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Makro had lots of them a few months ago. Also a semi-permanent UV lights which attracts the mozzies thru the night and zaps with a zillion volts.

For some reason, we cannot bring them into Australia. (the racquet shaped ones)

Just did,nothing said by oz customs

I tried as well, but mine was taken away at Sydney airport customs.

Was that before or after you shouted..."You cannot be serious"?

You Cannot Be Serious!

Personally, I never eat any food off the street and even at home, I enforce a strict 3 second rule!

3 second rule

Makro had lots of them a few months ago. Also a semi-permanent UV lights which attracts the mozzies thru the night and zaps with a zillion volts.

For some reason, we cannot bring them into Australia. (the racquet shaped ones)

Just did,nothing said by oz customs

I tried as well, but mine was taken away at Sydney airport customs.

Hmmm... you seem 60% certain of gold's price dropping over the next two months, and this is based on...? It seems as if you're pulling statistics out of thin air, based on ego-challenging urges.

So be it - I'll take on your new challenge, with a now reduced 57% probability certainty that gold will be somewhat higher in USD terms (currently $1338.20) on the market close of Friday 30th May 2014 - based on seasonal price movement over the past seven years:

Please try to understand the following:

1) Based on the seasonal study above, there is also a 43% probability of gold's price being lower by Mon 2nd June 2014 (note that this particular seasonal trade would have been a loss during 2012-2013);

2) Seasonal market tendencies (specially weak ones) are easily overwhelmed by current events. For example, if the Euro/GBP/Yen were to sink sometime over the next 3 months, gold will do great in terms of those currencies, but poorly against a relatively "stronger" USD;

3) Never make financial decisions based on emotional urges.

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"Tampons contain two things that are potentially harmful: Rayon (for absorbency),and dioxin (a chemical used in bleaching the products)."

Source

So your source is some space cadet folk singer?

C'mon, what is there not to trust about this source? After all, she can play the accordion in the snow!

I'm about 60% certain that physical gold will be priced higher in USD terms by 1st March 2014.

Time for an update on that seasonal gold price (USD/oz & THB/10 Baht) prediction:

Thu 26th Dec 2013: $1,212.30/oz (฿18,700)

Lowest point: $1,202.30 on 31 Dec 2013 (฿18,750)

Mon 3rd Mar 2014: $1,350.30/oz (฿20,700)

2 month price gain: +11.4% (+44% pa)

Dont even think about it until it hits 15kbht-still trending down worldwide. Open a futures trading account and sell every time it hits 19k+.

Thanks Beau Thai and sound advise you have given

Ouch.

And that, my friend, is why you should never take any financial advice from the internet. And specially so from any anonymous amateur who talks about "worldwide prices".

"Tampons contain two things that are potentially harmful: Rayon (for absorbency),and dioxin (a chemical used in bleaching the products)."

Source

From The Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM):

1. The inhalation of formaldehyde gas in even small quantities is followed by bronchitis and pneumonia. Pneumonia is due to the inhalation of the gas and not to secondary infection.

2. Formalin belongs to that rare group of poisons which are capable of producing death suddenly when swallowed.

3. ...16

Doi Suthep National Park - beautiful nearby pine forest with nice bungalows.

Location here

Glutamate is harmless. MSG is just that with a sodium ion on the end. You are a hypochondriac.

Salt is also harmless. It is just chlorine with a sodium ion on the end.

Take out the sodium, and see what happens.

Stop extrapolating your ignorance onto others.

sodium choride is not comparable to monosodium glutamate. If you take away the sodium atom in salt, you end up with chorine, a toxic substance. If you take away the sodium from monosodium glutate you end up with "The carboxylate anions and salts of glutamic acid [which]are known as glutamates. In neuroscience, glutamate is an important neurotransmitter that plays a key role in long-term potentiation and is important for learning and memory.^[4]"

^{Ignorance is certainly on display in one of the above postings, but I'll refrain from pointing out in which one it lies.}

True - ignorance is the common trait of all humanity, and I don't exclude myself.

However...

Glutamic Acid (a non-essential amino acid) is not the same as Monosodium Glutamate - MSG does not have the same function in the body, does not cross the blood-brain barrier in healthy humans, and is not even detoxified by the same metabolic pathway in the liver.

The point is, your comparison between MSG and its precursor GA is invalid, as any slight alteration to an organic compound often turns it from a beneficial substance into a potentially toxic one.

"Russians involved in bike theft scam in Koh Samui"

Just curious - I wonder which of the following fictitious headlines would have the least impact, and why:

"English involved in bike theft scam in Koh Samui"

"Burmese involved in bike theft scam in Koh Samui"

"Thais involved in bike theft scam in Koh Samui"

Make sure the seeds aren't from america, king of genetically modified foods. Solutions are not as simple as you think.

You can't seriously compare deadly formalin's instant toxicity with possible long-term effects from GMO grains.

Everything is toxic to the body at certain levels, even water intake in high amounts. This is the favourite argument used by people who give up on life, with the "everything kills you" argument.

Glutamate is harmless. MSG is just that with a sodium ion on the end. You are a hypochondriac.

Salt is also harmless. It is just chlorine with a sodium ion on the end.

Take out the sodium, and see what happens.

Stop extrapolating your ignorance onto others.

Don't take it personally, Tropicalevo - most if not all urbanised areas in Thailand (i.e., places with a dense human concentration) are generally dumps for garbage of all sorts, and that definitely includes Haad Rin, Thongsala, Bantai, etc in KPG.

What else did i learn from that video.

I can see they did paint the basketball field and other stuff near the lake.

The festival center looks like it has trouble reaching it's original opening day march 1.

There was no walking street that day near monkey bay bar.

They torn down several buildings the last year in Chaweng.

They didn't get rid of those green ugly rubber thingies out in the water on Chaweng beach.

They got rid of the funny monkey statues near chaweng lake.

He got quite close to the powerlines/trees down near the Duke.

He spooked a couple of buffaloes.

Hmmm... what else did I learn from this excellent video:

Step back five metres from the beaches, and urban Samui is mostly a garbage-ridden sprawl.

"as a last resort if poison is to be used, where do I get it and how do I use it?"

O lordie... another dog-hating clueless troll with no idea of the consequences of his actions.

Related:

Water quality monitoring in Upper Ping river, Thailand.

As Rorri has pointed out, flash-based bandwith tests are unreliable.

These are my current results with non-flash multiple-server TestMy.net:

dl: 2.1 Mbps (68% of 3BB Broadband average)

ul: 1.0 Mbps (average for 3BB)

Wow! Where can I get that high tech gadgetry. And is it compatible with my ENIAC?

Sent from my refurbished ENIAC using the ARPANET

Hmmm... You may have to re-configure many of the ENIAC's 19000 vacuum tubes, for that tech wizardy to be compatible with your powerful unit.

Or, you could always drop 3BB and go for a CAT connection:

Seems to me the guy in the black got lucky, I would have not been so easy on him.......

I look forward to the rematch...

I've been having loads of problems with 3bb in Chiang Mai as well. Incredibly slow a lot of the time and other times normal.

Same here. And I know it's not my router/modem/line because I've been monitoring line quality all day.

I've just called 3BB support and asked for a technician to call back. Surprisingly he called back almost immediately and told me that they are having some international access server issues, and can't tell me when the service will be running as normal again - refreshing honesty.

I find it helps if I unplug the modem for about 10 seconds and plug it back in.

This may help when the ADSL connection at the IP end is a poor one, and a new one is assigned when reconnecting. But not likely to help with the current 3BB problems.

BTW, I'm using nothing but the latest state-of-the-art solid-state equipment:

^ Ha, no. This would be big enough to build/renovate something clever.

Tiny, but clever.

Don't know about clever, but this one seems tiny...

You can find natural stevia in Chiang Mai, right here.

Footage of Samui's secret underground station, where time slows down: