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1 hour ago, edwinchester said:

No floods in Bangkok, that's all he seems to cares about.

Wait.  Where do you think all that water is going?

A Scottish chippy.  I could just go for a haggis supper.  ????

By virtue of applying on all the sites they put out, I've ended up with 3 jabs;

AstraZeneca - minimum side effects, just a bit dizzy, over by the time I left the hospital.

8-weeks later

Pfizer - side effects started a few hours later and laid me up for 36 hours.

3-weeks later

Pfizer - zero side effects.

The first one meant a trip to Bangkok, the others were more local.  Which is why I didn't go for a second AZ, I didn't want to do the trip again, not because I didn't trust AZ.

All show up in my Mor Phrom app.

Just a thought; can they cosplay as a non-Thai policewoman?

Even if they trust the vaccines, they cannot trust the testing, record keeping, or the declared numbers.  I live here and I don't trust them, why would the UK?

This is a reasonable idea and will be adhered to just as assiduously as all other licence regulations are.  ????

There go my plans to open Cops-a-GoGo.  ????

I'm in a condo, but mine went up from ฿1,250 to ฿1,750.  The discounts were nice, but finished now - I felt a bit of a fraud getting discounts anyway, it wasn't people like me who they were intended for.

I can't help thinking that about now, somewhere in the US or Thailand, there's a low-level civil servant looking at an envelope on his desk and thinking "Oh ****, I should probably have opened that".  ????

1 hour ago, Bkktodd said:

Still vague news because Pattaya, Huahin said they were ready 1 oct.  BKK was the major city behind.   How does one even begin to make preparations 

Pattaya certainly won't be, the percentage vaccinated isn't anywhere near 70 yet.  I haven't followed the others.

I can only speak with a Western culture perspective.  Opening the city without opening the bars is pointless, Westerners won't come.

The UK allows anyone to buy land.  Look at how that has gone and don't do this for anything larger than a family dwelling, and even then, only one to a foreigner.

Can we assume that notes from an ATM are good?  Like many, it's the only way I get 1,000's, smaller notes could come from anywhere.

Right enough, I'm coping fine, but when my wife had to go away for a month to take care of a sick family member, I was not doing well.  The first week or so was fine, then I started getting a bit paranoid and getting angry faster. 

I think of myself as pretty self-sufficient, seems that I'm more of a social animal than I thought.  Permanently alone, I could see me turning into one of those shouty people.

The government screwed up early on by believing that the fast lockdown was all that was needed and not ordering vaccines soon enough.  But, they are redeeming themselves now, vaccinations are being done in increasing numbers and confidence is rising again. 

We've gone from expecting bodies in the streets, to expecting re-opening soon. 

This is a time for hope and looking forward, not recriminations and looking back.

A question for those who come as tourists, then stay for a long time on these extensions;

How do you afford it, and what happens to your job? 

I'm retired now but, when I was a tourist, I had to get back to work or I'd have lost my job, and my money would have run out.

I got to the stage where I couldn't increase my pensions much and work was becoming unbearable.  I was living between trips here and having no real life in the UK.  So, bit the bullet, sold up, and moved at 61.  4 years down the line, not regretting it yet.

I bought last year.  Used a solicitor so that I could be certain everything was above board.  Perhaps you should too.

22 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Not a good idea IMHO.

Why please?  Smaller roads are great for seeing the sites, but toll roads/motorways are best for getting from one part of the country to another.  In most countries anyway.

If they let big bikes, with big bike licence, on the toll roads, it would be worth upgrading.

My local restaurant has fish 'n chips, with local fish and cod 'n chips, with "Atlantic cod", which is ฿100 more, but a lot better.  Now if I could only get them to make good tartar sauce!  ????

The Romans built a lot of roads across Europe.  Whatever benefits they had for the countries they were built in, their ultimate purpose was to facilitate fast troop movements.  They worked and the Roman Empire lasted a long time by anyone's standards.

Just saying.

Most politicians shy away from absolutes like that.  It could come back to bite him.

Bars closed, nightclubs closed, GoGos closed.  Can't even have a beer with a meal.  Tourists will flood in.  ????