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Your 'dream' or 'vision' is totally without focus

What do you want to achieve? Why do you want to do this, whatever it is? What are your priorities for success? How would you estimate your success or failure? How are you going to live? With whom.? What skills do you have that you can deploy? Seems like you are adrift in the world. Neither Thailand nor Bali is going to solve that problem.I guess you are not poor. I would say that, as a start, think about finding somewhere where you can learn from people for whom materialism is not the be all and end all of life and to whose lives you could contribute also. Good luck

He hasnt found himself yet, he doesnt yet know, everything is just an illusion.

Still trying to get in touch with his inner self, jeez, is this a wind up or what, are there really people like this still walking the earth?

Australia still attracts tourists looking for themselves. Normally someone finds their skeleton years later. The desert isn't the right place to find enlightenment.

I pulled up at a tee intersection on a curve and couldn't see if there was any traffic approaching from the left.

I asked a Thai friend "Are there any cars coming?". "No" she replied, so I pull out. There was a blasting horn noise and a truck flew past a few feet in front of us.

"I thought you said there weren't any cars coming" I screamed.

"No, that one truck"...

There are some lovely little villages along the Mekong between Nong Khai and Bueng Kan. It can be quite pleasant overlooking the water to the Laos mountains. You will find some decent temples.

Wait until it cools down.

Comprehensive travel insurance is a no-brainer.

For a couple of hundred dollars I can cover my family worldwide for a month or two.

Funeral director. Horrible, but memorable. A few years was more than enough.

Can we just buy three tickets?

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Yonks? YONKS??

Can someone bloody tell me what a "YONK" is?

It sent my autocorrect into fits. Kept trying to bring up "Yank" and "wank." Even smartphones rebel.

It's something old people say when they mean bare long, fam.

Ie. Haven't had a wank in yonks.

Or, you're the biggest liar I've come across in yonks!

It sounds better than..

Haven't had a wank in donkeys 'ears.

I would go the second option and double my chances.

However I am never right, so the first option.

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Yonks? YONKS??

Can someone bloody tell me what a "YONK" is?

It sent my autocorrect into fits. Kept trying to bring up "Yank" and "wank." Even smartphones rebel.

It's something old people say when they mean bare long, fam.

Ie. Haven't had a wank in yonks.

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Yonks? YONKS??

Can someone bloody tell me what a yonk is?

It sent my autocorrect into fits. Even smartphones rebel.

Ages. A long time. Yonks.

Recent facebook post.

American: "What time is it in Australia?"

Australian "Twenty to four in the arvo"

American: "I literally have no idea what that means"

Thais do not like that sort of behavior out in public, it`s bad etiquette in Thai culture.

Exactly!

All the OP actually witnessed was two individuals who originally met in 'seedy' Thailand which have travelled to another location in Thailand.

They need to get a room, there's a time and a place for everything......you don't see 'sipi' marching around the shopping centre wearing all his studded leather gear, because he saves that for the bedroom or his modified garage/BDSM Den.

If Sipi wore leather in public some Thai would put a ring through his nose and tether him in a rice paddy.

Might make the hole bigger

If the hole gets too big just turn it over.

Oh hang on, that was the original problem.

Swapping snot at the public swimming baths wouldn't be appreciated in most cultures.

The Thai women I have met are not desperate. They too have choice.

Why does this character suddenly spring to mind?

Ok, and on a serious note.

Our mattress weighs a ton, but the base is really light. It almost seems out of proportion.

Is there a hole in the mattress?

Does it have a name?

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I envy you. The thread I started about the deprivation of dental hygiene in rural Isaan only got 3 replies.

If I knew the mattress thing would have been more fun I would have started it myself.

Is there a hole in the mattress?

Or a lump?

Someone should record all this stuff and flog it off to naïve tourists.

Ah, wait.....

I read a book, not a very good book, it was a poorly written piece about Thailand written by an obvious sexpat who passes herself off as an expert in relation to everything about Thailand. The reality is, she wouldn't have a clue about Thailand and gained most of her experience in the seedy sois and hovels scattered around the place. I looked into the author and subsequently had a huge laugh. What a sad sad thing she was.

Bit of a scam, taking money from folks passing yourself of as one thing, when in fact you are completely another thing.

Shame on her.

Was this book written by a woman? It just seems unusual.