crouchpeter

I'm afraid I have to agree with you. These losers are destroying other cultures, bit by bit. The reason we live in Thailand is because we're getting to see less and less white faces in our own countries.

Peasant food is the sort of food people like you eat at home.....simple, cheap, unpleasant and tasteless. As for spelling city names, the only correct spelling would be written in Khmer script.

Yes....because governments are so careful spending the taxpayer's money.

And the first 2 days in Emergency should be free. The Rescue boys will drive past any number of govt hospitals to deposit you at the kickback private. And they do it to Thais also

My MIL had to pay privately for tomographic X-ray of the brain because it wasn't covered by the 30 baht scheme. Also in our local hospital, people with, say, cellulitis are not getting the most effective antibiotics, but are going outside to buy the better drugs privately.

I got Apigat (Eliquis clone), from India, no probs. by post. Next shipment, had to go to Chaeng Watt ana, see the FDA girl, and shipment seized! My wife said, can we pay money?, and she said, no, too many cameras. But now that borders are open again, just go to Oz. 150 baht for a months supply whereas 4,500 baht here.

Left chest pain is stress related usually. Left arm could be angina??. Just had a CT scan in Sydney for blood in urine, and went in feet first. (Big kidney stone. Phew!). Also, they wouldn't normally give a GA; sedation usually. When are you blokes going to start trusting government hospitals. Not only are private hospitals expensive, (have to be), but I suspect there's a lot of overservicing. I had a 3 hour op at the Police General, and the anaesthetist was about 6,000 baht.

Is that the machine that records how many hours a day they sleep?

I think I'm about to try the "fixer agent" route. I'm sick of the unfair and changing rules! Just applied for Laos e-visa, to go to Savannaket, but 1 week later, nothing arrived. So $51.75 down the drain. After 25 years I've had enough. The Thai government thinks we're idiots, my wife of 20 years thinks I'm an idiot. I'm surrounded by 3rd world morons who don't speak English, who don't wear crash helmets, and who've never heard of Barry Humphries. So where do I find one of these agents?

2 of your friends died in mysterious circumstances Pull the other one, Walter Mitty!

By the technological genius who praised the fake bomb detectors. What scum!

They don't keep your passport.

E Visa's the same price.

Air Miles don't cover taxes.

Most meals in Cambodia are peasant food. Sometimes, Siem Reap not bad, and I went to a new sushi restaurant in Pnom Pen, but the waitress had decayed front teeth! Some ok French restaurants in Vientiane and even Leffe beer.

Edit: CHADS score.

I think if your chas score is 1, you don't go on anti coagulants. Only 2 or above, is the protocol. I think it's the comorbidities that push your score up......cholesterol, BP, smoking, obesity etc. That's why some cardiologists are saying that AF doesn't lead to strokes.

When you hear the sound of galloping hooves, it's more likely to be horses, not zebras.

When I first came to live in Thailand 25 years ago, my best mate worked in the Oz Embassy, and had spent a large part of his working life in SE Asia. One of his words of advice was that people make the mistake of treating the Thai baht as Monopoly money, and undervaluing it, and don't realise just how much they are spending. 400,000 baht is almost 1 year's pension. ie. Almost 1 year's living, so these rip-off deposits are not insignificant if you think about it.

Poor kids.

Beware of a zealot with his own thesaurus!

He's a class act!

In Sydney at the moment. Went to Thai Consulate for non-imm. O (marriage), visa. No can do! Need to apply online, scan documents etc. Then in 4 to 8 weeks will send you an appointment time to bring in the form, documents, and money. Then you should receive visa within 10 days. Unbelievable dumb a......holes! During covid, been doing it at Chantaburi immigration. But my 450,000 baht is down to 300,000, due to buying some land. Could bring $5,000 from Oz, but rate is down to 22 baht, and need 2 months seasoning anyway. So coming back to Thailand this weekend without a visa. So looks like Savannaket is the go. Living here is a constant battle of wits with the po-faced bureaucrats!

These vets have no respect for us......they treat us like animals.

Usually, with mesothelioma, your lifespan is 18 months to 2 years. No cure, of course, but RNS Hospital in Sydney, ran a trial, and some patients were lasting an extra couple of years. Don't remember the drug, but might have been KERTRUDA. (sic).