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  1. Just received this via my NextDoor Neighbourhood forum..... "SCAM NHS track and Trace call. BEWARE. This was just passed to me. Worth warning others and any elderly neighbours. And so it begins!......😡 ‘Good afternoon I'm calling from the NHS track and trace service. According to our system, you are likely to have been in close proximity to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. This means that you now need to self-isolate for 7 days and take a COVID-19 test.' ' OK. Can you tell me who that person was?' 'I'm not able to tell you that. That is confidential information.' 'Right. Um... so ....' 'But you do need to be tested within the next 72 hours. So can I just get the best mailing address so that we can send a kit to you?' 'Ok (gives address)' 'Thank you - and I just need to take a payment card so that we can finalize this and send the kit to you.' 'Sorry - a payment card? I thought this was all free?' 'No - I'm afraid not. There is a one-off fee of £50 for the kit and test results. Could you read off the long card number for me, please, when you're ready.' 'No - that's not right. This is part of the NHS so there's no charge.' 'I'm afraid there is. Can you give me the card number please - this is very important, and there are penalties for not complying.' Puts the phone down. This is how scammers work. And vulnerable people will fall for it.” Don't fall for it...! Please share. COPY and PASTE I'm in the UK, but they could try it on anywhere
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  2. Took a photo of Cillian Murphy ( "Tommy" from Peaky Blinders ) to Da my hairstylist at "Hair to Hair" ( 220 baht with 2 washes) and told her "give me one of these love" What do you think? Not bad eh? Sai says it makes me look 20 years younger..............................after she stopped laughing. I am on the left by the way. 🤣
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  3. Like every country, they have to make a judgement about the balance between the economic damage being done by continued restrictions, and the even greater damage that would be caused by a second lockdown resulting from probably allowing C19 to arrive with millions of tourists. It's a political decision ultimately, and while some people might feel that they're erring too far on the side of caution it's the Thai government's decision and nobody else's. Personally, I think that Britain has opened up too soon, and it's certain that the US did. As one of the old-fart-wth-pre-existing-condions crowd, I'd sooner they play it safe rather than fast and loose like Boris and Donald. It's just such a shame about the poor Thais who are bearing the brunt of the hardship, the government should be helping them but it doesn't seem to give a fig.
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  4. I hope the Mrs does not get upset with all the "hansom man" calls that will be coming your way...555 cheers
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  5. All this mask stuff is getting boring now ffs. Either wear one or don't. It's that fuckin simple. Do we need pages of this stuff every damn day?
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  6. after you do so so many, they just become a blur mate. regards grayray
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  7. My father said the difference between a good and bad haircut was 3 days....
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  8. Pizza at the beach, watching the sea, listening to some reggae .... It's windy season (kite season in Bali) so they have set up the wind screens, without which it would be unconfortable setting here, let alone eat.
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  9. just need a caravan and a ka or orses and you will be away
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  10. Most people tend not to shit on their.own doorsteps but many do not care about shitting on other people's. Out of sight out of mind Beach and sea pollution is even worse than fly tipping. To an individual chucking a discarded plastic bottle on the beach it seems like nothing. But when hundreds of people think the same way it equals disaster. Nothing Benefits from it. It affects birds, marine life, coral, apart from ruining beaches for tourists and locals. It doesn't help either when governments pipe raw sewage into coastal areas. How hard is it to carry a small bag and take your rubbish when you leave?
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  11. I'm posting this article because it's typical for the type of mainstream news people in the U.S. are reading about the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand. It's from It's also a good photo essay. Evil By Hannah Beech Photographs by Adam Dean July 16, 2020 BANGKOK — No one knows exactly why Thailand has been spared. Is it the social distancing embedded in Thai culture — the habit of greeting others with a wai, a prayer-like motion, rather than a full embrace — that has prevented the runaway transmission of the coronavirus here? Did Thailand’s early adoption of face masks, combined with a robust health care system, blunt the virus’s impact? Was it the outdoor lifestyle of many Thais, or their relatively low rates of pre-existing conditions? Is there a genetic component in which the immune systems of Thais and others in the Mekong River region are more resistant to the coronavirus? Or is it some alchemy of all these factors that has insulated this country of 70 million people? One thing is certain. Despite an influx of foreign visitors early in the year from countries badly hit by the coronavirus, Thailand has recorded fewer than 3,240 cases and 58 deaths. As of Thursday, there had been no cases of local transmission for about seven weeks. Police officers in Bangkok patrolling a checkpoint on one of the city’s busiest streets after a nationwide curfew was put into effect. Thais were quick to adopt wearing face masks early in the pandemic and maintain social distancing when using public transportation. A nearly empty flight from Bangkok to Phuket, Thailand, on March 30. Construction workers, a group largely made up of migrant workers, returned to their dormitories in Bangkok in April. Thailand’s low rate of infection appears to be shared by other countries in the Mekong River basin. Vietnam has not recorded a single death and has logged about three months without a case of community transmission. Myanmar has confirmed 336 cases of the virus, Cambodia 166 and Laos just 19. Yunnan, the southwestern Chinese province through which the Mekong flows before meandering to Southeast Asia, had fewer than 190 cases. None are active now. “I don’t think it is about immunity or genetics alone,” said Dr. Taweesin Visanuyothin, the Covid-19 spokesman for Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health. “It has to do with culture. Thai people do not have body contact when we greet each other.” “This is how the countries in the Mekong region greet each other as well,” Dr. Taweesin added. The authorities spraying travelers with disinfectant in Phuket, a popular vacation spot, in March. Disinfecting a market before it reopened in Bangkok, in May. Drive-through testing at a hospital in Bangkok, in March. Workers making cloth face masks at a factory owned by Wacoal, an underwear manufacturer, in Bangkok, in April. It didn’t always look so upbeat. In January, Thailand confirmed the world’s first case of the coronavirus outside of China — in a tourist from Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the outbreak is believed to have begun. Another wave of infections was set off by people arriving from Japan, Europe and the United States. A Thai boxing event turned into a super-spreader event. But after a lockdown was enforced in March, shuttering businesses and schools, domestic transmissions subsided. All of Thailand’s recent cases have been among people who arrived from overseas. Dr. Wiput Phoolcharoen, a public health expert at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok who is researching an outbreak of the coronavirus in Pattani in southern Thailand, noted that more than 90 percent of those who tested positive there were asymptomatic, much higher than normal. “What we are studying now is the immune system,” he said. Dr. Wiput said Thais and other people from this part of Southeast Asia were more susceptible to certain serious cases of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne virus, than those from other continents. “If our immune systems against dengue are so bad, why can’t our immune system against Covid be better?” he asked. Students at Sawasdee Wittaya Primary School learning about washing hands after schools reopened this month. Registering to receive financial aid from the government in Bangkok, in May. The closed Apple Store at Icon Siam, one of Thailand’s most upmarket and largest shopping malls, in March. Homeless people lining up at a food distribution center in Bangkok, in April. Though Thailand’s hospitals have not been overwhelmed by coronavirus patients, the country’s tourism-dependent economy has been battered. In April, Thailand banned almost all incoming flights, amid the tightening lockdown. Holidaymakers stopped coming to Bangkok, once the world’s most visited city. The Thai tourism and sports ministry estimates that 60 percent of hospitality businesses could close by the end of the year. The International Monetary Fund predicts the Thai economy will shrink by at least 6.5 percent this year. More than eight million Thais may lose their jobs or income in 2020, the World Bank has said, in a nation already cleaved by a yawning gap between rich and poor. Thai households have some of the highest debt loads in Asia, and the most desperate have lined up at Buddhist temples for handouts of rice. After a promised disbursement of emergency government funds was bogged down in bureaucracy, a woman swallowed rat poison outside of a government building. She survived, but suicides are up in Thailand. Covid Thailand Aid, a charity set up in the wake of the pandemic, has been inundated by pleas from Thais with only a dollar or two left in their bank accounts, said Natalie Narkprasert, one of the group’s founders. A park in Bangkok on May 3, after the city began easing restrictions. Protective screens at street food stalls in Bangkok, in May. Thai boxing gyms were allowed to re-open on June 1. A salon after re-opening in Bangkok, in May. The country’s large population of migrant workers, many from neighboring Myanmar and Cambodia, is also hurting. While some people managed to make it home before the borders closed, others are stuck in Thailand with no wages from their jobs as hotel cleaners, kitchen hands and food stall operators. “Now is when people want more help because it’s been so long and it’s not going to get better,” Ms. Natalie said. A sense of normalcy has recently returned to Thailand. Schools have reopened with children wearing face masks and studying at spaced-out desks. And in early July, the first holiday weekend in months — Thai New Year festivities were canceled in April — prompted an uptick in domestic tourism. Thailand has also allowed a trickle of foreigners back into the country. But with the new arrivals comes the risk of contagion. This week, an Egyptian military pilot was confirmed to have tested positive for the coronavirus, after he breached quarantine and visited shopping centers in a Thai beach town. Some schools in the area are now closed again. Two activists who protested the government’s handling of the quarantine violation were arrested on Wednesday for contravening Thailand’s emergency decree. Questions are also being raised about why migrant workers who were deported from Thailand arrived home and immediately tested positive for the disease, despite not being included in the official Thai count of coronavirus cases. Thailand’s testing rates remain relatively low. “With the disease still looming,” said Dr. Taweesin, the health ministry spokesman, “we have to keep our guard up.” A popular entertainment street, just before curfew, was closed down due to a localized coronavirus outbreak, in Patong, Phuket, in March. Muktita Suhartono contributed reporting.
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  12. Peter Green has died aged 73. Death of a legend.
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  13. Covid-19 won't kill you but liver failure might. 😀
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  14. Helps so much mentally and physically. I did a HIIT class this morning, feel great. Feel tired, but feel great. Another tomorrow morning.
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  15. If they were that 'racist' towards farang they would have boot them out at the first opportunity. I believe the decision to end the amnesty in September is because they will be hoping to recommence commercial air travel. You can't allow some people to remain in the country on a 'visa amnesty' whilst telling new arrivals they have to be out within 30 days. I think people are looking for offense where there is none. There are guys that work offshore that travel in and out every other month on VOA stamps. Its going to be a nightmare for them, but I hate to say it, if you are operating in grey area, you have to accept that some times the ball isn't going to bounce your way.
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  16. Some of us remember a beach we used to sit on for most of the day whilst being happily bothered by lovely girls offering their services. Girls who would take your shoes off back in the room and would insist on washing your clothes and folding them. The beach back in the 80's was a good place to be. I changed my view many years ago and moved my lounging to Jomtien. The girls also moved off the beaches and started parading around the Coconut bar areas. No, the beach is no longer the attraction it once was but then again, for me, Pattaya itself doesn't hold the attraction it once did, plenty of better resorts with the things I desire elsewhere in Thailand.
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  17. It'll grow back in. 🙂
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  18. I knew there was no need to wait for a bloody vacine..... https://thebalisun.com/bali-governor-claims-arak-steam-therapy-can-speed-up-covid-19-recovery/ "Indonesia has seen many suspect ‘traditional’ claims of Covid-19 cures since the pandemic began but now the Bali Governor has joined in with a new way to ‘speed up recovery from the virus’. With no medical evidence to support it, the Bali Governor, Wayan Koster has made the claim that they have discovered a new healing method using traditional Balinese liquor (Arak) can speed up recovery for asymptomatic COVID-19 patients." NOTE : So I'll probably switch from Bintang to Arak. Better a good natural product than all.them chemicals prepared by Big pharma !
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  19. Tonight's dinner is pork chop topped with Colemans mustard, red onions and garlic, along with parmesan mash and plum tomatoes. Seasoned with salt, pepper and oregano.
    2 points
  20. fforest finally decides to wear a mask... 😷
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  21. The beach in Ban Phe, Rayong before the hill is kept spotless.
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  22. Pattaya has a beach? I didn't know that. I guess I've just spent all my time looking at the women. 😜
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  23. Good to see my mate is still in Bangsaray. I call him "Ben" for sentimental reasons. 🤗
    2 points
  24. Nice to see Proff, Jambo, Terry Lee, Callum and others. Thanks for coming down. Can’t lie, it’s been a tough week. Walking Street has been quiet. Le Pub continues to offer -19฿ off all drinks. We have a clean and safe bar with lots of fun. Great sports too. Hope you can join us. Love to those who can’t and will be over soon.
    2 points
  25. Scum everywhere, lots of scams to do with Covid out there.
    1 point
  26. One of the best. He just had one bad drug session in Germany and was never the same again. Really liked his stuff real blues music.
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  27. I used to enjoy Kara and Karon beaches in Phuket.
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  28. A motor start capacitor alters the current to one or more windings of a single phase AC induction motor to create a rotating magnetic field. The force of the magnetic field provides sufficient torque to allow it to begin to rotate. The capacitor stays in the circuit long enough to rapidly bring the motor up to a predetermined speed then is removed from the circuit.
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  29. Pork chop as before today, but this time with truffled cauliflower cheese and red kidney beans.
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  30. Good bowling by the WI to be fair.....
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  31. She's fucking brilliant a looker too. Used to love that curly bob too back in the day. What a tune to boot. 👍
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  32. I hope you used the cap on her 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  33. Well Ive been in Sweden for a week now. No masks, no social distanceing. The restaurants I've hesitantly visited are packed. The shopping malls are relatively quiet but people are about doing everyday stuff. I think the swedes are just making the most of the decent weather as, in a month or 2 they will be back to normal social distances when winter and the dark nights start. Seriously though. The swedes don't give a shit and when I mentioned 45000 British folks died.... "is that true". Anyways, so far so good here in Sweden. Better than being stuck near Blackburn!
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  34. Remember the music centers ?
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  35. One for the Brits 😜
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  36. Love to be there now!
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  37. If I was, I would drive my car out into the boondocks until it ran out of gas. Then I would walk as far as I could manage and shoot myself in the face.
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  38. I am in the middle of a heat wave atm in Farangland and the central aircon unit for my condo decides not to blow any cool air. An HVAC buddy of mine came over for a look-see. The unit is 26 years old and I know it's on it's last leg. It cost $4,000 dollars USD to replace and that's really cheap because my friend would be replacing it. We go out back for a look at unit and all it needed was a "capacitor" (whatever the f**k that is) and a freon boost. $400 bucks all in. I saved $3,600. Now I should be jumping for joy but the money will needed for the next BLM Statue Shooting Protest cluster f**k. I need the money to finish my bunker. Gonna make it like a man cave for the Armageddon that's coming here to Yankville. This Shit Show of a country is the last place I want to be right now.
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  39. If you read the first part of the announcement, it says 'prepare for departing' and gives a couple of scenarios in which they will give 30 day extensions. They have been charitable enough, the majority of those still there are just exploiting a loophole, the Thais aren't stupid, they know that. Anybody that thinks they can turn up on the 25th of September and say that they can't get a flight home might be in for a shock.
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  40. now she is very cute indeed
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  41. No way...John Travolta’s wife Kelly Preston gone at 57 from breast cancer. Always thought she played a really good role in Jerry Maguire.
    1 point
  42. As I said yesterday, it now feels like a bad cold, with some associated aches and pains, but I can now begin to function with a degree of normality with regards to personal hygiene, feeding and watering myself. I'm still on high vitamin C drinks, Orange and grapefruit juice and also Beetroot juice twice a day. My appetite had returned, and so far today I've had a small breakfast and lunch. Some people do have gastric issues during Covid, this isn't unusual but luckily I didn't get the shits and managed to keep food down without feeling nauseous, the only issue being that my throat was so sore it made swallowing too painful at one point, so I simply couldn't eat, but then again I had no appetite anyway. If I were to put it into percentages I'd say that I'm 90% better than the time I peaked on Tues / Weds / Thurs last week (memory is hazy tbh) but still functioning at about 60% of full health. My sleep pattern is returning to normal. I slept a solid 11 hours last night, which is encouraging. Despite sleeping an awful lot while ill, it feels like my body still needs to rest after all of this, so i'm listening to it and allowing it to do what it needs. I'm off work until next week so plenty of time to recover. Last night I had some time to think, and wondered what would have happened if I'd had breathing difficulties, and how it would have exacerbated the condition, and it is very easy to see how and why. The virus itself is very debilitating, and of course not being able to properly breathe is debilitating as well, and I can now realise why it finishes people off in a matter of a couple of days. Terrible. I'm trying to get my head around the timeline and I think it is as follows: Sunday 5th - began to feel a bit "croaky" and feverish, symptoms got worse as the night went on. Monday 6th - Symptoms developed further, noticably higher fever, cough was gradually getting worse. Headache / throat being most effected. Started to keep a temp chart and record. Tuesday 7th - Began to level out (it felt like) Temp held steady, cough was still bad, headache and throat still painful and a slight joint pain beginning to appear. I thought this was as bad as it was going to get. Weds 8th early hours - Terrible joint pain, onset within 3-4 hours, very rapid indeed, at the same time my fever increased, but coughing decreased and my throat was extremely sore. My headache was now permanent and the pain was awful. Not able to get out of bed, each movement felt like a huge , painful effort and I was shivering uncontrollably at one point in the night. My breathing was ok, no shortness of breath but I was very photosensitive. A kind of waking sleep interspersed by sweats, fever, joint pain, headache pain and the need to piss. By this point I was out of the game by a long shot. The pain of the joints, my head and everything else meant that it wasn't possible to function at all. Thurs 9th - More of the same. No food since Tuesday morning so it was liquids only, including liquid paracetemol (Calpol for over 12's). The problem now was that my sweating was not only causing dehydration, but in soaking my T shirts and bedsheets, it then made me shiver more as the fever made me feel cold. This got to a point where it was decided to let me sleep on a towel and just replace it as needed. Pain was awful, and everything a haze around this time. Friday 10th (early hours morning)- Rinse and repeat, but with some stability and decrease in my body temp, which was fortunate because it was reaching the point of concern with regards to the condition of my kidneys due to the amount of sweating and dehydration, lack of fluids and salts going in. Friday late evening gave me a slight respite, I had a glass of doiralyte and a high calorie drink usually reserved for pensioners. I felt my body react to it positively, like that first cup of tea or coffee in the morning. My headache had begun to subside (I had thought this was on Thursday, but it wasn't). Saturday 11th late afternoon - the fever had decreased to a point where it was just bloody uncomfortable. Headache gone and temp heading down to norms, joint pains still evident but nothing compared to what it had been, not even 10%. Able to drink (high calorie meal drinks) and drink fluids. Came online for a few min but fell asleep while reading the forum lol. Sunday 12th - Definitely over the worst, and definitely on the road to recovery, but still feeling like a really bad cold. I managed to catch up on the news, get myself a decent shower , shave and give myself an ego boost by doing so. I also had a cuppa which was wonderful. The last 2 days I've felt much better and improving each day. As i said, just allow my body to do and take what it needs. Once again, many thanks for all the kind thoughts and wishes. My aim of this "diary" is to hopefully highlight how this can effect a person, and with any luck give a heads up as to what you need, or what precautions need to be taken in the event of. The most surprising aspect of this was the speed of the onset of joint pain and the severity of it once it arrived. Everyone is different, but for me this was the single most debilitating factor because it removes your ability to be mobile. Speaking of which, I've no bloody intention of stepping foot outside my house for a few days either. I've got too used to being waited on 🙂 Keep safe people!. Cheers Butch
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