KhunLA

Not a status symbol, or 'look at me, I'm rich', just practical money management & enjoying like. Wife & friend @ RTAF Wing 5, coming back from surfside vendors. The Fomm One, local-sh neighbor having since they were released. Always spotlessly clean. Few more neighbors have Atto 3s, a MG ZS, MG4, and a couple Haval H6s. Couple also supplementing their PEA with solar 👍 Quite surprising, since all within 500 meters of the house (except Wing 5), and all of 50-75 households, as live kind of rural. One guy surfside has a Tesla.

curing salt ... "Curing salts are generally a mixture of sodium chloride (table salt) and sodium nitrite" - wiki If not wanting to use, this may help., though didn't search recipes for alternative curing, without curing salt. 3 gr is a minute amount. I used this, from online (?).

Fine line between offensive & honesty ... Snowflakes are great for comic relief 😎

Used this method / recipe as a guide, as didn't have a couple things he used. Though not needed. Left in frig for 30 hrs, since not using accelerator. Used table salt (?) (iodine'd), and milk powder as a binder. Used pork tenderloin, trimmed all fat & silverskin off, with these added ... Only took 1 hr to 'cook' in pot of water, so much faster than his estimate (15-2hr). Once water was simmering, and straight out of frig, so 40F, internal temp. Up to about 170F when taken off the stove. Had to add a bit of water half way through, as steaming off. Bought meat press on LAZ

Don't think he went to Nam during the war, as apparently, he was still in his 40's, when passed away, Maybe 50 yrs old, if birthday after 14 Sept.

My 1st pressed ham ... awesome, if I say so myself. Why have I never done this before. Better, no chemicals, and <฿200 a kilo instead of silly priced deli ham from 'everywhere'

Need Solar or BEV or both 😎 OR ...

Agree, and been damn chilly down here / PKK overnight, as haven't used the AC at night in weeks. And it's October, not Dec / Jan. Sleep with the fan on, and use a blanket

"Severe Smog as PM2.5 Levels Soar Amidst Heat Wave" Guess you can't blame it on the cooler upper air, like more than a few do, though admit, it does contribute. And this is only October. shh ... don't tell the folks that say smog is only bad Feb, Mar, & Apr ... shh. Now it seems October to May, or when the rains actually start. Break out the N95s

Sort of mirrors me, as 25 yrs ago, TH wasn't on my radar at all. Buddy of mine (true sex tourist) was a regular visitor, but it didn't interest me at all. Even though I was single at the time. I had 6 weeks holiday to burn, before end of year, too many weeks of timeshare to burn or lose, so he suggest TH. Put in a timeshare trade, told rare to happen on short notice. Usually go diving somewhere, but it was hot in Memphis TN area, and didn't want to got from hot to hot. So popped over to Sweden (snowing there) to visit my niece. Added Amsterdam (excellent) & Copenhagen. Went to Philly, PA (hometown area) for a visit, then got trade approval for timeshare on Phuket. Quick check of the flights, then popped over for a long week, of diving & exploring Phuket, then added it to the list of retirement options. TBH, didn't do much research, except weather, and natural disasters (Typhoons/ Earthquakes), and didn't even read up on visas Returned next year (Sept 2000) and stayed, the rest is history, as they say. Had already liquidated my assets (RE), and actually commuted to work from TH, for 5+ months (March 2001), though here / TH more than work, burning all my vacation & sick time. If I didn't work for airlines, would have never came here. If First Class seating wasn't available (30 hrs) I would have never came here. If I didn't scuba dive, would have never came here. If didn't have too many vacation weeks & timeshare weeks to burn, yea, would have never came here. Must have been fate One of my best impulsive, why not ideas I had in a long list of. Got great dog, daughter, wife and couple hobbies out of it. Along with all the other positives. What ever or how ever ... ENJOY ... tick tock, we're on borrowed time 😎

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I'd normally say, what ever the 'insured loss' value is +/- 10%, but that sure has plummeted in the past year. Ask how much coverage you'd get on a policy for it, as ours dropped from 848k, to 500k, and as rediculous as that was, cost 2X for that coverage, as you know. Made the decision for me to scratch the idea of getting a truck, as I was 50/50 on that thought, but now not even thinking about one.

Didn't even notice the date of OP 🙄

Really, did you bring companionship with you or were you actually visiting people that you knew? My first visit here was more diving and just burning up timeshare, but I was well aware of the companionship situation so I had to experiment and rent one for a week, made it quite nice.

I'm a sexpat when single, but not P4P, and just a common Horn toad 😎

Loophole ? ... just no hassle thrifty shopping 👍

Enlightened consumers, supply & demand, pricing & completion ... we'll see what the next 5 yrs does to the market. Should be interesting. Myself, just a spectator, as don't need any more transport. Think I scratched the idea of a truck, as just a bit too frivolous, and impractical. Maybe if younger, and just arriving to TH. After I crap out, wife won't have a real use for it, and 1M in the bank, is better than a pittance in the carpark, in say 5-10 (longer hopefully) years, along with yearly costs just to insure it.

The weapon used in the attack was also recovered by the police, hidden under the seat of his motorcycle. Sorry, couldn't help myself. Agree, silly statement by S100. Although from experience, it easy to acquire a gun (2 if wanting) in TH.

How much have you ? Trump has paid 10's of millions in taxes, if not 100's over the year. How FEMA spends it, of govt sends it overseas to fight proxy wars isn't his concern ... unless when president.

Yep .... NO work, NO eat. Just picking up the trash roadside would be a great help. Landscaping at parks. The dangerous folks, stamp out license plates Plenty of things to do, unskilled or skilled. Skilled, knock some time off your sentence. Unskilled, may even learn a trade = rehabilitation.

agree ... rat snake

All vehicles across the board will be depreciating, as long as there is a price war. CN is bringing in a new era of 'auto sales', stopping the price gouging for their under performing POS,from the legacy auto makers, and it's coming to an end ... thankfully

Judging the judgmental ... nuff said

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Lucky they provide food at all. Predators of society should be on a work farm, producing their own.