Lacessit

Apparently some good business is being done by converting shipping containers into residences.

I don't mind gecko shi#, they will take care of insects like that naturally.

Almost every time I go to the bank to withdraw cash for living expenses ( once a month ), I will see someone stashing away multiple wads of 100,000 baht in a tote bag. I paid for a car with 450,000 baht in cash, it was accepted with enthusiasm. IMO Thailand has a long way to go before it gets to Australia's level, where cash is probably less than 10% of transactions.

In Australia post World War II, we had "Myer Homes". Built with prefabricated concrete walls, a corrugated iron roof. Paper fluff ceiling insulation. Cold as a pawnbrokers' heart in winter, hot as the Great Sandy Desert in summer. Tesla homes sound the same to me seventy years on, with connectivity added. I tend to buy things that have established a solid reputation, and let others be the lab rats.

"Organic" may also mean no fertilisers, herbicides, pesticides or preservatives were used during farming and after harvesting. It's a catchall description.

The term "organic" always amuses me, as I have yet to see an inorganic foodstuff. Pregnant women sometimes develop a craving for chalk, but that's about it.

What is it you like about Bangkok that you can't get in other Thai cities?

I see smartphones used by dumb people at the Big C checkouts, taking 3 or 4 times as long to pay while I am waiting with cash. I can't say I have ever seen a smartphone used to pay the Akha lady who sell me vegetables from her roadside stall in the day market.

Cricket is well known for sledging. IMO this is the best one: Eddo Brandes v Glenn McGrath After Zimbabwean Brandes played and missed a Glenn McGrath delivery, the towering Aussie quick enquired: “Oi, Brandes, why are you so fat?” The immediacy of Brandes' reply had Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke in stitches in the slips: “Because every time I sleep with your wife, she gives me a biscuit”

Judging by the brain farts the Poms had on day 3, they may be hoping for more rain. The funniest one was Stuart Broad, yelling for a review of the umpire's decision ( a bad one ) when England had run out of reviews.

Outside banks, there still seems to be plenty of ATM's. I prefer those in case the ATM decides to swallow my card. I have yet to see a day market stall that is armed with an EFTPOS machine, so I think cash will be around for a while yet.

Start keeping falcons.

I stand corrected, but then I am more used to sheep and wheat.

There are clues in the OP, such as "test" , "bowling", and "Kevin Pieterson". The second post ( mine ) talks about batsmen, bowlers, fielding and dropped catches. It's a bit like golf, with talk of drivers and wedges. Like the English, the Scots have rarely been much good at the game they invented. The current world # 1 is either Irish or Spanish.

Both sides have good batsmen and bowlers, IMO the difference is fielding. The Poms are dropping more catches.

IME forcing a kid to do what they don't want to do is a waste of time and effort. The father presumably sets boundaries, the mother doesn't. Not hard to guess which mode of living is preferred. Perhaps a carrot and stick approach may work, for both child and mother. The best any father can do is be a role model. If the son of the OP does not want to follow up, the father is not to blame if things go pear-shaped. Bear in mind every son rebels in their teens, maybe he will grow up.

I can remember the words umbilical and architecture very easily. However, I always find myself casting about for the correct way to pronounce them.

If you go back to your original post, you typed ghg, not hgh. Which I took to mean Green House Gases. O my indeed. I am not even sure what you are trying to say in your posts. If you want to use the soubriquet "stoner" I consider I can draw conclusions from it. Draw your own conclusions from the complete Latin phrase " Nemo me impune lacessit".

Some water pumps have an internal air-filled rubber bladder. If said bladder develops a leak, the bladder fills with non-compressible water. If that is the case, a new bladder is required. IIRC they are filled with air at 30-50 psi.

I fail to see why I should go looking for links just to satisfy you. What did your last servant die of? If you want to conflate stem cells, greenhouse gases and testosterone treatment into some weird conspiracy theory, be my guest. Given your nom-de-plume, not surprising. https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana/there-link-between-marijuana-use-psychiatric-disorders

I am fond of words such as hermeneutics, thaumaturgy, and apodeictic, although they are difficult to work into normal conversation. I enjoy finding new obscure words, it's another form of mental exercise. I occasionally forget punctuation if I am in a hurry. IMO the brain is the same as controlling arthritis, use it or lose it.

One does not need a link. All anyone has to do is determine whether what has been published is peer-reviewed. If it's not....... The statistics on COVID say an unvaccinated person is six times more likely to be seriously ill or die, than someone who has been vaccinated. OTOH, anti-vaxxers routinely publish ridiculous claims, such as 19 Italian nuns dying of COVID after vaccination. If you are unable to detect the fatuity of said "research", I can't help you.

"A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits". ( Edith Sitwell )

Try Peera Pharmacy in Chiang Mai, they have an online shop. You can also talk to the owner on LINE, she speaks very good English. If she doesn't have it, probably no-one will.

My son is in a quandary. His father is compos mentis ( biased opinion ) and his mother has advanced Alzheimers, which started at 65. It's a genetic coin toss for him. Kraepelin's definition comes to mind: " Paranoia is the development of a lasting, immovable delusional system, which is accompanied by the complete retention of clearness in thinking, willing and acting". Of course I am crazy, I am responding to posters on ASEAN.