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BoganInParasite

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  1. Had it for 21 years nows. Still remember the morning I woke up with the sound of metallic cicadas in my head. Got myself checked and had no accompanying loss of hearing but no solutions were offered. There is a ton of videos on YT of seemingly credible medical qualified folks suggesting solutions. Most seem to be around training the brain to tune out the noise. I've been too lazy to try...for other reasons. Seems being caused by underlying and fixable medical conditions is a small minority.

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  2. We see no evidence at all that anyone uses TA when looking to book accomodation in our remote northern part of Thailand. The very first review the wifes homestay got on TA was a 1/5 from someone who had not stayed and clearly posted against the wrong property. TA refused to remove. So we promptly delete a few emails every month from TA trying to upgrade her membership (at our cost) 'for more bookings'. Bizarrely all her subsequent reviews on TA have been 5/5 and her homestay has been number 1 rated in our area for four years.

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  3. 16 hours ago, phetphet said:

    I'm not saying it will work, but have you read up on Saw Palmetto for prostate?

    I took Saw Palmetto for years and until recently was up to three 200mg capsules in the late afternoon. It was definitely effective for me but this year I had begun to feel less so. So in the last two months I tapered off and stopped them, started the 16/8 hour daily fast (eat only between 6am and 2pm in my case), eat a bit less and better and have dropped off 8 kgs (a <deleted>-ton more needed). I'm finding the prostrate issues as measured by frequency of pisses particularly overnight is improved. I find the 16/8 fast easy and having no problems coping with it even while reducing my food. Soon (or later) I need to introduce exercise (beyond lawn mowing) to the regime but eventually I know some form of surgical intervention will probably be likely.

  4. Interesting coincidence because I dropped my Aussie mate off to the airport to return home from a visit a year ago today. Which means I haven't had alcohol (usually beer) for one year today. Not sure why. I also haven't had a conversation with anyone other than the wife for the same period. Don't really like interacting with people.

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  5. Took me 5+ years to train my wife on how to treat/store cooked or raw foods...and she was a highly trained and experienced nurse. But I also bent a little in the last five years as I observed very few Thais seemingly getting sick from the practices I opposed. In fact up here is Pua there are far more stories of Thais getting sick (parasites) from eating raw meats of various descriptions than food poisoning. Some of it results are the stuff of nightmares and funerals.

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  6. Been down on supply in Pau in northern Nan province for a couple of weeks but almost none in any store last three days. This morning managed to pick up four 200 mls and two 450 mls bottles so got to avoid a shopping trip to Nan for a few more days at least. I'm used to Pua being on the end of unreliable supply chains (particularly during COVID) but this is the worst I've seen for milk.

  7. My wife runs a homestay. Shortly after she opened she got a TripAdvisor review of 1/5. (Thankfully every review since has been 5/5.) The review was by a Thai male and made several very weird and incorrect comments. My wife tried to get the review removed, told TA the person had never stayed since at that time as she was yet to host a male guest, but no success. She didn't ever consider taking legal action.

     

    As an aside the funniest thing I have seen is a new place near us get a 10/10 on Booking. Fine effort since they had not opened, in fact, the building was maybe only 60% complete at the time. Thinking someone tried to game the system. Took them 18 months after opening to get another review, yep, another 10/10. Last I saw they seem to have closed.

  8. About five months ago our three Labradors got to barking at the front gate to alert us to someone/thing being near our property. (It's what we have trained them to do. Unfortunately we think a few folks in the village are realising they are all bark and no bite, but I digress.) The wife and I were a little tardy in getting out the door (for different reasons) for a minute or two. When I did get to the front door to head up to the gate I saw two uniformed folks getting back into an immigration vehicle and head off. So it would appear the dogs thwarted an unannounced immigration visit. The only visit we've had in the last four years at our current residence was a couple of years ago when the Nan tourist police called on us on behalf of the immigration folks. They apparently did this to all farang/Thai couples in the province following an American murdering his Thai wife in pretty horrendous circumstances.

  9. Way back in the thread I reported SCB had closed both the branch and removed ATMs from my town in northern Nan province. Well bugga me I happened to spy their ATM on the main road but without signage and positioned in such a way and with a security enclosure that makes it almost impossible to spot unless you happen to be looking almost directly at it. I just happened to do so because I was looking for another shop. And it is not shown on Google Maps.

  10. About four and a half years ago came across a truck on its side with cases of large Leo bottles strewn all over the road, the 101 actually halfway between Nan and Phrae. Despite being early morning the was a large group of police on one side of the road/wreckage and a larger group of locals on the other. The wife and I agreed that both groups were likely wishing the other wasn't there so they could facilitate a cleanup.

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  11. Best wishes for your business. I've had a keen interest in observing new businesses in rural Thailand for more than a decade including the last five years in Nan province. My highly generalised summary is 50% fail inside of 12-18 months, 35% stagger along somehow (lack of maintenance/owners moving into it to live/downsize physical footprint) and less than 20% are obviously successful. In terms of restaurants/coffee shops the main success factor looks like a location with good visibility and road traffic combined with somewhere easy/obvious to park. Duration to failure looks like it is a combination of this and the propensity of family and friends to continue to frequent a business after the initial opening. Of course my observations in Nan province has been during the COVID pandemic that made it much harder for many businesses to survive, let alone thrive. When the wife and I spot a new local business we often give an assessment of success or fail (and duration to close) and much more often than not we are right. At times I admire the resilience and enthusiasm of Thais to have a go but there are many times it is just so clear that it is the wrong business, and/or the wrong locality, and/or wrong product for the market.

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