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This has been a popular question, as you can imagine, here over the years. And I;m not sure there is any universally "correct" answer.

And it applies to ALL food, from all sources. That includes hugely expensive restaurants in luxurious hotels, and it applies to the "very safe, hygienic" American-style scrubbed-down fast-food restaurants. Over the past several years in the United States, many of the major food poisoning outbreaks have come from sprouts! And almost all case were home-prepared dishes, although many from high-class salad bars.

Food that is cooked thoroughly at very high temperatures in front of your eyes is undoubtedly the safest you'll get, whether on the street, at home or in a posh restaurant.

The error implied in the OP and carried through to many posts is that "dirty" food is to blame because street carts are icky. But even if there is dirt, dirt won't poison you. It's what's under the dirt.

I thought one of the first answers was best, that if you see the cook prepare the food in boiling water (noodle soup, say) or deep fry it (fried chicken, say) you have the very best chance of all food of not having a nasty result.

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First deputy Senate Speaker Surachai Liengboonlertchai my ace.

Did he know that he is NOT a first deputy Senate Speaker Surachai Liengboonlertchai yet.

Not until the royal confirmation.

Khun chotthee, you have it backwards. He *is* the first deputy speaker, or to be exactly correct the caretaker first deputy speaker. He is the Speaker-elect, subject to royal confirmation which will take a bit of time, a few days while legal opinions are confirmed.

Because he was elected Speaker last week, he is often called Speaker or Speaker-elect. But he is actually the first deputy speaker, as stated, because that was his position in the last Senate session. That is what he will be until a new Speaker is confirmed by that royal appointment.

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I heard there where some issues regarding payments. It could be the reason less people showed up.

They have even used the joker: Robert Amsterdam.

You two are good. The coordination is excellent. Whatever you're getting, you're worth more. Black propaganda is hard to do, harder to do well. This is A-Prime-Top-Value stuff, so make sure that's what you get.

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Difference is that the BMA is cleaning up the PDRC mess and the BMA not cleaning any UDD mess.

Not entirely true, private citizens and entrepreneurs are also cleaning up behind The Kamnan.

Thanks for the reminder re the date...

The key word you use is "share". Obviously I now store photos digitally and I have actually sorted, selected, digitized and labelled a selection of my military photos for my kids to see in later years. The rest will be burnt at some stage and certainly never "shared". The "Rockape" who took the photos at Bastion after the Taliban attack, made the fatal error of "sharing" them, that's how they ended up on LiveLeak.

Hence my comment about this mania to share events and acts with the great unknown. It's a classic example of having all the toys but not being wise enough to know how to use them sensibly.

Yesyesyes.

My point was simply that now there is really only way that is used to share, and that is to broadcast it to the world. You can't put something on the internet that is NOT shared with the entire world. Or, to be more exact, you can direct your sharing to a few people, and it is possible, even likely, that the whole world won't see it. But that's only "security through obscurity". The photos are there, the whole world CAN see them.

And of course some people are wiser than others in exactly how they share. That is, putting in email has less chance of exposure than putting in a "private" Instagram has less chance than an open Facebook account. But bottom line is that showing your paper photos to friends at home or at the pub and retaining them *is* private, and copying them to any internet place is not private, quite binary.

I told my son after his first overseas tour in a hellish place that he should *never* post anything but the most innocuous photos and even then to password them on his Facebook or whatever. And I advised him to print out those he wanted to keep and put them in a box, like his father did and his grandfather did and you did and never to share the digital versions, ever, with anyone. I didn't actually dream at that time that the twits who pass for phuyai in Britain would be quite this stupidly anal-retentive, but anyway, it turned out to be decent advice, I think.

The people who create problems are not difficult to spot, just look at their face... So why the rest of innocent torists have to be punished because of monkeys that are easy to spot for anyone with a brain ???

When will the failed Thai Visa Administrators finally get around to the much-needed Post Of The Day feature so that we do not have to spend our valuable time combing the forums to find it?

So part of the world country's are legalizing marihuana and other parts are executing people for using or smuggling it.

really <deleted> up world this planet of ours.

And part of the world puts you in jail for writing a book and part of the world buys the book and reads it. I feel for that person in jail just for writing a book, and even this dopey woman too.There are certainly some unfortunate consequences to diversity.

But oh my, how happy I am that we are diverse and not all pounded into one big boring shape.

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Related topic (?): I'm a big Godzilla fan and I'd love to see the movie, but I haven't been to a cinema in Thailand in for like 15 years. The US movies used to be in English with Thai subs. Still like that?

Probably not, huh?

Yes they're in English, although they also have Thai-dubbed versions of most popular movies, which are not nearly so popular.

Thai cinemas are REALLY good. I presume for Godzilla they will have at least 3D and probably more. Give yourself a treat.

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Your not suggesting they'd slip out one of my kidneys for the black market are you?

If I didn't trust the medical treatment you can get in LOS, I wouldn't have moved here.

This happens very frequently in Thailand, well documented here by stories of actual Thai Visa members who had it happen to the sister of the cousin of the woman who sells orange's nephew's army buddy's wife.

Frequently

Please have a full recovery and may your stay get much better and long.

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Yet another Maha Chamlong wannabe. In his previous life, this was one of the monks shooting down students at Thammasat on Oct 6. Instead of being born again, he has been born backwards. He will be forming his own sect soon, like Chamlong.

Extremely informative thread. The number of seers here is phenomenal, a veritable convention. If only they could be convinced to post the May 16 lottery numbers!! Or PM them to me.

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Please provide details of incident 4 years ago.

What day of the week did it occur?

Thanks

According to the calendar I found in 0.0346 seconds with Google, May 19, 2010 was a Wednesday.

I'm not sure "incident" quite describes it. I'm a little surprised you didn't hear about it. But you can probably find way more pre-written details than I could write for you, if you use the same free Google service I used. Just google "May 19 2010 bangkok" and you'll get ever so many details. And you're very welcome.

Better example though is that for the last four months or so, the red shirts have been protesting almost exclusively inside the Imperial Lard Phrao mall, just outside the immigration department. It gets quite noisy and interesting at times, if you're a politics junkie.

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There can be arguments for and against the Army stepping in being a catalyst for escalated violence.

I wouldn't know that this time is exactly the same as previous instances, conditions do change some from time to time.

Doesn't look like the Army is too keen to get into this mess, at least if there isn't an agreed upon bailing out for them.

If there were open hostilities, then the Army would surely intervene, right now it looks like they're pushing for an arrangement of sorts, while keeping the coup option live (as "last resort"? as "stick"?).

People keep saying this. I understand it but it's wrong and doesn't understand the situation.

"If there were open hostilities" - the army would not "intervene", because the army would already be directly involved in them.

This is one of the reasons - and an excellent one in my view - that the army is quiet. It fears/shuns hostilities. There are other reasons, but this is one of the top ones. It is not possible that there would be "open hostilities" WITHOUT army involvement. Even 2010 should prove that.

So many people here look at the army as if it has peacemaking ability. It doesn't. If the army acts (as opposed to not acting, as now) it is screwed no matter what it does. It will be seen as taking sides, and that will touch off everything AGAINST the army and the killing will start just as it did when the army "intervened" in April 2010 and again in May 2010.

Doing nothing (as now) is the army's only alternative to deep, deadly, blood-spilling "intervention".

I have sympathy for the army. It is told to train and equip in order to find, fix and destroy the enemy. And it does that, and then all of a sudden, "Oh, hey, soldier-boy, we need you to separate these two hooligans fighting. But don't hurt anyone".

It has no reference for that. It only can find, fix and destroy some of the hooligans. Kill 90 or 100 Thai people and end the 2010 uprising. Well, it works, but it's not what you want. The only FAULT of the army is to puff itself up as it has done so very often in Thailand and pretend it can keep peace, solve problems, run the government, etc. It can't do any of that because it is untrained, unequipped and unprepared for that. It can't do that any more than the techie geeks and whiz kids at Nectec can defend the borders, and for the same reason - it's not their job..

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We are generating our own fear regarding civil war. It wouldn't happen. First before it can happen, the army will step in. The UDD knows the peril of direct confrontation and they can see that the situation is just lots of smoke but really no fire. The PDRC numbers are small for the CAPO to control and they don't have the support of their courts allies. When the arrest come after the court approved the warrants, the hired guards will have the gumption to offer little resistance. These are hired guns that are not loyal supporters and unlikely to put their life at risk for 500B. If CAPO successfully isoated Suterp and his core leaders, it is games over unless Suterp hide behind his supporters.

I agree with you in part, except I'm more cautious. One never should say "never".

But yes, Thailand isn't close to civil war. People who cry "civil war" are like people crying "tsunami" in Bangkok. It's not on the list of "most likely events to prepare for".

Another thing I don't agree with at all. The army doesn't "step in" as some sort of peacekeeper in a civil war as you intimate. The army does not prevent a civil war. The army is a full-on belligerent in a civil war, involved from start to finish, taking and dishing out heavy casualties. THAT is a civil war. That's why they don't call it a "civil disturbance with some punching and four grenade launchers".

Civil wars are exactly like cross-border wars. They only thing that makes they "civil" (heh, great word for a war) is they are contained within one country's borders. But they are real wars. They build up, they require arms, they require troops and training. Civil wars aren't 75 people in red shirts running through Bangkok alleys and civil wars aren't 82 people in yellow shirts closing off two expressways. Civil wars are REAL wars, only usually they are worse, with more casualties and more motivated fighters.

There could easily be more violence than we have today, as horrible as that is. But that wouldn't be civil war, or anything like it. A civil war is a full-out, real war and it is far down a long, long road in Thailand, if it is there at all.

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According to the other paper the suteps plans are in tatters.

His call for an appointed prime minister have been rejected by the military judicial the senate speaker and the EC.

Just wondering why the nation hasn't picked up on this?

It's a pity tv only has limited news sources otherwise we would get a more balanced view .

But then again some articles from all newspapers are a bit screwy.

All newspapers have the fact that Suthep's plans are rubbished. The Nation version just has a different spin, that's all.

We can't pick a new PM, senior judge says

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/We-cant-pick-a-new-PM-senior-judge-says-30233417.html

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Finally, the people of three villages on the Bangkok-Samut Prakan province line get their prayers answered, and soon will no longer have to endure the agony of travelling two kilometres east to Central Bang Na.

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You think he can undo the damage of the last ten years in ten minutes? I thought you were smarter than that.

Well, it's 10 days, but who's quibbling? The point is that I had thought it was Thawil that was smarter than that. Broadcasting with that smarmy smile of his that he was going to fix things up in the South as top number one no-delay priority simply invites the kind of responses he's getting. He wanted it known that a REAL security man was on the job. And now we see every day what that's all about.

If he had ever sounded serious and not just triumphant over the eeeeevil Lord Voldemort na Dubai, I suspect he would not be getting any of these comments at all. No one doubts the complicated problems of the South. But Thawil made it appear he did doubt them. Too bad for him if he gets a few dabs of ridicule on his suit.

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There is no time limit on Malwarebytes but it will try to trick you into upgrading every time you open the program by telling you it's outdated by xxxxxx amount of days and 'would you like to upgrade now?' Just press 'no' and carry on with your scan.

Worst advice of the thread. The previous worst was about downloading the trial version of Malwarebytes. Simply get the free Malwarebytes, clearly offered on its main page, and more than ample for anyone reading this thread.

https://www.malwarebytes.org/

Large letters: "Free version download"

1. Malwarebytes does not trick anyone, ever. Or try to. It is hugely polite.

2. Malwarebytes does not "try" to get you to upgrade. It does, properly, try to get you to update. That is because

3. Malwarebytes' database of malware *is* out of date by xxxxxx amount of days and should be updated (not upgraded), just as the program recommends.

Press "yes", wait for the new malware database to download and install, and proceed with your scan. Only if you do not have an internet connection should you press "no". And in that case, you should try to find an internet connection and get the new, updated database so you are not trying to scan for last week's malware with last year's Malwarebytes database.

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Here is journalist writing about the shortcomings of the Korean media - without investigating the root causes, without asking questions. Are they lazy, inept, afraid of government pressure, biased, corrupt? A reporter deploring investigative reporting in his country without trying to investigate his own article, indicative of what?

Yes. And thanks for pointing out the irony. Many would miss it. This writer is in total lockstep with mass thinking, reporting the mainstream view, without the slightest attempt to analyse or accept any disagreement with this view. heh

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Still if there were ways they could help to get this country out of the mess it is in that would be good.

There is nothing like an international group issuing a call for calm and for peaceful settlements to inspire others to get busy and solve their problems. Who ever would have thought of a "peaceful solution" in Thailand if it were not for Asean?

A poster above got this right. The story is not that Asean wants a "peaceful solution" what else WOULD Asean want? That's right up there with the Asean discovery of the direction of the sunrise. It is mildly interesting that Asean addressed the subject, that is the lead, that they had the guts to say anything at all.

This all occurred just before Asean refused to back its own two members, Vietnam and the Philippines, who are being bullied, abused and physically attacked by China. And that pusillanimity by the Asean group is *also* not news. The inability of Asean to call for a peaceful solution to an actual, physical battle between China and Vietnam is not newsworthy at all, it really isn't.

Asean has its uses for sure, but it is useless on politics, diplomacy and similar. No I take that back. It is worse than useless, because of its pretenses.

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Yes I agree I am not comfortable with this and am working on getting her back into her own bedroom.

Any suggestions?

From your fairly short post, I think you are taking the wrong approach here. Everything you do and say shows negativism and rejection of the situation and by extension, the people themselves.

I suggest you work on how to REWARD your step-daughter by allowing her to have her own room, where she can do her own things, without you and Mum always looking over her shoulder. "Now that you're a big girl, we are going to show our confidence in you by allowing you....."

Have serious and if necessary long discussions with Mum beforehand so that she will support you even if, as is likely, she is very scared to let this child go.

But stop being negative.

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"Last year alone a total of 483 persons were prosecuted out of 386 trafficking cases,"

If this many people were prosecuted in one year.....I've never seen a report of these cases, and how did they manage to have trials for all these people, when the courts are backlogged up to 2-3 years!

IMO suspicious figures indeed.

While I would never recommend you see it from the wrong end, drop by the Criminal Court in your area some day — or the nearest one where either "refugees" or foreign overstayers are common — and go to the room processing immigration cases. Then you will revise the last line of your post.

Justice is very much like a sausage factory, and not just in Thailand.

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