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Is it an actual rash - with a raised surface or just a skin pigmentation change? You mention itching which does suggest some form of rash but after multiple months - is it spreading or confined to only the 'sweaty' area ?

Yeah, there's a lot of big Thai companies doing business down here in Cambodia. Just one example is 7/11 which are building them all over the place. I'll bet they love having their business disrupted by petty politicians and money really talks in Thailand.

A Doctor needs to evaluate him in every way, a different one who knows what he's doing. My father could barely eat once when he came home from hospital after having a pacemaker fitted. Turns out he was over medicated on all sorts of tablets he didn't need and they were making him ill. The pacemaker worked just fine. But he was being pumped full of duiretics and other stuff even though his BP was normal due to an edema. They also had him on lisinopril which is odd due to normal BP. As you might expect his BP was very low - like 65/40 and for a normal man about 76 years of age about that time that is far from normal. He could not eat anything and could barely sip a little bit of water - no idea why. He returned to hospital after attempting a blood test and passing out in the Doctors office - in the end there was nothing wrong with him - or so they said - just medication related issues - as in - way too much of it. Whatever is wrong with this guy could be one of a hundred different things and we know nothing about his current status, drugs he's taking and medical history - nothing at all.

Indeed, a worthy cause I think. But I would not want to send him to the same place that came up empty. Surely they did a load of blood work already as a first step and must have some idea of what's wrong with him?

I have both excellent insurance and tens of millions of baht, no plot lost here.

They will let him die and not bat an eyelid. Nobody cares at all. This is a warning to all who retire to Thailand....have tens of millions of Baht on hand or potentially end up like this poor guy.

Who knows, maybe he stopped paying his rent and they couldn't get rid of him, then it would be a no brainer to just get him kicked out - and for free - with a possible reward?

It really depends on how much you have in them, you have to consider other factors as well like investments which may be linked to these accounts and perhaps have issues if you want to open an offshore account which does serve expats - Standard Bank in the Isle of Mann and the like will service you when you're living as an expat - I don't have an account with them but I hear good things. Even then, any UK investments - how well do they work with foreign banks? I 100% tell my UK banks nothing at all and never have. As far as they're concerned I live in the UK at a relatives house. It may or may not require a tax id in the country where you live (Thailand) - but that depends on when you tell them you moved there - for example - if you move to Thailand in July and have no income generated in Thailand then you're likely not really going to be issued a TIN until 2026 for a 2027 filing at the very earliest because you would be non resident this year.

Makes little sense at all, lets see if we can lose a good long term paying customer by having him deported - how can we possibly lose 🤣

So what exactly changed then? I still can't buy a bottle of Cognac if I go shopping at 3pm? What nonsense

It's all happening now

I wonder what action triggered this wave of attempted bombings? You know I kind of expected a load of bombs to go off this year due to the deportation of those Chinese uyghurs - is this the start of it? No mention of China or Uyghurs anywhere though - maybe it's completely random and therefore unrelated? 🙄

I would pick up another Oxymeter just to be sure, but that's easy for me to say as I have 2 on my desk in front of me.

Lets face it, they were probably running some kind of scam or illegal activity and they hadn't been paid either. They should have rented a house in a normal street but there's always someone watching the hated foreigner

Is it really best for us foreigners if the current government changes? I don't care about the rest of them, only me. What's best for me?

lol, that's not going to happen, for a start they say he murdered someone in Norway, if true then he's going down for a long time in one of the most luxurious prisons in the world based on what I've read

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Right, I'm sure this is nothing to do with the massive amount of stability inside Thailand right now 🙄

Such sophistication, whoever would have thought it, getting a passport to travel abroad 🙄

You will likely know that it's based on standard deviations from the mean of some foreign population and is recalibrated every 10 or 20 years to match the current population in order to keep that mean at 100 so it's always 100 regardless of any change over time - and it does change over time - if the entire population changes over time then how dumb or smart you need to be to get a 100 score will also change. So the real question is - what population is used to calculate the 100 score and that depends on the test. 8 points is half a standard deviation - that's inside the 'noise zone', hence all those countries reporting averages of averages slightly above or below 100 are irrelevant - also some of them don't even use the same kind of tests, you think China or South Korea don't calibrate their tests based on their own population and to make the results look nice and shiny?

Try a different browser, especially if you're not using Chrome, everything seems to be designed for Chrome these days and turn off any and all ad blockers while accessing the site. One example of this is the BUPA International site - simply never works in Firefox when attempting to add a new payment method - swapping over to Chrome makes it work instantly - and that was after turning off the blocker I use.

Yes

Here we go....

They still did them fairly recently in the UK, I remember my nephew said they told him he could join Mensa based on his results - pretty sure he didn't bother though, neither did I.

That's nonsense. Your IQ is largely fixed late in adolescence, it's a measure of cognitive potential, nothing more and certainly not education. Back when I was at school they made us all do an IQ test, this was in the 80s when we were 15 or 16 years old depending on when in the academic year you were born. After about this age your IQ will generally not change much if at all. You might be able to spend your time practicing IQ test type questions and get better at the tests but that doesn't change anything other than your ability to do those type of quizzes. I remember we were told during the test that there are many more questions that we can possibly answer in the alloted time - likely about an hour and that's how it's designed - they said don't allow yourself to get stuck on one question - if you don't know it and can't figure it out just leave it blank and move on to the next question.