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I buy rotisserie chickens from Lotus's occasionally, but strip them of meat and but it in soups or sauces. There is the guy that makes honey rotisserie chickens chickens, but they are just too sweet and soggy skinned for my taste. We also have have a proper Thai Hat Yai fried chicken place, and they are really tasty but they cut them in such small pieces.

My brother just snapped that from Swedish TV....

Some snafu in the text overlay or reality? 5555

On 3/14/2025 at 8:25 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

Seems to me that Bt.400.00 per hour might still be about half of what they make in some developed countries.

Therefore, Thailand still has a way to go.

 

Per hour? Do not think so, this are per day wages they are talking about.

Isn't current minimum wage 500 baht?

5 minutes ago, pomchop said:

I would be that DJT has no idea that there was a famous plane named enola gay much less what it's role in history was.  Let's see those college transcripts mr genius.....show the world what a great student you were...or were not.

Are you talking to me?

11 minutes ago, johng said:

 

Probably,  don't remember ever hearing of "scary quotes" at school ever !

anyway I think I used them correctly even without

a PHD in "everything under the sun"

( or knowing what the hell they are/were)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare quotes

 

express especially skepticism or derision concerning the use of the enclosed word or phrase

 

It would seem you where using the quotes in the same manner 

IE:  they where not really heroes ?

 

Thanks for being neutral in your reply. I didn't really mean too be spiteful. It's just seems the current aura of the AN posts....

But IMO, they where both "heroes" and not. They did difficult mission without knowing what is was, and at the same time Enola Gay marks the start of the time in history when Homo Sapiens are able to to wipe themselves out, and "glass the planet" at the same time, to use the "Halo" wording. 

Whether the drop on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was needed, is debatable, but it did show what destruction mankind can inflict on itself.

And those two are nothing compared to the  Russian "Tsar Bomba", 100Mtons, dialed down to the 50Mtons for the test. 240PJ (peta jules) of energy, that was exploded over Kamchatka in 1961.

On 3/10/2025 at 8:46 AM, RuamRudy said:

 

There is quite a few towns and cities in the Russian far east that could be described, today, as pigsties surrounded by a few huts. Imagine if all that money, all that potential, that Putin has wasted trying to convince the world that we should all live like Russians, was spent actually trying to improve the lives of Russians rather than in the destruction of things, maybe the present day pigsties would at least have indoor plumbing. 

I know, I've seen, traveling to Romania (don't ask why!) with my father on a train through USSR in the mid 60's. Don't think much have changed.

And I think that powers that be want to keep it this way.

4 minutes ago, johng said:

 

S(ssss)cary quotes and s(ssss)per creeps keep me running ...running scared 😋

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Monsters_(and_Super_Creeps)

Yes, I am a fan of David Bowie, but Scare Quotes is the official name of my usage of quotes. Get educated, it's in the IRONY section. Missed some primary school maybe?

11 minutes ago, johng said:

 

I wouldn't call them "heroes"  dropping a nuclear bomb on a civilian population X2 that was about to surrender anyway..yes it speeded up the "surrender" a bit

 

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250226_21/

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation

"...Scare quotes are a particular use of quotation marks. They are placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it is not used in the fashion that the writer would personally use it. In contrast to the nominal typographic purpose of quotation marks, the enclosed words are not necessarily quoted from another source..."

The "Atomic Heroes"

Damn that Paul Tibbets for naming his B29 bomber after his mother!

14 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Russians are indeed Slavs. They belong to the East Slavic group, which also includes Belarusians and Ukrainians. The Slavic languages, including Russian, are part of the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.14

The genetic studies confirm that Slavic speakers like Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians have similar genetic components.1 However, there are some differences in genetic makeup due to historical migrations and interactions with other ethnic groups. For instance, some samples of Novosibirsk residents and Old Believers in Siberia have 5-10% Central Siberian ancestry despite being genetically close to European Slavs.1

It's important to note that while Russians are Slavs, they have a distinct identity and history separate from other Slavic groups. Some Ukrainians, for example, have discourses that emphasize their distinctiveness from Russians, viewing the Russian language as a mixture of Finno-Ugric and Tatar languages with a small Slavic admixture.3 However, this perspective is not shared by all Ukrainians, and the relationship between Ukrainians and Russians remains complex.

Good research. Thanks you for enlightening us all....

26 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

While both Ukrainian and Russian use the Cyrillic alphabet, they are not identical. Here's a breakdown of the key differences:

 

Distinct Letters:

• Ukrainian has letters that Russian lacks: Ґ ґ, Є є, І і, and Ї ї.
• Russian has letters that Ukrainian lacks: Ё ё, Ъ ъ, Ы ы, and Э э.

Therefore, although they share many common Cyrillic letters, the Ukrainian and Russian alphabets have notable differences.

 

Welcome to my ignore list, for your ignorance and lack of manners.

 

Glad to be of service! 

But then, by the same token, Polish, German, French, the Scandinavian and many other languages that use what we call Latin alphabet, have some of their own letters added, to express local diphthongs and specific pronunciations... but you wouldn't know anything about that now, would you? 

And, yes, I can read Cyrillic, but speak very basic Russian (mostly swear words). But listening to Ukrainian, I can hear that they share many of the same words.

4 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

i didn't ask you to do anything, you must have misunderstood my post,  I was following your quote about the other guy that never provides links or back up information for his misleading posts, I do my own research

 

 

You mean, you didn't do any research before starting the topic with this title? 

 

 

Apologies for misunderstanding. 

2 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

that's his usual way of trolling but somehow is getting away with it, never posted a link, never does research, just pots bs after bs without any back up

If I would do your research for you, I would have to charge you my consultant fees, which I'm sure you would be able to afford. 

Do your own DuckDuckGo....

1 hour ago, Purdey said:

It seems that most people are in favor of drinking all day every day. I can understand Buddhists hoping other Buddhists don't drink on Buddhist holidays but that seems like a lost cause after several centuries.

Maybe having a midday break from alcohol sales is weird but just allow supermarket sales to start from 12pm as well as hotels. Who needs a whisky at 9am?

Maybe not a whisky, but an occasional Bloody Mary can be beneficial. Or a Champagne breakfast.

Last time I checked, mom and pop shops didn't stock quality vodkas or champagne. Only local lao khao and the undrinkable buffo piss they call beer here.

1 hour ago, Purdey said:

It seems that most people are in favor of drinking all day every day. I can understand Buddhists hoping other Buddhists don't drink on Buddhist holidays but that seems like a lost cause after several centuries.

Maybe having a midday break from alcohol sales is weird but just allow supermarket sales to start from 12pm as well as hotels. Who needs a whisky at 9am?

Maybe not a whisky, but an occasional Bloody Mary can be beneficial. Or a Champagne breakfast.

Last time I checked, mom and pop shops didn't stock quality vodkas or champagne. Only local lao khao and the undrinkable buffo piss they call beer here.

Couldn't have been much of a hacker, not even being able to protect his own digital devices and location. 

And designer handbags? What is he, a CD or a lady boy?

Before they start mentioning luxury cars, perhaps they should start checking up on their own mid ranking RTP officers.

27 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

A notorious Singaporean hacker, known as "Desorden GhostR," was arrested by Thai police, halting his two-year reign of digital terror.

Wow, what a wording... "notorious" and "digital terror" in the same sentence.

I hope they went in all guns blazing, like the police did to Kim Dotcom, and Kim wasn't even a hacker.

I need a bunch of documents certified by a lawyer or equivalent for a financial institution in UK.

Can somebody recommend a lawyer, attorney or notary public that can do this? Preferably in Prachuap Khiri Khan as it's closest to me, but Hua Hin would do too.

Thanks in advance...