Somjot

16 hours ago, Olmate said:

Ahh, thats a good guide, thanks very much.

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.

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

How do you know - for the last 25 years you have been flying Thai Airways....   your comparison is imagined.

 

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.

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Your post reads more like someone likes Thailand so much they just love everything Thai...  and thats great for you, but it does distort your frame of reference when it comes to anything critical of Thailand.

 

 

2 hours ago, soi3eddie said:

 

That flight may be considered the creme de la creme of THAI flights.

 

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. 

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

Try to live in Iran, you'll run back to Xi in a heartbeat...

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

21 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

So, they think WE are the crazy ones?

Maybe so....

 

 

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?

3 minutes ago, Robbkk said:

Need to take photos also?

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.

4 hours ago, connda said:

Transgender = testosterone = strong, aggressive lady-man. 

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.

8 hours ago, Artisi said:

using some intelligence ensures you don't end up breaking any laws. 

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.

6 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Many of who where not British and more than a few where Muslims.

 

Maybe the right to peacefully protest was one of the things these people from around the world fought for.

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.

53 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

 

Maybe Tuk Tuks can be electric or hybrid now

Now THAT is a brilliant idea.

Would definitely raise Pattaya's reputation.

16 hours ago, eisfeld said:

Great, must have had a film crew with her to capture all these emotions and detailed accounts of words spoken as you so eloquently were able to elaborate 🙂

 

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.

7 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Personally I don't leave myself exposed at the front by traffic lights, I either stop in-between or in front of other vehicles or even stop left side before lights.

 

I've only had one accident 24 years ago and although it wasn't my fault (someone did a right hand turn in front of me going through red lights), I still analysed it to see if there was anything I could have done to avoid it and there 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 3^rd 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.

2 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Tuk Tuks would work well in Pattaya, were always fun in Bangkok, they could take on Bolt successfully unlike orange taxi bikes

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.

13 hours ago, Somjot said:

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.

I gave up riding a bike in Pattaya.

 

12 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

 I'd never drive a car through Pattaya, just a traffic nightmare, bikes are best, just need to increase your riding skill, I see many making mistakes

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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3 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Weirdo!

I´d rather say retiree.

Don`t worry. You`ll get there. It`s inevitable.