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handydog

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  1. In all honesty what he says about bringing sport mainly football to the forefront of reconciliation is a good idea because since me being a South African myself it really worked in a way that there is alot less racist people in South Africa

    I guess the protests in New Zealand about the Springbok tour in the 70's and 80's were never aired in South Africa. It just took the white biased goverment (South Africa) at the time, a very long time to realise that sport and politcs should not be mixed together.

    It is a shame people have such short political memories. It didn't work then and wont work now.

    The problem in Thailand and Asia in general that needs to be delt with, is the underlying acceptance of graft as being ok.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Springbok_Tour

  2. All you people who are cheering this are absolute scum, you know that? At least people who use ED visa's are trying to do something to stay here legitimately.

    Some of you lot forget that we are essentially all here for similar reasons, it's just that not all of us are lucky enough to have a job or be over a certain age so that we can get the visa we need...

    You might laugh now while you have your comfortable retirement visa or whatever it is, but one day they'll clamp down on those as well - then perhaps you'll wish you weren't quite so gleeful about the struggles of the rest of us to stay here. Morons. Shameful

    What do you expect the outcome to be if foreigners did the same to stay in your country of birth?

  3. I'm intersted in startng to make cheese, I thought I'd start with Camembert, and the ingredient I'm looking for is unhomogenised milk. Does anyone know if this is available here in Thailand and if so what brand name is it?

    Many thanks if you can help.

    I am sure the only way you will get fresh unhomogonised milk in Thailand will be for you to invest in a cow and squeeze it out yourself

    :whistling:

  4. :rolleyes:

    Well I'm not a butcher or even an "expert" on beef.

    But I do know that in the U.S. at least most male cattle are slaughtered young...for the simple reason that one full-grown steer can "service" many females and therefore it doesn't pay economically to feed all newly born males to adult age. Each grown female however is a potential mother and therefore potentially profitable to feed to breeding age. For that reason even if the ratio of male to female is 50/50 at birth (it isn't, but that's another story) most young male cattle born don't make it past the first year at best. So that is the younger, more tender, and better quality beef.

    There's a name for that young beef from male calves less than a year old...but my brain just went blank, and I can't remember what it's called now.

    I would guess the age diference makes a big difference in the taste and quality of the young beef as compared to older and tougher beef.

    I thought everybody knew that fact? But then I grew up in a dairy cattle raising area, so maybe that's not the case.

    :blink:

    P.S. Where I grew up a "steer" was a full grown and sexually mature male cow. There is a thing called (in that region) a Hieffer (not sure of the spelling) which is a castrated male specially raised for meat. They tend to die young also...they become steaks for the grill.

    Hieffer = female that has not had a calf... ...usually less than two years old

    Veal = meat from younger animal and less than a year old, although the norm is about a week old

    Steer = castrated male

    Crypt = scrotum has been removed, but the testicals left intact not allowing them decend.

  5. This is all pressure on Thailand to sort things out. NZ and we know things are not as bad as they say. Politics at work.

    Typical knee-jerk reaction we have come to expect from NZ politics.

    Just one of the reasons that make Thailand a more appealing place to live dispite its unstable governance.

    I am surprised Winston Peters had not put his 2 cents worth in yet.

    thats cause Winnie isnt a MP anymore, since 2008 :)

    my faith in MMP was boosted by this :D

  6. This is all pressure on Thailand to sort things out. NZ and we know things are not as bad as they say. Politics at work.

    Typical knee-jerk reaction we have come to expect from NZ politics.

    Just one of the reasons that make Thailand a more appealing place to live dispite its unstable governance.

    I am surprised Winston Peters had not put his 2 cents worth in yet.

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