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Why would you make your life about people you don't know and have no connection with? And probably wouldn't like you if you did meet them!
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I don't care what happens to foreigners, not my family, not my friends, not my countrymen, not my concern. This is what my first Thai girlfriend taught me!
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What's the best white paint to reflect sunlight radiation (heat)?
BritManToo replied to GammaGlobulin's topic in DIY Forum
Kettle/cooking/water heaters/aircon = under 300bht. Fridge/lights/sockets/E-MTB = solar power -
What's the best white paint to reflect sunlight radiation (heat)?
BritManToo replied to GammaGlobulin's topic in DIY Forum
The easiest way to save money, is to not use air conditioning. My electricity bill is just under 300bht this month, same as every other month. -
Been to Da Nang and Vung Tau beaches, no vendors at all, I was totally ignored by everyone. In Hanoi, Da Nang and Saigon town, in fact everywhere I travelled in Vietnam no beggars at all, was approached by a few young ladies in Saigon though. I was warned not to wear my backpack in crowds or getting on bus/train, keep it in front of you, apparently they crowd you while someone behind razors your backpack. Don't think beggars/vendors are allowed to hassle you these days.
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I always use the airport bus, $2 from airport to town centre in Hanoi. $1 in Da Nang and Saigon.
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Minimum required to live comfortably at a young retirement age
BritManToo replied to PomPolo's topic in General Topics
Baked beans are really cheap, dried white beans from makro, cook in a pressure cooker using 'tua' setting (add beans and cover with 1/4 inch water), then pour cooked beans into a saucepan, add a bottle of tomato sauce and simmer for 30 minutes = baked beans. (Heinz for American, Rosa for British) About 5 cans worth for around 50bht! -
Western Food - when only this will do !
BritManToo replied to CharlieH's topic in Western Food in Thailand
I couldn't live without English muffins, pork pies, English breakfast sausages, hp sauce and marmite! First three from Greens in CM, 2nd two from food variety on Lazada. Add to those lots of bacon and eggs, toasted cheese (from makro) and that's most of my food at home. Then for foreign food, German buffet breakfasts (Auf Der au), Indian meals (Rajdarbar Indian) and tacos (la Casita) and a few zinger burgers (KFC). That's about it My only Thai food is yellow chicken and potato curry, and nam prik ong (same as mexican chilli without the kidney beans) cooked by my wife and I'm done. Auf Der au ..... meatballs, German sausage, ham, fried fish in breadcrumbs, mashed and roast potatoes. -
Teenage Brit Involved in Fatal Road Collision in Pattaya
BritManToo replied to Georgealbert's topic in Pattaya News
That means he was Thai but his dad was (might have been) a Brit. Probably never had British citizenship or a Brit passport, or ever been to the UK, maybe never even met his dad (after all, this is Pattaya). And certainly not a farang. -
Teenage Brit Involved in Fatal Road Collision in Pattaya
BritManToo replied to Georgealbert's topic in Pattaya News
OP says he was Thai. -
Teenage Brit Involved in Fatal Road Collision in Pattaya
BritManToo replied to Georgealbert's topic in Pattaya News
OP says he was Thai! -
Went cycling this morning at MaeJo, not much smog, lake was nice, sun shining, a little cold at 12c, stopped for 2 coffees at an outside coffee shop total cost 80bht. Passed some cows walking in the road. Don't really encounter corruption, dual pricing, airport queuing, political instability and my wife is quite a reasonable price. Life is good!
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Horrible tourist trap IMHO, only managed to tolerate an hour there, but did take a nice photo of some Chinese tourists.
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Minimum required to live comfortably at a young retirement age
BritManToo replied to PomPolo's topic in General Topics
SanSai hospital in CM has all new equipment, I've never had X-rays in bed using a portable X-ray machine before. I didn't even know such machines existed (13k5bht for 4 months in/out patient care as a foreigner), sure it takes all day for non-urgent care, but I can read my book anywhere. My wife also arraigned for an elderly Nordic foreigner to have a broken hip repaired after he toppled off his m/c in his driveway (paid by his gov min m/c insurance after a bit of haggling). My MIL was referred to Suan Dok hospital in central CM for operations (free), top care in some ways better than the NHS as no waiting at all. My son born in NakornPing hospital (free), again as good as the NHS, they even had home visits after. You live in the wrong place! Although sometimes I think some Thai people pay because too proud, or unable to complete the government hospital paperwork, or just too ignorant/uneducated to know what to get and where to get it. -
Well this reliable source was in the newsroom from 10:30pm to 9am that night and 'we' controlled nearly every news source in the UK at that moment in time. And if we 'the big boys' didn't hear about it, then it wasn't broadcast.
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Which is sort of odd as I was in the UK newsroom when it happened, and our information was she was dead immediately, and we never broadcast she was walking. Reuters and AP wire services reports were the same as ours.