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sirineou

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  1. Now he needs a VP that would also play ball.
  2. Someone needs to be blamed, and who more convenient than illegal aliens who have no capacity to defend themselves at the political level.. With stagnating birth rates all around the world many countries are having workforce , and demographic issues. They are faced with an increasingly aging population. This is an issue in many different levels , but a couple of important one is that older people consume more services, especially medical, and retirement. . And retirement systems have less young working people contributing and supporting the system. The US has a superpower. Immigration!!! both legal and illegal. and it is helping it maintain a competitive edge. Illegal immigration provides a steady influx of young hardworking man with a higher fertility rate, who are willing to work for less, at jobs that few americans want to do. MagaMorons complain about inflation. If illegal immigration was to be completely eliminated and all these jobs that illigals do had to be done by legal native workers, what do they think will happen to the cost of these services and produce? But you can't explained such things o magamorons, you know why? The clue is in the name I use to describe them. not only are they magamorons they are profoundly undereducated in these issues. It is like trying to describe a color to a blind person. it is an exercise in futility. So what is the real concern of the magamorons? it is thinly veiled racism and cultural ethnocentrism, everything else is pure BS. Go you remember what the magamorons were chanting at the infamous tiki torch rally, in Charlottesville? it started with "you will not replace us" and in what they thought was clever changed to "Jew will not replace us" and I dont blame them , no one want's to be replaced Well I got news for them, Get an education, Work hard , stop drinking and doing drugs, and no one would want to replace you, otherwise you are an endangered species, and the only way you will not be replaced is is violence. Then you have trump and all the trump wannabes , and they can use the ignorance and violence of the magamorons, And use they will. not using it would be leaving money on the table, and players do not leave money on the table if they can help it.
  3. He is still here?
  4. No cabbage expert, but it looks like normal cabbage sold at Macro or at the morning market here in Khon Kaen. As I said I am no expert , I had to look it up in google images,so please forgive me if I am wrong.
  5. A easy mistake for the American. no one told him that he was not in Kansas anymore (Wichita, Kansas) Unfortunately here in Los getting drunk and acting stupid is a capital offence , which is a big part of the declining population problem in Thailand.
  6. Not sure, 7 months is a seriously long time but it all depends on the relationship his agent has with the Immigration office. And whether the issue can be dealt internally. I have been doing extensions for a long time using the bank deposit method for married, well known at out local IO as we are friendly and outgoing. Two years ago I went to do my extension and it seems that a few weeks before my do date my bank account had fallen a little below the required 400k, (wife was purchasing another property and somehow had moved funds from my account for a couple of days, utili funds were transferred from the US account.) and even though it was there all year ,. still the IO could not do anything about it because a marriage extension is send outside the local IO office for approval and it would had been rejected. "No problem" the IO supervisor said. "come back in a couple of weeks when your money is fully season, pay a small overstay fine and we can do it then". I was a bit concerned and asked about being blacklisted. I was shown a stack of overstay paperwork and was told that she was the one who handled the issue and I had nothing to worry about. No envelope or anything! Very nice people at my IO . I go there even when I don't have to to do my 90 day. Went back a couple of weeks later , paid a small fine, did my extension, no overstay showed in anything I could see.
  7. You know how sweat tastes salty. It all depends on the water you were drinking. If it contains the minerals you need you are fine. But here in Thailand the bottled water we drink is either RO or distilled , which mean it does not have some of those Materials you lost in your sweat. It will not kill you not to have these electrolytes,(I think) but you would not feel well , and your performance would be affected. different people are affected differently . So sure you felt ok without replenishing your electrolytes, but you would have felt a lot better if you had.
  8. Drinking water is good but if you sweat you don't only lose water, you also lose many other things in your sweat such as salt etc (electrolytes) and those also need to be replaced. That's how the Gatorade drink sold in the US came to be , it was a mix of water and other things the coach of the Gators football team at the university of Florida had concocted . So if you are out in the yard gardening and you are sweating, you also need to replace the electrolytes lost in the sweat.
  9. Thank you for taking the time to answer. Do you think I would need shade cloth for cucumbers? I grew Coreander the last couple of months under shade cloth and it was the first year I had good success, The reason why I asked is that I realise certain things like certain times of the year, Take tomatoes, I had good luck October to end of jan, and then it got too hot for them. I think I will try one bed of those little thai cucumbers. I love pickling them.
  10. I gave you a laugh emoji 'cause I am sure you must be joking
  11. The roof would have to be attached to something. Usually it is welded to the rebar on the columns, the rebar transfers the forces from the roof to the foundation Load, or compression is not the only force. Sure it can support the weight of the roof. when the wing gets under the roof where it extends from the wall (usually 1m) you have an upward load. (tension) . If you are using AAC block all the way to the top . without columns, or a ring beam , the only thing that is holding the roof from blowing away is the top course of AAC block . First potential issue is that AAC block is soft and your unchors could pull away especially after years of this happening repeatedly during windy season. Second potential issue is that the block you have the roof attached too, could detach from the one below . if you go without columns ,one way to mitigate this is a concrete ring beam , another way is to have straps from the roof to the foundation. So true story. Me and my friend were visiting his uncle in Homestead FL after hurricane David had hit there. His Development was situated around a home made lake . and almost every house was leveled except his. This is what he said, and how it was explained to him by the insurance adjuster. a couple of weeks before the hurricane, the unit next to him was burglarized. They went in through the window, and my friends uncle went and had steel rolled down shutters installed to all of his windows . What the insurance guy said is, that in situations such as a hurricane what happens is that the windows blow in first, the wind getch in the house and lifts the roof, without the roof holding the wall box together , the walls colapse outwards. Since then it is code in FL , that straps are installed tying the roof to the foundation. I hope this little story made what I tried to convey a bit clearer, If you look at the picture in my first post, you will see a ring beam 1/3rd the way up under the window .and then you will have a lintel over the window. This is because I used double 7.5 cavity wall . it is more apparent in this picture. In this picture you can see that the AAC block goes all the way to the top, because my roof is welded to the rebar sticking out from the top of the columns. If you are making only one room , am I to assume it is and addition to an existing structure? if so, them you probably only need two columns, you could even buy the precast ones, thy are very cheap and easy to use. I used them at my farm where I made a 4x8 meter staracture, and we had 6 precast columns up in one day . next day we poured the slab. One day we had the roof and the next couple of days block window and door.
  12. I was surprised too.
  13. I stop buying Mayo. My sister showed my how to make and I was amazed hoe easy it was, 2 eggs , Oil , a teaspoon of vinegar, or lemon .a pinch of salt and a bit of mustard,. Whip for less than a min with a stick blender , and you have Mayo. Leave it plain, or add any spice you like,. I like a bit of wasabi. I was amazed how easy it was . Wish I knew that all y life, If you don't already know how to make it, serch YouTube, plenty of videos.
  14. No surprise that Diabetes incidence are skyrocketing, and not only in Thailand, but in Thailand moreso. I have stopped buying many of the street foods that I used to enjoy because they are loaded with sugar. Many of them taste like desserts. A few months ago, maybe more,while shopping at Makro is saw Hunts plain spaghetti sauce. I thought I was familiar with the brand and got some for when I make home made pizza and am too lazy to make my own sauce,. After I made the pizza it tasted sweet, and I was confused,. I usually put a little bit of sugar when I proof my yeast, just to wake it up, so I am thinking maybe I made a mistake and put too much, But i was sure I had not, And then I tasted some of the remaining sauce in the can , and boy was it sweet! Now I am not sure if Hunts has changed their recipe (but I don't think so) ,or of they have a special recipe for export to south east Asia.
  15. Great idea! wealthy women would be able to travel to another state and have their abortion, where the poor would have to settle for back alley abortions. Brilliant!!
  16. Some here, very windy late in the day, and we got some rain overnight. This morning felt nice and cool.
  17. Yea , what I think I had was Heat exhaustion. I exibited all the symptoms in your list. I felt like crap . What is important to remember and it took me a while to realise it also that day , is that when we sweat we lose essential electrolytes'. The bottle water we all buy is reverse osmosis or distillation and is not replenishing these electrolytes. I realised that when a laid down and started getting leg cramps . IN my youth when we played tennis in the hot FL sun we would take salt pills and potassium. I did not have any, so I had salt water and then ate a banana, because I remember reading some place that bananas are full of potassium. Not sure if I did the right thing , I am not a doctor. but I felt better afterwards . I got these from the local pharmacy. can't read what the ingredients are but it got to be better than nothing , I will go online and order some electrolyte replacement pills. Anyway I thought I would put that out there to consider,
  18. I am sure he will get the woman's, and the black vote. . Especially the black woman vote.
  19. If done properly 10cm AAC is load bearing, having said that , I would not Recommend it it. The operative phrase here is "If done properly" and the locals here are used to working with columns. In addition the slab would have to be reinforced which would negate the savings from not using columns. Also you would have to pour a ring beam on top to attach the roof metal, and since the AAC block is soft it has little tension strength, (what makes it load bearing is it's compression straight). So that would also eat on your savings from not run columns. If I was doing that I would also use galvanised straps to transfer the wind load from the roof to the slab. When in Rome do as the Romans do !!! 7.5 AAC costs 28.75 bht at Thaiwasadu , 10cm is special order and I found it at 43 bht So for almost the same price as a single 10 cm AAC you can get 15 cm of AAC by using the double 7.5 s . Also you will get a cavity if you do wished (highly recommend it) and would hide your columns!!!! . For your interior walls, single 7.5 is adequate for additional savings!! Also since 10cm would have to be special order you will have to buy extra to compensate for waste. 7.5 is everywhere, probably 10 places have it in stock in your area. So you can get a little as you want and if you need more, drive to Thai wasady, or Do home and get some more.
  20. When I said "Stable" I meant which I assume is what trump also meant.
  21. He don't have one .
  22. And then there is you in the middle, unlike all these other "idiots" the one and only stable genius
  23. Yea I did the same with our dogs, filled up a cement mixing tub with water in a shady area . The dogs love it.
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