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Farming thread

Keep all of it and discuss things later.

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Sorry, I mixed the two up although I use them both for the same purpose. I have a glass of grated Parmesan cheese here. bought in Makro yesterday, 450gm for ฿250.-

Makro also sells the king of cheeses, Parmesan at ฿750.-/Kg. Making garlic bread today using this.

Illegal Cambodian coffee products containing Amphetamines are quite popular in Thailand. Amphetamine was originally sold as a slimming product as it stills hunger. They work.

The only pizzas I eat here are the ones I make myself. Using premium ingredients, I spend more than the ฿250 to ฿300.- quoted above. That's why it is so difficult to find a good pizza in Thailand. Parmesan and Mozarella? ฿750/Kg, go on from there....

Farming thread.

Just a thought... It will be very important what kind of family you are marrying into. We live in a compound with 10 other family members and we work as a team, absolutely honest and hard working. Not everyone is so lucky .

I use Lastpass password manager. I started using it 4 years ago, no problems. I was really happy with this as when I moved to Thailand I was able to use it in combination with XMarks to get all my old bookmarks onto my new computer.

฿20.-? Wow! And you probably weren't even buying a whole kilo. My wife would have stood her ground and politely but forcefully ask what was going on. We stood at a stall in the market when a Thai 'lady' asked the price of a dress. ฿500.-. She was with a Farang, they walked away. We approached, and my wife got the same dress for ฿350.- which was probably still too expensive. No shouting or walking away in a huff involved, just my wife asking can you make a price for me?'

Things are different here. They don't like bargaining with the customer, that can lead to loss of face. Took me some getting used to after my experiences in north Africa.

Your wife means well for you, but doing people out of a few Baht for a principle and then letting the stall holder lose face is maybe not the best way to go about buying food in a market. Those ladies gossip.

So no answers to your question about Thais standing for principles, although I know plenty.

Things are different here.

Yep, 20 baht. If each member of this forum gave me 20 baht for nothing I would be a very happy man. If the vendor over-charged 10 people, she probably nearly doubled her daily profit.

There was no huff, she calmly said what she said and walked off. She was certainly not "doing" the vendor "out of a few baht", the vendor was trying to do us out of 20 baht. That's the price of an iced coffee. Back home would you give your custom to a vendor who charged just you, and not the other customers, $5.00 more for squid?

I've just asked her if she thought it possible that the other customer was a regular or friend. She says unlikely by the way they spoke to each other.

But that is bye-the-bye; Principles. Shall we talk about them?

Wow, so instead of ฿400.- she would be making ฿800.-? How many Farangs come along in a market, I rarely see one in Buriram market, maybe she would be making ฿420.- instead of ฿400.-. The principle is that you are a miserly g@t. I have been so poor that I had nothing to eat. Now that I have a few pence I don't mind being 'cheated'out of ฿20 now and again. That's another principle, not very scientific maybe.

฿20.-? Wow! And you probably weren't even buying a whole kilo. My wife would have stood her ground and politely but forcefully ask what was going on. We stood at a stall in the market when a Thai 'lady' asked the price of a dress. ฿500.-. She was with a Farang, they walked away. We approached, and my wife got the same dress for ฿350.- which was probably still too expensive. No shouting or walking away in a huff involved, just my wife asking can you make a price for me?'

Things are different here. They don't like bargaining with the customer, that can lead to loss of face. Took me some getting used to after my experiences in north Africa.

Your wife means well for you, but doing people out of a few Baht for a principle and then letting the stall holder lose face is maybe not the best way to go about buying food in a market. Those ladies gossip.

So no answers to your question about Thais standing for principles, although I know plenty.

Things are different here.

Maybe you should start off on the Thai language forum, my wife only knows "coconut water''. We don't know what coconut juice is, I sometimes see coconuts with a straw to drink the liquid, these may contain some sugar. Not an issue for us as we have our own coconuts.

Are you buying something called coconut juice?

I looked through most of the programs recommended and on the download sites none of them state how much they can back up before they tell you to get the paid version.

I have used Mozy backup for my files, Google Drive for my fotos as well as an external hard drive.

I can't recommend as I never went, but this looks alright, I have been meaning to go for years:

http://www.thaiwaysmagazine.com/bangkok/culture_shows/thai_dance_culture_shows.html

Drinking Archa now, it's as good as any of the other muck they serve up as beer here. How about walking past members of the family and completely ignoring them? I finally trained them to say SDK and now find myself ignoring them. Don't get me into driving the car, I think I drive like a Thai, but I use the mirrors.

Drive like a Thai!! The frightening observation regarding so many who, when on a motorbike, come to a T junction at a main road and turn left without any sort of glance to the right, to see what traffic is incoming. Frightening...

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Yes, but you EXPECT them to do that. What I didn't expect the other day was a Farang driving pretty fast without helmet who cut off my path as I was turning right . 'This is the way you're supposed to do it, stupid Thais'. He won't last long, A Thai probably would have had him off his bike as he wasn't driving like a Thai.

I plan to not see a single game this time around. It's just a game, guys.

As a professional I can say: Gardena is RUBBISH, might last a year if you are lucky, and it always breaks when you need it. Homepro stuff lasts six months. You have to buy good stuff if it is to survive in the tropics. Hose pipes: universally rubbish. I bought stuff 40 years ago that I was still using until recently, temperatures from -20°C to +40°C.

Idiot's question here: interesting question but I don't understand any of the answers!

I seem to have decent Internet speed as I can watch TV on my computer without downloading apart from in peak times when I do download sometimes. . I don't see why I should need a USB stick for this. . Is it straight forward for me to take a cable from my (5years old) computer to the nice big screen in the sitting room and get rid of BL£$dy True visions?

Sorry if this is a bit badly formed as a question.

My wife: nobody want, bad luck. If you kill (that's what the Thais do) people die.