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simon43

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  1. Seems that you set off his Gaydar. I wonder why.....
  2. Plausible excuse of a medical condition. I have some prostate issues and occasionally get taken short, but I never shake the drips from my todger as vigorously as this Italian apparently did 🙂
  3. Surely those are hippo legs... ? I had a great German pal many years ago in Phuket who was the head chef at the the airport catering company. Due to all the sweet food that he had to concoct and eat, he had diabetes. Finally had to chop his legs off and he died soon afterwards 😞
  4. Absolutely riveting stuff... If that is a 'real' woman then I'll eat my hat. I see the video ends as 'she' gets into the doggy position on the bed. My suspicions about the gender of this beautiful Thai individual will no doubt be proven in the next video 🙂
  5. If your comment about living in the middle of a war zone earning less than a grand (USD) per month refers to my teaching in Myanmar, I think you are a little confused about my income. Last month I earned about $4,000 from teaching in-class and online, and it will rise to about $5,000 a month when my UK pension money starts in June. By the way, that is 'normal' income, not some danger money 🙂 Apart from the occasional bomb/shooting in the city, the regular fighting is at least 13km away....
  6. [quote] ... As somebody said above in Asia teachers should not be questioned, if they don't know the answer they will look stupid and they will loose face ... [/quote] One of the first things that I tell new students is that I don't know every thing about Science but I know where to find the answer... Anyway, as a space scientist, many times the (current) and correct answer to a student's question about something in space is 'We don't know!" Bob, I can't hear any bullets right now because I'm on a 'Lazada run' to Pattaya. Lazada don't deliver to Myanmar addresses and anything that I've ordered from Aliexpress for myself/the school has never arrived and no refunds! So every few months I order various bits from both websites, then fly over to my cosy condo at Jomtien Beach to pick up the parcels. Here are some of the things that I'm waiting on delivery: (Not sure on that last item, I might find some use for it 🙂
  7. Smart because my Myanmar students ask questions, lots of them...
  8. Lol - that's funny coming from you. Wait, I better write it down so I don't forget it....
  9. Committed suicide. lol that's a good one.........
  10. Except that it's probably not heartbreaking for the community. For them It's karma and now the boys are now in their next life. One of my Thai nieces (when younger), used to show me photos of her best friend with her head splattered all over the road after headbutting a concrete post. Not a tinge of sadness as she explained how they had to pick bits of brain out of the grass verge..... she's gone onto her next life - that's all.
  11. Rote learning good! Questions bad!! Everyone write it down and repeat out loud.....
  12. Yes. there are other renewables, such as ocean wave kinetic energy, which is still somewhat in its infancy - technology-wise. But it all seems to come back to the problem of efficient energy storage during outage time from solar, wind, wave etc. It's getting there, but trying to achieve net-zero on Milliband's timescales is crazy!
  13. Speaking with my scientist hat on, a net-zero policy is a commendable idea. But the target period to achieve net-zero should be set to something rather more realistic, such as 100 or 200 years..... Technology is simply not ready to achieve net-zero in one or two decades. Battery storage technology for wind and solar is way-behind in development of suitable renewable energy storage when there's no sun and no wind. Right now, we are 'robbing Peter to pay Paul'. Not using our cheap fossil fuel supplies for Drax is ludicrous, when we are importing biomass fuel from Canada and the associated huge carbon dioxide emissions from the transportation. 'Learn to walk before you try to run Milliband...'
  14. I think Bob is more of the "I like to eat meat and two veg" variety...
  15. simon43 replied to swissie's topic in Pattaya
    As regards the kind of women that are available and cost, my advice would be to save up and buy the latest sex doll from China, which will be far prettier than the Beach road gals, and will give you hours and hours of endless enjoyment! They don't ask for lady drinks either.....
  16. From the reports that I read about this incident, the deceased woman was ... er... a lardbucket! The cabin crew were trying to carry her into business class, but the effort was ... er ... killing them.
  17. As a scientist, (but not with a huge interest in penises), I wonder why the guys in the Congo have such big willies. Do they hang weights on them? Perhaps the length is big but the girth is small, like a pipe-cleaner. And what about the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo), just next door? Surely they must also feature in the big willie chart?
  18. Grumpy old men syndrome. I avoid elderly westerners like the plague - most are totally negative and haven't smiled in decades!
  19. I just claimed online for my UK state pension, which will start in 3 months from now when I get to 66 years old. I will get about $1,000 a month. As a single person, that is plenty to live on 🙂 . I do have an online teaching income, but my UK state pension allows me to rent a nice studio at Jomtien Beach AND a country property in the hills/mountain of north Thailand with 2 rai of land.... and the rental price for both totals 13,000 baht/month. Your money can go a long way if you don't fling it around like confetti 🙂
  20. Strange, but when I walked into Pattaya Central Shopping Centre this morning, the entrance had a walk-through metal detector. Not seen that for many years...
  21. This is bad news for some of my online students in Myanmar. Due to the international bandwidth restrictions imposed by the junta, for an online video/audio lesson. one needs to use an application that uses a minimal bandwidth as possible. Skype meets that requirement. Zoom and Voov require more bandwidth, and ClassIn is unbelievably greedy/wasteful of bandwidth (I know - I've done tests on all these apps...)

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