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They're back!!

Oh ok, well, then you still have to pronounce it Pe-Tayya.

Within 10 seconds its explained.

Hope for the best! We have the highest transmission rate in Europe, according to msm and how you want to spin the numbers. The reality is far from that though.

Heres a couple other fads that haven't aged very well.

Youre not keeping up. Lambada is old news, macarena is the latest.

Another good riddance.

Pie wants the Johnson &Johnson (talc and baby oil ) brand as it reminds him of anal sex in a nice way. Gentle. No more tears. 'Lets put a flag on the side of bottles of british vaccines. Why? Because it will increase our standing on international stage as a global briton? No, it will make us look as a bunch of self important tits. Unicef may have to step in to feed britains poor, airdropping food parcels of dairylea and bovril to the council estates of the 6th largest economy of the planet, whilst the supremely privileged multimillionaires sits in number 10 choking the life out of the british welfare system.'

‘HiSo Thais that should know better’. That guy is good, I watch his vlogs. He's wrong in the end though regarding actual numbers. I still think its a lot higher and pray to buddha it wont kick off like it did in Europe, Thailands healthcare couldn't cope. Stay inside you expats!

I don't care if people wear them or not. They aren't helping us to beat the pandemic, if anything they are creating a false sense of security stopping people from social distancing. Your comparison with masks and safetybelts is lost on me, or are you saying we need to use masks the rest of our lives and people started wearing the safetybelts in the 70s around their ankles? I know people are stupid but I'm sure that belt sat where it should right away.

Yes, and so, they dont help. I haven't seen one person using a mask 100% correct. On my flight home from Los a year ago the people next to me put the mask up on their forehead while eating, then down again after finished meal. True story.

I'm so glad I'm not in the US. Fascists.

Only those two options? Is there any thing else that can be shoved down your throat if you decide to roll the dice? Thats because they don't prevent transmission of covid.

The UK variant. https://www.yahoo.com/news/thailand-confirms-first-local-cases-135249800.html There are some dreamers thinking they will be able to enter Thailand with proof of vaccination before thais are vaccinated. Hopefully that will not happen.

I doubt anyone can be arsed to read this lengthy piece, but its pretty good although some parts I disagree with. Masks for example. https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/swedens-pandemic-experiment

Of course we will. Next winter is my prediction now but what do I know. I was so wrong a year ago. It wasn't just a flu, was it.

Em's birthday party.

Now why did I watch this video? 18 mins I never get back It was nice to see the new stretch of Dongtan though. I think last time I was there was 2012. Couldn't spot the new 7/11 you boys are raving on about. The building where the expat shop is could be a Soviet building from the cold war. Don't think Ive seen a more depressing condo complex in Patts/Jomtien.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/highlights-covid-animal-origins-china-234748890.html SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China and its neighbours must not only crack down on wildlife trade but also shut legal loopholes that allow disease-prone species to be farmed, experts said after an investigation team concluded that COVID-19 most likely originated in animals. A World Health Organization-led study, published Tuesday, said it was "likely to very likely" that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the global pandemic, was introduced to humans from bats via an intermediary species, with wildlife farming playing a crucial role. Tong Yigang, a Chinese animal disease expert involved in the joint study, said the findings vindicated Beijing's decision last year to ban trade in wildlife for human consumption. But the report also drew attention to the wildlife farms still allowed to operate legally, serving the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) industry and the fur trade - and creating more spillover risks. "With farms you have a large pool of animals that are more or less genetically homogeneous, where a virus can easily evolve," said Christian Walzer, chief veterinarian at New York's Wildlife Preservation Society. China tested thousands of animal samples to trace the coronavirus's origins, but the study said more investigations were required. It also recommended surveys at mink and raccoon dog farms, which China still allows even though they are infection-prone. "Cramming millions of animals together in these abusive industries creates a perfect petri dish for pandemics, and unless we ban farming for fur ... we will continue to play Russian roulette with global public safety," warned Peter Li, China expert at Humane Society International. SCALES OF JUSTICE Regulatory gaps, lax enforcement and transnational trafficking gangs have allowed the wildlife trade to continue, experts said. Pangolins, an endangered mammal identified as a potential intermediary species for SARS-CoV-2, remain a major prize. Pangolin scales were an officially recognised TCM ingredient - used to treat conditions like arthritis - until last year. Though China has since cracked down, activists complain that punishments remain uneven: in a recent case, traffickers caught on the island province of Hainan were given only relatively small fines. Foreign traffickers also remain in operation. A special economic zone in the border district of Mong La in Myanmar, owned by Chinese businesses, has long been a source of pangolin scales delivered into China. "There's no real government control there in Mong La," said Chris Shepherd, executive director of the Monitor Conservation Research Society, who studies illegal wildlife trafficking. "There's no enforcement of any kind." "In many places, wildlife trading isn't seen as a priority or even as something that is necessarily wrong, and we are suffering a pandemic because of it." China says the original spillover event could have occurred beyond its border, but critics say wildlife trading networks in Myanmar and Laos would not exist without Chinese demand, and Chinese investment. "I don't buy it that the Chinese are not responsible for these: they are driving it," said Amanda Whitfort, an animal welfare law specialist at Hong Kong University.

Ahhhh, very cool. Was it any good?

Here he is arriving at an airport in Sweden in 1978 answering journalists questions of being an icon. The guy in sunglasses to his right at 0:44 is my fathers business partner at the time. I was 12 and had no idea who Bob was otherwise I could have met him, my dad told me many years later. Ouch.

Seen it many times. Bob is fuct up. This is one of their first meetings. Bob did a world tour backing Highway 61' and Bringing it all back home , Blonde on Blonde almost finished. One of the gigs was recorded and released as The Royal Albert Hall concert (which was in fact recorded in Manchester,I believe). On this recording night the immortal Judas incident occurred. Same year I was born , which makes it even more fascinating. May 24.

If I had it I'd give it to you. Forums are to help fellow mongers , not exclude or lecturing others how to monger. I stay exclusively in Pattaya nowadays and there are more ladymen there than you can handle in a lifetime. Best place in the world when it comes to lbs. Franks-Tgirls says contact details are available for paying members , unfortunately that info is sometimes very dated or non existent.

Blade hangin up his hat. Sad to see him go. Hope maybe someone of our expats can pick up where he left. Would be appreciated.

rxpharm, why do you think this is? https://news.yahoo.com/says-covid-19-origins-study-145144702.html GENEVA/ZURICH (Reuters) - Data was withheld from World Health Organization investigators who travelled to China to research the origins of the coronavirus epidemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday. The United States, the European Union and other Western countries immediately called for China to give "full access" to independent experts to all data about the original outbreak in late 2019. In its final report, written jointly with Chinese scientists, a WHO-led team that spent four weeks in and around Wuhan in January and February said the virus had probably been transmitted from bats to humans through another animal, and that a lab leak was "extremely unlikely" as a cause. One of the team’s investigators has already said China refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to the WHO-led team, potentially complicating efforts to understand how the global pandemic began. "In my discussions with the team, they expressed the difficulties they encountered in accessing raw data," Tedros said. "I expect future collaborative studies to include more timely and comprehensive data sharing." The inability of the WHO mission to conclude yet where or how the virus began spreading in people means that tensions will continue over how the pandemic started - and whether China has helped efforts to find out or, as the United States has alleged, hindered them. "The international expert study on the source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was significantly delayed and lacked access to complete, original data and samples," Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Korea, Slovenia, Britain, the United States and the European Union said in a joint statement.