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Genmai

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  1. Thanks, I hadn't actually considered this since it's pretty normal in my home country. Will be more careful about that. Anything else that comes to mind?
  2. Early 30s, in shape, white (seems to matter to some people) and dress plain but clean. I've done literally that and they just look around trying to find any reason to escape.
  3. Guys, can I get some advice? Maybe I'm not bubbly or smiley enough but when I approach somebody they look either startled or annoyed or both (this is in Chiang Mai)... What do you y'all say to them? Serious answers only please
  4. If the ones with negative sentiments are a minority then where was the outrage over Anutin's earlier comments about dirty farangs? Recall that he later did "apologize" - to the media for losing his temper, rather than to the foreign community. He followed that by doubling down with a later remark that Thai people should be wary of the dirty foreigner amongst them. Where were the "majority of Thais who are polite enough and welcoming enough to make their own decisions and judgements" then? Similarly where were they when the admin of Spotlight Phuket page was making video after video after video using every profanity under the sun about how much he hates foreigners, or when he encouraged Thai people to take slingshots and pelt foreigners with rocks? That page has been deleted but I still have screencaps of the many hundreds of comments - all in support and many with selfies of ready slingshots. Or when a bunch of Hua Hin thugs beat an elderly foreign couple to the ground and kicked them in the head all while a busy market of "polite and welcoming Thais" looked on? Where are they now in the Israeli case to even suggest that the blame in this fustercluck could potentially lie closer to home? Could it be that those narratives don't get challenged simply because they lie close to Thai people's sentiments? Seems like either the "vast majority of polite and welcoming Thais" are either not polite and welcoming enough to voice their beliefs - or more likely they were never the "vast majority" to begin with. A stray dog getting shot receives more sympathies by Thai netizens. It's easy to point the finger at politicians/news/web pages for perpetuating xenophobic narratives. It's much harder step to extend that blame to regular people around you who don't lift a finger to question them.
  5. Is that your coy way of suggesting that overall perception of foreigners in Thailand (and particularly in the media) is positive?
  6. I can't believe how many commenters actually believe announcements from Thai officials at face value. Nobody is supporting the guy, just that some are questioning the media narrative in light of Thai people's begrudging sentiments towards foreigners and the fact that we haven't yet heard anything from the Israeli himself.
  7. Judging from your utterly unhelpful comment I'd be amazed if you could muster the willpower to sit through an hour of proper Vipassana practice. You're not meant to "think about your problems" but rather to observe your own impulses and reactions rising up in response to "problems". Doing so trains you to catch yourself before you commit to dumb actions like posting uneducated brainfarts and dumping on a spiritual practice that has been of nothing but immeasurable benefit to humanity and has great potential to bring positive change to OP.
  8. Seconding this. Make sure you have all the other basic stuff checked - routine, good diet, a friend or 2 with above room temperature IQ, productive pursuits, etc. Also, as per forum rules I can't suggest anything illegal but it might be a very very good idea to read up on pot edibles. Changed my life in a way that most people can't appreciate unless they've experienced 15 years of lying in bed for hours every night with a million useless racing thoughts. Now it takes 15 minutes to catch those sweet sweet zzzs. During the day I'm focused and mellow, Thai shenanigans don't matter so much anymore. No withdrawals even if going cold turkey after many months of daily use. Maybe a hospital here can prescribe you with oil drops? Anxiety and insomnia are 2 conditions they can prescribe them for. If not, most Thais are capable of finding some provider on Twitter/Instagram for you. Good luck.
  9. I would also add that in a properly regulated industry consumers would have greater access to the 4 components of e-liquids (vg, pg, nic, flavors) to mix their own. Virtually impossible in Thailand so 90% of the stuff is mystery juice in a bottle with a label slapped on from Somchai's Shed that tastes like cotton candy syrup.
  10. And did the study make a distinction for long term smokers who have already damaged their peckers and other organs beyond repair and have recently switched to vaping? Smoking cigarettes absolutely does destroy your body in a fantastic myriad of ways and vaping provides an excellent alternative to that (much to the detriment of tobacco conglomerates who fund these "studies"). Completely irrelevant for the purposes of talking about effects of vaping. Downing bottles of laokhao is gonna wreck your liver so a glass of wine at dinner is now also bad? The two are hardly in the same universe. What "other chemicals"? E-liquid contains 4 things - propylene glycol + vegetable glycerin (2 things that make up the stage fog in your kid's theatrical productions - which have overwhelmingly been proven as completely safe), pure nicotine and flavorings (optional). There is literally no reason for manufacturers to put in any "other chemicals" as it would unnecessarily increase costs. If you're scared of propylene glycol then stop consuming frozen foods or using toothpaste since that exposes you to more PG than vaping does. As for nicotine, yes it has the effect of constricting blood vessels which could lead to reduced blood flow. You know what else does that? Coffee. Do we see mainstream news articles describing the dangers of coffee because of "studies" about caffeine causing ED? No. Looking to ward off Alzheimer's? Nicotine might actually be your friend: https://www.bmj.com/content/302/6791/1491.short "The risk of Alzheimer's disease decreased with increasing daily number of cigarettes smoked before onset of disease (relative risk 0.3 in those smoking greater than 21/day v 1 in non-smokers). These findings suggest an inverse association between smoking and Alzheimer's disease." You're not going to find that kind of research being talked about in the media tho! In fact it was a bad batch of THC vape juice laced with Vitamin E acetate (to thicken the oil) that put a bunch of people in hospital years ago. That unfortunate incident is still being used to justify vaping as dangerous but it's really just another reason to properly regulate the manufacturers. Tobacco companies would never allow that to happen here tho which is why we keep seeing this kind of misinformation.
  11. Hi all, I would like to go back home for Christmas and am wondering if anyone knows what the procedure is for flying back to Thailand if I have a work permit and nonB visa? I asked at immigration today and they said all I need is a re-entry permit and no Thailand Pass needed. I highly doubt this is the case but there is little information about this.
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