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When I went for my last shot there were a few thousand others also waiting. It was no surprise that it took a few days for it to turn up on the Mor Prom app . I use the Line app and Morprom (หมอพร้อม) send me an update on my vaccination status every week.
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What's eating my tomatoes?
cooked replied to djayz's topic in Organic Farming, Smallholding and Kitchen Gardening
You might want to try with diluted wood vinegar, I got rid of caterpillars on my "Maraa kie nuk" (sour melon) applying this. -
Advice on tomato problem.
cooked replied to Chomper Higgot's topic in Organic Farming, Smallholding and Kitchen Gardening
.. which is why most stupid professional tomato growers frequently sterilise their soil. Nobody can grow members of the nightshade (tomato, tobacco, peppers etc) around here. I dare you to say that this is due to poor soil management as you usually do. A few kilometers further on I have even seen wild tomatoes growing in the hedgerows. Fusarium is almost impossible to eradicate once it is in the soil, also it is transmitted by insects. and recommending stuff only available in the US won't help anyway. I grow my tomatoes in pots, using unsterilised (no need for that I think) compost, and get a decent crop though I am still experimenting with different varieties. I base my knowledge on many years of experience not on Google. Maybe I'm having a bad day... -
Thai government schools.....is this for real?
cooked replied to Kenny202's topic in Primary & Secondary Education
Yes I remember you, always ready to give advice . Yes she did struggle through her first school, mainly due to one teacher but she was happy to very happy in the following two up to present. The main problems were most definitely a matter of bad school organisation, how do you like the fact that a couple of times at 9pm she got an SMS saying "no school tomorrow" or alternatively "Saturday school tomorrow"? I was the one struggling with that. Maybe you have behaviour disabilities checking up on and analysing children you don't know on the evidence of a few posts. For your information she has never been top of the class (except in English) but always near the top. Not lazy, not stupid, and well brought up, right? -
Thai government schools.....is this for real?
cooked replied to Kenny202's topic in Primary & Secondary Education
We put my step granddaughter through 7 years of the so called "Chinese school' - Hua Khiao school. They were supposed to learn amongst other things Chinese, none of them ever did apart from learning a song, which none of them understood. We didn't pay the suggested sum of ฿20 000.- to get her into the supposedly best school in the district after that for further education so she went to a state school. Doesn't seem to have made much difference, she is now in technical college, plenty of stuff there I don't like but never mind, she's doing fine. -
Before I complain....
cooked replied to ConnectionNotGuaranteed's topic in Teaching in Thailand Forum
It is amazing to me how far this has got. I first came in contact with this idea through a very intelligent teacher at school. Week after week we would bring more evidence that the world wasn't flat. Week after week he came up with another counterargument. Some of us latched on (11 years old, 60+ years ago) that it was a JOKE <deleted>. He did force at least some of us to think about things for ourselves, probably started with the most outrageous statement he could think of. Much better than "if a tree falls in a lonely forest with no one to hear, does it make a noise" Never mind, feeling outrage at something that is an intellectual joke is not a sign of high intellect. IT's a JOKE. I usually get insulting replies when I post this kind of stuff... -
Advice on tomato problem.
cooked replied to Chomper Higgot's topic in Organic Farming, Smallholding and Kitchen Gardening
Looks like fusarium wilt, soil borne. -
Nope. I doubt that a good quality paint would last two years in Thailand. Try to find a concrete additive to mix in.
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I often wish I could be so convinced that I'm always right about things, that takes dedication.
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It was a JOKE <deleted>. But bully for your daughter.
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That is a sad, narrow minded outlook on attempts at making ironic remarks.
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I think the main reason that my granddaughter decided to study IT and computing is that the computers have to be in an air conditioned room.
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Close up pictures of flowers and fruit would help, also of the leaves, but I doubt anyone would want to id your stuff from fotos. Your neighbours will know, ask them, one of the kids will write the name down in Thai for you, you can google it.
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Rev. Tomato growing from seed to produce
cooked replied to BiteeThailandgardener's topic in Farming in Thailand Forum
That's exactly what I do. However the 'Grow pots' are a waste of money, in this climate they will survive being potted up easily. The other thing of course, is that in Thailand tomatoes need shade, and that constantly wet leaves leads to disease. Cherry tomatoes don't seem to suffer so much. -
My teacher many years ago, an intelligent bloke, was a member of the Flat Earth Society. He said there are two kinds of people in the world: those that believe that Flat Earthers are serious (can include members) and those that realise that it's an intellectual joke. No matter what argument I brought up, he managed to find a counter argument. Took him a day or two sometimes.
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Yes I have seen these arguments before. Plenty of opportunities for friendships out of school, meaning that social skills would be learnt socialising with people of all ages and walks of life.... etc. Statistics have shown that home schooled kids are better adjusted. I went to University (OMG, 55 years ago) a totally introverted, shy and brow beaten idiot. Three years of engineering study changed that. I ended up leading a semi professional dance troop!
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Of course not. Legal cannabis is limited as to its THC content. I have been offered seeds with potentially high THC but that would require a leap of faith. Try Kratom instead.
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We use a tea making sieve thingy, whole leaves. I like to squeeze a lemon into the result. I sleep like a baby.
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Is Roe v Wade just the beginning ?
cooked replied to CharlieH's topic in US & Canada Topics and Events
You don't have to be a radical Christian theocrat to have a sense of moral values. Calling babies just about to be born a foetus doesn't help your argument at all. -
Is Roe v Wade just the beginning ?
cooked replied to CharlieH's topic in US & Canada Topics and Events
I don't really care what Pence called for. After this decision, such bans would be illegal. Don't you get that? -
Is Roe v Wade just the beginning ?
cooked replied to CharlieH's topic in US & Canada Topics and Events
OK so abortion on demand and even "abortion" (murder) after birth as recently proposed, should be made legal across the USA by federal law. The Roe v. Wade decision contained recommendations that strictly limited such barbarous demands. Never mind. The Roe v. Wade decision was supposedly based on the constitution, 14th amendment, and I don't think that "right to privacy" has much to do with right to have an abortion. People object to abortion clinics that pressure women into becoming clients and also make big money selling body parts. Maybe teaching kids about birth control and making it accessible to them would help? In any civilised society women do not have the "right" to have an abortion. The dems had plenty of opportunity to codify Roe v. Wade, preferred to let it go and then start screaming when all this happened. I assume that morning after pills will still be available. Fentanyl certainly is. -
Is Roe v Wade just the beginning ?
cooked replied to CharlieH's topic in US & Canada Topics and Events
There is no such thing as a woman apparently, just "birthing persons". I'm "not sure" where you get your figures from, There is as far as I know, no projects to criminalise abortions nationally, although I'm sure you read that somewhere. Read again: it is NOT within the powers of the US government, of whatever side, to insist on nationwide caveats, interdictions or obligations of that sort unless there is a change in the constitution. That's what this was all about- rule of law. Very inconvenient of course if you can't get your way.