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I wonder if their psychiatrists are trans? Well, whatever floats your boat. The kid didn't have a chance.

Expat AN members who believe their own 💩 smells like 🌹, and then everyone but their own nationality are 🐃 💩. This is an exercise in ethnocentrism and borderline ethnic hatred. Tread carefully.

Transgender = testosterone = strong, aggressive lady-man.

For your kid? That's fine. I'd suggest wiping the hard-drive and reinstalling WIndows. It's probably not a licensed copy anyway. You never know what comes with a pre-installed version, especially here in Thailand.

There is an incorrect assumption that rice farmers burn their fields. Here in my corner of Northern Thailand, nobody burns their fields. Ox gaze the fields and corn and rice stubble is cut and sold. Everything else is plowed under come Rainy Season. However, sugar cane is a different story. So is the Big Ag supported corn growers who plant the denuded mountains in Mae Hong Song. They do burn and it's freaking terrible as far as AQI.

As we have found out since 2020, conspiracy theory leads conspiracy fact by a few months to a few years. The term "conspiracy theory" is a pejorative aimed to shut-down any discussion regarding a subject except for the Authoritarian so-called authoritative narrative.

You gotta arrest and prosecute the arsonists, which are generally villagers who set fires to clear the undergrowth so they can collect mushrooms. It's like Thai "Omertà." Everyone knows who is setting the fires but clam up because they benefit in the Rainy Season when the mushrooms grow. Mushroom collection is big business in rural Northern Thailand. The reality is that they don't have enough low-paid forest service employees to stop the arson, and those same people are part of the villages themselves. There would be massive social push-back on villagers working in the forest service who are doing their jobs attempting to stop the arson.

And they have a path to Thai Citizenship which a foreign man married to a Thai woman will never have. I read years back that the rationale for that is that foreign men married to Thai women are a national security risk. Go figure.

What yearly home visits? You obviously haven't had marriage extensions spanning a decade. I have. One home visit the first year. One visit after the Erawan Bombing as the Thai government went nuts and thought that all foreigners are terrorist. In the 15 years I've lived here that's the total number of times I've seen the immigration police in my neighborhood. Get your facts straight.

Well in that case he's 60 year old an in his entire adult life he's yet to figure out how to manage money. This isn't the place to live if he's living paycheck to paycheck. And if he's living paycheck to paycheck, how long has he been overstaying?

A plane ticket back to his home country, or to a country where he can legally work. This ain't one of them.

Yeah, the brand I use now is a faction of the price and a fraction of the accuracy I do believe. Affordable but accurate is what I'm looking for, so anything in the 1000 to 1200 THB range I consider affordable.. We don't need something in the two to three times the price range if a more affordable meter will do the same job accuracy-wise. Thanks.

Thanks.

Thanks! 👍

Which model? I see Accu-chek "Active," "Instant," and "Performa." Interestingly enough, if you go to Accu-Chek's website, none of the meters on Lazada are listed on their website.

And therein lies the issue with purchasing them online. I get the feeling that buying from a pharmacy would be a better idea.

No, I'm not. My brain was obviously not engaged. I meant "Fasting" as in FBS.

Mods. Can you change the title to "Recommendation for Fasting Blood Sugar testing meter." I did not mean "free" I meant "fasting."

Food. My wife is loath to miss a meal.

Here's reality. How many times have your heard of a farang (or Thai) being arrested for possession of a BB gun? Personally I haven't. A real hand-gun? Plenty. The hand gun arrests generally happen when someone is carrying in public or actually uses it to shoot someone but doesn't have a government permit to own it. So go with the flow. if you have a freaking BB gun? Stop fretting about it and enjoy your target practice. And don't shoot anybody.

Rocks. Well, if you have a large willey. It seems guys with large willeys can't shoot as they never have had any practice. Small willey guys use pellet guns. Me? I have a medium willey so I use cats. 👍

I just do the marriage extension. Less funds tied up in a Thai bank. Regarding the paperwork hassle. Put it into perspective - it's once a year. Keep a folder in your file cabinet which contains duplicates of all the paperwork. Take three sets of pictures during one sitting. Change your shirt between sitting and you now have three years of photos. Print out multiple copies of your TM-7 that is filled with the exception of the date. Then you just need to get the bank statement and copies and a new Kor 2 and copies. Bob's your uncle! It ain't that difficult. Then just plan for 45 minutes to an hour at immigration once the IO starts working on your paperwork. I've spent more time sitting in a dentist's chair. Again, put it into perspective. Yeah - it's a PITA, but it's once a year. Be prepared and it's just another yearly visit to the Amphur (Kor 2), the bank (statement) and then to the Immigration Office. Marriage Extension Requirements - Ubonjoe.pdf

I don't trust the accuracy of the FBS glucose meter my wife uses. I won't list the name due to the Machiavellian defamation laws here in Thailand other than to say it was purchased from a well-known online retailer. Which was probably my first mistake. Lately her FBS counts have been odd. So, we took four different tests this morning, at the same time (one after another) and the results ranged from 95 to 115 mg/dl. I consider this highly inaccurate. The test strips are new. I'm looking for recommendations for FBS glucose monitor that is accurate and for which test strips are readily available here in Thailand. Accurate and moderately priced for both meter and test strips. We don't need the Mercedes of glucose monitors. But it does need to be accurate.

So get those mRNA Covid shots as often as suggested by the experts and you'll be safe!

Those are excellent observations. Keep your masks on, 24/7 if possible, and make sure you get every single shot and booster whenever a new variant-busting booster is released. And remember to social distance, and even better, just stay at home. Stay away from other people and if you must interact with others, best to double or triple mask. Make sure to stay on top of your other shots too. Flu, dengue, HPV, shingles, yellow-fever, hepatitis, MMR, tetanus, rabies - but especially Covid shots. Many experts were recommending Covid shots at least every three to six months. Look at what the experts say. "ACIP’s COVID vaccine working group, however, says its information on the original monovalent series and boosters suggests protection against hospitalization starts waning four months after a person receives the dose." "Protection appears to be restored after people receive additional doses over time, according to ACIP." "The CDC reported in February that mortality rates among people who received a bivalent booster were 14 times lower than in those who had never been vaccinated and three times lower than in people who received the original COVID vaccination series but no booster." -- How Often Should People Get COVID Boosters?, Scientific American, April 13, 2023 So right from American scientific experts mouths: Protection wanes after 4 months but "appears to be restored" if you keep getting those boosters and the CDC messages is that you are 14 times less likely to die as compared to anti-vaxxers. I know my anti-vaxxer aquaintences have been dropping like flies misted with Baygon. "Receiving at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose was associated with a significantly lower risk of respiratory failure, ICU admission, intubation/ventilation, hypoxaemia, oxygen requirement, hypercoagulopathy/venous thromboembolism, seizures, psychotic disorder, and hair loss." --MeRxiv Six-month sequelae of post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infection: a retrospective cohort study of 10,024 breakthrough infections, Nov 8, 2021 And look at the other benefits of Covid vaccination. Prevention of "seizures, psychotic disorders, and hair loss." Well, at least in those 10,024 people who got the Covid shots and then came down with Covid in a "breakthrough" case, which of course is very rare. So - get your shots, keep your hair. Excellent. No more need to take finasteride and minoxidil, and with the savings you can afford more Covid shots! "Vaccination (compared with no vaccination) was associated with reduced odds of hospitalisation or having more than five symptoms in the first week of illness following the first or second dose, and long-duration (≥28 days) symptoms following the second dose." --The Lancet, Risk factors and disease profile of post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK users of the COVID Symptom Study app: a prospective, community-based, nested, case-control study, September 1, 2021 So there it is from the experts - Take more shots and you'll have 'reduced odds of....long-duration (≥28 days) symptoms, i.e., long Covid. Never can be too safe is my motto. mRNA Covid shots are proven to keep the plague of Covid at bay. Get your boosters today! If you get the shots you won't get Covid. And if you do get Covid you won't get sick. And if you do get sick you won't die. And if you do die, you won't die bald. And you won't get long Covid. Promise, or so say the experts.