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In Europe I'd get 3 or 4 a year with nasty sore throats. In Thailand, never had a cold in 10+ years. The only sore throat I've had was for three or four hours when I had Covid. Glorious. I rinse and gargle with the special saltwater (you can buy in 7/11), so my nose has never felt clearer.

You'll increasingly need to use 2FA for lots of things. There is no escape. I use it for 6 or 7. I use one. And have made sure that I always can recover. I am being vague because not making public this kind of info is part of a personal security setup.

Make sure you understand how the backup of the authenticator works. If your phone goes missing, once you've set up a new phone and are setting up the authenticator app again, you'll need to be ready with that backup reset system. It might be a password or an access e-mail account. It will be very strict and everything depends on you getting it right. There is no recovery to that backup. It is the very last line of defence.

Having cereal is just about the worst thing you can wake up to in the morning. It will give you a quick sugar high followed by a long episode of fatigue, it will make you feel hungry and moody. Stop.

In modern times, you can rip up the rulebook if you want, but this possibly creates tension in the relationship. Since it means that every single issue becomes a point of contention. Who should do this who should do that... She is not disputing with her husband in this, she is disputing with the wisdom of her mother-in-law. Could it be that her mother-in-law grasps the bigger issues... Modern society which lacks the firm rules of past generations, uses a mechanism of fake choice. It pretends to offer up the choice, but then you must accept only the socially successful option. The most famous example is paying for the woman on a date; on paper; this is a choice for the man to make. In practise, he must pay. His failure to pay is a signal of his failure to understand the rules of the game. His date then decides if this is acceptable. The importance of this can be seen in the story of the child and the naked King. The lesson from that story is not that the crowd is foolish in not noticing the King is naked, but rather the child is foolish for not understanding the importance of not pointing out that the emperor is naked. They are, fortunately, just a child. The woman who refuses to iron is an adult. Similarly, parents tell their middle class children that they can choose to go or not to go to university. In practise, the children are obliged to go to university. Those who don't pick up on these social signals, such as the woman here, suffer. These are related to what are known as "luxury beliefs". The ultimate example is marriage. Society says women have a choice. But it is clearly a false choice. Elite women marry at very high levels even today. Only the women who don't grasp that the choice is false, choose not to marry. In other words it is a luxury belief perpetuated by the elite, but which damages the lives of women in the lower classes. Society nowadays instead of telling you what to do, invites you to make the right decision. Your ability to flourish in that specific society with those specific rules will depend on that.

Just tried with Brave got the same Cloudfare error message of the host server. Please could you let the IT support know as I have literally no way to contact them. If I attempt to send a message via contact support, that also fails!!

I have a major problem. I am not able to go to the forum landing page or any of the pages of each of the forums. That makes it impossible for me to create a new topic and the reason why I am posting it at the end of this topic. I also cannot send a message to the support since it also fails to send! I have deleted site settings in order to be rid of any cache and the problem remains. Bizarrely, it remains whether I use Opera or Chrome or Google as the browser. Apparently the fault is on the side of Aseannow:

A point that I'll keep making every time this comes up: every case that resulted in death in Thailand (according to all the newspaper articles that explain the trigger cause) was after they took aspirins or NSAIDs to lower their fevers. If you must insist on lowering the fever (which is a silly thing to do because a fever is your body's way of fighting the infection, and only becomes an issue if it gets out of hand) then take a paracetamol tablet.

I wish it wasn't positioned there, simply because so many passengers, particularly from India, confuse it for an extension of visa service. Last time I was there, three separate groups of Indian men were there trying to get visa extensions for their tourist visas. They simply couldn't understand the difference between a reentry permit and a visa extension.

If you accidentally enter via the wrong zone, then the immigration will stamp you through to Departures, and then you need to make you way through to the correct zone to find the reentry permit desk (they are separated by around 150 m). You must make sure you tell the immigration officer that you plan to get a re-entry permit. I have a question in regard to the new automatic computer departure gates. How do they operate with the reentry permits? Can people with reentry permits use them or must they still go via a human?

Thais desire the cosmopolitan; they tend to get the retiree who has never lived abroad before, who brings their parochial prejudices on the plane with them, who seeks to learn nothing from their new country, and who isolates into farang ghettos. But if they can't have the cosmopolitan, then they'll make do with retirees who have enough to not be a drain on the system, and workers with at least something more than a degree from the Polytechnic of Pub life.

The accessibility functions are things like being able to read your screen. I have around 5 Apps running these functions. Such as my Youtube Ads blocking App and my Powershade App. And for months and months my banking apps have not worked unless I turn these off. And that's exactly what I do. Each time I use the banking apps I simply go to the accessibility menu and switch off all the other apps. I then finish using the banking apps and turn back on the other apps. I'm so used to doing this it only takes around 10 seconds now. But it does mean that I cannot instantly access the banking Apps. So, for example, I don't use them for cardless withdrawals at the ATM etc. Relax. It's not a big deal.

Correct. Generally, corruption in Thailand is the sort used to grease the wheels of bureaucracy or to soften its obstructions, rather than the negative type which simply blocks your path. My suspicion is he hasn't understood what they said at BKK, to the extent of being even paranoid to answer the phone.

It typically takes 6 weeks.

It states clearly that you did not comply with the Lazada return procedure within the required time. Lazada is now warning you to not act outside their procedures. Lazada is unlikely to assist you further. Your best hope is finding a way to contact the seller.

If you can't spell out coherently to us what happened, then I'm not sure how the Thai justice system could be expected to solve the matter. How exactly did you lose the 200,000 baht? If you can't explain that, let's start even more simply: how do you know you lost 200,000 baht? What did you tell the authorities originally? What progress have they made? What other third parties are assisting you or aware of the situation?

I recommend Mayfair, London or the Thai Cultural Centre, rather than Soi Bukhao if you're trying to avoid low class, riff raff. Personally, from my experience, when I was working in New York, the Ozzies saved me. The arrival of a few employees from our Australian office rescued me from the humourless, worker drone Americans. The first thing they suggested on walking into the office was to pop out for a quick beer.

Just to add to @Chris Daley 's comment, I'll set out here the key path for a bilingual kid in Thailand. I set it out because many of the fathers here are working class and are not familiar with the middle class games that have to be played to get that high earning job in Bangkok. Firstly, as they are growing up you need to always speak to them in English, and always make sure they read English books. Then you submit them to an international course at a top Thai university (i.e. one where the course is conducted in English). Then you make sure they have a goal of at least 3.5 GPA. And then with that, they can almost always get a scholarship to the British universities, and it is not unusual to get into Oxbridge as a foreign scholarship student. From that, the world is their oyster. Thailand desperately needs bilinguals who can think. And at the age of 24, they've had a very cheap education from which they can make serious money. This opportunity does not exist for working class lads back in the UK. It is a massive privilege to have such a large number of scholarships thrown at you. And then also to benefit from being bilingual... it is ridiculous to then fail. It is basically life on level easy... so long as you understand the middle class games that you have to play. Thank you for listening to my TED talk.

Who hasn't occasionally misused Thai police resources... Through contacts, I once had a police sergeant in a police van drive my friends and me to a resort villa in hua hin and collect us. It certainly got some stares. Not least from other police officers, when we parked up at a rest stop on the way. Besides, everyone knows that if you have the contacts you can pay around 3,000 baht a day for 2 motorcycle outriders. But obviously the Chinese guys behaviour was excessive particularly in this age where everyone has a camera.

If it is the one that I think you mean, they have a script control function preventing any access to the text. I think you'll find you will not be able to copy (Ctrl + C) the text either.

It should only be given on day zero (perhaps day one or day two) because it actually interferes with the injection vaccinations. It is only intended to prevent the virus reaching your nerve system before the vaccines can kick in. If you were outside a major city they probably took a judgment call taking into consideration the risk vs benefit. Current best practice in Thailand (if no pre-exposure vaccines) appears to be: [Source] Giving Rabies immunoglobulin (RIG) · Indication of injection RIG include: 1. Level wound category III 2.Wounds around the head, neck, and hands 3. Patients with severe immunodeficiency disease (severe immunodeficiency) In case of disease patients HIV With low immunity levels Or do not receive antiretroviral drugs RIGBoth in the wound category II and III 4. People who are bitten in areas where patients are infected with rabies. 5. People who were bitten by bats Or touch the disease from bats (N.b. wound category 3 is any wound with bleeding) I am assuming you failed to obtain vaccines pre-exposure. If you did get vaccines pre-exposure then it is very very unlikely that you will need the immunoglobin. In any event, consult with the doctor.

With the new 'Airflow' tech (Hydroprophy jet) introduced to Thailand, can it be used as a replacement for the scaling and polishing? My teeth have no fillings and have never had any issues. I take good care of my oral hygiene. It seems Airflow is probably enough? I see it is a around a third cheaper, and much quicker. I always felt the scaling and polish procedure was like bringing a machine gun to a fist fight (at least... if you clean and fluoride regularly). Anyone had it or a dentist recommend it? What were the results like?

I see the absurdity of somebody moral grandstanding without reason. You made a false inference, I pointed you out on it, you doubled down on it, and you still haven't apologised.

Next time I will be sure to include my published essays, my interviews and my whole worldview in order that our beloved moral conscienceness of the World, namely Mr Chomper, is able to make his moral judgement of me.

Because if you ascribe ideas onto another, then you should have a reason for possessing them beyond a wilful certainty of your goodness and the badness of others. This moral splitting is the argument of a child. An infantile defence to a complex world.