Mrmango

4 hours ago, Yesitisdakid said:

Then you would remember Eddies fabulous 50s Casino just steps away from the horseshoe. Loved that place but time moves on

 

Yes of course!

But only becase of the bands they had there - Great place to find a tummy warmer...

I pretty much spent every day at the sports bar at Cal Neva....

2 hours ago, Yesitisdakid said:

Fond memory's - I was once a manager in the Casino next door.....

My Thai wife has a mango farm in ubon, and she has a bumper crop, but the trucks who usually pick them up and deliver them to Bangkok no longer run, so all she can do is load a bunch in the pick up truck and try to sell in the town....

Bummer...

19 hours ago, Pumpuynarak said:

But the UK has categorically stated that "heat or cold" has no effect on the virus, i see it on Skynews everyday.

Up to you who to believe - Local news or world maps showing the number of cases in each country....

43 minutes ago, Krapow said:

Why is Thailand not getting hit hard?

Don't get me wrong, I don't want any country to get hit hard or hit at all if possible! But why?

We were in Thailand most of January, lots of Chinese, then near the end of January, place was heaving with them, out hotel was packed, Chinese New Year. Always lots of travel back and forth from China anyway, and not just Chinese. 

Like the disaster in Italy, they're putting it down as started by two infected Chinese tourists. 

Yes I know, the Thai figures have to be taken with a large pinch of salt, whether deaths from Covid or infection rates, but even so. 

Is there any truth in the 'virus is subdued/killed by heat' rumours?

Is it the amount of facemasks bring worn?

Or why, what's going on?

Think more die in London in a day than in Thailand for the whole duration so far. 

If you look at the world wide map of the number of cases in the world, the numbers in the Northern hemisphere look far higher than the numbers from the Southern hemisphere.

Looks to me that heat has a lot to do with the number of cases.

7 hours ago, Krapow said:

Can you elaborate?

I want to give the missus as much 'pointers' as I can before I let her loose. 

Or i'll be self isolating by choice. due to the nick of my barnet 😁

My father told me the difference between a good and bad haircut was 3 days.....

7 hours ago, dcfc2007 said:

The problem is Dave these companies prefer cheap imported labour. They treat them like dirt, pay them poorly, and threaten to leave them high and dry at the first sign of trouble. Do we have some lazy layabouts in this country? Of course.

All companies try to lover their costs as much as they can - There job is to make profits.

7 hours ago, dcfc2007 said:

But I don't buy this myth that immigrants only do the jobs the lazy Brits don't want to do. If these employers paid proper wages they would have no trouble finding Brits for the jobs.

Agree, and of course, the cost of the finished item would increase.

7 hours ago, Ivan the terrible said:

got offerered a BCG trial ...i declined...not sure if i did the right thing cause my cxr suggests i have had TB

10 years ago, I had a BCG treatment for bladder cancer, and it seemed to work.

Nasty stuff however.

2 hours ago, Jambo said:

We have a quite a number of shops along our Village high street which create more like an extended market all of whom sell fresh food and several at least bottled beer.

Beer is actually a pretty good store of calories, and the Franks used it for most of their winter calorie needs in the middle ages.

33 minutes ago, lazarus said:

Not necessary.

SEC. 2. No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.

source: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100&page=transcript

 

First, that is a statue, not a constitutional guaranteed right

Second, the law has nothing to do with voter law. It protects unequal treatment of people with different races and colors.

You cannot say that all blacks must have ID's but whites do not need them, but saying that everybody, regardless of race, must have one is ok. 

1 hour ago, lazarus said:

A bit like (in the US) the push to require IDs to vote. From what I understand it's a constitutional right.

From what I remember, the US Constitution says no such thing.

2 hours ago, dcfc2007 said:

Two different metrics mate.

The first graph is regarding 'months before bankruptcy assuming 100% cut in capacity'.

The second 'days before bankruptcy assuming all forward booking revenue kept'.

Which IMHO, is a fraud!

They took the money in advance as a deposit for future service, and when they cannot deliver the service, they must return the deposit.

10 hours ago, forcebwithu said:

Hate to break it to you, but you're installing it upside down. 

Maybe he is in Australia.....

On 6/22/2019 at 11:51 PM, Golfingboy said:

Any lookers? 

3 decades ago, one of my ex-wifes tried to join the women's pro circuit, but she soon found out, that they greatly favored Dykes, and she was not welcome.

1 hour ago, Spacedog said:

Secondly big business will keep any wage increase if any to an absolute minimum as they try to improve their balance sheets and keep the shareholders happy

To me, that is what they should do - It's called "Free enterprise" and generated untold wealth that the world has never seen before. 

And of course, workers are free to find a higher paying job.

On 3/30/2020 at 10:37 AM, Stillearly said:

When I looked at it again , thought I might be going to RENO ... 

Don't bother - The whorehouses are all closed.....

3 hours ago, Ivan the terrible said:

its not fear mongering...it is pretty much the facts as we know them at this stage.

You can choose to bury your head in the sand but you are a culprit in articulating misinformation 

These issues are happening NOW in Italy ...which of two  50 year old gets the 1 remaining ventilator...if you are obese...you lose

He was just doing his usual trolling and taking a shot at Trump, which he never passes up.

13 hours ago, Thai Spice said:

That's exactly the problem .......

Bakery product, vegetables, fruit sold under plastic wrap......

 

Ok tell me exactly what is the problem?

I dont see any problem.

1 hour ago, Thai Spice said:

So at "Popular", my #2 supermarket for bread they used to have the goods unpacked, you picked them and put them in a plastic bag. 

Later they replaced the plastic bags by paper bags.

Now they have gone completely backwards and every item is individually wrapped in a plastic bag.....🙈🙈🙄🙄

So where before for 3 items there was 1 bag, now there is 3 .....

 

I assume you are a rational person, so what is the bitch?

It seems that EVERY item sold not in a can is encased in some form of plastic.

2 hours ago, boydeste said:

Using hotmail on FF I get the sender's addy by hovering the mouse curser over the sender's name. 

Its the same on Google.

I bought a 50" 4K one a couple of years ago for about $300 US$, and used it for my computer monitor -

Its the best!!!

1 hour ago, Yessongs said:

Really appreciate the inputs gentlemen, yeah nice to get out of the city and into the Mountains, we both really like this place. Just beautiful for sure.

@Mrmango Your cabin was  in Northshore or Zephyr Cove perhaps? Just a side note, we had to take the snowmobile adventure near "Myers" as the Calif side has a lot more snow then the Nevada side right now. Looking at videos the "Zephyr Cove" snowmobile adventure looked a bit better as you get to stop and get much closer to the lake, but not enough snow yet for them to open. 

@forcebwithu  Good point, her friends wanted to know, as she got a lot of questions like " Wow, was it cold there"? Hey no kidding huh. 

Actually, my cabin was in Homewood on the west shore, about half way between Tahoe City and Emerald Bay, but the winters were brutal there! We did have a private beach and boat buoy in our homeowners area, but sometimes it took 2 weeks to plow the road so you had to hanker down and wait, usually with no internet or landline.

The best snowmobiling was the gold courses and Tahoe City as well as South Shore used to have them and I loved to take my kids there when they were young to do that.

But it had its drawbacks even in the summer - Traffic was so bad on 89 (the road around the lake) that during any weekend, it was impossible to go anywhere as it was bumper to bumper.

Brings back lots of memory's as I used to have a cabin at Tahoe..

51 minutes ago, Yesitisdakid said:

Some photos of the common areas here at the complex Comfortable friendly place 

 

 

You still live there?

1 hour ago, coxyhog said:

Once all these charging points are all installed & used what happens to the national grid & my ability to make a cup of tea?

Your f***d.