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First I read about her going to SEA!

That has happened in the U.S. as well. That and took out the wrong kidney is another one I read about. Apparently it is such a problem, that some doctors have been writing on appendages, this is the limb to amputate, or the right / left limb to amputate, or remove the left / right kidney only. I also read about a surgeon that removed the wrong organ because it was not the right patient!

in the process of revising the entire management of service pistols and the welfare gun program, under which police officers can buy their own guns at lower than market prices,

Yes, you can aim them. But when you pull the trigger the shotgun hits you in the face. I watched a friend do it and his shotgun split his upper lip open. Next day he had a new buttstock on the shotgun.

Aaaaahhhhh yes! This brings back memories of burning classified military documents once a week in South East Asia.

Now, to go off topic a little bit. If I am receiving disability pension income from the U.S. Veterans administration, which is tax free in the United States, does that mean I can have it directly deposited into a Thai bank and not pay taxes on that income, to the Thai Government? Hopefully the answer is, yes, as there are no taxes in the "first-mentioned State" (the United States)!

nigelforbes, does this help answer your question? https://library.siam-legal.com/thai-law/u-s-thai-tax-treaty-pensions-and-social-security-payments-article-20/ Section Code: 0020 U.S. – THAILAND TAX TREATY 1998 Convention between the government of the United States of America and the government of the kingdom of Thailand for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income. Article 20: Pensions and Social Security Payments Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of Article 21 (Government Service), pensions and other similar remuneration paid to a resident of a Contracting State in consideration of past employment shall be taxable only in that State. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, social security benefits and other similar public pensions paid by a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State or a citizen of the United States shall be taxable only in the first-mentioned State. Annuities derived and beneficially owned by a resident of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State. The term “annuities” as used in this paragraph means a stated sum paid periodically at stated times during a specified number of years, under an obligation to make the payments in return for adequate and full consideration (other than services rendered). Alimony paid to a resident of a Contracting State shall be taxable only in that State. The term "alimony" as used in this paragraph means periodic payments made pursuant to a written separation agreement or a decree of divorce, separate maintenance, or compulsory support, which payments are taxable to the recipient under the laws of the State of which he is a resident. Periodic payments, not dealt with in paragraph 4, for the support of a child made pursuant to a written separation agreement or a decree of divorce, separate maintenance, or compulsory support, paid by a resident of a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State, shall be taxable only in the first-mentioned State.

There is a weight limit for the overhead storage. If I recall correctly I saw a sticker in one that stated there was a 70 kilo limit. But if I had two bags one with 10 kilos and the other 4 kilos, it wouldn't matter if contents were shifted to make both 7 kilos. You still put 14 kilos in the overhead storage. That sticker I saw was not in a Thai aircraft. The carryon that I had with me on my last trip to Thailand weighed about 13.7 kilos, when I checked just to see what the weight was. No check of the weight was made by any airline to or from Thailand.

Not really. A guy once threatened to kill me one time. He kicked in my front door and entered my house with his pistol. As soon as he saw me standing with my pistol, he turned and left. There is a thing called concealed carry too. Where the evil SOB isn't aware of who has a firearm and who will shoot back. It works!

Friendly fire is much worse than the fire from an enemy. Even though both are equally lethal.

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Perhaps a little off topic. My grandmother had a chihuahua. It and my aunt's Pekinese, both small dogs, ravaged the fingers on my hand causing me to drip a copious amount of blood. The only dogs that did when they bit me. Both times my fingers bled for several minutes before the bleeding stopped! I can only surmise the dogs did not like me carrying them, even though I carried them the same way as my grandmother and my aunt carried them. I have been bitten by other, bigger dogs, including a pit bull that ran from almost 200 feet away to bite me on the leg while I was riding a bicycle. My aunt's and grandmother's dogs are the only two that drew enough blood to bleed a large amount much less to drip off the wound.

On the subject of central heating. That isnt happening where I live in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. My monthly budget (every month for 12 months) that I am charged by the fuel oil provider increased from $105.00 a month to $305.00 a month!!! At least if I were at my relatives condo in Bangkok, I would not have to pay for heating and the cost of AC cooling is much lower there than my heating will be here!

A little off topic. Speaking of concrete ... I live in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Residents of a house across the street from me had some concrete work done after a fuel oil tank that was buried in his front yard was removed. The company that delivered the concrete had concrete left in the concrete truck. They dumped the extra concrete into the storm sewer drain!!! I don't know if they city contacted the concrete company, but city workers had to dig the concrete out.

Damn. For once, I agree with every comment I read.

I see Thai's taking tuk tuks almost every time I am in Thailand. I have seen more Thai's in them than foreigners. Except someplace where tuk tuk's run hotel guests out to Sukhumvit from a hotel that is at the end of some small alley.

My wife is buying a new, unsold condo. Price dropped from 9 million to 4.8 or 4.9 (I should ask her which). Probably overpriced to begin with.

Off topic a little bit, but related to marijuana theft. Reminds me of a story I read in a newspaper about a teenager who lived in Willits California. Guy drove up a road with his younger brother a number of miles just driving around at night. Said he got out of his car and walked 100 yards into the woods so no one would see him micturate when he tripped a home made anti-personnel mine which caused him some injuries. Having lived in Willits right of that road and knowing the area he claimed this happened, I believe that he was looking to steal someones marijuana growing there. The road where he was is long and straight and you can see cars coming from a long way off, if there were any cars. I would drive up that road and if I needed urinate I would stop on the road, turn off the engine and lights, get out, and urinate right there. No one would see. It was dangerous out there to walk into the woods because of all the marijuana growers. I hiked around there and that was where I started to carry firearms when hiking, because of the 2 legged animals and what they did to people. Booby traps and other dangerous devices were found in the woods on trails up there.

My brother went to Australia on R&R from Vietnam. I remember him telling me that after the first night there, he didn't pay for anything in Australia. Everything was paid for by the women he met there. Knowing my brother I thought it was BS. But other soldiers that met that had been on R&R there told me the same thing.

It has been my experience, that the term cuckservative, is used by those who have identified themselves as being on the left ,and is used as a pejorative against those they view as being on the right, or, not agreeing with those on the left. This experience being through internet forums and not associated with any person I have met personally.

My wife would have punched him after he inappropriately touched her.

I have no sympathy for drunk drivers. I had relatives killed by a drunk driver. Ever since the first time I had my own car in 1969 and got drunk, I then walked home, I will not drive after drinking!!! I will always find some other means of transportation rather than drive myself!

If the TM30 reporting can be done with the Opera web browser on a computer and there is a confirmation page, the Opera web browser allows you to save the web page as a pdf document which can be printed out. Before closing the confirmation page after saving it as a pdf, be sure to open the pdf and try printing it. There is a problem doing this with some web pages and the pdf does not print correctly. An alternative is to try and save it as an html document then do a print page later of the html document.

My wife is buying a condo in Bangkok. A couple of years ago the same condo was up for sale for 9 million baht. She is buying it at 4.8 or 4.9 million baht. 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 balcony condo overlooking the river. A house might be cheaper, but we live in the U.S. and will only be in Thailand a few weeks at a time and the condo is better suited to our interests.

Or just plain stupid. Back in 1980 where I worked, a guy bought a new Camero. Made loan payments for 6 months, then started to put all his money into the car, foregoing (sp?) the loan payaments. Eventually the loan company told him that a recovery company would be by to pick the car up. He took the car to a large open field, doused it with gasoline (where have I read that before) and set it on fire. Boasted about it at work. Claimed that since the car was gone, he didn't have to pay the loan payments anymore. He was very surprised to find out that, not only did he not have a car, the insurance would not pay for the loss, but he had to keep making loan payments for a car he destroyed!