blazes

Interesting account. Question: when you say the minivan "was waiting for me", does this mean you booked it in advance? Also, what do you estimate the Ubon-Chong Mek drive to be normally, when no floods? Thanks.

I had a Nehru (Mao?) jacket made at Alba Mode in 2008 for $80. First class and I have worn it regularly through all those years. 94/2 Phetkasem Road (more or less dead centre of HH) Phone (in 2008, I am reading from the label): 06-7105395 and 06-7098932

It's been 5 years since I applied for a retirement visa of one year, but at that time I only needed to show (bank letter and notarised) the Thai consulate that I did indeed have an income of at least 65,000 baht per month. There was no stipulation that you had to deposit the money in a Thai bank (I did not in fact have one, anyway). Subsequently the Canadian consulate in Chiang Mai gave me an income letter to conform with the (65k monthly income) requirement for a 1-year extension. In other words, if you are applying from outside the country, is it not the case that you don't need to send money to a Thai bank account?

Lots of good suggestions above. Ram Hospital is ok, and you could try the Suan Dok hospital (is that the correct name?). I once had excellent and cheap treatment there (special section at entrance for falang). Could it be anything to do with your sciatic nerve? It's possible that a masseur who really knows what he or she is doing could give some treatment that might help. Also look on YouTube asking a question like "extreme leg pain treatment". Also, look up the Mayo Clinic, the most trustworthy purveyor of medical information on line.

Fall in love??? Only if she tells me I am hansum......

Prostate playing up???

Just to clarify "only one 30 day extension of a visa exempt entry": You could however (am I correct) go Enter = 45 plus one extension = 30 (total 75 days) Now leave the country Return with 45 days PLUS another 30 day extension (total 75 days) Am I correct or is this 2nd 30 days not allowed?

Mind you, all universities in the West charge differential fees to foreign students, often close to 3 times what domestic students have to pay. While the foreigners actually can attend real-live classes, they are basically paying thousands of dollars for precisely...nothing. (A bit like visiting a Thai national park.)

???? one way from where to where??? Why not book one-way BKK to SGN (Ho Chi Minh City) for about $50 (cancellable once in Bkk)?? This is all you need to show you're going to be a good boy and get the fk out of there in good time....

Er, Chomper, my good man, who exactly are these other "employees and customers" you are introducing to this topic?

And in the meantime, here are you (surely not an authoritarian?) telling us that the presumably wholesome HR training you mention is indeed the "correct" way to behave!!! Human relations training?? That's a joke, isn't it? The sort of HR "training" thrust upon employees these days (if you work for a woke company) involves admitting that because you are white you are by definition racist. Such mindlessly divisive racist instruction of course leads to the very racist attitudes it was supposed to eradicate. Inhuman relations more like....

Good for a few extra votes in the hippie demographic....(although they might not notice the generous act through the fumes).

The only one worth visiting is Doi Intanon. Gives you a day's break from the heat (without having to hang out in a mall). It's high enough for you to notice the thinness of the oxygen.

As a citizen of one of the top 10 cities in the world, I can assure anyone who's read this far that my city, beset with the problems of homelessness (sorry, of the "unhoused"), and with police underfunding, and with mindless construction of impossibly high condo buildings, is blushing (if cities could blush) at this undeserved ranking.

Might be worth waiting to see markets' reaction to this coming Friday's release of the September non-farm payrolls.

Oooh, scientists? (In medieval times, the priests of the Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church were the ones who had to be obeyed, often on pain of death for those who disobeyed. Today, scientists have taken over that role, and they too have punishments they can mete out. Instead of facing an inquisition, today's scientists have "peer review" to censure dissenting voices.) Scientists are human and are as fallible as any of us on this thread. As academics, they must all sing from the same hymn sheet (regarding whatever the "consensus" may be on any particular subject at the moment). Any dissenting voice regarding the consensus will soon find his or her research grants from government or corporations drying up. And academic "manhood" is determined ONLY by the number of research grants you receive. Cancellation (career stagnation) awaits those who sing off-key....

In the face of this breathtaking naïveté about the way government policy is constructed, all one can say is perhaps well summed up in this shameful (actually, shameless) claim made before a recent murderous invasion: "Weapons of mass destruction."

What was it like? $crewing a corpse? No KY? Difficult job, no?

Well, that's his choice, innit?

You switched subject and gender mid sentence or what? Clearly you did not read attentively and notice that Luuk Chaai had switched from the (alas) POTUS to the "vice" potus. Thus from ...er...male to (apparently) female. Don't know about vice, but anyone who saw her trying to savage Justice Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearing will know that she is definitely vicious.

Well, did you (mind)?????

Rather a simple, old-fashioned, my-country-right-or-wrong view. In all the years since WW2, with all those American invasions into 3rd world countries, did Washington ever think to ask the people of those countries whether they wanted the murderous "help" America delivered from the sky by napalm? No, thought not.

I did (think again) and find the exact same answer through a lifetime of seeing American failure after failure after failure to impose its view of the world upon one 3rd world country after another. It's only just over 12 months since the shameful retreat from Afghanistan after 20 years of showing the Taliban and company the values of the Western way of life. You'd think someone in Washington would, after all these failures, "think again".

Precisely the one thing that will guarantee the war will go on and on. Who benefits from this war supported by the American taxpayer to the tune of (at least) $39 billion? The main beneficiaries clearly (see their stock price increases through this year) are Northrop Grumann Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and other such armament manufacturers. It has been ever thus, via Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and all similar countries who failed in some way to toe the Western political line.

Welcome to Wokeville....