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In my albeit limited experience if food cools too quickly, the tasted and texture seem to suffer. As bad is if you defrost food too quickly. To the original point, this is what I believe:. https://www.bosch-home.co.uk/stories/tips-and-tricks/can-you-put-hot-food-in-the-fridge

4 of my favourite comedians - excellent 😆😆

Nobody expected that....

I thoroughly recommend Dar. Careful driver, friendly chatty personality

I hadn't looked at it like that - thank you.

Thanks @Sheryl May I add that if I have hot food leftovers, I always wait until it cools, then refrigerate it - if I'm not certain that I'll use it the next day I freeze it. So, in my case, the refrigerator does make the food colder but also keeps it cool and safe from marauding insects etc. But I do think that we Westerners are a little too "precious" and don't allow our immune systems to work. I think (and you will correct me if I'm wrong) that the immune system weakens if unused, like other parts of our bodies, muscles in particular. In England, there used to be a saying "You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die" - in no way is that to be considered scientific but I think it's still true!

If you'd bothered to LOOK, you'd have seen that I corrected my error on the previous page. I guess the joke's on you!

My bad!!! 🤬 👍for the correction - geographically challenged or what! 😆 What was I thinking - still, my other comments about the shop and the ease of obtaining such items still apply.

I remember going to the Cambodian border, (Mae Sot as I recall?) many years ago with a friend who lived in Pichit. He walked across the bridge to do his in/out while I waited for him on the Thai side, just on the riverbank. Strolling around, I spotted a shop selling all kinds of militaria, belts, holsters, flak jackets, balaclavas, batons, pepper sprays but all in packs of 20!! The shop owner came out invited me to visit the back room of the shop, but I declined. I always thought of the place as the "Arm your revolution here" shop - scary 😲

Thanks to those who've reported back 👍 So for now, it seems like just "get the TDAC and forget it". I won't be back for a few moths by which time it'll be glaringly obvious whether a printout is even worth the sheet of paper. Of course by that time, some other "genius" will have had a "good idea"...ho hum.

Who are the other two? 😁

The reports so far suggest that if you have done it they can already see it on their system, based on your passport. So the need to present anything is not indicated, although it would be a good idea to have it just in case. Obviously, you need to be connected to WiFi or mobile data, to complete the TDAC so if you download it to your phone, rather than just read it when it arrives it'll still be readable when you're not connected. (Same as any documents you have stored on your phone, like passport copies, travel insurance etc.) But as is being said, once you've completed the TDAC it'll be on the system anyway. As an aside, I never quite understood why the SETV that one paid for wasn't automatically on the system, but one was specifically told to print that. Actually, there is an official answer to the question on the FAQ page - looks like this

Can I play a bit of "1-upmanship"? "If you voted for Trump, you can't s**t here 'cos your a-hole's in Washington" OR "If you voted for Starmer, you can't s**t here 'cos your a-hole's' in London" One must be fair, after all 😂

Your point is valid - your accusation about stupid remark is not! I've been to stately homes with libraries of leather-bound volumes so i get that. To you, perhaps books are seen as you describe - I used to feel that way about vinyl records. I actually value the content more - records have gone! As for clothes, all I can say is "I disagree"...but I'm saying it politely!

Books - get eBooks and the appropriate reader. When I visit Thailand I bring over 200 books in my carry-on....on my Kindle. There are as many free eBooks as there is free music if you look in the appropriate websites. Clothes - have you actually checked the prices in Thailand? Over the years, I've bought so many shirts and shorts in Thailand (and Cambodia) that I now have none bought in the UK. Depending on where you're going to be living, that may be all you need. If you're planning on living somewhere like Bangkok you will probably want long trousers I imagine but if, say Phuket or Pattaya why would you? Digital equipment is cheap as chips (pun intended) compared with UK but i don't know about the US / India prices. Many of the components in my computers are "Made in Thailand" Cannot advise you about art supplies - I know nothing about that.

Clearly. The ignorance of such people who don't bother to find out often astounds me. It's the same here in UK - people paying over the odds for things like driving licences by going to non-government sites. I'm tempted to suggest that they're just lazy and deserve to have to pay!

For obvious reasons, I haven't looked and won't be looking at this fake site but I don't quite understand why anyone would bother with it assuming that you have to enter the same amount of information as on the official site. What's the incentive to pay to do the same job as you could do for free?

And you'd probably be right. I've no problem if you don't like the fact that I like the women, the bars and the sleaze. Adult things for adults!

I like it there - simple. Why would you think? I know you're goading me so bring it on old chap.

Not my flavour, but thanks for the offer 😂

I'm dying to ask why not, but it's none of my business. Have you looked at the various European airlines, requiring a stop-off?

Is that why you go there? You do seem very concentrated on their presence!

You and me both mate!!!! 👍😎

Sort of, but, don't you think it is incumbent on you to go where the options suit you, rather than expect your choices to be made available everywhere? IMO, that is a major failing with tourists - going somewhere and not adapting. To go to extremes, otherwise, you'd be expecting the same options in Pattaya as you'd get in Monaco! That's one of the many reasons I choose Pattaya over Phuket, despite going to Phuket for 20 years, back in the day. Yes, everywhere is more expensive today, sadly, but my point there was that flight prices aren't necessarily the fault of Thailand - re-read my post. And, I stay in a lovely hotel, rated as 3 star but I think that's optimistic. However it's clean, aircon, WiFi, good pool, friendly staff, just off Soi Bukhau. Walking, Baht bus or Bolt distance to everywhere I like - 1100/night in Feb-April. Works for me!

‘Greek Style’ sex (for Greeks) Have dinner, get the kids to bed, 10 minutes in the missionary position, Melina sleeps in the wet patch. Kiriaki and Panos hook up at a rave and get busy in the back of her Toyota Yaris. Marianna and Alexia spend an idyllic weekend at a hotel ordering room-service and working their way through 300 ml of Exotiq Sweet Strawberry Kissable Massage Oil. Yiannis and Panos go to a Truffaut retrospective and then after a brief spat about the relative merits of The Last Metro and Day for Night, they have a make-up 69 on the kitchen floor. Anastasia calls Kostas five minutes before he is due to referee the Super League football match between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos. Her fertility predictor alarm has just gone-off and he had better get his arse home and deliver his little tadpoles in the next 30 minutes or else!! Aris is banging Irene but fantasizing about Marina who works down the supermarket. Aris comes in less time than the Olympic record for the 1500 metres and promptly falls asleep. As always, Irene finishes herself off with her trusty power tool! ‘Greek Style’ sex (for non-Greeks) Danielle wears a Goddess dress off one shoulder and no underwear. Norman attempts to roger her for the entire 43 minutes and 11 seconds duration of a Best of Maria Callas CD by trying to remember the name of all nine Muses. Kyle and Krystal have a lamb kofta from the local kebab shop and then get off-their-faces on a hideous mixture of Ouzo, Retsina and Raki. They drunkenly perform the ‘Zorba the Greek’ dance and gratuitously smash some crockery before briefly copulating on the couch and then throwing-up a lot. ‘Greek Style’ sex (for deities) Males pretend to be something they are not (e.g. a bull, a swan, a satyr, a shepherd, an ant, a shower of gold, someone’s husband) Females get seduced, conned, or raped. Rapist’s psycho wife then turns-up, blames the victim, and dumps more crap on the poor girl. Bonus prize: Victim transformed into a tree, or a constellation, or a cow, or a bear, or burned alive. ‘Greek Style’ sex (for people that like sploshing) Get naked and liberally cover one another with sliced vine tomatoes, chopped cucumber, thinly sliced red onion, Kalamata olives, dried oregano, chunks of feta cheese and a liberal slug of extra virgin olive oil. You can now have Greek Style Salad sex. ‘Greek Style’ sex (for people that like euphemisms) ‘Greek Style’ is a polite way of referring to male homosexuality. More specifically, it means anal sex. (A choice occasionally used by heterosexual couples as a cheap form of contraception.) The name arises from the fact that homosexuality was regarded as an important morale-booster in the Ancient Greek military. It was felt that soldiers would fight more bravely in the company of their lovers. You get to shout “THIS . IS . SPARTA!” as someone plunges into an unexpected hole?