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garyk

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  1. 7 minutes ago, LivinLOS said:

    Your saying its perfectly legal... It isnt legal, its merely ignored.. 

    Its like saying I walked down soi six and it was full of hookers, therefore prostition is legal.. I saw someone ride past a cop without a helmet on, therefore its legal to ride without a helmet. 

    Enforcement != Legality 

     

    No you do not know what you are talking about. It was legalized years ago for the hill tribes in the north.  Something to do with their religion and traditions.  They can grow it and use it for their tradition, but it turned into a cash cow for the police and them.  

  2. 8 minutes ago, LivinLOS said:

    You seem confused between enforcement and legality 

    I don't understand?  Explain!  

    So you think it is ok for it to be legal and grown and processed. Then the people that grow it and process it get with the police and set up to sell the drugs!  hummm

    You must be a politician or a policeman getting the kick backs from the sales and illegal distrubution.

  3. 1 hour ago, jethro69 said:

    I had insurance myself, and indeed there was no problems with covering. However, there was a list which hospitals you could use. In more remote provinces like in my case, the only choice was between two private hospitals in the whole province.

    When I crashed with a scooter, I went to the village hospital, and the whole bill including X-rays was less than 1500 B. I went then to the 'approved' hospital, which did exactly the same thing they did 2-3 hours in the village (state) hospital, just the price tag was above 20.000 B. That might be the first reason why cover is so expensive in Thailand. 

    Nowadays I rather try to get an insurer that would also cover the neighboring countries. 

    Same here, in the years in Thailand I have been to several of the small government hospitals for injuries. Dirt cheap.  Head to the city and they see you and the price goes up crazy. Just a scam, no other way to see it.

    Problem is, most foreigners don't know any better. Most are in Pattaya , Puckett, BKK and they think it is normal.  

    Thailand is the home of scams an rip offs.  It is a business model.

     

    I was just in Colombia and it is getting the same there now. In the sticks I got food poisoning and spend the night in the hospital. Back at my condo in Cali. I went to the doctor for a check up. They saw me coming, very expensive. If a foreigner you have a dollar sign on your cheat in the big city all over the world it seems.

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  4. On 5/26/2022 at 2:30 AM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

    Serious side effects actually caused by COVID vaccines are extremely rare....

     

    But on the flip side, older people dying from COVID, especially the unvaccinated ones, has been sadly all too common.

     

    The older you are, the greater your health risk from COVID, especially if you also have also contributing health risk factor conditions, which many older Thais probably also have.

     

    Superstitions aside, getting a COVID vaccine and booster for those folks ought to be a no-brainer.

     

    Yes I had a 68 year old neighbor that decided not to get the vaccine , he said it was a trick of the government.. he died.  Unless wast of life. His wife and kids really suffered.

  5. 1 hour ago, bbko said:

    Agree, the victim should had quickly hopped in a plane and left the country, so what if the victim isn't in country to see justice done to the attacker or the police consider the case abandoned? Right? 

     

    The victim should of had enough insurance so the attacker isn't inconvenienced with paying a single satang, right?

     

    All that's left for the attacker to pay is compensation, right? The victim should be responsible for paying his own medical bills, right?  Dumbbell smash to the face/attempted murder?  100k and be done with it right?

    Right

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  6. 9 hours ago, JPHa said:

    Though i understand that the situation is dynamic and changes may be required as needed, it baffles me why other countries seemingly were and are able to come forth with a plan of not only opening up but even completely abolish rules and restrictions and are back to an almost pre-covid normal. Looking at various European countries, they are back to normal, with unrestricted travel, holiday resort already doing business, restaurants operating at full capacity and no masks since months now.

    Have you been in a cave the last couple of years?  

    That is all that has been talked about here!

    Keep up!

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  7. *The minister said Thailand has seen increased investment over the past five years, particularly in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), with exports remaining the nation’s primary driver for growth.*

     

    These guys are in lala land. 

    Last week in the US, Target and Walmart reported, the S&P slipped into recession zone(-20% from highs).

    With 0-Covid and supply chain woes from China, crazy inflation and a world resession looming ?

    Plane prices are going crazy, inflation in your home country is going to keep people from traveling and buying luxury goods.

     

    One thing is right, exports are the primary driver. Cause tourists are not going to come anytime soon IMO.

     

     

     

     

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  8. On 5/20/2022 at 7:51 AM, Thunglom said:

    Thai sticks were usually laced with opium.

     

    The strength and "quality" of modern strains of marijuana are way stronger than anything the hippies smoked back in the 60s and 70s.

    recreational use is still illegal anyway.

    True,  am from Texas and the dirt weed we got back then I thought was good until I went to Hawaii, and smoked some of their home grown weed. 

  9. 2 hours ago, garyk said:

    I am a firm believer in the US stock market. I don't know enough about other countries to invest. 

     

    From years back I own two foreign stocks.. One is a car, and parts manufacturer and one is Walmart Mexico. Both dividend paying. Both have paid dividends without fail for years. I also own a revenue driven fund that invests in foreign stocks some. Also been paying me for years without fail.

    But, as of the last few years I have not bought any foreign stocks of any kind.  And don't intend to.......

  10. 15 minutes ago, JPHa said:

    oh my! you are one of THESE people... I should have known when reading your initial post that you are maybe the wrong one to provide a proper reply when asked to backup your statement; confusing sarcasm or quippiness as a sign of intelligence instead of backing up claims with a proper statement... well, we re all entitled to an opinion and even voice it as such, so if that is your best, fine by me :))

    I thought I explained myself pretty good. What do you not understand?

    Tell me your strategy?  Or do you not have one?

    Poor baby

     

    To tell you the truth I respect anyone with a plan. I also respect people that execute the plan. Whether right or wrong.  

     

  11. 2 hours ago, JPHa said:
    2 hours ago, JPHa said:

    Sitting on a pile or even mountain-load of RUBs is doing you nigh to no good, when there is almost no place worth going and noone willing to exchange it for any services, products or currency, no matter if you ll get 60 or 120 RUBs for an USD, or whatever they decide to artificially peg and prop the RUB up to. You may want to ask the poor sods who still got Evraz or Gazprom shares in their ports, frozen and banned from trade since 2 months now. As for recession; since all stockmarkets are going down the drain, on a global level, and further clawing each other down in a ripple effect, I d be keen to understand which alternatives you d suggest. Please spare me with crypto's, precious metals or the chinese stocks, whose indices already tanked worse than the US this year and are stuttering from one low to the next, as the zero-covid measures force city upon city into perpetual lockdown. So? what is your hedging bet? buying triple leveraged commodities ETPs e.g. oil at maxed out prices? US or even russian treasury bonds? sporting bets? THB or just stock up on MamCup noodles with almost eternal shelf-life and hope that you can sell them at inflation-adjusted value in a few years? I am happy to be enlighted and keen to learn.

     

    Poor baby, are you loosing in the market.. haha

    I never give advice what so ever. But, what I am doing is buying slowly as it drops. I started a few days ago.

    But, pretty conservative. S&P fund, and some blue chip stocks. I am a firm believer in the US stock market. I don't know enough about other countries to invest. 

     

     

  12. The Ruble is very strong right now.  As long as the Ruble is strong Thailand will welcome Russia with open arms.  

    Russian oil is very strong. I have read a few saying it will see a huge influx in investment dollars.

    So far the sanctions that were put in place are not working against the Ruble.

    Curious to see the outcome.

    Also America is heading into a rescission, stocks are tanking and trillions are being lost. 

    Personally if living in that part of the world I would be putting together an exit strategy.

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