Prubangboy

Another grievious injustice:

After a year+ of living like a macrobiotic monk, am I more energetic, having better poops, sleeping better, happier? Have I ever enjoyed "the burn" post-gym?

No. 

I can claim a small bump in self-esteem in that I'm taking care of myself responsibly. I can drag two 8-packs of big water bottles up 24 steps without stopping. If I can think of a third thing, I'll ping back here.

Men's Health Magazine lied to me. I was gullible at the "she's only a cashier"-level. For example, post 65, weight lifting 3 times a week does less for you than 2 times a week, due to the need for old-guy recuperation. If you do yoga and weights, they both do a little bit less for you than if you did one full-on.

Health is a funnel that can only handle so much input at one time. Past 70, that funnel definitely narrows. Be self-loving, pragmatic, and realistic. I'm at the gym these days to stay out of managed care, not to be more appealing to women. 

The only other thyroid advice I have is to take rest when you need it, for as long as you need it. Maybe learn some relaxation-breathing techniques if you're a bit Type A. It's not just the quantity of the rest, but also the quality. Learn what deep rest feels like. You already know what extraordinary fatigue feels like. 

Joe Rogan (who I hate worse than Satan) said that you should envision that you have X number of energy units a day and you should strategize to use them optimally. For Thyroid people, that goes double.

Why not reach out to people here who are local to you?

I've met 2 in Chiang Mai, I'll meet up with another couple I've exchanged PM's with eventually.

It would be helpful to broaden your criteria from "must want to talk about what I want to talk about" to "amiable, interesting person who seems to have gotten himself some sort of life". 

Your age requirement is another self-limiter.

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

 

I suspect the Brits speaking with Jamaican accents, aren't that educated either.

Jah accent is just about the hardest accent to fake. Black Brit-Jamaican accent is like posh-Rasta compared to a cane cutter, bongo beater in the Jah-mountains.

I went to 8 Nottinghill Carnivals in a row. Dub Poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson has a good brit-Jah accent, as did Jah brit poet laureate Benjamin Zephariah (died recently). As did the Levi guy who won on Shark Tank with his Reggae Reggae Sauce.

Just like very white-ish black people like Obama can slip into jive talk when it suits them, English-Jamaican people are ready to channel Bunny Wailer at the drop of a hat.

Certainly, Joe Strummer had the most egregious fake English Jamaican accent. I saw The Clash in Montego Bay and the Jamaican people couldn't understand him. They were there for YellowMan anyway. Here he is absolutely murdering The Harder They Come:

But Tom Hanks's son has taken the bad Jamaican accent as far as it can really go:

https://globalnews.ca/video/6372128/tom-hanks-son-questioned-for-speaking-patois-on-golden-globes-red-carpet

-Nick, can we hear more about the pedo insinuations? Let's not let this mod-lite era go to waste.

I'm making fun of your border stuff comments.

Then I pointed out that an educated brit like you would hate the actual Trumpies on the ground.

But you'r too drunk to get the joke. So just put your head down on the bar mat and rest.

3 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Hahahahahaaa!  I am assuming you're joking!

I've been to a lot of the border towns.

Bleak. And Trumpy. Effete well-travelled tories like yourself would be miserable. Do you love cammo as a look?

And in Bleak Trumpland (which is 95% of it -think of a white Haiti), a border agent job is a ticket to owning a doublewide trailer.

They need a permanent immigration crisis. Their inbred cousin needs a job. 

As per above, Judge Gorsich wrote an opinion about this 10 years ago. He said the states decide, period.

Decide what?

Decide if someone can be denied being put the ballot if they are "constitutionally prohibited".

He didn't say a court judge decides after a trial. He didn't say The Supreme Court decides. He said the state decides. And they did, citing Gorsich in their decision.

So if Gorsich switches sides -or The Supremes just take a hachet to state's rights to please Trump, that's opening up another several cans of worms

And for what? To placate Fatty? That's how we ended up in this current mess in the first place.

Good quick Gorsich overview (fact or factoid?)

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ballot-supreme-court-2666839573/

As usual:

We'll make allowances and blow Fattie (again)

He'll feel more emboldened to go even more nuts (again)

This will lead to another "only him in the history of the entire world"-problem (again).

-Rinse and repeat until he dies.

12 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

That's a lot of factoids. 

 

Dimwit alert:

Only a real Mensa member says factoid.

I went down a google hole reading about factoids (because he can't). Factoid means things that are trivial or untrue.

Not:

Facts I don't liiiiike.

14 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

The problem is that the 14th Amendment does not define the disqualification process. So, any state could likewise remove Joe Biden from the ballot, if the process is ill defined.

Time for an emergency congress session to amend the amendment.

No prob -except for how to make it work only for Fatty but not for a democrat up the road? And constitutional amendment in an election year -no prob again, right?

The ball is already and play so the old rules must apply. The old rules are only a problem for Fatty; because of Fatty.

I say, tough luck, Fatty. What would Fatty say to you if the rules were going against you?

What's the plausible Biden insurrection case? There's no states rights-right to give anyone the heave ho just because they don't like their face.

People here are pretending there is -and then hilariously making vacuous and impotent threats against laughing in their faces-Biden.

Dream on, losers, your dope failed at his coup. And now he has to pay.

Yeah, thanks for that. It will amount to the same thing, but it is indeed not the same thing.

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Given Maine is likely to vote Democrat

Just for Laughs:

You get a choice of a Red State or a Blue State vacation, all expenses paid. You can pick:

Alabama, Texas, Florida -OR:

New York, California, Maine.

-As a lover of all things Red, you want to go to Alabama instead of New York, right?

On 12/30/2023 at 11:03 AM, Danderman123 said:

Not proven yet in a court of law.

Evidence was presented, insurrection was found. Was there a trial? No. 14th Amendment doesn't specify any need.

Repubs LOVE states rights when it comes to their pet issues like abortion and control. This is a states rights issue that is biting them on the ass. Neil Gorsuch wrote an opinion years ago affirming that states rights are untouchable. Do states have the right to regulate their elections? The Constitution says yes.

In my heart and head, I believe that Trump should be told to pound sand on these issues (immunity too). My pragmatic self tells me that won't happen due to fearfully placating whiny Trump Trash and their always shifting (when he's losing) game posts. 

We are subverting the constitution as written to assuage the fee-fee's of people who crow about liberal tears -and don't care one whit about what the constitution says -if it doesn't go their way.

So even having this conversation about just exactly how much we're going to bend the written in stone rules for a bully who has never given an inch to the other side is proof that Trump has already won.

Interesting wrinkle: The Supremes wink at Diaper Boy and give him a pass on insurrection but not on immunity (most likely outcome).

Jack Smith then finds him guilty of insurrection. What about all those states who already called it and were disenfranchised if (I mean when) The Supremes overturn them?

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

 

 

For 2024. I have decided to stop responding to posters who lack good manners. No return fire, they just go straight onto my ignore list

 

I don't feel that we have enough warm bodies left still posting in this little internet backwater to ignore anyone.

Also: after porn, laughing at idiots is why the internet was invented.

I'm on a 30 day marijuana-fast. I'm hoping to dodge the increased clarity-bullet. Clarity -never exactly a pretty picture.

I don't love Electronic Dance Music (EDM), but it was great to go to what was EDM Mini-Woodstock. It's a massive non-mainstream musical taste and a venue like FMP will def bring in some semi-names.

Without drugs or dancing, it can be patience-testing. I think of it as disco on a budget. I'd liken it to: I don't love opera either, but if I went to Italy and a famous one was playing right down the street, I'd prob pop in. I like that you can go away from it and come back. All night.

All walks of life and ages on the beach together. I can't think of anywhere else where that happens. Much more egalitarian and cross-political than the hippies were. It's always portrayed very negatively, but a google image of Nottingham Saturday Night will show worse.

Prob 50% English, 20% N.Euro, 20% Yank, 10% Middle East; mostly couples, often EDM tourists who might also vacation in Ibiza or Tulum. Chiang Mai and Pai are also on their Thai itinerary for more of the same.

We made challah bread for our New York Jew landlord for Christmas. It had a proper brown crusty bottom and a proper rise due to a pizza stone. He keeps sending me French toast video's.

If you bake more then twice a year, get a stone. 5,000 years of baking history is on my side. And the stone gets better as it gets more burnt.

You want a dry, super-hot oven. That's why we put the sauce on lightly. Steam is the enemy of bread. A hot stone is the enemy of steam.

On 12/27/2023 at 12:38 PM, NextG said:

Fresh San Marzano tomatoes slow cooked for hours to create a tomato base. Not tinned, but fresh. 
 

We tried it, with tomatoes straight off the vine, but it was a lot of work for a slightly inferior version to canned.

Some ethnic foods deliberately include processed foods because that's the agreed upon taste. In New Orleans Cajun food, they use garlic powder AND fresh garlic. They like that earthy undertone of the powder. In Puerto Rican food, they make their own sofrito and scoop some out of a jar too. Most Indians (and Thai's) start with a glop of a curry mix and then customize from there. 

Purists are the enemies of gluttons.

On 12/27/2023 at 3:47 PM, spidermike007 said:

 

 

Putting a little bit of olive oil on the crust before baking it also helps a lot. 

Make that super-lite olive oil. Extra-virgin etc burns at lower temperatures. Dab that on at the end.

We're going up to 800 degrees with an extra pizza stone on the upper oven rack above to refract heat.

Any person here not using at least a single pizza stone needs to be mocked. I designate NextG for that needed task.

He's right about the better ingredients in Euro-land, but they don't fire up the oven hot enough. 

Woodfired works for me too. Why Not? Italian in Nimman gets in the ballpark.

I love pineapple-everything and eat a mini-pineapple a day for fiber. The prob with pineapple pizza: Too acidic when combined with tomato sauce. Otherwise, I have no objections. Adding ham to it furthermore makes it too salty.

I used to do a white pie (ricotta-base) with paper thin pineapple rounds (roasted, so not soggy), pine nuts, and gorgonzola dabs. Blue cheese and pineapple is a perfect combo. I think I'll have it on toast later on.

We had an oven at home that went up to 1,000 degrees F and during covid became complete pizza-ologists. You want a 2-day sour dough rise, San Marzano canned tomatoes and not much oregano etc, and def no fresh herbs until table side, if at all. To get a crust that is both thin and chewy takes some kneading technique. It's a genius food of 3 ingredients. Anything else is dead weight. 

I tend to be anti-toppings. If pushed, maybe some decent, non-canned olives or possibly mushrooms. You have to worry about it being too salty. There's plenty of salt in San Marzano canned tomatoes. We grew our own SM tomato's but the canned kind worked better for pizza. In my native Staten Island, there is the noble tradition of the Grandma Slice, where whatever is heaving in the garden (basil, plum tomato's) is heaped on top of a reg. slice. July to September; then Grandma is done.

Finally, I am disappointed here at the lack of snobbery about coal-fired ovens. They get the proper density of heat that nothing else provides. Outlawed now in New York, a few grandfathered-in shrines like John's in the village keep hope alive. After New York, and then after Staten Island (it's own pizza-world), New Jersey is indeed superb -no wait, there's the coal-fired Nirvana of New Haven too.

Anthony  Bourdain said that you have decide if you are a cheese or a sauce person. We are sauce people. We def go light on the cheese and substitute 50% parm cheese. I tend to pick excess mozzarella off my slice.  Deep-dish? Like a bowl of melty cheese? Yuck.

Most tourists are here for the cheap beach experience.

In America, with Mex, Florida, and The Carib close at hand, a 26 hour flight to get the beachfront room for 70% off is a hard sell.

That's why I love Chiang Mai. To come here, you have to have some cultural interest.

Of course, to 80% of the tourists here, a cultural interest means washing an elephant that's been already washed to death or taking a cooking class where they're smart enough not to let you handle an actual knife. We have marijuana and mushrooms everywhere now too for additional cultural experiences.

In Nimman, at least half of the tourists don't even bother with a look-in at The Old City. We have our own, classier night market, thank you.

Most people list eating and shopping as their #1 and #2 travel interests, so there's no need to leave this lovely little grid of 8 soi's between 2 busy roads.

8 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Enya. 

Absolutely the least likely Enja fan on earth.