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Nah, Marines claim, once a Marine, always a Marine. Never an ex Marine!

I used to see an ad in magazines, selling a TV antenna that looked like an expensive well known brand of TV antennaes, but sold for a lot less. The ad claimed it was a "Genuine Imitation"!

What does not liking to watch sports have to do with such dalliances? As for sports ... I participate in shooting sports. Small bore rifle at 50 feet, trying to hit a little tiny dot that is .065 inches in diameter. You can't even see that dot, it is in the center of a black bull that is about 1.5 inches in diameter! Three positions, prone, kneeling, and standing. And large bore rifle from 100 yards out to 600 yards, trying to get shot groups smaller than 1 inch diameter shot groups at 100 yards, smaller than 2 inch shot groups at 200 yards, smaller than 3 inches at 300 yards, etc out to shot groups smaller than 6 inches at 600 yards. Also three positions, prone, kneeling, standing. I read somewhere (here perhaps) that someone takes their golf clubs with them when participating in such dalliances, not something I can do with the sport that I participate in! Watching people shoot at paper targets from 50 feet out to 1000 yards (no range near me that long) is extremely boring. Just as boring as watching someone hit a golf ball a few hundred yards. As for the dalliances discussed, shot distances are mere man's play at the distances involved.

I have always filled the water pot to just below or just touching the pressure release valve. What I was wondering about was about filling the coffee basket. Should the coffee grounds be filled up to the top of the basket? I went to the thread you posted and read about using boiling water in the pot. How do you screw the top part on? Do you use a glove or dishcloth to hold the bottom as you screw the top part on?

Thanks for that tip. I will try that with the pot I bought here in Thailand. Should the basket be completely filled? Anecdote follows: Years ago in California, I bought a moka pot at a flea market for $1.00. The couple that sold it told me it leaked down the side when the coffee was poured out and they could not figure out why. I found out. Just lift the lid and there was no leak. This was an Italian made pot that had a different size gasket from other moka pots. It was difficult to find replacements. It also made extremely good tasting coffee, better than any coffee plot that I had before or after! You could put bad coffee beans in it and get a good cup of coffee. I mistakenly told my wife one day, I can't find a replacement gasket. I kept checking different shops until one day, about 3 months later, I found the right size gaskets. Then I found out that my wife threw my moka pot away after I told her I could not find a gasket.

My wife would detect that lie immediately. She knows I don't like to watch sport. Even the only one that I participate in, too boring to watch.

One reason I go to Thailand is for the mango and sticky rice! It's a minor reason to go but still ... The sticky rice I can eat in the U.S. of A. is just as good as Thailand but the mango is OK to barely edible.

My wife is Thai. When I told her I liked street venders roti's she asked me. Where do the venders use the toilet at and do they wash their hands afterwards?

So, tunnel diggers are not just the North Korean military digging tunnels under the Korean border, drug/human smugglers digging under Mexican and American borders, and hamas digging tunnels, but now Cambodian and Thai borders.

Off the topic of helicopters landing in Thailand... When I was in the Texas National Guard, I hopped a ride between Houston and San Antonio, Texas. During the flight the helicopter landed in a cow pasture and the pilot got out then walked off to the left of the helicopter. I'm sitting inside thinking, why the heck did we land here? I leaned over to see where the pilot went to and there he was, watering (pissing on) the grass in the pasture (would pissing make it past the censure?) I could see the ranch house off about 1/4 mile out the right side door as the pilot reentered the helicopter and curious if the occupants had seen the helicopter landing and taking off.

I just checked the remote for the Mitsubishi AC we have here in the U.S. of A.. No DRY mode at all found when running through the different modes. I am too lazy go downstairs looking for the manual (read, I haven't finished my first cup of coffee and am not going downstairs to look for the manual). We have three AC units in Thailand, but two different remote controls. I will have to look at them when I get there. Thanks for the information. I find this an interesting subject, for some reason.

Can you reply in English instead of Greek (or is that Latin)? 😁 OK, enough of the dumb jokes. I had to look that up. I don't recall that an AC would or could work based on humidity level. I will have to find out if mine will do that. Both here in the U.S. of A. and in Thailand, where I will be next week. I will look for more information on that later. Just got back to the house from working at the wife's restaurant, after hours, to fix some problems. 10 hours of work ... sheesh. I am supposed to be retired!

What is dry mode with an AC?

Me, I bounce back and forth between 173 and 178. And I will celebrate my 76th year some place in SEA this year.

You asked how many. Now you know there is at least, one!

Some have tried to go back to their ancestral lands of the African continent, from America. They found out they were not welcome, were cheated, robbed, etc. Then there is the lack of modern amenities often found in a first world country. All to often, those that return to their ancestral lands on the African continent, do not last long there and return to the country of their birth, then complain of how hard they have it there.

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There may or may not be a monkey house. But at least, there is a Monkey Bar, since 1936!

I found that odd too.

Taiwanese man arrested in Vietnam for smuggling nearly 2kg of gold Hanoi, June 26 (CNA) A Taiwanese passenger was arrested by Vietnamese authorities on Wednesday for attempting to smuggle nearly 2 kilograms of gold through Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, according to Vietnamese media. Vietnamnet reported that the gold, worth more than US$215,000 (NT$6.37 million/5.5 billion Vietnamese dong), was hidden inside four camera lenses. ... The bars had been carefully shaped to evade both x-ray scanners and manual inspections, officials said.

My wife told me, if I get a mia noi in Thailand, tell her that any money I receive in my retirement, stops as soon as I am dead!

"As Mamdani continues to poll in second place behind Cuomo, ..." This must be before the primary voting. He beat cuomo. I hear, on the radio, that cuomo may run as an independent. I have been trying to find out the approximate numbers of muslims of voting age in NYC. But could not. I did find that there are between 1 and 1.5 million muslims living in NYC. If mamdani can get between 800 to 900 thousand votes, he may be the new mayor of NYC. Looking at the election figures for NYC mayors, that amount of votes would be more than any previous mayor got to win the mayorship.

OK, as I responded to TallGuyJohn, I got on the Pink line by a Home Pro in Nonthaburi. I don't remember what station that was.

OK, the first time I rode it was in Nonthaburi. I went to a home pro in Nonthaburi and discovered that the pink line had a station there. I rode it to Civic Center station, exited there, walked to the blue line Civic Center station. If I recall correctly, I was charged on my card when I exited the pink line station. Oh well. At least I had a cheaper trip back to the condo than if I had taken a taxi from Home Pro.

Yes. Bucks County, Pennsylvania. A neighbors brother (who lived with his dad across the street), had an argument with his brothers roommate (brothers house behind my house). Guy got angry with his brothers roommate and shot the roommate with a hunting bolt of a crossbow in the upper leg!. Missed the femoral artery by 1 centimeter. If the femoral artery had been hit, the guy would have bled out and died before cops or emergency medical had arrived at the house. The man was sentenced to 7 years in prison for attempted murder.