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Contact a dairy cow farmer and buy raw milk from them. The calf needs actual milk not fake substitution and there are plenty of dairy farmers in Thailand. As a last resort, buy commercial milk from a store like Chok Chai and add whipping cream to it. Check on the internet regarding the optimal proportions of milk to cream.

Medical marijuana and melatonin works for me too although I only use the ganja occasionally. Sometime I'll use Atarax as well. Another thing I do is to listen to Talk Radio at a low volume. I've noticed by concentrating on the talk show my mind doesn't think and it's the thinking that keeps me awake. The Talk Radio then becomes a drone in the background and I fall asleep. On a normal night I'll use melatonin and Talk Radio. If I wake up, I focus on listening, the the drone of the talk eventually puts me back to sleep.

Thanks. I may need elective surgery in the future. I had a hernia operation at Maharaj in Chiang Mai. Very happy with the hospital and prices at the time. Only cost 18K THB back in 2010. I guess I'll just have to ask the hospital when needed.

Has anyone seen Zevia Mixers here in Thailand. Sweet but sugar-free with no calories, artificial sweeteners and preservatives. If you have come across it, what store is selling it? Thanks!

That's a really good point. Take your attention off the road in front of you for two seconds and..............

I guy in our village who had a side-cart hit a mile marker about a month ago. No helmet. They brought him by the house three days later to burn him. Nobody (but me and a handful of commuters heading for Lamphun) wear helmets in the village.

My guess is that most foreigners who come here and rent motorcycles have never taken a motorcycle training course, don't have a motorcycle enforcement in their home countries, and have little to no experience driving a motorcycle. Then they come here and drive without a helmet (<---- that's a supposition based on 'head injuries) and based on the time of night, possibly under the influence? I had a m/c endorsement in the US plus experience on two different motorcycles in the 400cc to 750cc range. I always wore a helmet (not because of any laws). Yet when I got here. I got nailed by a car running a light, I dropped once out of stupidity, and I hit the back of a truck when all the traffic in front of me locked up their brakes and almost got hit by the car behind me (I jumped off the bike and let it drop). But no injuries other than scrapes (somebody is looking out for me above). That was in my first year of driving here. 14 year later I've never had another incident - defensive driving in the max. Driving here IS NOT like driving in the US. It is magnitudes more dangerous. Yet farang and other foreigners come here and just hop on a motorcycle like it's a glorified bicycle. And if they drove a motorcycle the way that they drive a bicycle in the West? ???? Actions have consequences. RIP ???? for another unnecessary foreign m/c death.

Why even bother saying it? ????

Of course you can. Go for it!

I though there was a three-tier pricing schedule for foreigners in government hospitals that was implemented a few years back. I remember as we guys married to Thais seemed to be at the top of the tier. Do you have any links to those price schedules? Or is my memory just playing tricks on me.

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The world needs a recession to reset the bubbles blown by central banks.

It could be 145/85 one day and 110/75 the next. I don't worry about it.

Third world "buying elections" and the Thai justice system doesn't blink an eye?

The kid in me that use to build and launch model rocket simply loves this. ❤️

Huh?

Stop going to Phuket and warn your foreign friends if they plan to vacation here.

Yes.

What the hell is wrong with these Russians? I don't know Bob. Do you dislike just these Russians, or all Russians? Personally when I see farang doing stupid things, I'd generically comments on "these stupid farangs." I don't personally go after the ethnicity of the idiots. Russian? Germans? Chinese? Japanese? Nigerians? African-Americans. Honestly - what does their ethnicity have to do with them doing stupid stuff? Just saying.... It doesn't take much of a leap to end up spewing dislike for specific ethnicities - which ain't cool. ????

An hour later.

I doubt it. Right now the surrounding countries are burning the stubble from the crops that Big Ag provides for farmers. They'd be burning the corn stubble off the mountains in Mae Hong Son if there wasn't a burn ban. We've seen this before as Big Ag privatizes the profits and socializes the pollution and the CO2.

Then when she gets home and the EU media gets a hold of the story it goes viral globally.

Saturday Night Live's 'Ernestine the telephone operator' (Lilly Tomlin) - "We're the phone company, we don't care, we don't have to." <snicker snicker snicker> That pretty much sum it up here, 'eh? Same, same, but not different.

Find the address for the corporate offices of the <insert Japanese carmaker>. Look up the top executives in the company CEO, Customer Relations, etc. Write Letters to the top executives outlining your complaint. They will more than likely refer it to the Thai corporate offices, but keep the address of the executive who responds to you in Japan as you should be able to follow-up with that individual if you don't get results in Thailand. I've done this before with a different product and got results.