Do you put drill a small hole in your thermostat?

That is fine if you pull stat out. But if you drain system for hose or radiator work, the hole will aid refilling.
Im sorry you mistake me for someone else who doesn't understand the concept of the drilled hole. I won't hole'd it against you. :)

Have a hole or not have a hole and burp the system like regular OR just crack a heater hose loose and it will do they same but even FASTER than the TINY hole.

FYI to some of you first timers... it takes time to burp through that tiny little hole, it's a sit and wait, fill, sit and wait process. Doesnt take forever 'but its not fill it and go..'