GroveHillWanderer

On 2/26/2024 at 7:18 PM, transam said:

Most of that looks dangerous to me, plus the yobs will have field day with it.......🤔

Kerbside charging has been available in the UK for over 5 years. I've searched and can't find any evidence of such issues occurring. 

Although, if you have any links or sources, please provide them.

56 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Border Force passport control, of course they know that you have left the UK and for how long.

DWP know your pension payments history it is very easy to tie that to a Border Force file and identify suspicious payments and do a run to produce a file of potential suspects. You then get a letter to your UK address saying you have been potentially identified as receiving overpayments. You have 28 days to explain your situation and sign a statement under threat of prosecution. If they don't accept your reasons, or you don't reply, then they automatically stop the uplift as a minimum. If they are feeling vindictive they can do historical analysis and demand overpayment back possibly by withholding future payments.

 

I used to do batch processing data runs on big computer systems  - this is a relatively easy small project to execute with a very high return on investment. To poo poo this is either naivety or wishful thinking.

Unless it's changed recently, my understanding was that the Border Force did not routinely check passports for people leaving the country, but did random checks only (usually for "high risk" destinations).

Whenever we go to the UK, my wife gets an entry stamp, but there's no exit stamp.

I seem to recall them saying something last year about starting to collect data from airlines but I don't know if that was implemented yet.

1 hour ago, LittleBear57 said:

For legal reasons I need to prove where I am currently living in Thailand it also has to be in English. I don't think my bank will put my name and address on a statement or letter. Is the immigration proof of address in English I can't honestly remember? They have actually asked for either a utility bill, which are all in Thai and in my wife's name or a bank statement, I tried to get one for my daughters passport application and her bank wouldn't do it. I think they will accept any formal letter dated within the last 3 months. Any helpful advice appreciated.

Where is your account?

I have accounts at both TTB and Kasikorn banks and they will issue bank statements with those details in English if I ask them to. They'll even do it for a Thai person, on request (my wife gets statements in English when she is applying for a UK visa, for instance).

On 2/22/2024 at 8:20 PM, nauseus said:

 

If you can link enough convincing information to prove all that then I'd be pleased to look.

The convincing information that he was meeting with Russian intelligence services is in the indictment, which has already been linked to.

The proof that the Republicans knew the information was suspect comes from Republican lawmaker Ken Buck, who stated this live on air in an interview.

Republican: Colleagues were warned informant’s Biden claims were not verified

On 2/22/2024 at 1:45 AM, radiochaser said:

This is the first that I have read, that the steele dossier was funded by republicans.
Perhaps you should inform AP.   But then, perhaps some of those RINO's (who I belive are moderate democrats) were involved too.!

Then perhaps you need to do a little more reading. This was actually one of the stranger aspects of the whole Steele dossier affair, that the funding that led to it came initially from Republicans, then later from Democrats.

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The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, first hired the research firm that months later produced for Democrats the salacious dossier describing ties between Donald J. Trump and the Russian government.

Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier

Just a heads-up, in case anyone's interested.

According to the article below:

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[Kratom] was listed as contributing to or causing at least 4,100 deaths in 44 states and D.C. between 2020 and 2022.

They take kratom to ease pain or anxiety. Sometimes, death follows

However, the piece does go on to say that:

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The vast majority of those cases involved other drugs in addition to kratom

To provide a counterpoint, it also has the following:

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The American Kratom Association [...] insists the herb is safe and that if there are dangerous products, they’re coming from unscrupulous companies.

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

Yes there is, i bought it this week, small bottle only

I was talking about the bottle I bought - it was Leopard brand brown mixture and it had exactly the same ingredients as in the photo posted by @Puccini - which does not include any type of opioid.

On 2/20/2024 at 4:53 PM, fredwiggy said:

I, among others, would love to see this happen, but mosquitoes have a reason to be here. Being a believer, I don't understand why God allowed them to transmit diseases but that's what they do to feed. It could have been done a better way it seems, but we won't know until we ask him.

It's perhaps worth bearing in mind that there are thousands of species of mosquitoes and only a tiny percentage of those carry disease.

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There are over 3,500 species of mosquito on Earth [...] Yet, from this great diversity, only a small handful can carry the pathogens that cause disease.

Mosquitopia: The Place of Pests in a Healthy World

With the kind of genetic knowledge that scientists now have, it should be possible to find methodologies that target only specific varieties of mosquito and leave the others alone. Indeed such techniques are already being developed and tested, with some notable success.

Weapon targeting dangerous mosquitoes is on the horizon

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A trial in Brazil found that this groundbreaking biotechnology eliminated 96% of the native population of Aedeas aegyti, the mosquito that carries dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, and Zika

On 2/8/2024 at 4:28 PM, Puccini said:

I'm in Thailand for a few weeks, got a cough with thick phlegm, went to the neighbourhood 7-eleven but they were out of stock of Leopard Brand Brown Mixture.

 

Went to a nearby Pharmacy and they had Brown Mixture Leopard Brand, contains no codeine or other opioid. Bought a small bottle ad will see if it helps me.

That's the same as the bottle I bought at a local pharmacy last week. No opioid in the ingredients any more.

I eat Thai food every day (usually twice a day) when we're in Thailand. Almost always at home though occasionally at my sister-in-law's or niece's house. We almost never go out to restaurants for Thai food (except occasionally, when it's someone's birthday).

When we're in England that drops to about 3-4 times a week. 

On 2/11/2024 at 7:13 PM, MangoKorat said:

In another article on the same story, the school said a pupil was identifying as a cat and they were now having to deal with boys barking at her. 

I can't find that article. Do you have a link to it?

It does seem a little unlikely though, given that (as mentioned above) the school had stated quite clearly that no children were identifying as any kind of animal.

On 2/11/2024 at 7:02 PM, MangoKorat said:

The World Has Gone Mad - please tell me this is not true:

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12213579/How-schools-allowing-kids-identify-cats-horses-dinosaurs.html

No, it's not true. As mentioned in the article in the subsequent post you made about this, the school involved made it clear that:

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... no children had identified “as a cat or any other animal”.

It's not totally evident, but based on the TikTok clip, it sounds as though the idea of a pupil identifying as a cat was brought up as more of a hypothetical by the pupils (and is actually a straw man argument, since no pupil was doing so).

3 hours ago, ourmanflint said:

 

No neanderthals or cro magnons in Asia, they were most likely Denisovan, who we know very little about

That may not be true. Asians in general have more Neanderthal DNA than Europeans - especially East Asians.

Scientists finally solve mystery of why Europeans have less Neanderthal DNA than East Asians

And while East Asians also have a relatively high level of Denisovan DNA, mainland Asians (including those in SE Asia) have relatively little.

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We estimate that the Denisovan contribution to mainland Asian [...] populations is ~0.2% ...

The complete genome sequence of a Neandertal from the Altai Mountains

2 hours ago, impulse said:

Or, Trump out of a genuine belief that, as President, he had the authority to declassify whatever he saw fit.  That's not hubris and arrogance.  Presidents throughout history have made claims and fought court cases to defend presidential powers.  Sometimes they prevail.  Sometimes they get overturned.  Rarely do they get prosecuted.  I'd say never, but that's a strong word.

Trump may have thought he had the authority to declassify documents "just by thinking about it" (though I have my doubts about whether even he truly believed that) but his lawyers knew that he hadn't, and so were careful never to claim he had declassified the documents he held on to.

Attorneys for former president Donald Trump never claimed he declassified any documents that were retrieved from his Florida home

And in fact on one notorious occasion, even Trump himself made a point of specifically mentioning that the documents he was showing to people, were still classified.

Surely they should have quarantined the passengers and plane until they determine what caused this, just as a precaution? 

Of course, this may have been caused by something entirely non-transmissible, as suggested by @EvetsKram, but equally (unless there's some other information about the patient's condition that we haven't been told) it could be something more dangerous - and potentially contagious.

Yes, there are options but only two of them, one of which is not recommended unless you've had dengue before, and the other one requires two injections to be effective.

Although this vaccine is not fully approved or available yet, the potential advantages to it would seem to be that it's efficacious and safe regardless of whether you've had a previous infection or not and that it only requires one shot to be safe and effective.