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Wife owns a rai of land in rural Northern Thailand. We have two houses. I have no desire to live in a city no less a condo or anywhere else you need to deal with partial ownership and communal building run by? Guess who - ain't you farangs. But? To each there own.

You make a gross assumption that the air is like this all year - it's not, it's cyclical. This summer all those reds and dark reds will move over to Canada and California. Then you will need to ask: "What makes people choose to live in bad air?" Really? You know the answer. Yeah - England and the US Pacific Northwest share that commonality: Cold, wet, fog, grey - too often.

Pattaya and Phuket: two places I avoid like the plague. Pattaya was wonderful 40 years ago. Downhill since.

Ah-huh. 🤔

Aw hell. This doesn't fit the Man-Made-Climate-ChangeTM and The-Polar-Icecaps-Are-MeltingTM narratives. The Sea Level measured at San Diego, California is doing what? Ahhhh, it's going down....... Oops! Source: Established in 1933, the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) has been responsible for the collection, publication, analysis and interpretation of sea level data from the global network of tide gauges. It is based in Liverpool at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). https://psmsl.org/data/obtaining/rlr.monthly.data/158.rlrdata

Penthouse suites in the remand hospital booked over Songkran?

Like your support for the Ukraine war - you are out of touch with reality. The UK banning a Trump visit is not going to happen. However, Trump may decide that visiting the UK isn't worth his time. The British glory days are well behind it now. Now the UK is just another yapping chihuahua snapping at the heels of their US masters. 👈 There's reality.

Shhhhhh. Inconvenient Truths not allowed. Now write the following on a white board 100 times: 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓲𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓷𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓸𝓬𝓬𝓾𝓹𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓪 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮𝓲𝓰𝓷 𝓹𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻... 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓲𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓷𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓸𝓬𝓬𝓾𝓹𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓪 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮𝓲𝓰𝓷 𝓹𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻... 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓲𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓷𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓸𝓬𝓬𝓾𝓹𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓪 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮𝓲𝓰𝓷 𝓹𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻... 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓲𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓷𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓸𝓬𝓬𝓾𝓹𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓪 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮𝓲𝓰𝓷 𝓹𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻... 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓲𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓷𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓸𝓬𝓬𝓾𝓹𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓪 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮𝓲𝓰𝓷 𝓹𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻... <keep going.......>

Masters and Johnson Redux

Exactly. โรง (rong) - This means "building" or "place" and is often used as a prefix for institutions or establishments. พยาบาล (phayaban) - This means "nursing" or "care," derived from the verb พยาบาล (phayaban), which means "to nurse" or "to take care of." If the charges says "nursing charge" its a mis-translation on the part of whomever made the translation. It's "hospital charge." However, if there is Thai script next to the "Nursing Charge", post it. We can see what it actually says.

If a Thai gets a job at the Thai Post Office or Thai Railway they end up making that money up in spades over a life-time. But that doesn't usually equate to jobs in villages unless its a government position at the Aw Bot Taw Tambon level of government. Those jobs come with Social Security, pensions, and other perks.

Multiply this ฿ by a few billion and you have your answer.

Yeah, poison pellets are sorta instant karma. The critter disappears in some crevice in you house and stinks the whole place up. Then you're reminded that poison is a suckola way to die. Final revenge. Decaying body somewhere that you can't identify. Dead jing-joes are bad enough.

Mine works great. Well, most of the time. Gotta get your daytime Zzzzzzz to be in top form for nighttime hunts.

Only if you want to kill other pets or kids. They have live trap as well as Mouse Paper which is sorta like Fly Paper only for mice. I have a cat. He does a great job when the dogs miss them on the outside perimeter. I've got one of these. They work great. Take the mouse to the forest. Good karma for you. You can find them on Shopee and Lazada.

You need the police to lead the charge when your twisted elites want to create a police state.

Yep.

Walter Goggin's Venus Van Dam on Sons of Anarchy is an absolute stunner compared to this guy, errr gal, errr whatever. ❤️ the fake boobs.

Thai standard operating procedure (SOP) not just for Israeli's but for all farangs. Complain when they're here, cry went they feel unwelcome and then leave.

Nothing "tantra" here - just a "ball massage."

Yep.

Not necessarily. Like the English language, a word can have multiple meaning. You have to place it in context. Also, if you look up the term "steam" and "bake," the term "bake" is a primary translation for อบ, "stream" although it can be translated that way is not normally directly translated to "op" อบ as it's primary translation, but can be. Steam, bake, warmed - context. They all work.

I've lived in this world in both the US and in Thailand and know exactly how it works. Really, you don't have a clue. In some cases what you say has some truth, a "trainee" has to start somewhere, but you completely miss the bigger picture. Fyi, the owners of most shops will tell their clients they are being given a massage by a trainee and "is that ok?" By the way, this isn't the West. My ex-wife was a "certified massage therapist"in the US. The certification programs there are complete overkill in typical Western nanny-state fashion. I've had significantly better massages here in Thailand by what you would consider to be "untrained" masseuses. My exwife's massages as well as her "trained, US certified" staff sucked by comparison. There is training, but the way it is passed down is actually in the Tradition of Thai Massage which IS a UNESCO recognized profession. You think that all Thai masseuse learns their trade in a Community College like in the West (rhetorical - no you don't). It doesn't really work that way, although it can. There are two paths: on-the-job training and certification programs. Having learned "on-the-job" does not in the least discount a masseuse's abilities to perform Thai Massage. However, the Thai government wants to give "Thai Massage" legitimacy hence the Skilled Local Massage Practitioner program by the Thai MoH. By the way, there are Traditional Thai Massage certification programs already in place and they have been here for years and available through the Trade Colleges here in Thailand. There is already a tiered certification program in place. I know Thais who are have certificates. They earned those certification so that they could leverage that in the massage shops as being staffed with Certified Thai Massage Practitioners and therefore could command a higher price for massages, or promote the certification as a means to advertise their shops. Honestly? Some people want a massage and a hand-job, and some people just want a good Thai Massage. Now it looks like the MoH will be given the power enforce certification by limiting the promotion of "Traditional Thai Massage" on a shop's signage only to those shops with certifications. So in the future more Thai masseuses and masseures will more than likely be required by shop owners to get certified. In typical Thai fashion it will not be the state mandating certification, it will be the owners of Thai massage shops. That's not a bad thing. Like I say, you and others who think they understand this - don't.

I could walk you down Loi Kroh in Chiang Mai and point out a dozen or more instances where the term "nuad Thai" which is actually a mis-transliteration of นวด ไทย which has an unaspirated "t" sound hence more accurately "Nuat Thai" but is printed on signage in either form. A lot of times there will be the term "Thai Massage" with นวดไทย in Thai also on the sign. If you don't read Thai you won't see it. The Thai government will be insisting on the term "นวดไทย" being removed in shops that are not certified and will provide rules for the English terms that will denote "Certified Thai Massage."

Tosh.