I was thinking

Post by **old-timer** » October 23, 2011, 10:39 pm

OT was thinking about garnish today. I had some on my plate. Now, it looks like it has had more time spent on it than the rest of the dish, and most of it I managed to flick off my plate when no-one was looking, as is recommended in the michelin guide. But what is the point of that inedible little character being on the side of your plate. I mean the obligatory pieces of green red and yellowish. Useless and pointless and hardly edible. A bit like most Chinese products.

OT............... $\:D/$

Post by **parrot** » October 24, 2011, 7:00 pm

A scoop of ice-cream in Swenson's is around 40 baht. A scoop of Wall's (cheap) ice-cream in a decent restaurant with a sprig of mint is 50 baht. Maybe you could ask the waiter to leave off the garnish and ask if they'll reduce the price!

Post by **trubrit** » October 24, 2011, 7:14 pm

parrot wrote:A scoop of ice-cream in Swenson's is around 40 baht. A scoop of Wall's (cheap) ice-cream in a decent restaurant with a sprig of mint is 50 baht. Maybe you could ask the waiter to leave off the garnish and ask if they'll reduce the price!

I think we all realise that ice cream is a very low cost product but we pay over the odds for presentation, as in Swensons, but at the weekend I sponsored a Katin ceremony with an ice cream stand, I had 5x10 gallon drums at 700bht per gallon, including cones and it was delicious. Needless to say I sent back just empty drums . :-"

Post by **stattointhailand** » October 24, 2011, 8:44 pm

piglet :-& :-& :-&

Post by **old-timer** » October 31, 2011, 2:37 am

SHELL have developed and congratulated themselves on a car that can run on over 3700km on a litre of fuel. Which got the old boy thinking.Christopher Columbus went much further than that without any.
I think we are being misled.

OT.......... $\:D/$

Post by **kopkei** » October 31, 2011, 7:02 am

well TB and parrot , i would say you are both wrong thinking ice cream is cheaply made....

look at the word itself ice CREAM....,a good ice cream must have cream inside and i am sure if you taste the ice with or without the cream you would be surprised of the difference in taste , so as i make sometimes the real stuff at home i can tell you it is a lot better , but a lot more expensive , also depending what flavor you make and also here big differences in quality ingredients .... or indeed cheap flavor additives ....
now you can even by a descent box of ice cream for 350 baht , ( 700 still expensive) but do not compare this with the real stuff, but as long as you are happy....

Post by **parrot** » November 3, 2011, 8:54 pm

Over the years a number of prominent politicians (Mario Cuomo, Chris Christie for example) have declined strong party support to toss their names in the presidential race hat.
While they may have had perfectly legit reasons to not run, I've often wondered if there might have been some tainted background, securely tucked away in their current position, that might come out of the woodwork in a more scrutinized presidential run.

And that got me to thinking: Did Herman Cain toss his hat into the race (presidential, that is) and NOT consider the fact that his sexual harassment background would be brought into the limelight? In at least one case, we're not talking about allegations.......as a year's salary was paid to one employee who complained. Maybe he thought that if Obama could use coke and still get elected and Clinton got elected after admitting to using marijuana, who'd care about a few sexual harassment cases that have been settled against him? If time is a great healer, maybe it's time for OJ to come out retirement and start playing football again.

I wonder if tomorrow will bring a press conference where he'll proudly state "I did not have sex with that woman"!

Post by **old-timer** » November 5, 2011, 3:43 am

OT was down the pub lunchtime and tried the chicken tikka massala together with a couple of pints of lager. It was quite good. Anyway during my second beer I came across a photo in the paper of a big mouth returning home after accusing a Thai WFB of something or other. Makes a jigsaw puzzle easy in OT's opinion.

OT.........--------.......... $\:D/$

Post by **old-timer** » November 20, 2011, 3:46 am

During this evenings dinner when I had my sister, her husband and their kids at my place for fish and chips from the take away, the subject of titing was brought up. sorry, tweeting.
You can call yourself what you want, talk a load of rubbish and have a massive amount of followers.

Something else that's fascinated OT is this time travel/speed of light investigation that's just turned a milestone. It has now bee proved that fired pulses of neutrons from the Cern underground laboratory near Geneva through solid rock to subterranean particle detectors at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy about 750km (466 miles) away and it got there 3 billionths of a second faster than light could make it.
Still not enough time to get a bet on.

OT.............. $\:D/$

Post by **old-timer** » December 19, 2011, 8:53 pm

After reading a book on quantum physics and watching a very interesting programme about it last night it got OT thinking. Why did I wipe my nose today with a tissue I'd put in my pocket after eating a doner kebab on Saturday night. It has taken me the best part of three days to get rid of the awful stench, only to get it back in a fraction of a second. I must have had a ton chillie sauce on it as well because my nose is on fire. I'm sure, with my understanding of quantum physics there is a mathmatical equation to this.

OT............... $\:D/$

Post by **jackspratt** » December 19, 2011, 10:00 pm

old-timer wrote:A I must have had a ton chillie sauce on it as well because my nose is on fire.
OT............... $\:D/$

Just a moment of analysis, and thought, would surely have lead you to the conclusion that you should be thankful it is only your nose.

Post by **marshbags** » December 20, 2011, 8:09 am

jackspratt wrote:
old-timer wrote:A I must have had a ton chillie sauce on it as well because my nose is on fire.
OT............... $\:D/$
Just a moment of analysis, and thought, would surely have lead you to the conclusion that you should be thankful it is only your nose.

Toilet humour at it,s best, I can just imagine the reactions

marshbags =D>

Post by **old-timer** » December 20, 2011, 7:24 pm

What else is there to think about this time of year other than the season to be jolly. Which doesn't seem to be happening that much on UM lately. OT read a report today about the most desirable blokes women fancy. And it is forty odd year olds that WFB's desire the most. Like James Bond and Jonny Depp. Blokes between the ages of 20 and 30 think they are the most desirable but they are jerk according to 2000 women who carried out this poll for Debenhams. I rang up 14 WFB's with this information this morning and they told me they were busy with their brother who is 27.

OT............. $\:D/$

Post by **jackspratt** » December 24, 2011, 9:19 am

Having just returned from 4 days in Pattaya (staying in the farang slum around the Nurin Apartment area), I was thinking - why do so many middle aged guys (mainly long termers I guess) shave their heads (when they have a perfectly good cover of hair), and cover their upper bodies in multi-coloured ink?

- do they think they look younger?

- do they think they are more "attractive"?

- are they being sheep, and following the herd (sorry for the mixed metaphor)?

- something else?

Post by **semperfiguy** » December 24, 2011, 10:20 am

jackspratt wrote:Having just returned from 4 days in Pattaya (staying in the farang slum around the Nurin Apartment area), I was thinking - why do so many middle aged guys (mainly long termers I guess) shave their heads (when they have a perfectly good cover of hair), and cover their upper bodies in multi-coloured ink?

- do they think they look younger?

- do they think they are more "attractive"?

- are they being sheep, and following the herd (sorry for the mixed metaphor)?

- something else?

Jackspratt, I would say that if we are being honest with ourselves we have all spent our entire lives on a "search for significance", and most have never found it. They have never "stood out" or "fit in" in their home countries, so they come to Thailand for a "fresh start", and conforming to the modern culture gives them a false sense of finally "belonging" to something so that they can identify with others in their same boat. It's much easier to "fit in" with the modern culture than to "stand up" and "stand out" by being an example to the younger generation and representing the culture of an older generation which had much higher moral standards and values. I'm glad I won't be around to witness the moral decline of the next generation!!!!!!!!

Post by **parrot** » December 24, 2011, 10:34 am

"I'm glad I won't be around to witness the moral decline of the next generation!!!!!!!!"

I'm sure thousands of parents/grandparents said the same thing while watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in 1964. I know my grandmother did!

Post by **Ba Bob** » December 24, 2011, 10:52 am

parrot wrote: Maybe he thought that if Obama could use coke and still get elected and Clinton got elected after admitting to using marijuana, who'd care about a few sexual harassment cases that have been settled against him?

Didn't you miss George Bush Jnr here??

Post by **jackspratt** » December 24, 2011, 11:04 am

Ba Bob wrote:
parrot wrote: Maybe he thought that if Obama could use coke and still get elected and Clinton got elected after admitting to using marijuana, who'd care about a few sexual harassment cases that have been settled against him?
Didn't you miss George Bush Jnr here??

I doubt anyone here - or anywhere else for that matter - misses George.

Post by **old-timer** » December 24, 2011, 8:36 pm

OT's noticed something about the shaved head/tattoo/nutters of pattaya that jack was talking about have something in common with us all. Let me try and explain. OT will drive around in one of his classic cars and if a driver of the same thing drives past the other driver will wave, flash his headlamps and expect me to do the same because he thinks I'm the same mentality as him, which I'm not, although I smile back because of what I'm thinking.
Moving on I noticed the other day whilst having a few beers in a pub the same sort of thing. A disabled guy driving an electric wheelchair managed to bump into someone else in an electric wheelchair. They didn't know each other from Adam, however they gave each other a warm greeting and one even went for the high five. I got a dig in the ribs for looking at that for longer than acceptable.
If you walk around the complex and see another falang, unless you know him, you'll ignore him, or watch the pr1ck with amazement.
What I'm trying to say here is, unless you are one of them you will not get it !

Something else unrelated: OT loves salted or dry roasted peanuts. But if you read the small print on the back of the packet you will read about how fat they will make you with the ingredients used to make them. My thought about this is they forgot to measure how long a peanut lasts in your body from the entrance to the exit, and does your body break it down at all. My opinion is that they are very healthy quite simply because they go through you like a bullet train and come out the same they went in and pick up everything waiting on the way through.

OT....Merry Xmas.... $\:D/$

Post by **Galee** » December 24, 2011, 10:08 pm

Whats the point of being homosexual if you have hemorrhoids.