https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenI pre-registered with PTT sometime ago and it reads the car digitally when you plug it in and just debits my bank account when I unplugged itSat, 06 Jun 2026 14:43:19 +0000Peanuts are very high in calories. Hardly a health food.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:40:45 +0000images (9).mp4Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:40:45 +0000Apart from those that show their idiocy on planes, most idiots manage to hide their idiocy until they're through immigration. Once their bags are down in some hotel room though, the idiocy starts to manifest itself. With many, idiotic symptoms appear within hours: drunk or dazed and confused due to a combination of substances, the results are well known. Motorbike crashes, fights, thefts, wanton destruction. Police and immigration should have little difficulty deporting the idiots that survive these initial symptoms. Harder to deal with, and sadder for all concerned, are those whose idiocy takes time to reveal itself, and indeed, harms no one but themselves. Symptoms here are usually brushed off by the victim until it's too late. The idiot hands over increasingly large sums of money to an almost total stranger of the opposite sex, or one of indeterminate sex, or even one of the same sex, in the mistaken belief that money can buy love, and anyway, the almost stranger told them they were the only one, and they loved them too mut. However the good news is that doctors, psychiatrists, and even a soil dog can cure this idiocy with a few simple words: Never settle down with a lady from a foreign land until you have met her family and friends many times and feel you know them well.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:39:06 +0000I know this is technically a food topic, but it is really more of a rant. Years ago, a friend of mine told me that the taste of peanuts in Thailand are unacceptable. At the time I thought he was exaggerating. I eat peanuts occasionally when in Thailand myself. They are a decent source of protein and I quite like them. The local brand Koh Kae roasted and salted peanuts are good value and perfectly enjoyable as far as healthy snack foods go. A bit crunchy and brittle sometimes, but still not bad. Fast forward to more recently where I became mildly obsessed with buying jars of natural peanut butter from supermarkets while traveling overseas. Most of it was excellent. Creamy, smooth, rich tasting, and somehow still soft and spreadable even after being refrigerated. Most of the brands contained nothing except peanuts, with no salt added. After a bit of experimentation I found that adding around 1.5 grams of salt per 100 grams of peanut butter was the sweet spot. Every time I bought a jar I would weigh out the right amount of salt, stir it in while the peanut butter was still at room temperature, stick it in the fridge, and end up with what I considered near peanut butter perfection. Now onto Thailand. The supermarket options here seemed fairly uninspiring. Most of the shelf space appears dedicated to heavily processed peanut butter products containing sugar, oils, stabilisers, emulsifiers, preservatives, and possibly components from a small space programme. I am only interested in natural peanut butter, and the supermarkets usually have only one or two brands of that variety, often imported and fairly expensive. So I ordered five different locally made brands online from small manufacturers. All claimed to be 100% peanuts. All claimed to be creamy. All claimed to be wonderful. To be fair, they were definitely made from peanuts. Beyond that, things started going downhill. I added the same salt ratio to each jar and mixed them thoroughly. Not one of them could honestly be described as creamy. One was vaguely acceptable. The rest ranged from dry to what I can only describe as edible construction material. After refrigeration several of them turned into something with roughly the consistency of reinforced concrete. So locally grown peanuts are likely lacking in peanut oil. The flavour was also disappointing. Almost all had a slightly burnt taste to them. None had that fresh, naturally sweet peanut flavour I had become used to elsewhere. Two jars went straight into the bin. One was acceptable enough to finish. The remaining two are still sitting in the fridge waiting for me to lower my standards. The whole experiment has actually made me reconsider what my friend said years ago. I am starting to think the issue may not be the peanut butter manufacturers at all. It may be the peanuts. Five different brands, all using different production methods, and yet all ending up with roughly the same disappointing flavor profile starts to point the finger at the raw ingredient itself. Of course, I could always buy one of those expensive peanut grinding machines and make my own smooth peanut butter in Thailand. But if the peanuts themselves are the problem, then all I would really be doing is producing my own disappointing peanut butter more efficiently. Also, I do not eat peanut butter on bread. I quite enjoy eating peanut butter straight from a spoon as a snack. That way there is nothing else influencing the flavor, unlike eating it on bread where the taste can be altered or improved somewhat by whatever bread you are putting it on. That's how I'm certain that the peanut taste is an issue. One final point that may shock some people. And before anybody calls the authorities, I would also point out that peanut butter on chicken is absolutely delicious. If that sounds strange, remember that chicken satay is basically chicken covered in peanut sauce and half the country seems perfectly happy with that arrangement. So perhaps the real question here is not whether peanut butter belongs on chicken. It is whether Thailand secretly produces the world’s least inspiring peanuts and nobody told me.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:37:09 +0000💩 this gets right to the point.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:36:43 +0000Shame nobody taught you how to write in English.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:36:21 +0000Been alone is not a good thing when you get old , retired here when I was 40, my wife was 20 ,I am now 80 ,we have had a good life together ,and in my old age I need her ,she looks after me really well , you need to think of the future not just of the day, unless you want to end up in an old people's home ! . regards worgeordieSat, 06 Jun 2026 14:34:36 +0000We need an emoji that says : BS .Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:34:18 +0000Poms are 3rd favourites to break wogball drought.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:33:51 +0000and lets get some adult emojisSat, 06 Jun 2026 14:32:36 +0000and lets get some adult emojisSat, 06 Jun 2026 14:32:36 +0000Kickoff time in Thailand : 2 am to 10 am.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:28:42 +0000Get rid of them, they're a distraction...........Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:28:01 +0000Remove the thumbs down. The meaning is too variable - it can mean I don't like the subject of a news report, I don't like the poster, I don't agree with the poster, I think the poster gave me a thumbs down, I'm jealous of the poster, I'm too dumb to understand the poster's point, I'm a loser and the only power I have in my feeble existence is handing out thumbs down.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:23:35 +0000The cats and maybe the dogs if they are hungry could eat the dead rats, which would not be good for them , in your situation i would use the sticky traps , they are about size of dinner plate ,two stuck together, separate them ,put peanuts ,or another kind of bait on the middle and put them up in your loft, check daily ,you should soon catch them. they are usually tree rats ,not the dirty sewer rats ,and left the trees to come in roofs of houses during the raining season. some people will say the sticky traps are cruel , but these are rats ,vermin. cause disease and could burn your house down if they chew the electrical wires. regards worgeordieSat, 06 Jun 2026 14:20:21 +0000Have you considered Ari...?Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:19:08 +0000Its not just the police and the other institutions, just cast your eye over this thread and the usual suspects are there, screaming racist at everybody, yet again Screaming racist at anonymous meaningless usernames , why do they do it ? is it virtue signalling? or something a bit more sinister ?Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:17:39 +0000Thai music never boring, unless plunge stringSat, 06 Jun 2026 14:16:20 +0000No I have not.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:13:33 +0000Ok you get the last word.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:13:18 +0000This guy's been in Thailand 20 years? He claims if you don't learn Thai and integrate, your only option is expat bars for social life. And expat social circles can be toxic. I'm an introvert anyway, so I don't hang out in bars much. But watch the company you keep. Everyone at the bar may act like your friend. It's not just the alcohol that's the problem. But the guys who gravitate to bars maybe are the more miserable expats or shady expats? Not sure. I haven't been around as much as this guy. Maybe he's exaggerating for clicks on his channel. I don't know.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:12:33 +0000The fact that you are unable to differentiate the historical situations from the present gives you a booby prize, or at least the Order of Jihad from the MullahsSat, 06 Jun 2026 14:12:16 +0000AI AI AI....blah blah blah Watch Bill Maher's "New Rules" from the 5th of June. The aid the US delivers to those in need is a tiny fraction of what it was. Some of the NGOs did good work, and those working directly for USAID were some fine humanitarians. It was "soft power", back when the US was liked. Trump wanted the USAID budget cut because somebody was supplying condoms to some Moslems...which one would think Trump would applaud. Anyway, what was a tiny amount of money morphed into hundreds of millions to the Taliban, per moron MAGA Republicans (they were wrong). Musk and Doge had no clue what they were doing. Nobody can understand a $3 trillion Federal Govt in a few weeks, of which USAID was a small part. Musk hired a bunch of teen Incels, who cut out of ignorance and to feel like bigshots. One got beat up by a 15 year old girl, so Trump deployed National Guard in DC. Losers. The main thing Doge did want download data on every American, for what purpose remains to be seen.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:10:33 +0000"non white racist abuse " is there any other sort ? anyway if I happen to bump into any old mates we might well get a bit nostalgic and indulge in a bit of banter over a few pints , as long as there is nobody like you earwigging that is , but if you are asking if i hurl racist abuse at random strangers in the street, well that's a pretty stupid question which I won't answer, I'll leave it to your imaginationSat, 06 Jun 2026 14:07:28 +0000