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Yes Jingthing, I was told the same thing by an eye doctor at Bumrungrad. I go annually to have other more serious health issues checked and have added a visit to their eye doctor to my annual checks. He says that I have the beginning of cataracts and that eventually I'll need surgery, but meanwhile just keep checking annually on the cataracts and other potential eye problems.

Later, I found out that they replace the lenses when they do cataract surgery. So at the next visit, I asked him if that means I wouldn't have to wear glasses for my astigmatism after cataract surgery and he said yes. Whoopie! I asked if he could do the cataract surgery "early" so the astigmatism would be fixed and he looked at me like I was nuts. He said "just keep wearing your glasses"

Transam -- are there any results of double-blind scientific studies of these magic drops, published in peer-reviewed journals? On-line testimonials aren't the results of scientific studies.

Lets just say l have read some on the stuff and if my sis back home can locate it, l will try it.

Well I haven't read any of the Literature on it but if you can't get it here and from the sounds of it it might be a problem locating it back home. I would be a little leery of it.

Miracle cures should not be that hard to find if they exist.

What is the price range on it.

Perhaps 50 UKP for 6 month treatment for one eye, WHICH it sounds makes major progress.

The roads are off road-in up here.

To anyone considering taking advice from these macho confrontational idiots.

Don't, unless you are truly wired in as a high-status member of the community with friends in powerful places.

Just being a guest here will only go so far to protect you from the essential lawlessness and revenge mentality here.

There is nothing to be gained by direct confrontation, and you might think you're being sneaky but you don't know from sneaky here in the LoS.

Keep your head down, smile and say mai bpen rai and walk away to enjoy a happy and peaceful life here.

Otherwise some major catastrophe will befall you down the road, perhaps life-changing, and you won't have any idea it was intentionally caused by someone who nursed a grudge and planned your downfall, will never make the connection, just think you had a bit of bad luck.

Move and give in?

No wonder people think a farang is just to be shit on.

I think this in response to Ludacris's post - what advice would you offer him?

I must admit in my LOS life l let looooooooads go over my head .

BUUUUUUUUUUUT, there are times when l do take control cos folk try it on, if she or they don't like it they can bugger off, they know if l am not happy, job done. DO NOT be trodden on. FULL STOP.

Having read all the posts, this may be slightly off topic more of an observation/fact.

You can get a guy to admit he is lousy at cooking, DIY, gardening, IT skills, etc etc but there are two things that you will find it hard to get them to admit!

1) Lousy lover!

2) Bad driver!

Pulling away from a set of lights faster than the guy next to you is like a Red Bull to a flag Red rag to a bull!

I'd let my wife deal with it. She's vicious!

Tommo has ouitlined quite succintly the solutuion. All right here we go, my next door neighbours didn't like their neighbours smelly garbage bin, so "suggested" they move it down the street which they eventually did...outside my house. I told the missus that it was ugly, smelly and attracting flies and that perhaps she should mention that to them before I dragged it off behind the motorbike never to be seem again, that they might choose of their own accord and greng jai to move it back. That seemed the lesser of evils to her and it has gone back to the original feud where it belongs.

Your Thai partner does know how to deal with issues, she may not like to, but she does know. Let the local culture resolve, no need for antagonism if she does the right thing and is up for it.

If all else fails I find that Black Sabbath at maximum volume with a wicked sound system (rentals are also good) with a bunch of drunken loud mouth friends seems to create a little aggravation, which could be a bargaining point. Aside from that you will also have a really good time. If you are socially challeged and musically illiterate the lastest realases of Death Metal should also do the job, albeit without the style.

I reckon The Immigrant song would have the optimum effect...fast forward to reality ( not Masters of Reality )

All quiet on the western front and the neighbours are neither to be seen or heard.

I may throw a BBQ tomorrow and invite friends and school colleagues - watch this space

I remember having a holiday job in a service station about 100 years ago when I was at school. A good technique for selling an oil-change (on which we got commission) was to pull out the dipstick and remark on how grubby the oil looked, and you could pretty well guarantee that it would always look grubby, regardless of how long it had been in there. Even if it was only a couple of days.

I think the important questions are "how many miles/km since the last oil change" and "what sort of oil is it" and "what sort of use does the engine get"?

Yes Jingthing, I was told the same thing by an eye doctor at Bumrungrad. I go annually to have other more serious health issues checked and have added a visit to their eye doctor to my annual checks. He says that I have the beginning of cataracts and that eventually I'll need surgery, but meanwhile just keep checking annually on the cataracts and other potential eye problems.

Later, I found out that they replace the lenses when they do cataract surgery. So at the next visit, I asked him if that means I wouldn't have to wear glasses for my astigmatism after cataract surgery and he said yes. Whoopie! I asked if he could do the cataract surgery "early" so the astigmatism would be fixed and he looked at me like I was nuts. He said "just keep wearing your glasses"

Transam -- are there any results of double-blind scientific studies of these magic drops, published in peer-reviewed journals? On-line testimonials aren't the results of scientific studies.

Turbo is always spinning. It's what they do. Open your window and you will hear it.

It may always be spinning but it doesn't seem to do anything at low revs. I do notice it kick in when I floor the accelerator (after a brief delay, which would seem to emphasise that mostly it isn't doing anything) but as I mentioned I never do this in the course of normal usage.

So as the single one I have doesn't appear to be doing much, I still wonder how on earth I would be better off with two of them?

Can-C is not approved for sale anywhere in the world. Reviews suggest it's a lot like the purple pills you can buy in Tashliek. The only people who say it works, are the companies who sell it and the two Russians who developed it - for dogs.. There is absolutely no evidence that it reduces or eliminates cataracts in humans.

Stuff called ''Can-C'' eye drops is the latest thing on the block that reputably clears cataracts.

I don't get angry very often but stories like this sets it off. The BiB know this scum is about yet they do nothing, seems to them ''expected stuff'', all routine for a farang paradise holiday.

How about a few rich Democrats out there have a whip round and match The Donald's offer, and donate $5 million to charity if Mitt Romney releases his last ten years tax returns? In full.

The typical leftist response. When your own history comes under question, attack your opponent. Sorry, doesn't hold water.

If Obama has nothing to hide, then why not release his college records? That is unless he was registered as a foreign exchange student to receive financial aide. Which means he either defrauded Columbia University as he was actually a US citizen or he is not a naturalized US citizen. I'm sure you know the implications of this little detail.

I voted for the guy 4 years ago as I drank the koolaid and believed the message. He has done nothing to secure my vote in the upcoming election. Primarily based on his record, but secondarily on the fact that his past is checkered with lies, alias, gaps in his history that he is not forthcoming to dispute.

"Typical leftist response"? Pathetic. Trump deserves all the ridicule that is coming his way, and then some. As i under stand it Obama produced a copy of his birth certificate ages ago, but that's not good enough is it. There is no difference between Trump and his ilk, and the looney tunes on some conspiracy sites. The authorities in Hawaii have stated that they hold Obama's legitimate birth certificate. Likewise the obstetricians who witnessed and verified his birth in Hawaii are all on record confirming it. Are they all in on this conspiracy too? I can quite believe that you have been drinking the Kool aid if you go along with all this guff. Let's get to the nub of this, it is not subtle racism, it is overt racism. There, i'v said it. Was G W Bush continuously asked to release his college records, ( that would be good for a laugh), and his passport application records, likewise his father, Clinton, Reagan etc? Why not? This has nothing to do with left, right, or centre.

@noob7, you really are a noob.

Late in life l decided to have a tattoo , told the mrs, she went

'' If you do that then l will have your name tattoo on me''. Sooooooo, got my tattoo, and she has a very small tattoo discretely placed.

Ugh.

I now await the flames and screams from the equal rights and feminist brigades.

Nice post in general, but you spoiled it with all these "equal rights", "feminist brigade" etc type comments. What is the point of all that?

Being female does make you more of a target but what has that to do with equal rights? As you stated, males and females are both at risk of being mugged.

The point was that is that there are several people out there who will argue to the nth degree about how us women should be allowed to walk wherever we want whenever we want however often we want, and flame down anyone who dares to disagree with their point of view.

I'm surprised (pleasantly) that nobody has bitten on this. Maybe it's because when put into context - not just taking a random quote from the middle, I'm speaking the truth when I say that no woman should be walking the streets of an unknown town at 3am, and it would be impossible to argue with that these days, especially somewhere like TV. Maybe in some Dream Time Utopia, but that's nowhere I've visited since I was a small child, and then I was too young to know if it would have been dangerous to walk the streets of our small mining village in the middle of the night - I know we certainly didn't lock the doors, nor did any of our neighbours. Males can be mugged just as easily, but women are more likely to be accosted for rape rather than/instead of robbery, so making it common sense that they don't do it. In the eyes of a lot of people, that's sexist talk, therefore unequal. However true it may be.

Women SHOULD be allowed to walk wherever they want whenever they want however often they want, as SHOULD men. However, if they ( either sex ) do that, they don't really have the right to complain if it all goes wrong. We don't live in utopia and there is no substitute for common sense. Unfortunately, common sense seems to be left behind at the airport by many people as they enter LOS.

Perhaps Trump, with his ''connections'' knows more than you or I do.

Sorry, what are his "connections"? Most people think he has quite a few loose "connections", primarily a disconnect between what little brain he may possess, and his mouth.

According to a documentary I saw recently our first Republican President was a Vampire Hunter. <deleted>! Why hasn't "The Donald" raised this issue?

Your all wrong. It was a toss up between Nuclear power or carry on the senseless use of burning paper for providing power. Paper won.

Perhaps Trump, with his ''connections'' knows more than you or I do.

1500bht or $35.

.... rumor has it TH will be seeing the twin-turbo 2.5L engine (as fitted to European D-Max's) within the next year or so..

Twin-turbo? I wonder why?

My Triton has a turbo. I have never used it, apart from on a handful of occasions when I have deliberately floored the accelerator on an open road to see what would happen.

I find that 2000rpm is more than enough for both pulling away and for cruising at ~100kph. In fact at 2000rpm I leave most vehicles standing at the lights. The turbo does not kick in at this level.

Yep, mineral oil 5k, semi 10k, syn 10/15k.