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Please please please understand...getting a vaccination does not protect others.  It only protects *you* (if it works).

3 hours ago, foreverlomsak said:

and possibly no happy ending ever if the staff have not been vaccinated and you catch it from them.

If they are vaccinated you still catch it from them.  In fact they can still catch it too, it's just that their immune system has had time to learn to fight back because it's been injected with a disabled punch doll version of the virus via a vaccine.

I wish people would just think for a minute...they have 1440 chances every single day.

...and, while I'm on a rant, does anyone realise that an N95 mask is 95% of particulates protection? (dust, sand, cement, spittle etc).  It does not protect the eyes, it does not protect the ears.  Why no boom boom ban?

There are over 20,000 variants of the flu since recording began.  What makes the half dozen or so we have this season any different?

I have a wonderful girl.  Only two issues; she thinks female, she thinks Thai herd.  Aside from those two minor nuances she's amazing.  She's actually saved my life at least one time for sure, and possibly twice.  Only way I can get her attention though is to cause a squabble, otherwise she's too busy doing 'stuff'.  Yak Yak is soooo not my thing though.

Glad they've found something to do with the submarine finally.

5 hours ago, darksidedog said:

He had had too much to drink and was completely delusional.

Going to take a very long time to get there then. At 384,400km comes in just shy of four years.

Per second perhaps?

There are some scary roads around there.  Never thought I'd ever write this, but I think they made a good decision.

The only other good thing I've ever seen is how they levy price on fuel for stability.  Approx same price today as it was when I got here nearly 15 years ago.

If they want a new law they should use their cameras to make sure riders and drivers look for oncoming traffic at junctions.

Trouble is, if you remove the need for the workers, you also remove the need for a government to a large degree.  Can't be having that.  Something to do with the Chef to Cook ratio.

• If they want more Tourists and Exports, then they could print more Baht and join the others in a race to the bottom.
• If they used one of the (at least) 16 pre-existing treatments for other issues and repurpose them, they could hand them out on arrival and ditch the quarantine.
• Visas are ridiculous.  Simplify and reduce cost. "We want your money, but we want to make it difficult, expensive, a Pain in the A, and maybe we won't let you renew more than 6 months of the year (just to be sure you can't spend here).  When the quarantive is over you can send some of your people to Cambodia to learn how to copy how they approach visas.
• And <deleted> let people buy land!  Limit the Rai per person if you are concerned about a takeover.

5G scares me. Reminds me of involuntarily sticking your head in a microwave and there's nowhere to run to get away from it. Why not use more fibre cable and stick with 4G which has a longer range?

14 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

Nope, don't like the Thai beers at all.  Never drink Singha, Leo, Chang or any of the other local rubbish.  I drink a lot of beer but prefer paying for decent stuff.  Don't mind paying 280 baht for a pint of Hoegaarden, Stella or other Belgian beer, I just don't want to pay the same for 330ml of a flowery or fruity concoction.  Not for me and I find most people who are in to that are pretentious and snobby.  

So why don't you tell me what the online sales figures are for Singha & co as you seem to know so much.  The "big boys" own 94% of the market, the Craft market is around 1%, so who hurts most financially from an online ban?  The big boys lose the most revenue by far and won't take that easily.  Remember people saying the same about the alcohol ban during Covid?  It was orchestrated by the big boys to run the small guys out of business.  Nonsense.  It was the big boys campaigning to have that overturned and it will be just the same now.

If the big boys see a genuine threat they will generally just buy them.  Heineken own close to 100 craft beer brands and no one knows, they just quietly bought them up. They don't run to the government to ban something that will hurt them more.

Again, this ban is borne of stupidity, nothing more.  Stop looking for conspiracies.

 

There is a restaurant in Udon that has (at last count) 89 different beers, mostly Belgian.  I can do an 'in person' purchase for you (especially since we own it.  TBH I'd try Sivilaii or Mahanakorn.  330ml are 90 and 115 baht respectively.  It says Thai beer but technically it is Vietnamese.  I prefer the latter but most people prefer the former.

It's easy to get alcohol.  You just have to put it on your hands and not down your throat. 

We have a restaurant with 89 different beers, so not worried about that, but I am worried about not having friends, If not for that then what's the point?

5 die in Q1 Thailand of the virus, and 67,000 die on the roads.  I can see the world is up in arms (not) about lowering deaths in LOS.

Both France and Germany have a vaccine, and they're in a race to be the first to get FDA clearance expedited.

Novavax, Inc. (NVAX)

On 9/12/2019 at 7:03 PM, Bangkokazy said:

Thai lady is just kind and good to you as long as you have money.

The time she is with you. She spend the time to looking for people who are richer than you.
Then it's bye bye for now Jonny.

 

I consider thaidams as a pair of shoes that are tight and good to wear..After a couple of months they are too big and bad to wear ..

Then it's bye bye for now ...and back to the shoe store ..

Based on my own experience, I have to disagree.  Sure I'm the sole financial supporter in our relationship (except now I've bought her a restaurant to make sure she doesn't need me anymore - I'm paranoid like that), but 1) she works on it very hard, and 2) when it came to the crunch she was up front and working 'team'.  I've asked her to leave me I think perhaps #7 times now.  She will not.  I say TFFThat, but I have to test once in a while.

On 9/12/2019 at 4:06 PM, stament said:

Lead poisonings?????

Bullets, for pursuing the wife of someone he really oughta shouldna done.  He's gone now.

27 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

In a thai mathematics classroom ;

Yesterday I bought a pad thai for 35 baht ;

I gave a 50 baht note  and I said give me back  15 baht 

but he needed to use his calculator to check 

I had something similar at a local shop.  Bought a few things that totaled 80 baht.  I was impressed that the person added it up without a calculator.  I gave 100 baht, and then they had to get the calculator out to work out the change lol.

On 7/3/2019 at 12:00 AM, suz123 said:

Perhaps your wife is chinese-thai ? the only ones i am familiar with are from isaan..maybe it is different there.

I also thought only females would notice hands and feet but I have heard a surprising number of men comment on those details (remember Seinfeld manhands haha)

 

Anyway, this also might be something only a female would notice, but I do not like most of the female thai voices i hear. It is not a soft, lilting sound.....but kind of like a duck

 

LOL i am not being petty I swear..I actually think the thai female entire package is very appealing and I can see why men are mesmerized by it!

 

When I met my wife, one of many qualities that attracted me was her gentle voice.

I was duped!  One of her friends a few doors away has a voice that I just can't be around, and when they start a door to door conversation (invariably about food), she clones the neighbour and goes into full screech.  After that, because I can't concentrate even with headphones at full volume, I go to the balcony and say "you guys don't need phones, you could be heard on the other side of the village.  Why not just walk over there and talk together .... at normal decibels?".  She does, but the next time they do it again.  I thought you only needed 21 days to learn a new habit, but this has continued for years.

2 hours ago, hyku1147 said:

We were in a coffee shop chatting - in normal tones - about the propaganda methods that Lefties used to both create Trump Derangement Syndrome, and to make people believe that Trump colluded with Russia. All of a sudden, an American homosexual starts yelling "I don't want to listen to this hate - I'm leaving!" Soon afterwards, an American woman walks over to us. Then she says " You two are nasty, and unpleasant, people."

Response to them: "There's a mirror with your name on it".

13 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

Because not everyone is a pedantic ........

But some are pediatricians, and angry mobs throw bricks through their windows (happened in UK when I used to live there ... edumacation system being what it is).

On 6/27/2019 at 7:22 AM, suz123 said:

i thought the main thing about thai girls that men liked, was that they were willing to date much older men....lol

 

one poster said their hair which is gorgeous...but hands and feet? i actually find thai womens hands and feet not attractive. the chinese and indians have dainty ones

 

other than that, thai women are very beautiful.  - female perspective

I had a friend here from UK (a Dyke as it happens) who had what I thought of as a straight GF, who pointed out to me that she thought they had horrible feet (I never got around to looking that far down, but then again she's a shoe designer).

Non issue though, since you don't look at the mantle piece when poking the fire.  I do wish we could communicate though.  It's not binary opposite, but something approximate to tangent of trinary.  But OMG I'm stunned every day when I see my wife, and she's not a 20 something either.  Just awesome and frustrating at the same time.