simon43

Ask any Muslim what is their first priority/loyalty: Is it to the Islamic faith or to the UK. I'm sure you know the answer... (because that is a cornerstone of their religion). Ask any Muslim if the Quran recognises national country boundaries. Nope is the answer. Is it written that it's OK for Muslims to lie if it furthers their religion? Yes! I usually have no issues with individual Muslims, but Islam is a vile religion based on outdated, medieval views. I'm so happy that I live in a Buddhist-majority country.

I have found that walking stark-naked with a sunflower tied to the end of my todger usually works quite well.... Seriously, if you pretend to be a nutter, then almost everybody (Thai and farang) will steer well clear of you. I've found thatit also works with aggressive dogs.

lions........!!

Luckily no! I saw the elephant and Thai owner doing a rapid exit down a soi. Never caught him 🙂

As a TPV, I remember running after an elephant in downtown Patong after it sat on a parked car...

I've had BPH for perhaps 20 years, very slowly the symptoms are getting worse, which is no big surprise. At the moment medication (Flomax etc) means that I can still pee, but that ability is slowly getting worse. I'm sure at some point I will need to consider surgical (invasive and slightly-invasive) options. But when I read about the various surgical treatments, many seem to only offer relatively short-term relief of perhaps 5 years or so. What happens after that time-frame? I certainly wouldn't want to have surgery again in my dotage. Is there a reliable treatment that minimises the risk of long-term incontinence and maximises the time-frame after treatment of no more BPH symptoms?

Maybe he means those people who exercise on static bicycles.....

Yawn, the colour of your skin is not a race... Islam is not a race, but I detest everything that Islam stands for. Does that make me a racist? No!

9 for me 🙂. No mental pain for me (since I dumped wife #3!), but some physical aches and pain as I get older...

I was on a train travelling down to Gatwick Airport on 13th, for my trip back to Thailand/Laos. The train had many people going to that demo, including elderly men and women, and many single women draped in flags. I doubt a single one of them was a far-right thug. Sorry, but the MSM has been brainwashed by the government and various lefties.

On what legal grounds?

I'm in London right now, huge numbers of British patriots making their way to the demo. Good luck to them

Exactly. He had many years of experience working with these lions. Suicide is the only logical conclusion.

Well, based on some previous experiences, that all sounds quite normal.... I'd concentrate on getting well again.

The last time that I lived in Thailand was a few months ago, but I don't live in Thailand now because my 'retirement' visa runs out this month and with the Bangkok Bank hassles over agents I decided to hop over the border to make Laos my base again between my work in Myanmar.

Do you really think posters will feverishly click your link? Have the common sense to explain what the video is about

I'm only staying 2 days, but apart from previous visits for funerals ('closed' visits, since I only went from airport to cemetery and back again), this was my only visit to the UK in 23 years! I'll give my general impressions of what I've found: Things didn't get off to a good start with the London underground strike. I had to book an expensive (73 GBP) private transfer from Heathrow to King's Cross Railway station. That short distance took more than 2 hours.... I was somewhat like a 'fish out of water' in the UK. The currency notes had changed colour, my request to pay cash at food vendors at the railway station was met with raised eyebrows, and the procedure to scan QR codes on my tickets was all new to me 🙂 Where was the ticket guy who would check my ticket at the barrier? But the train to Peterborough was on-time and clean. The modern toilet threw me a bit since the electronic entry button by the door was exactly the same system and in close proximity to the train carriage exit door! My attendance and subsequent receipt of my new passport was efficient, no complaints there at all. But my opinion of the town center was not good. Where were all the English people? (Trigger warning to wokies and lefties - I call a spade a spade, as GG commented in another thread!). Most people seemed to be African or West Indian or Asian. There were some 'whities', but they were speaking some eastern European language (I guess Albanian, it wasn't Hungarian or Romanian). No police patrolling the town centre on foot. In the evening (I was staying another day in the town, pre-arranged in case the issue of my passport was delayed), I stayed at a small guest-house close to the town centre. My bedroom window was open and I could hear the voices of people walking past in the night. Not a single word of English, again it was Eastern European, not Arabic, not Farsi. Drunken men shouting out in strange tongues, no women, just young and middle-aged foreign men. What were these people doing in Peterborough? Did they attend English language and culture lessons in the daytime? Did they do community work, such as cleaning the streets? I doubt it very much. I have a free day today (Friday), so will take some long walks (weather allowing). I want to find where the English community is hiding! It's a very strange place to my eyes, and certainly not the Peterborough that I remember. Of course, things are bound to change, and IMHO not for the better.. 'Diversity Divides' is my belief. This view enforced by my experiences in Burma and the divisions and violent history between the many ethnic groups and the majority, ruling Burmans. Different cultures, different religions, different attitudes towards women etc etc will NEVER lead to a strong and cohesive country, just look at history (Yugoslavia as one example). Anyway, at least the primary purpose of my trip was completed satisfactorily 🙂

According to one of the statistical websites that take into account your current age, health, lifestyle, family illnesses etc, I will make it to 101 years old!!

Spade? You would be arrested if you called a 'spade' a spade lol!!!

IMHO the West is beyond saving. Things must be bad when I prefer living in communist Laos or fxuked up Myanmar to the UK

Passing through swampy airport right now - the Thai authority is serious about warning of Shwe KoKo scam city just over the border in Myanmar

I'm sure that at my grammar school we learnt it as "can't be asked". I guess grammar school kids were more polite than comp kids 😁

Lol, you're so funny! Why should I ask about buying things in Thailand? I don't live in Thailand:)

Lol, I thought 'arse' might be blocked by the profanity filter! ^^¥ So I was correct! I'm at luang prabang airport now, got through immigration no problem with my full passport. Showed my LDAC QR code, which is now required for entry and exit from laos.

Years ago I had to climb onto the roof of my GF's house in Issan just to get a mobile internet signal. Nowadays the network coverage and data rates are hugely improved. In countries like Laos and Myanmar, which had minimal and outdated landline infrastructure, the simplest/cheapest way to provide the population with telecoms service was simply to install mobile networks into the country and forget about upgrading landlines. I had expat friends in Myanmar who were at the sharp end of the installation of mobile network cell towers in remote parts of Myanmar. They were a 'rowdy' lot, hooked on opium which was easy to obtain (I used to ride my motorbike through the opium fields of Pekon Town). I avoided them in the pizza restaurant in Mandalay. Some of them died from opium overdoses. Living on the edge.... Anyway, thanks to their hard work I can get internet connectivity for my online lessons almost anywhere in Laos and Myanmar, so long as I come 'prepared'. Although sometimes I'm doing a lesson in the dark because my rechargable lights have failed 🙂