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  1. 8 minutes ago, Hummin said:

    Many live in Thailand and still have social security back home. I still pay taxes to my orign homeland as well. 

     

    Yes, that is an option in some countries....but this is abo

    14 minutes ago, Korat Kiwi said:

    I pay taxes in NZ  and at the time was living and working in NZ. 

     

    In fact all my working life I have paid NZ taxes.  So yes I am a NZ taxpayer. 

     

    Next question 

    Oh, ok, so you don't live in Thailand. The way your post read it was like you live in Thailand, went back to New Zealand and weren't happy that you couldn't get a free operation.

  2. 34 minutes ago, Korat Kiwi said:

    I've got a dodgy hip too.  When last back in NZ I went to local GP who recommended x-ray. 

     

    Results: early onset of arthritis.  But they said "nothing major" to worry about.  Come back in a few years when it 'really' hurts and then maybe we'll look at surgery. 

     

    FFS is all I could think.  That's NZ public health system for ya. 

     

    Hope you manage to get yours sorted. 

     

    You don't live in New Zealand but want New Zealand taxpayers to pay for your operation?

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  3. 8 hours ago, Sheryl said:

    It is not safe to take more than about 800 IU Vitamin D daily, and 400 IU is enough for most people.

     

    Did you mean to say weekly?

     

     

     

    I take 5,000 IU daily for half of the year. My wife takes 10,000 IU daily. I've been takig 5,000 IU / daily for 6 months of the year for almost 10 years.

     

    Doctors who recommend vitamin D often recommend around 5,000 IU / day.

  4. 8 hours ago, JemJem said:

    I actually enjoyed the columns of both Trink and Stickman. It has been a long time since I last read Stick. Apparently, he is still writing his column, which has surprised me. I had thought he quit. I will check it out later this week.

     

    Stickman is up and down. Some weeks are flat like this week, all bar news and little else. Other weeks are good and more varied. Some weeks are very good. He wrote about when he thought Pattaya was at its best a week or two ago and a week or two before that before that he wrote a very long story about an old girlfriend which was particularly good.

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  5. Trink was a friendly fellow who was always gracious when approached in public. I chatted with him a few times at the cinema in Siam Square that was demolished a few years ago. i used to catch a movie on Saturday afternoon and more often than not, he'd be there too. He was always polite, and friendly.

     

    His column might have been good in the past but for the last decade or more it was junk, filled with Nigerian scammer letters and warnings about getting involved in relationships with bargirls. I remember reading it in the late 90s and early 2000s and there was little in it. In its prime, it was a must read.

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  6. 16 hours ago, george said:

     

    This is just politics playing out. NZ got pissed off and priced the visa fees to similar to what Thais pays for visa to NZ.

     

    When Thai govt found out the visa fee increase in NZ, and the two prime ministers quickly met and talked about free visas. Diplomacy at high level... 55555

     

    https://aseannow.com/topic/1321663-new-zealand-and-thailand-discussing-visa-free-access/

     

     

    Where on earth did you get the idea that NZ got pissed off and priced visa fees at what Thais pay to visit NZ? This is 100% factually wrong. New Zealand does NOT price visas different for different nationalities and there has been no change in the price of visas to New Zealand recently, and certainly there is no pricing according to nationality.

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  7. 2 hours ago, newnative said:

    Long jail term and then banned for life.   

     

    I doubt they will get a long jail-term. Sure, there are multiple charges and the most serious is 7 years in jail.

     

    My best guess is that if they plead guilty (and they absolutely should do that), offer genuine apologies, admit that they behaved like barbarians, then they might get lucky and only be sentenced to a couple of years jail, be released after 12 months and be back in New Zealand around the middle of next year. They'll just miss one Christmas with their family.

     

    If they fight the charges they can expect a much stiffer sentence, maybe 4 or 5 years. And it does seem, at this early stage, that they wish to fight the charges.

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  8. 14 hours ago, KhunLA said:

    Eat more healthy cholesterol, so your liver doesn't make the crap stuff.  May want to ignore some of the healthy eating advice they push.  Low fat, lean meat, as what you don't eat, you liver will make, and sucks at it, putting out LDL.   Eggs are a great source, and I eat a couple everyday, scrambled and cooked in olive oil & butter.

     

    Keep on with the exercising and add intermittent fasting, which will help greatly with weight loss, and control.   Only thing that has worked for me.

     

    I've got to second this, it's really excellent advice.

    Also, to the OP, your LDL is not that high. (My LDL is higher than yours and I am totally comfortable with it although my HDL is much higher and my triglycerides much lower than yours.) I'd actually look at upping your healthy fats (eggs, olive oil, avocados, red meat with the fat, chicken with the skin) and doing some resistance exercise, all of which will increase your HDL which is at the low end of normal.

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  9. 3 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

    You need a work permit for everything in Thailand...

     

    It keeps things easy for the Thais - don't like what a foreigner is doing, simply play the no work permit game with them and Thailand wins every time.

     

    Given that it seems there are new YouTubers / influencers starting up channels all the time, I wonder whether they will take a wider look at foreigners with a YouTube presence in Thailand? Very easy to catch them given that most love nothing more than pointing the camera at themselves. Evidence aplenty. "You make video in Thailand! Where work permit you?!"

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  10. 15 hours ago, Sheryl said:

    You can do it in this same forum.  But be prerpared for lots of misinformation and quackery (as has already ocurred on this thread). 

     

    Why do you say misinformation and quackery, Sheryl? Do you call quackery on the increasing number of MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS who are turning their back on statins as a treatment for high cholesterol?

     

    Many of us who advocate low-carbs diet to avoid or overcome cholesterol issues base our comments on books we have read by doctors, by reading peer-reviewed studies and by following experts in this field. And when I say experts, these are doctors with decades of experience. This is an area of medicine which is evolving and what was understood in the past is being seriously questioned with many recent studies turning the research on its head.

     

  11. Looking at the video, while you cannot see the point of impact, it appears that the car just drifted off the road to the left and collided with Oat, killing him. Did the driver fall asleep? And then the vehicle veers off to the other (wrong) side of the road. At the very least, the driver should be charged with negligent driving causing death. It might not have been intentional.

     

    It appears the foreigner was a 60-year old German and he fled from his home following the accident.

     

    Police went to his home the next morning to investigate and breath-tested the driver then but by then it showed no alcohol....which is hardly unexpected as it was the next day.

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  12. 9 hours ago, tomgreen said:

     

    So after Sheryl’s recommendation today I had another blood test , but this time only for the following areas...

     

    1. BUN
    2. Creatnine
    3. Sodium
    4. Potassium

     

     

    I don't wish to be alarmist but your eGFR at 47 appears to be low. I was always of the understanding it should be like 90 or higher. That said, it is not marked as H or L so perhaps I have this wrong?

     

     

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  13. 1 hour ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

    It was reported on the radio that he was a security guard in Switzerland before coming to Thailand. 

     

    No big questions!!!!

     

     

    Why do you say he has a lot of money? 


    He owns 1 elephant, rents a house and drives a nice car, possibly rented or leased.
     

     

    The house is an uber expensive property with rent mooted at 1 million baht / month. He drives a brand-new, high spec Audi - a very expensive car in Thailand. And he was a security guard previously. Correct me of I am wrong, but that's a low-income job.

     

    Do you not think there are more questions here than answers?

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  14. I'm curious about the guy's background. He obviously has a lot of money. How did he make it? Was it through legitimate means? His behaviour makes me wonder about that.

     

    When someone makes a lot of legitimately money in business, generally if you Google their name you will get some background on the businesses they have owned / run / been involved in. Not in every case, of course - but in most. But Google this guy and what do you find? An elephant sanctuary. I can't imagine that's a road to riches. Far from it, in fact.

     

    The question of how he made his money is relevant because this man's behaviour is not what you'd expect of someone who is leading the lifestyle of a wildly successful guy. Those who have done well for themselves, who live in uber expensive, beach-front houses on a tropical island and who drive brand-new German vehicles generally don't behave like this man.

     

    So how did he make his money? I'd love to know more about his background. It seems to me there are some big questions to be answered.

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  15. 18 hours ago, Pattaya57 said:

    I was pretty average at school probably because my "poor uneducated" parents never made me do homework. I also cruised through my air force apprenticeship just doing what I had to because I didn't know better.

     

    Then went to uni on engineering degree and recieved best student of the year, then got Golden Key Honours Society for supposedly best 15% of academic performance on the planet. Then got Masters degree and retired rich at 52

     

    Now I'm posting on a forum that other posters continue to say my comments suck. I give up as to why so many people are supposedly now smarter than me?

     

    Could be achohol related...

     

     

    Impossible to say from these comments whether you're smart or not, although spelling "received" and "alcohol" wrong doesn't suggest you're great at spelling which could be a tiny indicator for someone who is smart / intelligent.

     

    Your attitude does shine through, however. Let's just say that you don't come across as humble or modest.

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