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It'll be 10,000 fee to issue visa. Financial requirements to qualify for visa will be something else entirely. Don't get your hopes up.

"I can check the oil level in the Honda strimmer , as it has little twist off cap with dipstick attached. is there one on a motorbike ?" The dipstick of a Honda Wave........motorcycle: It's on the rear top left hand side of the crankcase.

For many it is the reason they vote one way or the other. Bulk of voters voting for the same party that they voted for last time........because that was who they voted for the time before that......and the time before that.........because that's "their" party. The "people" get the government they deserve..........the government that the "swing" voters vote for.

Thailand?.........Weightlifting?........... Oh yes, now I remember.

It's not a top story: It's in: Thailand Local Forums Pattaya Pattaya News It's a local story (about a local person who was taken to a local hospital) for local people. " There's nothing for you here."

While the thread is on that tack: I live in a village in the UK during the Summer. I've never encountered a "Juristic Entity" and don't ever expect to. I live in an Isaan village during the Winter and have never encountered.......etc...... Have you actually bought into one of those jam packed, box-housing estates, which is essentially a condominium lying on its side, where you have to constantly get into tiresome meetings with a bunch of near strangers to negotiate your way through your life? From what you say, and what people who have bought into condominiums say about similar situations, it sounds like a complete ******* nightmare way to live. Sorry not to be helpful, but thanks for spurring me to express a thought that has been on my mind for some time. Goodnight and best of luck.

It would be nice to think that. It would be easier to believe if it said "long term research from other countries has shown, for over a year now, that.....etc.." That is the truth..........but that is a truth never to be spoken about any foreign initiative/research/ invention. Irritating and, ultimately, a bit.........sad.

Visit a "Red Cross Fair". The rescue organisations have display boards covered with photos of the dead/mangled. All Thais familiar with them.

Only "way" is a Thailand that has the history (and consequent present...and similar future) to the societies from which the "solutioneers", seemingly capable of delivering an infinite number of "lists" to Aseanow, hail/derive their societal models/expectations. Thailand only has about 500 years worth of "key moments" to make up. Or maybe it could find a "short cut"?

"Executive Director" = Indolent, spoiled son of owner, on the board and taking large salary, but not required to turn up for any sort of work related activity. Tiny version of "Boss".

Oh dear, and soon the restrictions will be gone. And all the tourists will be back And all the bars and clubs will be open. And everybody will get their noisy jobs back. Did you choose Pattaya "off plan"?

"An individual armed with a machete......." perhaps? I think the expectation of any readership requires a bit more than that, at some point in the "story". I would prefer to be described as a man if I decide to attack a bank. My GF would prefer to be described as a woman if she launches a similar operation. In the West I think a transgender person would be described as a man or woman according the what they had "arrived at" physiologically. I don't think a man dressed as a woman would result in them being described as a "transvestite", but it would probably get a mention a some stage in the report. Where was the person in this report........"at"? A "person of the third sex"........isn't that a common "self identification", East of the Bosphorus, for those who have had no physiological re-arrangement? Would a Thai person prefer "Ladyboy"?...........I don't know. It's probably only an "issue" for expats........wherever they're "at".

However the regime is re-constructing, for the population, the word "endemic" as a word meaning "low threat", rather than a word meaning "permanent pool of infection" (its real meaning). They are playing semantics with a population that has no idea that they are doing so...........so it'll work. If the Thai population knew that Ebola is also an "endemic" disease, in West Africa, how lethal it is and what might happen if it becomes air transmissable, they might feel a little less "happy" about the conflation of "endemic" with "low threat". But they don't know......and they won't know........so no problem with the Thai regimes continuous weaving of its web of deception, distraction, obfuscation, dissimulation and disingenuity. No chance of them expressing rage at what, for generations, has been made of them. Business as usual.

I assume that within in any given area for which data is presented, in this case the province of Kanchanaburi, the interception/capture rate is 10%. On that basis 297 crossed the province border un-intercepted yesterday. = 108,405 per year. X the number of border provinces.............

It was compulsory to watch wrestling, on television, in my childhood household.

Taken woman home for parental approval. Bye-bye to old life. "Cherchez la femme"

That is a photo of Mick McManus

If it became known, here in the village, that I had COVID, nobody would force me to do anything. They would keep their distance and I would stay at home. There would be gossip That is their standard procedure for such an eventuality. If it became "borderline" serious I would seek admission to hospital. "Common sense" all-round. Although I am not certain that the other villagers would necessarily isolate or seek hospitalisation for themselves/family members in every case. Just checked with the concubine.........."yes, that what we do". "Realvolksleben"

I agree, but it's only so as procedural formality. It is an unrelenting, domineering, authoritarian face. Their re-invention of the word "endemic" stems from it. Once they present a safe condition (endemic) which they will take the credit for, they will "order" whatever they like. The UK public have understood, from the opinions of medics/scientists/academics, that COVID is likely to be endemic but will be less threatening, they expect restrictions to be relaxed. The Thai gov is seeking to characterise "endemic" as a target they have set themselves, in order to take credit for achieving and making it so. Because they absolutely cannot be seen be led, in any way, according to the expectations of the population. It is a simple, authoritarian formula, to use upon an unsophisticated, ignorant, ill-informed and cowed population.

What is the reason for their "eagerness" to start using the word "endemic"?

They keep throwing the word "endemic" around as if it's synonymous with "safe". It's not. Ebola is endemic in East-Central and West Africa and has a very high mortality rate. Declaring a disease endemic does not mean it's safe........it means it's always there. It means it hasn't gone away. Dengue Fever is endemic in Thailand. They really just seem to be looking for a "form of words" that they can place in front of a generally ignorant and easily manipulated population.........prior to abandoning restrictions.

"He stressed the disease can only become an endemic when it has less severity, when people’s immunity rises significantly, and when the country’s medical system is highly capable of handling it." Grade A gobbledygook. Categorising a disease as endemic has nothing to do with its severity, neither has it do with the level of peoples immunity or if the medical system is able to deal with it. Principles of Epidemiology | Lesson 1 - Section 11 - CDC "The amount of a particular disease that is usually present in a community is referred to as the baseline or endemic level of the disease." The simple explanation of the term is that a disease is an endemic disease, not "can only become an endemic" when it isn't going away any time soon and has effectively become "part of the furniture"..........it's always there. Do they really not know what the term means...........or are they trying to keep the reality, one which Thailand shares with the rest of the world, from their population? I'm going with the latter.

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Two things come to mind when the subject of foreigners wishing to be accepted presents itself to me: 1998-2001 "The Coopers (Kapoors) and Robinsons (Rabindranaths) – Two snobbish nouveau riche couples who claim to be entirely English with no Indian blood whatsoever, but often give themselves away by using each other's real names, mispronouncing words or making silly mistakes such as serving guests some Pimm's with sliced courgettes in it. They refuse to acknowledge their real ethnic background under any circumstances, and become very upset whenever anyone refers to them as foreigners." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodness_Gracious_Me_(TV_series) And: c2007 Of course it's all very different now.

Be realistic dear: "From average to decidedly rough"