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I'd put off surgery as the last option. It may work, it may mess you up worse than you were. Tamsulosin is expensive and not the most effective. Try Stinging Nettle Root 500 mg/day Doxizosin which is an alpha-blocker like high blood pressure medicine. Start at 2mg. It takes awhile. Dosage around 2mg to 4mg should work. Doxizosin is inexpensive. Generic brand names include Pencor-4 and Cardoxa. The Pfizer brand is Cardura if you feel like spending a lot of money for a brand name that isn't any more effective that the generics. Finasteride (5-Alpha Reductase Inhibitor) - once you start, plan to take it for the rest of your life. Generic brands include Harifin-5 and Firide 5mg. Both should be around ฿600 per box of 30 count. Or if you want to toss money away buy Proscar. Here's a comparison of meds for BPH. Look at the "Ratings" column. https://www.drugs.com/condition/benign-prostatic-hyperplasia.html After a few years you'll find peeing is more important then boom-boom. Duodart is just an (expensive) combination of an alpha-block and a 5-alpha reductase inhibitor like those inexpensive ones I listed above. Can a 5-alpha reductase inhibitor mess with you getting a woody? Maybe. But I don't know. I don't have that problem. I'm 73, I've been taking fisasteride for years, and I routinely wake up with "morning wood." Not that I care. My libido is quite low which I find to be a blessing at my age. I can't say I don't care about sex. Hell, I'm a man and I have a pulse. I like women. But it doesn't drive me any longer. And I'd rather pee freely. Best of luck. 🥒 🍆

Just put the revoked tariffs in the PROFIT column.

As did I. The US and NATO and their Western allies want war. War is revenues and profits. Peace is not profitable. So the US, EU, UK, et.al, just spin the war rhetoric and hyperbole. "The first causality of war is the Truth." So let's raise our cups to God on High, bow our heads, and pray. “O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen." -- The War Prayer, Mark Twain 💰 "And dear Lord. Triple the value of my Defense Industry Stock Portfolio and MIC ETFs by 2030 and let's stick it to those Ruskies, China-men, and Iranians in your name dear father in heaven. Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran. Russia and China too. $$$Cha-Ching$$$ Amen!" I don't believe for a second that a treaty will be signed with Iran. The goalposts will continue to be moved. The only treaty the West will endorse is a treaty where Iran gives up it's entire nuclear program, dismantles all of their missiles, and completely demilitarizes, after which, some story will be made up like Iran's leadership handing out condoms to the troops in order to rape Israel women when they invade Gaza, and then the bombs will fall with the intent to turn Iran into another Libya. If a treaty is signed that doesn't contain those elements, the treaty will be broken by the US in short order - then bomb's away. But it will never be ratified in Congress. Never happen.

Did you have ChatGPT write this? What a diaper full of ______.

"Everything looks beautiful, a big beautiful treaty that was created by me, The Don, ruler of the world. All I did was threaten to bomb them back into the stone-ages and now they are putty in my hands. What are the details? We can't tell you. Need to know only. But it's going to be a Big Beautiful Treaty - Biggly and Beautiful!" Tomorrow headlines: Israel and US bomb Iran back into the stone-ages.

Personally I find it ironic. Last month the local hospitals were pushing vaccinations and the villagers dutifully lined up to get their shots. This month everyone is sick. 🤔 "Hummmm."

Get the Face Diapers Of Compliance back on. Everyone, 2 meters apart stat!!!

Sounds exactly like the flu.

Thanks god! Covid has cured the flu once more!!!

OMG! Thailand's turned into a bunch of winos. "EEEEKKKK" Reimpose the tariffs and taxes! Quickly. Sing to the tune of The Song Of The Temperance Union We shun the red wine, that devil's own brew, One sip and your morals go tumbling askew. It lures you to dance and to laugh in the night, And soon you're cavorting in sinful delight. Beware of the claret, that villainous drink, It clouds up your senses and muddles your think. One glass and you’re singing with scandalous cheer, Next thing, you’re waltzing with bottles, Oh dear! That wicked old vintage, it tempts with its glow, But sip it, and straight to perdition you’ll go! It whispers of vineyards, then leads you astray, You’ll wake up reciting bad poems by day! That treacherous wine, it’s a drain on the land, Each gulp cuts the tariffs that Thailand has planned. You drink, and the revenue slips through the door, So banish that bottle, or tariffs restore! Away, away with rum, by gum, Rum by gum, rum by gum, Away, away with rum, by gum, The song of the Temperance Union.

And guaranteed - he wasn't a monk.

I don't know why you find that strange. Monks get old. Ageing? It's sort of universal. You think there is an age limit for monks? There isn't. Elderly monks are often the abbots at temples, but not all of the time. Some Thai men will ordain as retirement. Our current head of our village temple is a retired construction worker. I'd put him in his mid-60s. He's done just an amazing job renovating our temple which the previous abbot had let slide. Two years ago it was a pit. Now it's quite beautiful and park-like. He is just reaching the level within the Sangha where he can officially become the temple's abbot which will happen around the beginning of this year's rain retreats. So regarding monks in their 70s. You'll find them in their 80s and 90s too. These monk die while ordained as monks.

Nope - not a monk.

Fyi. I find the way this is written to be strange. "Joe and his friend"??? Why not Joe and Jill, or Joe and his girlfriend, or Joe and the women he was traveling with Make me wonder if Joe has a wife or if Joe was traveling with a ladyboy or tranny. Just saying. Really odd wording. If the OP had stated that Joe's friend was a women the inappropriateness of the monk's behavior becomes readily apparent. Monks Can Not Touch Women. Period. End of story. He probably isn't a monk. There are all sorts of shady characters out there who pretend to be monks. Especially tudong monks (traveling/walking). Non-Buddhists probably wouldn't immediately figure it out. Buddhists who understand the Vinaya (monks rules/precepts) would know immediately. The immediate tell that someone dressed as a monk but isn't a monk is they will directly ask for money. Or touch women. Or drink. Eat meals after 12 o'clock noon. Or use foul language, get angry, and flip you off if you call them out (been there, done that). Or they'll directly ask for food or ask for other material things of value. They are not monks, they are pretending to be monks and they are usually collecting money or other valuables and they tend to target tourist rich cities as most tourists don't have a clue as to what is and isn't appropriate behavior for monks. Best thing to do if you come across a monk who you believe is acting inappropriately is to take a picture then report it to the tourist police. Police don't take kindly to fake monks as they are often in Thailand illegally or they are just making a bad name for the Thai Buddhist religion and the Sangha. Both my wife and I take this serious. She has had local two monks who used to be at our village temple, including an abbot, kicked out of the monkhood for inappropriate behavior, like using yaba and using temple funds to fund a romance scam. So there is enough problems within the Thai monkhood that needs to be addressed, but the fake monks really need to be reported to authorities and taken off the street. And doubly so if the monk is an actual ordained monk at a Thai Buddhist temple and is not practicing the precepts that are the core virtues of being a monk or who are just doing illegal activities.

He probably isn't a monk.

I'd bet that less that 1 out of 100 know what a CME is and 1 out of 1000 know what the Carrington Event was. Hint: It didn't have anything to do with universal Western boogeymen (Russians, Chinese, Iranians, North Koreans).

F1 - By the Wealthy and Connected, for the Wealthy and Connected.

Yeah, everyone in Sweden died of Covid and nobody was left to report on it.

Why are more than 300 people in the US still dying from COVID every week? Why are more than 300 people in the US still dying from with COVID every week? There! Fixed it. Now you know! Anyway, check the stats. There's over 500 flu related deaths each week as well. Are people dying from the flu or is the flu a contributory cause exacerbated by other comorbidities. Pneumonia kills close to 1000 per week in the US. People die ffs. If it's not Trump living in the minds of a certain subset of AN members, then COVID is living in your minds. Your morbid fear of Covid is irrational. It must be hell living in that constant state of fear and loathing. You should probably talk to a professional as you exhibit all the symptoms of mysophobia. Really - get a life.

And the arm sling.

@webfact just a note: That white on black letter is really difficult to read. For some of us (raises hand).

I'd be happy to hear that he's left and that will be the stake though the heart of the Shin Dynasty. Miss Junior Shin won't last long in her position of power without daddy at the helm of the ship of state visiting the grandchildren.

Pheu Thai Hits Back: ‘Thaksin Hasn’t Fled the Country’ Yet.

Without our smartphones, where would we be in 2025? A hell of a lot happier.