daveAustin

Would never let a woman wear the pants and be in control. Some guys here give it all up; houses, cars, bank accounts, the lot… even asking if they can have some money to go out (if they are even allowed out!). Proper mommy’s boys. Whatever floats your boat and whatever makes you happy of course (guess it could make life easier if you’re built like that), but have some self respect, dudes! 🙂

The whole world needs fewer people. Way too busy. Governments should just get used to it as people can’t afford it and want a life. Simple as that.

While preferable to have smiling donkey as mouthpiece than Thaksin or Phrayut, it is all one and the same thing. Thailand still a generation or two away from the right direction. 🤮

Been in Mae Hong Son when it’s been roasting. Not nice. Those areas will be like tinder boxes!

Thought this was going to be the old not-paying-inflated-bill article. The go-go gorillas are of course demented a-holes, but, especially if that guy knows the lay of the land, what was he thinking? Just move on. Saw one d-head screaming and gesticulating at a Thai lady in Chiang Mai many moons ago over a parking spot, then literally running after her car screaming. I mean, what the actual F! Do you want to get shot?

I dunno, for me your examples are not great. A dour looking female with large features… she’d be better off with her hair up and tight. Each to their own of course. Nora Miao, Bruce Lee’s ex, had great hair:

You can do everything he was accused of doing and get away with it, but gawd help you if you post a poor review of a restaurant that served you dodgy food! Thailand, you have a long way to go.

Par for the course here for people to get carried away when eating and these all you can eat places just ask for it. If the restaurateur gets het up when people do overeat, then do not go into that method of business. Stick to set menus, but of course that's too much effort. I'm sure they already swell cost PP anyhow; 1,150 is expensive even with a promotion and it is only Khon Kaen after all, not Kansas!

This seems a very poor wage for a Thai offshore welder with that kind of experience. Those guys are S hot welders! They were earning that kind of money here 20y ago. 2500 baht a day is around 100 baht an hour. When offshore you calculate day wage by 24 hour period because your time is there’s for the duration you’re out there. So even on a 1000 bucks a day, it is ‘only’ essentially 40-odd bucks an hour.

I would have a modicum of respect for Srettha if he did something useful by pouring his energy for this very real and damaging issue instead of his smiling donkey bull<deleted> for trivialities and anything China. Severely punish burners, impound any and all smoke belching vehicles and crush them, hoover up road dust.

Poor guy. What a nightmare. Go steady out there, folks.

🤮🤮You might be but majority of Thais are not Chinese. Why don’t you go and live in Beijing if you love them so much? Then you can invite your brothers and sisters to visit you.

As usual topics like this are filled with unempathetic rubbishy comments (likely mostly from the boomer crowd) from folk who think they have never put a foot wrong and live perfect lives. Good chance family is reading this!

Yippee. Can’t wait!

Bit rough. They’re not my favourites and balk at any one group piling in here en masse, but they could just be decent hardworking people. There are some good Russians. Bizarre how they’d fall for that though. They can rent my gaffe for 720 if they like. I only require 360k upfront. 🙂

And yet you would happily jump into a taxi with an intoxicated driver?

Also know a lot and practically all want to ‘move forward’. The type that follow the current regime typically have an agenda, are balls deep, bought and paid for, or just incredibly dense and brainwashed. Tempting to say similar to the China debacle, but everyone is just S scared over there.

Absolutely pathetic. What a silly little boychild of a ‘man’. Time for Thais to start taking this seriously and get their country back. It will not change itself.

Lol, I love this kind of denial, esp from so called learned folk. It is somewhat akin to the moon landing debunkers because of the Van Allen belt or whatever other daft confirmation bias reason, or the funny folk that think the stromatolites are an impossibility because the earth is only 6000 years old. Dear me. The pterosaur was in fact a super light flier (much more so than a feathered bird of today, which scaled up in kind would unlikely get off the ground), with an airy bone structure and membrane-type wings based about cartilage. They may have been as light as 200kg or so despite being ginormous.

Don't need top travel all the way to Khon Kaen to see dinosaur fossils, just go to government house in Bangkok.

Indeed, typically the staid boomer mindset. Normally stay away from these kind of threads because it always ends up with the same negative tripe... they just cannot stand to see normal people having fun. Quite sad really. Just hope I don't end up like that in my dotage.

Used to get it bad as a kid (mainly house dust, smoke, animal fur) and frequently ending up in hospital... barely being able to breathe was a horrendous experience.

Terrible article. Read the exact same thing over the first several sentences. The whole thing could be done in one or two lines. But, yes, this is happening worldwide... ridiculously expensive to have a kid nowadays and what a generally horrible outlook for them! The caveat is those places that can't control themselves and churn out kids with the hope of using them to get out of the mire, and places where certain religious mindsets don't believe in controlling it.

Usually around 110/70/60. Was 150 once but that was after coffees and white coat syndrome. Resting pulse is under 60, typically 50 ish. That some might be lower than average doesn't necessarily point to a 'condition'. Athletes can have a resting rate in the 40s and be just fine and dandy.

^^^ Then stop doing it to others! You might be a decent person, but most of your posts on this topic have come across as overly negative, contemptible and borderline trollish. I see that you are a new member... one of the banned, is it? There are many on here. If I were to ever make it to that kind of age (I won't, no thanks), I would be ecstatic that my boy would care enough to want me to have one last bit of fun. Shove insurance, logistics and this and that. Those old boys are from a different generation and tougher than us. The guy should get him out here and have him pampered at a soapy massage place. If he croaks in the process, what a way to go! Better than being miserable in the staid West.