Ombra

Just now, Ombra said:

A few years ago, I bought a small Cubic loaf for about 80 or 90 baht in Tops in Rangsit. The packet, containing one slice, got pushed to the back of the refrigerator and it was still as soft as the day I bought it. So, no more Cubic for me.

Sorry. I meant to say that I found it one month later.

On 7/11/2025 at 8:30 AM, VR333 said:

For something available in Greater Bangkok supermarkets, Cubic is the brand I buy. About five varieties, but I mainly buy the 19 Grains loaf.

 

When I first saw them years ago in Aeon, there were lots on display, but they can't have been very popular, as it was always 50% off with a few days until the use-by date.

Nowadays, my local MaxValu only stocks a few varieties and stock levels are low.

A few years ago, I bought a small Cubic loaf for about 80 or 90 baht in Tops in Rangsit. The packet, containing one slice, got pushed to the back of the refrigerator and it was still as soft as the day I bought it. So, no more Cubic for me.

Mukdahan's closest airport is surely Nakhon Phanom, which is halfway to Sakon Nakhon.

My last order for Arabica beans was about 30% more expensive than the price three months before.

'luxury handwoven nylon carpet'  .... 'Luxury' and 'nylon' are not words that I expect to see together. And if it is nylon, who would notice it is hand woven?

On my Google News feed this morning, there is a story from the New York Times about the building that collapsed in Bangkok after the earthquake. It is written by three reporters: two men with Anglo names and an Indonesian. It includes this sentence:

'At the perimeter, the father of a Pakistani worker told reporters people were praying in temples all over Thailand.'

I was surprised to read that a Pakistani was working on a construction site in Bangkok and that his father should refer to temples rather than mosques. Isn't it more likely, though, that the interpreter asked the man where he was from, and he said Phaak Isaan? Then the Americans made a mistake that Imade a very long time ago.

53 minutes ago, marin said:

What the heck are you talking about. 1987 landed here the first time and picked up my luggage in Don Muang Airport and the adventure began.  Seriously???

Half a container's worth, not a dozen pairs of jockey shorts.

Why does the policeman have his hand on the bloke's shoulder and not his throat?

So someone on the City Council is in the fire extinguisher business?

I agree with GreasyFingers. Although I wrote that my cat was attacked by dogs, the cat in fact was an animal that was abandoned, like so many others, during Covid. She arrived at our door in a terrible condition and my wife took her in. I never wanted a cat because I am aware of the damage that they cause, and I see that in Scotland the government is considering allowing people to own cats only if the animals spend their lives indoors. Cats are cute but very destructive.

This is a great thing for Thais. And wasn't this all begun by Pee Tony?

20 hours ago, marin said:

Its not just Thai's it is a generational thing. Back home in California last summer a lot of times the sellers had to use a calculator on something that is just wired into boomers heads. 

You are right. My mother was born in 1920 and died in 2004. When she went to a supermarket, she calculated the cost of items faster than the cashier and she had the exact amount of money in her hand when the cashier told her the total. It was normal with people of her generation. And she complained about younger people's failure to do the same.

How can a person be coerced into spending 40 million baht?

3 hours ago, thesetat said:

The OP fails to sa if they did these stunts on a open road causing any danger to the public or violating any traffic laws. Since none of those charges were addressed I fail to see why they were charged for the other things. Stunts should not be a crime unless endangering others. If people stop trying to challenge themselves in ways that may be dangerous. Then we as people become passive sheep waiting for the herder to give us things. There is no bravery. Also, I have seen in parades these types of stunts in the USA and China. Quite popular for fans of it to watch. 

It is an expensive lesson these kids learned this time. One I am sure they regret. 

Yes, indeed. It doesn't look like a photo of the main Rangsit road.

On 12/5/2024 at 8:29 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

They are attacking the wrong things. We all ate such in our childhoods and didn't get fat because we played outside and did sports. We didn't spend out childhood in our room looking at porn on the internet.

Till they get kids off social media and other obscenities kids are going to turn into landwhales, get diabetes and have heart attacks at a young age and die.

Nature finds a way to cull the unfit.

True. But dinner plates have almost doubled in size since the 1970s. Most people are eating far more than they need.

I don't think that I have ever seen a Toyota Land Cruiser in Thailand. I used to work in the UAE and I saw them every day.

There is an article in The Daily Beast today in which RFK Junior describes Donald Trump's diet as 'poison.' He says he lives on junk food and Diet Coke and that he has never seen him drink a glass of water. How does an overweight 78-year-oild man eat like that and yet work a ten- or twelve-hour day seven days a week? Is every meal accompanied by a handful of pills? It reminds me of Morgan Spurlock's film 'Super Size Me,' in which he lived for a month on hamburgers and fries - and died at the age of 53. That someone can eat like that amazes me.

So the same damaging policy - more and more tourists.

A couple of years ago, I read that Prachuap Prison had opened a car wash and that the work was being done by inmates, but I didn't try it until this week. The result was great. It was the most thorough cleaning that my car has ever had. For example, the plastic suction pad that holds my camera in place had left a series of rings on the inside of the windscreen, and I could never remember to clean them. The other car washes that I have been to over the past couple of years did nothing to remove them, but the prisoners did. This thorough cleaning cost 180 baht, which is half the price charged by the car wash at Lotus's. However, given that there are not many car washes in the town, other businesses may not be complaining about the very cheap labour at the prison. They might also be happy to see that young men are able to escape from their cells for a number of hours each day. Next to the car wash is an attractive cafe, a laundry, and a shop selling handicrafts made by prisoners.

It has taken them a long time to realise that bored travellers might appreciate having something interesting to eat.