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    Quote Originally Posted by BLD View Post
    Maybe helge the Lurpac promotor will be along to fill in the missing info?
    Ain't nothing wrong with Lurpac, that's some good butter.

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    Ignore the haters, Betty. It looks good to me

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    ^ one gets used to it...

    There is a large COSTCO, but obviously very American - some stuff is shite (like the cheese) while other stuff is decent.

    There are some terrible croissants in Korea with no "butter", they taste dry and awful. There's versions of butter, but not real butter. I'm in one of the major cities, but the choice is still crap - it's a very insular country; the big supermarkets have rows of identical Korean products... The bread in Korea is awful, sweet and tasteless (other than the sugar taste). There's one decent bakery around here that uses butter and has international quality croissants (they are $3 each...), it's always packed, sells out everything, opens at midday and is often closed by 4pm.

    Korea is shite. The won is weak. Inflation is very high. Salaries do not increase with inflation. Lots of folks are leaving here heading to China where the cost of living is lower (improving) and the salaries are higher. Korea was good 15 to 20 years ago, but is a crap place to work. if it wasn't for the dog, I would have left years ago...

    (Note to self: next life, avoid Korea and avoid Thailand... Work in London until your 50, keep moving jobs to maximize your salary, buy property and keep upscaling then retire to Spain, Gibralta or Malta.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    Lots of folks are leaving here heading to China where the cost of living is lower (improving) and the salaries are higher.
    Surprised to hear that.

    Are you talking about Koreans emigrating to China for better paid work, or foreign English teachers?

    Sounds like China is far from the peasant strewn craphole many people try to put forward. Pretty much all of our housing estate in Chiang Mai are Chinese families that are here for their kids to go to international schools as they are apparently a 3rd of the price of Chinese ones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
    Surprised to hear that.

    Are you talking about Koreans emigrating to China for better paid work, or foreign English teachers?

    Sounds like China is far from the peasant strewn craphole many people try to put forward. Pretty much all of our housing estate in Chiang Mai are Chinese families that are here for their kids to go to international schools as they are apparently a 3rd of the price of Chinese ones.
    Foreigners from various work backgrounds.

    For a specifiic example: I know a guy who was in China for a couple of years, liked it but the salaries were low, he then went to Singapore and worked at a high admin level for three or four years. Came to Korea a couple of years ago for something different, took a pay cut, and has been shocked at how poor Korea is across the board. He is now heading back to China on a salary that's equal to a UK salary (about 55,000 pounds) which is double what he was earning in Korea - did a great job here, cannot be replaced because of his high skillset, but the Koreans do not give a fuk...

    Korea is going down fast.

    China (which I don't personally like) seems to be on the up, and very fast in some areas.

    Edit to add: I've heard that some prices, such as housing and education, are going through the roof in China - thus, some Chinese folks are moving abroad.

    Regarding Koreans, they are probably one of the most inherently racist and insecure groups I've ever met, while at the same time... research shows that they have one of the highest rates in the world (I read some research that said THE highest) of young people wanting to move abroad permanently. It's a horribly corrupt culture here, worse than Thailand in so much as there's no patronage (which to some extent means the patrons support the "lower" level workers), just top-down bullying, uni-directional communication - top-down obviously - with punitive ranking structures for lower tier employees. Again, suicide rates for students and young workers are very high (the last reports I read on this were about five years ago, but they claimed Korea was the highest in the developed world).
    Last edited by Bettyboo; 20-12-2023 at 01:26 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    Can't get butter in Korea... Needs must.
    Well Betty, today I found the prefect hotel for you for next time you visit Bangkok.


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    Socal ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
    Sounds like China is far from the peasant strewn craphole many people try to put forward

    It's all about standards.


    Chinese compared to Thai.

    Europeans compared to Chinese.

    Imho Chinese are dirty, backward shysters that you have become accustomed to and hold them in high regard above the down to earth locals.

    Says a lot about you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Well Betty, today I found the prefect hotel for you for next time you visit Bangkok.
    Looks a bit pricey for me, Mendip!

    But, if Socal is there buttering up Emma in the Summer Palace, it could be worth a ganda. I'm not sure what a Villa Medica Clinic is though?

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    Check ups for the STI’s that skiddy contracts after buttering up Emma’s arsehole

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    STI’s
    Your 'speciality' Doctor Willy ?

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    cheese, onion and Lea & Perins Toasties....mmmmmm when its only you you have look after

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    Cheese and onion toasties are nice… never tried them with Lee & Perins.

    i had a corned beef sammwich.



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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    never tried them with Lee & Perins.
    give it a try, you won't regret it.

    those were 1/2 way, got darker and more bubbly.

    They were the toss up winners, Arbroath Smokie was the loser, i might have one later

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    The above two both look good to me. I'm getting hungry...

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    Nice lunch KW.

    Pretty much Super-Sunday fare down the pub back in the day.

    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    cheese, onion and Lea & Perins Toasties....mmmmmm when its only you you have look after

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    Is your phone stuck on perennial zoom or are you super ashamed of your kitchen?

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    Christ, have you caught this tedious 'super' bug?

    How super sad.


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