Seismic

On 9/24/2021 at 6:11 AM, FalangTingTong said:

At the risk of providing useless anecdata…

 

In the EU I have been asked before at national borders whether I have any other passports,  probably because of my weird international accent.

 

I don’t have, but if I did and lied about it I would be committing a serious crime, and if caught I would expect national entry bans at the very least.

 

So keep in mind that if you’re betting your kids’ convenience/safety/education or whatever on avoiding obligations via passport tricks, at any time they might have to show their cards, and your troubles might suddenly be much greater than had you just parked them in Britain long enough for the issue to time out,  YMMV of course, just my opinion.

That is interesting as in all my 42 years of traveling the globe on almost every continent I have never once been asked if I had another passport, and that includes passing national borders throughout the EU.

2 hours ago, Gandtee said:

William Shakespeare, Macbeth?????

Actually its from Hamlet!

On 9/21/2021 at 9:16 AM, DaLa said:

I live in Nonthaburi, have a house in Cha Am and stayed in Pattaya  last week.  There hasn't been a great change in the former, Cha Am is quiet during the week but busy (ish) at weekends and OK Pattaya is (very) quiet.  I still feel relatively safe here, The UK is full to the brim of homeless and street people. OK, the bars here are closed and obviously if you're involved in the tourism industry there has been a devastating shift in your business, but that has also been mostly true worldwide.

 

On balance although I'm not happy about my meals being served with water, parks being closed, very restrictive international travel and the 9 PM curfew, on balance I don't personally think the situation is as bad as some people portray.

Spoken like someone who is clearly not one of those same homeless and destitute people.

On 9/16/2021 at 7:18 PM, ezzra said:

So a fakakte obscure hospital in the boondocks has come up with world first Covid injection delivery method no one else thought about, not even those giant pharma companies that invented the vaccine...

I am certain they have already thought about it. Both the NHS and the EMA have guidelines which state "COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca is for intramuscular injection only, preferably in the deltoid muscle of the upper arm. Do not inject the vaccine intravascularly, subcutaneously or intradermally.
 

On 9/14/2021 at 5:16 PM, itsallmine68 said:

I am talking about the whole system and revising it tourist,

retirees etc 

Be careful what you wish for!

13 hours ago, Will B Good said:

The Ice Man Cometh.......

 

Pretty sure these are not refrigerated, as the all the drivers of these vans drive like maniacs.

 

I guess they are under pressure not to let the ice melt.

Strange, I cannot find any reference to the truck being refrigerated in the story. Where did you see that?

On 9/8/2021 at 8:15 AM, phutoie2 said:

I was one of their airport night delivery drivers in UK. 

Known as, Documents, Handled and Lost..... 

Interesting, considering that in 40 years, I have never had an item sent by DHL lost.

On 10/3/2020 at 1:27 PM, giddyup said:

Thanks. The general consensus is that even surgery may only be a temporary measure before the condition returns. Mine is hereditary, my father had it as well.

It is 100% hereditary although it occasionally skips a generation. Every procedure currently available has a fairly high rate of regression unfortunately.

On 9/2/2021 at 8:42 PM, WayneJ said:

Samut Praken

Strangely enough, I use the same office and it has not worked for me for almost 3 years since I changed passports.. Until two weeks ago when I tried it again and it worked just fine.

1 hour ago, HaoleBoy said:

I hear the vaccination rate is at 90% in Bangkok now ... but what is the double vaccination rate?  They don't state that much.

 

27%, but this is of course going by official figures which say there are only 7.7 million residents in Bangkok.

4 hours ago, ukrules said:

I have a feeling it will be different this time, this video evidence will be famous throughout the entire world.

 

Everyone will know what they're all about now.

 

Dream on. Everyone has known for decades, it hasn't made any difference.

1 hour ago, jonclark said:

The issue (I am told) is not lack of food but disruption to the delivery of new stock due to covid. 

I was told the same by the manager at my local Villa last week. One of the major distributors has shut down and it is affecting them.

I have had Needle Aponeurotomy on both hands. To the best of my knowledge this is only performed in Chiang Mai by one doctor. The left hand is still good after 5 years with no recurrence. the right hand recurred in under a year and will require the procedure again. It is outpatient minimal invasive procedure that heals in days and costs 5000 baht. I Highly recommend this over the standard surgical procedure especially as recurrence can happen in both.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

A Red Notice for his arrest is supposedly out with Interpol though ASEAN NOW has been unable to verify this fact. 

Here you go ASEAN NOW, let me do your job for you. https://www.interpol.int/en/How-we-work/Notices/View-Red-Notices

55 minutes ago, Iron Tongue said:

That looks like a pellet gun made to resemble a Glock and not an actual firearm.  

 

And speaking of firearms, why do all pistols in Thailand seem to have rubber bands wrapped around the grip?

Better grip, can also be used to deactivate a grip safety without permanent modification.

2 hours ago, AlQaholic said:

This scientific study shows that the mortality rate for Favipiravir treated patients is 30% less than patients not treated with Favipiravir, when treating already infected Covid-19 patients. It also suggest that using it as a preventive (before infection) may be more effective: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-90551-6

 

You forgot to mention that the SAME article also said "this finding not statistically significant". and "Favipiravir possibly exerted no significant beneficial effect in the term of mortality in the general group of patients with mild to moderate COVID-19. We should consider that perhaps the use of antiviral once the patient has symptoms is too late and this would explain their low efficacy in the clinical setting". 

"A committee will be set up", This is a common euphemism for "we need to figure out how to make this quietly go away".

8 hours ago, LivinginKata said:

More like 50 km and no fare allowed on way back.

Seriously!, follow the 4030 onto the 4031 and the distance is 30 km. nowhere near 50!

20 minutes ago, billsmart said:

Yes, many Thais, especially out here in the provinces far away from Bangkok, drive their cars like they are driving a motorbike. They don't drive in the "correct" lane, don't use their turn signals, and sometimes drive the opposite way on a road to reach a nearby U-turn.

Just drive alertly and defensively and don't expect everyone to obey what you think are the rules of the road. 

 

Advice from a fellow-US expat, but one who's lived in Thailand for over twenty years.

Obviously you don't spend much time in Bangkok then, because I see that sort of behavior every day!

2 hours ago, tomacht8 said:

For over 20 years on the streets of Thailand, I would estimate that I have saved around 500 lives through my defensive driving style. Never trust a green traffic light, no frantic maneuvers if someone is approaching on the wrong side of the lane, do not think that the indicator here shows the actual direction of travel, at night scan regulary the street with a short high beam for vehicles without lighting, be particularly careful with all U-turns, always expect the Thais to turn into a main road without looking. Thailand is still the number 2 in traffic deaths worldwide. I wish everyone an accident-free journey

Wow!, that means I must have saved over 1000 lives, do I get a badge or something?

1 hour ago, wasabi said:

The USA is literally giving away millions of doses of vaccines and they can't find enough vaccines to even inoculate 1% of the population? I have never seen incompetence and corruption at this scale. They are even incompetent at corruption.

Yes, but unfortunately for Thailand the US is donating those vaccines to the Covax initiative, and Thailand decided not to join that.