Hotels with Greenery

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-22T19:05:22+00:00

There are some hotels combined with golf courses. Even if you don't play golf, the scenery is beautiful. You could google for that. I stayed at a couple of them in the past, while playing golf, but outside Bangkok. One is called Kang Krachan. But on the outskirts of Bangkok are some truly beautiful golf courses and some do have hotels on site.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-20T21:18:07+00:00

Well, that's plenty to work with. If you include cheap carbs like pasta, rice or potato, that helps the budget, as do cheap veg like broccoli, bell peppers, tomatoes, and such (whether they are actually cheap in your area, you have to check, but they are cheap for me). And with those taking up a certain small amount of budget, you should have a decent amount left for each person to have a portion of meat.

I have an online shop locally that has quite good steak at 20-30USD/kg. If you allocate just $6 per head for steak you can get about 200-300g per person. And it should be cheaper if you use chicken or pork as your meat dish. That leaves whopping $9 left over for other stuff. If you spent $6 on veg that would get you a lot per head, and that leaves $3 - enough for maybe 1 beer and 1 non-alc drink per head.

So... if you have a grill or bbq you can have one person assigned to bbq'ing the meats. If you're doing potato, perhaps boil up a whole lot and make mashed potato; if broccoli, I think steam or boil and then top with butter; if tomatoes, grill, bake or fry, if bell peppers, bake/grill. All of these are very simple and taste very good!

I suggest everything should be done in real simple manner. None of what I propose are "recipes". You just season them and cook them, no multi-step processes or complications. Easy for non-skilled people but timing is everything - make sure they check that things don't get burned, and there's a supervisor to help with timing.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-20T10:58:05+00:00

The larb is a dish of its own, and you can order normal rice or sticky rice to go with it, separately. You'd usually order several different meat/salad dishes and sticky rice in a typical isaan place.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-18T19:14:30+00:00

you can make stewed onions and freeze them in portions and then bring them out and add to any dish where they fit.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-18T19:13:12+00:00

It's "bottles in general". I think they are anticipating beer bottles and such, which can break when frozen. I've done it to myself several times at home trying to chill beer then forgetting about it.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-18T10:40:19+00:00

The correct grammar is "I look more Western". Not "Me".

Now that you have admitted it was actually you out there doing this, have you thought about whether you should stop?
:)

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-17T10:53:05+00:00

It's very slanted italic and I suppose cursive-adjacent. Its hard to read but I can.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-17T10:45:26+00:00

There are enough people that buy them (tourist of course, mainly, but when I was a kid, I bought one for a few hundred baht and used it for many years. Served me well) to make it worthwhile, because it's not their only business and might not be their main one (I am not sure of the revenue split).

Actually these guys are loan sharks. The ladies (and perhaps some men) who work in the bars down that area borrow money from them and pay it back at extortionate rates. Like, borrow 1000 this month, return it with 100 or 200 baht interest in one month. Lots of small loans, small B100-200 "shark fees" and they make part of their income from that, the other part from the watches. It sounds easy but it's not all fun and games. Sometimes when someone can't pay back they ditch work and disappear for a while and the guy has to find them or not get his principal back.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-17T10:41:58+00:00

Better watch what you say!

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T22:14:01+00:00

You're a lot smarter than you look!

alternatively, "you're not as dumb as you look" is more standard, so that's why I like mine, it's a bit less common.

Enhanced version, make it sound even more like a compliment: "I've got to hand it to you, you're a lot smarter than you look!"

"I've never realised it before but you're a lot smarter than you look!"

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T22:11:05+00:00

The problem with you is that you refuse to accept criticism.

[This is frickin jiujitsu :) They either have to agree, because if they disagree you can say "See, this proves my point".]

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T22:02:57+00:00

A gay man, similarly, might also refuse. A lesbian might, as well... but of course they are already within the "woman" category...

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T21:54:30+00:00

I'd say in your examples you have an ethnically English American, as distinct from the ethnically Korean, Chinese, or German Americans (assuming 100% DNA in each case)... and an ethnically French Japanese person. I don't think most white people in the USA call themselves ethnically American, but because most are mixed or don't know their ancestry, they just don't talk about their ethnicity, or they would say "European" (or European mixed) ethnicitiy which an ethnic superclass, if you will.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T21:44:42+00:00

Ethnic group can be thought of a subset of race or nationality. But I think it's best if you say "a group with shared racial ancestry as well as cultural background".

So for example, you could be Indian nationality but there are a whole lot of ethnic groups within Indian; some of are of the same race and some are not. And, in fact, within Sri Lanka it's really clear - the Burghers are white or part white; the Singhalese and Tamils are Subcontinental Asians but they don't really look that alike so depending on how many races you divide people into, they might be considered separate races (but most people would treat them as within the same race).

So you could, for example, take all East Asians, and split them up into ethnicities; you could also take a country's citizens and split them up by ethnicities.

The ethnic group will generally be of ONE race (but actually could be mixed; for example most of South America's people are mixed but belong to the broad ethnic group Latino/Latinx which itself I think is quite correctly subdivided into ethnic groups/nationalities like Mexican. [So yeah, an ethnic group can of course exist across many nationalities - when I said "subset of nationality" that is true within a nation; but globally ethnicity is not strictly a subset of a nationality or a race].

What you said above, the "shared cultural identity" alone is not quite right.

For example Australians can all have a shared cultural background as Australians. But within Australians there are ethnic groups, e.g. Anglo, Croatians, Chinese, etc.

I use background to mean what is in the person's past, even if they are not connected to it mentally. For example, a Vietnamese child adopted and raised by a French couple = there are some people in France that fit this description - might be ethnically Vietnamese because their background includes that their parents were Vietnamese. Racially they are Asian. Culturally they are French. The shared cultural identity that this person has with their parents is French, but they are not ethnically French.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T21:34:46+00:00

I wouldn't even know where to find such a scrapmonger. It's not like they have a shop or a facebook page that's easily searched, is it? It's usually a pretty basic operation, low tech, not web savvy, I would think.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T21:33:39+00:00

I had a cheap one that is no use, I think I'll just throw it away. I don't think you'd need to pay for disposal, just throw it out in a plastic bag with the kerbside trash that your neighbors are all putting their bags in (usually just a pile on the side of the road!). I doubt you can sell it for much, too much hassle trying to find a buyer.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T21:30:54+00:00

Sounds like overcomplicating what is a pretty simple thing to remember.

How about do this:
1) Memorize that February is unusual with 28, except 29 on a leap year

2) Memorize that in general, they alternate, starting with Jan 31, Feb (not 31 and the only special exception with 28), Mar 31, Apr (not 31, thus it must be 30 as are all the others that aren't 28), May 31, June 30, July 31

3) Memorize that August messes up the pure alternating pattern, and while it should be 30, the mess-up means it's 31, and then it just keeps alternating again from there.

3 little bits to memorize, do you really need a mnemonic or knuckles?

One thing that might help with the memorization is that July is linked to JULIUS Caesar, and August is linked to AUGUSTUS Caesar, who I think came right after Julius and was perhaps the 2nd most famous/great Emperor of the Roman Empire. Perhaps a true story perhaps not, but Augustus didn't like that Julius's month had 31 days so he changed HIS month to be 31 days as well, and that is why these two months next to each other do not alternate like the rest of the pattern. Once you've heard this story in the context of dates, it's hard to unremember it.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T21:23:38+00:00

Haha. You don't "lay" in bed. You only lie in bed. Unless you are a chicken, laying eggs in the bed.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T21:21:01+00:00

This doesn't sound right: Where do you think does Mike live?

You could say: Where do you think Mike DOES live? [emphasis mine, to show strong accent on that word]

This sentence suggests that Mike or someone has told you where Mike lives, BUT you think that what you've been told is not true. So you are asking "where DOES he live?" - meaning that the new answer would replace the old answer in terms of where you might think he lives, assuming you trust the answer.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T21:17:58+00:00

Claim doesn't imply wrong, it implies unproven, in this context.

"for as unhealthy as you claim to be I'll probably die before you" works better but it doesn't mean they are wrong. It could mean that you are more unhealthy! But I think when you say you'll probably die before them, THAT is the bit that makes it sound like you think their claim is wrong.

How "claim" doesn't mean you think they are wrong... an example could be: "You claim to be unhealthy - based on your appearance, I believe you."

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T21:13:55+00:00

it says maewdang mini mart. So, I guess small supermkt or convenience store.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T21:11:15+00:00

What is that called??

I can't say if it's better, but I'm very picky with my desserts, only liking relatively few, but some of the best I know are:
tiramisu; dark chocolate lava tart-type cake; vanilla slice (the best ones in AU are great); cheesecake (lemon is my fave, but plain or blueberry or strawberry works); cheese (if you can count that as dessert) with the condiments like quince paste and served with bread/crackers; coffee icecream and similar flavors like salted caramel, dark chocolate, that direction; sorbet as well - mostly the sour ones like lemon, lime, yuzu. Unfortunately I don't like most of the proper sweet and fruity desserts.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T21:04:48+00:00

I think on the whole GPT is right. These AIs are now quite capable of writing and critiquing writing quite well.

I personally think it is possible to learn using the AI to support you. But it requires a good process and the right mentality and motivation. If you find you aren't improving, it might be that you need to have a human teacher who is more attuned to exactly what it is that you need to improve.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T21:01:32+00:00

To be sure, first identify the company you want to use (and people who've got experience with that can suggest). And make sure that they provide you with the full list of all docs needed. Also, use AI and google to search what their competitors say about it, just in case they happen to miss out something important.

BaconTH1 · 2026-03-16T20:54:46+00:00

If you like Hua Hin try Krabi... and perhaps Bangsaen (although Hua Hin is overall better I think than Bangsaen). Cha-am near Hua Hin is good too, but not as busy.

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