This Years Best Thread Competition

[dirtydog]

We got 10 threads and you can vote for as many as you like just the one time, ie on the poll you can check as many boxes as you like and then click submit.

So which thread do you think is the best this year?

This poll will be open for a month and we will be begging for a prize to give to the winner from sponsors, if the worst comes to the worst the prize will be a short time down at Soi Yodsak, but maybe we will get lucky and the prize could be a free scuba dive or snorkelling trip, or maybe a couple of days at a nice resort.

I should add that this is in no particular order and I haven't put the crappiest one first, anyway first up we have NickA learning to carve wood.

Actually towards the end of the thread he got real good at it, well apart from the elephants head.

Just chopped a tree down and thought it'd be food to do something creative with the wood, 'cos I'm a poof, like.

Anyway, not being very good at these things, I thought I'd start with something simple, so i chopped it up into little stools for me kids (don't know how I got kids, being a poof 'en all). To make 'em nice I thought I'd do a little carving on each one. So I bought a shitty set of carving tools for 100 baht from homepro and made this...

The Rest of NickA's thread can be found here


Surasaks Pub and Grill, you want to see nice food then this is the thread for you.

This thread has been running for a long time now and is full of fattening pictures of delicious food.

From time to time I'll post some stuff I cook. Right now it's roast pork, roast chicken Thai style, and, corned beef.

The roast pork is homemade using home grown thyme, salt, pepper, home grown dehydrated onions, home grown garlic using a boneless pork loin and roasted until the inside reaches about 150 degrees / 65 degrees C.

The roasted chicken uses a Thai spice packet purchased at a local Asian supermarket and roasted for about 1-1/2 hours in an oven until golden brown (marinated for about 1 hour prior to cooking). I really wish I had a charcoal stove to get more of the real flavor here, and, the chickens here in the states are really almost too big for doing this.

The corned beef is home made using beef brisket corned for 3 weeks in the frig then slowly simmered in wine for about 3 hours. The wine gives the meat a slightly fruity flavor and makes it more tender, IMHO, than salt water.

Surasaks Pub and Grill thread can be found here

Next up we have njdesis trip to Cambodia with a Thai Lady. Nightmare or a love trip.

Walking out of the restaurant to get a moto, some Khmer men start saying "hey sexy lady" to my g/f. She seems to shutdown at this point. We return to the hotel and she takes a shower, puts on Thai TV, tucks herself in, and glares at me when I try to speak. I know when to leave her alone, so I am off to do some exploring. Next part, Losing a debate on the effectiveness of supply side vs Keynesian economics with my moto-op...

click here for more about njdesi adventures in Cambodia

stroller tells us about Nan Province and shows us around. Does he really eat insects?

It makes a pleasant day out or a boozy overnight stay, karaoke, a variety of Thai dishes with heavy emphasis on fresh local fish and the usual Thai beers and liquors. You may do your own fishing, a bamboo rod is 10bt, great fun for the kids.

The last 10km across the hills are windy, and steep, about as much as one could comfortably do on a rented scooter. There's a car-ferry between the 2 provinces in operation.

stroller living in Nan Province

Thetyim spends 3 days in Kam Pong near Chiang Mai. One day they will have electric.

I recently went to Ban Mae KamPong for a 3 day visit.

KamPong is only 50km from Chiang Mai but is very different from the city.
It lies in a remote valley at an altitude of 1300m and has a population of 300 people.
The village is stretched out along the edge of the stream that flows through the valley .
The altitude makes it much cooler, in fact they only have two seasons, cool & wet.

Click here for Thetyims thread

buadhais around the world trip is an ongoing thread so many of the newer members have followed this.

Unfortunately, my desire to quickly depart for Asia was thwarted. It was mid-March and the overland trip did not leave until May. I guess I had a hankering for some clotted cream and a hike across Dartmoor so I headed out for Devon.

I ended up staying at this small guesthouse called Brock Park just on the outskirts of the town of Chagford:

Click here for buadhais around the world trip

hillbillys shack in the jungle is a storey of one mans fight to get his teakwood house built how he want's it.

First, because of work constraints I was not able to attend the initial setting of the posts.

Keep in mind the monks had already visited.

This is what I first saw...

Click here for the full story

Goddess of Whatever starts her own photoshop gallory. Is that really Gows Bum?

Let's play with tattoos. ;-)

To View more of her thread and work click this link

friscofrankie has a wander round Chiang Mai zoo and tells it like it is.

Man this is one tasty lookin' animal. Roasted whole over a slow fire charred and crispy with just a hint of pink in the middle; washed down with copious amounts of a crisp bitter ale;

for friscofrankie zoo thread click this link

marmite goes to Penang to see the sites, not sure why he takes a rabbit with him though.

Church street Cafe was more like it. They offered Guinness at the much more reasonable price of 17RM a pint and they were doing a promotion for Paddy's Day of buy 2 get 1 free. So I did.

marmites and his rabbits trip to Penang

[Roxy]

No other option!

[ChiangMai noon]

good work DD.
you seem to have forgotten my re-wedding thread though.

[barbaro]

I don't know.

[NickA]

The fight for the wooden spoon (could it be a carved welsh one?) is looking like it's going to be a vicious one.

[buadhai]

I don't know.

How come your thread wasn't included? I look forward to the updates daily....

[kingwilly]

This poll will be open for a month and we will be begging for a prize to give to the winner from sponsors, if the worst comes to the worst the prize will be a short time down at Soi Yodsak,

vote for GOW - I wanna see her win that prize ......... hehe


and i think we gotta hav a rule abt not being allowed to transfer the prize to any third parties....

[friscofrankie]

you seem to have forgotten my re-wedding thread though.

I think the vote is for this year. Was good thread.

[mrsquirrel]

Sadly my threads can't be included since they are famous and that wouldn't be fair on the lesser posters.

Why weren't any of your threads included CMN?

[ChiangMai noon]

biased admin?

[kingwilly]

^ or crap threads and shameless self promotion ?

(sees he who reached 100 posts on the wallace and gromit thread)

[danbo]

My first instinct is to scream out loud, "Hillbilly! Hillbilly!"....but then it often is whatever I may be doing....I've got to say that I was a tad disappointed not to see my, 'Have you ever lived in a tree?' thread included, but as it only exists in my head I suppose that that's fair enough. I will not rush to a decision here....I will settle down this weekend with a port and lemon in one hand, a live haddock in the other, and savour the excellence of all finalists before taking part is this wonderful example of democracy; before casting my oh so precious vote.....which is for sale.

[aging one]

I knew I should have kept posting my q and a with memock!!

[Gerbil]

My first instinct is to scream out loud, "Hillbilly! Hillbilly!"....but then it often is whatever I may be doing....I've got to say that I was a tad disappointed not to see my, 'Have you ever lived in a tree?' thread included, but as it only exists in my head I suppose that that's fair enough. I will not rush to a decision here....I will settle down this weekend with a port and lemon in one hand, a live haddock in the other, and savour the excellence of all finalists before taking part is this wonderful example of democracy; before casting my oh so precious vote.....which is for sale.

Are you going to navigate the threads by clicking on the links with your nose then?

[Lily]

^No, I think he will get his blow up postman to do it.

[MeMock]

I'm with you CMN and squirrel, obviously famous threads mean nothing around here.

I am actually just assuming that due to the nature of the prize DD didn't want me to win it.

[NickA]

Just like to point out that DD has sabotaged my chance of winning by putting my first crappy carving on.....here is the last piece of work....

[slimboyfat]

Just like to point out that DD has sabotaged my chance of winning by putting my first crappy carving on.....here is the last piece of work....

yeah i must admit i saw that pic DD posted and thought it was something you had brought back from cub scouts camp.

[buadhai]

I knew I should have kept posting my q and a with memock!!

Damn right! Why did you stop?

[RandomChances]

Just like to point out that DD has sabotaged my chance of winning by putting my first crappy carving on.....here is the last piece of work....

I think this is about the best "thread" if it was for the best wood carving you would win hands down

[NickA]

True...so, true

[dirtydog]

Ahhh, I should mention that threads in any of the famous sections and threads in the members sections were not included.

[aging one]

Bud, you coming to the party, I am waiting to meet you and some other members before I finish it.

[MeMock]

Ahhh, I should mention that threads in any of the famous sections and threads in the members sections were not included.

Why would you do a stupid thing like that?

[dirtydog]

Cos a lot of members havent got the required post count to view members.