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connda

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  1. UK economy only G7 nation to shrink in 2023 - IMF Until it's not. ????
  2. Central Festival - Another type of parking space Personally I wouldn't know as I avoid malls like they are Covid the plague.
  3. I try to interact as little as possible with employees of Thai banking institutions. Most of what I do can be done online easily. Thai online banking is superior to my own home country imho. However, the face-to-face experience dealing with bank employees in my home country is about 1000% better than Thailand. Each system has its pros and cons.
  4. Reverse Osmosis with UV machines that are maintained well - yeah I trust them.
  5. Trust me. My wife and all rural villagers know how the yaba traffic works and exactly which people, entities, and institutions are involved. Meth is big business, big money, and a huge social problem. Most average (non-Meth users) aren't happy about the drug trade nor those involved either. It doesn't end because of the nature of the stakeholders making the money. Bust the plebs for a couple of pills and the 'authorities' (I use that term loosely) are so busy busting nobodies that those actually involved in trafficking are able to skate.
  6. You stop and they stare off into space as you hear the squeal of brakes and the smell of burnt rubber as the vehicles behind you almost rear-end you and motorcycles blow by on both side of you.
  7. Just like the Drew Carey improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway where "Everything is made up and the points don't matter!"
  8. Case of extortion of Taiwanese actress thrusts e-cigarette issues into the spotlight in Thailand Well it's obvious - e-cigarettes cause extortion.
  9. Preferably cotton T's that are a size too small and wet!
  10. That law will make traffickers out of 99.9% of the Meth-users in Thailand. If Thailand was honest and actually wanted to address the Meth problem (and they have a huge problem), they would adopt the Portugal model of handling illegal drug use. Instead? They seem to want to sweep up large amounts of the younger population of Thailand and throw them all in prison of 3+ years. It won't solve the problem - it will just destroy lives.
  11. Getting Covid Boosters: still a good idea? Absolutely. Safe and Effective!
  12. We have seen hail big enough to dent cars. But it essentially is a matter of luck (or being unlucky). You can watch these storm cells develop on weather radar. These are usually 'small' localize micro-bursts that effect one area of village and yet 5 km away there is no damage. We've been lucky up to this point and when we have gotten hail it's noisy as heck but of rather 'normal' size. Anyway, good to know that they are design to be 'hail resistant' within tolerances. I didn't know that.
  13. Like when road crews close off one lane on a blind corner or hill and then don't have flagmen for safety.
  14. Which gives hackers more vectors to hack your data. Just saying.....
  15. You're not going to get free rabies vaccines. You'll need a series of 5 if you haven't had them before. 3 if you've had an initial series. Go to a government clinic. They're not going to break the bank. They cost something like 250 to 500 THB. Not free for farangs. But a government clinic is the cheapest place to go. I work with a lot of dogs and cats, many of them stray. Nips just come with the territory. I keep my rabies boosters up to date at our local government hospital in our Amphur (interesting as I've been called an "anti-vaxxer" more than once over the last couple of years <laughs>). On the plus side, our village has a annual rabies program where they vaccinate all the animals in the village that they can find. Now - those shots are free (public service for the public good). With 7 dogs of my own, I'm happy for the free shots for the pooches.
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