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At the same time could you ask the Israeli energy minister to do the same thing...? Otherwise, could you please leave this conversation to the adults.

1. Israel has cut off the water supply to Gaza ensuring that 2.3 million people will have no access to drinking water. Humans can survive around 3 days without drinking water. 2. Israel is an apartheid State. It is a Jewish State (that's a bad thing) rather than a State for the Jewish people (that's a good thing). 3. The Hamas action was the result of extraordinary provocations by Israel's extreme far-rightwing government. The fanatical Jews who wish the Al-Aqsa mosque to be knocked it down and replaced by a third temple are quietly supported by the crazy government. You don't know this because you are kept away from reality. Learn from this. 4. All countries outside of Western civilisation have a enormous in- group bias which makes this state of affairs almost inevitable. The only solution is the importation of millions of non-Jews from sub-Saharan Africa to Israel. Israel must become diverse, and be enriched. 5. Jews regard Christian Zionist Americans as simple useful idiots. The West is regarded as Edom from the Bible, the great enemy of Israelites, that must be destroyed. 6. Israel's national defence policy has always regarded the only existential threat as a loss of support of the American public. Americans are subjected to astonishing levels of very effective propaganda from Israel. If you, like a nodding lap dog, support Israel but don't know why that is because of very effective, constant propaganda.

"...the foreigner not only had HIV but also many other illnesses that left the man barely able to walk." Yet he was able to commit a murder?

"he does not care after she robbed him. Initially a billionaire, he now has less than 10 million baht left" It's not robbery if you gift someone your money whilst wearing your love goggles. There isn't much sign of fraud here except she said she was living with her parents. And that's about it. I don't think his case has a chance unless there's some strange quirk in the Thai law. Interesting to see how this one progresses... But she certainly has enough money to defend her case....

Something that has stuck in my mind over a couple of decades is that the British Army had an unofficial policy of never having the platoon commander possess more than 30 IQ points above the squadies in the platoon. The reasoning behind this is the commanders thinking would be so beyond the capacity of the squadies to comprehend that they would not trust in his commands.

I fear across the world in all countries of mid-income and above we're going to see quite a rapid deterioration in IQ levels. Put simply, the middle class are not having enough children, and lower classes are having children. IQ tends to congregate among the middle class. If you have 10 children, and this continues through each generation, you end up with 1,000 great grandchildren. If you have 0.7 children, the average in South Korea, then in each generation the population shrinks by 35%. The religious are also more likely to have children than the secular/atheist. The religious are likely to have a lower IQ. Eventually, people will look back on General Prayuth as a veritable genius.

This is concerning because the reputed average IQ of Thailand is 85.

The suspect looks like a sweet lad. He looks pretty nervous and confused.

You sometimes have to pass through them for malls and public transportation, but they long ago actually stopped checking in your bags (4 years ago?) or checking clothes. Every time I go through it bleeps and I have never been stopped. After this incident, they'll briefly improve security, and then after around 6 months it will lapse back to nothing. In any event, it's well known that "security theatre" (the performance and visibility of security for public consumption) doesn't actually work, and that the only effective measure is a very proactive system of recognising threats using CCTV and well trained anti-terror guards.

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Strictly speaking, codes from banks are not actually SMS messages. Even if you receive a regular SMS, you will not necessarily receive a bank one. It is immensely difficult to predict if you will receive an SMS over an international border. I suggest creating a UK telephone number in Thailand, such as with giffgaff. This will work.

You sweet summer child. Take a look at who the brother is of the next national police chief. Then you'll understand.

I have certainly noticed that the mosquitos like me. If there is a group of 10 of us, only I will get bitten. As soon as I walk 10 or so metres from the group, the others start to get bitten and want to go home.

It's not mentioned in this article but in other articles I've seen this year, almost all the deaths that occurred were after the person took aspirins or other anti-fever medicine. And the articles make the link. When I went to hospital last year at the end of a dengue infection, one of the first things the doctor asked was whether I had taken aspirin or not. When I replied that I only took paracetamols, she was rather pleased. Here is an example article: "Health officials urge anyone who suspects that they are infected to seek medical treatment and avoid taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin and ibuprofen." This desire to stop the fever is not only found among Thais, but they do have this urge more strongly than many Westerners. The fever for any infection is your body's attempt to fight the infection. Stopping the fever is like shooting yourself in the foot. The exception to this is if the fever becomes completely out of control (roughly 42°C in adults).

I suggest contacting the Thai Language Station (TLS). They are a Japanese-Thai owned language school which offers Japanese language teaching and provides visas. Send them a message by LINE (Here is their website). Their main business is teaching English and Thai to Japanese living in Thailand. But I am pretty confident they can deal with your need. They have several language schools in Bangkok and even one in Pattaya. Their boss is a little bit famous in Japan having appeared on TV there to teach about Thailand.

To safeguard Chinese from... >checks notes< ... other Chinese.

Please delete if this is old news, but I just received a message by SMS announcing the scrapping of internet banking, leaving only the App for their banking services. Here is a Google translation:

Visited it around 10 years ago. Well worth a visit.

Two things are also worth adding to this conversation: 1. There is a lot of talk of malaria in this chat, but that is a rather low risk unless you are in a border zone. Here is a map provided by the British NHS to prove it: 2 . Besides dengue, there is a very real risk of two further infections by mosquitoes: Chikungunya and Zika. They are also very nasty and although they have different symptoms they are quite difficult to distinguish from dengue (before my blood test results came back with dengue, my doctor thought I had Chikungunya).

Mahidol clinic recommends against taking the new vaccine: "For those who prefer a quick answer without any detail. Our answer is no. We DO NOT recommend the use of dengue vaccine in travelers (from non-dengue area) visiting Thailand. For those who live/work in Thailand (the expat), we also do not recommend." Their reasoning, which I have to infer because they don't precisely summarise their overall judgement call, is that it is still unclear how effective it will be in the long term and also there simply isn't enough data on possible side effects. Source.

Looking into several detailed scientific reports on on this, it really is a good deal (the efficacy levels are far greater than the old 3-jabs vaccine) with the annoying factor that really they can only say it works for 18 months. But that price ain't bad. Having got dengue last year, I rather like the idea of not getting it again. Although, I just wish they would hurry up with the new shingles vaccine.

Right! I was thinking just how pitiful and vulgar that is. It might be even worse than it seems; on the website, in contrast to that table, it actually says it will cost one privilege point to get this 'buy one get one free' deal.

I just decided to calculate the Future Value* cost of the Elite Superior (20 year) extension price, one of the the old packages. If we assume that inflation will be around 2%, and that it would be reasonable to assume 6% above inflation by investing in the s&p 500, that suggests that the real cost of the visa to the user is 3,207,135 baht. ... And that is the old deal to get 20 years of visa access. The new deal-- brace yourselves-- is a true cost of 10,904,260 baht. *If you are not familiar with the financial concept of Future Value please read this link.

One can see a reason for an anticipated surge in applicants: "Update for Chinese Nationals: Chinese nationals will no longer need to be routed through Interpol for approval. This implies they can expect shorter waiting times, enhancing their experience with Thailand Privilege." [Source] But for people who are not active members of international crime gangs, the benefits of the new offers are less clear. The New: The Old:

That's impressive. I didn't know the immigration system was running a comparison check between the webcam photo and the passport photo. I thought it was just doing the fingerprint checks, and leaving the face comparison to the officer.