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On my wedding day at the Amphur I got 'All farangs are little dogs' when my wife was out of earshot. She got an answer about many Thai ladies resembling ghosts with their white skin crap (referring to her).

This very morning we visited a shop we had been buying seeds for a year now. A new girl there treated my wife as if she was a bar girl and asked impertinent questions. I didn't catch that part of the conversation but I did understand when she shouted to the sullen Chinese lady at the back 'you can keep your seeds, there's another shop down the road'. No reaction of course , why bother.

Who said that? Why would thai ladies gets insulted?

sullen chinese lady and a new girl?

How did you know the lady boss is a chinese and she hired a rude new girl?

First question: happens all the time in Isaan, young girls see a farang with a Thai lady, they just assume that she is a bar girl.

Second question: The lady boss is Chinese, not Japanese or Eskimo. We never saw the girl before so we assume that she is new, logical, ok?

I was just trying to point out that this suff happens to Thais also.

A question from me: how long have you been drinking today?

On my wedding day at the Amphur I got 'All farangs are little dogs' when my wife was out of earshot. She got an answer about many Thai ladies resembling ghosts with their white skin crap (referring to her).

This very morning we visited a shop we had been buying seeds for a year now. A new girl there treated my wife as if she was a bar girl and asked impertinent questions. I didn't catch that part of the conversation but I did understand when she shouted to the sullen Chinese lady at the back 'you can keep your seeds, there's another shop down the road'. No reaction of course , why bother.

Many tourist places as well as transportation systems, in Europe at least, have reduced prices for locals. In Switzerland I could travel half price on the railways, it wasn't worth buying the document necessary for my wife to do the same just for three months.

We can keep our old battered truck while we buy an Almera. Best soltion if you can afford it (which we can, just).

Why am I not the least bit surprised nor shocked by this horrific accident? Because everyday I see these same type of pickups loaded to the rafters with people stuffed into the bed. Nothing more than an accident waiting to happen. Nobody has the simple common sense to realize just how stupid this is. The Thai people especially out in the "boonies" have this notion that if you think something bad will happen it will and if you don't think at all then nothing bad will happen. Hence why bother thinking that you can change the Kharma that has been been your destiny since birth. Is it any wonder why we continue to shake our heads at this stupidity? A third world country? Thailand can only hope to attain that status.

Interesting comment. I once said that we wouldn't drive down a certain road again (the potholes were wrecking the car). I saw that repairs had been done and my wife nearly had a fit when I said we might try it again. Mind you she believes in ghosts also.

Since I told the attendant at the gas station where I usually go that I am not a dog, he has stopped blowing his whistle at me. Ah, 'tis the small things in life that make me happy...

When will the stupidity end?

Another few hundred billion in loses on the way

Rice farmers get free money .... rubber farmers get tear gased

Small time rice farmers don't see any of this money at all, thanks very much.

Although guppies eat algae (as well as other plants) they will never eliminate it completely as they are constantly resupplying the pond with organic matter. We generally ose a few when we clean the pond.

I was told that if I did an oil change myself at 1000Km my warranty would be removed.

The man at the bakery of a very up market hotel here in Chiangmai told me that 'levain' or leaven is much better to use than yeast - and was the old fashioned, original ingredient for bread - and that apart from the better taste etc the bread will last longer than that made with yeast.

But sourdough bread is what I really. How to get that?

Levain is live yeast, I forget the recipe but it is a combination of dry yeast, flour, sugar and water. Lives in the fridge and is much livelier.

Got a Kenwood at Central.

Just for fun.

Tried 10 times.

Bread eatable, but not good enough

No fun.

End of story.

I have to agree, although 'just for fun' cost me ฿7000.-. By reducing the water quantities by 5% I managed to get a decent whole meal loaf, I then discovered that I prefer rice! The family like it though so I make a loaf now and then. The other problem is that most Thai butter is disgusting muck, I have to drive two hours to get Lurpak butter.

Might in a different climate (not Australian) ... just saying like.

Doesn't, complete waste of time designed to screw up my finely tuned digestive habits twice a year. When I was working I used to hate it when the sun, that had slowly been catching up with my 7am start suddenly disappeared again.

http://www.voxeu.org/article/does-daylight-saving-time-save-electricity

You can't save daylight, but you can get up too early/too late to profit by it.

An extract from the web page:

Does daylight saving time save electricity?

Matthew J. Kotchen, Laura E. Grant , 5 December 2008

Daylight saving time, designed for energy conservation purposes, is among the most widespread regulations on the planet. Surprisingly little evidence exists that it actually saves energy. This column, using a natural experiment, concludes that “saving” daylight has cost electricity

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evidence

Despite the historical and current practice of DST within the US and around the world, surprisingly little evidence exists that the overall policy actually saves energy. An early and oft-cited study by the US Department of Transportation (1975) found that DST causes a 1% decrease in electricity consumption at the points of transition in the spring and fall. But a subsequent evaluation of the study concludes that the results are statistically insignificant (Filliben 1976). Kellogg and Wolff (in press) find that extending DST in Sydney, Australia during the 2000 Olympic games had no effect on overall electricity consumption because the decrease in evening demand was offset by an increase in morning demand.

Kids walking to school in the dark is maybe compensated by kids walking home when it is still daylight?

"Spring" ahead and "Fall" back.

I think it's great, and it saves a lot of energy.

Doesn't.

Might in a different climate (not Australian) ... just saying like.

Doesn't, complete waste of time designed to screw up my finely tuned digestive habits twice a year. When I was working I used to hate it when the sun, that had slowly been catching up with my 7am start suddenly disappeared again.

http://www.voxeu.org/article/does-daylight-saving-time-save-electricity

You can't save daylight, but you can get up too early/too late to profit by it.

Same as anything, as much as someone will pay. Here in Isaan about 3/400 a fish

we bought small ones (12cm) for ฿100.- each, and let 'em grow. In Isaan.

At least he English and the Thais don't flutter by in a panic when they notice that a foreign word is being introduced into their respective languages, like the French do. I think you can say 'computer' anywhere in the world and be understood, in France it's 'ordinateur'. They have committees working out new words to replace stuff like football, email, @ (they refuse to understand when you say 'at', it's arabas' or something), refuse to say nine-nine when quoting a telephone number but give you 4 score ten nine. Which is confusing as you start writing a four, a twenty, ...

could be worse.

"Spring" ahead and "Fall" back.

I think it's great, and it saves a lot of energy.

Doesn't.

The thing about things being illegal is that it leaves you open for extortion. You gave me ฿30 000.-? I can't remember...

One catch is that the next time you go back to his office it may have disappeared. It is also illegal. People do do it though.

So what you are trying to say is that using foam insulation the cavity is better? Maybe, it is also more expensive and in my view unnecessary in Thailand.

Whether the air is moving or not, its value remains the same. Heat from radiation goes into the wall and warms it. This heat is then transferred to the inside wall by radiation. This wall then again stores heat before radiating it into the interior. Insulation is about reducing temperature variations and slowing down heat transfer. I know that some engineers in my class had difficulty with this concept, The calculation of the insulating value of a particular construction element does not take into account of whether the air is moving or not. Ventilation will, if anything, reduce heat build up in the cavity.

http://www.boundingoveroursteps.com/surin-elephant-roundup-behind-the-scenes/

... puts a bad view of things. However I don't see what is wrong with elephant riding as long as it stays within the limits of the animal.

I see you got no answer. I have the same problem. If you go to your Samsung log in page, at the bottom you can see 'Thailand' followed by an arrow. pressing the arrow doesn't make any f'ing difference, at least not in Firefox.

Maybe I wrote this before: public hospitals are pretty grim places to go to, dirty and uncaring. Without a family here to look after you, not a good place to be at all. I am talking about the provinces of course..

This village has a good percentage of older Thais that can't speak or read Thai. They speak Lao. I am still making the effort though.