Donnie Brasco

Buddy of mine was "airlifted" back to Sydney from a local private hospital after some creepy skin-stretcher threw a tantrum because the guys family had refused to sign off on a plastic surgery procedure.

The charged his family for SIX first class seats.

What's going on here ????????

Gillian Barre "SYNDROME" can be stabilized and medicated.

The guy could travel back coach.

40k gbp in 5 days?

Where is he being attended to?

He is obviously in a private hospital where the intensive care room costs approx 2000GBP/night, then there are the very expensive drugs he will require, the ventilator and other equipment costs and doctors fees. So this cost does not surprise me.

I have been in plenty of private hospitals in Thailand. I think this number might be a little overstated.

If he was in a private hospital in the USA he might be stretching it.

Priced like a Maine lobster in a NYC restaurant.

A pay-as-you-go medical jurisdiction is the absolute WORST environment in which to get a diagnosis.

The, um, dark side of "medical tourism."

This thread is hilarious.

I don't care if you do it. I just want to make the point that not every guy does.

You made that point weeks ago. Posting it over and over again, in post after post, thread after thread, and implying that everyone that does is a loser, puts it into obsessive-compulsive territory.

It's all the trips up the soi with no saddle on the seat pole that has affected him. He will eventually save up and have the seat pole removed from his intestines and start posting with something normal.....eventually.

A cunningly simplistic innovation involving a silicon prosthetic and some Crazy Glue this seat pole thing has already been sorted to accommodate any needs that may arise.

Thread reactions, post, comments and attempts at humor comprise fascinating parallels to current geopolitical realities most anywhere else on the globe.

Thank you Donnie, at last some words of wisdom !

Gallows humour for some, cover for appalling ignorance for others, fear and good old fashioned footwear swoggling as well.

Gets 'em to sleep, I guess.

Thanks mikemac.

Lord knows I bin tryin' for years.

Thread reactions, post, comments and attempts at humor comprise fascinating parallels to current geopolitical realities most anywhere else on the globe.

Nope.

Had a gf once again who said she could always tell because they smelled like men.

Even the really pretty ones.

Their faces always give their game away.

Feet. Hands. Mannerisms.

The male "copulative stare" is considerably longer.

One need not be rude.

As other comments state the uniformed woman was trolling.

However, in the interests of the community, I'll respond with the following:

Strong locks on first and second windows and doors to upgrade all your point-of-entry security.

Install outside lighting to illuminate dark corners near the entry.

Install night vision camera, conspicuous and non-conspicuous CCTV

Connect to wifi.

BUY some air horns.

Develop a cell phone alert system w/ gf

Baseball bat.

Stuff like that.

You can take all this stuff with you when you change dwellings.

*cough*

no

I have a one hundred dollar bet on that Jeb will take the GOP nomination.

Upon winning that bet, I'll bet a grand that he'll be elected US president in 2016.

The quadrennial dog-and-pony show that beards US foreign policy and leaves "the electorate" numbed and insensate must go on, must it not.

Bush in 2016.

but I have never seen them in Europe...

because you never visited France in the 60s where a lot of public toilets where squat style.

. . . . . . as if . . . . . (?)

These are actually teeth cleaners, like having a "Waterpik" attached to the wall so that you can take care of your dental hygiene while taking care of your other business. A great time saver.

Actually, most of the world's population uses squat toilets and water to clean up afterwards. Throughout Asia and Arab Countries that is the norm. I thought that they were also used in some European Countries as well, but I have never seen them in Europe.

The bidet was a French innovation. It dates back to the medieval times.

Unfortunately, after the medieval warming period, bathing, and "smelling sweet" came to be regarded as profligate and licentious practices since they led to recreational sex rather than procreation.

Thank Gawd for the Church, eh ?

These are actually teeth cleaners, like having a "Waterpik" attached to the wall so that you can take care of your dental hygiene while taking care of your other business. A great time saver.

Actually, most of the world's population uses squat toilets and water to clean up afterwards. Throughout Asia and Arab Countries that is the norm. I thought that they were also used in some European Countries as well, but I have never seen them in Europe.[/

Major South American cities have used them for years.

They can be a great help in avoiding the dreaded "ring of fire".

Back in the Old Country a few years ago, during a brief visit, a young-ish Uruguayan lady announced to me (as she sauntered out of the ensuite)"

"Bravo, Señor Donnie. I see thee cibilizacion has pfinally come to your jurisdicion. Weethout thees inobacion I have no idea what the local girls may habv been doing all these years in your country to freshen up. You will find provabvly you are now catching fewer colds."

Bravo Gabriela

I am not a racist, but...

Insert racist sentiment here.

I have to confess here to those who may not yet have figured it out . . . . . I rather enjoy my more frequent than occasional dabbles in racist banter and bavardage.

I find these forays into empiricism and pure reason will effectively purge a soul tortured by intellectual impurities.

Wishing to leave nothing to chance here, while in New York one February, about a decade ago I had Richard Avedon take my TV avatar shot while I was using a "hand held bidet" hooked up to City pressure.

Straight from the Catskills at +6 degrees C and 28 lbs. per sq. ft. New York City bum guns could strip the bark off a swamp cedar.

Peace and Love to all

Donnie

Finally, but most relevant, I suspect would be that the original Donnie Brasco avatar is a live-action bum gun pic.

I feel this particular shot somewhat relevent to forums like this.

Happy New Year all . . . . . . :-))))))

I adore the bum gun.

I have updated every bathroom of every apartment I use.

A modicum of ingenuity and some talent for bricolage is all you require.

I removed a rarely-used soda gun along with its tanks (both branch water and CO2) from my rec room bar.

Careful to avoid detection by everwatchful and protective contraband sleuths at either end of my journey, piece by piece I smuggled the entire system into my Bangkok condo and replaced the conventional bum gun with a decidedly superior innovation.

I converted the CO2/Branch tanks to hold room-temperature soda/Kanchana Branch-water under pressure.

The combination effervescent soda and the MWA Bangkok City pressure.

The delightful result was an intense spray that could peel the bark off a eucalyptus.

With a little skill and judicious use of the Soda gun, one can adapt oneself to the decidedly "greener" pinch-and-shoot technique which eliminates the need for paper.

Hope this helps.

Find a good airline.

Commute whenever you feel like it.

Any fraternization with of befriending of desperados in either jurisdiction should be for entertainment and amusement.

Like farang expat timeshare touts..

Those guys get all the young hot Thai women - just ask them.. when you have an hour or 2 to spare? ..and a few million baht to piss up against the wall

We, ah, have never met . . . . have we ;-? :-))

My hopes and my full support are in support of Sonya, my beautiful intelligent daughter.

This time next year she will have finished a four year programming/coding degree, very likely with something close to a 3.6 GPA.

She will be moving to Bangkok to look for a job in in her field of study.

She was approached several times during her university training to quit her studies and take up a full-time modelling career.

Wisely she made a forward-thinking decision to decline and do the odd part time gig but she has stuck to her projects.

She surrounds herself with other young people, mostly young Thai women, who hold the same values and beliefs.

Smart. Poised. Forward thinking.

Sonya is a truly remarkable young Thai woman.

It will be my pleasure to support her in all her endeavours as she heads out on the next phase of her journey.

Now she can program codes that will hack all banks and send all the 1/2 (0.05) cents to your accounts. Good daughter. Birds of a feather! Apples falling from trees!

Lemme guess . . . . . . You'd be grabbing yourself now wouldn't you ;-?

I'd suggest that you should be honest with your reply but that'd be expecting too much from a wreckdom of your caliber making the suggestions that you made.

Your second sentence contradicts your first.

Yeah

I hate it when when that happens ;-?

Do thais discriminate against a thai woman with a farang boyfriend/husband?

Yes and they sometimes openly comment about it also (but this is rare). However if you are in her home village it won't be too bad, you'd probably just be seen as a patron-farang.

Typically Thais in mainstream circles tend to consider a women who marries a foreigner to be of low-status or even a prostitute. It won't be derogatory though it will be just matter-of-fact to them.

For the last sixty years or so people of the quaint riverine village of krungthepmahanakhornetcetcetc have been doing just that.

Well-travelled, well-read, well-heeled, urbane, sophisticated, cosmopolitan, critically-thinking Thais would disagree with you.

There are (at last "count") millions of them.

Millions