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DavisH

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  1. Rest assured that Thai police have their hands full with Thai criminals. Why do they need the extra workload with foreign criminals? Just cancel their visas and deport them. Job done.
  2. I reckon tasers would be rare here. I asked my student who grecently graduated form the police academy. They cost like 100K and they have to buy them themselves. The same goes for their uniform, weapons, bullets (26 baht each), and petrol to just go anywhere.
  3. Good luck with that! We can't get any kind of reasoning out of our school for whatever inane rules they can come up with. Asking questions that start with "why" are not dealt with well by most Thais.
  4. 70M+ excess deaths followed the 1918 pandemic. And not one vaccine was given. Cambpell is just trying to stay relevant - he's making money and doesn't want to lose subscribers.
  5. If the LDL was by direct method it is most likely on the lab result as "direct method". My ldl was elvated (160) on my last test 2 weeks ago. Dr suggested statins, but I'm holding off to see if I can reduce it over the next 4 months. 6 months ago I had it checked at another holsipal (at a time I was talking more care with eting, and the direct method had it below 130 (forgot the actual value).
  6. A renal stone is not really a peoblem unless if gets quite large. The problem is when it decided is wants to leave your body and get stuck in the ureter. I've had a few of them. The last one taking a few months to exit. The bet way to ensure one doesnt get a problem is to drink >2 liters of water a day, everyday. I just can't manage that!.
  7. That may be true for the intial application these days. I never did that way back in 2000 - they just wanted original copies. All of my extensions have been based on photocopies of my degrees and transcripts.
  8. The pandemic. Come back and tell me how many excess deaths following the 1918 pandemic.
  9. On a swift? what year was that car? Ours was blue 2013. We got it resprayed at the nearby nissan dealer as the suzuki dealer hos no spray facilities. They really messed it up and the orange peel was bad. And the actual blue was a little different than the original, s when we got a door and bumper resprayed a little later then didnt match properly. We offloaded it last year but still got 50%+ of the original price.
  10. So every foreign teacher in every k-12 school in Thailand is legally employed with a teacher's licence, degree and work permit? Is this what your are saying? Because I'm quite certain there are many teachers in far flung places working illegally in schools (Pathum Thani a couple of years ago, when a foreign teacher was found abusing kids). And that is hardly out of the way!
  11. In the past, more remote schools would skirt the law. I don't know if that happens these days. Anywhere near Bangkok, schools are very strict about this.
  12. Check with catholic schools, but all schools have a "language stream", and often, French is one of the choices. But often they use Thai teachers for teaching French. We have never had a French native speaker teaching French.
  13. Just about every car comes out of the factory like this these days. Even a nice shiny black benz has it. Pearl white seems to hide it quite well. My suzuki swift, surprisingly, had very little orange peel (until I had it resprayed!)
  14. Are the follow-ups free? We get it also done at the dealer. I think we pay around 1000 each time (we get it done at the regular service intervals). Note: It won't stop stone chips if the impact is severe (I have one on my hood). However, where there are minor marks in the paint (not deep scratches), they can easily be polished out. My crv is close to 5 years old and there are no scratches in the paint at all (ony the odd stone chip). A paint protection film can be stuck onto the front of the car to reduce stone chips. I occasionally apply a spray-on coating to keep the paint slick (meguairs has some products). see below Overall, I recommend doing it. Hondas prices are competitive with outside shops. You could always do it at an outside shop, its just more convenient to do it when get get out cars serviced.
  15. In some recent news, an EV ran quickly from 20% charge to flat, stranding the driver. I would not recommend lettign a battery in an EV to get such a low level.
  16. Not just improvements in technology. EVs will go ahead in leaps and bounds as it's new technology - battery packs in 10 years could be vastly superior to the ones today - they how will you expect to get any money back on your outdated nd out of warranty EV? Phones get 'better' but I still wouldn'y buy a new one when a 5-year-old one does what I need it to do.
  17. I don't think it was hurried through and certainly not cheap! It took years of traffic snarls along Changwattana for it to get done. I'll probably never use it but at least the traffic flows much better now with all the lanes open. It must have been 5 years or more that they worked on it.
  18. And will premium diesel now be subsidised as is regular diesel is now? If now, expect to see diesel sales plummet. My crv diesel requires premium diesel and that is what I use all the time. It runs poorly on regular diesel and I dont want to run the risk of dpf issues down the track.
  19. Having a son looking for his first car, I may be able to relive some of my childhood....jdm anyone?
  20. This is what I've heard also, re: the better quality. It's a shame they are still quite expensive, though I imagine that will change in the short to medium future.
  21. Boy racers love the manual gear version which is what I believe you have. Look after it well and you can still sell it easily in 5-10 years from now. 5 year old cars are still selling for over 400K.
  22. ..and Chinese made teslas? One wants to prey they are better quality than the US ones!
  23. Can't get a new jazz now unfortunately. And second hand jazzes are insanely expensive. My wife has a city turbo and is quite happy with it.
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