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2 hours ago, SammyJ said:

Do you live long term in Thailand, or are planning to?  If so, one needs to adjust one's expectations in many instances, and to expect things here to be like they were from previous experiences does not necessarily make a market a bunch of "liars and jerks".

LIving long-term here, you also need to learn to recognize when other expats express their emotional reactions indirectly. as a way to imitate the "social masking" required to keep the ":jai yen" surface of social interactions smooth. The preceding sentence is, itself, an example of this.

~o:37;

Whatever your symptoms, I hope you will get medical advice, and take only what was prescribed.

Your immune system deserves ... respect.

love, Mother

See bulletin boards outside Rimping stores.

A friend coming over for Loy Krathong from the US has been told by AT&T that they can use their iPhone 13 here for US$ 15 per day ????

If you know a local iWizard who can (legally ?) temporarily ... unlock ? ... enable using a local SIM ? ... without creating problems with AT&T ...

I'd appreciate a reply.

thanks, ~o:37;

one wonders at the persistence of memories of an obscure dive, and why they are even of the slightest passing interest.

compared to the much more infamous venues from Chiang Mai of yore, like "Grandad's Last Boner," that had an on-premise defibrillator (accepted only 500 baht notes), and "Whale Belly's Last Stand" that had body-body bungee-jumping with oil au naturel ...

imho, John's Place was a ... nothing.

~o:37;

Sawasdee Khrup, Khun John/Gonzo,

Wishing you the best of health and happiness in your next adventure.

You have always been a warm-hearted, helpful, member of this forum, and I hope your presence here will continue !

cheers, ~o:37;

Once the sky falls, everything will go underground.

2 hours ago, freedomnow said:

Yip, g/fs car wrecked...got caught in overnight rise...before 3am dry streets then relentless slow surge.

Water is almost up to living room which is elevated 1 metre and plot was also elevated prior to the build...kitchen flooded as its lower to ground level..south-east CM near ping river and Lamphun 'tree road'.

 

DAAAAANG !

Really sorry to hear this ! best wishes for your safety and peace of mind. 

I am so happy that not one of you, brothers, and sisters, and non-binary-identifying relations, has seen flooding, or, water, in the streets where you are.

Knowing that it (the water) is not there for you gives me the ability to feel confident that what appears to be ~15+ cm.  of slow moving water in my street (Nong Hoy area) is a mirage, a consequence, perhaps, of a metabolic/endocrine/dopamine/serotonin/adrenal hiccup in combination with unusual atmospheric conditions.

Not surprising, given we are in Amazing Thailand, where even the famous Thai smiles can be as illusory as the fading grin Alice saw as the Cheshire cat dematerialized.

cheers. ~o37;.

Hi, Sorry to hear about your difficulties !

It's not clear to me if you asking for advice, or opinions about a (potential ?) move back to Chiang Mai. or Prachinburi.

What would be helpful for you, right now ?

~o:37;

6 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Stumping my toe is more of a concern than quakes here.

I am more concerned about random uninformed opinions coming out of your mouth than what happens to your toe.

Perhaps you should let the folks in Chiang Rai whose homes were damaged by the 6.3 in 2014, which also seriously damaged Wat Rong Khun ... that the quale caused no damage.

On 9/27/2022 at 9:35 AM, KhunLA said:

no earthquakes ...

wrong. 6 years we had a 4.0. not uncommon to have a small one every month.

Mae Chan fault line <click>

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There's very friendly man, Abdul, who sells the finely crafted leather goods he makes in the (nighttime) Anusarn Market. They are pricey.

I am not sure when/what-nights he is there, now, but, if you PM me I can give you his mobile number.

cheers, ~o:37;

4 hours ago, Jonathan Swift said:

The Thai medical and research profession is among the best in the world, better in most respects than the US, where I'm from.

You must live in Amazing Thailand: I was there, once, but, it faded into mundane Thailand. Not that I am ... complaining.

~0:37;

It will be interesting to see how much rain what's left of super-typhoon Noru, brings starting on Friday.

<click> look at the 10-day forecast

Time to inflate our water-wings ?

cheers, ~o:37;

i think that the extent and severity of climate change in our time reflects the result of human actions on a mass scale in a way unique to our time.

The larger historical context of geological/climatic change over eons, as volcanic activity, earthquakes, plate tectonics, meteoric and cometary impact,  and the vacations in the angle of inclination of the earth's axis to the sun ,,, those vast forces that once made the arctic tropical, lifted up the Himalayas, created the mediterranean, etc.

... that context is still there, but, i do not think the periodic flooding of the Ping can be directly explained by our changing climate. If i were in Pakistan, right now, i might think differently.

Perhaps more rain, and flooding, here that reaches far past previous limits ... will change my mind.

cheers, ~o:37;

7 hours ago, ohpont said:

A pound of meat and 2 teaspoons of Bica, can be reduce to one...

Not quite sure what "reduce to one" means here.

Thanks for the advice ! I'll try that method. I've written to Surin Farm for information.

cheers, ~o:37;

On 9/21/2022 at 11:00 AM, ohpont said:

Ground pork wrapped in tin-foil and baked? Please let me know what you do after ( cook with or eat with) as i am not familiar with that, then i can try to share my tricks...

Thanks, after baking, I chop the pork up and mix with canned mushroom soup; I do this because permanent deformation of my lower tongue and esophagus post cancer treatment makes it difficult to swallow.

If I could afford a sous vide, I'd get one ????

cheers, ~o:37;

On 9/19/2022 at 9:06 AM, ohpont said:

I do the same with the free range pork of Nong Bua Lamphu, fresh of the day.

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By the way, every meat can become tough if you cook it wrong...

Very interesting; is there any place in CM I can buy some extra-lean pork and have it minced/diced/ground ?

And, any cooking tips you care to share for ground pork to make it as tender as possible ? Right now I bake it wrapped in tin-foil, with hard to control results.

Maybe higher fat content is better for getting "tender" ?

cheers, ~o:37;

4 hours ago, sawademe said:

Meadows aren't required for small holder farm production, if there's a demand for quality beef to be shipped from thousands of miles away then a local supply would be advantageous for many reasons ( especially as energy costs continue to rise for the forseeable future).
 

I'm glad you have a rich fantasy life, and wish you all the best with your future career as a cattle rancher ! Perhaps your lack of experience with cattle, agriculture, and veterinary science, will work for you.

Surely the heifers and steers you raise for meat will put the scrawny local pathetic cattle I've seen to shame ... no disrespect to the few local cows I've seen who look okay.

cheers, ~o:37;

Unless there are intermittent failures in your speech processing unit (SPU) in Broca's Area in your dominant hemisphere's frontal lobe ... and, expat life will do that to you ... do consider saying more.

cheers, ~o:37;

need more details: pay, days/hours per day, times of work, nature of duties ... before i will PM you with a possible candidate.

what levels do you think must be reached for the Ping to flood in low lying areas, to the east ?

in the 2011 flood, there was 30cm. of fast moving water in the small soi in front of the house (about 1.5 kilometer east of the Ping) I rented: fortunately for me, the house was built-up enough water only came in in the lower-lying kitchen. 

many of my neighbors' houses were ruined,

~o:37;