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2 minutes ago, Mario666 said:11 minutes ago, lvr181 said:
Wow!......Sorry to see your plight, but thanks for sharing....I will show her your pic and hope that does the trick.
No need to be sorry (I appreciate your thought though), entirely my 'parents' fault. But it is what it is and nothing I can do about it now.
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On 3/2/2018 at 4:25 PM, Mario666 said:
She does not cover up when it's sunny....I think she is mental!
What do you reackon.....?
She is..................
I have skin cancers removed at about the rate of 3 every two years. Picture below is for a BCC removed recently. The cause was not knowing about the use of sunscreens as a kid. Now I have three monthly check ups with my local skin cancer specialist. Feel free to show her my picture. About 40 sutures.
Apologies for size of pic.
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Please be aware of the financial cost that may be incurred in trying to recover, against the cost of your losses. Sometimes pays to quit while you're ahead. And I am empathetic to your problem.
Another poster did suggest ways to mitigate future 'losses' should the same scenario occur again. If you buy goods/services online you normally pay up front, so payment in his manner is not unusual these days.
I hope you have good luck with your recoveries.
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27 minutes ago, Airbagwill said:
please...what is the "context"?
Do I have to lead you by the hand? Are you a 'devils advocate' or intellectually challenged?
Your sole use of the words "afro-carribean culture". Accept the word 'culture' (in it's widest meaning - read again the definition of culture) rather than continuing your denial of the same and therefore erroneously justifying your ongoing specious arguments.
But enough of the 'word games' try and have a happy productive day.
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2 hours ago, tgeezer said:
You misunderstand me. Now we are talking semantics. In your example culture refers to the behaviour of a particular group who are guilty of drinking, drug taking or being tired, that is a generalisation. I see an accident and ascribe its cause to drug taking when in fact the driver had been awake too long, that is predudice.
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Drinking and to a lesser extent, drug taking, is 'endemic' to Thai society, but not confined only to Thailand, (yes, you could call both a 'disease'). Narrowing it down and applying it to driving behaviour means a cultural (the culture being drinking, drug taking and tiredness) change is called for in order to reduce road trauma. Nothing 'semantic' about it at all. Stop playing word games, driver behaviour (a cultural problem) needs to change!
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1 hour ago, tgeezer said:
You misunderstand me. Now we are talking semantics. In your example culture refers to the behaviour of a particular group who are guilty of drinking, drug taking or being tired, that is a generalisation. I see an accident and ascribe its cause to drug taking when in fact the driver had been awake too long, that is predudice.
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It cannot be 'prejudice' when facts are available.
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10 minutes ago, tgeezer said:
I agree with you that culture is a generalisation and that might lead to predudice but that is not always a bad thing.
“It is part of Thai culture to be very tolerant”. Is a sweeping generalisation but I would make it because I can cite incidents which support my assertion. It isn’t scientific or backed by any statistics that I know of, but no less valid in a discussion about leniency in Thai courts.
Similarly when I say that “It is part of Thai culture to ignore the rules of the road” it would seem to me to support an assertion that “Road safety cannot improve” .
However this is your topic and I understand that since “road safety is not about driving” I have to agree that I am not qualified comment.
Sent from my iPad using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile appPrejudice: preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
Therefore, to say that 'culture' is a generalisation that might lead to to prejudice, is not really correct in this context of bad driver behaviour in Thailand (and elsewhere in the world). The stats claim that drinking/drugs and tiredness are leading causes of Thai road trauma, suggests that a 'cultural' change is needed (no prejudices here because there is 'reason' and 'actual experience').
And such cultural change must go, hand in hand and not be confined solely to, other types of improvements e.g. enforcement, road engineering etc.
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7 hours ago, Airbagwill said:
So because you've heard the phrase"afro-carribean culture" you think you understand and can define culture?.....
PS I can assure you I'm not trying to hoodwink anyone, au contraire I'm attempting to remove the hoods that are blinkering your understanding.
Do you not understand 'et al'? "afro-carribean culture" was merely an example of many. DO NOT take it out of context!
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23 minutes ago, tgeezer said:
Well said, culture is simply the curent state of development of every aspect of the lives of a group of people. To say that Thai culture does not consider that two wheeled vehicles are road traffic, is not in the least racist.
The OP is schooled in analysis of figures as the answer to road safety which might or might not be correct depending on what the statistics were based on. I would like to ask the OP, if anecdotes of accidents where death has occured combined with other anecdotes of similar accidents is not considered a good basis for compiling figures where do the figures come from?
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Statistics? Hmmm...........that's a worry.
British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
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On 1/5/2018 at 12:35 PM, Airbagwill said:
Any talk of culture is basically on VERY thin ice as it is a word used without definition or understanding.
Road safety is a science - it really doesn't matter where you are in the world, the earth isn't flat, the same applies to road safety.
Culture is used as a substitute for analysis and as a get out term by those with inherently racist views as a way of givng some cloaked resctability to what is basically a racist viewpoint.
"Culture is used as a substitute for analysis and as a get out term by those with inherently racist views as a way of givng some cloaked resctability to what is basically a racist viewpoint."
OMG, how did you arrive at that conclusion? No basis in fact so I guess you thought this one up to support your own views!
And a definition of culture:
the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society."Afro-Caribbean culture" et alsynonyms: Civilization, society, way of life, lifestyle etc
Please do not try to hoodwink us with your "without definition or understanding".
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7 hours ago, tgeezer said:
Has anybody seen evidence of a safety campaign? All I hear about is crackdowns.
I don't watch the TV a great deal but I don't think that it is being used nearly enough to demonstrate how badly people are driving. If a proffessional approach to driving could be engendered in the population then safety would follow.
TV, You Tube, Facetime, are all available to make people aware of what. they are doing wrongly but seldom used. A driver's awareness programme like You've Been Framed might be popular. On You Tube it could make money for someone with talent.
Why not take actual accidents and analyse them? I suppose that they would have to be historical for the sake of justice but non the less useful for that.
Good high profile examples could be the killing of two students backended in the left/slow lane, the killing of pedestrians at a bus stop could be another, to get the show on the road.
I can't understand why it hasn't been done already, is it liable or slander laws which prevents this approach?
Sent from my iPad using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app"All I hear about is crackdowns." What that actually means is police sitting down doing nothing, hence the 'crackdowns'.
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1 hour ago, Airbagwill said:
I think it is more a question of politics than falling back on a nebulous catch-all term like culture......the world is spherical whatever part of the planet or "culture" you live in.
Whatever, I will still go with 'cultural change'. The Kingdom has had many years of "politics" with little or no change! Thai politics seem to be about keeping the elite in power and accumulating further wealth and making the rich richer. That is what a feudal society does.
Do have a Happy and Healthy New Year.
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57 minutes ago, Airbagwill said:
"Again, the challenge is to convince Thai institutions that there are some valuable assets that could be tapped to improve the situation with little or no cost to the government. "
Yes.. road safety in every country has been brought about by state investment and involvement.
All successful countries have implemented the 5 Es of road safety.
Education, Enforcement, Engineering, Emergency and Evaluation. You can't have one without the others.
However Thailand, as an industrialising country, needs to be aware that the current situation is costing the nation trillions of baht and can bring about similar changes to a country that a full scale war does.
Corruption, graft and nepotism have had a terrible effect....it has meant that misinformed, unqualified and incompetent people have ended up in high-ranking policy making jobs and the implementation of an effective road safety policy (which Thailand has available) and the construction of proper roads has been impaired by inappropriate diversion of allotted funds.
In fact one really good way of assessing how rife corruption is in a country is to look at the roads....The worse the design and shorter the lifespan before repairs is inversely proportional to the amount of corruption.
I agree with you, I merely couched many of your real concerns into "cultural change".
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45 minutes ago, Airbagwill said:
I have already implied that good is subjectivesubjective and in what context are you referring to "never"?
USA and France had worse death rates than this in the 1970s....so how would you define or identify the cultural shifts that took place there?
Never say never = do not give up on improvements.
Re: USA and France (and I have never lived in either of them) but I would think that modern western nations seem to recognise the terrible monetary cost of road trauma and the personal psychological trauma and undertook to do something about it - Thailand on the other hand does not seem to want to recognise the monetary cost to the nation. Thais, as a people, do not seem to "mourn, recognise and remember" the deaths of people in the same way as westerners (maybe their Buddhist beliefs are behind this). They appear not to be driven to improvements in all ways of life like westerners (hence their feudal 'values' remain entrenched, the elite at the top being served by the 'serfs'). And as long as the elite are not being killed or injured in road trauma to the same extent as the 'serfs' there is no rush to improve matters. Hence my conclusion that there needs to be a change in cultural values in order to reduce, what westerners would consider as being a terrible road trauma toll. Thais seem not to have a big problem with death and injury on the roads. Alcohol and speed (according to local authorities) are the two biggest contributors to road trauma in the Kingdom. Alcohol consumption is endemic in Thai society (as in many other nations) yet know one really gets punished (by western standards) for causing the terrible road trauma.
Once again, my conclusion that there needs to be a change in cultural values. Anything else is just window dressing although sometimes a little helpful.
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To the OP:-
1) I would say that 'good' is subjective.
2) Never say never!
Anything can improve but sometimes in means a huge shift in cultural values. That, IMHO, is the biggest stumbling block. Sure, improved roading, improved enforcement and the will to do "something" may help but it is a societal problem not just a driver/rider problem.
In the meantime, practice safe and defensive driving habits and ALWAYS drive to the conditions. It should better your odds of not becoming a road trauma statistic.
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2 hours ago, wwest5829 said:
Agree, not an easy step but at age 70, unable to afford a decent retirement my own country and now they are planning on coming after my Social Security and Medicare...well, I have less to lose....
And the politicians still keep taking their annual pay increases (needed or not) thanks to Juliar.
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To all my fellow TV readers and posters (friend and foe alike hehe…)
hope you all have a wonderful Christmas with family and friends and may the New Year bring good health with happiness.
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3 hours ago, Ruffian Dick said:
I wonder if cats can tell venomous snakes from harmless ones?
Only after they have been bitten?
Keep calm, it's just a joke.
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On 12/10/2017 at 11:42 AM, doggie1955 said:
Yes, it looks like a rat snake...but remember there are 35 venomous snakes in Thailand (36 if you count the Thai woman). In the last 3 yrs we have killed 17 snakes on my land, and my dogs have killed 7 of them. I have killed 5 cobras, 2 red head and 1 Malayan pit. And this is why my dogs sleep in the house to keep the snakes out!
I understand that in Australia they have 21 of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world! Some 100 Australian snakes are venomous.
Life is good in Thailand.
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Go fund me? - Go fund yourself?
Maybe the second 'fund' word is an incorrect one? I can think of a similar but more apt word to use!
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5 minutes ago, baboon said:
Why pay the extra for the postage when someone's wife using her bottle of special 'perfume' would yield the same results...?
'Taste' would yield more dramatic trauma
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42 minutes ago, baboon said:
They'll get nowt extra from me. I am not paying for the item + VAT + shipping + Thai tax + a bribe. No way.
What they will get if this cannot be resolved reasonably, is my pal shipping me perfume bottles filled with urine and the like, just in case they might be operating a little business on the side...
How about 'urine' wine? What a laugh that would be.
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Not rocket science - buy enough before any possible sales ban.
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Try crowdfunding and changing your citizenship to a more competent country. And improve your memory as well.
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Are you worried about skin cancer?
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I have had to use same many times after recommendation from my skin cancer specialist.