sirineou

2 hours ago, tomgreen said:

I’m in no way a religious man , but my friends question got me thinking .

Seriously ? your friends question got you thinking? 

You never thought of this  before? How old are you? 

1 hour ago, mistral53 said:

Really? Most American muscle cars were sedans parading as sports cars, with 2 tons of an iron clump under the hood,

I guess it all depends on what is sport for you . 

1 hour ago, mistral53 said:

But hey, we were all kids at some point, but most of us moved on, had real jobs, maybe even family......... but not all did 

Not sure what you mean by that. 

1 hour ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Home made birthday cake for one of the kids.

 

That really looks Professional!! One thing I have never made is a layer cake.Wife's B'day is in may. I like to make her one, 

Any suggestions for a good vid on YouTube . I like to make a layer cake , so I need ti learn how to make the layers and the frosting. 

String beans. chicken thighs , tomatoes and potatoes. 

For lunch. Just what the doctor ordered!!

I just came back from downtown Khon Kaen . cops were out in force pulling motorbikes over. 

Almost every corner, without exaggeration had a team of traffic cops.  

Of the hundreds of bikes pulled over I did not see on farang. 

I guess end of the month and they need to make payroll. 

1 hour ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Not to be confused with the Pontiac Firebird , much loved by some …. well 1 …… on here !!

 

I agree.

A great car. 

Portable air conditioners are very inefficient, any money you save buying them you will quickly spend that and much more in running bills. Google it.

1 minute ago, roo860 said:

Wasn't it a Swiss guy accused of kicking a Thai? And a Russian woman kicking a Thai?

Not sure? maybe it was a Russian guy kicking a Swede

or the other way around. 

By the way  is it Swiss or Swede or either? I have been thinking about this a lot. 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

American man
French man
British man
French man
German man
Chinese man
Czech man
Belgian man
Australian man
Polish man

The Swedes are uncharacteristically underrepresented. 

(Pheu those were big words). probably out busy kicking people. 

It would help if the overall traffic arrests so that one can determine if in the overall scheme of things it was par for the course or a significant increase.

And what do they mean by arrested? were they ticketed, of are they languishing in jail?   

4 hours ago, webfact said:

However, the electricity saved this year in Bangkok was less than last year, when 36 megawatts were saved, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 5.2 tonnes.

Ridiculous!!

This event was not done to save energy or reduce CO2 , it was done to increase awareness. The fact that less electricity was saved this year as compared to last year, could be attributed to less people participating for a variety of reasons, or to the climatic reasons. 

   The fact that we are talking about it indicates some success in the awareness column.  

On 3/23/2024 at 6:26 PM, charleskerins said:

ok no air cooler  ,portable air conditioner?

Portable a/c are very inefficient. get a regular a/c 

In a regular a/c the condenser is cooled outside the room 

A single hose portable A/C  uses the room air it just cooled to also cool down the condenser coils. then it expels that hot air outside the room via the hose.  But that hot air it send outside the room , now needs to be replaced, otherwise after a while the room will implode LOL. So  outside warm air is vacuumed in through cracks and opening 

   So it is inefficient in two ways, Using inside air it just cooled to cool down the condenser,  and replacing the air it expelled with outside warm air, 

At least this is my understanding of the system. 

2 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

I have Milwaukie 18v fuel cordless tools

They go pretty good.

Hilti is good 

But Milwaukee  provides a better balance between price and quality 

For our heavy hammer drills , chipping gunns and epoxy gun systems we used exclusively Hilti  (High rise concrete) 

But for hand held cordless tools that took a beating at the job site, we  exclusively used Milwaukee .

The Milwaukee angle grinder is good (I have one) but it eats' up  the batteries pretty quick , when ever I use it I always have two batteries at hand,  one always charging.

When near electric, nothing beats a wired angle grinder, 

4 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Old people do not ride around on public transport just to keep warm 

That goes without saying it.

In the summer they also drive around to keep cool. 

Just now, transam said:

Expert advice from the Aussie Dolf, "First remove the safety guard"..................😂

also good advise when cleaning a gun.

Disengage safety, look down the barrel and pull the trigger to make sure the chabler is empty.

If it is continue with cleaning.  

1 hour ago, sirineou said:

I use to use Chang for sharpening blades. Which is good for amature blade sharpening But if one is to get serious about their blade sharpening , 

I  know there has been a lot of debate over this,

But 9 out of 10 professionals suggest   Carabao Lager. 

Three lamps of ice, two not enough to maintain proper temperature , four will make it to watery. 

^^^ Lumps not lamps 

So 

By the way, I just rook my honda apart to change the primer bulb, (it got a hole in it)  .and discovered that the fuel lines and filter looked brittle .

Tomorrow I will go get the parts and put it together again.  

    I think it's at least a two Carabao job.Any more and the Honda might never work again

On 2/2/2023 at 4:07 PM, Chomper Higgot said:

If Kyle Rittenhouse had an ounce of good sense, he’d quietly get on with his life and not throw stones at ‘City Hall’.

 

He is a train wreck waiting to happen.It's only a matter of time. 

19 minutes ago, CharlieKo said:

Self inflicted is right, but Brexit had nothing to do with it. It was the sanctions they enacted against Russia that affected them more than it did/does the Russians. 

To say that Brexit has nothing to do with the poverty issue , simply makes no sense. Perhaps if you said "little to do" I might agree.

   I don't think there is anyone in the world that argues Brexit helped the UK economically. Poverty is an economic issue.

The war in the Ukraine did not help , but the war in the Ukraine is not affecting the UK only it is affecting the whole of Europe . The whole of Europe is having its own issues,but not as bad as the UK , So what is the contributing factor that is making things more difficult in the UK? 

I would argue Brexit.

On 7/19/2023 at 4:13 PM, Hanaguma said:

That's history. Happened to everyone, and happened by everyone.  Conquest is simple human reality.  

North America was the same. There is this strange fantasy among people that the native population was all living in harmony, singing and dancing together in peace and joy. Then, the evil white men came along and slaughtered them. It's nonsense. There was inter-tribal warfare for centuries before Columbus arrived. Slaughter, slavery, conquest, eviction, the whole nine yards. Oz was the same but on a smaller scale due to geography and population density.

That was then, this is now. 

When the question was asked "What is the best measure of a man" 

The answer was " By the way he treats those weaker than him"  

But I agree , about the mythology  of the American Indian , portrayed  as the philosophical   noble savage . Realities were much different.