noahvail

You've nailed it ...

Thai food really is that bland ...

Thanks for the reminder to pack that extra bottle of HP Sauce for my next trip over.

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HP Sauce, now your talking my language

If you really want to ramp it up, just bring some ghost peppers back with you...only don't say they're "ghost" peppers, nobody here would go near them with a name like that ??

"No Kangaroos were milked in composing this OP"

Why this statement David?

Are you afraid I will grass you up to the Milkers trade union?

Thought Mr Neverdie posted your equity card last week.

But thank you for opening new horizons for me.

Never thought of kangaroos before.................

Now forget the farting and tell me do they produce a lot of milk?

Are they easy to milk them?

Please, let me know soon......I'm waiting with soooooooo much anticipation.

Oh, they're easy enough to milk. The hard part is climbing into that front pouch to do the milking. And then trying to escape afterwards.

Scott, having had several dogs in the past, I do feel for you.

CO2 works well, but you'll need a lot of it. Keeping your dog lying still in a cardboard box, then making the CO2 in a large bowl and literally pouring the heavy gas will start to fill the box, but you'll have to repeat the procedure several times.

I personally wouldn't have it in me to use a plastic bag over the dog's head, as another posted suggested. Too cruel.

I have a friend from NZ who was a vet nurse, and they used "blue juice" - a tranquilizer - by IV, not subcue. Who knows what was in the brown liquid, or if the directions given were correct. Please don't blame yourself for your well-intentioned attempt to ease your pet's transition.

Don't know about Neem oil, but here's a trick I learned in New Zealand when aphids infested my roses. Drop a few cigarettes into a glass of water, and let it steep for a day or too. Transfer the brown liquid to a spray bottle, and give them a fine mist. Don't know why it works, but it does. After the aphids are gone, just rinse down your chilli plants.

Best of luck to you...truly hope it works out for the best.

For what it is worth. They came from a time when everyone was before their time. Can anyone recall the 14 minute "Innagaddadevida" by Iron Butterfly? Different genre but same fortitude. Or closer to home Jethro Tull and "Broadsword".

Innagaddadevida was groundbreaking. I had front row side seats at the shed at Tanglewood in 1969...when the drummer played a solo for 20 minutes. The entire audience was entranced.

The standard of medicine, especially outside of Bangkok and Chiang Mai, is generally not up to Western standards, even in the private hospitals. Here in backwoods Isaan, my wife and I are friends with two MDs, to the point of chatting on Facebook. They both speak English very well. One was sent on sabbatical, paid for by the government, for two years in the US to further develop his surgical skills. He's the one who removed my wife's gall bladder last year, using "keyhole" surgery - in a small government hospital with one OR and no recovery room. She healed quickly with no complications.. Both of these doctors take as much time as is needed with each patient.

But even those two docs complain to us of the horrible state of health care in Thailand. Lack of facilities, lack of the right meds, and the gross over-prescription of antibiotics all contribute to the state of the Thai health system. Doctors' attitudes, though...too many rush through their patients like they have a quota to fill, and I've seen them get angry.

i've seen asshat doctors in the States, in New Zealand, and in Thailand - but as far as copping an attitude, I'd say the Thai docs are #1.

Alchemy and the Dark Arts. A liberal science field.

Who's auditing the auditor? ✏️ ? ? ?

I would love to see all doctors have an iPad or similar with him/her at all times, with available software on contraindicated drug interactions. A new doc at the local hospital prescribed a med for off-label use, which is fine and legal, and I had used it in the past for its approved use. I had shown him all my meds...it's a good check to make on a slightly spurious computer system. But as soon as I started taking it that med I felt hot, my ears were burning and ringing, I could hear my pulse in my ears, and I was quite dizzy from time to time. So I checked with mims.com, and it came back with a level 4 contraindication, with stroke or heart attack being the usual outcome.

I've learned my lesson. I always used to check mims or rxlist.com before I would take any med. The one time I didn't, it could well have killed me, and they would have attributed it to natural causes.

Well, I suppose for every doctor that graduates at the top of his class, there's another who graduated at the bottom.

Sorry for the loss, Costas. I'm sure you and your wife will help the family get through this.

All you need to do is tell them you're a Jehovah's Witness, and they'll be gone. The reverse works as well.

One thing I don't get is if they were conning 100,000 people, how did they manage with just three? Are these just three of many, and not even the top guys? Just wonderin' ? ☕️

OP..that's like asking an Australian who speaks English if he can understand an American, Kiwi or a Pom. The all speak the same language but all have different cultures.

You tell me how an Aussie has a polite argument with one of the nationalities above.

By sitting down with enough cold stubbies to last till the argument is settled. ??

ND is right - i have the truck serviced at the dealer. To translate from kiwi/aussie slang, "shout you a cuppa" means to buy you a cup of tea or coffee or even a beer (but usually a bottle of beer, not a cup)

Sorry misunderstood.

Said before I'm not an intellectual, I should have added......not even clever.

I will delighted to meet you........just give me a PM when you are in our parts of the world.

No need to apologize - I keep forgetting that English is your...what, third language?

Anyway, it might be a while, but if you're heading East some time let me know.

Hey Costas, you live near KK, right? I'm only a couple or three hours away. Next time I bring the truck up to be serviced, I'll shout you a cuppa.

Another confused member.

I'm a bloody accountant.

I know as much about trucks as you know about ferrets.

God......give me strength.

ND is right - i have the truck serviced at the dealer. To translate from kiwi/aussie slang, "shout you a cuppa" means to buy you a cup of tea or coffee or even a beer (but usually a bottle of beer, not a cup)

Hey Costas, you live near KK, right? I'm only a couple or three hours away. Next time I bring the truck up to be serviced, I'll shout you a cuppa.

Ohhh dear, will this end up in being the first kiwi milked in KK ?

Your a brave man ! 555555

Nah, been plenty of kiwis milked in KK by their gfs and wives

That's completely different.

Costas is a professional Greek Milker that specialises in Badgers and rats. I believe he is branching out into ferrets.

He was the first official user of the x-large TGAU......he even wears the badge to prove it

Ayuh...forgot about that.

Fortunately, my genetic code is fairly far removed from those particular mammals.

Hey Costas, you live near KK, right? I'm only a couple or three hours away. Next time I bring the truck up to be serviced, I'll shout you a cuppa.

Ohhh dear, will this end up in being the first kiwi milked in KK ?

Your a brave man ! 555555

Nah, been plenty of kiwis milked in KK by their gfs and wives

Vote 1: Costas for TVF PRESIDENT & chief of head jobs and all milking activities.

What's a "head job?"

Is that like a head case?

Not gonna touch that one with a ten-foot pole ?

Hey Costas, you live near KK, right? I'm only a couple or three hours away. Next time I bring the truck up to be serviced, I'll shout you a cuppa.

maybe one day the Greek solution. Hemlock.

As in Socrates' last words, "When I asked for herbal tea, I didn't mean freaking HEMLOCK!"