Everything posted by pgrahmm
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What's good about the Philippines?
Yes, medical bankruptcies are a real thing....
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What's good about the Philippines?
If someone doesn't know of the levels and interworking of hierarchy there....The roles and position that the NPA fills - just for starters, they don't know enough to be there....JZ is right on.... It's a desperate country filled with desperate people.....The people are not as happy go lucky as many here seem to think..... I've have had long term experience there & nothing could make me want to go back.... Somewhere, long ago on TVisa I broke every facet of it down on a thread like this... It's just not worth the effort to rinse & repeat every time this subject pops up.....
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What's good about the Philippines?
Yes, if they care about you they make sure to guard you.....No matter where you go.... Also notice females do not go out solo - especially after dark....The ones that have cars hire drivers for safety.....
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When cooking at home in Thailand, what pan do you use? Which one is safe?
I bought both pans & the covered pot..... Talked them up to the wife = used about 3 times..... They're somewhere around here ...
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Terrified tourists ride speedboats battling meter-high waves
Been there, done that while watching the rear deck almost swamp blowing open the under bench life jacket stowage & sweeping life jackets out into the sea..... Having have owned a decent sized boat I THINK I would have read & ridden the swells differently....But not being on the upper deck, I didn't view what the pilot was seeing.....Plus the effects of of a shallow bottomed sea....
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When cooking at home in Thailand, what pan do you use? Which one is safe?
The most used is a steel 14"? wok with a handle....No coatings.... I use my bread maker more than anything else, the pan does have a Teflon coating.... I just step back & let the 3 gals do their thing.... It's amazing what comes out of that little kitchen....Thai or western..... There's a very large cabinet with cooking pans, pots, utensils, and appliances + more I have stashed for bbq in a metal outside cabinet....Including a George Foreman grill & a pressure cooker..... About 90% goes unused.... The wok remains king & they use it for cooking things I'd never have thought about being prepared in a wok....
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What about your first few years of mechanised/motorised transport
Big engine & total vehicle weight at 2200 pounds of which 754 pounds were the hemi engine..... Very quick & very fast.....
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How Thai people will see us foreigners
Time to switch away from your camo wardrobe....
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What about your first few years of mechanised/motorised transport
56 Chevy - 61 TR3 I barrelled , jetted, & cammed - 53 Studebaker pick up I put a Chrysler hemi in (a fast beast at 2218#) - 64 Malibu SS convertible 300/327 4spd..... On the mc side a Honda 160 before they stepped up to larger bikes & Ducati 250 hill/flat track bike at the same time.....The brakes & shifters were opposite on each bike, making for some interesting mini-moments.....
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Don’t You Want To?: Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang?
Too conservatively dressed.....
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No alcohol 3 weeks
OP Congratulations if you have gone 3 weeks without alcohol... That's a great jump start on a positive life change decision...... Keep up the good progress.....
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How Long Since You Last OutWalked Your Thai Dog?
I'm guessing it's only limited as far as you can stretch your imagination....
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Is it really more fun in the Philippines?
A very real assessment by somebody that has real time in there.... I have spent years there & I cannot find one good reason for going back..... It's a desperate place filled with desperate people..... Right down to the groups of urchins that walk in circles hitting your vehicle with their fists at traffic lights. (the traffic lights that haven't had the wiring stripped out of them yet).....
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How Long Since You Last OutWalked Your Thai Dog?
My dog is a Bangkaew..... When he's no longer sniffing and investigating & just walking straight ahead I know he's had enough.....I say Rusty home and he leads me straight home..... I walk him about 25 miles a week.....2 or 3 days a week I'll run him about 1/2 mile astride the bicycle at a brisk pace, not a dead run ....At 75 my running days are over, although I loved it ....I have too much knee & hip damage from sports.....
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Starting a youtube channel
Ah yes....The Pattaya cavers club?
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Thai immigration online 90 day reporting system
I did receive a 90 reminder email in July for an upcoming Aug 6 check in..... My new check in date is now Oct 22, which corresponds with the day they accepted the electronic submission .....
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IMAX -I don't get the hype
We went to the Indiana Jones movie.... I thought about seeing it in 4D....Then decided I really didn't want to spend 2.5 hours sitting in something akin to a long Disney ride.... IMAX, when done right, can be a nice, wow experience.... At best, the new IJ flik is a parody of better days better left in the past.....
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Thai immigration online 90 day reporting system
I recently submitted mine.... Then I freaked out..... I had made a mistake on the last entry date by about 14 days = the handwritten date was faint at the 1st numeral....<Passport switch where they'd stamped & then hand written the prior entry dates>.... However, after 3 days it did come back as accepted....
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Car in my Name.
You might not want to carry the signed book in the vehicle if you do that....
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You just won $1,000,000, US Dollars
A bit of everything - surely..... I have one daughter that would be knocking on my door in nano seconds with hands out and another new sad plight to "sell".....
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Police handcuff a Firefighter whilst doing his job !
Being raised in CA, the CHP has always been looked upon as a bunch of walking dildos that really want to be real swinging dicks..... Basically traffic monitors with bad attitudes.... They have a little man complex within the spectrum of the law enforcement culture.....
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Hip replacement and airports
Judging by the scar - more of a side incision.... This Dr also practices in Japan & Dubai a couple of weeks per month as well as CM....That was before Covid....But, he's definitely established himself internationally....
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Hip replacement and airports
I swell more than bruise.....I had almost no pain, but the swelling kept me in for an extra day.... They brought me a walker & I refused it & got crutches (more mobility & leverage choices)....The Dr commented my 3 week check up was what he normally saw during the 3 month follow up check up.... Airports have been no issue....
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Mechanic in Chiangmai
ProAuto in Hang Dong just south of Makro on the other side..... After 7 expensive and time consuming trips to CM's "premier" AC place trying to repair my AC I took it to ProAuto & repaired on the first visit & has withstood the test of time.... Tonn - excellent English
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fist fights
Last one was in high school....Mike Perelli (the school bully) jumped me from behind & our fight lasted about 1/4 mile, through the baseball fields to off campus, over a bridge we stayed on our feet punching and kicking & nobody went down....Then it just ended a basically a draw....My status was then elevated into the high school hierarchy....Girls, rides, wingmen appeared.....I hurt like hell for about a week.... That was the last one until present.... I've broken up a few adult fights along the way & literally threw a guy out of a bar once (stopping a malee before it could start).... I don't fight with my wife = I like staying in the win column....????