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So the rule change is merely proposed and may not be adopted. If not, then you're clear legally and morally. Yet if they're going to propose it at the AGM, they must think it has a chance. Or maybe your behavior has proven why the rule is a good one and should have been adopted previously; so then it will be adopted. If adopted, they'll have a moral case, but I think still not a legal one. Maybe, on reflection, you may see they have a point. It's not a lot of money. Threatening to sue won't frighten anyone, as they know you wouldn't spend the time and expense to do so. You may wait and see if they JM really won't sign off on the sale until the B6000 is paid and then pay it. But I'd assume they mean what they say.

"What happens in the TQ stays in the TQ." Saves marriages and wards off other possible "issues." However, some innocuous photos of the event are here: https://tahitianqueen.com/index.php/gallery

1. Makro, generally 2. Foodland 3. Villa or Best

Congrats. The House doesn't always win, of course. In fact, the George Burns Hail Mary is first among the Principles of ANF Poster Longevity Science. You may give up your paddling, if you wish. I'm not much of a gambler, however, don't believe in any Genetics Voodoo, so I'll merely soldier on with the obvious rationality of mitigating the known risk factors, thank you; and, in general, try to put off any chronic diseases as long as possible according to my understanding of the scientific probabilities. Are we done?

Hotties looking great on the beach today. Be nice if the beaches in Thailand permitted toplessness, currently anyway.

Not a personal attack at all, but merely agreeing with the established correlations with BPH. YOU yourself brought up And I merely pointed out that your walking, and also diet, wasn't in line with the correlation, so it should not be expected to make any difference. You gave examples of your walking, none of which appeared to substitute for exercise. Now, if it was, then you may certainly explain and I'll be happy to agree with you. Moreover, you've in the past made specific reference to diet (e. g., dumping sugar in your coffee) and physical ailments (pre-diabetes, gout) consistent with metabolic syndrome, the causes of which are pretty well established. So I made a valid point. Sorry you didn't like it and think it was a personal attack. Anyone who implied an expectation that walking was going to have much effect on hypertension or possibly mitigate the onset of BPH would receive the same response. Your "details" led to an explanation that forum members may find informative, the younger the better. I'm amused when I read in outside general forums what readers regard as "exercise" in response to the question, "What exercise do you do?" I'm led to believe that ignorance on the subject is pretty widespread.

And the correct conclusion. Good, na? You’ve confused physical activity with exercise, LOL. A common self-serving mistake. Here’s the difference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1424733/ And the exercise needs to be moderate or vigorous, directed, sustained effort that significantly increases the heart rate. Why that’s metabolically important I leave you to discover. Effective physical activity would need to approximate exercise, as it might in jobs requiring significant physical effort (sustained heart rate elevation) or frequent strenuous participation in recreational sports. Brisk walking, and the beneficial amount, in regular continuous sessions, is defined here: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/brisk-walking That wasn’t exercise (defined for you above), desultory, not continuous except perhaps when sometimes not taking the bus, probably not at least moderate in intensity, often; and so obviously suboptimal, esp given the matter of your diet, which you’ve ignored. That's my point. Exercise can of course work synergistically with diet, even help compensate for a poor diet. . . . it is essential to be aware that an enlarged prostate (BPH) also has a strong association with metabolic syndrome. The metabolic syndrome includes abdominal obesity, elevated blood sugar and triglycerides, low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and hypertension. Men who had the highest levels of both occupational and recreational physical activity were 60% less likely to develop the condition [metabolic syndrome] --https://www.bensnaturalhealth.com/blog/exercise-prostate/

Exactly right. Now, often vehicles will slow enough to see if anyone's going to cross or going to cross. If none, they may go on through. I do that myself. ???? Problem is, tourists will often walk by and just press the button for entertainment or vandalism purposes. So as a driver you can never be sure the light is really indicating anyone wants to cross. And there are sufficient lights around. Pedestrians are often too lazy to walk to the light. And yes, the lights are working. Guess that disposes of all the nonsense.

Is there no Northshore, Garden Cliff, Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort Pattaya? No Nong Nooch or Wat Yarn? No Aquaverse? No Terminal 21? Pattaya is a very large and diverse area. All lifestyles are possible, even small town Thailand in Naklua. Its dystopian aspects also lend it welcome character; history must be respected and cherished, even if one lives in a penthouse. And SO convenient. Yeah, Pattaya wins ???? No reason I'll ever go back to Phuket and hassle around.

Not sure if your walking was really exercise. Not unlikely it was often just slow walking and pausing. The lack of real exercise, plus your diet, gave you the hypertension and pre-diabetes, risk factors both counteracting what walking you did. So, no reason to think it would make any difference. It may not have anyway, as you'd like to believe, but covering all the bases puts you more on the side of probability.

It's some good progress. The old crossings could barely be seen, many faded out. These have a welcome visibility, as I can tell you from experience the other night. And drivers are getting more used to them and starting to slow down at least if a pedestrian is in the crosswalk. The death of the doc created awareness. Pedestrians are mostly suitably cautious, though tourists can easily walk out anywhere, crossing or not, some drunk and forgetting even to look. Such is a tourist town. The traffic lights work fine, have long worked, and now there's more of them.

Oh, but you are. Chiang Mai, on the other hand, is somewhat inundated by tourists in specific parts of the city (in many cases leading to gentrification). There is no going into these areas without seeing digital nomads in every coffee shop, drinking only one or two cups of coffee, and typing away at their laptop for almost the whole day. . . . Causing deaths! There are also tourists jaywalking everywhere . . . . And even more, some don't even wear a helmet. Many tourists walk like they own the place, because they paid for a plane ticket and they have a few tourist dollars to hand out to locals. . . . hordes of Chinese tourists . . . . And so, not liking tourists in general, scapegoating the supposedly unlicensed tourists driving motorbikes as the raison d'etre. Actually, you dunno how many are driving w/o licenses or, more importantly, are totally incompetent to drive. You been complaining about unlicensed Thais? Are there any of those????? In general, I find farang poorer drivers of both cars and bikes than Thais in relation to their percentage of the population. I tend to move away from them in traffic if possible. However, if you have a big influx of tourists or drivers into an area, more accidents or near accidents will of course happen. In Pattaya, same thing during holiday weekends when hordes of Thais flood in. And the major cause isn't lack of a driver's license. You're attaching way too much importance to that paper. It's excessive speed and drinking. All our ace ANF Driving Instructors and Traffic Accident Investigators know this and always carefully point it out while sneering at any finger pointing. They love to look for a lack of a helmet, just as you do. Still, most accidents are Thai-on-Thai. You don't complain at all about those not being reported, specifically, with names. And anyone who does a cursory google will see that Thailand's traffic accident rate is the highest in the world. All those tourists you don't like, that is, the non-servile, do indeed account for most of the revenue. Your Approved Tourists™ have mostly run out of pesos and aren't coming in large numbers. Oh, were you? But ANF has a lot of readers abroad. The details of a tourist's driving skill in his own country would only be known to his friends and relatives back home, and only of interest, if at all, to a very local community. If discussing it in an article begging for money, they of course will blame Thais and Thailand to portray their beloved as a victim. And on this forum, even when the farang is clearly at fault, the members will still attempt to blame the Thai and Thailand, esp. if he's one of our Brit "lads." And we also have sufficient cases reported of expats and skilled motorbike riders (one not too long ago) causing accidents or simply crashing. You don't mention any of those; why's that? ???? Pattaya's waitin' for you. Now what you'd surely find gratifying is to sit at a bar near the police checkpoint at Beach Rd. & Soi 9 and watch the BIB stopping tourists and checking their papers--and sending them into the station to pay fines.

I foresee an end to this nonsense coming soon.

Oh. Did somebody say that already? Dripping water can wear away stones, I guess.

'Course, without the tourist industry, those Thais might not have tuition, jobs, or motorbikes. They can move if they wish. They don't need to you to engage in phony hand wringing in their behalf. Nonsense. Notice is definitely taken of the Thai. And accidents are reported in the Thai press you don't read on ANF. You reading the Thai news? And the cause of the accident is usually "under investigation." A witness may be quoted. It's usually our ace ANF Driving Instructors, Accident Investigators, and general bashers who hop on the danger of Thai roads; or it may be thrown in as editorial marketing comment to suck in the usual reliable keyboard warriors, such as yourself, who absolutely love this sort of thing. It feels like what it is: an international tourist attraction. Maybe expats such as yourself should wear special EXPAT badges to alert tourists to act more humble in your Presence. Rip Van Winkle, eh? How many years ago did you fall asleep? Oh, move to Pattaya and toughen up. Consider it a kind of boot camp. Go back ready to face those wimpy Chiang Mai tourists with a smile.

Did you try with your pink card? Works fine in Pattaya.

Just use a GoFundMe, as we often see here.

"queens?" Sirikit is Queen Sirikit. Maybe you mean Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital in Siricha? Been there a couple of times for minor things, was quite OK. Thais respect it. But I think you'd have the same problem as with Sirikit. You wouldn't have time, given your schedule. First you'd probably have to see a generalist, then get another appt to see the specialist. That could be weeks away. After the first appt, the second could be weeks away. And you have the waiting times in the hsp. Will take half a day, at least, every time, even if you have an appt. It also helps to speak some Thai or have a Thai speaker with you at gov't hsps. The doc probably speaks enough English; the problem is to get to the doc. Dunno anything about BKK Jomtien.

Difficult. What did the docs say about your prospects if it IS cancer? HOW risky for you would the biopsy be?

You can't possibly know the best place to live when you first come to Thailand, and members here have usually moved around before finding the place they like best. I've moved all around Pattaya. Circumstances change to make other places better. Many, for example, insist they'd not choose Pattaya as a place to rear a family. With a family, they'd prefer a more conservative, less crowded place. And are happier exactly that way. And we in fact do have members who prefer a quiet rural life but only with a partner, just as in every country. I have friends in the States who do. I can easily understand the appeal. Lot of nice aspects to it. It's merely trolling, bigotry, misogyny, and arrogance to claim they're lying. Always by useless old mongers, of course.

It's great to have clear, convincing evidence of the root cause. When the evidence that smoking causes cancer became undeniable, a lot of suffering was prevented and lives saved. What's amazing is how some people still smoke anyway. In the absence of clarity, I'll try to go with probabilities. Then sources and credibility become important. Nutrition is a quite a minefield, what with the food industry paying for biased research and paying lobbyists. Hmm. Sources would be of interest. One can only laud your success. It would be helpful for the average person to eat better and lose weight.

Super Sport makes returns easy. They bring you another size and take back the pair you tried on that didn't fit. I've bought several pairs online 'cause that's where the best sales are. 'Course you could go to the store, but then you'd have to go to the mall, which would be unpleasant for you.

Sirikit's a good hsp, and inexpensive, but, without bothering about details, you don't have time to deal with Sirikit. I suggest this urologist at Bangkok Pattaya Hsp: https://www.bangkokpattayahospital.com/en/doctor-profile?v_id=205&depid=28 He has a good rep. Not expensive to consult.

Interesting. Of course, they can, as it seems in your case. One never knows which genes, specifically, one will inherit, hoping they're the good ones.???? Doing what you can against the negatives as you have has been to your credit. One of my profs at uni had very high cholesterol run in his family, on his father's side. Father died early. He had it also: he put up a long fight to try to bring it down with meds and exercise, but only cardio. He always remained somewhat overweight, however. He and his wife were great cooks. Despite his efforts, he died in his late 50s. I wish his obit had given the exact cause of death. Most likely had something to do with his inherited problem, either directly or indirectly through his attempts to fight it; but we're all subject to fate anyway. (This is not to endorse the What, Me Worry "It's all me Fate: git nekkid" principle of ANF Poster Longevity Science.) One thing can bring down all the rest, as posited by the Anna Karenina principle.

Well, that's IT then. Pig out, sit on the sofa, and paddle around in a pool. Chase after docs & meds, enjoy the problems and complications, get your scans, biopsies, TURP (if it's not cancer), and hope you don't end up like @ThaiPauly. No, thanks.???? Unknown, BUT It isn't entirely clear what causes the prostate to enlarge. However, it might be due to changes in the balance of sex hormones as men grow older. Oh, does that make some sense? WHAT hormone might rather critical? ???? What helps the balance of that hormone? I'll go with the obvious rationality of mitigating the known risk factors, thank you--not only for BPH but as well for all the other chronic diseases of metabolic syndrome. Been working great so far, as one might reasonably expect, and seems working well for @drtreelove.