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  2. Posted

    13 hours ago, Danum99 said:

    I read sometime ago that Grab is no longer allowed to pickup from the airport. Can someone verify this please? I will be arriving in 14 days. Thank you.

    dan

    Grab is banned AFAIK, but I just book them to collect me from the drop off at departure and have never had a problem doing that.

    The current issue is not enough taxis being available at the airport for the amount of passengers arriving at the moment. 

  4. Posted

    I drove past it 2 weeks back, it was closed. But that's as much as I know. Perhaps it's for good as many hotels are open again already for those that survived covid. 

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  5. Posted

    On 5/16/2022 at 3:02 AM, Knobby said:

    I will be doing another Thai trip this year, trip number 2 in November.

    I hope to be doing more TLC so wonder if anybody can recommend any of the following in the Sukhumvit area,

    optician for an eye test and to supply new glasses

    chiropractor for joints and back

    chiropodist 

    Thanks

     

     

    I don't know much about these, but if you happen to be wanting to save money on glasses, Malaysia seems to be the best place, most people I know here who need glasses shop in Malaysia for them rather than Thailand. 

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  6. Posted

    Yeah you can do that as you have described. Probably need only 30-45 minutes at the attraction itself, depends how photo trigger happy you are. Imo it's not worth it, from memory it's not even a working temple, just an art exhibit, at the time I went precovid it was a conveyer belt setup of tourist busses unloading and reloading tourists through it - the busiest place in CR by a long shot. The artist who made it has the whole top floor of MOCA in Bkk dedicated to his work, it is interesting and worth a visit too.

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  7. Posted

    3 hours ago, Knobby said:

    The 5th-day lateral flow test

    I got questions,

    Can it be your own test kit? 

    If not who supplies it or where do you get it?

    Where do you upload any results? 

    From what I read from others, you can use your own kit (7/11 sell them for about 100 baht, ask for ATK test as that's what it's known as here) and you need to upload the photo of the results to the morchana app. 

  9. Posted

    6 hours ago, MMMGGG said:

    2021 necroposting update :Surgeon:

    I have been using Sidegra 50mg for a while. It works well. The only side effect I have is dry mouth after several hours, even if I drink a lot of water. Like after you eat food loaded with monosodium glutamate. No alcohol, though. I'm a good boy :P

    I buy them online here, using their Line account. They are genuine, and they are delivered on the next day. Anyone knows if they can already be purchased without prescription in a bkk chemist? I am afraid that someday my wife may catch the package before me and, since she is inactive since a longtime ago, she will wonder why do I need that :Bonkers:

    Prescriptions are supposed to be required for them, but many local pharmacy's will sell them over the counter (if they stock them, which is not that common outside Red Light areas), Boots and etc won't.

    Took me a while to find a shop that stocked it near to me, but now I buy it at a locally for 280 baht a pack without prescription (the 100mg as its the same price as 50mg), but then cut a tablet into 5-6 smaller pieces as I just use it as a performance enhancer occasionally, it does that job well and I get no side effects. In the past I would get it from Sukhumvit because it was easy to find, but the price was around 550baht and its quite far from where I live, so a PIA to get too. 

  12. Posted

    The review process has ceased since the borders closed. Because the criteria includes things like an on the ground trip report, hotel review etc generally being able to help others based on your reports which can't really happen at the moment. Fingers crossed for March, Thailand is experiencing a wave of infections currently and Thai logic dictates some random OTT policies will be introduced in the coming weeks. 

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  14. Posted

    2 minutes ago, sydney69er said:

    Oh man! I feel for you! i am in Sydney and things are mostly back to normal apart from not being able to travel.

    i snuck in a trip up to the Gold Coast about 5 weeks ago before they closed the Queensland border again. But so far already missed out on about 4 overseas trips since March. I would have been going back to Thailand in October but can only dream about that now

    Not quite, looks like Phuket is open for minimum of 30 day stays. (includes 2 weeks of quarantine though and you probably need another 2 weeks on return to Oz)

  17. Posted

    6 hours ago, Thanks said:

    Searching for "ladyboy bar" in Bangkok I keep getting results for a place on Phetkasem 47, between Bang Wa and Bang Khae, on the western outskirts of Krung Thep, close to MRT station Lak Song. Google Plus Code:

    PC66+7H Bangkok, Thailand

    Looks like a restaurant to me... but with mostly ladyboys:

    14334697_557039904483322_543958395305905

    41024769_2063102037068517_79480956555877

    21690766_486295528436044_460194352506653

    57382499_671550703289317_397134204724952

    43621856_1938176686275960_68978310726595

    17438733_433867606962984_797805946351910

    16231014_826890690783612_317421025601205

    14701185_1860100277554200_91027626464441

    Is this some kind of ladyboy restaurant or ladyboy meeting point? 

    It's possible that a ladyboy owns the restaurant and these are her friends on opening night. Where did the pics come from? I don't see any bar or restaurant like this in that location when using the map code or searching 'ladyboy bars', closest I could find was 'Mama's Bar' near the location. 

  18. Posted

    Mask use is fucking hilarious, I watched a worker at Foodland take hers off to cough all over the vegetables in the produce section, then replace it, several times. Many people wear masks with their noses out, or just have it wrapped around their neck. Some taxi drivers are using masks that look like old oil rags, I had a driver today who was picking his nose and wiping it on the edge of the mask. Mainly farangs aren't wearing masks, I only do to not rile up the locals as a dirty farang spreading the Corona... 

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  19. Posted

    8 hours ago, Thanks said:

    Instead of embedding a Facebook video manually, you can also let the forum software do the whole job. You just have to copy the video link address and paste it into the standard (WYSIWYG) editor here. To find the video address you can right click on the video, click on "display video URL", copy the video URL (video address) and paste it here. Hit enter and the forum software should do its magic...

    Depending on your browser, app, device and operating system this option to find the video URL may or may not work.:blush:

    If it doesn't work, you can try the following: Go to the desktop version of FB (either by using a PC or by removing the "m" in front of the website address in your mobile browser) and click on the three dots on the upper right hand corner of the post. This should open a menu with the option to copy the link. Do this and paste the link here in the forum editor, hit enter, and wait a second or two before the video shows up.

    Video embedding works best with high-speed internet connections, such as a good WIFI or at least 4G / LTE. If you are using slow network connections and / or older hardware with little RAM, these posts with embedded media might take a while to load...:(

    Example for automatically embedding a Facebook video: The latest CIB Facebook post is this video posted yesterday. On a PC you click on the post, click on the three dots and copy link. Paste this link into the editor here.

    fbtut2.PNG

    The link should look like this:

    https://www.facebook.com/401617183283119/videos/698811364217069/

    After the domain name, there's the FB account number, then the word "videos", and finally the video ID. If your link looks a lot different than the one above, then there's something wrong.. Perhaps you copied the web address / URL where the video was posted to instead of the specific address of the video...

    Again: If you paste this video link here and hit enter / return, the forum software will (should) automatically embed the video...

    The same principle (i.e., copying the media URL (video URL, audio URL, image URL/ address) can be applied to embed media from other social media sites, such as Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, LinkedIn, Giphy, Tenor, imgurl, Snapchat, Pinterest, twitch, Soundcloud, DeviantArt, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Tumblr, and so on. I think it even works with VK and Whatsapp. I'm not so sure about Chinese sites such as Youku. 

    Good luck!

    Automatically embedded:

    Manually embedded:

     

    On my mobiles, automatically embedded links fill the page, and load if I try to swipe pass them, so when there's a lot of videos auto-embedded, they all play and crash the browser. 

    Manually embedded videos are a smaller screen footprint and allow space to swipe without touching the embedded video. 

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  20. Posted

    Firefox is likely your issue, simplest solution is to just browse this site with Safari. It will also help with you not being tracked by ad networks for adult content on Firefox, so won't influence any personalised campaigns if you use FF browser for normal browsing and safari for your adult browsing. You can reset your advertising ID which ad networks use to track your browser visits and sell to advertisers to reset your personalised ads too. 

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  21. Posted

    13 minutes ago, American Eagle said:

    I never view this forum on my phone, this is my Mac desktop, running Firefox.

    I do see the dog image, and some of the images of the girls do show up, but typically all I see is numbers. When a person quotes you, then the numbers turn into links which I can click and then see.

    Does the same thing happen when running Safari? 

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  22. Posted

    6 hours ago, pjtuile said:

    Cambodia has initiated a 30 day travel ban effective 17 March for citizens of Italy, Germany, Spain, France and United States. Myanmar will now quarantine or turn away tourists from several nations, possibly adding more nationalities to the list. Malaysia and Singapore have travel restrictions in place. Possibly other ASEAN nations will follow.
    If so, visa runs from Thailand to the usual suspects would be closed as well, creating overstay problems.
    Any thoughts as to ways to circumvent this problem. Flights to other nations will possibly be curtailed also.



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    It's always been my opinion that the Thai govt would lessen the impact of the lack of tourists and keep Thai safer, if they extend the visas of anyone with a valid short term tourist/business visa in the kingdom currently, as they did with the Chinese. That way those requiring visa runs will stay without the need to risk going into a potentially more dangerous country and bringing it back, as well as those tourists who may have planned to go on to Singapore/Malaysia etc but changed their mind and would now stay and spend in Thailand for longer. I would hope this or similar would get implemented sooner rather than later, the economic impact now is starting to take its toll on businesses that don't just survive hand to mouth. 

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  23. Posted

    38 minutes ago, Jonard said:

    The testing bias will be strong with this one. I would bet money the actual stats are waaaaaaay less.

    The testing bias is most likely to be for the professionals, the ones the BMs here are most likely to meet. Another positive for prep before you come. 

    I would assume that it refers to those they tested rather than over ladyboy numbers, because the data on that would be very sketchy. 

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  24. Posted · Edited by Ropey

    29 minutes ago, oliver17 said:

    The real question is how is it determined who is transsexual and what criteria was used for the determination. Does that just mean people who simply self-identify as trans,  or does it mean people who have started hormones and/or surgery, or people who are living full time as opposite sex but don't use hormones, or does it mean all of the above combined? I have always been skeptical of numerical figures presented by experts about gender ID and sexual behavior. You never know what the criteria they used when they did their calculations. 

    Yeah that's very true. Plenty of guys here are what I call femboys which is probably a looser term than on this board, they wear makeup and a girl's hair style is all, but this is a fluid as the seasons in Northern climates, Thais have 10 descriptions for different types of gays though farangs only have LBTQI.

    When I think ladyboy, I mean dress and act like a girl, not a guy in drag, but a guy who lives life as a girl. My experience here leads me to believe the bar scene most familiar with board, is but a tiny % of those who are around the country. While I do know ladyboys in professional jobs, and some that are self employed, most are employed in the services/sales industry so probably more forward facing as that's the type of industry that suits that type of outgoing person too. 

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  25. Posted

    8 minutes ago, 4skin said:

    You still working out of Buakhao?

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    555 I wish! I live/work in the suburbs of Bangkok and they are everywhere. 

    This is definitely the lowest number I've seen reported before, I had some stats last year from another post someone made, I'll have to try dig it out. 

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