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On 2/12/2025 at 9:32 AM, scubascuba3 said:

Drip coffee, what a connoisseur you are 😆

You must be a true connoisseur. Cant think of anything as generic as the taste of an espresso shot. 

 

Thailand’s coffee continues to improve. Their Arabica continue to improve. Taking advantage of that, brewed, press, cold or drip coffee has become fashionable in CM these days. A number of shops doing it. Nice to see. Flo coffee on Charoen Muang RD, east of the Ping, next to the famous salapao shop, is happening place. Sadly  tourists & pats have yet to find it. If in CM, well worth the effort to visit.

 

Not the best in CM, but the best on the eastside ... maybe. For rice paddy dwellers. No such things as an 'American breakfast', but eggs, bacon, hash browns, and a short stack pancakes, or variations of, is one standard available at diners across the US. Grand Slam with home fries.

 

Texas, nothing Prayer & Leeches can't cure.

5 hours ago, Tailwagsdog said:

10 hours ago, chondan said:

I have called it the China Virus ever since it happened.  I have not given it the ABC  PC BS names.  And I believe the leak was intentional by the CCP.  I will believe that until it is proven to be not true.

I agree one thousand per cent and I call it the china virus as well ..oh oh you're so racist ..so what about Spanish flu, German Measles, Japanese Encephelitis, etc....the woke world is a joke world ..

You guys got woke on the brain, so much so you don't see what is right in front of you. I used to use the term ... W----- Flu .... on a number of my posts here. Until the powers that be, deleted it, like it was a curse word. ever since I had to be careful ... say 'the flu that originated in Wuhan'. That so tender sensibilities here on AN are not offended and outraged. 

Miss that did you.    now have fun chasing that WOKE bogeyman.

13 hours ago, kwilco said:

Other examples of  Authoritarian governments relocating capitals… Nigeria:

Pakistan: Karachi to Islamabad (1959)

Brazil: Rio de Janeiro to Brasília (1960)

Lagos to Abuja (1991)

Kazakhstan: Almaty to Astana (1997)

Indonesia: Jakarta to Nusantara

Myanmar: Yangon to Naypyidaw (2005)

 Thailand: Bangkok to Petchaboon 1943

A forgotten historical footnote. Pibul got worried when the allies attacked Italy. He decided he wanted an inland capital and one more difficult to attack. He imported a bunch of Ban Nak issan workers who quickly succumbed to malaria 🫤.  When the war was over, told the allies, he was actually concerned that (his ally), Japan, might decide to occupy Thailand in force, like they finally did with French Indochina in 45. Heh. Whatever his defects, the man had a golden tongue. 

Pibul - A man with the rare ability to see 'wrong as right', according to a famous Thai mah do.     

18 hours ago, Flyguy330 said:

Trump held a RALLY outside A GOVERNMENT BUILDING in Washington DC and called on the crowd to 'Fight back' against election theft by the incoming administration, gets accused of inciting a riot.

 

Article on the BBC website today states that Liz (Pocahontas) Warren held a RALLY outside A GOVERNMENT BUILDING in Washington DC and called on the crowd to 'Fight Back' against the incoming administration - Quote - "In the building behind me, Elon Musk is seizing power from the American people," she said last week at a rally outside the Treasury Department in Washington, DC. "We are here to fight back." BBC Report

 

I've said it before - I'm not a Trump fanboy. But the lies and misrepresentations, and the twisting of words, turned me off the Democratic Party and the MSM to the point that I felt sympathy for the OrangeMan!

 

The HYPOCRISY is sickening.

This is the best BS you can sling against a wall?!  Try again tomorrow.   

Are you expecting too much? Yeah, sure you are. Amazon has been like that, for a long time. Only thing in their favor is they are at PTT stations. Hit the can, the 7, pick up latte, back on the road, bad coffee though.

Lots of Thai companies are the same. Wawee coffee was/is notorious for dixie cup lattes. Puke. I refuse to drink there.
 

As for small shops, mom & Pop small stores. Many of those just cannot throw out stale coffee. Thai economics. 
 

Which brings us back to Starbucks. It’s fashionable to sneer and sheep need to do that, they need to run with a flock, Still while expensive, you actually get a real cup. I was going to say coffee but make it an espresso beverage. Thai Bev, the company that runs Starbucks Thailand, has/had a policy for stores NOT to brew up “coffee”, just sell expresso, as too few Thais drink it. If you brew a tank you have to throw it out after an hour. Again Thai economics, can’t do that.  Yes, a few Starbucks stores did and do brew up regular coffee but they’re in high volume tourist/expat areas. Not that there is anything wrong with that ... with espresso drinks, although, yes, they do seem a bit too swish. Hopefully that is changing now as brewed coffee is becoming trendy in Thailand.

I do drink occasionally at Hillkoff 'training' cafe, Mahidol store in CM, but its a one off shop. Quiet, they are happy to have you there. None of the neo hipster bearded digital gonad types, comparing tattoos. In CM that is a blessing. 

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You wonder if she spoke out against the war with the Ukraine. Or did not support the current regime? That could get her in real trouble and Russia's allies would not be lenient with her. Whoever those allies might be. 

Ontario will pull all American alcohol from its government run liquor stores on Tuesday. 
 

3 hours ago, impulse said:

It was the previous administration whose watchword was "Don't".  And that weakness got the world into wars in the Middle East and Ukraine.

the previous administration told Putin to invade the Ukraine. The previous administration told Hamas to attack Israel.

What bull excrement are you peddling today 🥱 

Another Ultra Monarchist rent a mob?! 

Greece 2019. They were plenty PO'd about the US, suddenly turning 180 degrees and allowing Kurdish allies against ISIS, to be attacked by Erdogan's Turkey. Thank you Donald Trump.

The Greek people themselves were fine. It was the security, immigration arriving and leaving . Heavier still if you were crossing the land border, Istanbul to Thessalonica. All it took was a phone call from Erdogan and Trump was licking the bootheels of a ethno populist strongman.  One which, it should be noted, had allowed, made money from ISIS oil shipments plus funneled Syrian/Iraqi refugees through Turkey to the EU. 

How this would play out with four years of a raging Trump administration is guesswork. Expats would be advised to have a plan B (and C). As years go by the once friendly locals might start throwing rocks.