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Rice Climbs by Daily Limit on Thai Flood Damage
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| 10/24/11
| TOM POLANSEK
Posted on 10/25/2011 3:22:40 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; PAR35; AndyJackson; Thane_Banquo; nicksaunt; MadLibDisease; happygrl; ...
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posted on
10/25/2011 3:24:00 PM PDT
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TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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posted on
10/25/2011 3:24:16 PM PDT
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: TigerLikesRooster
U understand rice as a commodity and being a large part of the world food supply in the more tropical regions.
And I have probably 40 lbs or so stashed.
BUT!!!
Rice always has struck me as being pretty much “a food without a personality”!
Gimme red beans, black beans, split peas, heck, something that has something real to it...
;-)
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posted on
10/25/2011 3:31:34 PM PDT
by
djf
(Soon you will need a prescription for EVERY SINGLE VITAMIN.)
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posted on
10/25/2011 3:40:25 PM PDT
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ASA Vet
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posted on
10/25/2011 3:42:02 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Rice was $18 for a fifty lb. bag at Sam’s club today.
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10/25/2011 3:45:11 PM PDT
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posted on
10/25/2011 4:18:08 PM PDT
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DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
To: TigerLikesRooster
We bought three fifty pound bags of Super Lucky Elephant brand at Costco last week.
Should last us to the next crop.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Here in Sattahip (south of Pattaya), there is rice but almost no rice noodles in the stores at all.
To: expat1000
Higher rice prices aren’t all bad. It might force them to eat the cheaper and better brown rice. White rice and white bread are slave foods. Henry Miller famously said that white bread was only good for filling potholes in the streets
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posted on
10/25/2011 5:17:14 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(What good is a used up world and how could it be worth having - - Sting)
To: expat1000
Seems hard drive prices have skyrocketed over the past few days too because of the flooding in SE Asia.
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posted on
10/25/2011 5:18:12 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
("Si, se gimme!")
To: expat1000
I read that more flood water is going down toward Bangkok. Would Pattaya be OK? It's a seaside resort town not far from Bangkok, as far as I know.
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posted on
10/25/2011 5:19:04 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I will tell my newly arrived Thai in-laws that they have to eat more wheat bread.
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posted on
10/25/2011 5:22:36 PM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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posted on
10/25/2011 6:06:49 PM PDT
by
TheOldLady
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To: dennisw
“Higher rice prices arent all bad. It might force them to eat the cheaper and better brown rice”
Thais are not going to eat brown rice any more than westerns would fried crickets and grasshoppers. And I don’t think it is cheaper - not here.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Pattaya is quite far from Bangkok. It has its own floods from heavy rains (not from the sea) but is a resort as you say, so if it floods it’s just an inconvenience.
Bangkok though, is the commercial, industrial and financial heart of Thailand. If it becomes impossible to move freely (and I use the word loosely, given the horrendous traffic there) around the city and the infrastructure is seriously affected with power outages, for example, then that affects everyone.
Toyota is shut down, which will affect all of SE Asia. Seagate has some serious problems which will mean a shortage of hard drives, including in the USA as this is a huge plant that supplies international markets.
Locally, foodstuff stocks in the grocery stores are down (my guess) around 40%, especially butchered products - mostly pork.
To: Flash Bazbeaux
How do you store that much rice?
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posted on
10/25/2011 7:14:23 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Stocking up on rice and peanut butter this week! Thank goodness my gold and silver are perking up again. :)
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posted on
10/26/2011 6:28:46 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
19 posts! 19?
You People are slipping, so here goes:
THAILAND?!?
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