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For those of you that don't know,ALL spiders are venemus and Thailand only has (to the best of my knowledge) this one that has long enough fangs to harm people. The size of a spider does not make it harmfull to people,I have held cane spider in my hand and they are harmless so don't kill every spider you see,remember they kill the bad bugs in the house.

Agreed...even the skinny little "Daddy Long Legs" is venomous, it's just that its fangs are not long enough to harm us..

Cheers

happy pattaya man

I would think a tarantulas fangs could harm a person if the spider was so inclined.

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Had a black tarantula bite my dog on the nose when he was a 6mo old puppy. His little nose swelled up pretty good. Gave him para as per my vets recommendation. No problem, he was better in a couple of day, and much wiser.

Saw this on Thai News but wife couldn't give my the 'farang name' but I thought it looked like a 'brown recluse' which we have in the neck of the woods I come from in the US, but this one is just not brown. Now I know. Thought it was a recluse. Nasty bites. Causes serious necrosis of the skin.

How many Thai kids are raised by grandparent, aunt/uncles, extended families because the mother has to move to the city to work and support the one or two children she has. Thailand needs more kids that are raised by a proxy parent like it needs a hole in the head. The government would be better off addressing the working poor and income disparity.

20 minutes in/out 90-day report yesterday in Pattaya...maybe there's a message in there for you

Yes there is a message and yes we are. You know what I mean. When I read what the poster states I really feel we are being robbed of any dignity we have left at our advanced age. Anyone reporting 90 days in person needs to get a lesson in mailing it in. Even the mails are taking 2 weeks or more to get your slip returned its a nightmare that looks like it will never end and only get worse. When you have no vehicle and go by taxi its taxing to say the least especially paying back and forth back and forth and possibly going back the next day for your "signed" passport. Yes a box outside the door would be a smart move but nothing really makes any sense here anymore. Why not jack up the price of the annual visa extension to 2500 bahts or 3,000 and streamline the system to handle the excessive amount (and climbing) of people applying. We are seemingly being forced to use the "visa" agents with no alternatives. We are being herded into a huge funnel.

But we are "guests" in this country, are we not? Of course we are, we should just accept all the inconveniences we get put through at Immigration etc,

and be grateful we are allowed to live here.

But we are "guests" in this country, are we not?

I stopped buying into that BS a long time ago. I support a family here in Thailand. I don't feel like a guest. I feel like a tax paying contributor to Thai society and their economy. But, feel free to place yourself into the category of a second class, foreign 'guest'. I don't.

Without reading the thread, I can probably guess that I'm echoing numerous other posters by saying, "Why the hell aren't you mailing your 90 report to CM Immigration. If you truly live here, and are not using the mail-in option, then you are simply clogging up the already over-crowded queue lines at the Promenade. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

Get real.

I received my annual notification of benefit amount last week. This gives a breakdown.

Some people are also able to get information on the internet. I have never been able to get an account, even when I tried while in the USA a little over a year ago.

I received my annual COLA notification and yearly SSA-1099 yesterday. No increase, no decrease. I think NancyL may have the correct idea if you are a Medicare B payer in the upper tax bracket. If not, you may want to contact SSA.

Gotta be muslim to enter Scandinavian. Orthodox Christian Ruskies, back to Russia. What's wrong with this picture?

Too big to jail: Clinton(s), Petraeus, Corzine, TBTF Bank CEOs... the list goes on. Everyone else? Griss for the Mill.

The Oscars should be awarded based on this formula:

Non-Hispanic White 196,817,552 63.7 % Non-Hispanic Black 37,685,848 12.2 % Non-Hispanic Asian 14,465,124 4.7 % Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native 2,247,098 0.7 % Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 481,576 0.2 % Non-Hispanic some other race 604,265 0.2 % Non-Hispanic two or more races 5,966,481 1.9 % Hispanic or Latino 50,477,594 16.4 %

So whites should get no more than 63.7% of the Oscars, otherwise it's racist.

OMG, is the US that freaking PC? lmao! No wonder I left and married a 'brown' women in Thailand. Although I've been called a racist base on the colour of my skin on many occasions along with numerous epitaphs like honkey, cracker, and so forth. I don't miss that zoo. The brown and black people I associate outside the US don't have inferiority complexes. Thank God.

Chriminy, report something that is verifiable.

OMG!

What else is new?

Let's see, one person throws a bottle at 20 f/s and the perp responds with multiple small lead bullets travelling at 1,200 f/s striking multiple persons lethally. Let me think about this for awhile. Yeah, I'm sure it's ok in the LOS. He was angry! No problem! A couple of years in jail and Somchai's Your Uncle.

Well, if Somchai has HIV and gets a shave, and then you get a shave after Somchai, yeah...you may need to worry.

Sorry, can't be of help. Mid-60s, been here for 8 years, and live 50+ miles out in the boonies. I'm quite content with the way life has turned out. My only regret? Coming to a country with immigration laws that scream: "Go home foreigner and leave your money here." The government obviously would rather I'm not here. My extended family, whom I support, thinks otherwise.

If you don't like rats, move back to the cleanliness of a First World city like New York City. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/10/15/new-york-city-rats-carry-pathogens-bacteria/17295367/

Errrr....nevermind.

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January 20, 2020

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(Phuket) While traveling to Laem Sing Beach via Puket's Light Rail and watching Superstar Por reruns on his iPhone, Somsak Thipaphacert from Nakhon Somewhere contacted Dengue Fever.

Party pooper. I wonder how he drives on Thai roads. The rock climbing is probably less risky than getting to the climbing location.

Until it doesn't. The first impression I had of BKK was the unfinished Sky-train to Rangsit and a lot of unfinished high-rises.

Groovy. Folks in NS get to see the 2 km long motorcade. I'm sure that will warm their cockles.

ThaiNews for January 20, 2020.

Elephant kills Mahout

A 5 year old elephant killed it's mohout today after the mahout raised his fists in anger. Angel, a 20 year old elephant who lives in the same compound and who draws pictures for tourists, scrawled on a canvass, "Elephants never forget, kuai."

The dogs in my village know me, and me them. You should get out more. I've no problems with the local dogs. Outside of the 10 km radius I walk in, different story.

In the last two day, my area of Northern Thailand (Lamphun) has become magnitudes worse. Can't see the distant mountains in our valley which were clear to view a week ago. Smoke is getting thicker. From now until Songkran, if you're a tourist, imho, travel somewhere else until the rains begin. Speaking from experience. Or, buy yourself a 3M 95N facemask and don't plan to see much outside of 5 to 10 km from your point of view. This is not a nice time to tour Northern Thailand.

It's all been said before.