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10 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Please add me to your ignore list as well.

 

Being on the ignore list of some posters makes life less stressful and far more pleasurable.

12 hours ago, radiochaser said:

I don't know what the weather was like in 2013, up in Chiang Mai, but I do recall what I was told by a guy I used to work with in California. 

He was retired from the U.S. Air Force.  He was stationed in Chiang Mai sometime in the 1960's.   I don't recall if he said when in the 1960's.   

 

I do remember he said it snowed in Chiang Mai when he was there.  That was back before the dreaded global warming, climate change propaganda started. 

Yes.  I think your guy was entirely correct.

I have seen photos of Thai kids in Chiang Mai making snowmen , and getting into snowball fights in the streets of Chiang Mai, near the Chiang Mai canal area.

That was the year, I think, when there was frost on the windowpanes and icicles hanging from the coconut palms on the CMU campus.

The students were attending classes in long underwear that semester.

22 minutes ago, Stocky said:

Why didn't you start this thread in the Chiang Mai/Chiang Rai forum. The thread title says "Do YOU Think It Will Be a SUPER Cold Winter in Thailand, This Year?" which is asinine.

 

Thailand spans 15 degrees of latitude and 2565m of elevation. I live in Hat Yai, which is 7 degrees north of the equator, the night time temperature seldom goes lower than 22°C in January and normally stay above 24°C. The idea of a "SUPER Cold Winter" in southern Thailand is laughable.

Have you ever studied SET THEORY in your past math classes.

My title is logically correct.

Also, formal logic.

Have you ever studied formal logic in your days at university?

My title is logically correct.

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

@ WalMart

 

Yes.

That's the one.

Plenty of heat.

BUT, I have seen far bigger burners in Hong Kong.

The USA burners are just not big enough for me.

1 hour ago, khunPer said:

I always look at the locals, when predicting about winter...

And YES, I'm afraid it's going to be an utterly cold winter, the locals on Koh Samui have collected a huge number of logs for firewood for their central steam-heater…

 

Fantastic!

I KNEW it!

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

 

You mean really, really slowly?

 

75BTU is just under 22Watts, about 1/3 of a conventional 60W lamp, even madam's crock-pot slow-cooker is 180W

 

Now 75,000BTU (22kW) would be more like it

 

Them, there zeros are important.

 

 

 

 

Haha....!

Who stole my ZEROS???

75,000 BTU.

This is the absolute MINIMUM I use to cook Chinese cuisine.

Actually, it comes on a tripod, and was designed to boil large kettles of fish to make chowder.

What a magnificent gadget.

It sounds like a jet engine.

(By comparison, my AC machines are each 20 BTU.)

Wait....

I meant...20,000 BTU.

So, 75,000 BTU burners are nothing to sneeze at.

7 minutes ago, StayinThailand2much said:

 

I think, I remember. Suddenly Thais were walking around in jackets, as the temperature had dropped to 22 degr. C or so.

I loved it, and still walked around in a T-shirt, as it just felt like spring back home.

Also, the students at CMU stopped wearing short skirts for a week, and life became overly tedious.

2 hours ago, kevin612 said:

I never experienced cold weather in Bangkok and pattaya

Were you there in BKK when the temperature dropped to 10 degrees C?

Maybe not exactly frigid, but definitely brisk, and some might mistakenly say brusque.

Or, maybe you could have said that, too.

1 hour ago, alanrchase said:

I recall it as I arrived on 31 Dec 2013. That was the last normal cool season. Since then all the cool seasons have been unusually warm. Rare for the minimum temp to drop below 20C for more than a day or two. Ruins the fruit production on my marian plum trees.

I definitely agree.

However, as the polar winds continue to destabilize, we may yet see frigid temps return this year if we can just get a few good gusts from Hairbin.

3 hours ago, SeaBee said:

 

Uh in what country or age? In the US spin recovery training was dropped decades ago. Modern idea is to avoid getting into a spin in the first place, and it does make a lot of sense. Reality showed that if you're getting inadvertently into a spin, it's most probably at a low altitude which will not allow for recovery anyway.

Edit: apparently Canada still does spin recovery though. 

You are absolutely correct.

I learned to fly in 1973.

We also did aerobatics in a Bellanca with a stick for controls.

HammerHead Stalls are simply the Best...

4 hours ago, Neeranam said:

They will call you antisemitic for sugggesting that!

Noam is a wise guy.

That is what they will do.

However, then they would again be mistaken.

For I am only AGAINST holocausts of any kind.

4 hours ago, Bobthegimp said:

 

 I had immense respect for Chomsky until he said that. 

 

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/noam-chomsky-says-the-unvaccinated-should-just-remove-themselves-from-society

 

There's a lot of incoherent babbling in the interview. Hell, the dude's in his 90's.

 

Perhaps it wasn't a direct mention of camps, but rather isolation, and "how those isolated people get food is their own problem".  Pretty damned authoritarian. 

 

  Even this former genius failed to explain how someone who was unvaccinated against a disease could be a danger to someone who was. A first year philosophy student would mop the floor with him now. 

You may have misconstrued Chimpsky's words if you came away with this false interpretation.

However, there is no point arguing with a chimp.

1 minute ago, dcalaska said:

You could try this. It may help if the yappers owners are close by. Get a loud bluetooth speaker and point it the direction of the problem. 2; open a youtube vdo of barking dogs and play it as loud as possible. Give the problem neighbors a taste of what's it like to hear bark, bark, bark all day, all night. 

This did help for me with my problem neighbors. They came by our place to see what was making all the racket. They got the message, loud and clear. Now when their poop and fur factories bark and bark and bark, they put them inside the house. Not perfect, but much better now. Good luck. 

I STRONGLY advise AGAINST doing this.

This type of thing can provoke aggression and lead to disharmony in the village.

(But, still, if it worked for you...then....problem solved.  Congratulations!)

4 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

 

I also noticed this morning that the sky appeared to have fallen considerably closer!

If you are going to make ridiculous comments, as I sometimes do,....

Then....

At the very least....

Try to make them interesting.

Do you think you can manage that?

Please post another one.

2 minutes ago, Mike Lister said:

I live in Chiang Mai, I'm wearing thermals and a parka as I type.

As I say...

This morning was crisp and cold.

Great weather, though!

As for me...

It's not yet parka time, nor thermal underwear time...

And, I am wearing NOTHING...as I type.

25 minutes ago, Henryford said:

So far to me in Pattaya it seems super hot. Yesterday afternoon the sun was so strong.

Chiang Mai/Chiang Rai is what we are concerned about, this winter.

9 minutes ago, indyo said:

last year was colder from half November and did last for 3 months, this year cold is coming just from tomorrow night, let's see how will last.

 

Yes, and I do agree with you.

However, THIS year seems a lot like the year 2013, weather-wise, and I would bet money that this year will be almost as cold as 2013.

23 minutes ago, theshu25 said:

I am putting the idiot on my ignopre list in about 20 seconds. How can someopne be soooo bored  and have to write so much crap everyday

.

Times up.

Am I ignored yet?

I cannot feel a thing.

Your ignore button must be defective.

11 minutes ago, mickylongtime said:

dog whistle

Dog whistle?

Are you trying to get rid of the dogs or attract them to you?

18 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

i believed your comment up until you wrote about the gf.

No.

Actually, kissing in weather below 50 degrees C can easily crack teeth.

Don't attempt it.

13 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

This is most probably true; I have joints like that too

 

But I asked The Bard about your "super cold" 2013 winter, but he/she/it said it wasn't particularly cold then.

The Bard is definitely mistaken.

I bought two winter jackets, and two heavy quilts to last through the winter of 2013.

Also, if you check the news reports of the time, there were worries for the aged population, at the time.

I remember that winter clearly.

The wind through Chiang Mai was almost as bad as the frigid winds over the Steppes of Central Asia in the dead of real winter.

A comforter was of no use, it was so cold.

I asked for Three Dogs, but the Guesthouse did not allow pets to sleep with guests in the same bed.

33 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I think I will pass on the advice of someone who is murdering cabbage, and other innocent vegetables.

 

Tried piloting a small aircraft over the Hamersley Ranges once. While I could do it, quite taxing keeping the aircraft level.

Before you get your license to fly, you must prove that you can put the aircraft into a spin, and then recover.

I do not mean a slight spin.

I mean a FULL spin with several rotations.....and then a recover.

Try that on for size.

5 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

ever spend a winter in canada ? 

YES!

In Quebec.

In Timmins.

Negative 50 degrees C.

Too cold to kiss you GF outside your house.

24 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Your favourite AI (Bard) says: -

 

No AI can predict the future as well as my bones....

21 minutes ago, proton said:

How dogs ever managed to get the mans best friend description is a mystery, these barking, slobbering pests are more like the worst enemy. We had 14 yapping around us at one time while the owners were out at work, luckily most have died, moved away or been dumped somewhere. Something wrong with people who have to parade them around the shops in pushchairs, saw one in a central restaurant sat on a seat yesterday, might have been one of those  emotional support dogs, a lot of owners do seem in need of emotional support.

Noel Coward:

Slobbering Dogs

Barking Englishmen....

Maybe?

Or, the other way round?