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I wish the Russian tourists a good time and I hope they enjoy their visit. It all helps the Covid decimated Thai economy.

I bought shoes one time online. That was a mistake. The only way to get a good fit is to try them on imho. I'll check out the CM store. I didn't know it existed.

Interesting world we live in where you need to get a test to determine that you're sick, otherwise you wouldn't know. ????

At what point do average citizens finally just say - "That's enough?"

Nor I.

Great. Where do you find a legitimate vape that will make it through customer. Asking for a friend.

I'm going to be honest. There is so much fancy-named <deleted> that I have no idea what is real or otherwise. Back in the 60s, I'd just buy an ounce of pot. All of it was good. Actually really good. Occasionally would buy hash if I could find it - most of it excellent. Nowadays? Buy this buy that - extremely expensive - much of what I bought when first legalize was utter <deleted>. Quality control. I really think back in the days of illegal pot quality control was actually better. Who wanted to buy a couple of kilos of <deleted> weed to bust down into 1 oz bags and find out your customers where extremely PO's, armed, and not happy.

Misunderstanding Translated: Territory

Contact Big Joke.

I doubt it. He want you and yours to be euthanized.

Oh goodie. I wonder who long it will take to create a new serf-class of Thais who are restricted to walking and riding bicycles without leaving 5 km from the center of the villages. Only wealthy Thais who can afford the carbon taxes will be allowed a motor vehicle and the luxury of buying their way out of the containment zones. In the meanwhile 80% of average Thai's income will be spent on basically trying to cook food or stay warm in the winter. And if they starve to death (well, except for those who can hunt and gather enough bugs to subsist) - so be it. Gaia has too many useless eaters and the Earth needs to be the playground of the immensely wealthy. What joy. We'll all be living life just like Hitler wanted - a 1000 year Reich where the Rich are Rich and the Poor are simply ****ed.

Another anti-Chinese racist rant. But anti-Chinese/anti-Russian racism seems to be in vogue nowadays. Lord - at this point seeing New Years 2024 is looking less likely every day. Long Potassium Iodide. Not that it will do much good.

We're back to dying "with" and dying "of". Unfortunately that statistics are mired in hyperbole and fear.

I love the smell of racism in the morning.

Never had Covid. Never had a shot. I've been around multiple people with full-blown Covid. I'm officially "elderly" so I should be dead. You people are overlooking something. I'm not going to point it out to you.

No doubt half of Thailand will die of Covid. Well, at least according to the status quo MSM. Soon will hear: Chinese vaccines are **** and all these Chinese will transmit Covid to the rest of us. More likely? The Chinese, having lived in a virus/bacteria/pathogen bubble will come to Thailand and get sick interacting with those harboring residual infection. Sorta like when the US Army and US settlers killed off Native Americans with no resistance to small-pox. You pay you money and you take your chances. Personally I think exposing yourself to pathogens and allowing your immune system to work is a better idea. Yeah, some people die like the elderly and infirm - most people don't, especially as a virus goes into the mode where they are more transmissible but less lethal. The human immune system is a wonderful thing. Let it do its job. "I might die!" Everybody dies.

I'm surprised they weren't kill while on the road.

In the US. Thank Soros for that. "Hi! Want to steal upwards of 990 USD in merchandise in the US store. Not problem! A Soros backed DA set you free to go do it again. Empires end. Badly.

When has it been different?

Democracy in Thailand (and many other places). Find a way to disband you're political opponents party and make it illegal. Democracy in the 21st Century - what a joke.

I'm looking for a pair of running shoes or cross-fits. I don't want to deal with going to the big malls. are there any other places to buy them outside of the Chiang Mai malls?

Possession in nine tenths of the law - unless you're a Farang.

Well you just learned an important lesson in life. Our car is in my wife's name, but we've been married 15 years and even with the occasional pissing matches, we're together for life. If she dies? The car is mine as it's in her Will. But registering in the name of a 'girl friend?' There's you're major mistake. Kiss that car goodbye. Let it go and rack it up and a "Lesson In Life." Then buy another car. Hope the first one didn't cost much. People love driving status symbols. I bought my Suzuki brand new for 350K. I simply want a car to get me from Point A to Point B. And at 55 miles/gallon? Works for me. But how many people do that. So many people want the bells and whistles, fancy-pantsy, Hi-So, BS. What's the difference between that and my 350K new Suzuki? Nothing. It gets you from Point A to Point B. The rest is just hubris. What did you spend on the 2nd hand? 600K? 1M? Hopefully for your sake it was a cheap junker. Really - that's all you need or a nice cheap new car.

Btw, @PJ71. Some IOs are rude as hell. Most are rather emotionless. Some are actually rather nice. <I appreciate the nice ones!> The rude IOs are a minority. If you're married to a Thai and you think the IO is rude? Let your wife do the work. Stay the heck out of it. Your Thai wife will understand the implicit status of the IO and accept it, but face saving Thai women are not going to be demeaned by a government official for no reason as its a loss of face. Now the same IO can demean you, but you're not Thai, so what are you going to do? Sorry, but the rude IOs are racists and don't like foreigners? What can you do? If an IO demeaned my wife, who is syrup-sweet with her speech? She's different. She start working her way up the command structure looking for an apology and and change of attitude. Maybe you need a more assertive wife? As a farang Non-O? You have no leverage. As a Thai citizen with a backbone? I've seem my wife at work when Thai officialdom assumes that she is a sniveling nobody. But she ain't your normal Thai. She is one of the most assertive Thais I've ever met. Bottom line? Let you wife do the talking and stay in the background. Word of wisdom.

Where was your wife? I don't deal with the IOs myself. I let my wife take care of all the discussion and only answer questions when asked. Luckily in my district, we've been dealing with the same IO for years (that's a plus for being in a small district with a magnitude more Myanmar workers than Farang expats). But still. I take a number, and when called I give the wife all the paperwork and let her do the talking. It's just easier. Let your wife do the negotiating and stay in the background. Things will go better - honest.