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Ah.....Thailand , the hub of dissipation. Always was , always will be. I will laud and hail it until the kwais come home

Ah how romantic. She obviously missed you. Several times luckily for you.

Twice a week here, Monday and Thursdays but they don't take garden waste ( leaves and branches ). Most of my garden waste is huge dry leaves from Teak tree. Gave up composting them and now burn them once a week as the sun goes down and people close up for the night as mosquitoes get lively. . Flares up for 60 seconds then all gone in about 3 minutes. What is needed is a proper municipal dump where garbage and old furniture can be sorted and disposed of or recycled.

Meanwhile, back at the army ranch, a special unit has been mobilized to dig up some dirt on Pita Limjaroenrat.

Bad roads are one of the main reasons I don't drive fast. Rather take a bit longer getting somewhere than risk an accident

Beats an up , down and shiner

Your own guess would be correct.

In my youth , I used to be 100 percent against the death penalty. Now after a lifetime of reading sad things like this on almost a daily basis I am 100 percent in favor of it. Murderers don't deserve to live.

I have a different issue. I was a regular smoker for about 20 years until I settled down with my wife here. One thing I did not like was that shorty after a smoke my heart would start pounding away in my chest for about 45 minutes. As my heart is now not in the best of health I am put off restarting a habit I have long since learnt to live without. However, I also have a bit of arthritis in my hands and thought that a mild infusion before bed time a couple of times a week might help. I'll look into the suggestions above as they sound pretty mild.

My 16 year old acer monitor was working fine until recently when I spilt some coffee on it and made the mistake of cleaning the stain with alcohol gel instead of just warm water. Result coffee stain gone and worse stain left by alcohol so that when screen was showing anything dark there would be a big faded blob in the middle. As others say . Solution ....new acer monitor 3500 baht

And a lot of Klingons.

Nothing at all. Empty space between ears.

Except he didn't refuse assistance. The Chinese helped the Vietnamese train their military commanders; reorganize their defense and financial systems, including tax and fiscal policy; and create a solid economic base. They also helped the Vietnamese to mobilize the peasants to support war through land reform campaigns. Overall, there was a massive transfer of the Chinese experience of making revolution to the Vietnamese. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/china-contributed-substantially-to-vietnam-war-victory-claims-scholar#:~:text=On the contrary%2C the Chinese,their war against the French.

The video says Chicken Mortar restaurant , Pattaya. Duh

Would anybody notice the difference ?

Do you mean half a gram ?

Same advice I gave visiting relatives who insisted on staying on the Sukhumvit tourist ghetto area. If a place looks swanky with nice decor and air con but no customers you have to wonder how fresh the food is. Places with highest turnover have freshest food at fair prices.

Yes...take it to Ma Boon Krong. If you are just selling you might not get much of a price but if you are trading up you might get a good deal especially as there are hundreds of dealers there so you can shop around.

There is a cheap alternative option . In Big C and other big stores you see people selling fake gold bracelets for a couple of hundred baht. In appearance they are identical to the real thing. Buy one of these for a couple of hundred baht and use the clasp off it to repair your chain. You will even have a spare !. Nobody will notice the difference. My wife has a couple in the bedside drawer in case we get a break in and rather than have the thief turn the place upside down looking for something we hope they will be satisfied with an easy find that they think they can turn into cash.

I'm 65. Since 20 years old I have always lived as though I only had 6 months left. Not a good philosophy for getting rich but excellent for enjoying life and planet earth. The catalyst for me was seeing my father die at 60 after working hard for a comfortable retirement in Spain playing golf. He never made it. So I decided to grab life by the scruff of the neck and squeeze it for all the happiness I could because you dont know when you are going to die . Now I've got recurring skin cancer that might or might not do for me in the future. So for me what to do is easy. Stick with the wonderful woman I finally met after trying on about 250 that didn't fit. Our plan is if we get ill to do a final road trip with a crate of top wine and staying at the best hotels. When we get to the last bottle find a nice cliff with a beautiful sunset, finish the bottle and drive over the edge. I will procure a hand grenade with the pin pulled just in case we end up in a tree full of monkeys having an orgy.

Lower class Middle class Upper class

Can't see why they use the term defrocked ? Makes them sound like cross dressing strippers. Surely de robed would be better.

Might not seem relevant to some but with Europe currently facing the possible threat of nuclear war I would keep my family here for a while to see how the next 6 months pan out. Thailand is pretty safe and cost of living is not so high. As for education , best schools in the world can't stop your children falling in with the wrong people.

My ordinary Vios gets 15 kilometers to the litre on the highway if I am light footed and keep to 90kph.

I'll ride in the middle of the pack on my 16 year old Wave with dark glasses and German helmet. Boy oh boy will I ever look well hard.