edwardandtubs

So, present evidence to contradict me rather than using childish emoticons and one-word answers.

Very considered response, showing your evidence-based approach to the subject.

If you regularly see the same person selling food on the street and then see that person in Makro buying the ingredients and plastic bags and spoons etc you can put 2 and 2 together.

I tend to cook for myself and see a lot of food vendors in Makro.

You haven't presented any evidence to support your claims. Your link related to BPA which, as the article explains, is in polycarbonate and the liners of food containers. It isn't in the polypropylene and polyethylene bags used by the food vendors. Do some research into these plastics and you'll see they are indeed heat resistant and safe for hot and fatty food. If you're worried about BPA, you're more likely to find it in the lining of a soup can than the soup you buy in bags from the streets.

Feel free to suggest what these cheap bags you fear are made of and where they are available.

Well, they don't want to ladle some soup into their cheap bag only for it to melt, wasting the soup and burning them in the process. The fact that these bags stay in one piece show they must be heat resistant and I doubt there's a cheaper option that the widely available heat-resistant PP, PET or HDPE that have been used all over the world for decades.

Food vendors tend to shop at Makro. Polypropylene is also used: https://www.makroclick.com/en/search-results/?keyword=pp bag but it's no different to the 'boil in the bag' trend in British supermarkets.

Yes. The bags are made of food-grade polyethylene: https://www.makroclick.com/en/search-results/?keyword=PE Bag&keywordId=12375

A few years ago I didn't find any public transportation options from the town to the airport. I believe Nok Air has a fly and ride service that just puts its passengers on a private van to a hotel so find out what time the van departs (check the Nok Air website) and see if it fits your times. If not, doubt there's a public transportation option. That airport is very much for locals with their own ride.

Plenty of "flour" up there is the Golden Triangle so he won't be short of funds.

I think an e-bike would be ideal for added speed and less effort up those hills.

Chinese are not farangs. 'Farang' is a racial designation which means white/European/Caucasian people.

It's simple supply and demand in the labour market. If a cleaner could earn more money working in a hotel (where they receive tips) than in an office (where they don't) then all cleaners would be working in hotels and none in offices. Obviously this isn't the case.

No I never tip and for all the Americans saying nonsense like they don't get paid much so I tip, this never works out in favour of the workers. The employer will just reduce their wages by however much they earn in tips, so far from helping the workers you are just causing them to have an unstable income. Tipping is just modern day feudalism, where the worker has to kneel down and rely on the 'kindness' of the rich man just to earn a living. It makes ignorant Americans feel good about themselves but does nothing at all for the workers. If all the idiots stopped tipping then the employers would be forced to pay a living wage in order to recruit and retain staff.

The problem is a lot of guys seem to think that unprotected oral sex is low risk, which it is for HIV but for chlamydia and gonorrhea it's high risk. This is compounded if you're getting your penis sucked by a commercial sex worker who sucks many other penises and so almost certainly has gonorrhea, chlamydia and many other bacteria and viruses in her/his throat. If you want to avoid untreatable clap you need to put the condom on before any penetration.

The one visa run company from Bangkok has put up it price from 2500 before covid to 3500 baht now, presumably because they have to pay more to immigration. It makes me think the days of the 300 baht in-out are long gone.

Singapore? Costa Rica? Neither place has a problem with police extorting foreigers.

And Thai friends will usually just say pay the police what they ask for.

The all-in fee for such fixers used to be 1700 baht but now the reports are 2700 which apparently people are willing to pay so don't expect it to go down.

Pre-covid there was never any fee for coming back the next day but they would add $5 to the visa on arrival fee. No reports that 300 baht will get you an in-out entry nowadays. The only reports are people paying agents much more.

Those mentioned in my previous post.

As does H&M which is everywhere in Thailand including Pattaya. Lots of cotton, linen and cotton-linen blends.

There's nothing unnatural about drinking one's own feculence. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AK3LduV4-tg

I think you may have misunderstood the article. All the research shows that the bivalent booster is superior but maybe not by much. See this Time article: https://archive.ph/D5w2Q The key thing is your age and whether you're in a clinical risk group. If you're under the age of 50 and not in a clinical risk group then you should definitely not get any more boosters. In fact, the UK is withdrawing vaccine availability for such people and if you look at data that informed that decision, it's easy to see why: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-programme-for-2023-jcvi-interim-advice-8-november-2022/appendix-1-estimation-of-number-needed-to-vaccinate-to-prevent-a-covid-19-hospitalisation-for-primary-vaccination-booster-vaccination-3rd-dose-au Rates of hospitalisation for someone aged 40-49 not in a clininal risk group are 4.3 in a million for those with one or two doses and 3.1 in a million for those with 3+ doses. These risks are miniscule and lower than other risks we take every day like driving our cars. If you're older or in a clinical risk group, on the other hand, I'd say take the bivalent booster when it becomes available to you. I wouldn't take the monovalent because your recent infection protects you for at least six months and your memory B cells will continue to mature in a way that will protect you from future omicron variants. Getting injected with the Wuhan strain may in fact harm the maturation process.