JohnDodd

One of my hobbies here in Thailand is mountain biking. My approach to riding is very similar to the way I live in Thailand. I ride a high end bike cobbled together over the years of riding from aftermarket parts chosen for the way I ride.

I ride the most beautiful trails I can find and I ride them as is. I embrace the obstacles and imperfections. Sure I try to ride the smoothest most fluid path but I do not curse the challenges which I encounter. I stop to take pictures and enjoy the beauty around me. I have no thoughts about changing or modifying the trail. If I don’t like a particular trail I find another one which I find more enjoyable.

In Thailand I try to surround myself with beauty and spend my time with intelligent, successful, worldly friends, mainly Thai, who speak softly and with a measured tone. Life is short and I don’t want to spend it complaining about things I cannot change. The weather is what it is, so I dress and build my house accordingly. The easiest thing to modify is me and my attitude, not the people or society around me.

@ villagefarang, I don't doubt that you are a long time resident, or that you posses substantial knowledge of Thailand. But the above paragraphs don't read as those of a "wordsmith", but of a pompous snob........"spend my time with intelligent, successful,(natch) worldly friends, mainly Thai, who speak softly with a measured tone" <deleted>.....this is for POTY not The Pulitzer....if I were you I would stick with being a "Bon Vivant"..".with your house in a field with a view" etc.

Well this has been an interesting read all 28 pages of it. A mixture of humour and wit and a fair amount of bitchiness. Its difficult to judge a person based on words typed anonymously, although I understand that's the idea to find the best Poster. As for the nominee's, Nancyl, Her posts are usually very well written and knowledgeable, the Chef don't know much about him, Soibiker? certainly can write, and is witty, Transam, read all his posts as he doesn't take himself seriously, a typical brit. sense of humour, and he knows his motors. V.F. usually read his posts, likes to remind us of his long stay and his' Thainess" and his claim that he is the Charlie Rose type, really, is that the same Charlie who gets beat up by Vlad Putin everytime he interviews Him. Cant remember the other guy. So with an earlier poster, who put it so well when he said, " Transam" is the Fred Dibner kind of bloke"( sorry to non-brits. I 'm gonna vote for T/man, His posts are always witty and friendly consistently.

With that amount available, I would not be in LOS, but living in a traditional stone house on a hill above the small town of Demenate in the mid-atlas about 150kliks N.E. of Marrakech.

I'm neither Thai or stupid, but I once climbed from the crosstrees to the foretop mast by climbing hand o/v hand up the wire stays that were shackled to edge of the crosstrees in order to change a navigation bulb. Reason for potentially dangerous action, I was a 20 year old A.B. and thought I was indestructive, also the 'dummy' gantline usually left rigged through a sheave at the mast top had broken when we attempted to reeve a new gantline. On board m/v Hazelmoor, midipacific bound for yokohama with a cargo of sugar from Cienfuegos, Cuba, '66.........@craig krup, absolutely spot on,....The greatest threat to Civilization is Man's innate hostility towards other men...... S. Freud : Civilization and its discontents.

To OP, I have just returned from Chiang Khan and a tour around jangwat Loei, it is a very pleasurable and scenic drive, regards to night life in Chiang K. I found very little, just a few resturant/bar places. But there were plenty of rich Thais pointing their cameras at everything in company with some beautiful girls.Worth the trip.

@Jingthing Poty, not really, bubbie/dude.

The Jews always cry anti-Semitism, the Palestinians are just as Semitic if not more so, as they are native to the area, unlike the Khazar's.

Most posts full of main stream media narrative......There are none so blind..........

@ SteelyDan, your first twelve words says it all, and your avatar is entirely appropiate.

The yank financial experts are already announcing the end of China and Russia. They must still believe that the gold is still in fort knox.5555555

Whoever it is will be another CFR sponsored fascist.

Sour grapes.

A second rice crop is possible in Isaan. They do two crops around Ampur Khosumpisai MH Sarakarm as the river chee is close by.

<deleted> all on a big ship.

Whoever it is, it will be the same C.F.R. generated Fascism.

The so called American Dream.....is about to become a little nightmarish.

This is.

As gruesome and graphic these events appear, they are the result of neo-con war propaganda effort to manipulate the minds of the already jaded public, in order to continue with intended aim of a Balkanised mid-east.

Thai morality seem's to be still in its infancy, if it exist's at all.

Have passed through this stretch of water many times, the bitter lakes mid-way through canal, and although both vessel's would have local pilots onboard they are there as adviser's, The Oldman takes the wrap.

Russians.

post #85 mr Gecko nailed this one.Pattya GoGogirl ,loves 24yr old Brit, LMFAO Troll or naive fool. OP nowt wrong with Bar girls, been with mine 21yrsat my age I would be lost without her care and love.

post #60 says it all. What's a bon-vivant

FA wrong with Newport mate.

Some deluded people around, obviously main stream media informed. The Foley video is as staged as the Bin-Laden one we were'nt allowed to see. Too grisly we were told, but apparently OK to see a man having his head sliced off on boobtube. But hey... thats OK as long as it helps to promote the demonifacation of Islam and Arabs. The Jihad problem in UK is probably real...but its to be expected We and the Yanks recruited and trained them...just as M15 recruited abu Hamza...we reap what we sow...thats why I'm living out my time in rural isaan.