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I've seen a few of these bikes with monster big tires, tall and very wide, but have never understood the logic. I guess they are usually mounted on mountain bikes or special bikes.

What gives and what's the merit/demerit of such tires?

Pshaw. So called 'golden food standards' are usually met when the diner is a youngster and has simple primitive tastes. Just as if you ask anyone, and i mean any person on the globe, which language is best, the answer will always be the same. 'The language mother taught me'. How can some folks eat what they do, claim is it good, even the best food, but other folks find it disgusting? Cultural habits, my boy, and nothing else.

I'm discounting hygiene in this discussion as some food is certainly prepared in a dirty boorish fashion and that is mostly due to ignorance and poverty.

But even if duty free cigs were purchased in HK and hand carried to CM, the Thai laws on permissible limits still applies.

IMO, the OP ought to wean himself off of the 'one brand best' syndrome. Let him learn to accept ordinary cigs as found in every corner shop in T'land. Won't save his lungs but will save him money and headache.

Plz. No more talking about any restaurant in Detroit, or any other USA city.

Lest you have not looked lately, we live in Thailand and we eat in Thailand.

What does a 'tumblin' tumbleweed' have to do with this topic?

I did smoke cigs from age 15 to 30, then quit. But first i quit 100 times prior, so i know it ain't easy.

I just now finished reading a book entitled 'The Emperor of Maladies' a biography of cancer. Highly recommended, and highly praised by numerous critics and medical societies. One of great controversies of the mid 1900s was the role of the tobacco industry strongly fighting the notion that cigs cause cancer. But eventually even their internal documents told how those companies lied, lied and lied, all the while as smokers died.

And i suppose if one can't quit, grow your own. Tobacco seeds are as tiny as dust motes so they will never be a problem for importation. Grow the leaf, dry it, chop it, pop it into a hookah and puff away. When i lived in a primitive place I did roll coarse molasses soaked leaves, dried over an open fire, in old newspaper. Cough, cough. But each was more than a foot long, so one cig a day was enough.

Indeed looks like the SISP. More here, some in English. Yeah, lots more congestion, street eats and rats.

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Suggest American friends slice open the cigs, collect only the tobac and send that to you. Then you roll your own, or take a pipe. Use the whole carton = 200 cigarettes. Mark the postage package as 'health product'.

The ready-made smokes are usually subject to high import tax and often to very restricted numbers.

Eg. Entering Hong Kong a person is allowed only 19 cigarettes, not even one pack.

That's him.

I believe this shop, Mong Bikes, is 'for sale'. Hope the owner can reconsider and find a better location. He, and entire family, offer good bikes and top service.

That would anal orifices.

Complain about the cost of simple meals and pay big for beer. <deleted>, IMO.

Massive construction just behind the Unique now. A large school has been demolished and big diggers and post hole machines at work. IMO, it's all so ugly. The loss of green space, trees, birds, a bit of nature all gone to cars, motorbikes, endless congestion. Ugly ugly and more ugly.

I've never had a problem with AA. Mostly fly CNX to/fro HKG. I would not know about AA domestic but do know they fly into Don Muang airport, in Bangkok.

The Pub = The Best. good food too

Sorry. Gotta say it: what an inane topic. Remember Burma Shave? It's available in the nearby country.

I like cash. Good thing i'm the 'smart' one, not the device.

I used grubby US single dollars, ten in all, to pay the Burmese Immig at Tachiliek. He was grateful to get them.

Y not buy cream (aka, 35% butter fat) or even ghee = butter without the water. I've quit eating most foods with palm oil, esp avoid the commercial bisquits, crackers, cookies etc.

What's a 'SF Senior Card'? Who gets one, how, cost, benefits, etc?

"there is a McDonalds and all that crap"

Most likely more than one, and plz don't include MCD with other, common and low class noodle/chop suey restaurants. Watch your bias, it's showing.

I personally like to drive or ride my bicycle up road 1367 which extends from Hiway 118 to MaeJo, winding along thru the tiny market towns, passing the popular wats and, unfortunately, numerous construction works; condos no doubt. More condos along that road will crowd the travel lanes, resulting in crashes and eventual road widening and straightening: another pleasant feature of lazy T'land gone.

Slightly off topic but still T'land: any info on Loei, a small city east of here? What to do, expat life, food offerings, housing, female availability, and generally 'life in general, compared to CM'.

Um, Fredge. when you bought the oven, the sales contract probably stated that any problems with the oven must be solved through the maker of the unit, not the vendor. So, you did not read the contract and growled for nothing. And chipped paint on the handle requires a great moan? Sorry for you, diddums.

Certainly does not take much work to go from 'root beet' to 'root beer'. I luv root beer, hard to find here. A&W very tasty, and a black cow, hmm. I long for one of those.

OhKaJu. I like the menu and the food. I always sit out, never in, and avoid the crowds.