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I live out here in the Thai rice-field boondocks and most of the Mom&Pop stores have a QR Code taped near where they take money, but honestly, virtually no one uses anything but cash. 🤔 Let see, I need some onions and some pakchee and this snack. How much? 😁 20 baht. 🤔 Now let's see, should I take my phone out, log in, open my banking app, log in, screw around with the app until I've got the QR code scanner, and - dang, weak signal. Screw it. Here's 10, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20...baht (dumps change on the counter). 😁 Kop Kun Kaa!

Signed, Klaus Schwab P.S. You'll own nothing and you'll be happy. And enjoy your vacation. You commoner swill need to stop traveling in order to save the planet for global warming. What? My private jet. Mind your own business commoners. Shut up and eat the bugs!

But but but but....mobile payment is soooooo convenient!

I carry cash all the time. I hate getting stuck behind someone at the store who has to fiddle with their phone for 5 minutes to get their payment app to work - and it happen more often then not. Me? Get to the cash register, hand over cash, and the transaction is finished in 15 seconds. 🤪 "But mobile payment is convenient!" Bunk - no it's not. Cash Is King!

They should close all Thai schools. Why risks the health of The Children. Isn't it better to just allow kids to be uneducated than to risk any child falling ill and dying from the evil Covid plague which has returned to Thailand seeking victims? Close the school now for the sake of The Children!!!

I know that before I come out from under my bed and venture outside, I put on my 3M P100 mask. Then I spray the inside of my car with disinfectant and shut off the air condition while I drive alone. Covid is a sneaky little bugger and will travel miles in the outdoor air to find a susceptible lung to infect, and then will infiltrate your car's A/C system and - Sha-Zaam! The next thing your know you're on a ventilator and a day later you're pushing up daisies. It happens all the time to the unvaxxed and Covid conspiracy theorists who refuse to wear masks. It serves them right - "Unbelievers will be punished," sayth SARS-Cov-2!!! It's best to stay home under your bed with your mask on - much, much safer. Breathing fresh, outdoor air will kill you for sure!!! So put those masks on. Don't worry about the finger-sized holes around the sides of your cloth mask. The mask itself is like garlic to Dracula: Sars-Cov-2 sees the mask and will shoot away in abject fear. So mask up. Masks are like religious icon and The Evil Covid Viruses will avoid them with the fear of Buddha, God, and Allah. So mask up and keep it on 24 hours a day or Covid will get ya.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Time to mask up and hide under the bed. It's Nightmare On Covid Avenue and Freddy Kruger Uncle Sars-Cov-2 will get 'cha for sure if you let your guard down for a second!!! Be afraid plebs!!! The Doctor has warned you!!!

One notable characteristic shared by the majority of power-mad authoritarian p**cks in the West like Khan: Hypocrisy.

I could have sworn he was weak, frail, and on his death bed. Now! A Miraculous Recovery! Energy galore! Negotiating with Myanmar Rebels! Coordinating Political Strategies. Healthy As an Ox! It's a MIRACLE! Hallelujah!!! Praise be to Buddha! 🙏

@DavisH I tried out Gabapentin last night. I had one of the deepest most refreshing nights sleep that I've had in years. Still had problems getting to sleep - that took 1 1/2 hours, but once asleep I had a full 5 hour sleep and woke up feeling like I had really slept. Took a leak and went back to sleep, woke up this morning, and felt refresh. I haven't had this type of feeling for years. Good stuff!

Hypocrisy.

Why worry about things that haven't even happened. Worry about it next year IF it happens. Then just add it as another PITA thing to do in order to get your extension. Until then? Pfft. 🙄

Just use your home-country's bank debit card and they have no way of checking.

Not worrying about it unless it happens.

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The bottom line, given the DTAs and the amounts of tax subject to exemptions - the man-power and government expense needed to chase down foreign retirees and guys like me who are married to a Thai citizens (and over 65) is an exercise in diminishing returns: they will spend more money then they bring in. Like I've suggested before. Fill out this form, understand your tax exemption threshold, and keep the amount of remitted funds under the threshold. Bob's your uncle! Thai_Tax_Form.pdf

Actually, the amount of time and man-hours needed to check all the foreign expats will end up costing them more then they will ever make in additional revenues. Actually, if they attempt to enforce it on me, they'll lose money. I don't attempt to go back and claim the tax they take out on the minimal interest I make on my Thai bank account. But if forced to file? I'll claw back every satang they withheld for as many years back as I can. The Thai government should focus on their own citizens. Going after expats is a dumb idea. But? This Is Thailand, 'eh?

Is Bangkok wet in August? Yes.

Perfect example as why the Dhamma is in decline.

Nope - no problem at all. People who want them should get them. I only have issues with people who demand that those who don't want the shots be forced to take them. If you feel a need to take them? Take them. In fact I encourage those who wish to take them to stay completely up-to-date with the latest boosters. But just stating anecdotally, the people whom I know who have gotten Covid multiple times tend have have one thing in common - Covid shots. Virtually all of my Thai family with the exception of my wife got the shots. Many of them have gotten Covid two, and some, three times. Out of my friends, family, and acquaintances (most in the US) who did not get the shots, those who have gotten Covid have only gotten in once. We discuss Covid and I don't hear about those people getting reinfected. Again - from my own experience - I only speak for myself and those people who I know personally.

Good lord, put it into perspective: 1,882 Covid cases in one week out of a population of...71,877,145 people in Thailand. This is exactly why I find this subject to be an exercise in hyperbole by news agencies as well as governmental agencies and stakeholders in medical manufacturing corporations. It literally seeks to create the conditions of obsessive hyper-vigilance. It's not healthy. Source:

Covid denier? Nope - We had Sars-Cov-2 and now have natural immunity. The wife and I had Covid. Never had a shot. Covid lasted 4 days and change and only two of those days with a fever. Wife had a mild cough for another week. Me? 4 days and done. I've had worse cases of influenza. What I consider more dangerous to society and susceptible individuals are the damaging effects of 4+ years of constant, never-ending fear promoted by stakeholders in the vaccine industry and their friends in government who rotate in and out of private and public entities while benefiting from the "Covid pandemic" and now "Covid Variants Obsession Syndrome" which generated hundreds of billion dollars in medical related revenues. And to this day they are still banging the "Be Hyper-Vigilant Or Covid Is Gonna Get 'Cha!" Imho there are large percentages of the populations in Asia and some Western countries who will be psychologically scarred for life. You'll know them - they will be those people still wearing masks 10 years from now. Like those driving in their car alone while all masked up: Victims of Covid-Mysophobia-OCD. I find that immensely sad.

He was a human being. Untimely death is a tragedy. For those consumed with hatred and dancing with glee? Perhaps you should evaluate your own lives and develop some compassion and humanity. Rest in Peace - 🙏

Agreed. Thai Aviation should be fully aware of the festivals an should put out a Notice To Pilots (NOTAM) regarding the hazards in the area and the dates to avoid. But Thailand being Thailand, and seeing that the government seems to want to quash anything resembling traditional fun, they'll probably start shutting the festivals down. Which begs the question: "How many flew over specifically to view the event? Again: NOTAM + Aviation Enforcement.

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