ThaiPauly Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Try soaking the 2 coils in water overnight then try pressing them apart the next day and leaving them to dry before use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lampard10 Posted May 19, 2006 Author Share Posted May 19, 2006 i dont even bother to separate them anymore,just light the 2 ends and have double the protection. use the coil as you would normally The best suggestion/remedy yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chanchao Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 > To improve your life you should consider to marry and sleep > with your wife...just your wife. No need for a condom... No need for a condom if you don't mind 27 kids... Cheers, Chanchao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneeyedJohn Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 All this talk of coils, condoms, girlfriends / wives is very very confusing.. why not just put everything in their hands and u should be OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douggie Style Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Burn the condom and wear the mosquito coils, (guaranteed to inhibit pregnancy, like Gandalf in LOR ‘You shall not enter’) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johpa Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 These coils are wonderful things. Just one tiny problem. Getting the two apart. Usually they end up in pieces over the other side of the room. Anyone else have a problem with these. There are just some things that separate us "old Thai hands" from the others. Separating the coils is but one of them. Other actions are washing your bum Thai style without walking out of the hong naam with a wet spot on your behind and walking into a home and leaving your flip flops in front of the door without missing a stride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nam Kao Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 I read before if you take Vitamin B12 regularly the mosquitoes will avoid you. Anybody try this? thx, nam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob/nyc Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 I read before if you take Vitamin B12 regularly the mosquitoes will avoid you. Anybody try this? thx, nam Does not work. Have taken Vitamin B for years and they still bite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeaceBlondie Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 Didn't we do an entire thread on Thai packaging last year? I almost got that coil-separation thing figured out when my Thai partner returned to my life and suggested we reactivate those disc-shaped electrical appliances. Baygon has a 12 hour blue and green striped rectangle that fits in there and works fine. And you can almost handle the rectangles without contaminating your hands. I used to open a box of coils and spend ten slow minutes separating all the coils, then washing my hands for five minutes. A stinkin' bag of potato chips/crisps should not be difficult to open. The potatos are already so well preserved that it's not as if they'd rot. They're not so valuable that potato thieves are running amok in the stores. I've spilled more potatoes on the floor than Dan Quayle could count or spell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lampard10 Posted May 20, 2006 Author Share Posted May 20, 2006 We always used to say " Drink Gin & Tonic and the mossies will stay away" This was of course that tonic water started life as a quinnine based medicine ( hence Indian Tonic Water) Anyone know if they still put quinnine in it. In fact some European countries still call it by it's proper name eg. agua quinnine & quinnine wasser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jai Yen Yen Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 These coils are wonderful things. Just one tiny problem. Getting the two apart. Usually they end up in pieces over the other side of the room. Anyone else have a problem with these. There are just some things that separate us "old Thai hands" from the others. Separating the coils is but one of them. Other actions are washing your bum Thai style without walking out of the hong naam with a wet spot on your behind and walking into a home and leaving your flip flops in front of the door without missing a stride. Well, don't keep it all to yourself - tell us HOW! We all want to know! (Not the flip-flops thing, the other one). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabaijai Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 As you're pulling the centres of the two coils in opposite directions, gently shake both and they will usually pop apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t.s Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Yeah, mosquito coils and condom boxes must be the two single most frustrating things to unpack. Oh, and then there's Sang Som bottles where the thread of the cap gets ruined and the thing just spins idle. I'd say these three things are the biggest source of aggravation to my life in Thailand. mosquito coils, condom boxes, Sang Som bottle caps... life's a bitch! \ uh, yeah, sounds like you guys are living the high life. do you have any idea how poisonous mosquito coils are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunMarco Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Yeah, mosquito coils and condom boxes must be the two single most frustrating things to unpack. Oh, and then there's Sang Som bottles where the thread of the cap gets ruined and the thing just spins idle. I'd say these three things are the biggest source of aggravation to my life in Thailand. mosquito coils, condom boxes, Sang Som bottle caps... life's a bitch! \ uh, yeah, sounds like you guys are living the high life. do you have any idea how poisonous mosquito coils are? If that's for the mother in law, I suggest rat poison: no taste, no smell, no color. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrus Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Try soaking the 2 coils in water overnight then try pressing them apart the next day and leaving them to dry before use I'll try that next time fella. i dont even bother to separate them anymore, just light the 2 ends and have double the protection. use the coil as you would normally The best suggestion/remedy yet. I got to that stage, many times Lamps. Just light it, (with a Nike tick undernieth)............ redrus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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