4MyEgo

I am a firm believer of live and let live, been bitten a few times by these outside critters, however it's come to the stage that they have built huge nests all up one side of the house making it impossible to walk along there without being bitten savagely. Would like them gone, the usual spray can does it for a little, but they are way underground, tried running the hose for a while as well, but they just reappear later. Anyone successfully eradicated these guys, short of using a flame thrower.

Your not so bright are you, scroll up and you will know everything, fools get caught out that way.

In the country, on a clear day LOL

Story is true, I never lie, photo, well that's a given, wife has my name as her tattoo.... Some may say that's 4MyEgo ????

Not to mention, it was in the country, no pollution up here.

I didn't say it bothered me, i.e. unless you can quote me. Each to their own, I just found it quite stupid to be honest.

You obviously don't see the irony of it, whatever !

No one is suggesting Covid has gone away, only stupid farangs would think that, e.g. it's here to stay and take it's place like the commin cold/flu, so why bother masking up. why continue with the masks, are we so fragile, back in Aus, it's over, no masks, back to normality, albeit they do ask if you have it to isolate. I ponder around without a mask as does my wife and kids, we are all vaccinated and have had Covid, we have moved on, masks are only to be put on when required, e.g. to enter a store, a plane, they are not required at concerts where thousands of people go, we have been, haven't had an issue, and we hear 30,000 plus people get infected per day, so what, like I said, it has become so weak it's like a common cold/flu and that is what we experienced months back. If people want to live in fear and live in a cocoon and wear a mask under a full face helmet or while they are alone in a car, up to them, obviously some people don't see the irony in it.

When I met my wife she had none, I was in the process of putting two on my chest, nothing big, and I said to her, I want you to put one on your lower back, she said ok, "up to you" and I gave the tattoo guy a piece of paper with what I wanted on her lower back. She is now "branded" and would have to get it removed if we ever split up because it would turn any intending guy off.

I thought I'd seen it all, but this morning when I was taking the kids to school, I stopped at the stop sign, looked in my rear vision mirror to make sure I wasn't going to get rear ended as I was slowing and there it was. A motorbike rider with pillion passenger, the rider had on a full face helmet with tinted shield down and wait for it, a face mask.....???? Is this total paranoia or what, I though it was funny watching people driving vehicles alone with face masks on, but this topped it. So let's have a laugh, share your funniest experience regarding face masks in Thailand, I reckon this is a hard one to top, but you never know.

Reminds me of a time when I used one many years ago in Phuket, asked how much from the bottom of Bangla Road to Safari outdoor disco, this was about 11pm, Safari disco was up the mountain and the fare quoted was 200 baht, all good, got in. When we finished at 3-4 in the morning, asked the tuk tuk driver outside how much to Bangla Road, 300 baht I was quoted, and I said but I paid 200 baht to get here, yes, but now, not many tuk tuk, oh, I see, thanks but no thanks, I will take a morning walk back thanks, ok, ok, 200 baht he said, I said no thanks and walk off, down the hill got the girl on a motorbike taxi and one for me to our destination 20 baht each. Never took a tuk tuk again, same as taxi's, don't want to put on metre, then you can be vacant for all I care, I find it cheaper these days to hire a car when in Phuket, saves me the 800 baht from the airport to and from, and it's worth it for me as I don't have to pay for tuk tuk's or taxi's. They are their own worst enemies the lot of them IMO. The above said, I have to be fair, caught a cab outside my hotel one night to Bangla Road and the guy didn't have the change for the agreed 200 baht, he said tomorrow same time you see me, ok I said, and I went to him outside the hotel at the same time and paid him his 200 baht, he didn't know me from a bar of soap, or my room number.

Not to mention taking the lives of many early.

The problem here is these accidents keep happening, it's like putting salt in a deep open wound that will never heal unless they stitch the deep open wound up. This and all previous governments, law enforcement agencies (if you can call them that), you know the ones you only see during school hours policing the traffic so kids can get from one side of the road to the other, and that policing at best is questionable, along with parents should take responsibility for the ongoing causation of these deaths and stop underaged, unlicensed kids riding, especially when not wearing helmets. While where at it, it would also help to have some kind of public transport system in place so kids don't need to get on these death traps to get from A to B. Sick to the core when I read news of such young unnecessary losses in life. They say from September 1 fines will go up, does that mean deaths will be reduced, I doubt it, because without enforcement, you have Jack $hit. RIP

Interesting video, thanks for sharing. My take is that not everyone is the same, sure at 45 he looks lean, and I would put that down to his carb and protein intake, very little fats, unless I missed something. He has a good level of carbs 150-200 and his protein is probably equal to that judging on the meat and organs he eats. The above said, as he mentioned he surfs, so he will be burning up carbs, and when depleted, his body will take from his muscle so he will need to work out so that you don't see the muscle loss, hence the reason he is lean. If it works for him, good for him, personally, I stay in the range of 150 carbs, 150 protein protein and 40 fats, that said, I do also tweak things once a month to up to 198 carbs, 150 protein and 20 fats. It all depends on what you want to do, maintain your weight, build muscle or become lean, that said, without resistance training and some cardio, eating above those macros your going to put on weight, if you maintain those macros you will maintain your weight but will lose muscle, age also has a lot to do with it as do genetics. I still eat what I want, you know the "bad carbs" the processed ones, but everything in moderation as it's made at home, my wife controls what goes into it, as for eating take away, not into that because we don't know what it's made of, cooked with etc. I would take a guess his body fat is around 10% kudos to him, I'm 20% at 183cm tall so I do look skinny-ish so to speak, albeit it age (60's) does show your fat in certain areas, e.g. love handles, slight belly, chest, it all depends if you want to push yourself hard to have a certain look, for me, I prefer the natural/healthy look without the aches and pains, lets not kid ones self, not getting any younger and maintaining ones health is more important to me than looking lean and suffering, i.e. reducing my intake on food anymore than I have to 1,760 calories per day, especially when you I won't sacrifice more to look like that, for what, health is optimal and less damage to ones comfortable lifestyle in retirement age, besides I enjoy my foods, which is not much at those macro's.

That's interesting, only thing I can think of is that perhaps the devices are getting old and running out of space, i.e. if your downloading a lot, that said, not technical on these matters but I had a similar issue a while ago, and had to do what you had to do i.e. clear cache, browsing history and history as annoying as it was. Sorry I can't assist, but if your devices are getting on, might be time to change them with bigger memories, I just did reluctantly after 7 years, but appreciate the quicker downloads and the rest, sometimes I'm my own worst nightmare. Hopefully someone comes along and provides a better answer for you which will sort it. Also you could try these out if you haven't already in the link below. https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/how-to/6-ways-to-troubleshoot-when-youtube-is-not-working/articleshow/87321434.cms Good luck.

Is this on an existing device or a new one ?

Well, get out there then man, no point in lecturing all of us "who are living in fear", as you have stated. I'll be keeping an eye out in the media for you.

Have to feel for his wife, another Ting Tong farang, she really should force him to take his meds if he skips taking them again in the future.

Only way to stop corruption in the RTP is to start afresh, i.e. bring in the army and start employing new recruits, that just might work, unless they start to become corrupted by those up higher.

With young girls in the family, I would think it only natural for a father to take the necessary steps to not to expose his daughters to the wiggly wiggly monster on him in the bathroom, children do wander you know, and that is exactly what had happened about 23 years ago when one of my daughters from a previous marriage was 2 years of age, she entered my bedroom looking for me, and of course I was in the bathroom shampooing my hair, door open, when all of a sudden she let out a loud screeching scream, unbeknownst to me that she was there as I had my eyes closed while shampooing my hair. Poor thing was traumatised, ran straight to her mummy and said daddy has a wiggly wiggly monster stuck on him in the bathroom. I entered the living room moments later still wet with towel on wandering what happened, and when her mum explained, we couldn't stop laughing, and I told mum that it was time to explain to her the difference between the female and male parts which she did, although she was only 2, whether she got it or not, I don't know, but that won't happen again, besides my daughter are over 5 and under 14. Nothing to do with trust, more so cautiousness.

I have never been a fan of credit cards as I have always believed that using ones own money is the way to go, e.g. debit cards, regardless of reward points and the annual costs/charges for the privilege of having a credit card, if any, that said, I believe them to be a trap and they have trapped millions of people into using them and not being able to pay back anymore than the required monthly amount, anyways, that's another story. I always advise the bank that I am heading overseas, this ensures that they won't block my card if someone feels something is unusual as paranoid as the banks are theses days, and I let them know when I am heading back. The above said, I applied to open another account in my home country online a few weeks back and was approved a few days later, and I transferred money into the new account, as soon as I deposited the money, they then they blocked me, 20 minutes later on the phone an Indian/Pakistani answers, or whatever, not wanting to be labelled a racist, but I couldn't understand him and gave him all the security checks and answers to his questions that he wanted and he then said he would put me through the right department, another 40 minutes later, at my cost of course, I said to this guy who I could understand perfectly as his English was good and clear. I said what is going on, I transferred funds from one of my accounts to my new account with your bank and you blocked my account, I see sir, did anyone ring you or ask you for your personal details, no, hmmm, ok sir, please log in again, however press the forgot my password button and set up a new password and you will have access to your account again. But why was my account blocked, yes sir, have a good day, so no answer, phone hung up, so best to let them know your heading overseas and for how long unless you want added stress in your life. I haven't even left the country yet, due in a couple of months and prepared the online account to get another debit card when I get there.

I respect your right to have a free opinion, however will disagree with you regarding tattoos being a fade.

Make you sure you have clean underwear on when going out, because you just don't know when you might get hit by a bus, cough, cough, oh then there's Covid, and....and.....and Go outside, look at the clear blue sky, the greenery around you, suck in the fresh air and enjoy life because eventually you will be moving on and no point in worrying because we all have an expiry date man. Life's for living, not worrying, then we die, Amen.

Yeh no, just over 200,000 clicks, i.e. kilometres, 30 thousand clicks a year.

In my opinion, a car is to enjoy as it depreciates in value, that said, I paid 800k for it in 2015, so would think it's halved in value, as for doing little kilometres, I'm assuming you have done more than 200k's in 7 years in Thailand ?