Daily Moan

[Saint Willy]

Could get off my arse and go in I suppose.....

Drive to the edge of Bangkok. Have them meet you there.

[DrWilly]

Drive to the edge of Bangkok. Have them meet you there.

seemed like a good idea to me...

[malmomike77]

Has it been bothering you

[DrWilly]

Was certanly wondering, as it seemed like an easy solution. Do you have better?

[malmomike77]

My Kerry suggestion was shot down

[Latindancer]

Was certanly wondering, as it seemed like an easy solution. Do you have better?

My suggestion to you : Drive to the edge of Bangkok and keep going. Don't stop till you get to Kazakhstan.

[AntRobertson]

I ordered a part and waited paitently for it to arrive. It came last night so I've spent this morning installing it and then thought 'Oh I know, I'll put the part it replaced with the other bit and it will make some nice wall art' so then spent about 15 min digging through shit to find it. Eventually did along with another part exactly the same as the one I'd just ordered / had delivered.

Oh well, spares...

[Edmond]

Eventually did along with another part exactly the same as the one I'd just ordered / had delivered.

Used to do that with computer games when aged 19/20.

Would go to the games shop, buy a game, get home, see the exact same game sitting on the game's shelf.


Though, to be fair, I smoked a lot of pot and did a lot of xtc at that stage in life.

[malmomike77]

You had a games shelf as in more than one game you spoilt bastard.

[Edmond]

One shelf with 20 copies of the same game.

[nidhogg]

Was certanly wondering, as it seemed like an easy solution. Do you have better?

In the end found a different supplier that did deliver out of Bangkok. A lobster is sitting in the fridge to be enjoyed with other cold seafood, bread, and a chilled bottle of white wine.

Xmas eve dinner sorted.

[malmomike77]

^ sounds better than my gai yang and somtam with a cold Chang.

[cyrille]

^^That does sound good.

Where were you that left you with a hankering for blinis, vodka and caviar?

[DrWilly]

In the end found a different supplier that did deliver out of Bangkok. A lobster is sitting in the fridge to be enjoyed with other cold seafood, bread, and a chilled bottle of white wine.

Xmas eve dinner sorted.

Or even Xmas eve eve dinner.

[nidhogg]

One of the less appreciated side of working in Thailand is that the Christmas period is NOT a holiday. Xmas eve and Xmas day were Friday and Saturday this year, so not too painful, but back working today, and a normal working week until the holiday starting on Friday.

All a bit weird shite, as still working from home, but stuff still needs to be done. I suppose I could have taken some leave but hoarding my days off until I can get out and about properly. Hoping, hoping, hoping to get a decent break mid year, as this covid crap has just gone on waaaaaaaaaaaay too long.

[misskit]

I will never cook another whole duck again. What a pain in the bum. A greasy mess that will take days to clean up! In the future when I get the hankering for duck, I’ll just buy the breasts and legs to cook.

[DrWilly]

Or go out?

[misskit]

No duck in restaurants around here.

[Latindancer]

I’ll just buy the breasts and legs

Sounds a bit like Simon43..

[Stumpy]

One of the less appreciated side of working in Thailand is that the Christmas period is NOT a holiday. Xmas eve and Xmas day were Friday and Saturday this year, so not too painful, but back working today, and a normal working week until the holiday starting on Friday.

All a bit weird shite, as still working from home, but stuff still needs to be done. I suppose I could have taken some leave but hoarding my days off until I can get out and about properly. Hoping, hoping, hoping to get a decent break mid year, as this covid crap has just gone on waaaaaaaaaaaay too long.

Man I agree on Covid. All my colleagues are off in the US until Jan 4. Our biggest customer in Germany the same. Factory open here but not much going on so just be available. Sort of like a vacation...but not. Weird working world these days.

[beam8]

Why is it still so hard to find a size to fit with underwear in Thailand?

I have lived here for ten years and still cannot buy off the the shelf undies that fit.

The sizes are xl xxl and but they dont show a waist size?

I have a 90cm waist, easy yeah?, well not so easy in Thailand, after about 79cm they just go xl or xxl or xxxl. and the manufactures make up what xl means.

[DrWilly]

and the manufactures make up what xl means.

How do you think the sizing system works?

[malmomike77]

Its been a while but tuning in to the local news and watching stories of chickenheads in their annual rush to find the lucky life changing winning lottery ticket for Pee Mai is all coming back to me now. If anything sums up the sometime absurdity of the place its got to be this. Not sure what's funnier the person channelling the spirits to provide the so called lucky number or the mouth breathers gawping at whiteboards as the numbers are written down.

[beam8]

Its been a while but tuning in to the local news and watching stories of chickenheads in their annual rush to find the lucky life changing winning lottery ticket for Pee Mai is all coming back to me now. If anything sums up the sometime absurdity of the place its got to be this. Not sure what's funnier the person channelling the spirits to provide the so called lucky number or the mouth breathers gawping at whiteboards as the numbers are written down.

Try to explain this.

Hey babe you got the lucky number from the (priest) (who ever).
But I went in after and got a different one.
That lady over there got a different one.
That bloke just now got a different one.


And then the look on the sellers face when I ask for "Just one,the winning one"

[malmomike77]

Its the same for when they go to the Wat to get their fortune told. About 20 years ago went around 9 Wats in one day getting her fortune told as an experiment to demonstrate what a load of tosh it was after an incident in which she'd been to one and got a reading she didn't like and went to another and got a much better one she was happy with. The day spent traipsing around was well worth it coz since she's not bothered.