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Assurancetourix

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  1. Just now, owl sees all said:

    A little controversial, but he has a lot of followers on social media. Some might call him the 'David Icke' of the good eating world.

    Never heard of this good doctor ..
    On the other hand when I assiduously frequented Vietnam, years 90/96, I had heard of another "good doctor", a Japanese who advocated drinking his own <deleted> from waking up ...

    All tastes are in nature :w00t:

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  2. 3 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

    That egg don't look right. And diet coke?

    This khrapao khai , khai daw , does not inspire confidence in me;

    A shrimp and two weird pieces of chicken ...
    Why can't they keep it simple like in Thailand?

     

    as for the coca light it is precisely in case of diarrhea because of this bizarre chicken

  3. 42 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

    Am I missing something here or are there only four. Phitsonulok, Buriram, Krabi and Trang. Nakhon Phanom does not mention quarantine.

    If nothing has changed, entering the province is prohibited.
    My eldest daughter is a doctor at That Phanom hospital and we cannot go to visit her while we live in the province of Sakon Nakhon .

    The two provinces have a long common border

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  4. 16 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

    Now Asterix...your problem with your non-photogenic bike (according to some troll or another) is not unsolveable as the boys in the village have put their heads together and come with this one,what do you think?

     

     

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    An anvil with a handlebar that moves on its own;
    You get what you pay for , since it costs around 2,000 baht in the Lotus store nearby ...
    It's like "Thaksin" bicycles for those who have known these bicycles blue, white and red ...

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  5. 2 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

    LOL. The Saudi hospital I worked in had been built by the French and the Americans. We had both US 110v and 240v electrical. Made it really difficult when the IV pump was 240 and the only plug was 110. We had trolley loads of transformers. Far as I remember we used metric.

    This is another problem; when I was a kid the current was also 110/120 volts in France; but it was changed to 220/240 volts because the intensity is two times less

    therefore in fact more important but less dangerous voltage.

  6. I, who am French, realize how extremely difficult this language is when I answer in English;
    I'm not saying that English is an easy language but French is very high in terms of difficulty;
    the number of words which are pronounced in the same way but which are neither written nor have the same meaning ...
    eg le foie (liver) which ends with an "e" but which is masculine
    la foi  which has no final "e" but which is feminine;
    une fois  (once) which ends with an "s" but which is a singular ..
    the pronunciation is exactly the same ...

  7. 2 hours ago, colinneil said:

    Control, that is what Thailand is up to, got to control the peasants, show them who is the boss.

    I do not know what it is all over Thailand but I can tell you that with us, in the province of Sakon Nakhon, they do not care at all what can say or think M Prayuth and his government.

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  8. 23 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

    Did the French start up the 'metric' system,

    I do not know if it was the French who transmitted it to the whole world except the US, Burma and Liberia as wrote Bluesofa;

    what I know is that this system was adopted during the French Revolution, therefore from 1789 to 1794;
    in Thailand, it's a bazaar;

    for example the "tanks" which carry water are American system ,

    they do not contain 20 liters but 18.9 liters

     

    Now I know ::giggle:

     

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

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  9. 18 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

    I simply have to correct my own post. What I should have said is that I learnt to speak French, German, Spanish, Creole and English.

     

    AT has got me worried now. If he goes rabbiting off in French there is little chance of a sensible conversation.

    In high school, I learned Latin, German and English; the only language that survived ( in my mind ) is English;
    it must be said that latin and german are almost the same language;
    I learnt modern German, not Gothic German which I knew how to write (without understanding it).
    I lived more than a year in Italy when I was a trucker and I did quite well in Italian;( I have almost forgotten everything since, it was before 1980 )
    and then in the nineties I made  many long  stays in Vietnam;

    relatively easy language since it uses our French alphabet; the intonation accents are all written on or under the vowels, which is much easier than the Thai language.
    With us, I speak, let's say rather that I am gibbering Thai because my wife does not speak French or English.
    gibberish means talking just enough to be understood; it is a Breton word:
    bara = bread
    gouin = wine

     

    I think the members here from Wales should have the same words.

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  10. 1 minute ago, bluesofa said:

    Thanks.

    It never occurred to me about it being spoken in Vientiane & Laos. I had always assumed it was only used in Thailand.

    Although having said that, nearly all of Issan was part of Laos originally - so that must be Phutai's origin.

    There is only the south of the south of the province of Ubon where the Thai speak Khmer;

    What is also surprising is that Tai Orathai, who is precisely from the province of Ubon, sings either in Thai or in Isaan-Lao; I never heard her sing in Khmer.

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  11. 6 minutes ago, Bredbury Blue said:

    Phutai are one of the isaan 'tribes' and it's their language. My wife from Sakon area speaks it. No use when going further south down the Mekong to Ubon area of Isaan, but she can converse no problem with it in Vientiane and South down to the laos provinces opposite Mukdahan, but in Luang Prabang she had to speak Thai. Fascinating subject, isaan/Laos and its many tribes and dialects.

     

    We went to Laos in 2007 in the province of Sayaburi; no problem for my wife who is from Sakon Nakhon province;

    Laotians believed that she was Laotian and she never denied them in order to benefit from local rates when we took the bus or the boat.

    With regard to the thaification of populations, the same thing happened in France at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th;

    children in school playground were prohibited from speaking their local languages, whether dialect or languages such as Breton or Basque.

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