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I choked my own chicken today, but now that I've read bob's post, I guess I'll need to hire a Thai citizen to do it. Think I'll ask bob's juristic girl to do the work. 🐔

bob - are you telling porkies. 🐷

The question is: Why are you waiting for the last minute? You have 15 days before your due date and 7 days afterward. If you can't get it done within those 21 days, then get you 2000 THB fine ready.

Party lines Playing with a BB gun outside without worrying about getting shot by the cops Marveling at the diversity of shore life like crabs, mussels, clams, and oysters in Puget Sound which no longer exist Being able to tune all of my cars and adjust the values back when they had points and condensers, timing lights, etc. "Girls were girls and men were men" (I've transitioned from "Meat Head" into Archie Bunker), "we just need a man like John F. Kennedy again...... Those were the days!" (Gen-Z: "Archie Who???")

We had a good rain with wind last night, but still sad to wake up this morning to see the mountains still obscured with "killer air" smog, although it is better than the last few days (Worst Air In The World Awards being handed out to Chiang Mai). Hopefully more storms means more bad air scoured out of the valleys. We can hope.

Which is why we remodeled our home to be relatively air-tight and we run air filters from March until whenever the hell the rains show up - often the end of May. We go out seldom. I pity the neighbors in the beautiful open-air teak homes. <cough cough hack hack wheeze>

Hey, I might be better tomorrow are Northern Thailand is finally getting widespread rain. TMD screenshot taken at 9:30ish PM.

My bust. I actually meant the Lamphun Makro. There is no Tesco down here. I was surprised but I've watched the stocks of olive oil, canned tomatoes, and cheese dwindle to next to nothing. But? If Nakhon Nowhereville has them I'm assuming Makro CM probably is stocked. Rimping too. They just tend to be pricey.

The guy's a rich foreign so he's being dragged though the mud. A case of a Hiso Thai kicking a foreigner (or Thai) would be memory-holed by now.

I've lived her 17 years and "Yes" you can and it's done more often than not. A good example is in traffic accidents cases where the person who injured or even killed someone due to negligence or aggressive driving (road rage) can come up with a settlement to offer the victims family. Then no charges are filed. It happens a lot. Is it fair? No. Those who can pay get off free as bird (the rich, wealthy, and connected). Those who can't go to jail, i.e., poor commoners. But is it common practice? Yep - it is. Welcome to Thailand. Chime in again when you've lived here a decade or so and after you have a couple thousand posts. You're applying Western standards to an Asian country. It doesn't work like that here.

Thai doctor offered bribe to drop lawsuit in Swiss scandal Bunk. She was offered an out-of-court settlement through a third-party intermediary. There is nothing illegal or corrupt about doing that at all. In most legal jusiritictions it's the preferred practice as opposed to clogging up the court systems when the litigants can settle out of the judicial system. Bribery is attempting to influence a person, like a government official, for personal gain and is an act of corruption. A settlement offer is attempting to resolve a conflict monetarily and is often standard practice - even here in Thailand. How do you think so many grievances get settled without any criminal charges being files - even when someone is seriously hurt or even killed. Out of court settlement. But - this is a dirty foreigner so if he does exactly what most hiso Thais would do in his position - it's a "bribe." No, it's not. This is a settlement offer. If the guy's intermediary had approached a judge or prosecuting attorney and offered them money to make the charges go away - that's a bribe. I don't feel anything for the guy who kicked her - but really - stop the hyperbole. My guess that in this defamation sensitive country, insinuating that a settlement offer is a bribe (corruption) in order to disparage the person offering the settlement could be construed to be defamation.

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I've noticed over the last year that certain import items and foods I personally use for cooking are starting to be in short supply in Lamphun Big C and Tesco. Specifically I use Brooks Whole Peeled Tomatoes which this trip (and during previous trips) is not available. Also block cheeses, other than cheddar and a limited amount of mozzarella, have simply disappeared (Edam, Havarti, Provolone, Swiss - can't find them any more) Then last trip they only had about 10 bottles of olive oil in stock (they used to have shelves of different brands) To me it looks like they are going to stop stocking it. I use the commercial olive oil blends like Bertolli regular and similar brands that I used primarily in cooking. Anyway, these are foods I use in Mediterranean type cooking that I do. I'm wondering if those of you shopping at Makro or Big C in Chiang Mai can still find these items?

The Free Market answer to this: Don't purchase overpriced products. Purchase the same product from someone selling at a reasonable price.

Try cleaning up the air quality first.

Yep - and no one is reporting on it because for Thais it's normal behavior. But in a highly nationalistic, ethnocentric country? "Foreign Bad!"

Crime of the century. In the meanwhile, a few tens of thousands motorcycles driven by Thais are driving on sidewalks and driving the wrong way down streets and highways as I write this. But? "The dirty foreigner is a criminal." If a Thai had been driving the motorcycle this would be a non-event and unreported.

I think the correct response if they ask you, "Did you copy these on a home printer/scanner/copier," is "No I didn't. I had them done at a Somchai's copy shop in town."

There is no way they can distinguish. The "photoscanned" copy using a home printer/scanner/photocopier produces copies that are as good, and in many cases better, as a commercial photocopier. A commercial photocopiers picks up a "static" image on a drum, then toner which is applied to the paper. A home photocopier picks up a digital image that is applied to a drum, then toner which is applied to the paper. The only difference is how the image is picked up on the drum. So this is Buffalo-poo. 💩 I don't know how many times over the last 17 years I've had my copies done on a commercial copier only to get copies that are near unreadable (too much toner, too little toner, dirty drum, etc). Commercial copiers get heavy use. A home copier does not and can be personally maintained to provide superior copies. But they are going to say they can tell the difference? And Ox-poo too. 💩 What you'll probably next experience is that you'll be required to get photocopies from only "approved" (connected) commercial copy shops and then provide receipts. Cha-ching Occam's Razor.

K.2? Yeah - that's proves you're marriage is still on the books. K.22 That's your freaking original marriage certificate. It's stupid to ask for a new one. Unless - Well yeah, what is the purpose of all these new and improved regulations aimed at foreign men with Thai wives who have been married for years. Harassment. Racism. Sexism. A foreign woman married to a Thai man? She's the jewel of a Thai nuclear family who is to be valued and respected as well as offered a path to citizenship. A foreign man married to a Thai women? Nothing but a national security risk, a beggar, and a fake who is not to be trusted (after 10, 15, 20+ years of marriage), who is not respected as anything but a sneaky foreign male cheater and who must be harassed continually and offered an annual boot in the ass out of the country. The corollary to that is that the wives and children are also looked down upon and considered to be little but buffalo by Thai authorities who would be happy to see their husbands and fathers (who are only visiting remember) permanently kicked out of the country. The message being: Marry a Thai man girls or suffer the consequences. And from what I've seen lately this is only getting worse. The harassment.

Sure - I've seen that all the time when I use to live in the US desert regions. Ah huh. All that has to be done in order to cool the planet is to stop eating meat, live in 4 meter square cubicle and give most of your paycheck to the government in so-called "carbon taxes" which you elite leaders will used to stop the the forest arson and the Big Ag sponsored crop burning just like they do now. You'll be happy and the planet will be saved Ah huh. And you'll no longer worry about your car windows exploding because unless you're a elite feudal lord - you won't own a car. Commoners. Ah huh.

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Bar girls an getting sotted in front of a 7/11 on tiger-piss beer (Isn't that why we're all here? I'm told it is).