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Deterioration of Dining Quality and Experience
It's not that I just "think": I know. I trust my senses when it comes to judging the quality of what I eat. As a child I was used to eating homemade cakes (not unusual in Europe), and I enjoy cooking and baking cakes myself, even if only for my own personal pleasure, using the best ingredients I can find (e.g. real butter, milk, sugar, eggs, flour, fruits, etc.). Starbucks locations receive frozen baked goods from Starbucks suppliers. They don't bake anything: they just defrost their bakery and sell it as "fresh" sometimes even after two days from the moment of defrosting (small pieces), sometimes after several days (cakes sold in slices).. Do some research on the internet. With thousands of current and former employees, there are no secrets to how Starbucks works. It is not by chance that Starbucks' business model is consistently facing headwinds since a while (Microsoft PowerPoint - Q4 and Full FY24 Earnings at a Glance_Ready for Review.pptx). -
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People's Party Takes Lead Over Pheu Thai in Latest Nida Poll
not true his pardon commuted his term in jail. His is banned from politics recent complaint to court under review. understand??? -
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What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2024)
Alien: Romulus ... have to avoid comparison to #1 & 2 Bad Boys: Ride or Die ... nice tie in to previous one Gladiator II ... slow going, but revenge twist at end redeemed it Road House -
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Did you manage to avoid all the boring family trips?
I don't find trips with my family particularly boring, thank you very much. Certainly nowhere near as boring as reading threads on here originated by boring posters complaining about boring family trips! -
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Why some of us did not get COVID symptoms …even though we were exposed.
Congress was exempt from the mandates. Fancy that. -
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water purification options
Moved here permanently in April 2024. Drinking and cooking water was provided by those large water cooler bottles for I believe THB 10 each. At the far end of the garden we have a deep well that pumps up to 2 x 2000L bottles on a 9m tower. Brushed teeth using well water. For some reason the auto-fill function was not in use, needing a twice daily walk to the water tower to press the Big Red Button to start the pump to fill the bottles, and another trip to turn off the button. Despite Thais' fear of things electric, my family were surprisingly relaxed about standing in a waterfall of water raining down from the overflowing bottles so as to be able to press the BRB again. Drinking water was transferred to reused water bottles/ pop bottles and stored in the fridge. Well water is very hard. Every couple of months the bum guns and shower heads needed to be cleaned in vinegar or citric acid solution. Everything was quickly coated in scale and soap scum: taps, porcelain sinks, toilet bowls, glass shower screens. Every time we made changes to the blue piping, it seemed to cause a pulse of extra scale to get into the house, sometimes including bits of vegetation (due to some other decision taken without my knowledge to not put the tops on the 2000L water bottles on the top of the water tower) that would clog up spray heads with stuff impervious to vinegar and citric acid. Goodness knows what was happening inside the shower heater elements. Painting the bridge: Initial solutions were to replace the cheap(est money can buy) plastic, sealed bum guns with some brushed steel ones, from Thaiwatsadu, which can be dismantled and clean. Kept two spares fully cleaned and serviced so that I could do a phased maintenance cycle over the course of a week. De-calcing floor and wall tiles, glass, sink & toilet bowls and metal tap fittings was a lot of work. Installing an inline pump to improve the pressure from our 9m well was getting closer to the top of the list of home improvements. When its time came I insisted we incorporate a water filter system as part of the same job, suspecting that if it wasn't done now, the way the inline pump job was done might make it more difficult/ expensive to retrofit a water system later. My wife grumbled a bit but to her credit she found a small business that would install a system in the next week or so. There were some teething problems, but in the end I am happy with the result. The equipment was installed in a small outhouse built for that purpose. We re-enabled the autofill at the well head. I think it goes something like this: Water is pumped from the bottles at the tower to a holding tank in the outhouse. Something is injected to deal with some/ all of the water hardness. This water is pumped through a two-stage RO system into another bottle that now contains clean, soft, potable water. The inline pump does its job of supplying the house. First time in ~40 years I have had soft water from the taps wherever I was living. We can drink the water from the taps (though we still offer guests unopened commercial bottled water). We still fill those 750ml plastic bottles and store them in the fridge. We don't have to do the water cooler bottle run any more. No scale in the water at all. Lather for shaving is foamy and my razor rinses clean. We use less soap for laundry, dishes and body. Our shower heating elements will last longer. The bum guns, chrome and porcelain have remained clean for months now. I expect the payback time of this system versus the THB 10 water cooler bottles is a decade or two ;), but I think it was worth it.
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