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Diary of a farang in Isaan


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9 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

 

Power cuts twice a day yesterday and again once this morning ;

when power cut, no internet ...

 

About mangoes ..

We are making mangoo cigars and jam also ...

 

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The first photo - is that your washing on the line?

Mango cigars? How many people smoke those?

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, pineapple01 said:

Gittane Smokers at Christmas.

As a family many years ago, we would holiday in France.

 

One year, when I had discovered smoking, I bought a packet of 20 untipped Gitanes. 

 

I thought I was being extraordinarily cool.

 

Damn things made me sick! 555!

 

 

 

 

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24 minutes ago, pineapple01 said:
1 hour ago, bluesofa said:

The first photo - is that your washing on the line?

Mango cigars? How many people smoke those?

Gittane Smokers at Christmas.

I ended up googling as I couldn't imagine mango cigars, but it appears there are.

I sit corrected.

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1 minute ago, Odysseus123 said:

Gauloise mate...rough as guts..

When all was lost the Foreign Legion loaded them into their mitrailleuse and fired 'em at the the foe..never failed.

 

Even the camels fled.

Disc Bleu took a week longer to kill You.

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11 minutes ago, pineapple01 said:

Disc Bleu took a week longer to kill You.

Gawd they were bad but more in line with poison gas than machine gun fire.

 

However their contribution to 20th century French philosophy cannot be denied...????

 

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

 

Power cuts twice a day yesterday and again once this morning ;

when power cut, no internet ...

 

About mangoes ..

We are making mangoo cigars and jam also ...

 

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This is new to me AT. Please elaborate on the preparation and drying etc.

 

Is the outer skin mango only? Who smokes them?

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20 minutes ago, AndyAndyAndy said:

Put eatable part of mango (no skin, no seed) into a pot. Boil all water out of it. Spread it on piece of plastic/plate and dry it. Scrape it and roll it into a roll. Eat it.

 

We are doing it too.

We have plenty to eat AAA. But what about smoking them, as AT is saying?

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1 hour ago, owl sees all said:

And there's me trying to encourage them to breed. We have one big one by the house that sits in the road from about dusk. It does not like to move. I have to stop the pick-up and get it to scurry away with my foot. Bit my big toe a while back.

You just aint a Wise Old Owl but a Lucky one. Their Saliva contains bacteria than causes bad illness in Kids n Oldies, . Tokay is the correct name iv just been told. So thats OK.

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6 hours ago, Kadilo said:

She says a ferang in the village topped himself because he could not get any more whiskey and all the local mom and pop shops are running dry. 

He's not alone in topping himself because of government actions, however no one, IMO, tops themselves because they can't drink alcohol, but I suspect being drunk stopped him thinking about what really ailed him, and he couldn't take it being sober.

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6 hours ago, Kadilo said:

HI all. Great to see and read the updates from you all especially the photos from both now and the past. 

An excellent post and thanks for the photos Kadilo!

 

I am very glad that you are able to keep in close touch with your family and please stay safe and well in one of the centres of the storm...

 

These are very difficult times.

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12 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

Gauloise mate...rough as guts..

When all seemed lost the Foreign Legion loaded them into their mitrailleuses and fired 'em at the foe..never failed.

 

Even the camels fled.

There were also the "Celtiques" with a larger diameter (10 mm) than the Gauloises or the Gitanes;
and the famous Boyards of the same diameter as the Celtics
two kinds of paper: white and corn paper

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauloises

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29 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

There were also the "Celtiques" with a larger diameter (10 mm) than the Gauloises or the Gitanes;
and the famous Boyards of the same diameter as the Celtics
two kinds of paper: white and corn paper

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauloises

An old guy I worked with in 1978 rolled smokes with banana leaves.

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2 hours ago, pineapple01 said:

Must say this Topic is much more cheerfully then most to read whist drinking what Englanders lived for The Tea Break and Park Drive or Woodbines 60 years ago. Many old Farmers here stll do rollups wih one hand  

with one hand and a small cigarette rolling machine

 

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what I also see are small manual machines that put tobacco in cigarette paper pipes

 

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