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Why then was I quite happy not having conversational Thai? Of course a minimum is necessary to get by. Dunno about that. I just wasn't prepared to spend the time necessary when I could be doing other things in preference. If I were stuck in a Thai jail for a year with nothing else to do, I'm pretty sure I could have picked it up. IMO just not enough benefit to bother.

LOL. Have you only lived in Pattaya? Bkk bargirls definitely are not mainly from Issan, unless that has changed since my happy days.

I certainly don't watch sport played by so called "professionals". I even gave up on the All Blacks when they stopped being amateur. BTW, you quoted the wrong post. The one you quoted was about the aged industry exploiting old people, not big pharma companies. However, I'd have been quite happy not to have made big pharma any richer, but not being vaccinated means one can't even go to the movies, so I had it when an alternative to Pfizer came available just to get the vaccine passport.

I've been aware over many years of Thai women coming on to farangs, free nights just because they want to try a farang, going with farangs for food etc. Usually an urban myth. Probably as rare as the well known "international fast food chain" fried mouse urban myth- always happened to a friend of a friend.

You and I could safely go gogoing together, as we would never be competing for the same women.

Is she even Thai? If she is, why would she be wearing pantyhose outside in Thailand?

Just as well we all like different body shapes. Your second choice is an automatic fail for me given her large boobies.

That would be the total death rate, surely, not the covid death rate.

That is something that most I encounter in my life are like. Why would they change just because of a virus?

If the regime doesn't understand that cases like the OP will get wide publicity and result in less arrivals they only have themselves to blame if tourism is a bust this year as well. I hope every case like this does get maximum publicity, as money, or rather lack of money is probably the only thing that will make a difference.

?????????? How many would argue against eating less and exercising more? Are we a planet of slothful gluttons now?

Simply giving up sugar is a good way to lose weight. I lost 10 kg by doing so, despite making no other change to my lifestyle or diet. Of course it's not easy giving up sugar given it is added to so much processed food, but it can be done.

Hmmmmm. If energy in exceeds energy out, is it not a fact that excess energy is stored in the human body as fat? One can make all the excuses one likes, but if one eats too much and does too little, one is going to get fat. The answer to obesity for most is in people's own hands. I wasn't aware of any refrain from those opposed to vaccination per se, but rather a reluctance to take a substance that was produced years sooner than a previous vaccine and using a different technology. I myself waited till an alternative to Pfizer was available, and very happy to have done so.

Given the ferocity that the vaccine is pursued as the "only" means of avoiding hospital, when the number of infected that go to hospital is apparently not a high %, and of course deaths an even smaller %, one could be forgiven for wondering just who stands to benefit financially.

I mention that to make it plain that I don't go around being fearful of a virus that can kill me, lest some might call me hypocrite for advocating the Swedish approach but intending to use every avenue to survive. Survivability is not even an objective. Western world is chock a block of those making heartless corporations rich in the aged industry, and I would prefer not to be one of them, if that makes my situation any more clear.

My substantiation would be that the staff are under extreme pressure. Had the proper preparation been made they would not be, IMO. They could have recruited more staff and trained them by now- obviously they didn't. It was their job to anticipate more contagious strains and prepare- they didn't and they didn't, IMO.

I can't post my opinion of nursing unions without being suspended for it, it's so bad. That is the people that run the unions, not the actual workers. IMO they are the reason nurses have been paid a pittance for decades.

I was talking about lack of preparation for the coming storm, not whether staff are under extreme pressure, but the apparent reality of them being under extreme pressure would support my contention that not enough was done to prepare. They have had at least 18 months to recruit more staff and train them- did they do so?

I'll take her word over yours. She actually works in a hospital and you...........................................?

Governments, since Nixon can't run out of paper with money printed on it. They can apparently invent it out of nothing. "Small problem" of inflation may result though. https://www.barrons.com/articles/gold-standard-dollar-dominance-bretton-woods-51628890861 President Richard Nixon announced a bold economic plan, including the severing of the U.S. dollar’s ties to gold.

According to a nurse I know, they've done sod all, regardless of the propaganda.

I too found lots of action in Chiang Mai, but it involved avoiding get run over by maniacs while riding the m'bike. Nearest thing to fun I found in C M was a boring version of a soapy massage by a fat woman that was as much fun as being suspended above Thapae Gate by my nuts. Typical C M- can't even get a soapy massage right.

You found fun before 11pm? How long ago was that? Far as fun is concerned, Chiang Mai is the Dead Zone. They didn't even put on a show for New Year. Apparently China Town put on a parade for Chinese New Year, but it was so huge I blinked and missed it.

Impossible to recreate with actors. Like Walking Street it was about sex, so unless the actors are prostitutes, it's gonna fail. The difference with W S was that back in the 80s homosexuality was a crime, so guys would use hand signals and meet the katoey away from the street. Best night I ever had there was when a certain British royal's ship was in port. Place was heaving with sailors. I looked for him but no luck.

In some western countries nurses wear scrubs now. About as unsexy as possible to get.