richard_smith237

Huge lack of respect. Lack of Maturity Lack of English (no communication) Lack of 'domestic savior faire' (absense of grace and class) Amazing laziness Completely different tastes Very selfish .... definitely a keeper... must be the lips...

These are very effective - but 2mg is strong. Father in Law has some prescribed & he gives them to me - which helps with sleep when I'm struggling to catch up after jet-lag / a few too many late nights etc and I want a 're-set'. But - care has to be taken not to become habitually 'addicted' or habit forming because the sleep is deep. Reportedly they don't give REM sleep or the full sleep cycle which is needed. (Snapping the 2mg tablet in half - and only taking half does the trick) Thus: I am wondering what clinic would sell them directly ? - I thought these were heavily controlled in Thailand and available with a prescription.

All's fair in love and war as they say... Or rather, where there's a will there's a way... So just a handful of clarifiers... - What monthly salary did you agree to pay her ? - Did she get job yet ? - She owned up about the kids yet ? - How many times has a family member been unwell so far ? - Has she asked you to visit Sisaket with her yet ? - Found out the truth that the land is not hers yet ? (another family members & papers with a loan shark) - Does she have a second mobile phone that she says is broken and won't work ?

Nah... Predominantly... You were being a bit of a t!t calling someone else out for a spelling mistake and then making one yourself !!!... and then making yourself look more daft by trying to save face and blame 'autocorrect' - when you were careful enough to type out the word in capitals...

I can understand banning people filling jerry cans or containers - that actually makes sense because it stops hoarding. But limiting cars to 500 baht (or even 1000 baht) per fill is a really daft response. It’s the kind of over-simplistic, knee-jerk policy that creates more problems than it solves, its just 'policy theatre' - it looks like action but its daft for the following reasons. - People will just put 500 baht in and then drive to the next fuel station to put another 500 in. It doesn’t stop anything. - It creates longer queues at stations. Once people see queues forming, FOMO kicks in - people start thinking “better fill up now before it runs out”. That creates the very panic they were trying to avoid. - Stations will get clogged up because the same cars will be coming back again and again instead of just filling once. That slows everything down. - It actually makes the shortage look worse than it is. When people see lines everywhere, they assume fuel is running out yet. - It punishes the wrong people - anyone with a big tank, trucks, or people who drive long distances. So instead of calming the situation, it creates panic, queues, and inefficiency. Banning containers obviously helps hoarding. but, limiting normal cars filling up is just part of the Thailand Pantomime - got to wonder what goes through the mind of some of the decision makers - surely people are sat in the same room when these decisions are being made and thinking... "are you really $%$%ing serous ??" !!!... For those with an EV - from an electricity point of view, Thailand isn’t that exposed to problems in the Strait of Hormuz. Most of Thailand’s electricity - about 55–60% - comes from natural gas, and most of that gas comes from domestic fields in the Gulf of Thailand and pipelines from Myanmar with the rest from Coal ~18–20% coal / renewables ~10–15% and hydro ~5–7% . Thailand does import some LNG by ship, and some of that comes from Qatar and passes through Hormuz. But it only works out to roughly 5–10% of Thailand’s electricity supply. So with shipping through Hormuz stopped completely, the lights would stay on - the impact is 5-10% to Thailands electricity supply. I wonder if the UK supermarket shelves are out of Lurpak and toilet rolls yet !!!

And here I had always been pronouncing it, and misspelling it...PERVIEW... Well, I will just live and learn, at my advanced age. Don’t knock it, GG - “prevue” is spot on... Most of what you write does feel like a preview: weird, confusing, faintly mad to outright bonkers - we only need the first few lines as a warning not to sit through the full feature... Besides, the actual word is purview - which, judging by the bats, lies comfortably outside yours - especially if you are going to play spelling Nazi !!!

Your attempts to sound like a scatty, eccentric Noel Coward in every other comment rather betray the truth - you are no spring chicken... I'm guessing late 70's early 80's with more than a few bats in the belfry...

Could he? How do you know that? I reckon he was taking a wild guess that even Udon has banks !

I got a prepaid Visa card directly from MRT which is connected to the app and can be topped up by barcode scanning within the app. Alternatively you might consider another prepaid Visa card, Siam Commercial Bank, Krungthai Bank and Bangkok Bank do offer those. I got a prepaid Visa card directly from MRT which is connected to the app and can be topped up by barcode scanning within the app. I remember it was quite challenging to register it within the app last year. Alternatively you might consider another prepaid Visa card, Siam Commercial Bank, Krungthai Bank and Bangkok Bank do offer those. Have you considered giving JTXR the extra one ? 🫣

Jumping in here - some comments / questions (for clarification / correction / answering) a) I assume any Bank Card with the 'wave' symbol works (for MRT only) ? (i.e. as below) b) This looks like MRT only ? (on certain lines) - Blue Line (The main loop: Sukhumvit, Silom, Hua Lamphong). - Purple Line (To Nonthaburi). - Yellow Line (Lat Phrao to Samut Prakan). - Pink Line (Khae Rai to Min Buri). - SRT Red Line (To Don Mueang Airport). - Airport Rail Link (To Suvarnabhumi). c) This and Bank Cars with the 'wave' symbol wont work on the BTS which still requires a rabbit card or at machine QR payment. d) Apple Pay and Google Wallet still not work on the BTS and MRT. From a passenger perspective, this is still fragmented and backwards. In many other cities - London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney - you can simply double-tap your phone or contactless card and pass straight through the gate using NFC. Bangkok’s MRT / BTS network is excellent in terms of coverage and expansion, but the payment ecosystem remains fragmented, largely due to the multiple operators and ticketing systems involved. A unified system would significantly improve convenience, passenger flow, and overall user experience across the city’s public transport network - it needs sorting out. The Mangmoom initiative attempted to fully integrated solution - but the parties involved always seem to come to an impasse. @JTXR if you are a regular MRT user and don't want your existing account littered with scores of sub $1 transactions - could you obtain a 'separate' account used solely for the BTS ? I think part of the limitation of the Mangmoom EMV - is that it requires the 13 digit Thai ID number for registration - With a Yellow House Book / Pink ID card (and 13 digit number) I think non-Thai's can obtain the card under the Pao Tang Pay (digital wallet) system - but it looks like a bit of a faff (setting up a separate Bank account - might actually be simpler !).

Which is fair enough. That said, sometimes the demand for sources drifts into the slightly ridiculous. In a post about the Iran conflict a few days ago I stated that Bahrain was heavily dependent on desalination and as such it was civilian critical infrastructure - a potential civilian target. Someone immediately asked for a source. At some point it gets a bit silly - some things sit squarely in the realm of widely known background knowledge rather than claims that need to be footnoted like an academic paper. Another facet when producing stats is that I can take numbers from various sites and crunch them through Excel to arrive at a set of data that are mutually comparable. The sources of the root information are therefore wide ranging, and listing all of them would take up most of the thread just to quote the base data. These are not publications or dissertations. I’ll quote a source when something is directly quoted, but when the numbers are the result of pulling together several datasets and standardising them, the situation is a bit different. On the fringe sources comment - I get why you draw from them. A lot of what you post is anti-establishment and that sort of information will rarely appear in sources that are more mainstream or widely accepted. Its also why the term “mainstream media” has almost become a slurr in threads like this, as if only information from obscure sites is credible. Which frankly can get just as daft IMO. For clarity, when I say “fringe site” I simply mean lesser known outlets where the information may not yet be widely accepted, independently verified, or even fully proven to be factual yet. That doesn’t automatically mean it’s wrong - but it does mean it probably deserves a bit more scrutiny before being treated as fact. People sometimes forget the internet also has a habit of repeating things until they look true, even when the orginal claim was shaky to begin with.

On that point - it also becomes dangerous. AI can be confidently and spectacularly wrong, yet still present its answers with the polish of authority. The real problem is that it increasingly feeds on its own output. If people use AI to write articles, reports, or marketing copy that contain inaccuracies, those pieces enter the digital ecosystem. Later, AI systems may reference that material as if it were legitimate source content. The result is a bizarre echo chamber - AI citing AI citing AI - where errors are recycled, reinforced, and gradually mistaken for fact. Over time, this creates a subtle but serious risk: misinformation doesn’t just spread - it hardens into something that begins to resemble consensus. It is bad enough when humans circulate misinformation through ignorance, poor education, misunderstanding, or outright malicious intent. But the problem takes on a different scale when machines begin to amplify it. When enough machine-generated text repeats the same mistake, the repetition itself starts to masquerade as evidence. At that point, the distinction between fact and frequency becomes dangerously blurred. What is repeated most often can start to look like what is most true - even when it is simply the product of the same original error being echoed again and again by the machines that were meant to inform us.

Not just Arab Parents with Kids, but a lot of parents don't seem to be able to keep their kids quietly occupied - all nationalities - but the Arabs do kind of take it to a new level sometimes. People always moan about kids on planes. But really - in all the flights I’ve taken, it’s rarely the kid that’s the problem. It’s the parents. A well travelled kid with parents who actually parent is usually fine. When my son was little I had a system. I told him the pilot could see the cabin through cameras in the ceiling. Every now and then I’d have a very serious fake phone call with the cockpit. ... “Hi captain… yes… he’s behaving very well… yes I’ll let him know you’re happy.” Worked a treat. Anyway - actual pet hates. The seat recliner slammers. The plane reaches cruise and BANG the seat comes flying back like it’s been shot by a sniper. Yes yes, it’s their right to recline. But maybe just a quick glance behind first? Just to check you’re not about to crush my laptop or break my kneecaps. Then the people who leap up the moment the plane stops at the gate. Doors still closed. Jet bridge not attached. Nobody going anywhere. But half the plane suddenly stands like they’ve <deleted> themselves. Once I actually had an Indonesian lady basically land on my lap because she was trying to climb over me to get to the aisle. We ended up chatting for a bit which was nice… but that’s really not the point. Baggage carousel huggers are another strange tribe. Instead of standing back they crowd the belt like its the last flight out of Dubai before air-space closes again - its as if they think their suitcase is going to escape. Also the geniuses who put their carry-on anywhere except above their own seat. Six rows behind. Opposite side. Then when the plane lands they fight upstream through the aisle. Bus gates deserve special mention. Absolute misery. Hot bus. Sweaty people. Doors open while everyone waits for the last 4 passengers who were buying Toblerone. Meanwhile the aircraft door is open to the heat and humidity and the cabin slowly turns into a greenhouse. Then you’ve got the crop dusters. Those disgusting pigs who walk slowly down the aisle farting like they’re marking territory. And the snorers. I once had a bloke snoring so loudly he kept me awake. Finally - economy seats. Who designs these things? After about six hours my backside feels like its been sitting on a concrete paving slab. I have to start shifting around like a skeeting dog.

No one should be refused healthcare. Not the vaccinated, not the unvaccinated, and not people who say they’ve been vaccine injured. Medicine isn’t supposed to work on the basis of settling political scores. But the version of events you’re presenting is also a pretty selective memory. During the pandemic most of the debate was about public health measures in the middle of an emergency - vaccination drives, temporary restrictions, trying to stop hospitals getting overwhelmed. That’s a very differnt thing from saying people should be permanently denied medical care. Were there heated comments at the time? Of course there were. People were scared, frustrated, and the internet amplifies the worst takes on every side. But acting like there was some universal movement demanding the unvaccinated be refused treatment isn’t accurate. And the idea that people should now go and “remind” someone who is sick or injured how they felt during an argument two years ago… is a pretty grim way to look at things. Healthcare shouldn’t be about revenge or scoring points. If anything, the whole pandemic should have reinforced the opposite principle: healthcare is there for everyone, regardless of their decisions, opinions, or which side of an argument they were on at the time. Thats kind of the whole point. That said, it also opened a bit of a pandoras box of moral dilemnas - especially when it comes to things like herd immunity, collective risk, and how much individual choice should weigh against public health in a crisis. Those questions aren’t simple, and pretending they are doesn’t help anyone.

So was Jimmy Saville...