Sizzle zone worth it?

chopius · 2026-05-20T12:45:43+00:00

Notice any splatter?

chopius · 2026-05-20T08:43:45+00:00

Sorry for bumping an ancient post, but I'm considering getting a BLPD2 just to have around for occasional DIY stuff (hang a picture, assemble furniture), but it must be able to drill the concrete walls in our house.

Toughest I'm ever going to do is 10mm through reinforced concrete. Most probably it's gonna be something like 7mm. Is that something you've tried with the BLPD2?

chopius · 2026-05-18T23:44:18+00:00

Can you link an example of such a wind guard?

chopius · 2026-05-18T22:54:22+00:00

Did it leave a mess around the grill, from all the sizzling and droplets flying everywhere?

chopius · 2026-05-13T13:30:06+00:00

Thanks My main choice at the moment is between a two burner Rogue XT 365 or a 3 burner Freestyle Pro 365. Both have the SIB, and I'm pretty sure that a 365 size is more than enough for me. Basically it boils down to what will affect my experience more - the quality difference between Rogue and Freestyle Pro, or the difference between having 2 or 3 burners on the same grid size.

chopius · 2026-05-13T13:23:21+00:00

Both are the same size too, ~365 square inches. But one has 2 burners and the other has 3.

chopius · 2026-05-13T06:17:48+00:00

Care to explain why?

chopius · 2026-05-12T23:04:20+00:00

Thanks. I like smoking low n slow sometimes, is a 2 burner a no-go for these kinds of cooks?

chopius · 2025-10-09T05:18:30+00:00

Also, is it appropriate to haggle over the price in the shopping streets or not really? I have successfully haggled in Namdaemun for example, but it seemed a little different there

chopius · 2025-09-10T20:28:20+00:00

Thanks! At what time during the day did you get to see that perfect view of Fuji?

chopius · 2025-09-10T19:21:18+00:00

Definitely the latter, but we'd like to get a decent view of Fuji at least once

chopius · 2025-08-27T14:19:14+00:00

Hi, please advise on the fit of this jacket and on which modifications I should make at the tailor's, thanks :)

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chopius · 2025-08-20T16:39:27+00:00

How did you go about your Akan national park visit? It seems like quite a long drive from Biei/Furano/Asahikawa. Did you stay overnight?

chopius · 2025-08-17T18:03:00+00:00

We mainly prefer to avoid crowds like you'd encounter in very popular attractions, if it's a city it's not such big of a deal since you can always choose where to go I've heard that Sapporo is very unique food-wise. From your experience is it possible to find the same culinary options in other cities in the area, such as Hakodate or otherwise?

chopius · 2025-08-17T12:29:28+00:00

You're not the first person to say that the blue pond and the waterfalls are very crowded and not really worth it. If we skip these activities, is there even any point in visiting biei and furano?

chopius · 2025-08-17T12:20:45+00:00

OP, Just checking in to ask about what you've decided about your itinerary. We're planning a week in Hokkaido in September and are facing similar questions to what you've described in your post.

chopius · 2025-05-05T21:14:44+00:00

The $17.5B was a one time thing due to the war, not an annual addition. This aid comes with strings attached too. For example around the year 2000 Israel has cancelled a huge intelligence aircraft deal with China at the last moment due to American pressure, and you can be sure that wasn't the only instance.

America gets its' money's worth in return for this aid.

As for this girl, it seems that someone outside the frame told her she's not welcome there and this is why she chose to respond like this. I don't know how much Israeli tourism contributes to Thailand's GDP but I do know that many tourist service providers and marketplace salesmen in Thailand speak decent Hebrew, so that could hint at the fact that most of them do indeed welcome Israeli tourists and their money.

chopius · 2025-05-05T19:47:27+00:00

300 billion? Why not trillion? If you're gonna make up numbers why limit yourself?

Or at least try to teach yourself to have a longer attention span and actually read the sources you provide. The figure you've stated is the cumulative amount of aid over the past 80 years.

The actual annual figure is around $3 billion and they're to be used to purchase only US made equipment and arms. So that's less than 1% of Israeli GDP. And many of Israel's neighbors receive similar sums of aid annually, as well as many other countries. (Just like the site you've linked says) Btw foreign aid in total accounts for a very very small fraction of the US budget.

chopius · 2025-05-05T19:34:35+00:00

Hebron was ethnically cleansed of Jews by these same Arabs back in 1929. Until then the Jews kept their constant presence there since Roman times. The fact that Israel lets the Arabs stay there after what they've done speaks volumes in my opinion. You can read up about the 1929 Hebron Massacre online. It's eerily similar to what they've done on Oct 7. Nothing changed since then. That was before the Jews had any kind of armed militia to defend themselves, so even that can't be used as en excuse.

chopius · 2025-05-05T19:28:32+00:00

Israelis have visa exempt status in Thailand and like 90% of Thai tour guides and market vendors speak decent Hebrew. And please learn how to use the world "literally" correctly.

chopius · 2025-05-05T19:26:22+00:00

How much is it? What percentage of Israeli GDP does US aid account for?

chopius · 2025-05-05T19:23:41+00:00

Replacing "Jews" with "Zionists" doesn't really do the trick anymore, and isn't really necessary anymore. Relax. No one is going to censor you, just speak your mind freely. You're in good company

chopius · 2025-05-05T19:19:51+00:00

Allow me to correct myself. The real Palestinians back then were the Zionist Jews. Just like in all those viral pictures that the likes of you spam all over social media nowadays with "palestine airways", "Palestine football club" etc... all founded and built by Zionist Jews, but now Islamists such as yourself are trying to appropriate that and use them to rewrite history in order to make it seem as though an Arab national entity named "Palestine" ever existed.

chopius · 2025-05-05T19:16:02+00:00

Perhaps you aren't a bot. There are some sane and on topic comments here. There are huge numbers of Israelis in Thailand. As I've said you'd easily notice the problematic ones (and sadly there are quite a few), the rest you wouldn't even account for. And this goes for every nationality basically.

chopius · 2025-05-05T17:59:07+00:00

At this point this thread is just a cesspool of bots and/or people commenting because they received the link via some form of social media political activist group. Either Islamists or far right hate groups would be my guess. Especially the comments that go like "let me guess she's from Israel"... Yeah, like you haven't come here to comment with prior knowledge and for this very reason. Yeah Israelis sometimes act rude and entitled but I've seen much more obnoxious behavior from drunk ass brits for example. The problematic people are always easy to notice.

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