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  1. Hands up everyone who knew the The Battle at Border Post 9631 in 2001: https://burmanewsandarticles.blogspot.com/2007/12/burma-air-force-jet-fighters.html
  2. Gutty play! Might that not be construed as defaming of the entire country?
  3. "No one can take your rights away from you . . . " Perhaps not, but they sure as hell can keep you from exercising those rights.
  4. What a splendid suggestion! (Agoda says 21 people booked already today! I wonder what they will say tomorrow?) You are quite correct about the initial exam being the no-no for driving afterwards. My eyes ache already from the thought of dilated exposure to the tropical sun. Thanks ever so!
  5. Since you ask, less ambiguous than "cuboid" is "rectangular cuboid", or, better, because more syllables, rectangular or orthogonal parallelepiped. ????
  6. Thanks all, you've given me much to think on. Needing a driver for return is a bit scary since I was always able to drive myself after eye injections back home.
  7. Thanks for the valuable info. It's interesting that Thais suffer less from the disease than Caucasians. I have reason to visit Bangkok and will check on both possibilities, but am prejudiced in favor the US-trained doctor.
  8. Especially somewhere in Pattaya. I am just wondering if the injection treatments are available (and affordable), Thanks
  9. Not to mention brushing up on the meaning of "begs the question" as well as realizing that the sports team is the "Indiana Pacers", not "Indian". But then, the fight for the "proper" use of "begs the question" is long lost, and the profile of the Pacers here is a lot lower than that of most equally good football (in Pacerland soccer) clubs on this site.
  10. You may already know this, but others on this thread might not: the Amazon example lights you showed are not what most people would consider 100 watt equivalents. Incandescent 100W lights produce about 1600 lumens and these bulbs put out only 1450.
  11. Since we're on the subject of eyes, anyone have the experience of treatment for wet macular degeneration while they were in Thailand? Which clinics have the instruments to detect it? And then there are the injections for treatment. If you have had it done, what were the costs?
  12. Reading about the Novak Djokovic visa kerfuffle in Australia I found striking the contrast with similar discussions about denied entry in these forums. In particular, in these forums one often reads in relation to such cases that entry to the country is entirely at the discretion of the relevant immigration officer and that being granted a visa is no guarantee of being allowed entry into a country. I don't deny either of these, but I find it interesting that neither comment has appeared in news/opinion articles (that I have read) in relation to this case. Bing tells us "Djokovic’s legal team argued that border officials . . . he did everything asked of him for quarantine-free travel." This sounds suspiciously like "you gave him the visa, so you have to let him in". Anyone one have an insight into how this claim could have prevailed? Or was typical lawyerly throwing as much as possible against the wall to see what sticks? Or is Australia just plain different in regard to letting folks in on visas?
  13. As lopburi3 said, and Wikipedia confirms, in Thailand (as in many countries) the naval rank of captain is the equivalent of the army rank of colonel, one step below flag rank. Since we are Asean Now, I can relate what I heard when I first went to work in Malaysia last century was that their naval ranks used the same nomenclature as the army, so then a naval captain was the rank between lieutenant and major. This came to an end after a Malaysian naval captain went on an official mission to England and was greeted at on arrival, as was appropriate by military custom, by a British naval captain. Shock, horror! Red faces all around. Malaysia adopted the more "normal" naval ranking system thereafter.
  14. "Fast-spreading omicron variant drives up pediatric hospitalizations in parts of U.S." (Headline from CBS News two days ago) seems to suggest differently. Such hospitals are finding a 400-500% increase in cases so far this winter.
  15. The epsilon strain already exists. Nine letters follow omicron; the next up is pi. Might it be skipped as being too frivolous? Corona virus pie, yum yum.
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