Trentham

17 hours ago, BaanOz said:

Remember in the '90s it was around 17 baht to the AUS $

25 baht is great :D

I remember that too. But can you remember the little underground shop called Timmy opposite the Indra Hotel? There was something shifty going on there and you could get 19 baht for the Oz dollar. It was scary to go into with guys with guns standing around and you got locked in a room while the money was changed.

1 hour ago, ChrisY1 said:

Have to admit, I'm would definitely not be happy to be strolling through a graveyard at 2am alone..!

Grow up. What are you afraid of - zombies, ghosts, vampires, trolls?

God knows they need artificial intelligence. They don't have any of the normal kind.

Did anybody notice at the 6 second mark on the video there is a car at speed traveling in the wrong direction according to the arrows on the road. Pity he didn't have a head on with the doctor before he hit the security guard.

17 minutes ago, greenchair said:

Elaborate on that. I have had a couple of operations in Thailand in low to medium grade hospitals. The care was amazing and I didn't get ripped off. 

Read my earlier post no. 17, page 2 of this thread.

10 minutes ago, Thechook said:

Yes I do and they deserve to be miserable like heterosexuals but how will we distinguish between gay marriage and normal marriage.  Wi hetro marriages have to find a new name to identify their commitment?  Example, the word gay once belonged to all regardless of sexual preference and meant happy and it now belongs to a group to represent their sexual preference.  The rainbow once belonged to all but is now a symbol of the gay community, this word and symbol identifies who they are.   Heterosexuals will need a word or symbol to identify who they are in a committed relationship.  Are you married, yes oh your heterosexual cut and dried now you will have to dig deeper and ask what type of marriage.  When you meet a new work colleague you may ask are you married and he will say yes and you will say good, bring the missus over on the weekend.  We will have a few beers and the girls can get together.  Oops now you have unintentionally offended him because he has a husband and not a wife.  A name to distinguish between marriages will avoid accidentally offending or humiliating someone.

OH DEAR! The poor heterosexuals might lose a little identity........just like gay people had to hide theirs forever in case they were bashed, abused and ostracised by those heterosexuals.

The following paragraphs are each separate responses of mine during an earlier TV discussion on Thai medicine. Read par. 5 on my experience with a rotator cuff diagnosis and make certain it is that which is the problem...............

In 2005 I went to Rutnin eye hospital for a check-up - everything was OK. A few weeks later I had a bad headache for a few days. I went Bumrungrad hospital and they diagnosed early onset Alzheimer's. I was talked into MRI's and other expensive treatment which included 6 powerful drugs that sent me close to crazy. After a few weeks of madness I took myself off the drugs and suffered severe withdrawals. They then told me the headaches were due to acute angle glaucoma and did laser surgery. That then led to endless visits [probably 15 times] for check-ups at 3000 baht per time. On a trip home to Australia I went to see an ophthalmologist who told me once you have laser surgery you DO NOT need to go for checks. And I obviously do not have Alzheimer's now 11 years on.

I can tell you an even worse story about BNH Hospital. In 2008 - 9 they treated me for reflux. On two occasions I went to their emergency dept. at 3 Am  in terrible pain. Once they gave me a suppository and said I was constipated and on the other they laid me on a trolley for an hour with a drip in my arm which almost knocked me out. Meanwhile they kept feeding me reflux pills. I went home to Australia for a holiday and went to a local GP for some more reflux pills when I ran out. He refused them and sent me for tests. 2 weeks later I was in Royal Melbourne Hospital with pancreas cancer. I am one of about 3% who survive it. I WILL NEVER TRUST A THAI HOSPITAL with anything worse than a cold.
 

Well I will tell you two more stories about BNH Hospital. I had bought myself a set of weights. Suddenly I had a terrible pain in my shoulder. Off to BNH and was told I had a pinched nerve in my neck. Traction every day for one month [cannot remember the cost of each visit]  and was not cured. They referred me to their orthopedic guy who said I needed a 350,000 baht operation. No way - back to Oz and it was a torn rotator cuff. Then one night I broke a wine glass on the bench which then rolled onto my foot and a shard stabbed me. Blood everywhere so off to BNH [will I ever learn?] where I was told Xrays cannot pick up glass so I was just stitched up [both meanings]  and sent home. 4 days later a piece of glass emerged from the bottom of my foot so back to BNH where another doctor took an Xray and  found several small pieces of glass in there

I met an old Canadian bloke when he came here for some work on his wrinkly old face. Part of the surgery was around his ears. A week later he was at the airport on his way home and the bandage slipped. He went to the bathroom for a mirror to re-tie it. When he unwound the thing his ear fell off. He cancelled his flight and went back to the hospital. It was re-attached and he went off home again. I never saw him again so cannot give you the end result.

Thailand has a medical industry - NOT a medical profession.

Do not have an operation in Thailand. I have had and know of others who have had horrendous experiences.

It is not a vote. It is a poll and it is not binding on the government to pass it once the polling is decided. The government has wasted 124 million dollars to know if the people want it and it has been shown in countless other polls that they do.

I am sick of Google telling me I have made spelling mistakes.

It is sad that Thai Visa have to publish a story about this man who has some kind of mental condition. He is suffering from some kind of fetish that compels the poor guy to act on his mental abnormality and needs psychiatric help not ridicule and laughter from an organization like Snoop or Thai Visa.

By the way, Thai Visa cancelled an earlier posting from me when I suggested they stop publishing titillating nonsense as it being off topic. Well this posting is NOT off topic.

You cannot blame them. Fiji is looking very threatening.

Buddhist hostility is an oxymoron.

Everybody is giving you good advice about eating well - lots of fibre etc. Nobody has mentioned [that I noticed] drinking lots of water.

Have you been using painkillers or other medication? If you have medically induced constipation a high fibre diet should be avoided.

BUT GO AND HAVE A COLONOSCOPY.

This so called "cardinal" is an arrogant, power hungry  man with no Christian principles. He has been at the forefront for the last couple of decades in public and shows absolutely no humility as a man of God should. There have been rumours for years about him being a pedophile and indeed he shared an apartment with one another pedophile and even accompanied him to court when he was charged and found guilty.

Hooray, hooray, hooray.

10 minutes ago, dotpoom said:

I'm surprised at the replies. The biggest drawback that was not mentioned is the fact that if the condo is in the same company as the house you cannot sell them seperately....when the time comes if you wish to sell one or the other. They would have to be sold together as they are in the one company.

Not true. A company can sell one asset and retain another.

I would suggest you don't put all your eggs in the same basket. This is Thailand - separate company with different shareholders. I have seen too many people cheated by the shareholders whom they trusted, in the companies they set up.

A corruption sniffer would be handy.

8 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

I have to disagree with that comment. Removing the shit would obviously be a long and arduous task, given the extent of it.

However, at the end, I believe there would in fact not be nothing left, there would be a sad looking, shriveled, orange haired husk, tweeting denials.

Well we will have to agree to disagree.

18 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

Donald does not have a sense of humour, so he must find it quite difficult when pretty much the whole world is taking the piss out of him.

If they they took the sh?t out of Trump there would be nothing left.

18 minutes ago, mlmcleod said:

Duh, there is no chance that any American jurisdiction would ever adopt Sharia law!  This is just fake news created by rightest groups that are anti-muslim!

 

I am sure that some muslim communities follow Sharia law privately but if it is not legal they will bear the penalties for their actions.  There is no way that non-muslims can stop private adherance within the muslim coimmunity.   So called honor killings and such are and always will be murder in the USA!

 

Please don't get mad, it is just my opinion!

Almost everybody in this thread does not know what Sharia Law is. READ.....

https://yaqeeninstitute.org/en/jonathan-brown/islam-is-not-the-cause-of-honor-killings-its-part-of-the-solution/

The truth of the matter is that honor killings are not caused or encouraged by Islam. Honor killing, despite the popular rhetoric around it, is not even a problem specific to Muslims^[2]. Its most concentrated and serious occurrences don’t involve Muslims at all. This ignorance about Islam’s teachings and the realities of violence against women has serious costs. First, blaming honor crimes on Islam antagonizes Muslims unnecessarily. It feeds the narrative, prevalent in many Muslim countries, that dismisses human rights as a proxy for Westernization and cultural imperialism. Second, sensationalism over Islam deflects from a reality that many men are loath to admit: that violence against women is a global problem with roots much deeper than the doctrines of one religion or the features of one culture. It needs to be addressed as such. Finally, obsessing over Islam’s alleged acceptance of honor crimes blinds Muslims and non-Muslims to the condemnation of these crimes in Muhammad’s teachings and the Shariah.