bluesofa

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

No, you have not misunderstood. I have COVID insurance with Roojai, 14 day qualifying period ( for obvious reasons ), yearly premium 850 baht. It covers me for 100,000 baht expenses if I am hospitalised with COVID. If I cark it with the same condition, my GF gets 1 million baht. I've already warned her not to sneeze or cough near me, I might take it the wrong way.

Does it cover you for an out-patient covid test?

To me it looks like tambon Chang Puak, amphur Chiang Mai? Not that I know it.

4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

That'll pull them in... go out on a leash.

 

It gets my goat too.

11 hours ago, foreverlomsak said:

Problem being who determines "healthy" or not, it goes round like a merry-go-round, one day salt is bad for next salt is OK, ditto coffee, eggs, chips, beef, chicken, etc, etc. If we follow every "instruction" of this is not good for you we would not even be allowed water to drink or air to breathe.

That's very true.

In my earlier post I also mentioned salt, sugar, fat, mainly due to the book 'Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us' by Michael Moss, an investigative journalist :

"Michael Moss was able to get executives of the world's largest food companies to admit that they have only one job—to maximize sales and profits—and to reveal how they deliberately entice customers by stuffing their products with salt, sugar, and fat."

9 hours ago, Nout said:

We know the majority of Thai people WILL cooperate based on past patterns of behavior in recent months. I am here now and was here then. The majority of Thais followed medical directives and suggestions. To suggest otherwise is incorrect. Perhaps you were not here to see it.

The majority isn't enough though for an infectious disease, as has been shown by people illegally crossing the border. Those are in population terms a 'minute number' of people, not just a 'minority'.

It needs absolutely everyone to cooperate to stop the spread, including the irresponsible government ministers who don't wear face masks. Perhaps they think they can claim diplomatic immunity?

9 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

8 hours ago, Elkski said:

This is terrible that they are charging so much.   I won't say anything else. 

I bet the unelected "PM" and his Generals will have their noses in the trough.

Would the noses be through a cloth or N95 face mask though - or more likely nothing?

3 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The victim was a guard at the illegal gambling den thought to be at the centre of the outbreak in the eastern province.

{snipped}

The victim had a record of ischemic heart disease, stroke and diabetes, according to Satit.

It seems rather ironic to me that someone so unwell was working as a guard. Surely not the best person for such a potentially stressful/physically demanding job?

26 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Government confident in controlling COVID-19 situation, with cooperation from the public

We know the majority of the people will not cooperate. They had better have a national lock-down right now.

5 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

34 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

I think George Formby was around before Fairy.

So was Frank Thring.

Did he have a reputation for cleaning windows too?

1 hour ago, englishoak said:

 Everyone including children should also be given a diet sheet, made to exercise 30 mins per day, given an appropriate IQ assessed career, monitored at all times by holy NHS and unable to receive treatment if rules are broken ....

 

Or

 

Let adults choose to live the life and eat the diet they wish... 

 

What happened to the my body my choice luvvy brigade ? seem to be a lot on a diet of hypocrisy  here lately..

I'd agree with the idea of daily exercise.

From I can see these days, the most exercise kids get is with their fingers on a smart-phone. Diabetes and RSI are becoming the new normal.

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

There are three types of detergents, cationic ( pretty rare ), anionic, and nonionic. They all function by lowering the surface tension of water from 72 dynes/cm. In the case of nonionics, 35 dynes/cm. Anionics, 25 dynes/cm. Nonionics are usually clear viscous liquids. Anionics are soaps and sulphonates, not clear liquids, more like pastes.

If I see a bottle of dishwashing liquid that sloshes around like water when I shake it, It's probably been watered down. Selling water is a very popular pastime with some manufacturers.

You get what you pay for. Just use more of the Thai liquid, two tablespoons instead of one.

I suspect the Fairy stuff has been tweaked by incorporating a sulphonate into the base nonionic. Does it look hazy at all? Any manufacturer that has a product that performs better will add a premium.

We used to test the performance of various dishwashing liquids by soiling plates with 2.5 ml of tallow, then washing the plates with 5 litres of water at about 60 degrees C with 50 mL of liquid detergent. The best performers got to 25 plates before they stopped being effective.

Fairy is green, but not translucent. The cost of getting it here from abroad makes it too expensive.

The Thai washing up liquid we've always bought in the past is...(to avoid naming names here) the one in a yellow bottle which appears to have something to do with light rays from our sun. Is that one you think is OK, or does it have too much water content?

Alternatively, if you can suggest good ones and bad ones, please pm me if you would be so kind.

Pickett

11 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

 

Didn't Nanette Newman also do an advert for Fairy back in the seventies?

3 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

I guess just somethings you cant do without

I know my place...

2 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

 

Sounds fairy'nuff Mr Sofa you can have your own home " bubbles " then   .. I can relate to that .. but don't be getting in a lather about it .. soapfully someone can send some in the post to you .. 

I never realised washing up liquid was so interesting until I just researched it but by all accounts there is Platinum aaa'nd Platinum with Lemon ????.. 

Choices and decisions to be made then Mr Sofa ..

This is the one we have at present, all the way from sunny Finland:

33 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

There's nothing wrong with Thai washing up liquid, all I do is check the viscosity in the bottle to see if it has been watered down. The vast majority of washing up liquids are nonionic surfactants.

Way back when, I worked as a trainee chemist for Unilever. I can remember the total cost base for many of their soap and detergent products was 80% advertising.

I also remember the rivalry between Rinso and Persil. Identical soap powder products, coming off the same production line, just going into different packaging. Yet there were housewives who would swear blind one was better than the other.

Marketing, marketing.

I can only say from my experience that Fairy seems much better at getting the grease and dirt off plates and cutlery. Plus one litre (two bottles) has lasted just over a year.

Can you expand in basic terms what you said about checking to see if it is watered down?

Do you mean there's some way to get the Thai washing up liquid to perform on a par with Fairy?

10 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

https://www.lazada.co.th/catalog/?q=fairy+dishwashing&_keyori=ss&from=input&spm=a2o4m.home.search.go.1125719cdbVhMq

 

Bloody expensive.

Thanks for replying.

Yeah, you're right. I see in the UK it's £1.50 for 625ml at Tesco.

Unless someone comes up with a better price, looks like Fairy's off my christmas card list.

First, I'm sorry it's not food by any stretch of the imagination. I couldn't think where else to ask about it though.

Does anyone know if it might be available here?

My sister-in-law brought us two bottles when she came to visit from Finland a year ago. I had forgotten how good it was, having got used to the low quality Thai equivalent for years.

I see the bottles we have are called 'Fairy Platinum'.

Now having nearly finished the second 500ml bottle, I'm wondering if I can buy it here?

I live in Udon. I did look at the Tesco Lotus website, but couldn't find it there.