handydog

My son visited last year and after 3 days he told me that if I don't stop speaking pidgin English to him then he'd give me a thick ear. He told me that he even noticed that when I was talking to my friends that we were all using pidgin to varying degrees and it was driving him nuts.

I think we tend to tone down our use of complex words for the sake of our Thai wives or girlfriends when in mixed company and I've got into a bad habit of applying Thai syntax when using English. i.e I'll say "he go seven already, come back 15 minutes" rather than "he's just gone to the 7/11 but will be back in 15 minutes". And I'll say this to a native English speaker as well as a Thai. It's a bad habit I'll have to work on.

However we also play a game where we'll have a conversation using the most complex and convoluted words and varying levels of slang we can think of and it drives even good English speaking Thais crazy. They know we're speaking English but even if we're talking about normal everyday matters (as in the weather, or food, or whatever), they don't have a clue. And occasionally somebody will use a word that nobody else knows or disputes the correct meaning, and then it turns into a TV kind of discussion about the correct usage.....if you get my drift.

I am assuming from your handle that you come from NZ. It has amused me for a while now that my wifes kiwi english has expanded to include common Moari words in normal conversation like; puku, kai, whanau, On spending a couple of years in Thailand on returning to NZ I found I had dropped a lot of the more obscure / definitive words that wouls normally be used in conversation and found myself using Tinglish to friends here.

Organic farmers here in NZ often drench livestock with cider vinegar. The theory is it kills parasites in the gut.

Is the pressure tank functioning correctly? ie: It is not full of water and the bladder has air in it

.... Still trying to figure a way to get it into the country

What does snake taste like? Are they all edable?

I don't mean to come across as cold hearted but as I come from New Zealand we have no snakes, so no experience with them.

Cheers

That whitebait reaction is strange, serving fish whole, including the head, is very common throughout Thailand.

Also she didn't really call it "farangland" did she???

it sounded more like "falanrand"

First time I took the wife fishing here in NZ we were spoilt for the shear numbers of fish caught and mixed species. After explaining that the undersise ones had to go back (different species = different minimum length added to the confusion) ..and there was a bag limit on each species, and a limit to total number of fish taken per day, she took it well and just said " No worry; This is Farangland" Then the big fish were being reeled in and it ment that a number of fish were over the length limit. "Ooooooo government here have rule about everything.......(long pause) .....ting tong farangland"

I still can't get her to eat Whitebait; she says "I not like them look at me when I go to eat"

Teaching her about food hygene i.e. can't leave food on the counter overnight, unless you want the runs.

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Reminds me of the first possom my wife saw outside the back door... ...thought it was a cute fluffy cat. To her horror it was promptly dispatched and plucked. When I explained that the fur at the time was $150 /Kg she didnt have a problem with it. lol

Must be a kiwi eh!

Afraid so... no protetion for your cute marsupials here

Wouldn't that be "skinned" rather than "plucked"?

The fur is plucked from the animal while it is still warm.. It slips from the pelt easily before regamortis sets in. 20 to 25 animals yield about 1 Kg of fur

No, I think it was a spelling mistake and he is talking about deviant sexual acts with dead marsupials.

No spelling mistake... the only thing that fornicated with said possom was the .22

Reminds me of the first possom my wife saw outside the back door... ...thought it was a cute fluffy cat. To her horror it was promptly dispatched and plucked. When I explained that the fur at the time was $150 /Kg she didnt have a problem with it. lol

I grew up in L.A. and know a bit about earthquakes.

1) Keep a pair of shoes by the bed. Windows shatter, things fall, glass abounds.

2) If you can get to a doorway, do so. The lintel above the door will help shield you. .

3) If there is no doorway (?!) get under a desk or table. You are much more likely to experience falling tiles, lamps, books, etc, than a whole building. If the table above you flattens you, you're going to be flattened anyway.

4) Don't run outside right away! Stuff falls off of buildings. Roof tiles, windows, concrete panels, brick walls and chimneys. People die from this.

5) Aftershocks can be just as big/bad as the original quake.

All very good sound advice. Currently living in Christchurch (Muntsville) and I would have no faith in a croncrete structure in Thailand surviving a magnitude 6 quake

This is good news. I hate that people eat my friends

Cat more healthier

Only rid of dialup 12 months.... It was normal to take a week to torrent a 700meg file

The sound still gives me nightmares

You also could need a new internal bladder, in the tank.

only if his tank has a bladder. most pressure tanks do not.

I am curious how a 'Pressure ' tank can work without a bladder (or an internal diaphragm).Without either the tank can be pressurized -but will immediately lose pressure as soon as any demand for water occurs.

This describes the symptoms of the O.P's problems.

He either fixes it himself -as detailed in my earlier post -or gets a bladder repair/replace man in

Older style pressure tanks are simply larger (taller) in size and many did not have a bladder fitted. The air cavity is created by having the water in and the water out pipes close to the bottom of the tank (outlet 6 ish inches above the inlet) and this allows the space above to facilitate the air cavity. The downside of this style of tank is the air does over time becomes disolved in the water and the water level rises... necessitating the need to drain the tank. On a house pump expect to do it monthly, but this depends on how much it is used....

The use of a bladder containing the air, allows the tanks to be smaller overall and the need to drain them less frequent. Bladders do wear out and will leak (air) with age.

mozzie = a moari in australia

perfect score but didnt expect less as have colour-matched commercially for 28 years.

I half expeced to see a picture of theBlether

Dom it's 15.5% protien I assume that is low protien. Runs about 300 baht for a big bag. I estimate we will use three bags a month at current feeding levels overall cost about 27K if we hit the nine month level.

We are using low voltage air pumps we have domestic water site a well. With all the pumps running cost run roughly 300 baht a month.

We had great luck with the throw nets. For the bigger pond I need to make some sort of raft, so yuo can use the net from there.

I hope to find out where we can buy the shrimp traps that seems like a very good idea. A little night fishing

We simply have to mnay fish for the ponds we have so I will have to thin them out, even if I have to sale them as dried fish. We used the supplier you normally use in Nong Khai, but I think the fry actually came from Bangkok, so no idea if the were sexed or not.

Oh well someday hope to have a house out there and have a hobby that actually brings in a few baht

Why not make your own shrimp traps, it's dead easy. Get some 1.25 litre coke or fanta bottles. Cut the bottle at the top so it looks like a funnel. Reverse the top piece and tie it so it is inside the body of the bottle. drop in some fish food pellets and throw it into the pond over night -- not forgetting to tie a length of string to it first. Next morning, you'll have shrimps. My wife does this all the time so I know it works.

Some Marmite spred into the bottle cap and then placed into the trap is excellent bait

do outboards carry an import duty, or is there some brands manufactured in thailand?

Forgot to mention that mine suffered(s) from heat exaustion... if it got too hot in the window it would shut down. but leaving it for a bit to cool down it would reboot fine.

Otherwise a good reliable unit

Had one for a number of years. Used it on the bike and in the wifes DMax. I not sure the maps are updated that often tho. The multiple dictionaties are good for a handy translation tool or if looking for a synonym.

The ability to swap between either Thai or English GPS to suit the user we saw it as the best available at the time.

Not all places were in the English libray and there was a couple of occasions that my wife would do the search for a place in Thai and then change it back to English so I could read and understand the directions.

are the phone/fax numbers on the paperwork legit?

82.... understandable given field of study

IS laminated glass not an economic option vs. monkey bars? Surely the cost cant be too prohibitive