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16 hours ago, merijn said:
Good luck getting a official taxi from the airport to Patong for 500 baht.
The published and only excepted rate is 800 Baht to Patong from the airport.
I think you meant the exact opposite of what you wrote.
You probably meant "The published and only accepted rate is 800".
Some tourists have literally just gotten off the plane, other tourists have both literally and metaphorically just gotten off the plane. It sounds like you are the latter.
Let me say this gently: it is fairly easy for them to spot a Mark.
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14 hours ago, JimmyJ said:
@Gaccha - You mentioned in another thread that you have 2 Samsung S20's.
As mentioned, I'm interested in the
S20 FE 5G with Snapdragon 865.
How recently did you get the 2nd one?
Do you have exactly the model and chip I've mentioned?
Battery life?
Anything not included that you wish the phone offered?
Did you get a 2nd due to an issue with the 1st, or you liked it so much and wanted a backup?
Very interested in your feedback.
I bought the second as a backup around 4 months ago. No issues with the first phone: I'm using it to type this message. The battery of my first has lasted far longer than any phone I've ever owned. No issues.
The S20 is actually superior to the new S versions.
The FE is 2,000 cheaper than the version I have. Why make the compromise? The high-end version is already far cheaper than its original price when I bought it four or five years back.
This is what I bought:
And I bought it from a very credible seller:
I use around 650 Apps on my phone. Obviously a "normie" who only uses their phone for Facebook and checking e-mails doesn't need such a powerful device. But it's now so ridiculously cheap...
It was a no brainer for me and my needs.
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He's now in the Phnom Penh Soviet Friendship Hospital. The World is saved.
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500 baht is the going rate for the mafia taxi.
You played yourself.
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32 minutes ago, James mcgill said:That comment is simply stupid. Both syphilis and small box can be transmitted. The government is correct in preventing people that have these diseases from infecting, for example, prostitutes. Apparently, our lefty woke friend Couldn’t care less about prostitutes health and he’s only worried about skin color. A black man, as you said, indeed slept with a girl the previous night. The problem with Lefties is that they don’t acknowledge reality.
You are the embodiment of a low- information voter.
If governments locked everyone up for having some mild infection that is impossible to transmit except by intimate physical contact, then everyone with Chlamydia should also be locked up (about a quarter of women). By your logic, a Cold infection requires camps and public executions.
Yes it's the case he could transmit it. Perhaps one person every couple of days. But with COVID, it transmits to 18 per infection on average. And kills 1%. By Day 10, a COVID outbreak would be around 10- 100,000 (around 100+ deaths), but a monkeypox outbreak would be around 5 people, all with mild symptoms.
The key with diseases is disease vectors. Monkeypox struggles to transmit. It almost only transmits through extreme and lengthy bodily contact. It does not require medical incarceration for having the virus.
I really hope you are not the Health Minister's advisor.
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I'd urge you to go online to Lazada if you opt for new. Find a seller with a very high reputation, wait for a sale, and then purchase it.
I bought my second S20 at Lazada. Arrived quickly and in perfect condition.
If you prefer secondhand, your options are limited...
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The Health Minister's ability to be even worse than my low expectations of him are remarkable.
I'll try to make this nice and simple for the Health Minister should he be reading this (my guess is he reads the Farang Pub forum to make his decisions). A disease that is almost impossible to spread except by actively trying to spread it, is not a disease that requires the person to lose their freedom.
Of course, this point also applies to the equally stupid syphilis tests for work permits. There's no need to test for it, because it can't be transmitted at work or in public. The syphilitic ill person would need to be malicious in intent or beyond stupid.
Let's contrast with COVID-19. Spreads through the air. Is astonishigly transmissible; possibly the most transmissible virus ever known to man. Kills around 1% of those infected. Is frequently symptomless. And... can re- infect easily, collapse the healthcare system and cause chronic illness lasting 2 or more years.
My only explanation is blunt racism. If you have the vivid imagination of a racist then you will believe a blackman will try to sleep with everything in sight.
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34 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:
Could be they're tying to keep away the buy a coke and sit all day kinda guy
Correct.
They are strictly targeting the multi-millionaires who park their private jets at U-Tapao, and the only way to do this is keep those seats empty of notorious soft drinkers.
Then the millionaires can experience the erudite conversation and a view of one of the health miracles of the World: the walking dead of Bukhao.
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1 hour ago, worgeordie said:
20 Baht for the ice....
regards Worgeordie
In Thailand, they normally charge for "no ice".
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Last week, it was needed on my visa extension. I had to go off and get a photocopy.
But my understanding is they don't require presentation of it if you never got it. I know the 90 days address no longer has a mandatory line for it.
Obviously, it's slightly stress- inducing since procedure requires a police report if it is lost.
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All I could think was, in the voice of the Yorkshireman Monty Python set: "Luxury".
If I don't pre-register online for Bangkok Immigration, then the wait is 6-8 hours for my "expert" work visa.
The only goodside is the wait is so long all the photocopy shops have closed and the Police have to do the photocopies themselves for any extra copies they request...
My last visa took a "mere" 2 hours because I registered in advance.
"The youngsters of today, they won't believe you"
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8 hours ago, Gaccha said:"1. Bus to Ekamai (or hop off at first BTS stop), BTS to Wat Phra Sri Mahatat, then bus to DMK. "
4 bus options. Around 35 minutes. Traffic can get very bad on that East to West Road.
In addition to awareness of the above, which precisely answered the question you asked, you should download "Viabus" App as it >>drum roll<< provides the GPS location of the buses on the route.
This is very useful info because you can see when they have clusterf@#£d such as right now! Take a look:
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"1. Bus to Ekamai (or hop off at first BTS stop), BTS to Wat Phra Sri Mahatat, then bus to DMK. "
4 bus options. Around 35 minutes. Traffic can get very bad on that East to West Road.
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4 hours ago, Sheryl said:
He does not suffer from depression, he suffers from anxiety/panic attacks.
Sheryl,
I appreciate that, I just want to disabuse him of any fears of using the drug from reports of users of it on the internet.
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At my apartment, it has always tickled me that the only person to not wear a mask throughout 2021 was a surgeon working at Siriraj; I suppose he felt protected by his Sinovac vaccinations...
As for me, when outside no mask and when in a crowded area such as in a 7/11, on the mask goes. Never caught COVID (that I know of). Three vaccinations. I spoke to a Thai colleague who always wears a mask and has caught it three times already. It's a game of chance but you can reduce the odds.
These new ongoing variants are so ridiculously transmissible it is inevitable we'll catch them over the next 2 or 3 years. In fact, if we didn't catch them that would be ultimately dangerous for when the virus re-emerges in a dangerous form in 10 to 15 years.
Anyway, I'm intrigued by the BTS and MRT. I'm pretty sure both have made it a by-law to require masks in trains and on stations, but in both the announcement in English simply recommends the passengers wear them.
I'm satisfied with this new status quo. I'll be angry if they restart the outdoor mandate, as having to wear a mask when the next nearest person is over 500 metres away is plainly silly. Leave the thinking to me, not to consensus views of the public.
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I suspect you are going to end up on Setraline. It's dirt cheap and it'll do the job.
I took Setraline for an off-label reason, unrelated to mental health, so this gives me some unusual insight into its effects.
The problem for a depressive is the very thing the drug is trying to help (their mind) is the very thing feeling and critiquing the experience. Reading the complaints about it on the internet, such as the withdrawal symptoms and general side- effects, I can sympathise but they are misplaced. They are exactly the hyperbolic, catastrophising common to depressives. So please don't pay them attention.
It will relax your mind, stop you fearing the worst, but also will fatigue you and prevent you from getting a full night's sleep; you're going to be taking lots of naps instead.
Prepare yourself and go for it. It'll give you a chance to change your lifestyle (no sitting around, lots of running, walks) and then you can gently taper off it.
I'm saying all this on the condition a doctor recommends the drug for you. But at around 150 baht for 2 weeks... it certainly beats therapy or skiiing in the Bangkok Alps.
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Looks like your App needs an update. Go to Google Play and see if it needs updating.
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Should you go through the other zone, then they'll direct you through the immigration counter, complete your visa procedures, and ask you to walk up to the zone 2 in the departure zone, and enter from the exit. I've done it. They've seen it all before.
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I've had the standard 'i lert u' App on my phone for years. It definitely works. Very handy for sending your exact location in an emergency. But I wouldn't recommend sending an alert if *you* are the emergency.
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I contacted the telecommunication regulators and the Thai embassy and have received no response as to the legality of purchasing/ using/ carrying the items.
A seller on Shopee insists that no licence is required.
Does anyone know from actual personal experience? This is frustrating.
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It surely is just a tax id. I have one. It doesn't give you permission to breach your visa's condition to not carry out work. Unless I'm mistaken, the Elite Visa in all its forms forbids work, right?
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It is clear the man was wrong, at least in how he went about things. But this is a useful learning moment.
Paternity fraud is a real problem. Around 5-15% of men are victims of it. It gets ignored as men are told to "man up", but women would be shocked if their child was swapped in the hospital after giving birth.
Obviously, to a Westerner, especially a Boomer, the man's behaviour is excessive. There should be formal mechanisms in place to abandon the child. This problem arises in the West too. Whilst Mothers can legally abandon a child at a place of safety, such as in front of a police station, or even put the child up for adoption, often without a need to notify the father, the men can do nothing.
With increased expectations of gender equality, the generations younger than the boomers are increasingly aware of this disparity between the Mother and Father. The social contract can and will change.
The issue is the Mother's behaviour. Why is it going to take her a week to pick up the child? This has to be speculative, since the article provides no details, it does look like she left the child with the man, kept it secret he was not the biological father, and then finally told him. Can there be anything crueler?
Of course, to reiterate, his behaviour is wrong, but we need to talk about ways to resolve this gender disparity and to ensure the child has a decent life despite any disgraceful behaviour of the Mother. Blaming the father only works for a Boomer mentality. The world has moved on.
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10 hours ago, ubonjoe said:
That is correct.
Been doing my 90 day reports early online for some time without a problem when applying for my extension.
A little off topic, but this reminds me of the bad old days before there were any online options. Then, I had to carefully calculate the 90 day strategy so when the visa extension came up I could do the 90 days on the same visit.
Because the transport to Chaeng Wattana was far worse than it is now (there was no BTS extension etc), it was 6 hours of travel there and back just to do the 5 minutes 90 day notification.
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4 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:
No it will not be open.
You might be right but unless you've seen a notice from them you can't be sure.
In times past, it has been open on national/public holidays and then has alternate days closed. I have used it on a national holiday.
Jilted at the altar? How Thai law treats abandoned grooms and brides
in Thailand News Headlines
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Doesn't the financial cost of the wedding & the dowry fall upon the man?
In any event, this article seems to be suggesting a return to a system not unlike the Victorian times in Europe when the men had to pay a huge price for breaching an engagement.
Even some compensation for a man breaching contract by not marrying is unacceptable in modern times. She could walk away at any time and find somebody more generous... and foolish.
All is fair in love and war.