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1 minute ago, transam said:

Evidence, me, that you take note of shoppers in Makro who are buying plastic bags and linking them to street food stall faces, now come on...........................................????

I've posted links showing where you can buy food-safe plastic bags in Thailand by the kilogram. You haven't posted any links or presented any evidence that these cheap, unsafe bags you seem to be worried about are even available.

1 minute ago, transam said:

Sorry but, I think you are making things up..............

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

1 minute ago, transam said:

Sure.................

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

48 minutes ago, transam said:

Oh really, I couldn't tell one shopper from the other in Makro, regarding being a street vendor.

Do they have "Street Vendor" T-shirts....................?  

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.

6 minutes ago, transam said:

I am not a street vendor, are you...?  

I don't buy plastic bags.

 

I do not buy street food, because lack of hygiene.....

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

1 minute ago, FarAway said:

Just because a bag stays in one piece doesn't mean that material from the plastic does not dissolve into the material inside the bag.

With non-liquid and ideally cold stuff, it is another topic.

But HOT and FATTY food? I think it is sad that you all seem to accept it, instead of agreeing that it is a bad habit that needs to be changed. For the health of the earth but especially for the health of the people, <deleted>. If not the ignorant parents, then at least for their kids that sees something like that being the norm and adapting it.

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.

1 minute ago, transam said:

Seems you know it all, with a lot of assumptions about the land we are in...........

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

5 minutes ago, transam said:

I would suggest that street food folk get their plastic bags from wherever it's cheapest, and if there are cheap bags, from you know where, being brought in by salesmen, perhaps they will buy them...

After all, who would test them here.....?    

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.

Just now, transam said:

Hopefully....................

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.

58 minutes ago, FarAway said:

Am I being stupid

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.

On 2/4/2023 at 11:45 AM, Tropicalevo said:

Cycling is OK but parts of the island are very hilly.

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

6 hours ago, transam said:

Are Chinese classed as farangs, if so, do they know what the guy referred to them as.......

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

46 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

Tipping in Thailand has been going on for a long time now. Can you produce any evidence where employers reduced the wages of their employees by the amount of their tips or even because of their tips?

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.

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.

26 minutes ago, BritTim said:

People who are capable in dealing with the officials (understand their mindset, and can resist unreasonable demands while remaining friendly and polite) should not use the fixers. Those who are inexperienced, and/or hate being hassled, might be better off using a visa run company that builds all the fees into their price. In that case, someone who understands the system has already negotiated reasonable deals with the Cambodian officials and (while you are paying a service fee) you avoid the effort and aggravation (and some uncertainty) involved in negotiating everything yourself.

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.

1 hour ago, BritTim said:

Kind of legitimately, Cambodian officials will usually not allow same day return to Thailand without payment of a bribe. This is because there is a Cambodian law that, in most cases, mandates that you stay at least one night in Cambodia. Additionally, officials will often try to charge more than the official US$30 for the Cambodian visa on arrival. In my experience, you can usually successfully resist this extra charge for the VOA. Often you will encounter fixers who combine the extra charge for VOA, bribe for same day return, and a service fee for themselves as a single package deal.

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.

1 hour ago, zzzzz said:

i've  been in and out of every Thai/Cambodian land border multiple times with and sometimes without a thai registered car time since 2004
NEVER been asked to pay anything more than the official rate
OF course i have never done an in an out  ????
BUT, have heard the usual fee at Cambodian immigration is 300 baht
 

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.

4 hours ago, Jannow said:

what demands?

Those mentioned in my previous post.

8 hours ago, Dante99 said:

Uniqlo has lots of cotton tops and bottoms.

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