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33 minutes ago, rabas said:

So that's about a 10% drop now.

 

Got about 30% more to go for my household. Waiting...

 

Feel lucky. My UK house it's 13bht a unit. 4 sounds great.

There has always been an inherent need to rank ourselves, and feel good about it or feel we can improve our standing. That's why sport all around the world uses league tables.

Humans growing up with social media feel poor and ugly compared to everyone they see online. So hopeless that it feels pointless to compete. Striving to move from bottom to second to bottom ain't fun.

Virtue signalling is the new game in town for all those who will never be attractive enough to be an influencer on YouTube.

On 9/13/2023 at 3:28 AM, bignok said:

Me too. I think most white people are a waste of space. 70% of Aussies are racist against asians. 

Worse in asia. Nearly all the westerners in south East Asia are racist against male Asians.

Anybody know if this actually results in less strays? 

Hmm....are you saying the old guys in Pattaya look and act younger than their age? 

On 9/4/2023 at 1:59 AM, G Rex said:

I think it depends where you are in Thailand.

In the tourist areas there are a lot of slim, healthy looking people.

Where I live in rural Kanchanaburi, there is a very large percentage of the under 40 group who are obese, or even morbidly obese.

Young children of obese parents are invariably overweight as well.

IMO the issue is cheap fatty & fried foods, and sweet 'milky' drinks and soft drinks.

Yes.

The "I want to improve myself set" has never had access to so much good advice on nutrition and exercise. Improving themselves tends to lead them to the cities.

The "I have no interested in improving myself" set have never had so much access to cheap crap food and phone entertainment. They tend to have no interest leaving the village either.

The gap will only get wider.

Found I love my new routine.

I exercise with dumbbells.

Need to be in Bangkok a month. Near mass transit. Small gym ...even just one dumbbell. Budget 25k 

Hotel or Airbnb near a gym ok too.

Any ideas?

Money pays for pleasures that can distract you from your misery. Money also provides comforts while you search for fulfillment.

These days comforts and pleasures can be had so easily but misery still as common as fulfillment is absent.

It's complicated. 

Hard not to what the death penalty for Singha..

2 hours ago, bignok said:

Found a good room nesr victory 650 baht.

 

 

Pls share mate. Pm if you prefer

6 hours ago, petermik said:

This is another troll from someone who reported he was having a beer a couple of weeks back in the Killkenny bar which has been closed for over 6 months....ignore gents

Do you have a link to that infamous thread by chance ????

1 hour ago, bignok said:

Bear Grylls

 chicken fried if I had the choice.

I've always dreamed of being the guy who was perfectly content living in the jungle with just a knife, piece of string and a needle.

Alas I like watching the premier league too much.

1 hour ago, simon43 said:

I was happily working in the UK as CTO of a mobile technology company that had just purchased my one-man-band AI/mobile internet company. Their new office was in an unheated and damp basement that had been empty for years.

 

A few months after starting work in that office I developed a cough that got worse and worse until I was unable to hold a conversation without having explosive coughing fits.  This was suspected Aspergillosis (fungal spores in my lungs) that were present in the damp office air.

 

This is a chronic disease which can't be cured but can be managed with the right medication and living environment.  My doctor suggested that living in a hot and humid climate may well help to minimise my symptoms.  So I took a trip to Thailand and my coughing stopped!  I returned to the UK climate and my coughing came back with a vengeance.  I did several trips to/from Thailand and each time that I stayed in Thailand my symptoms were minimal and they always returned when I came back to the UK.

 

So I had to make the life-changing decision to move to Thailand (or a similar hot/humid climate).  At that time I had funds to start up a new business in Thailand, but my wife was having none of it.  Understandably, she was unwilling to move to Thailand with our 3 young kids who were well-settled in the village school.

 

So we agreed to separate and I moved to Thailand, but vowed to keep in touch with my kids.  Unfortunately, that takes 2 to tango and my wife (soon to be ex) cut me off from my kids and (according to my brother) told them that I had left her for a Thai women...)

 

I still send e-cards on their birthdays and at Xmas, but they never reply, even going so far as to block my email address on the e-card website ????.  My UK kids are now in their early twenties and I guess they will never know the truth about why their dad left them to live in Thailand.

 

It's more than 20 years since I left the UK. I have moved around a bit in south-east Asia and some locations had 'cool' climates which caused me problems. But in general, as long as I walk or jog 4-5 Km per day AND eat healthy food AND gargle with salt water AND take ani-histamine and anti-congestants - my lungs are great!!

Very nicely written.

I've followed your posts thru the years, just wondering where you settled on for now? 

36 minutes ago, Hummin said:

please eloborate what is wrong with the statement? 

 

Because your qualities of "providing, loyal loving" are fine if you find a woman who ....

1. Is attractive...imagine a guy providing for an ugly woman. Don't want to disparage ugly women but it just isn't our natural state to work for someone who isn't providing beauty.

2. She didn't get baggage from other men. We all know men are pigs at times. Providing for damaged goods.....why do it?

The deal you propose worked for the past. But are you saying that a man should work hard and provide financial security for a woman that enjoyed her young days with casual sex while the guy worked on his career?

20 hours ago, Hummin said:

Look up primals 

 

A man’s primal drive is to provide.

 

A man’s primal drive is to be strong.

 

A man’s primal drive is to be a strong sexual being.

 

A man’s primal drive is to be emotional, whether that be in emotion, or centering that channel of energy into a passion of yours.

 

A man’s primal drive is to be the best man they can be. To do the work necessary to be a complete person.

 

To be loyal.

 

To be loving.

 

A man’s primal drive is to rid himself of the ego, and concentrate on consciousness

I think you've just described what a woman who has ridden the c.o.c,k carousel and is an alpha widow would love to mould a beta man into. 

1 hour ago, Hummin said:

If you living with one lady who made 15k - 30k a month, would you ask her to share the expenses? 

 

You live in Thailand and bring your western standards? Ironic

Thai women don't agree with you. 99% choose a Thai guy who couldn't afford or want to pay for everything. 

Very few Thai women want a foreigner.

18 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

And your point is?

He wouldn't be attracted to her is she wouldn't be 20. So, the age makes the difference.

 

We are all the sum of our "properties". Maybe a guy wants a girl for property A, and she wants him for property B. Same same, not much different. 

Possibly, but you can see many couples aging and still in love even after 'property A has gone. I wonder how many women attracted to the money stay if that runs out.