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I have heard of wine snobs, and beer snobs. I did not know there were butter snobs as well.

It can't get any sadder on ASEAN than a poster who counts how many likes they have. Have you counted up how many sad and confused emoticons you got?

Have you ever tried milking a kangaroo?

Tastes fine to me. You come from a country that likes cold pork pies and warm beer, correct? I buy Allowrie in the small sachets. Pro tip: If you want it to get soft faster on toast, unwrap the butter, but leave the wrapper covering it on top, to collect more heat from the toast.

Japan holds more US debt than China, in terms of US Treasury bonds.

I can't see how dying in an Armani suit is any better than dying in a comfortable track suit. By the time you are dying, how interested will you be in gorgeous chicks? Happiness is an aspiration. Contentment is coming to terms with one's situation.

Japan apparently has ditched the dollar by selling all its Treasury bonds. A straw in the wind.

I am guessing most private hospitals in Australia don't have ED's because they are not profitable. Costs of staff in Thailand are lower. I really can't think of a single private hospital in Victoria that has an ED.

Flagyl is most commonly used to treat giardia.

We used to get our drinking water from bores in the De Grey river near Port Hedland, 1000 - 1200 ppm. The main risk is kidney damage from too much calcium, although nobody stayed around for very long. Ten years was about maximum, unless you were a masochist. Evaporation removes chlorine. It does not remove chloramines, which are more stable. They are removed by boiling. Chloramines are either naturally occurring, by combination of chlorine with organics present, or deliberately added to assist sterilization. Chloramines have been linked to an increased risk of soft tissue cancers.

Trumpmeter, good one. The main risk with tap water is oocysts such as giardia and cryptosporidia, which are unaffected by chlorination, removed by filters, killed stone dead by boiling. I don't know about here, but giardia is endemic in North America. A former boss of mine acquired giardiitis after a visit to Chicago. Extremely debilitating, and it took specialists in Australia almost a year to diagnose what it was.

You said I clearly have not had a long-term relationship with a Thai lady. I guess 14 years with my Thai GF does not count, then. Assets in Australia are beyond the reach of any woman in Thailand. Fathering kids at my age or even 20 years earlier in Thailand was the furthest thing from my mind. Luk kreungs are the subject of discrimination, unless they are Tiger Woods. Sure, some westerner - Thai relationships end up as train wrecks, especially with kids. I am not one of them.

Because it also refers to an imaginary medical condition right - whingers ascribe to leftists. A Total Dissolved Solids of 50 is fine. The WHO recommendation states < 300 mg/L is excellent, 300-600 mg/L is good quality. Maybe the scale is different on the measuring sticks. I don't mess around with expensive filters. Unless the water has heavy metals in it, boiling is all that is needed. It kills bacteria, viruses and oocysts, and also removes chlorine and chloramines by steam distillation. Any university laboratory can measure heavy metal contamination.

A very interesting read, thank you. Have you read "Journey into Russia" by Sir Laurens van der Post? He explains Russia on a tribal basis.

A thai lady can have a 50:50 split of assets accumulated DURING the marriage. She has no entitlement to assets brought into the marriage. To my mind, that's a much fairer system. I suggest you talk to BritManToo about what British women expect. What Thai women demand depends on the boundaries set at the beginning.

IMO it would be a one-off bonus payment. Whether expats get it is another question.

It's not so hilarious when a western woman quite legally takes half your assets.

Trump threatens everyone. He stops when someone gives him a smack in the mouth. Wait for the flip-flop.

So when you have carpal tunnel syndrome, appendicitis, an inguinal hernia or a meniscal tear in either knee, you will do without? All conditions completely rectified by surgery. Possibly the dumbest post I have ever seen you make on ASEAN.

You know better than epidemiologists and virologists. Any SEM will tell you coronavirus is not rhinovirus. Please post your qualifications in the medical field.

Putin could stop it any time he wants too. I suppose being in a country which is as far away from any military conflict as it possible to get, enables you to condone the actions of Putin and Trump.

I am not sure it is possible. However, in terms of healthcare, America could do worse than to follow the Australian model. Our PBS system is very good. Part of America's solution would be to limit the ability of lawyers ( we call them ambulance chasers ) to get eye-watering sums for medical malpractice. Some of the damages awarded are ludicrous. This drives up the cost of professional indemnity insurance, the doctors are forced to increase their fees, lawyers feast on the court cases. I have posted on other threads how a tax on revenue would reverse the hollowing out of the middle class.

Thank you for proving my point , by totally misspelling the word apostrophe. You obviously don't know the difference between an apostrophe and a comma either. Bye now.

Actions speak louder than words. Ben Hogan rarely said anything on the golf course, he let his golf do the talking for him. Calvin Coolidge was known as Silent Cal. His presidency was noted for restoring confidence in government, after the scandals of the Harding administration.

A balanced budget with $36.5 trillion in debt. Do you still believe in the tooth fairy?