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Mopping floors is great exercise. My forearms are powerful built I have a exercise type job I love my job

So your still working for the $$$ I feel sorry for you I don't have to go to work tonight at 11pm if I don't want...I have enough money to retire ...oh well poor Ralfy up at 5am ready to work ....

True to a point. But I'm extremely poor and I still read books ,go for walks ,go to second hand markets

The tolerance Respect cultural diversity workshop which goes for 8 hours in the day teaches us workers to see things as ... beautiful ,men kissing ,lesbian etc

No free time? Ralf your having a laugh 🤣 right. Your on this forum everyday at 7am Bangkok time !

Recently I wrote about how I was swimming in a pool in Pattaya at the Arcadia Beach resort Three young children swam near me , I saw a large Scottish lady approach me and basically told me to go Into another pool.on the other side ,I apologised and left In fact she was telling all makes even in the banana chairs nearby and I doubt anyone had a problem with it Now please let me get into this I have worked for a Government department now for 30 years Next week as part of our yearly training I'm due to go for the Cultural respect diversity tolerance training course This is where we must learn to give people of the Muslim faith tolerance where they must be given breaks to pray Even gay people colleugiwho passionately kiss 💋,I observed this in the workplace last Monday night where I saw 2 male nurses passionately kiss each other and people commented it was "beautiful" I am observing a lot of workers from the arabic Pakistani background who some may not have the tolerance to accept their cultural differences,for eg a worker from Pakistan who is a cleaner likes to shout out to people in his way "Move brother ,move out my way "!!! I immediately smile and think it's beautiful Another couple of indian background cleaners in my workplace constantly have the earpiece phone to their ear talking away to whoever in India and we must tolerate that and smile because this is indian culture nowadays to have a earpiece Please attend these workshops if you can to learn respect

Because different parts of society may not agree with it and you could offend them eg people of the Muslim religion I had to apologise recently to a big english lady whose young kids were swimming near me in the Arcadia beach resort . She came over to me to tell me I must move over to the other pool as it's not appropriate for a older man to be near her children. Unfortunately they swam near me first and kept swimming near me , but I immediately apologised to her and left the pool and one must be careful not to offend others

What cubicle number?🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍👨 Jim there is no need in this day and age to be homophobic Look I admit I actually saw 2 guys tongue kissing recently at a bus stop in Australia and passionate and I did have homophobic thoughts but please listen to the data Thankyou Jim

Gottfrid....I watched them all drinking in the View Talay at Jomtien at 8am on a beautiful morning drinking beer by the pool. I had the condo room overlooking the pool , I watched at the window every morning them drinking alcohol You must stop 🛑 alcohol immediately This is the curse of all evil according I believe the bible? and please don't quote me but I believe it is

What made you bored at that time? Lack of normal routine?

I thought it was Frank Sinatra? WINE WOMEN & SONG 🍷

It wasn't a good decision Now you have NO property to go back to ???

Whats that saying and please in all your fine wisdom please correct me And who said it ? WINE WOMEN & SONG

You can't afford to leave ???? This is why I think it's better NOT to sell all your assests in farangland KEEP your house there !!!

Wow ! 😲 😮 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Congratulations and respect to you Sir 👏

Absolutely! Times have changed,some live in the past ....this forum is for all South East Asia I have calmed down a lot and not angry as much about this

Why only Thailand? What about expats in the Philippines, Cambodia,Vietnam ? They not worthy ? Isn't this the ASEAN forum for ALL South East Asia expats? Discrimination Bob !! I'm angry today about this

I actually met a guy in Pattaya who told me he retired from the UK civil service at 55 and regretted it ,said he wished he had gone to 65 All this media hype about retiring ,like we should ! Did you regret retiring? Is there anything wrong with someone who doesn't retire say at 60 or even 65? I'm thinking of just working and taking 2 X trips a year to Asia instead of retiring Many countries have now no set retirement age Do any of you still WORK past 60? Are you happy to WORK?

Philippines put 🍍 pineapple in their spaghetti

True 😁😂 I noticed that , probably all the American fast food places .

Thankyou and it takes a man to admit they have never walked up & down the Manila subway at night like I did 👍many others won't admit it

And the question remains though... How long should we stay in ONE place on our vacation/holiday before one gets bored ? 6 weeks in Pattaya bored me ,I had to take side trips ! Hua Hin for how long ,a week??

And yet you have never walked the Manila Subway at night have you ! Admit it ! I done 2 nights at around 11pm walking back n forth !

I was working with a casual employee last night sweeping the hospital grounds He was an old guy who mentioned about how he was renovating his house I told him I didn't know how to do renovation or even use a drill . That I called a Airtasker guy out to put my wooden bed together I bought from IKEA The first thing he did was laugh at me " a real man knows how to use a drill "" , he then immediately backtracked , " oh I don't mean it a bad way he said laughing Later I ignored zealous tart like this,off went my conversations with him and my ear phones on🙉🎧 But it's been on my mind all day !! Even I saw a post on ASEAN today where a guy a former NURSE in his working career was writing he was doing plumbing, renovation etc in his spare time at his house ! That made me angry😮 because I think of male nurses as feminine , so I'm thinking of he does ,should I have to know as well! The thing is I never been interested in using a drill or going plumbing , electrical renovation etc ⚒️🔨 Does a "real man " know how to use a DRILL, should we all know how to put door frames on ,how to use a SAW ,a DRILL ? Why should I bother learning? I call tradesmen out

Today being a few days back on Australia from my 6 week boring trip...I'm so happy 😁 I rose at 3pm after the nightshift cleaning the hospital stairways , I will spend sometime checking my emails ,on ASEAN ,do some cleaning , then I will go to the gym,come home eat dinner and off to work for 10p Lovely routine and just think one week ago I was caged in a 21sqm room with old people on walking frames ,shouting outside ,slamming doors etc I felt like the security guards at that view talay were like prison guards locking people in those box rooms Half the time I had to jump that back fence where the cafe is because my keycard wouldn't work