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You see how all the police officers are smiling....like as if they want to be there arresting people ...rather they would want to be there drinking themselves and partying along with everyone else ...lol

Cheers

They're not smiling because of any possible arrest but rather for all the new payment possibilities. They'll be knee deep in tea money!

If they truly enforce this rule, there are a BUNCH of bars in Chiang Mai gonna be closing down.

Not very well thought out. These kids won't walk FIFTY meters if they or a friend have a moto handy.

Just more drinking and driving ahead.

You can call it repairing the economy but, personally, I call $17 trillion in debt more like paying the bills with a credit card. We're over our limit now and, someday, they'll take a pair of scissors to the credit card. Thanks, indeed, Barry.

Totally agree....almost like the wild claims about Statins..............

Yeah. And eggs are the perfect food ... Again! I used to feel such a hypocrite telling my patients 2 or 3 eggs a week - no more. And I was having two every morning ... with buttered toast!

With this attitude I would not hire you as Marketing Manager

Yes you are right but at all the quackery (homeopathic for example) I would call that a relative minor thing.

Oooooh, don't get me started on homeopathy. Magic water for sale.

Well you can improve it...we could call it boost....lets say you are overweight and heavy smoker and drinker.

by getting slim, stopping these bad habits and eating enough vitamins you would "boost" your immune system. Or you could say you just normalize it to the level it should be.....semantic.....

I think the best you can say is these actions would reduce the load on the immune system. That's not the same as "boosting" or "supporting."

Some people like to go on and on in regards to there health and health related issues.

When I practiced I could spot them in a secont. It starts with a seemingly innocent questions and the. .....Blam!!!!! They are the experts and only want to argue and immesrse themselves and you in there problems........and it never stops. They keep coming with new issues and new theories....Of a General Practice they are about 10% Of the patient population.

As a retired GP, I agree completely with you. It's gotten worse with the internet. people look up articles (usually junk science) that reinforce what they already believe and ignore everything else.

P/S/ I hope you've signed the pledge to never tell the suckers know the truth about medicine. God help our bank accounts if they ever find out we have the cure for cancer, baldness and erectile dysfunction all in one 5 baht per day vitamin pill...

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apple cider vinegar with a little baking powder mixed - both the lemon and the ACV/BS are excellent at alkalising the blood.

How do you figure that an acid plus and acid plus a little alkali is going to alkalise the blood? The body is very, very good at maintaining a "normal" pH of around 7.40. In fact, your belly is running battery acid at around pH 2.00. As it leaves the stomach, your body adds bicarbonate ions to neutralize the acid. Lemons are vinegars are highly variable in their acidity but seldom drop to 2.00 so consuming bicarboonate of soda is superfluous and, because of the sodium, a possibly bad idea if you tend toward hypertension.

Sorry to burst any bubbles but, you CANNOT "boost" your immune systeme. It's not a muscle that you can build up or strengthen.

Suggest you go to the Science Based Medicine website or Quackdown site and see what they have to say about it. Anything that claims to boost or support the immune system is quackery at it's worst. Get offthe donuts,switch muscle streesing weights for an aerobic exercise, andyou'll have done allthat is necessary for a functioning immune system.

What happens if you are a tourist but owning a condo and wnat to live in your own accomodation?

Not to be pedantic, but if you own a residence here, that sort if autiomatically means you are not a tourist but a, well, resident! Maybe only a part time resident but still...

I guess that means the 2 am motorcycle races are back on...

Don't be silly. If you forced them use a child restraint seat, there wouldn't be room for the rest of the family on the motorcycle...

Beware of starting medicines mentioned above. Doxaxozin and tamulosin (and the other similar meds mentioned) can cause changes in your blood pressure. They are both associated with what's known as orthostatic hypotension which often presents with standing up and falling over. As one poster above referenced, saw palmetto has been thoroughly discredited, Saving money by surgical tourism is fine but make sure you know what kind of surgery you'll be getting and read up on the high incidence of resistant surgical infections being reported in India the last couple of years. (BTW, to post 89: if he treated you with hormones and radiation, then he believed you have cancer not the benign prostatic hypertension we're discussing,) The reports on the UroLift implants are great. Don't think you'll find it in Thailand, Good luck. Personally, I think I'd rather get to know my doctor instead of travelling to India and being told who will do my surgery, like it or not. If you do go to India, be sure to pick a well respected hospital and let us know about your experience.

I know the UKs Daily Mail is banned at the moment in Thailand,but I have it on Kindle.

Opened the paper today and there it was "UROLIFT" new surgical procedure,seems a good alternative to past surgical procedures,just

learn a bit more about it before commiting.

You can find a very easy to understand illustration on YouTube.

Sure. Open the bars and bring on the bar girls, But here in peaceful Chiang Mai my lady and I can go out for dinner OR a movie. Not both. Not enough tea money in the north?

Funny. My ex in Aberdeen used to get mad at me for NOT going out drinking.

Some women just can't be pleased.

Eat, drink and be "married"

'cause her husband is a Thai

So, she wants you to buy a thousand bucks worth of gold and/or diamonds for her finger, then she'll probably want you to buy her a car which she and her hisband can drive off into the sunset.

I'd suggest, if you really want to this lady, hire a PI to check her out.

In Europe, cathedrals have stone dragons and other scary animals to keep away the evil spirits.

Nowadays, we call it art.

In Europe, my grandmother used to wear holy medallions, containing bits of clothing worn by saints.

Nowadays, collectors pay big money for them.

Same same.

Yeah. Lots of dragons and scary demons protecting temples here.

Had a lady friend visit me about three years ago. She asked about the amulets. I explained them to the best of my knowledge and she kind of snickered at the idea. Since I was hoping for some bedtime activities later, I didn't say anything about the St Christopher medal hanging arounf her neck.

How about just a constructive yes or no to the question, minus the meaningless cynicism?

Sorry, Newbie. If you can't handle cynicism, close your browser NOW and run, do not walk, to the nearest bar!

I don't know about other people's medallions or amulets, but mine protects me from crazy Thai drivers, and it allows me to fly.

Wow! I did not know that. Do you have to flap your arms or is it more of a glide?

The amulets usually portray a famous monk and the medallion will bring good luck or other blessings to the wearer. Google search: Thai Buddhist Amulets

The spirit houses are usually not a direct link to BUddhism. Instead they are the throwback to the ancient practice of animism. If you erect a building on an empty lot, you better put up an alterantive accomodation for the spirits of that field! Do a google search: Thai Spirit House or look up spirit house in Wikipedia.

BTW: Sorry for the religious screed above. Uncalled for.

My wife and i did 3 weeks on the Mae Hong Son loop and checked into every hotel with a photocopy of my passport. No dramas at all. The bike company kept the original.

The bike company is the LAST on my list to trust with my original passport!

Government in exile; is that not the same thing as a guerrilla/rebel terrorist group?

Depends on your definitions, I suppose. The Dalai Llama running the Tibetan Gov-in-Exile out of India might disagree with being labeled a terrorist. They'd like to keep the ChiComs out of Tibet. Or the Laotian Gov-in-Ex based in the USA that tries to overthrow the communist regime for a democratic society.. I think the current Shah of Iran runs out of the USA, too. And the old Shah's regime looks pretty good these days, no?

Personally, repeat personally I kind of like the CIA Factbook's description for the US: "Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition."

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Excellent post. But I fear the CIA Factrbokk may have to remove the words "consitution-based" before Obama leaves office.

rayw said: "BTW I am British and used to love my country but I cannot say I do now as it is another corporate run USA puppet nation and sadly almost as corrupt as the USA too. "

Hmmmm. The conspiracists in the US claim Queen Lizzie is the puppeteer twanging the strings of worldwide financial institutes.