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Wot they said. Small trick works sometimes, spray a bit of electrical contact cleaner into the ports on both ends.

Yep, obvious sarcasm. Not a fail at all. :)

Travel insurance is cheap and all tourists should have it. They should also read the policy to see what's covered and what isn't. Motorbike insurance above the standard gov't cover, yes, that's an excellent idea. I have it. Otherwise, pay for int'l health insurance (see forum threads) and/or have a few million at hand for self-insurance and know your gov't hospital well. Alternatively, work a year before you're 60 in Thailand and get on SSO. Fantastic deal.

The gf and I both loved Friends and also Cheers after she'd suggested them. I'd seen neither when they first came out. I'm not big on comedies and figured they were too superficial. And so of course they are, but brilliantly done.

Yup, my agenda is that a documentary should be objectively factual. Moreover, it shouldn't be selectively biased to give an overall inaccurate impression. In this case, Netflix is simply sacrificing history to follow the money. Common pattern with supposed "real" news organizations nowadays. Certainly you've enjoyed some historical fiction agreeing with your own biases. So you believe that Italy successfully invaded Greece, Britain immediately called up blacks from the colonies to fight, etc. etc. In favor of the series, it seems to have great colorized footage of the old war scenes. Maybe it'll be used in a proper documentary someday. Peter Jackson did a great job w/ WW I in They Shall Not Grow Old.

Mad Men's good, watched it twice and that was enough. It's deeper than it might seem at first. @Jingthing probably wouldn't like it, too unwoke and pre-socialist identity politics. A Murder had good potential but quickly blew it, so I gave it up after 2 episodes and recently read the synopsis. AFAIK, Silo's about the best SF series of this year.

If you get on more familiar terms, you can call her Traci.

I'll just throw out a speculation, which you or someone can verify or shoot down, based on my limited experience w/ a smart watch that I decided I didn't need. Presumably you have an app on the phone that tracks the monitoring on your watch, connected via Bluetooth. The watch doesn't store the raw data but sends it to the app. The app then records it over time and stores it on the phone or possibly in the cloud, if enabled. A good app would offer some analysis. So you turn on the monitoring and it stays on until you turn it off, on the watch. With mine, you couldn't do anything else w/ the watch while it was monitoring something. That is, for example, you couldn't tell time. ;) Despite all the sneering here, I found my cheap smartwatch pretty accurate, close enough to be sufficiently indicative. Your neurologist suggested it and he knows what he's talking about.

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I haven't changed recently. However, they used to send out cards but then stopped doing so. The office told me they now just use the pink cards and changed over their records to use my pink card number. Been working great. I seem to recall someone saying a year ago (or so) that the office will give out a special SSO card, however. Guess you'll need to go by the office. In larger offices at least (Laem Chabang), a staff member can be rounded up who speaks enough English to get you through the procedure at the right window. You may just need to sign in a couple of places. I suggest you write a note w/ your request on your phone, translated into Thai, and show the receptionist to receive guidance.

Always has, never deterred tourism. Canada and the USA have the same issues in a different form. Now one thing I like about Thai corruption is at least it's honest corruption, not dressed up as virtuous. They've been there. They don't have that exotic Thai quality that attracts tourists to Thailand.

Yah yah. But key points in the series aren't factual, e. g., Italy vs Greece, so you didn't take time, having found an agreeable viewpoint. You'll get more truth in a series like World At War: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071075/. And told by a world-class narrator. The reviewers note that the series does have an overlay of political agenda. Not surprising, as the director is has a typical liberal agenda. Nowadays that requires an anti-Russian stance. Nobody here (well, least of all here, ha ha) has a high opinion of Russian leadership, past or present. But in a documentary we'd like to have an objective analysis. Like.

Friend of mine has a Tesla. Eerily quiet. But there are currently few electric vehicles on the road in Pattaya. Might need to turn up the hearing aids. Now there could be a slight chance that the driver would sound the horn when noticing you're about to step off the curb in front of him. You wouldn't want to miss that slight, perhaps infinitesimal, chance, now would you? Otherwise, you should be listening for engine noise etc.

Seems the most likely scenario. The driver was a 35-year-old woman with a 17-year-old girl passenger. They weren't the usual street racer or kamikaze types. The passenger said the Brit stepped out without looking. May have looked too early. Yeah, I know, she would say that. If you've ridden a bike around Pattaya much, you've surely had tourists do exactly that, or almost, in front of you. I once nearly hit an Indian lady stepping off the curb on 2nd Rd. Luckily she pulled back in the knick of time. Something else to watch out for in Pattaya.

The Brits who've washed up in Thailand seem to have neglected to study road crossing safety in their community schools. In fact, the critical Listen is always missing even from the inevitable lectures from our local ANF ex-Lollipop Men. OK, here's a modern vid produced by the Transport for London authority.

not advocating, that is.

I'd usually get a cold yearly in the USA. In Thailand I go years without getting one. Part of the reason may be owing to less stress. The exception was after the COVID vax. I got a cold a month or so afterward; and I took that as a sign.

The sun exposure needs to be over at least 1/3 of your body. Yes, sunscreen a possible problem, though I'm advocating overdoing sun exposure. And you could get melanoma or basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma w/o sun exposure.

I don't see this topic lasting long. I think that that posting random articles is against the rules, anyway. Keep it to answering specific health questions by posters. Role models! Happy meatless Breathaians: At least one, maybe more has died already. That short but happy life. Without my bothering to do any work, a couple of articles from the vault: Meat and mental health: a systematic review of meat abstention and depression, anxiety, and related phenomena Should offer some needed tightening of the ol' screws. Study: Meat Consumption is Positively Associated with Life Expectancy To sum up all you need to know, going forward: The old diet/exercise paradigm: low fat grazing sugar and starches AVAP (as vegetarian as possible) seed oils aerobics / Ken Cooper-inspired cardio inefficient, time consuming, joint-destroying Arnoldian strength training (ask Sylvester Stallone) shade The new paradigm: low carb intermittent fasting eggs, meat, fish, full fat dairy, veggies, berries, avoiding sugar and starches unrefined fats and oils, low in PUFA or high in Omega 3 intervals, possibly (say 20 min twice a week) some walking (say, 30 min 3 times a week) efficient, intense Arthur Jones/Mentzer/Ken Hutchins strength training with lighter weights/body weight/bands/suspension trainer; few sets & reps sun (say 15 min 3 times a week)

Peter was indeed from NYC and had enjoyed the music scene there in the 60s. Hence his great playlists. His first Las Vegas was on Soi Post Office near Beach Rd. He remained in Pattaya after retirement and died just last year.

Why should there be? Can't you just grab one off the street on your way in?

My eyes are open whenever I take a walk on the beach. Mmm! All those hotties in thongs. More! More!

No. "Simplistic, ahistorical rubbish." Read the reviews at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28756878/reviews

It's always been the position of our ANF Poster Justice for Farangs Blatherers that farangs should be exempt from obeying Thai laws & regulations until crime has first been eradicated among Thais. Furthermore, the Red Bull heir must be caught and punished. Until then, you should be free to overstay, run over pedestrians, rob gold shops, walk around naked, enjoy sex on the public beaches, refuse to pay bills, run scams, whatever.

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