I had my best Sukhumvit Road experience in After Work, in Sukhumvit Square, but when I went back, it had gone - Sukhumvit Square.  That caused me to build up a resentment against men with sledgehammers, though as one such myself, that is perhaps hypocritical.

As you may recall, back in the day, there was a DIY shop just down from Piccadilly Station, and I'd popped in there as I had some fencing to do at the weekend.  They didn't have epees or rapiers, but a sledgehammer was more appropriate for the fencing I had n mind. 

It's interesting that you only notice the gaps and errors in your recollection when you put your story to words...

I guess I went to Picadilly platfoms 13 & 14 on the way home, and not Oxford Road (that was the gaffer tape and batteries incident....) anyway, as I came down the stairs with my newly-bought sledgehammer, there was an announcement about train delays, and someone next to me looked at the sledgehammer and said "Calm down, mate, its not that bad!"

17 hours ago, Tuco Ramirez said:

It's the same old spiel, time and time again when one is forced to interact with a local.

 

Is this how they are taught to interact with foreigners when they are at school?

 

 

Is it different when you talk to an expat?

In the last 25 years, those have been pretty much the first three lines of every conversation I've had with any stranger, in whatever country.

It's particularly important in Chinese, so that you can get to grips with their tonal pronunciation, and actually understand what they are saying, I expect.

You need this information so that you can identify the person in your memories 

- Loud Bob from the Contractor who's come from Taipei

- Vietnamese Wong who started in HCM

Other people have no choice but to ask bland, polite and non-descript questions. If we gave an interesting answer, it might divert the conversation to the better.  I've never really tried that...
- Actually, I have
"... Where you from?"
"Samutprakarn"
"Me also Samutprakarn"
"Maybe we can share a taxi home"
End of limit of English.

19 hours ago, StreetCowboy said:

No. 1

No. 2

That;'s the end of it.

My daughter took up the double bass at school and it was tremendously inconvenient. "And its boring:" so i played her this, and the school phoned a social worker.

 

I bullied my son into playing the Z Cars theme on his flute (I couldn't persuade my mate Danny to throw stones at him while he was marching, so I thought it was the best next thing) and the social worker came round again.  I think she fancies me.    

 

Youtube pointed me towards the original, and I can see why the school called social services.

No. 1

No. 2

That;'s the end of it.

My daughter took up the double bass at school and it was tremendously inconvenient. "And its boring:" so i played her this, and the school phoned a social worker.

I bullied my son into playing the Z Cars theme on his flute (I couldn't persuade my mate Danny to throw stones at him while he was marching, so I thought it was the best next thing) and the social worker came round again.  I think she fancies me.    

8 minutes ago, henrik2000 said:

Thanks. If you wanted, you could copy a pic and paste it into a reply box, either by right-clicking or by Ctrl C, Ctrl V, and comment on that one. (I just tried that, it works on my system.)

Thanks!

6 minutes ago, henrik2000 said:

 

Did you get those:

 

 

(Schwalbe Marathon Mondial tire after off-roading in upcountry Uttaradit.)

Ow!  Who leaves those on bike paths?

14 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I've done 6,300+km in the past year, cheapest tyres and tubes ever, also no punctures.

Think punctures more to do with riding on under inflated tyres than anything else.

If your tyres are lasting longer than your chain, then you can't complain about the tyres.  I think I pick up more nails and pins than that, but I'm not sure.

What I would re-iterate is that if the OP had posted his pictures either one to a post or a few to a post, we'd be talking about his pictures, not tyres.

On 7/19/2024 at 1:13 AM, Confuscious said:

 

When I was 12 years old, I was studying classical music at the local music school.
One day, at the record shop, a box with 7 LP's was among the records for cheap sale.
After having a quick look at the LP's, I decided to buy the box.
The name was: "Yehudi Menuhin plays Violin Concerto's".
I never heard of Yehudi Menuhin before.
Later at home, I played the Violin Concerto of Beethoven.
Played by Yehudi Menuhin on his Stradivarius, with my headphones.
Hear was standing on my skin like needles on a cactus.
That was pure magic.
Later, I found the box on YouTube, but the magic of the violin was lost in the digital version.
Yehudi Menuhin was for me the only one idol and will ever be.

The Yehudi Menuhin and Django Reinhardt recordings are great, but my idol was Lee Brilleaux, who could smoke a cigarette faster than any other man I’ve seen

 Z Cars - for the music; Maybe not as good as the Hawai 5 Nil theme, though.

On 5/26/2025 at 4:51 AM, henrik2000 said:

I think it is very much a matter of personal preference - for a bike, for certain kinds of roads -, not what's generally best for Thailand. If you go country, my number 1 tips would be unflattable tires, and certainly not the tires that come with cheap bikes.

I would recommend Schwalbe Marathon Plus.  My mate would recommend Schwalbe Durano.  Other people will say go tubeless.  If you’re running inner tubes, keep the pressure up; I used to get a lot of punctures, until I got a track pump with a pressure gauge.

35 minutes ago, blaze master said:

This thread brought to you by big pharma. Keeping america healthy one pill at a time. 

Exactly. Their ads should have a footnote “If this advertisement is of interest to you, contact hypochondriacs anonymous, instead of poisoning yourself and becoming a junkie”

There’s no adverts for clean living - aye, sure, there’s some moralistic adverts - the Scottish ‘90s anti-drinking adverts were pretty good - “don’t screw up through drink” as a bloke’s head unwound.  But most of the adverts are for manufactured goods - things we don’t need, and make us fat and lazy.  99% of the bicycles that you see in adverts are for car-centric urban sprawl developments.  There are no adverts for vegetables, but plenty for pizza. There are no adverts for running, but plenty for health supplements, and, where allowed, pharmaceuticals.

So in short, if it is advertised, it is bad for you.

My building management are planning it check and remove all the abandoned bikes from the bike shed

12 hours ago, DaRoadrunner said:

And the girls were friendly. Now its 3000 for a ST, you want it or not?  No thanks, not worth it.

 

And what happened to all the stunning girls? Not only in the bars. Used to be you would see them everywhere.

 

At least those of us who were here 20 - 30 years ago saw the best of it.

opticians are not what they used to be.

3 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Yes, I think this is correct.

A higher-resolution study of the cell, for example, demonstrates this is true.

Chemistry is Physics, for sure.

 

Commenting on TV is Physics?

Commenting on TV is like shouting at the television and drinking Irn Bru while watching the Calcutta Cup replay  - completely pointless, but if it wasn’t, you’d feel guilty about not having done your best

I’d like to say that I got in on the ground floor of Artificial Intelligence, but I think we had to take the stairs or lift up to their Christmas Party. I attribute my lack of recollection to antiquity rather than excess, but I could be wrong on that score, too.  My one recollection, which may be a misrecollection, was that my mate and I were the only undergraduates there.

4 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Great News....IF true:

 

Microsoft may have just killed OpenAI.

(Not Sammy Boy, unfortunately. No I don't hate Sammy THAT much. I just want him kept out of ALL AI projects. He is dangerous to the movement.)

 

By the way, this vid is produced by someone with a bit of Academic AI research.

And, his AI videos are quite good.

He is some college prof from Georgia Tech, or some other uni.

 

 

I have been praying, almost daily, that Sammy will get the boot (for the second time), but permanently this time.

 

 

Note:  And yes, of course, I have always thought that most everything was based on Physics. And, as our understanding of Science continues to progress, this idea that all is based on Physics becomes even clearer.  How can one even understand biochemistry, for example, without understanding Physics, and energy?  Truly impossible.

 

Physics is not a difficult science, by the way.

 

Back in the day, Long Tall Thin Andy put forward the view that there was only Physics, and History, and their derivative fields of study.

4 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

Has anyone mentioned Larkin yet?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse

 

This Be The Verse

By Philip Larkin

They <deleted> you up, your mum and dad.   

    They may not mean to, but they do.   

They fill you with the faults they had

    And add some extra, just for you.

 

But they were <deleted> up in their turn

    By fools in old-style hats and coats,   

Who half the time were soppy-stern

    And half at one another’s throats.

 

Man hands on misery to man.

    It deepens like a coastal shelf.

Get out as early as you can,

    And don’t have any kids yourself.

You'll need someone to work in your old age,  and I'm not sure you can trust strangers' children

On 5/19/2025 at 11:03 PM, save the frogs said:

 

So you only care about yourself?

 

The girls seems lost.

 

And because there might be thousands of girls in this situation. 

They're basically not technically available for a relationship. 

If they get involved with anyone else, it's basically "cheating". 

It's stupid to keep them tied up like that. 

 

On 5/19/2025 at 11:03 PM, save the frogs said:

 

So you only care about yourself?

 

The girls seems lost.

 

And because there might be thousands of girls in this situation. 

They're basically not technically available for a relationship. 

If they get involved with anyone else, it's basically "cheating". 

It's stupid to keep them tied up like that. 

 

It's not really cheating, it's a potential loss of income.
Everyone has to live.  Everyone has to make their choices on where their money comes from, and where it goes.

We don't have to do it for them, and we should let them do it for themselves, if necessary offering assistance, not criticism. Verstehst du?

20 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Folks,

 

Do you agree with both statements/questions in the headline of this Topic?

 

Do you disagree?

 

This is not a Yes/No questionnaire.

 

These are Essay Questions.

 

Therefore, get out your Blue Books, and please reply with your thoughts.

 

This is not a pass/fail exercise, obviously.

 

Rather, this is one of those very deep philosophical Topics.

 

Please do your best.

 

You will be judged by your writing, and your creativity, as is always the case, around here.

 

Try your best, even if you might not, at first, think you are up to the task of thinking.

 

Thank you.

 

Best regards,

As always….

Gamma

I've never really tried living in the future, and living in the past is inevitably depressing, since the bits that I choose to live in were better than the present.  Maybe I should spend more time remembering the miner's strike, the three-day week, waking up in traction...

I reckon living in the present is the best, and the more that we can do it, the better we'll be. 

1 hour ago, cjinchiangrai said:

Yet you still post fictional questions constantly.

Ever in the search of the fictitious truth.  Some of us have a goal at the end of our wandering, some a gaol.

Edinburgh won't be there, but Warrington will, and I'll be on the edge of my seat trying to connect to the radio commentary on the wireless.  7th June, 15:00 Wembley-time.

I've got no idea who the commentators will be, as I'm quite out of touch.  I was going to listen to the game virtually in the Lord Rodney, but it turns out the Marxist proletariat revolution has started, and its just The Rodney now.  Woke Nonsense! Maybe I'll go virtually doon the Sarrie Heid across from the old Wilderspoole ground instead.

1 minute ago, theshu25 said:

You will be waiting for a very long time,the guy has the brain of a rock. Boring aand repetative.

You can knock him all you want, but it got to two pages.

My dear old father was one for embarking on challenging projects, with limited success. My perception was that the successes were more limited than the incompletions, and it put me off projects.  When I think about it now, I think maybe my childish perception was skewed.