Hello from Bangkok

My thoughts was long weekend as a minimum, to enable easier travel arrangements/flexibility for prospective interstate/international ? members :)
A Sydney based meeting would be a good test run though no doubt :)
Will leave it in your capable hands and see what you can surprise us with.
 
MrT said:
I assume "(meet up) here", not "meet (up here)".
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Well I had a wee chuckle re the "meet up" question and answers. I have been in Asia long enough to not use two part phrasal verbs
ie verbs usually followed by a preposition and sometimes by an adverb. The non-English speakers either don't understand or get it
totally wrong. Meet up (two words) is fine (Oxford Dictionary) - so I get it - finally. Me and the grey matter are getting a little long
in the tooth.
 
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Chris R said:
Me and the grey matter are getting a little long in the tooth.
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That's the great thing about wet shaving - you don't have to stop until you hit the grave... They'll still let you take a blade to your throat if you're 100+ years old. [emoji6]
 
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Welcome Chris - getting close to lunchtime here and after recently watching the excellent SBS series with David Thompson and given that Wetshaving & Thai cuisine are certainly both on my life essentials list, I'm very jealous of the wonderful street food you've got access to up there (and that isn't a metaphor for anything low brow! :rolleyes:

Look forward to chatting with you around the forums, cheers, Nick
 
Chris R said:
Well I had a wee chuckle re the "meet up" question and answers. I have been in Asia long enough to not use two part phrasal verbs
ie verbs usually followed by a preposition and sometimes by an adverb. The non-English speakers either don't understand or get it
totally wrong. Meet up (two words) is fine (Oxford Dictionary) - so I get it - finally. Me and the grey matter are getting a little long
in the tooth.
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Two part verbs are not the sort of thing you should have to put up with...
 
Nick the Knife said:
Welcome Chris - getting close to lunchtime here and after recently watching the excellent SBS series with David Thompson and given that Wetshaving & Thai cuisine are certainly both on my life essentials list, I'm very jealous of the wonderful street food you've got access to up there (and that isn't a metaphor for anything low brow! :rolleyes:

Look forward to chatting with you around the forums, cheers, Nick
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Hello Nick. It's just after breakfast coffee time up here (in Bangkok) and the SBS programme you mentioned is currently on air. To be honest I haven't watched it - don't need to, as there are dozens of food vendors a short walk in any direction. FWIW I cook at home. Wetshaving and coffee are on my essential list. ;) Cheers.
 
Chris R said:
Wetshaving and coffee are on my essential list. ;) Cheers.
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Coffee culture is blossoming in Thailand to be sure! They like it sweet though... [emoji6]
 
filobiblic said:
Coffee culture is blossoming in Thailand to be sure! They like it sweet though... [emoji6]
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Yes they do. They also put lots of salt and sugar in the locally-made lemon juice as well as dollops of vinegar offset with sugar in their noodles; palm sugar not cane sugar. The local sweets are also covered in chillies, salt and sugar.
 
Hey - that's better than the desserts full of sweetcorn and kidney beans that my wife likes to buy when we go back to her home town.
 
I'm late saying welcome AGAIN :(

Welcome mate - they are a bunch of enablers here - beware!!!!
 
Mark1966 said:
I'm late saying welcome AGAIN :(

Welcome mate - they are a bunch of enablers here - beware!!!!
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Says the one with a collection that dwarfs the Gillette museum ;)
 
borked said:
Says the one with a collection that dwarfs the Gillette museum ;)
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There is a Gillette Museum???? :)

I think Mr Razor has that ....
 
eggbert said:
Hey - that's better than the desserts full of sweetcorn and kidney beans that my wife likes to buy when we go back to her home town.
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I don't eat much in the way of Thai sweets. Sounds like a North Eastern lady? I do like kidney beans and corn but not in desserts.
 
Chris R said:
I don't eat much in the way of Thai sweets. Sounds like a North Eastern lady? I do like kidney beans and corn but not in desserts.
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Nah, she's from a little bit south of you in Malaysia.

I've got to say I liked the green mango etc dipped in chillied sugar when I first tried them. Wouldn't want to eat them frequently, but nice for a change.

Durian however (although you can keep the rotten stinky thai variant), I love and could eat daily.
 
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