BritManToo

Torrential rain most of the afternoon in MaeJo yesterday.

I retired in the UK at age 45, moved to Thailand age 52. Are you confusing retirement age with state pension age?

I don't understand people that want to live as sick and disabled in their old age. Just die with dignity. As for immigration requirements, they've been the same for at least the past 20 years. 400k + Thai wife, or 800k + single.

Why are they always chasing young boys though? It seems to be a problem unique to the BBC.

From your BBC link ........... "The life span of humans – opposed to life expectancy, which is a statistical construct – hasn’t really changed much at all – Walter Scheidel" it's not enough to find a link, you nee to read and understand it. Anyway, you've identified yourself now!

I think you need to o a google search on some definitions.

Have you confused lifespan with life expectancy? They aren't the same thing!

The lifespan of humans has always been around 70 years for the past 5,000 years. Socrates was 71 when he was ordered to kill himself (399BC).

I'm not that bothered, if I've got the money, might as well spend it.

I'd be more concerned that someone professing to be a devout Christian married 'heterosexual' BBC presenter was using gay dating sites.

..... or the Baht exchange rate becomes 80bht to 1 gbp.

Would say the complete opposite. Your home country is where you build up your savings and pension as a young person. Thailand is the place to come and spend it, hopefully in a nice house with a younger wife. If you aren't fully funded for the rest of your life, you shouldn't be here IMHO.

Nobody is forcing him to have medical treatment.

I didn't enjoy living in the UK in my 40s ....... why would I enjoy it in my 70s? I'm betting the old guys in Canada are living a pretty miserable existence. I could return to the UK, to live a single, cold sexless existence in a bedsit/shared house or a care home, but I'd rather be dead.

It worked for NancyL and Dave2.

More to do with the ages of the population (lots of old folk). Thais don't live as long as people in the west due to poor medical care (not many old folk).

Samsung are way worse, my Xaomi POCO M3 always had 'dead boot' problems, but it only cost 2,500bht. my expensive Samsung Tab 10" and 7" all failed within 3 years. As did my Samsung fridge, Samsung 55" LCD, Samsung Air-con. I'll never buy another Samsung product.

No, there are 2 main reasons to buy new phones .......... 1. it's the banking apps that make your old phone obsolete (Android version too old). 2. or the battery fails. If you buy a 3-4 year old phone it will soon become useless. Plenty of new phones to be had in the 3,000-4,000bht range. I just purchased a Redmi 12c (4/64) for 3,200bht, works fine so far.

HLE healthy life expectancy is 60 in the UK. DFLE disability free life expectancy is 63. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/bulletins/healthstatelifeexpectanciesuk/2018to2020#:~:text=Download this chart-,Disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) at birth reduced by,2017 and 2018 to 2020&text=Among the constituent countries of,and Scotland (Figure 5).

Accept death when it comes. At 67 I've already lived longer than my parents and most of my friends and relatives. I know average age of death is supposedly 77 but where are all these old folk hiding. ?

Is the big one in blue the wife or the mistress? And what's the dispute?

Seems a bit unfair.

Name a politician that's different?

Yep, I'm lazy ........ Thai street food and restaurants everywhere. A woman in our homes to cook Thai food for us. But why don't we make the effort to cook our own cultures food more? Today I did Cottage Pie, 0.5Kg minced pork, an onion, 0.75Kg of potato and some gravy powder. Brown the mince in a saucepan with a bit of oil, add water to cover + 3 teaspoons of gravy powder (or a couple of stock cubes from 7-11) + 1 chopped onion. Add in salt, pepper, chopped garlic if you can be bothered and leave to simmer for 10 minutes. Peel and chop the potatoes into chunks, put in a saucepan an cover with water, boil for 5 mins. Ladle the cooked mince into any style dish that you can put in an oven, not too wet! Pick out the cooked potato chunks, put in a bowl with a bit of milk, mash with a fork, cover up the mince. Put in an oven (Otto is fine) for around 15 mins at 150c, until the top browns. Then eat. 20mins of work costs about 100bht, enough for 3-4 portions.

Night Market street (top of Loi Kroh) .... plenty of stalls selling knives.