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3 minutes ago, dbrenn said:
There are always going to be exceptions to any rule - the odd half decent dish here and there, and it's a matter of personal taste. Freshly barbecued lapu lapu and lechon are good by any measure.
That said, Philippine food in general is pretty ghastly, which is probably why nobody outside the Philippines eats it, except homesick Filipinos & Filipinas - for instance, a Google maps search reveals only 15 Philippine food outlets in the entire Greater Sydney area. A cosmopolitan city of over 5 million people. Nobody likes it, because it tastes disgusting.
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6 hours ago, Jingthing said:
I'm not saying that Pinoy food is as good as Thai. Nobody is saying that. But I find all the hate directed at their food to be lazy and annoying. I've enjoyed very wonderful Pinoy food. On my one visit there yes it was a challenge to find the good stuff but I did indeed find some. Also perhaps ironically the good stuff was much easier to find at their restaurants in the U.S where there are large populations of Filipinos. Plus of course home cooking at parties etc. Overall I think their food is underrated.
There are always going to be exceptions to any rule - the odd half decent dish here and there, and it's a matter of personal taste. Freshly barbecued lapu lapu and lechon are good by any measure.
That said, Philippine food in general is pretty ghastly, which is probably why nobody outside the Philippines eats it, except homesick Filipinos & Filipinas - for instance, a Google maps search reveals only 15 Philippine food outlets in the entire Greater Sydney area. A city of over 5 million people. Nobody likes it, because it tastes disgusting.
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On 21/01/2021 at 11:16 PM, lovethai123 said:
I would love to eat filipino cuisine. They speak very good english. and u can talk to them about anything, watch YT vids with them too unlike the thai cuisine
had a colombian cuisine in walking street once, bit shy, had too much plastic inside and was overpriced,
Philippine food is actually rather horrible: lots of oil and congealed cold gravy, with strange mismatched flavours. The only good food are things that are unchanged like fresh fruit, barbecued fish and piglet. It's my least favourite in the entire region.
In the western world, there are hardly any Philippine restaurants to be found. There's a good reason for that.
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5 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:
I wonder where we are now with his mediatic campaign against the double pricing?
Richard Barrow was celebrating double pricing when it worked the other way around: a promotion at Emporium that favoured expats over locals.
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1 hour ago, khongaeng said:Here is a complete report of my experience in gaining Thai citizenship. I just finished applying for my passport today. I plan to stick around this forum to encourage others to push through to the end. Thanks to all the forum regulars that stick around and gave encouragement as I went through the process. All the best to everyone in the New Year! I hope that many of you finally get your shiny blue ID card this year!
Well done. You'll see the place in a different light, free as you are now from all those tedious rules and regulations that you've had to follow for so many years. There's no feeling quite like it - although it did feel a bit strange to me at first - almost like Stockholm Syndrome, no longer using my former nationality, along with all the familiar paperwork that went with it. Enjoy your freedom.
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14 hours ago, Jeffr2 said:
You said you've seen lots of videos. Most videos are on social media and most are fake or conspiracy theories.
A conspiracy theory is an idea that is refuted unanimously by experts.
Scepticism of the irrational response to Covid is put forward by various doctors and professors of medicine. Why is only one side of the discussion being reported?
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17 hours ago, Bluedan said:
that's proof that I am wrong ? An article in the NY times and less deaths registered overall, versus actual facts as to how COVID deaths are classified ?
Facts don't seem to make any difference, here or anywhere else.
A case of mass hysteria.
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32 minutes ago, scorecard said:
"...What seems to be happening in the west is a reluctance to acknowledge that a terrible mistake has been made in locking places down, with politicians too embarrassed to admit how wrong they've been..."
Your entitled to your opinion but it's only an opinion.
My opinion is that given the current situation in Thailand (and many countries) stopping the massive/growing spread my limiting travel etc., is appropriate but sure as soon as possible commerce needs to happen to keep people in jobs etc.
Sorry but I just don't buy your comments about low infection rate etc. Is that's true how come many countries in Europe, USA and more have enormous death numbers?
Where are these enormous death numbers? The UK, for example, quotes a COVID death as anyone who has tested positive for COVID in the 28 days prior, regardless of what other health problems they may have. You'll fine that a lot of these are in nursing homes, with various comorbidities. If, for example, someone who has terminal cancer and has been given weeks to live, dies having tested positive for COVID, then was it cancer or COVID that killed them?
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44 minutes ago, Lacessit said:Read this, and then stop wasting people's time with the drivel you are posting.
The ABC is a government propaganda tool, akin to the BBC in the UK, with it's corresponding left wing narrative. I feel sorry for you if you believe everything that you see on it, dumbly accepting it as scripture, accepting without question. Here's a newspaper headline from January 6th 2018:
‘Hospitals have already been forced to cancel tens of thousands of operations and NHS chiefs fear things will only get worse… On Tuesday, hospitals were ordered to cancel up to 55,000 non-urgent operations and put patients in mixed-sex wards to create more room.’
The NHS has a ‘winter crisis’ thanks to overloaded intensive care wards, year after year. But nobody ever thought before that this could be solved by strangling the country and forbidding grandparents to hug their grandchildren. Hospital are full in some parts of the country, and patents are being transferred to other hospitals - it happens year after year.
And please show which of the points I made was untrue - you won't be able to.
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12 hours ago, Rumble Tumble said:
lets see how long that lasts when the Aust Government is hammered by the tourism industry for more ongoing financial support
It's almost as if governments don't care about the tourist industry anymore, and that they consider it collateral damage. I'm also very surprised by this.
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3 minutes ago, TSF said:
Is that good or bad?
I'll let you figure that one out.
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On 1/4/2021 at 5:09 PM, Travelanimal said:
Lockdown isn't answer and never will be . It will only harm the economy. If you haven't learnt it till now then you are foolish
Very true. And for every doctor supporting lockdown, you'll find others who say it's ineffective. Add to that the economic devastation it causes, with the knock on effects to health that poverty causes.
Isolation should be voluntary, for those most at risk.
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Lockdowns don't work. They also destroy people's livelihoods and inflict poverty on millions.
Prayuth is right to oppose the lockdown.
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1 hour ago, Virt said:
Would be nice if they published the daily numbers of tests in these articles.
Test and ye shalt find ....
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9 minutes ago, transam said:
I thought it was the Chinese.....????
Nope - second strain hysteria was a British invention.
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4 hours ago, robblok said:
I see the point of banning people from the Uk to get in countries where there is no quarantine. The strain is just really bad and it thriving in the UK.
But Thailand has state quarantine so what is the problem. Are they afraid that their standards are not up to spec ? I mean the precautions in the state quarantine are quite good tests are done and people kept isolated.
I don't see why they should exclude Brits in this country.
Why should Thailand take chances? This second strain hysteria, with its arbitrary 70% greater contagion, came from Matt Hancock and his cohort of 'experts' in the first place, so the British only have themselves to blame.
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I knew two people who overstayed 7+ years before leaving for different reasons.
One spoke fluent Thai and just blended in, living like a local with his Thai wife in a rented house. He taught English freelance, no work permit.
Another was also teaching, living in a condo in a building mostly occupied by locals. He then he met a woman in a good job, married and sorted his visa out. This was before Thailand excluded overstayers.
Both had one thing in common - they blended in and kept a low profile. Both weren't happy, and were looking over their shoulders all the time, dreading getting caught. Not the kind of life I'd choose to lead.
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Lockdowns didn't work in the western world, or anywhere else, and inflicted misery and poverty on entire industries. People who enjoy the luxury of working from home, are retired, or are on benefits may disagree.
Governments can no more control the spread of viruses than they can control the weather. Thailand knows that.
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32 minutes ago, johnmell said:
No green on this map.
I'm guessing that anything not red, orange or yellow is green.
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Australia is saying the same thing. Vaccination won't exempt you from quarantine.
Not just a Thai thing.
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He provides a good information service, albeit one that the British Embassy itself should be providing. Giving out medals is another form of outsourcing, and allows the Embassy staff to sit around and do the bare minimum, in line with other British civil servants.
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8 hours ago, bkk6060 said:
They should announce today a 10 day country lockdown covering the entire New Year weekend.
I'll bet that your livelihood doesn't depend on freedom of movement.
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1 hour ago, overherebc said:
I've also met a lot of expat managers who seemed to set themselves up as little tin gods and actually believed all the staff loved them.
Most of that type were so full of themselves they couldn't see the real situation.
The real situation is that managers who get along with their staff get more work done. This is true everywhere, but more so in Thailand where people will work hard for you, but only if they like and respect you as a person.
Managers who belittle their staff usually fail in what they set out to achieve. Thais are good at reading how you feel towards them, and they reflect your own temperament back at you.
I'll bet you fell into the latter category.
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2 hours ago, overherebc said:
Check the first word of my post.
Retired, five or six years ago.
No need to rethink anything.
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Retired, or fired because your staff didn't like you and you didn't deliver for you? I've seen a lot of expat managers who look down on their Thai staff. Always the same poor result.
Was Thailand ever the number 1 country to retire to because its not now
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Seafood, steamed or barbecued, unaltered, you can't go wrong. Things fall apart when they add their vile sauces, stodgy gravy and seasoning. Yuck.