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Whatever it is that is really needed in life... I don't have it. Those that "say" they have it... Don't have it. We DON'T Ever Get what we Need... But if we try sometime, we'll find We get what we want... And by then, we don't want it anymore.

Having neglected to mention the famous book of strategy. Art of War, in the original topic... Has anyone read Art of War, and is this book useful? Here is a link to a webpage which purports to show how to use Art of War in any negotiation or any business conflict, etc. https://www.expertnegotiator.com/tip/the-art-of-war-and-negotiation/ On this site, there are listed 12 "lessons" adapted from Art of War, such as these two: Lesson 5: “Keep him under a strain and wear him down.” Lesson 11: Chang Yu: “If the enemy general is obstinate and prone to anger, insult and enrage him so that he will be irritated and confused, and without a plan will recklessly advance against you.” I must admit that I purchased this book decades ago, but never read more than a page or two. At that time, I didn't understand what all the fuss was about. Has anyone here had any experience using this book, in a useful way, and winning over a Machiavellian Landlord? IMHO: I think the Chinese can out-Machiavelli Machiavelli, hands down. So, here is a thought: What about if a tenant were to hire a Chinese guy to deal with the Thai landlord??? Who would win? I would like to see THAT happen, anytime soon.

OK. I will. I just rated this topic a 5. And you? 5 also?

Please don't apologize. I figure that, if I keep writing topics, sooner or later, you are bound to inadvertently open one that you will have found unexpectedly entertaing, and valuable. (My apologies, but, how do you like the grammar construction I used in the above sentence?)

Not trying to bed or wed her. Good suggestion! But if flattery doesn't work, why would chocolate? Besides, with this personality type, there are few things more stimulating and satisfying than exerting control over others. Some other strategy is required. Maybe something like trying to become an even more powerful narcissist. Or, rereading Machiavelli's book, The Prince.

Unfortunately, I am too old to have known that.. when I heard the term applied so appropriately.

That's what seems to have happened with two tenants in our hypothetical landlord case study, not before declaring the landlord TOXIC.

Well then, if one eats 1.5 5-egg omelets, almost daily, then having cholesterol levels checked periodically is cheap and easy, maybe. Good suggestion.

Maybe the OP is being gaslighted?

What you state, that severe money concerns might lead to similar behavior, in the short term, is logical. However, if other tenants had independently come to the conclusion that this hypothetical landlord were TOXIC, then we might be dealing with a different animal, altogether.

We are speaking about being used, abused, manipulated, and gaslit. This topic is not about working together with a cooperative and reasonable landlord. I most definitely agree with your good thinking that it's often in the interest of the tenant to share repair costs, because it builds good will. But here we're talking about the Machiavellian Narcissist whose ultimate goal is to control in order to get the rush/high of being controlling. This is a psychiatric and toxic disorder of the mind... It's not about the repairs, per se.

Be persistent in your Dickens' readings... And you shall very soon reap your many rewards.

My Fellow Subdued and Suppressed Victims of the Landlord Class! What can you do if you encounter a narcissistic Machiavellian & Gaslighting Land’Lady”, and what can you do if you don’t want to move? Are there good tactics you can employ? Say this person is completely obsessed with winning at all costs, in every negotiation, no matter how minute, even over issues that don’t even rise to the 5-Baht level. And, let’s say this person gets all her satisfaction in life just from getting the upper hand, no matter what the negotiation is about. Maybe she’s just a dried-up person who suddenly realizes that her personality disorder, narcissism, has left her with nothing to show for her long time on planet Earth. And maybe she wonders why, but is ultimately feeling frustrated because she is not introspective enough to arrive at the answer. Of course we do know that the Narcissist is one of the most difficult disorders to treat, simply because the narcissist feels no need to change their behavior, and might even be blind (in rare cases) to this ghastly behavior. Here are a few examples of a Machiavellian Landlord’s behavior and treatment of tenants: 1. Tenants and guests are treated either like zoo animals in China…Or, tenants are no more than widgets to be housed for a fee, similar to household goods stored in commercial storage facilities with those roll-up overhead doors. 2. Landlord makes promises they don’t keep. They will purposely promise something, just to try to be even more manipulative and deceptive. 3. They blame the tenant for problems with the property, when the property is not owned by the tenants. Who in their right mind would do such a thing? Answer: A landlord not in their right mind. 4. They refuse to make repairs…until pushed to the limit. Then, after promising to pay for the repairs, they try to go 50-50! Must be a nutcase, right! NO!!! They are just being Machiavellian Nutcases!!!!! 5. They are cold and sometimes abusive to tenants. Maybe not verbally or physically abusive, but they do not care about the welfare of anyone but themselves, and they abuse their tenants' rights in many small ways. 6. If the tenant complains, then the tenants get the…GASLIGHT treatment!!! So then..Let us accept, for argument’s sake, that the tenant is unwilling or unable to easily move out and find a new place: What can be done to counter the Machiavellian Landlord? I refrain from saying “handle” the Land’Lady’, because, in some cases, we have seen landlords which are too old and raggedy to handle…and…Let’s BANISH the THOUGHT of doing so before we all make each other sick to the stomachs! Look, Folks, we KNOW that there must always be a “best strategy” for managing any conceivable situation thrown our way in life. This situation is no different. What are useful suggestions about how you would deal with a landlord like this? DON’T, Please, just say: Move Out! Find another place! This is too obvious, easy, and not the thought experiment under consideration here. In some VERY REAL situations, moving is not possible, or moving must be delayed, or …you name it. What if one could NOT move. Then what. How to FIX the Landlord? How to FIX the Landlord! (No illegal tactics will be even considered.) Regards, Gamma, (And I am Gamma without my Gamma Rays.) Please Note: This term, ‘Gaslighting’, is actually NOT a new one, and this term has shown up increasingly in Psychology Literature… BUT, in case you do not wish to read the literature, and I do not blame you for your laziness and refusal, you can just watch one of the first WONDERFUL films that brought Gaslighting to the World’s Stage, meaning to the world’s general awareness. Please ENJOY this great film as you continue to think up the many possible ways to deal with this kind of landlord, a type that would put even that stingy old Rockefeller to shame, with his coin-operated pay phone installed in his house, so that his friends and relatives would not spend even a dime of his money. GASLIGHT, the FILM (only the trailer, and please torrent the film, ASAP):

I've been trying to find the American style electric fry pan here. Can't even find a good one on Lazada... Plenty on Amazon, though.

Like Monroe stated in the Seven Year Itch, it's simply scrumptious. Must be the garlic, or something...

If I had my Gamma rays machine here in Thailand, then I would be willing to consume raw chicken eggs. But since I have no easy access to Gamma radiation, I always thoroughly cook anything from the chicken.

Sometimes I get tired of eating so many omelets each week. And, once in a while, I decide to fast for up to 24 hours. And also, I sometimes enjoy a break in the monotony, and will go to the woman who makes my omelets, and order a few boxes of Panang Gai. But I never get tired of eating either eggs or chicken. I also never eat pork, beef, or fish.... Tuna I eat, though because tuna is the chicken of the sea. This is why omelets are so central to my diet, especially during the past three years. I almost never tire of omelets.

Even though I have my refrigerator compartment set at one degree above zero celcius, I believe it would be ill-advised of me to store cooked omelets at this temp for more than 24 hours.,due to growth of bacteria, food toxins, etc. You can easily google this question and find relevant graphs plotting bacteria growth, versus time and temperature. I have a few refrigerator and freezer thermometers. But what I am lacking is a thermometer sensor which I can connect to a data storage device, so that I can have a continuous record of temperature history in both the refrigerator and freezer compartments. Otherwise, how would I rule out the possibility that the freezer temp or refrigerator temp might have spiked high for several hours while I was sleeping. This is the main reason I will buy, next time, a refrigerator that connects to the internet.

Here are answers to questions asked: a. Why do I refuse to use a wok to prepare omelets? I have used a wok in China and in Taiwan. I cook at very high heat using peanut oil, or soybean oil with high smoke points. The smell, smoke, grease goes EVERYWHERE. I have no exhaust fan sufficient to vent the smoke (in Thailand) in my kitchen. If I were to buy a bottle of gas, and a wok, and try to cook outdoors on the terrace, then I would be attached by mosquitoes, almost incessantly, and the sweat would drip from my brow into the eggs. (This is exactly what happened last time I tried to cook outdoors in Naples, FL. In Naples, our kitchen was also not equipped with a high capacity kitchen exhaust fan. Not Good! b. Why must I cook 50 omelets all at once? This is just the way I cook. I like to prepare as much as I can in the shortest time possible, to be frozen and eaten during the following 30 to 45 days. I do the same thing with chicken breasts. I use a convection oven to cook 6 oven trays of chicken breasts. Up to 9 large chicken breasts will fit on my Electrolux convection oven tray (I purchased the largest model available from PowerBuy.) So, normally, after about 6 hours of cooking, I end up with about 50 well-roasted chicken breasts. These, I freeze, and then eat during the next 45 days, and sometimes even two months. This is another reason why I have two refrigerators. c. Does the taste/texture of food I freeze deteriorate? No. The taste improves. But, concerning texture, you gotta be meticulous about temp and time when reheating. All the above goes GREAT with Thai jasmine rice. I never get gastrointestinal discomfort, like some of my friends who eat at a different restaurant each week, day, or whatever. The stomach discomfort is not worth the enjoyment of Thai food eaten at questionable beaneries. So, I am happy with my diet. I just need to know the fastest way to make 50 omelets, without using a wok, and using some electrical appliance. A two-omelet or three-omelet machine might be OK for me. And, I would NOT want a machine that did not have enough wattage to cook very quickly.

No need. It's good! I don't have access to great BKK Thai food. But the food I prepare is healthy, never a stomach upset, and it's QUITE tasty. I love jasmine rice. Omelets go GREAT with Thai rice. Please note... This OP is actually serious to me, and I wasn't joking when I uploaded it.

I just add the 0.5 omelet to a bowl in the refrigerator. Then, the next morning, or evening, I can make omelet-and-tuna rice porridge. In China, we call this 'zhou'. I learned many of these omelet techniques during lockdown And I now call this my comfort food. You should try it, before you knock it.

So, actually, the REASON I posted this question was not just due to idle curiosity: a. I plan to move my digs, soon. b. Where I am moving, I potentially may not have access to my favorite omelet cook in the restaurant very close to my house. c. Therefore, I must come up with a solution because: Yes, I am not lying...I DO actually eat 1.5 five-egg omelets per day (average); I eat them with soy sauce, with ketchup; I eat them plain with jasmine rice, or with the bread I bake. I chop the omelet fine, and then add the chopped up bits to my chicken stews. I use my convection oven to make omelet "pizza" out of bread, a whole omelet, and various bottled sauces...Very Healthy and Tasty, too. d. What I need is some electrical appliance which can make two omelets simultaneously. As has been stated above, I would like to try pasteurized or frozen (uncooked eggs instead of fresh eggs in the shell) egg in liquid form. e. I want to be able to cook 50 omelets in the shortest amount of time, and then quickly freeze for up to 60 days. So, just in case anyone was curious, this is why I asked this question. And, I figure that there are others like me out there, too. Hope this topic is HELPFUL to some who may not like to cook, or who live in more remote places, or who just don't like to go to restaurants each day and stand in line in the heat or rain, waiting for just one omelet...

Concerning the freezing of cooked eggs, such as in the case of omelets... Yes, it's very possible, and the flavor and texture remains relatively unchanged. However, when reheating, I use a two-stage heating cycle... I heat to room temperature, then rest for a few minutes, and then heat to hot temp. Otherwise, parts of the omelet, especially along the outer edges, will toughen. If you reheat properly, then the omelet will taste as if it had never been frozen.

Yes. Too many eggs. But, complete failure of communication.

WOW, Man! Great idea! I hadn't thought of using pasteurized eggs, in bottle. This would simplify the process immensely! PS.. Lots of good advice here. Last time, the members helped me completely rectify my intractable bread flour problem when they told me to reduce the added sugar from 5 tablespoons down to ZERO tablespoons... And, the result seemed like a true miracle. The bread looks better. It tastes like bread, not cake. Also, I have this hypothesis why my loaves LOOK better, even! You see, it is my hypothesis that all that sugar caused the bread to rise too quickly and too much, and then... the bread just deflated due to lack of support. I know that my hypothesis must be correct... Thanks.