GroveHillWanderer

Well, it definitely happens. As mentioned in the Mayo Clinic article below: Sudden death in young people

That was a reply to a post about a relative of @robblok who died at at relatively young age, and who, according to @robblok "had something wrong with his heart." It was not a reference to the British diving instructor who was the original subject of the thread.

And they determined there was something wrong with his heart without doing an autopsy? How exactly does that work, then?

It is most decidedly not "used all over the world without any issues." It has caused at least 20 injuries in Indonesia just recently - which is most likely what prompted this warning from the Thai FDA. Warning issued over ‘dragon’s breath’ viral video trend

So you're saying that if a country has nuclear weapons, they're just allowed to do whatever they want - invade, occupy, annex territory etc? Talk about a recipe for international chaos. In any event, as @kwonitoypointed out, effectively ceding control of Crimea, plus the Donbas and Lukhansk regions to Russia didn't appease them so there's absolutely no reason to think further concessions of land would, either.

That's just not true - as the article I linked to earlier clearly and unambiguously states: So the worst case would be 5 times slower, not twice as slow, as you seem to think.

It is a lot - but the findings of that article are simply not applicable to Thailand. As the article states, fully 70% of those switching did so because of the horribly slow speed of charging at home using a standard US 120 volt domestic electrical outlet. Firstly, as far as I'm aware, most (if not all) EV manufacturers here offer wall charger installation and even if someone here were using just a normal power outlet, they still wouldn't have the main problem that caused all those US drivers to switch. That's because the standard voltage here would charge their vehicles at something approaching 5 times faster than US voltage, based on the figures in the article below. Dedicated wall chargers are even quicker, of course. All about EV Charging

It matters massively. As others have pointed out, depending on which country you're arrested in, the sentence can range from a relatively few years in jail, to the death penalty. Indonesia for instance, has a long history of executing people (of all nationalities) for drug smuggling.

The British Embassy does the same. Although I did notice that they have an online link that allows you to request such a letter which now that I think about it, is probably for those who've renewed their passport outside the country (since, as mentioned, if you do it here, you get the letter automatically).

Ever heard the phrase, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"? Because what you're suggesting is exactly what Neville Chamberlain thought when he negotiated the settlement that ceded the Sudetenland to Germany in 1938. Remind us again - how did that work out for him?

130 tablets and 466 line items in 3 days? That's beyond excessive.

Except that, at least according to the link on the previous page, the Ukrainians do not have the capability to intercept this particular kind of missile. As stated in that link:

Only one type of medicine, in its original blister pack.

Hua Hin is a tourist area, I went to a private clinic here recently that has an almost exclusively farang clientele. The doctor's consulting fee was 500 Baht and the one-week course of antibiotics they prescribed was 150 Baht. So I would say no, private clinics in tourist areas are not always expensive.

There is, if the person entered on an OA that allows multiple entries during its validity and then thinks that they are getting a new OA visa (which would allow them multiple entries again) when they're actually getting an extension of permission to stay, which does not come with the multi-entry privilege. There has been more than one case where people have posted on here (some quite irate) about getting what they thought was a visa renewal, then leaving without a re-entry permit and being told on coming back that they could only get a visa exempt entry for 30 days as their permission to stay was no longer valid. This meant they had to go through the whole rigamarole of getting a new O visa in country (or going back out to get a new OA visa) - all because they had thought they were getting a visa, rather than an extension of their permit to stay.

No, it doesn't. One of its most salient features, is that it is a "tagless" system. Like the previous poster, I have already used it and there is no tag involved.

Community service? For the cold-blooded murder of a stranger by shooting them multiple times in the back with no mitigating circumstances? You don't know much about the English justice system, do you?

We don't know that. We only have the self-confessed murderer's version of events, and he has every incentive to suggest he was provoked, in an attempt to lessen his level of culpability.

He hasn't committed a crime that would come under UK jurisdiction so I don't see how there could be an extradition warrant issued.

It's only minimally less simply than you mention. It's: approach the vehicle, unlock the doors, press the start button and drive away. I'll admit that the first time I did it, I thought I could just drive off immediately but once I realized you have to press the start button first, it was an easy adjustment to make and it's now second nature. I also find the app rather handy to send a destination to the car's SatNav system before starting a journey and to lock the doors remotely if I've forgotten to do so (or to check if I have or haven't, when I'm not sure). I would say I use the app almost every time I'm about to drive the car but it's particularly useful to start the AC when it's been parked in the open for a while (which it often is when we've been out).

It's not gnarly at all. It was once, but not any more. It's given just the same as almost all vaccinations, such as a flu or Covid shot. For older children and adults, that's into the deltoid muscle of the upper arm. Very young or small children may have the vaccine injected into the upper leg (thigh) muscle.

As others have already pointed out, that's untrue. Here's the pertinent info from a medical website. "The rabies vaccine is used in two ways: 1. It is given to a person who has a higher risk of coming into contact with an infected animal, to immunize them against rabies in case they are bitten by a rabid animal. 2. The vaccine is given to a person who has been bitten by an infected animal to prevent the virus from developing into rabies. The protocol for a person exposed to the virus who has not previously been vaccinated against rabies calls for receiving 4 doses of the rabies vaccine over a 14-day period, as well as receiving 1 dose of rabies immunoglobulin to be given right after the first vaccine dose." Rabies Prevention and the Rabies Vaccine

Then I stand corrected.

OK, but the implication was that he'd bought a policy that was only valid for a trip of 30 days in total. I was just pointing out that wasn't the case.

That's not quite accurate. According to the article the overall policy was valid for a year but there was a clause that said it would only be valid for 31 days in any given country, which he apparently had not noticed.