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Any Vitamix blender (not cheap!). Not sure about large, intact bones. But be careful not to run them too long or the temperature sensor will cut out. That is scary the first few times, but they recover if you leave it alone for an hour or so. My wife burned out a hand blender and a small food processor trying to puree pork to make Thai style sausage. So we plumped for a Vitamix which can handle this.

I am very sensitive to paying the money changers more than I need to. Consequently I have been using Wise (nee Transferwise) for years. Previously I used CurrencyFair. Before that I used xe.com. I have used Revolut on occasion. As far as I know, Wise is the cheapest. Revolut are close, but in practice I found once that I got hit for a fixed bank charge on the Thai side (THB 300 or something [I told you I was sensitive to rates and charges]). Wise don't have this overhead. I suppose Wise have a THB account that they can transfer to internally somehow, else a deal with the target bank. In any case, do your due diligence and try all the services I mentioned as they will usually tell you total charges on their web sites without having to sign up. If you are nervous, use the in-app or website help to ask and they'll respond in good time. I once recommended a friend use them to transfer the profits from his house-sale out of Switzerland to Scotland. It was a six figure sum, so it made sense to ask in advance how to make it go smoothly and to understand any "unusual" charges or roadblocks he might encounter. Just my THB 0.02 🙂

Apparently several minorities, if the slurs are correct, depending on the state.

50.7% of votes cast is hardly a mandate. I am not a USA citizen, so please forgive me for asking: is it unusual for the winning party to simultaneously get majorities in Congress, House and governors? Don't the House and Congress often reverse in the next elections (in this case 2027?), presumably due to lack of performance/ lies told during the election race?

Journos are supposed to be balanced and impartial.

Is it possible to cross-post to this thread?

Internet Connection (Fibre) bill.

I understand he (or his lawyers) have spent a lot of time in courtrooms over the years. I was wondering if any cases found against him before the recent batch where he was convicted on several (all?) counts, yet stayed out of jail.

Which felonies are these?

The bill is in my name and it is a monthly invoice. The updated version in English, with English address, arrived October 18th. Very happy with that. I don't know why I was treated differently than you. I have since used this bill to clear verification with two non-Thailand accounts and hopefully something back at the Swiss OASI. The only complaint I have at present is NT ToT do not seem to support direct Debit (which I am realising is not a thing in Thailand). I prefer not to have to remember to pay bills. Best I could do was set up 12 regular payments via SCB. Is there an equivalent to the good old Direct Debit here? Anyway, I will set a calendar reminder to refresh the payments in a year.

We found out that if we go to the main NT TOT office in Sakon Nakhon, they will issue the bills in English. So we did that yesterday. Might not make it for the November bill, but should be OK for December. I wrote out the address and my name long hand so that they don't mis-spell my name. Should be easier to use than a Thai yellow or blue family book, since Falang firms can be quite rigid in what they accept and as I will get this bill every month I avoid the potential, arbitrary "must be no older than... days" rule. It also turns out that for this specific account application, my bank statement was sufficient. It is just that I uploaded an alias file instead of the file as a PDF which they could not open. So instead of telling me "corrupted file", I got "missing document". Instead of "you need to upload yadda yadda..." (a request) I got "did you know you could upload..." (sounds like FYI). Now that my faith in their processes is in doubt, I am calling their support every couple of days to check if there are any blocks, what is the nature of the block and what can be done to surmount it. At least I avoided the hassle and cost of finding a lawyer to notarise a translation. For now...

That's what it will probably be. It's just such a PITA to organise.

OTT perhaps, but does anyone know if NT TOT will issue a bill in English? I need something that proves my address in English before a couple of non-Thai companies will let me open accounts with them. I just pinged them an e-mail in English, but just in case they don't answer soon (or we misunderstand each other)...

Does anyone have an estimate of how many m^3 water per rai is needed for a crop of, say, jasmine rice? I expect the answer to that would rule out rain water collection and storage as a way to avoid drilling a hole and messing with the water table.

I managed to drag the same info out of my S.O. It was clear to her, but not abundantly clear to me after being put through a Thai-English translator. I am used to the explicit use of the words "holiday" or "vacation". It will all sink in eventually I am sure.