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2 hours ago, gargamon said:

While you're waiting, download John Adams, much better than the first 3 episodes of Franklin.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472027

+1. Watched it twice!

5 hours ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

How exactly is revoking his visa different than deporting him? same result.

You can figure that out.

5 hours ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

As far as immigration deeming him undesirable - how is that different than discrimination?

It is discrimination. It discriminates him as an undesirable from among the desirables, which he is. Immigration has the legal right to do. Why don't they cancel the visas of undesirable Thais? Figure that out too.

5 hours ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

 if his "victim" was someone less connected and/or he wasn't a foreigner neither police, immigration, or the court would handle the case as harshly as they are.

Connections matter, Thai or farang or Hottentot. A wealthy Thai wouldn't have kicked the lady in the back out there in the dark for sitting on "his" stairs near the beach. If a Thai had "slipped," he'd quickly apologize, esp. to a doc; and the doc would have accepted it, as she probably would have had Fehr had done the same. She'd also have accepted a quick settlement.

Fehr thoroughly annoyed her with his arrogance. True, as a respected, educated Thai she probably found it particularly annoying to be treated like a dog in her own country by a big arrogant pr*ck of a foreigner who has no innate right to be in Thailand anyway. Local Thais found it particularly annoying as well. He should respect his hosts--particularly a doctor. Kicking him out of the country will ensure he creates no more problems here.

When a doctor was hit on a crosswalk in BKK, there was quite a big uproar and a nationwide drive to create awareness about pedestrians in crosswalks. All the major crosswalks in Pattaya were repainted and made much more distinctive. Had it happened to a Thai street sweeper, the response would have been quite different.

Analogous cases in the West can be adduced. The killer of John Lennon--why wasn't he paroled for good behavior twenty years ago like other murderers?

Chapman first became eligible for parole in 2000 after serving twenty years in prison. Under New York state law, he is required to have a parole hearing every two years from that year onward. Since that time, a two- or three-member board has denied Chapman parole thirteen times. Before his first parole hearing, Yoko Ono sent a letter to the board requesting that Chapman should stay behind bars and serve out the remainder of his life sentence.

     --Wikipedia

And then you have the members of the Manson family. They didn't just murder some homeless people. Yeah, they're treated differently--for a reason.

So whereas she probably wouldn't have pressed charges otherwise and been amenable to a settlement, now she made it a point to do so--which is understandable. Fehr brought the whole thing on himself and is no victim. Sorry; we really want to see him as the poor victim and whinge about xenophobia and imagine ourselves victims of mistreatment, too, as we often do on this forum.

1 hour ago, connda said:

My own dentist: 13K for a root canal and 18K for a Zirconia Crown.

Sounds about right. Paid 18K for a zirconia crown in Pattaya. But I didn't want to wait for an appt with Dr. Warin.

On 4/17/2024 at 12:33 PM, rexpotter said:

For basically the last month I have been sitting in my condo with the aircon on, going between youtube, this forum and lot of other stuff.

Lemme see. Do this:

Build yourself a gaming battlestation.

Many more examples here on a forum devoted to them: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/

Hyperactive teenagers spend countless happy hours at their battlestations playing video games. Granmas play them; you can too. Good for your brain: slow the cognitive decline.

Create a lil' home gym with a TRX, weight bench and coupla dumbbells, a few resistance bands, and an exercise bike. Watch Bodyfit by Amy vids.

You got all the aircon you need, music, and videos. Get ripped, man; buy a new fitness wardrobe. Have a great sleep every night. Impressive all the wimmens whenever you deign to leave your condo.

Should keep you occupied and enhance the quality of your posts on the forum.

On 4/17/2024 at 1:11 PM, John Drake said:

Don't get stuck in a condo. I'd feel like I'm in prison in a condo.

I'm not stuck in my condo. I don't in the least feel I'm in prison, go out whenever and wherever I please.

On 4/17/2024 at 1:11 PM, John Drake said:

Good to go work in the backyard and trim trees, bushes, and pull weeds.

Oh, how boring. So glad I'm free of all that home maintenance. Let the condo staff handle it. 🙂 

Maybe of some interest: new study just came out w/ different & narrow focus:

Estimation of taurine intake showed that dietary taurine intake potentially contributes to the maintenance of knee extension muscle strength over 8 years among Japanese community-dwelling middle-aged and older individuals. This is the first study to investigate the association of dietary taurine intake with muscle strength.

     --Association of taurine intake with changes in physical fitness among community-dwelling middle-aged and older Japanese adults: an 8-year longitudinal study

More strength in the elderly is a positive factor for their greater longevity.

2 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

I don't really use Windows except on a virtual machine for those programs that I use rarely that are only available as a Windows executable.

 

I came across this article and it may be of use to some AN members.

 

https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-upgrade-your-unsupported-pc-to-windows-11

 

 

We have several experts here on this subject. But I hear M'soft is getting more anal about promoting Win 11 to those still on Win 10, so it's good to be reminded of the workaround, for those still unaware but interested.

4 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Could only find the 3 episodes when first looked otherwise I would have!!

My apologies. Downloading it now and discovered it's S01 of an older series. I'll go with one by one myself.

2 hours ago, Carlotta said:

Even if it doesn't work for you, that doesn't mean it's bad, as Big Star (with Big Ego) would insinuate.

If it don't work, it don't work. However, it would be impossible to verify if it really works (except as placebo), as you don't have a control--a clone of yourself who didn't take creatine.

And subtopic I addressed was Sheryl's point re: mental benefit for the elderly, not the possible physiological effects generally, notably in the young where it's most studied, and for exercise in particular. OP was asking specifically those who don't lift weights.

2 hours ago, Carlotta said:

 

1. https://www.webmd.com/vitamins-and-supplements/creatine

2. https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-021-00412-w

3. https://www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2023/01/19/creatine-supplements-what-the-research-says-about-how-they-can-help-you-get-in-shape

4. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-023-01870-9

5. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8949037/

#2 references, and accepts the validity of, one of the "old" studies I referenced earlier. How strange. If you, on the other hand, disagree, then please do offer up the contrary evidence. I keep asking for this w/o response. Wonder why that is.

7 hours ago, nglodnig said:

Don't bother - just get the tooth pulled out. The crown ("cap") will be broken in ten years anyway and you'll have a never ending story of  the tooth being drilled down to nothing to fit a new crown (aka "cap")

 

Then get a denture fitted.

Go big or go home. Have 'em all pulled out and get the complete set of dentures. Thereafter Polident's all you need.

5 hours ago, opporna said:

Does anyone have any experience with going to a government hospital (such as Queen Sirikit near the Pattaya Airport) for a crown. I know that for general medical things, prices are much lower but I'm wondering if I could save money when I get a bridge replaced at some point. The bridge is 3 crowns so can be quite pricey.

I don't think Siriikit does crowns, only fillings and cleaning I guess. Very small dept.

Not sure about other gov't hsps around Pattaya.

22 minutes ago, xylophone said:

I downloaded this and settled in to watch what I thought were the ONLY three episode that were on 1337x.to!! Turns out there are eight episodes?? so will have to go searching for the remainder!! I liked what I saw so looking forward to finding them............

Why not just download the entire season at one go? Find the torrent.

22 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

Now hopefully everybody here will believe it. 🙏 😂

Nobody said, or believed, that creatine supplements are necessary. That wasn't the issue, just your strawman.

11 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

Thank you for outdated stuff. I'm not interested. Keep it for yourself😂😂😂

But you haven't explained why they aren't respectable and are in fact now invalid. Why not? We've had your latest authoritative opinion, but not the supposed science it's based on. Why's that?  😂😂😂 Too modest?

21 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

There are no respectable studies at all. 

So then, as suspected, you don't follow the science at all, but merely your own little authoritative Opinions, calling those "science."

Now Sheryl's article is published here:

Rawson, E.S., Venezia, A.C. Use of creatine in the elderly and evidence for effects on cognitive function in young and old. Amino Acids 40, 1349–1362 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00726-011-0855-9

and

Amino Acids is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research related to the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and toxicology of amino acids and related compounds.

The editors and board members are listed here:

https://link.springer.com/journal/726/editors

And they all look very qualified indeed, though perhaps not up to your own professional qualifications as yet unknown.

So you might explain why this study isn't in fact a respectable study.

I could quote some possible explanations as to why supplemental creatine (MORE than just dietary creatine) may be effective, but you may follow your opinion. 🙂

To reference one more, a controlled study published in a peer-reviewed journal:

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of creatine supplementation on the cognitive performance of elderly people. . . . Results showed a significant effect of creatine supplementation on all tasks except backward number recall. It was concluded that creatine supplementation aids cognition in the elderly.

So again it would be enlightening to know why this also wasn't a respectable study--except that you KNOW.

I won't mention the rat studies. Rats ain't humans!

We go back to Sheryl's original and quite accurate point:

On 4/15/2024 at 9:25 PM, Sheryl said:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21394604/

 

There is some evidence that creatine supplementation is helpful in the elderly

So I think the science suggests it's not a bad idea for the elderly to supplement. Can't hurt, anyway.

24 minutes ago, Caldera said:

If you're old already, why do you refuse to just die when your time has come? Haven't you looted and polluted the planet enough already?

Talk's cheap on the 'net.

The authoritative ANF Longevity Science, after years of tireless research by our top experts, incorporates three What, Me Worry Principles:

8.  What, me worry? I: The genes

It’s all genes. Git nekkid!

9.  What, me worry? II: Fate

It’s me fate. Might be hit by a lorry tomorrow. Get nekkid!

10. What, me worry? III: The French Salute

Woe is me; g'bye cruel world.

But you'll have to ask our Fatalists who profess to follow What, Me Worry? why they try so hard to thwart the Principles by chasing after hospitals, pharmacies, docs, meds, surgeries, treatments and paying all those medical bills. I'm just puzzled as you are. The one I asked didn't answer me, for some reason.

Meanwhile, you have this:

People aged 65 to 79 'happiest of all', study suggests

The survey of more than 300,000 adults across the UK found life satisfaction, happiness and feeling life was worthwhile all peaked in that age bracket, but declined in the over-80s.

The survey of more than 300,000 adults across the UK found life satisfaction, happiness and feeling life was worthwhile all peaked in that age bracket, but declined in the over-80s. , , , The over-90 age group reported by far the lowest levels of feeling their life was worthwhile, even though their reported levels of happiness and life satisfaction were comparable to those in their 20s and 30s.

    --https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35471624

Which I suppose answers your question for normal people.

30 minutes ago, Carlotta said:

supplements are no medicines, just business as selling garbage bins or tooth brushes.

And some do find garbage bins and toothbrushes helpful.

20 hours ago, Drumbuie said:

Although I must confess to being slightly surprised that so many fifty-plus year olds' conversation is eerily similar to that of a carful of hormonal, Lynx-drenched teen boys. .

 

Ignorantly proud of it, too. But much of the "humor" on the forum doesn't rise to the teen level, maybe 10 years old max. We love the amusement afforded by poop, bums, boobies, boom boom, wee wees, willies, bearded clams. rubbers, pee pee, vomit, farts, burps, boogers, Thaiglish ("velly solly" is SO clever & funny!) and Soi 6.  Bonus: bestiality.

Unfortunately, a crowd needed to maintain the membership numbers, such as they are.

2 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

I rely on science.

Or maybe not, since you claim it's all a matter of belief. Still waiting for you to reference the evidence you have, based on science, that the probability that creatine supplements don't benefit seniors outweighs the probability they do, according to respectable studies such Sheryl cited. 

6 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

I mentioned "necessary".

Yes, you did. Let me quote your mention again:

10 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

So, if you get healthy food it's not necessary to buy any creatine as supplement.

And then I noted that "necessary" isn't the issue under discussion here. Nobody claimed it's necessary to buy any creatine as supplement.

6 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

In addition read my reply to Sheryl.

I did, but it merely contained assertions irrelevant to the findings of supplementary creatine's likely benefit for seniors in particular, based, furthermore, on imagined personal Authority, not documented contrary evidence.

3 minutes ago, dhupverg said:

It was custom made.

So you can't know what model the case is taken from? I guess checking with shops is your best bet then. Let us know how it goes. Hate to see good machines down & out.

7 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I was talking about the locals who also only have so much disposable money each month.

TAT: ANF has always refused to recognize the existence and positive effects of domestic tourism in Thailand--which, BTW, kept the Pattaya economy alive during COVID. (NO it did not replace international tourism.) However, our UK Economists of course recognize its economic contribution in their own country. For example, domestic tourism, importantly including day trippers from London, are critical to the local economy of Brighton. If you look up the annual economic reports you'll find they squawk if domestic tourism is "down."

Most tourists to Corpus Christi, Texas, are USA domestic tourists who ALSO only have so much disposable money each month. Touring is far more expensive there.

     --https://www.visitcorpuschristi.com/about-us/power-of-travel/

10 million visitors generated $1.4 billion. Int'l tourism bureaus use the same metric as TAT. WOT???

The real TAT (the one with all the fake figures we never refute with our own) always knew this but has encouraged domestic tourism a lot more after its dramatic effect during and immediately after COVID. Hence all the festivals and promotions now aimed at Thais.

TAT deputy governor for Domestic Marketing Thapanee Kiatphaibool said on Wednesday that Thai tourists took 200 million trips across provinces by the end of October this year compared to 222 million for the year before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019. . . . Thapanee also expects Thai tourists to generate 800 billion baht, higher than the targeted 656 billion baht, on rising domestic family travel and conferences.

     --Thailand’s domestic tourism flying high, expected to surpass pre-Covid level

Note that new word for you, generate. The 800 billion is a total reflecting the multiplier effect you've recently learned about. It's revenue stimulating new economic activity that would not have happened if the tourists had just stayed home. 

Though our Economists (notably the Pattaya forum's now-departed biggest troll), out of the usual bigotry, believe Thais can only afford to spread a mat out on the beaches for *som tam and SangSom, then go home, in fact many have appreciable disposable income. Wealthier Thais (relatively) give money to their extended family members for recreational purposes as well. 

Have never heard diarrhea reported as a common problem. Most revelers probably have the sense to avoid drinking any Songkran water, though bum gun water's OK. We love our bum guns here.

Most of the water-related health problems arise from eye infections, some reportedly quite serious. Best to wear goggles if you partake.

Good solutions here, no disagreements from me. Headphones probably best. Subtitles! Yes.

I can see a case for a home theater if you have the space, distant neighbors, and cash. OP, with his B1500, probably doesn't. Home theaters have never interested me personally.

I have a couple of good bookshelf speakers and a small amp, cheap on Lazada. Many of these amps have bluetooth as well, if your TV doesn't. You can run speaker wire to position the speakers near you. Worked fine for me for years, never saw a need for anything different. I can also use headphones, but I almost never do.

The media app Kodi can be configured to equalize sound so that it stays at a level volume. Not officially documented, found the method on a forum somewhere.

On 4/14/2024 at 7:33 AM, dhupverg said:

It is a 17 inch【43 cm】  hp powerhouse with 32 gbs of ram, 1gb ssd and 3 gb of HDD.

How about giving us the exact model of the "powerhouse."