MAJIC
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Yes! it's possible,and it may happen when you are no longer considered a Farang, so be prepared for a long wait !
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You're obviously a newbie if you haven't heard of Thaksin's extra-judicial murder of over 5000 suspected drug dealers when he was PM...
Were there crowds of protesters?
Well, I would say.........yes
Image source: pattayatoday.net
Hmmmm! isn't this the Yellow shirts sit in at Suvarnibhum?
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Having a new veranda built on our home.
We are paying for materials, workers labour only.
Fun and games, worker gives my wife a list of materials, wife shows me. !! what is this !! list for materials darling says the wife, rubbish says i.
I had already calculated quantity of materials required, after 42 years in construction in UK i think i know what is required.
Workers ordered 3 concrete columns, i said 2, workers ordered 2 cube sand 2 cube stone 14 cement.
I said 1.5 cube sand 1.5 cube stone 5oo kilos of cement. 5 cube dry materials/mixed 3.5 cube wet.
Roof sheets workers want 68, i said 60. Steel i said 9 4x2 workers said 13, i said 14 2x1 workers said 8.
Ceiling sheets i said 6, workers said 4. shera wood workers said 100, i said 80.
Quess who my wife listened to, me or workers?
Easy she listened to (rice farmers) workers.
Now we have 1 concrete column left 5 cement 3/4 cube sand 3/4 cube.
8 roof sheets , 22 shera wood.
We had to order 4 more 4x2 steel, 5 more 2x1 steel, 2 more ceiling sheets.
What a bloody fiasco, but darling workers said, i listened, why you not listen to your husband, who has more than 40 years experience.
You work in England this is Thailand. So you require the same materials no matter what country it is.
The mind bogols at the logic of Thais, or lack of logic.
Force your wife into admitting her fault. Force her to introspect, and acknowledge the gravity of her error, and the amount of money she cost the family. Force her to apologize and to promise she will never side with a fool again, over a trusted spouse. Only in this way will she grow, develop as a human being, and improve as a person and a spouse. This kind of thing is very painful for a Thai, as introspection is not something they like to engage in. But, it works. I have used it, and it works.
That would be "loss of Face" big time,I guess nobody has ever told you,it just don't happen in Thailand,and I believe forcing your wife to admit she was wrong,would be more painful for you than her!
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Can someone explain to me why an 82 year old man needs a girlfriend?
Should you live to be 82,you may be lucky enough to find out!
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I've been working / programming computers since the 80's
i won't give you advice, learn for yourself, research first, if
a program is free (IT ISN'T) it will be full of bloatware and
other tag along malware, the third world war is up and
running and we are all in it without knowing about it.
Protect yourself first, learn how to use your Virus program
well, learn how to set your computer to a previous time by
using System Restore, stop wasting your time playing games
and learn how to protect yourself and if anyone ever says,,
" I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE"
Just curious, but when you worked in the industry and had a new employee to mentor, where the first words out of your mouth, "Read the 'man' pages"?
I worked in the computer industry for about 25 years. I was alwasys amazed at the amount of hubris displayed by individuals who considered themselves, hummmm, errrr, 'Special'.
I never told anyone I mentored to "read the man pages", or RTFM. That's just being ====== well, nevermind. Read between the lines.
The so called special programmers always lack vision, like the one who told me," There will never be a program to take dictation,from the human voice to a Computer"
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I Have been running Bitdefender Anti Virus free edition for about a year now,and i'm very impressed,it's unobtrusive,doesn't need a full scan( it's on guard all the time) so far it has quarantined 2 possible villains,but other than that no problems,if they nag me to pay for the program,I probably will, all these interfering Mac this or Norton' that take over your computer,can go and take a running jump off the pier! how many times i've paid for crap I dread to think, basically the programs are designed to keep popping up,and annoying while doing nothing! just to make the user feel they have good value for money1
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Mr Worldwide,stick to Ghosts, Angels are a long way down the line,at least 3 decades!
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Once you are happy to be labelled by another,you are no longer an Individual!
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Racist or not,one thing is certain: you can legislate with laws against Racism,but you can't force people to like each other!
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They may very well be right, but I don't hear the Scientists coming out in favour of no more nuclear underground and under sea bomb testing! maybe they get paid too much to fund,earthquake and drilling research, and blame earthquakes on drilling instead of the real nuclear culprits?
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There's a darkness on Koh Tao,that will take more than a hyped up Tourist ranking,to bring back to life,the last time I went to Koh Tao,it was great,now I shudder just thinking of the evil that went on there!and there is no sign that justice will prevail!
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you are so shallow to think you know all there is to know about e ciggs. it is a easy, & safe, method to get off of ciggs. you fail to understand, or maybe you do not want to understand it is another tool to use to quit smoking. your self esteem is bordering on "crackpot" status.oh and do you smell your childs breath? truly? do you sniff bike seats to check for. ... oh forget it you probely do.and now the tobacco companies are on double overtime drive marketing the vapes hoping to trick an entire new generation into becoming nicotine addicts...and unfortunately it is working especially among the very young who suck on the damn strawberry/cherry/fruity flavors thinking it's cool....RJ Reynolds has opened many new factories to produce and sell as fast as possible.....the more they can hook the higher their sales for decades....and of course the feds do nothing to regulate as they are all paid off by tobacco lobbyists....very little study has been done as to the potential harm of the nicotine vapes and they are back on TV advertising them like they are lollipops......some parents complain as it was once possible to simply smell their kids breath to see if they were smoking but now there is little or no smell .....nicotine is actually a POISON that was/is used in many insecticides etc but it is also highly addictive to most humans...and yet big tobacco freely promotes and sells a NEW WAY to ingest an addictive poison...and seem to be targeting kids with the fruity flavors....
disgusting bunch big tobacco....anything to get anybody hooked for as long as possible.......i was hooked on cigs for way too many years and poured a ton of money into the big tobacco coffers (coffins?).....it was/is pure hell to quit but fortunately i did manage to do it and haven't touched a cig in over 15 years....as some have said " it's easy to quit smoking...i'v done it dozens of times"...
to OP...good for you now stay off the damn things and slowly your breathing will likely improve....along with your taste buds, your smell and your overall self esteem.
E Cigs may not be as toxic as Tobacco, and a stepping stone off Tobacco,but eventually you have to wean your self off Nicotine.
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I never even started smoking, but I do have a bit of sympathy with lifetime smokers in their sixties and seventies because they never knew the health risks when they started.
Younger people in their forties and fifties who are smoking, I just can't understand their stupidity, the health risks were well documented when they started smoking, but they
obviously didn't bother, and most of them are going to suffer in their old age. there is still time for them to try and stop smoking, I wish they would.
Hard to believe, but it wasn't that unusual to see a doctor smoking either a cigarette or a pipe when I was young. Doctors actually suggested that people with a "nervous disposition" take up smoking to calm their nerves!
Yes! I can confirm when I was a teenager,a Doctor who smoked was not unusual,their consulting rooms stank with a stale tobacco smell. I suspect they also had a bottle of scotch tucked away in a drawer! more recent years a young Doctor confessed that he liked a cigarette or two at weekends,I admired him for that!
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I used to smoke, then stopped, but it didn't stop me getting COPD. This is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Symptoms are wheezing, coughing. It is caused by damage to the lungs primarily caused by smoking. I think the damage varies and it comes and goes and sometimes gets infected - what they call an exacerbation.
It can't be cured - but there are inhalers that help. My Doctor gives me antibiotics that I can use if I get an infection on my lungs when on holiday.
So I am ok with it most of the time.
I got a copy of my medical records from my Doctor and interestingly there was a note - years before it became apparent to me - saying "Possible COPD?" I would like to have been aware of that.
I have been a lot better recently and use Tiotropium (Spiriva) inhaler and more recently I have an inhaler for Fluticasone furoate (Relvar) which helps a lot.You will understand that I am not a medico - just a geezer with a similar sounding problem. Yours might be quite different.
Three months in Nong Khai 2014/15 and not a wheeze - well from the chest anyway!
My symptoms sound very similar. I had a bout of what I thought was bronchitis a couple of months back, never had it before in my life, but it may have been a chest infection from COPD or COAD. I'm not really having any trouble breathing as a rule, but this wheeze I've developed after 2 years of quitting is a worry in case it gets worse.
COPD is also called emphesema and perpetual Bronchitis is the end result which never completely goes away. COPD sufferers have a "rescue pack" on hand,which consists of Antibiotics and Steroids, only to be taken as a last resort, taken too often and Antibiotics,lose their effectiveness and immunity is a danger! Chest Infections are very common and frequent!
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Disgraceful prejudice and bigotry.
Do the Buddhists in Thailand truly understand their own faith? I think rather not. Gautama Buddha taught us to improve ourselves, not police others' behavior.
Gautama also never mentioned or claimed to be a God,So that makes Buddhism a Philosophy and not a Religion.
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Disgraceful prejudice and bigotry.
Do the Buddhists in Thailand truly understand their own faith? I think rather not. Gautama Buddha taught us to improve ourselves, not police others' behavior.
Gautama made no mention of worshiping a God either! which makes Buddism a Philosophy and not a Relidgeon!
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I will propaly stay up and watch on bbc world news, that's of course if its on????? hope labour win, VOTE LABOUR.
With UKIP to contend with,i'm expecting a few heartbroken Politicians this time,should be the show of the year and well worth staying up in the small hours,for the excuses,lies,back peddling,and some unhappy farewells! As long as the Slimy,dodgy SNP don't wheedle their way in,it should be a good night! but who in there right mind would do a deal with these extreme over the top Nationlists? who have no interest in the union,and can't run off a sentence without the word Scotland in it!
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Put Labour back in and they'll make an even bigger mess of it than last time and probably hand Scotland to that Krankie in charge of the SNP.
It wasn't all Labours fault,the Bankers crash/meltdown, had a large part to play,and we had to bail them out,otherwise it would have been a world Banking crash,Gordon Brown took the right measures,which is why the people still own some healthy Banking assets! no doubt the Tories have plans to milk,and privatise them at a later date,just like they sold off our Royal Post Office, for a third less than it was worth! They are still the Asset strippers from the days of Thatcher! nothing changes with the Tory crooks!
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I will propaly stay up and watch on bbc world news, that's of course if its on????? hope labour win, VOTE LABOUR.
With UKIP to contend with,i'm expecting a few heartbroken Politicians this time,should be the show of the year and well worth staying up in the small hours,for the excuses,lies,back peddling,and some unhappy farewells! As long as the Slimy,dodgy SNP don't wheedle their way in,it should be a good night! but who in there right mind would do a deal with these extreme over the top Nationlists? who have no interest in the union,and can't run off a sentence without the word Scotland in it!
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Put Labour back in and they'll make an even bigger mess of it than last time and probably hand Scotland to that Krankie in charge of the SNP.
Ed Milliband says he is not going to enter into a coaliision with the SNP, looks like Sturgeon and Salmond are getting over excited as usual!
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What have we learned so far?
In Greece, blockage is caused by too small drainage pipes.
In Thailand, blockage is caused by using the wrong type of toilet paper.
In Turkey, there is no such problem.
Now carry on.
In Turkey they also have a problem,hence the notices in hotels bathrooms to put your used toilet paper in the bin,or at least that was the case in Marmaris,one of the finest holiday venues in Turkey!
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Ok, so his mother wasn't there for him as a child.This was very painful. He couldn't bear the pain so he repressed it. He was angry. He repressed that too. His needs (love, compassion, acceptance) were not being met so he repressed those too. Then he began his pursuit of substitute needs ie in this case hookers. At least there he will find some form of acceptance, at least on the physical level, and acknowledgement and approval. However, she didn't see this as part of her job and just demanded cash. This caused him to explode and the rest is history. His behavior is just a little more extreme than alot of "normal" people. But, he is now a danger to the public and needs to be caught. This is the anatomy of this case.
Ok Sherlock,no need to go any further with freudian lack of Mother Love etc, explanations, he was just a common or garden Nutcase/Head banger!
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No, old man, you went wrong in your life.
There is no excuse, “I don’t want them to worry about me”.
I'm nearly your age, but I never lost contact with my children and grandchildren.
You give them love and you will take it back tenfold from them.
You ignore them and you will be ignored.
Ah, Costas!
Nobody can accuse you of being broadminded.
Judging by Costas "Likes" there are a lot out there!
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No, old man, you went wrong in your life.
There is no excuse, “I don’t want them to worry about me”.
I'm nearly your age, but I never lost contact with my children and grandchildren.
You give them love and you will take it back tenfold from them.
You ignore them and you will be ignored.
Maybe you are wrong
If a parent is in the hospital surely the kids were told about it
yet none visited him
His kids are a disgrace
Is it possible to actually recoup monies in civil court from a Thai?
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It's a bit like scratching around for a drink,and finding a dry Oasis! it's never going to be what you wanted!