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I think the psychological factor is being ignored here. The other replies are describing horrifying possibilities which will be increasing your concerns and creating vivid nightmares. We need to deescalate and resolve this. You don't mention this but this is crucial: are you scratching it? Are you washing the area with soap to clean away these terrifying nightmares? I'm going to guess you are scratching and you are thoroughly washing the area with soap. You MUST NOT apply soap and water to the area. If you do, it will dry up and itch. It is a membrane surface, it is not supposed to be dry. If you are scratching, you must regard it as your highest priority to stop scratching. Get some Sudocrem and apply it each time you feel the urge to scratch. Do this until things calm down. It will dampen the itch sensation, heal up the skin, and even has a small anti-fungal capability, even though I doubt that is the problem. After a couple of hours, you will start to gain control. If this is not enough, for a very brief time, apply tiny amounts of Pharmavate. Your only focus is on stopping the itching so the Sudocrem can do its job of healing the area. Good luck!

With this GiffGaff, I can order a SIM from Thailand, activate it and use from Thailand, without stepping foot in the UK? Is this something special or is it that GiffGaff are convenient because they'll send the SIM and allow it to be topped up from Thailand? (I.e. why GiffGaff in particular? What snag do they overcome?) (My problem is one of the financial platforms I use have added a UK phone number as a requirement to access my accounts. They know I'm not in the UK)

That simply isn't true. The COVID and Ukraine have done a good job of masking and deflecting the economic disaster for the UK, but the economic issues are very clearly Brexit.

It is 100 years ago that the last Liberal Party PM was in office. Will this be the end of the Conservative Party? Without the EU to scream at, what do they have to unite over? They forced through a fantasy on the UK just to keep the Tory party united, and now in a delicious irony, it looks like it might splinter them apart anyway. The 4+ % plus expected destruction of GDP cannot, this time, be dreamt away by nonsense rhetoric of taking back power. The pathetic growth forecast leaves any government no room to manoeuvre. The cuts have to be brutal. The most obvious are pensions. As pensioners voted to enjoy the pain and sacrifice of leaving the EU, against their grandchildren 's wishes, so they must now suffer the costs. The only alternative is to face up to this moment of national disaster. Complete servile submission to the EU and a Norwegian-style trade treaty (full access to the EU but no power over the agreement) is the quickest solution in the mid-term. For too long, the media, goverment and the opposition have agreed to LARP about the Brexiteers' future of unicorns sh×tting rainbows from their bottoms and vomiting glitter from their mouths. This is the now the moment where gravity and reality re-emerges. Prepare yourselves.

Lol. Asylum seekers cost 1.5 billion pounds a year Pensions cost 101 billion per year. Illegal immigrants are not even a rounding error. The only solution is to cut the unearned privilege of a generation who never paid the pensions of their grandparents (because v there wasn't one) and coasted on unearned house price rises by selfish Nimbyism. And who then capped off their harm to the UK by voting for BREXIT. We must cut the UK state pension by 50%.

Certainly very slightly worse at Wanglang (in central Bangkok) today at near high tide. The naval base (for recruits to learn to row the old longboats) over the Bangkok Noi canal-- the notorious location of the start of flooding in 2011-- did not even have any flooding (last week it was ankle deep). Looks like they got their sandbags out.

One rather bizarre explanation for this could be that even though in Thai language classes and Thai language books we are told there are pitches in the letter clusters, in fact, in everyday reality, Thais flatten the pitches. You can prove this (they won't believe you because it's a matter of honour for Thais that they have their pitches 555...) by recording regular conversation and then running it through a pitch analysis machine. Then compare this with the actual pitches (be very careful, the lowering pitch actually rises at the end, and so on). They deaden pitches and the machine might not cope. There could be lots of reasons, but this one is entertaining to think about. I say this as someone baffled by being told the pitch rules and then having an ear sensitive enough to notice it's all a lie! 555

Deputy Governor of Bangkok (the one in charge of disaster management) has called on Bangkokians to work-from-home for the next 3 days. I don't even recall those types of requests in 2011. In fact, when my place was under 1 metre of water in 2011, I had to take a canoe to reach dryland for my commute to work. The thought of not reaching my desk did not cross my boss' mind.

I use an 'Honor Scale 2-809'. It provides weight, bmi, body fat percentage, skeletal bone mass, visceral fat, bone mineral content, basal metabolic rate. You can get upgrades which measure your stress levels and so on... Anyway, I bought it on Lazada. It uses the Huawei Health App, so it integrates with, for example, a Huawei sportswatch and so on. I like it. Pretty cheap.

This is what we've seen here in this thead. Yes. Around 95% of these threads are people not following the procedures. If you follow the procedures, you get the refund.

In Bangkok centre, it is high but still five inches off from localised flooding and even more from general flooding. This was Wanglang Pier at around 6pm: That's almost high as it got today. Looks like there is no real threat until 28th October.

I've taken it. Goes to Victory Monument. I took it from the East Exit. I don't recall seeing buses at the South Exit. The buses are usually quite crowded and infrequent. I certainly wouldn't take in rush hour (6am to 10am, 4pm to 9pm)... you could be standing for 2 hours or more on it. I now prefer a taxi to the new BTS station (around 50 baht taxi and then the BTS fare into the centre) and take that. More pricey but the reduced hassle is fantastic.

A fair question. I absolutely don't think threats are acceptable. He clearly could have and should have done things differently. But again, assume the best. What if he is down to his last penny. What if this is, like Ben One-Kenobi, his last hope? What if you caught him at his very worst? Don't escalate, don't aggravate. Go back to his restaurant, order another meal, skip the beer, and make amends.

It is used for gay relations. Wikipedia provides the details: 'The contracts of marriage and civil partnerships are very similar though there are some technical differences: Venereal disease is a grounds for annulment of marriage, but not civil partnership; adultery is a grounds for divorce, but not dissolution of civil union; titles may not be inherited or passed to partners of a civil partnership. Where laws differ for wife and husband, both partners are generally treated like the husband would be. Otherwise, the rules for pensions, survivor benefits, annulment and dissolution are very similar.'

Follow the Golden Rule. Take a photo of the menu and add it to the menu section of Google Maps. It's very handy for future customers. Let others decide if the mere beer price is so exorbitant that it deserves destroying the restaurant. If the owner is having a bad day or is too busy or his Mum just died, don't trash the reputation of his restaurant. Running a business can be tough. Describe your experience; write a review in good faith: Did the food taste good? Did it arrive quickly? Were the cutlery clean? Was there a good menu selection? Most people going to a restaurant are not deciding by the beer price. People who do that sit outside of 7/11 drinking Leo. If the beer price is shocking then perhaps they are trying to deter certain types of customers, such as the village drunk, the disagreeable farang, or the farang disagreeable village drunk, and so on. The Japanese, makers of better beer than Leo, often say they will 'hansei' (反省), meaning self-reflection. It's a good habit to adopt. And perhaps explains why you rarely see them drinking Leo in front of 7/11; they try hard to get along to make the World better. Constructive criticism, not destructive extremism. Reflect on your behaviour.

Yes. Vlc player is by far the most advanced of all the players I'm aware of. However, it's good to have 3 or 4 players as backup (they are all free to download) because glitches will arise as to subtitles not working on some players but working fine on others.

The sub files are .srt files. There are lots of sites to find them: just google movie name + srt. You can also download the movie with the subs with it. What is critical is the srt file is identically named as that of the movie file (e.g. mp4 file) and in the same folder. What happens next depends on your player (VLC, Gom etc). But typically you simply open subs on the player. Gom Player has a 'show subtitles' option. It will almost certainly work if you follow what I've said. If the subs lag or appear prematurely you can adjust how quickly they appear on the screen to match the audio. You'll need to go to advanced options. I strongly recommend Gom to keep things simple, but VLC is a good backup if the subs should fail to work on Gom.

That line is, among a lot of high quality lines, the funniest line. Better than any episode of the ratings-smash "She-Hulk" on Disney+. You are perfect for each other. Two drunks, with strong wills. You can enjoy the drama of the fights to give your empty lives some meaning. Perhaps, a Channel 7 drama could be based on it. Have you thought about contacting a TV Producer, rather than a lawyer?

Fascinatingly, the new iPhone 14 has an emergency sos satellite potential. The Bangkok Post states that the phone has this ability, but with my own research I found it appears to require a firmware upgrade which will appear in November. It will be fascinating to see what happens considering the incredible difficulties in obtaining the standard satellite communication devices in Thailand. I could find no confirmation that the Thai government would allow this ability on the phone. Apple intends to connect to the satellite network of global star. And intend it to be free for 2 years. Obviously, this will completely change the satellite communication landscape of Thailand... if it is allowed.

My greatest fear is the lowering of Thailand's Gini coefficient. Cheap human labour combined with a developed economy, is by far the greatest benefit to living in Thailand. Because of cheap human labour, I have somebody to iron my clothes, somebody to clean my room, service with a smile, daily Michellin food, eating out everyday, great leisure opportunities, and all with simple cash payments; the servants have no expectation of seizing half my assets should they decide I don't make them happy. I rely on (as do the Thai middle-class and you) the continued immiseration of the lower strata of Thai people and the surrounding countries. If Thailand and its neighbours were to become too equal, those smiles would be replaced with computers. Technology cannot adequately replace the human hand.

There is, but they hide them from the shelves. Presumably this is a sensitive grey area of the law. So ... I can give a hint. Go to Google Map and search for cannabis shops in the vicinity of CentralWorld and Siam Square, and you'll find them.

As a test, outside the British Embassy at 8pm on some weekday, around 2018, I decided to try my luck. A 7km ride. It went about as well as you'd expect. On cab number 50 (!) (around an hour went by), with exhaustion, and increasing anger in my tone of voice, I decided it would be best if I give up. From Sukhumwit to the west of the city (across the river) from 7pm until around 10pm were always a nightmare. The last boat on the river was at 7:20pm at Saphan Taksin. The last canal boat was around 7pm. The buses were full and all the taxis refused the fares. And then a New Dawn. The circular MRT blue line was built. Grabcars/Bolt forced drivers to accept fares. The tourist numbers shrinked (cabbies love those very short rides by lost tourists). It's still tough. Very tough. But there are now options.

Clearly, it could be a side effect of the medicines. Hydraiazine. For high or very high blood pressure. Atenolol is for high blood pressure. In the morning, it could be from you standing up suddenly from bed (orthostatic hypotension). Also, if you are having a long morning urination, this is a common cause of fainting among the elderly (micturition syncope). There are many possibilities. It'll take the doctors a long time to figure it out. But there are three possible general causes: 1. Decreased cardiac output 2. Decreased volume of blood 3. Increased capacity of blood vessels. If you feel you are about faint, lie flat. Don't panic; if you do faint, your body will recover within 20 or so seconds. My guess is it's simply the medicine. Low blood pressure is not an uncommon side effect.

You MUST follow their procedures. Doing random things like writing e-mails or telephone calls or getting angry on the Lazada/Shopee chat facility, will not lead anywhere. You have to initiate a dispute. Lazada and Shopee are both telling you how to do this. Once initiated, Shopee says: "Upon receiving a dispute request, Shopee will investigate the case and come to a fair resolution after reviewing the evidence submitted by buyers and/or sellers. This will take around 7-9 working days from the date the dispute was raised, which may be subjected to changes depending on the reason for return/refund." The analogy for a regulat shop is like trying to get the security guard to give you a refund or asking the girl packing shelves or screaming at the window. They point to the counter but you just keep raving and raging instead. When I complained of a faulty good with Lazada I followed the procedure. It requires you press a dispute button for the order. This resulted in Lazada providing, automatically, a way to send free by post the good in dispute. They literally check the item and then enforce a refund. They do not ignore you. They favour you. FOLLOW THE PROCEDURE.

Wanglang ferry stop on the West side of the river in Old Bangkok is slightly flooded, but the new ferry stop is high enough and well enough defended to resist a full flooding. The flooding remains localised to the river's edge as it typical of biannual flooding in Bangkok. On the East Side, there is also slight localised flooding but the defences now are much improved. There'll need to be at least 3-5 more inches for it to become severe.