simon43

Maybe you are a lard-bucket and the waitresses reckon you'll be a pushover if they mention food....

After leaving Naypyitaw in late 2018, and a spell of living in Laos and Thailand while teaching online, I'm returning to live and work in Myanmar in a couple of weeks from now. I'm exchanging the 'delights' of Pattaya for the uncertainty of living in Yangon, with growing civil unrest. I decided to return to Myanmar because it is easier for me to do my (very small-scale), educational charity work for Myanmar students if I'm actually living in the country again. I think my efforts (although small) will be welcome by many students who are unable to attend school I will be teaching at an international school, and will continue to teach online in the evening/weekends. This joint income will certainly help to cover the cost of books for my charity work. Alas, it's no longer safe for me to visit Shan State by motorbike - so book deliveries will be by bus postal service. Who else is living in Myanmar right now?

Yonks ago I had a very painful lower back, due to falling off a horse. One evening in Silom, the pain was so intense that I ventured out with my Thai GF to find a massage shop. The only one open was a LB massage place, but OK that's cool. The LB instructed me to lie on my front and he then sat on my buttocks and proceeded to massage my lower back, backwards and forwards. The back pain rapidly reduced, but my GF was lying on the floor howling with laughter. "Darling, it look like he <deleted> you" she exclaimed! So, my only experience of LBs is fake anal sex (I'm the 'bottom'), which does wonders for my back...

So your legal wife is living with a Thai man and presumably f***ing him. Under Thai law, you can sue him for financial damages for having sex with your legal wife. Mention the relevant law to your lovely wife and her Thai man, and that should persuade her to be at the Amphur office double quick for the divorce (it did for mine!)

In the end, I took the risk of postage delays and ordered 18 different flashcard sets from a Thai supplier on Lazada. Birds, jobs, body parts etc etc. Total cost just 500 baht or so for these 18 sets. What's more, the delivery was only 1 day! Anyway, I'm just about ready to return to my previous teaching haunt >> Myanmar. Yes, I'm aware of the civil war/unrest, and the disruption that it has caused/is causing to students' education. That was the major reason why I wanted to return).

Thanks, I'll try harbour mall. Lazada is no good - I'm flying in a few days!

There is a large bookshop at the Emporium Mall in Bangkok, where I previously purchased flashcards to help kids learn English. You know, animal names, fruit, jobs etc. I donated all my flashcards to a school in Laos last year and now need to buy new cards. But I'm not in Bangkok... Does anyone know of a shop in Pattaya that sells a range of flashcards? Thanks.

I had a background check done yonks ago in Bangkok. Now I need to update it, but I'm in Pattaya and want to avoid going to the police clearance office in Bangkok, if at all possible, (no, not in case they recognise me!!, just don't want to take time out of my schedule to drive to Bangers etc) Is there a company in Pattaya who offers this kind of service, whereby I can get my prints taken at Soi 9 police station and then those and the required documents are sent to Bangkok for processing. Thanks!

Your poll is flawed - why does it only go up to 80's? Most expats that I see in Pattaya look well into 3 figures...

I used to lock the classroom door when the class started. Any late students were at the mercy of being caught by the Principal in the corridor. No-one was ever late again for my lessons, and no-one played around again.

Please, please, no photos.....

I'm a teacher. If 6 teen boys continuously play around, then I tell them to get out of the classroom and I lock the door. (I've done this before in Thailand and they don't mess around again). If the school HoD or Principal doesn't support my actions, then I resign and they can sort out the problem of the teems and of finding a replacement teacher. So no hitting, no shouting, just simple affirmative action delivered with a smile ???? PS - This is why I mostly teach in Myanmar - the students of all ages are polite, respectful and all of them want to learn!

JT, take care with the length of your thread titles! I initially thought that it was yet another thread from the resident "I-love-speaking-with-myself" poster!! ????

You really need to visit the NBTC office in Bangkok, which handles all radio equipment licences. They speak English. (I can't answer your specific question, but I have a Thai radio amateur licence, and renew this at NBTC every 5 years. ). I always find the staff very helpful if you visit in person.

The restaurant should be required by law to show all menu prices.

Yawn, another thread pulled off-topic by bickerers.... This is exactly why I blank so many people nowadays ????

So there are 10's of millions of people in the USA whom I also blank..... I ignore nutters wherever they are and regardless of how many there are of them! If people want to spout their crazy ideas, up to them. If people want to believe those crazy ideas, up to them. I ignore them all and get on with my life because I can't change the world and I'm not going to waste my time trying to do that....

So why don't they say 'gay men and bisexuals'?

Who is Alex Jones? Seriously, I know almost nothing about him because as soon as I read his initial comments, I knew he was a nut job and therefore completely blanked him from my life. Nutters like him are 'infamous' or 'famous' simply because others listen to him, or are enraged by his PoV. Ignore the prat and he wouldn't be rolling in $$$ now and no-one would be stressed out by his inane comments.....

Not easy to post this poll - many forum software errors! I hope it works OK now ????

In my book 'take care' means provide sexually, nothing about money. If a Thai women says "I take care of you", then she's not about to pay for a 5-course meal! Ditto for me...

I try to avoid processed foods, (although realistically, it's not 100% possible). Plenty of fresh fruit and veg, muesli, green tea, ginger tea, jog 4km and walk 4km every early morning, avoid wokists, religious and political nutters, druggies, alcoholics, those who smoke, lard-buckets and stick insects who don't care for their own health.... and anyone else who might cause me stress or anger That doesn't leave many people to socialise with!

I see no mention of financial assistance in those messages....

A heart attack is not the same as a cardiac arrest. With the latter, you drop dead on the floor. With the former, you can have chest pains for days, even weeks before you finally drop dead on the floor with a cardiac arrest. Any heart pain is a warning to visit a doctor asap, while there is still time to treat you (if it's a serious heart issue), and before you drop dead on the floor.

Cursed be those lamp-posts that jump out at you!! I was reversing (slowly) and this lamp-post jumped out at me and threw itself onto the rear of my car. A small dent and the plastic trim is broken. It's a rental care, so I need to get the damage repaired. Any suggestions for a car body shop? Also, a good optician shop might be useful! ????