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I think that using non stick cookware isn't a good idea. The chemicals that leech outta them aren't very healthy. Instead use well seasoned cast iron cookware. A bit of soaking to aid in clean up and then the occasional reseasoning makes a better cooking instrument, that only adds a little iron to your food.
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Anything I say about my wife's cooking wouldn't do her justice, lets just say I am a very lucky man with any cuisine she cares to make.
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All I can say is my friends live in Sattahip They had their baby at Queen Sirikit Hospital...don't know if I spelled it right, but when her child was born they refused to give him a birth certificate from
Thailand. She had to go to an Attorney which I believe she said in 2 years with a court battle they would be able to get a birth certificate
Her and her husband are from another country. From my understanding it's like anything else in Thailand they want from us but have a hard time being reasonable to us. I know in America, if your
born there, your an American. This was what she told me. so it isn't fact, it's hearsay, but I believe her.
It's true if your born in the US your automatically a US citizen. Pregnant women cross the border on day passes and have their babies in the US. It ballows them to stay in the US. They are called anchor babies for this. US Gov't isn't very bright
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I went last Christmas with my grandson and wife. The girl at the window said you not Thai but your family is. I believe the charge was 400 baht for the three of us
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It's not so much that I mind quiet chatter, it's when they stop massaging when talking.
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For me personally
FREEDOM
Even with the various warts Thailand has it feels much more free IMHO
If you mean in the sense that the recent Cambo thread OP did, I think you're pretty free in Columbia, as long as you've got a convoy of bullet-proof cars and bodyguards armed to the teeth.
Freedom's one of those words, like love, that means so many different (and often contradictory) things it's become a more or less content-free term.
Perhaps you've not visited COLOMBIA or you might have know how to spell it. Things have changed recently very much for the better. Bogota as with any large city there are problem areas, you wouldn't wander around East Central Los Angeles, just stay outta the South of the city you'll be fine. Countryside is normally tranquil now and Santa Marta is a great seaside place to live, Americas oldest city. The drug trafficers have gone underground, no more major drug wars. Farc is winding down. Colombia offers every climate you'd want to live in. Go down the mountain get warm go up the mountain get cold, or choosesomewhere in between. Cali is a good choice and for some reason an abnormally large amount of beautiful women call it home. Colombia's food is fairly bland but restaurants are good and sea food excellent
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You little jokester you. Even I speak more than Ebonics. I graduated with a degree in French from Morehouse College (an all Black male school) and was in a class with all Black males. I speak English (obviously), Portuguese, Spanish, and Thai as well. I'm sure she felt no more uncomfortable than I did when I earned my MBA in International Business at Georgia State University being the only Black American in dam_n near all of the 20 classes throughout my coursework.Don't be so sure. Obama speaks English.Yingluck might only speak Ebonics. She received her degree from Kentucky State University, not to be confused with the University of Kentucky. Look it up on Google. Doubtful she ever attended classes for four years since she might have felt uncomfortable being the only student who wasn't African American. Kentucky State University isn't even ranked among the top 400 colleges in the U.S. Chances are her family went down the list of colleges until KSU was the first to accept a large donation in exchange for a degree.
Morehouse is a good school. I've friends who went there and a friend who runs a medical department in the Medical School. I spent a lot of hours watching Basketball and some football there . Never had anyone bat at eyelash at my skin color. Always enjoyed every visit. And as point of information a few whites do go to school there. Speilman and Clark Universities are located in same area, also good schools
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My wife and I can understand his viewpoint. Our home is about two klicks from the village. We are surrounded by rice paddies and a couple of small hills. We don't hear the morning announcements from the Wat. We don't have many people stopping by and that's fine with us. We've a guest cabin for friends that pass through. We're not antisocial, my wife likes to say we're private.
If we could see our closet neighbors they'd be about a klick away in the three directions you could travel. We like sitting on the front porch watching the sun set in the evenings. We don't listen to a neighbors loud music at 5am or hassles over this or that. We like it when our grandson is running around the yard. Shopping is only around 7 klicks where we can buy food, sundries, gas, or restaurants. We can get to the airport in 45 minutes if traffic is light down 1317 by making three turns.
Things are convient but not in our backyard. The village close by has 105 houses and a large man made lake above it that has good fishing. The villagers themselves are friendly but reserved and we have a good relationship with the pooyai.
Life is good without lots of people surrounding you
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Watching it live streaming http://bit.ly/SbePug Pretty sad as this is something the Americans have not had a great deal of experience with. The reports in the last hour of the subway filling with water from tidal surge will mean 5M people a day who use the subway will not be doing so for a week until it is pumped out. That will be huge interruption to NY business.
Being a Floridian I can assure you people in the Southern US have had a great deal of experience with large storms. The NE US doesn't have much experience, but they don't get much upset when it occurs here, so I guess we'll not get too upset when it occurs there. Of course it'll clean up some areas that might need a good rinsing, as long as no one get hurt or injured that might be a good thing.
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I don't recall what my initial deposit was, but the Bangkok Bank branch in Doi Saket was extremely helpful and easy to set up an account. Just photocopied my passport and filled out some paper work.
They were really helpful in some of the transactions we needed done while building our home. They really could not be nicer to us, and it's not a hassle to visit the bank, we don't mind at all.
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I've a book, Blue Book Of Coastal Vessels Thailand that was given to Betty and Ben Alexader from Barbara and Roy Evans in Bangkok on December 1967.
Incredible detail of types of boats in Thailand and surrouding countries. Pages are half in English and half in Thai. Tells how do detect what people could be smuggling and where to look. What kind of fish found and where to fish for them. What to use to catch them.
But really 100's of photos of boats.
Ah Mogoso....
Don't tempt me ! I have just had a look at the details of that book and it looks grand!
My heart is by the coast but my family and livelyhood are in the North ! Interesting that it dates back to 1967.
Thanks
Gladiator
It was put out by a joint US-Thai Military Research and Development Center. They don't go enough into the fishing aspect enough for me, but as it was a wartime book the detection of contraband on ships and how to spot suspicious vessels is understanable. But ship building and where there were seen to operate, care of books etc really cool. We have a house outside of Chiang Mai but I grew up on the water in St.Petesburg, Fl. The sound of waves crashing upon a beach is the most peaceful sound in the world and such a joy to sleep to.
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I've a book, Blue Book Of Coastal Vessels Thailand that was given to Betty and Ben Alexader from Barbara and Roy Evans in Bangkok on December 1967.
Incredible detail of types of boats in Thailand and surrouding countries. Pages are half in English and half in Thai. Tells how do detect what people could be smuggling and where to look. What kind of fish found and where to fish for them. What to use to catch them.
But really 100's of photos of boats.
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The first time I came to Thailand was to visit a Thai girl I'd met at work in the UK who'd been on an international placement for 6 months. We'd got together in lovely Wolverhampton and said a sad goodbye at Birmingham International 5 months later.
Koh Samui has been raped by greed. My wife though is still awesome.
You got together in lovely Wolverhampton? I cannot remember Wolverhampton being lovely. I do recall streets of brick row homes. My great aunt and uncle lived in one. We sent my mom to visit them in the 80's and she had the Mayors robes and necklace with maybe the city seal on it in a picture. But I cannot remember it as lovely. However I was in my early 20's and it was 1972 so I might have missed a lot.
As for Samui, I haven't been since 1999 and just don't have the desire to go. I'd rather my memories stay good and I'm sure a visit would punture that bubble
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this is my first time to make a post and that is to ratcatcher I don't where you get your info but columbian is in south america and British Columbia is in North America not even close
Is that true?
Yes it is true! To makes things simple and if you lived in the United States, British Colimbia is where you get your lumber from and Colombia is where you get your Cocaine from? Although I must admit great coffee from Colombia as well to.
Colombia is a very beautiful Country. Mineral resources are vast and varied. Oil, coal, natural gas, platinum,gold, most of the Worlds emeralds. Snow capped mountains to rain forest to deserts. You can choose to live in the climate that suits you. Warmer go down from the mountains, cooler go up and every varible inbetween. Abundant food and yet many people live in poverty and squalor. The country produces some of the finest people you'll every want to know, and some of the worst people to walk the face of the Earth. Thievers are as abundant as leaves on a tree, from the street urchin to the police to the politicians to the pistoleros.
I love Colombia, but there is a darkness within some of the people that is legendary throughout South and Central America. A Colombian necktie is something you don't want to own.
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So hate speech is illegal in the UK? How do Religious leaders then get away with calling for the death of people of another religion, of the destruction of that religions country. How can they say that the leaders of the country they are living in should be killed also and the people living there should be converted or become 2nd class citizens with special taxes placed on them. How can the call for the deaths of citizens of other counytries not under the sway of their religion. Sounds pretty hateful to. Yet this moron wears a shirt and gets 4 months in the jail for a hate crime. Pretty selective usage of the law
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This is not the first time that Obama has screwed up when asked fair questions about his pathetic record. The same thing happened a few weeks ago when a Spanish station asked him tough questions that he could not answer effectively. If the mainstream media was not providing him cover he would be trailing badly in the polls. He deserves to lose and it is starting to look like he just might.
To clarify for others, that TV station, Univision, is the USA's top watched Spanish-language network based in Florida. Obama obviously thought it a friendly forum since he leads in the polls with Hispanics. Whoops.
Oddly Univision is owned by a top Obama supporter.
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My thoughts of understanding and good will has long left me when it concerns these people. At this point I'm just counting up the almost 20,000 acts of deadly violence in the last eleven years and waiting for pay back to really begin. It won't be soon enough, it won't be strong enough, but maybe it'll be meaningful.
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Take it out, put it in a zip lock baggie, and put it in the freezer overnight. Reinstall and back up data. Probably a youvideo on this.
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We did the slow boat last year. although mostly backpackers it was a good journey. Peaceful, good scenery and no hassles. Paxbeng has varied choices in the guesthouses from new to old. Just get off boat and climb up the hill lots to the left or go into town straight. Many touts to "assist" you. If you go left the breakfast in the morning might be on a veranda over looking the River
The backpackers will party all day on the boat and have a good time, but your guesthouse will be quiet at night. Don't exchange money dollars or baht will be exchanged fairly. Luang Prabang same thing, get off boat go up hill, touts, ignore go to left and walk to you find one at your price. We paid 600 baht for first night and 500 baht for additional nights
Returning to our home in Chiang Mai we flew. $150 per person.
You do spend a lot of time sitting but the seats aren't too bad. Sit on the right side of boat first day and the left side the second day for sun protection
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For sports you might try www.thefirstrow.eu
For movies and TV www.movies2k.to The newer movies are camera recorded sometimes people walk through
www.free-tv-video-online.me
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Something that dogs tolerate quite well is Benadryl. Dogs do get allergies and bee bites etc. Normal dosage is one mg per pound of dogs weight 3 times daily 8 hours between doses. Maximum doseage is 2 mg per pound. Also useful for travel anxiety, but most dogs like to travel.
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I don't see it as corporations paying taxes as they just pass through the charges in the form of adjusted prices for their product
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I grew up in a city that Ian Fleming descibed as "the city of the newly wed and the nearly dead" St. Petersburg , Florida the shuffleboard capital of the world. Was mostly old folks then, but now it's all about youth. There are no more open spaces to the beach it's all condo and bars from Indian Rocks to Pass-a-grille. Crime is rampart and the cost of living sky rocketed. Lots of folk coming in to live and work wasn't very good to it. Now that I'm old I rather like to see lots of old people milling about
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It must be a dream of every drug addict hooker to have a "boyfriend" from Columbia, seems to be more entertaining than a fat Freddy from Sweden or Austria.
Is that Columbia University where Obama attended or Columbia, Missouri or District of Columbia. There isn't a country named Columbia. Now I've lived in a country with a similar name, Colombia.
It's a common misspelling of the country's name and they don't like it down there
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So many folk complain about the quality of schools, yet as a parent you can also add to your children's knowledge by doing a bit of Home Schooling. What ever the subjects I daresay many on this board should be able to get them to the equal of a high school education, before sending them off to a University. A few home schooling study guides and your own knowledge should blend in well with what they learn in Thai Schools. The blend would be good for the child. just an opinion