beta and video 2000; only the first survived. However, the reason for cinemas still being there is quite simple: no matter how big your screen is and how sharp the image, there is nothing like this cinema experience where you`re basically sitting in the middle of the action together with many others and just forget the world around yourself.

Rama V passed 1910!! Jesus, how old is your wife?? ????