32 minutes ago, Horizondave said:

Hopefully the hospital will have given him Zovirax ointment to put on.

And/or Valtrex tablets (Valacyclovir). Available OTC in Thailand but expensive.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/valacyclovir-oral-route/side-effects/drg-20066635?p=1

55 minutes ago, Lirchenfeld said:

Why on earth are the kids on the left at 1:20 dressed up as toilet seats.... 🤔🤣

It must be a Japanese thing.

@0:17

I suspect he was not very good at rock, paper, scissors.

Looks healthy enough to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ycp_nQ0Wpc

Seeing as it wouldn't let me embed the video I'll just pinch a picture from it.

I don't think it's AI generated.

^^^

You should never eat on an empty stomach.

On 3/2/2024 at 9:05 AM, Phantom51red said:

Called the uk docs yesterday to get blood results for gout ,5 things were satisfactory she said and unlikely its gout,er so wtf is it then,the medic on the boat was %100 sure its gout,can make a follow up appointment for 3 weeks time she told me,no ill be back at bloody work by then,still cant straighten thumb,maybe its trigger thumb tho not as painfull as before its still a hinderance so to speak,been taking 2 nexocin 500mg a day since left uk 16 days ago.

If it still isn't sorted then maybe...

Moon to get its own time zone created by NASA - but clocks work differently there

NASA has been directed to create a standard time zone for the moon to make sure communications are synchronised and data transfers in space are secure. But the same clock on Earth would move differently on the moon - making the time zone both vital and complicated to develop.

https://news.sky.com/story/moon-to-get-its-own-time-zone-created-by-nasa-but-clocks-work-differently-there-13106973

Please tell me the noise these clocks make are going to be called lunar-ticks.

35 minutes ago, Freee!! said:

For some reason I get associations with the M*A*S*H tune and specifically one line.

Interesting. I was thinking of bad man José.

18 minutes ago, thegrogmonster said:

The things I do to keep the peace. Sitting in the water on plastic chairs under a bamboo shack having little fish nibble on my feet is not as exciting as it sounds.

You could always let a Great White loose for a bit of excitement.

27 minutes ago, fforest said:

Very good price for wine at Friendship....795 Baht for 3 Liters...

Cheapest price I have seen for a looooong time....

In the good old days I was paying 325 for 1.5 Liters...

 

 

 

 

The place looks more like an oil refinery.

The Warburn winery, at Griffith in the state's south, was established in 1968 by the late Tony Sergi, a man known as the "don of dons", who police have said was instrumental in building the Calabrian mafia's Australian cell.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-11/sergi-family-sell-warburn-estate-winery-to-taliano-family/103304996

13 minutes ago, Freee!! said:

The collapsed bridge had a couple of piers, so replacing those with one central one (with sufficient protection) should be a no brainer.

That would place it in the middle of the shipping channel.

https://www.charts.noaa.gov/PDFs/12281.pdf

51 minutes ago, forcebwithu said:

Video of the first cut.

It'll be interesting to see what design they use for the replacement bridge. On design I heard that could be under consideration would be a cable-stayed bridge. It would get my vote as I think it's a beautiful looking bridge.

To avoid having pylons on the water you need to span about 1.6km.

Cable-stayed bridges can span about 1km. Suspension bridges (think Golden Gate) can span over 2km.

30 minutes ago, thumper63 said:

I'm heading out for a little walk and maybe a massage 

Is that the same as

I am just going outside and may be some time

While we still have the luxury of speculation, the following video makes some interesting points.

The video is painful to watch, you'll see why if you do, so I'll summarize the mail points.

Ships do have an emergency/auxiliary generator located in a separate compartment isolated from the engine room. Why? Because it powers the engine room fire fighting pumps. It also supplies electrical power for steering.

The propeller of a ship turns in a clockwise direction when viewed from the rear of the ship looking forward. As well as driving the ship forward there is a "paddle wheel" effect which pulls the stern to starboard and thus the bow to port.

When the ship is going astern the effect is reversed, the stern is pulled to port and the bow to starboard.

In the video of the incident, second video, approximately 4 seconds after electrical power is restored following the first power outage thick black smoke is seen coming from the exhaust. Speculation from the first video is that the ship was put into full reverse which would swing the bow to starboard which is what videos of the incident show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEzDh4RwpaM   (This video can't be embedded)

55 minutes ago, forcebwithu said:

I already have the heat gun, so in a few days we'll find out just how good her ladyship's welding skills are.

FIFY

1 hour ago, forcebwithu said:

I had chuckle and a sigh of relief when I learned why leave out words from sentences when making posts.

You word sentence post.

Nailed it!

2 minutes ago, thumper63 said:

I'm getting ready to do absolutely nothing

Make sure you make a list what you're not going to do.

Just now, Zambo said:

Yours sounds much more healthy, perhaps Glasseye could hsve 2 as a treat

The Japanese do tempura fried ice cream. Perhaps he could do one of each.

17 minutes ago, Zambo said:

Dumfries! You must have tried the national dish of scotland

INGREDIENTS
1  Mars bars
1  cup plain flour
1⁄2 cup cornflour
1  pinch baking soda
 beer
 oil (for deep frying)

DIRECTIONS
Chill the chocolate bar by keeping it in the fridge, but don't freeze it.
Mix the flours and bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) together.
Add beer (which gives a lighter until you get a batter with the consistency of thin cream.
Heat the oil until a small piece of bread will brown in a few seconds, but don't allow to smoke.
Remove wrapper (optional) from chilled chocolate bar.
Coat completely in batter.
Carefully lower into hot oil and fry until golden brown.
Serve, with ice cream or french fries, if you're so inclined.

1  cup plain flour
1⁄2 cup cornflour
1  pinch baking soda

Just use a tempura batter mix.

 Flours with a high sugar content, potato starch, rice flour, tapioca flour, corn flour, give a crunchy batter rather than a chewy batter which a high gluten (wheat) flour gives.

 beer

Or soda water. Either way the liquid should be as cold as possible. Prevents activating the gluten. More crunch, less chew.

Don't work the batter too hard.

16 minutes ago, Painter said:

Remembering how I enjoy the ever changing view out over the solent...

HMS Prince of Wales (at least, ithink its the PoW, as I think QE is in Scotland being repaired)

Which strangely isn't named on my marine tracking app, although its surrounding tugs are...

British warship aka Prince of Wales.

https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=4907907

6 minutes ago, thumper63 said:

Ok... so Brian was complaining like a little baby about how badly he sweats while in Pattaya . So I, out of the kindness of my caring and concerned heart bought ( with no thought of back charging the c**t) I took on the financial burden of purchasing the ungrateful pig a sweat towel

But do I get any Thanks????

Hell no.... he just bitches about the color, or for you English, colour.

I mean.... what's the big friggen deal?

They didn't have rainbow?

1 hour ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

In all my travels working all over the world I have met good and bad from all Nations but if I had to select one it would be the Nigerians ...

The princes or the rest of the people?