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01-01-16 06:29 #33090
Posts: 413Originally Posted by BionicMan [View Original Post]
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01-01-16 06:09 #33089
Posts: 12856Originally Posted by RedKilt [View Original Post]
I don't have much trouble on Departures level. I refuse drivers that come running to me. I take guys politely waiting at their taxi or preferrably having just dropped off a customer. They are so grateful to get a customer, there is no scamming attempt. It's a long time since one did not use the meter. If the offered fee is fair, I would take it. Cost of rides have gone up recently.
Anyway due to competition can ask any driver his price and simply move to next one if offer is not good. I suppose it's much easier for me speaking Thai fluently. They will know there is no point ro try to rip me off.
To me, any ridiculous price is simply an indicator they do not really want my business. In other places, parked taxis never want my business. I catch moving taxis passing by, stopping them to talk to them of course.
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12-31-15 17:51 #33088
Posts: 6079Originally Posted by MuaTur [View Original Post]
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12-31-15 14:47 #33087
Posts: 887Originally Posted by LAGuy5 [View Original Post]
Many of them will complain that they don't make enough money from the meter. Just be friendly, agree and say, "that's why you're Red Shirt". That usually shuts them up.
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12-31-15 13:14 #33086
Posts: 616Originally Posted by RedKilt [View Original Post]
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12-31-15 12:43 #33085
Posts: 3230Originally Posted by LAGuy5 [View Original Post]
I have used these taxis 3 times in July and August this year and it was smooth as you like. No scams.
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12-31-15 11:07 #33084
Posts: 616Originally Posted by Wolvenvacht [View Original Post]
Around the same time period, I also had a couple of airport taxis refuse to turn on the meter, and I ended up getting out of their taxis.
Since then I have had a taxi driver I know pick me up at the airport so I don't know whether my few bad experiences a few years ago happens much if at all these days. But it was because of a few bad experiences with taxis at the airport that I decided to rely on one taxi I know.
I should add though that just before I settled on one taxi, the government did start a program to clean up the taxi situation at the airport. And from what I gather that program was a success, whether a perfect success or just partial I don't know.
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12-31-15 09:49 #33083
Posts: 1579Originally Posted by Simian [View Original Post]
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12-31-15 07:56 #33082
Posts: 2502Originally Posted by Simian [View Original Post]
Be very careful in Thailand where drug related offences are treated harshly.
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12-31-15 07:51 #33081
Posts: 413Diazepam
Originally Posted by Simian [View Original Post]
Diazepam is used to treat anxiety, acute alcohol withdrawal, and seizures. It is also used to relieve muscle spasms and to provide sedation before medical procedures. This medication belongs to a class of drugs called benzodiazepines which act on the brain and nerves (central nervous system) to produce a calming effect. It works by enhancing the effects of a certain natural chemical in the body (GABA).
Other than that there lots of miss handling of this drug. Addicted peoples using this drug as a substitute of addiction material if not available in hand. More over it helps and causes suicidal attempts too.
Thats why this section contains uses of this drug that are not listed in the approved professional labeling for the drug but that may be prescribed by your health care professional. Use this drug for a condition that is listed in this section only if it has been so prescribed by your health care professional. Thats why you might be correct not to sell out for some kind of enforcement reason, just need the valid prescription.
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12-31-15 06:14 #33080
Posts: 367A non-mongering observation / question
Went to my usual pharmacist on Sukhumvit to stock up on meds. They provided everything I needed except for Valium. Although they did not say it, it was kinda clear from their body language that they don't do it for some enforcement reason.
Anyone have any info on this? Or where I might get some valium without hassle. I am only looking for a 5 MG strip.
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12-31-15 00:40 #33079
Posts: 12856Originally Posted by Golfinho [View Original Post]
I have stated I buy spare antibiotics as have found some General practioners quite useless and the difficulty of getting doctor appointments in foreign countries where don't speak the language and on an urgent travel schedule.
It is essential to use the correct or siutable antiboitic for the right problem and take them on correct way.
General purpose only means that an antibiotic can be suitable for more than one condition and not every condition. I am not giving medical advice as am not a doctor. I merely say what I do.
Sometimes doctors guess wrong and prescribe the wrong treatment too. Happened to me too many times. If treatment works, its great. If not try again.
I once went to a GP in Germany exoecting them to test what type of infectikn I had. No. Said I would have to go to a specialist to get a test. Gave me eye drops that failed to work. They guessed wrong. Waste of time for me. Their guesswork was no better than mine. Azithromycin potentially could have worked if I got lucky. I had to put up with eye infection longer than necessary because of wrong treatmemt and no test to find out what it was.
A later treatment worked Gentamycin drops but I never found out what my infection was.
There do exist other problems where correct treatment is more obvious
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12-30-15 20:35 #33078
Posts: 2502Originally Posted by TimBone [View Original Post]
I used to take the express airport train until that stopped running. Carrying my luggage on the normal airport train all the way to Phaya Thai station and then on the Skytrain to Asoke station was too much of a bother (and I'm not getting any younger either).
So of all the times I took a taxi from the airport to my hotel near Asoke, I doubt if the meter showed a price that was 50 bath more or less than the other taxis charged me and those differences could be easily explained by traffic jams or other deviations that are a fact of life in Bangkok.
I found most taxi-drivers courteous and willing to please. The few that suggested a "fixed price" would immediately relent after a polite "mai khrab" and "Please use the taximeter". None even tried to make unnecessary detours to rack up the price.
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12-30-15 11:55 #33077
Posts: 177Originally Posted by PipeLayer99 [View Original Post]
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12-30-15 07:58 #33076
Posts: 2374Originally Posted by Syzygies [View Original Post]
Bacterial infections can be gram negative, gram positive. Or a phage interactive infection. Have any 'bad symptom thing' tested (so cheap and fast to do) and get prescribed the appropriate remedy.