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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

Gutty play! Might that not be construed as defaming of the entire country?

"No one can take your rights away from you . . . " Perhaps not, but they sure as hell can keep you from exercising those rights.

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!

Since you ask, less ambiguous than "cuboid" is "rectangular cuboid", or, better, because more syllables, rectangular or orthogonal parallelepiped. ????

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.

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.

Especially somewhere in Pattaya. I am just wondering if the injection treatments are available (and affordable), Thanks

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

"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.

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.

Of course with no definition of "small" the statement is irrefutable. In my small city there no Thai restaurant but we do have two Chinese eateries and one Japanese. The nearest larger city also has no place to buy somtam. I doubt that they know what they are missing.

But how are they going to get them? It's not like they can just call uber/tourist and order up ten million for delivery next year. Here's my suggestion (1% creator's fee, please, TAT), premised on TAT's certainty that Thailand is so attractive a destination that these desirable tourists will flock here and that the main problem is keeping out the riff-raff: Require visas of _all_ visitors and require all applicants to indicate how much money that are going to spend during the trip. Spend enough and get the visa. Upon arrival, hand over the dosh to your personal government functionary/handler who will accompany you in your travels and pay for everything (with your money). Any leftover funds will be spent at duty-free upon departure. That's the way to ensure you get the kind of tourists you want!

Those who have been to the soapy palaces (Rama 9 or on the Petchburi Road (?)) know that there is a lot more to them than mere knocking parlors. Karaokes, lounges, food, drink, napping areas. They are not just one fishbowl plus a lot of rooms with baths. They are not discreet and the guys who go there don't want discreet. Beyond the sex, they are places for male socialization among the monied classes. The Thai-Chinese seem to have maintained the Chinese propensity for showing off their wealth, and the soapy palaces are a great places to flaunt what they've got. It's hard to believe the internet can provide anything like that experience. But Chuwit may have sensed a change in how those people think.

https://medicpole.com/side-effects-of-longan-fruit-for-health

A few years ago I met a guy over 70 who was teaching two courses at AIT and two courses at nearby U, whose name I have forgotten. His specialty was aviation engineering. He said his monthly living expenses were covered by doing these jobs, leaving his pension for all the extras in his life. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

A sample size of only 1068 from a population of 54 million is sufficient to produce results with a 3% error rate with 95% confidence. See https://www.checkmarket.com/sample-size-calculator/ Large samples are not necessary. The only ways to question such a poll is to call into question the way the sample was selected and the way the questions were asked. For the small sample to provide reliable results, respondents must be chosen randomly. That's not trivial, especially when sampling a national population.

Thanks to all for the very illuminating discussion!

Having just received my first APEC card, it struck me that if I use it at arriving immigration, they might expect me to have a non-B visa, whereas I will be entering either visa-exempt or with a tourist visa. More generally are there any other consequences of entering using the card that one should be aware of? Thanks!

Luckily for potential members of a Yutthasak fan club, there is a ready made song (aplogies to any Bye, Bye Birdie" lovers out there): We love you Yutthasak, oh yes we do; We love you Yutthasak, and we'll be true; When you don't speak to us, we're blue. Oh Yutthasak we love you

That he died after getting the vaccine one can believe. That it was "from the AZ vaccine" is a claim that needs a lot of support. Consider the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc that talks about the relevant logical fallacy.