rumak

35 minutes ago, lordgrinz said:

it may have been Covid, who knows, who cares....LOL 

oh...... the man of height will be along before you can say " willyoupleasestopthepasteand postmost ofusknow betterbynow"

19 minutes ago, Enoon said:

 "Fluvid"?

 

Three syllables good, two syllables better.

 

 

 

Flu me once .  shame on you .   Flu me twice .....  nope 🙂

9 hours ago, soi3eddie said:

My sister works as nurse in an NHS hospital in the UK. The Health Authority instructions to her if she feels unwell are NOT to to test for Covid but to stay at home until recovered and well. No need for scare tactics. Treat as if a cold/flu. Protect yourselves and others sensibly.

 

very sensible advice .   

On 8/25/2023 at 1:03 PM, hakancnx said:

I fully agree with above. 

Check with Mdr Chanakarn. He's very professional. 
 

He did my spine surgery 2 months ago at Rajavej. Perfect. 

 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ReKJsxMMjL7ryMrEA?g_st=ic

would you mind telling me what type of procedure you had ?    and for what problem ?

i know that each persons situation is different..... but helps to know about other "experiences" (IMO) .

I know Dr Chanagan and that he is very good. 

24 minutes ago, Mahseer said:

360,000baht in 2019. I got a second opinion which was for a cortisone shot at 700baht from Sriphat and today knee working just fine.

Could you tell me the name of the Doctor you saw at Sriphat ?    an orthopedist  ?

26 minutes ago, FruitPudding said:

I feel like you've just arrived from another country, or perhaps another planet.

 

On behalf on Earth, I welcome you, and let me introduce you to the concept of being a 'sugar daddy' to a Thai lady-of-ill-repute: they're doing it for the money, buddy!

 

Nothing else matters.

 

You think Tom Cruise or David Hasslehoff is going to pop up any minute to give her a better offer?

 

 

another thailand expert .     rumak welcomes you to the stupidest of forums ,  you will fit right in .

16 minutes ago, Bobthegimp said:

What a load of horse-s**t.  The elderly who run those institutions are the ones who have destroyed public trust in them. They're like a cancer that takes hold and over time builds up their power base and consumes the whole institution. The covid debacle is a shining example. Lie after lie, coercion and "othering" comparable to the Nazi era that you mentioned.  The uptake of the booster shots is 17 percent, guess who those fools are. Yep, the elderly, who believe what people like you and the ones on TV tell them. Sitting in front of the TV, shoving pills down their gobs and defecating on the choices young people make in their lives. 

 

As for the leftist rant.....whatever.  A deep recession is coming and those pinko issues get swept aside overnight when people face real problems instead of micro aggressions. That crowd will vaporize the minute the government tit is ripped away from their suckling mouths. 

 

As for the OP, I fully agree. There are so many terrified, angry old men on this forum that it boggles the mind.  They spew hate for everyone who doesn't think and behave exactly like them, and constantly cry out for those people to be deported and barred from entering the country.  One would think that old people would be more at peace and able to see other people's points of view, but that's not how it works with many of the old expats on this board.

 

 

l might as well give you a like..... before your post is deleted   5555555

really, gecko must have gotten too many boosters.   I remember when he had a sense of humor  ( quite a while ago )

17 hours ago, whistersniff said:

I don't want it to be transactional in the sense that I'm paying a prostitute for one hour of sex and leaving. Otherwise, I'd just pay a prostitute for one hour of sex and leave.  

So,  you're  40's or 50's ?     Good looking or  50 kg overweight ?     Good personality ?   

Fun to be with ?     Answer those questions honestly and then i can give an educated guess what is available.

Celcius ...... i may have missed it :    did you say where you are going ?  

and, btw ... where are you from ?

just curious.   I left the US more than 30 years ago .   I can't imagine anywhere that is  "better"  than it was . 

The goods and bads regarding Thailand have been gone over a hundred times on this forum by the scholarly participants . 

I'm still doing ok here.    but , things have changed , no doubt about it .  The ladies don't even bother calling me hansum man anymore ! 

3 hours ago, Gecko123 said:

Growing disrespect for older people is symptomatic of fascist attempts to undermine respect and trust in all societal institutions. Fascists attempt to undermine confidence in institutions and break down the social fabric (by demonizing the "other") with the goal of presenting themselves as the only solution to the very problem that they have largely created.

 

This is why you see these constant attacks on the FBI, the courts, the congress, election integrity, medical expertise (Covid), scientific community (climate change), anti-wokeism, meddling in school curriculums, and it's the main driver behind anti-immigrant, anti-minority, anti-reproductive rights, anti-LBGQT rights sentiments. Ageism as a form of societal purification is a natural progression of this ideology, which if you study what happened in Germany in the 1930's, is exactly what happened there. You really need to raise your consciousness in this regard.

another sociology post .... .........   you really need to  .......ummmm .... something

I always prepare ahead .....

9 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Did my 12 month extension last week and worn good jeans shoes and shirt.

Just a respect thing imo.

I also wear long pants and a a shirt ( even a clean t shirt ok , i think ) .   Been doing that for a long time.        I did have my "hippie years" ............... and in my mind still am   haha

but...... i have adapted a bit with dress AND  attitude to the LONP   (land of nice people) 

outside the ghettos, that is

1 hour ago, DrJack54 said:

"Thai style preferred"? 

Very narrow mind set if that's the case.

My guess is a particular squeeze. 

the "simple"  answer as to why "thai style preferred"  is that for the average Joe looking for ease of living and ease of  you know what ........ thailand still ranks number one ( sorry, i have no google stats to show, just my opinion based on many years being here.  

edit : what does "particular squeeze"  mean ?

11 hours ago, Bill97 said:

Next door to the Best pizza shop.

wrong again bill.    they moved    

8 hours ago, brommers said:

Our outside water filtration and softener systems were installed by Water Shop who continue to service them when requested. They have one senior person who speaks English but the rest only speak Thai. We have found them to be very competent and speedy in their work. Their shop is located in the rear car park, next to the other small shops at Big C Extra/Homepro on the Superhighway frontage road. Getting them to come to our house in Sanpiisua is no problem so Doi Saket should be similar.

I am very familiar with the big C you mention ...... been a long time since i have been in the back , and don't remember any shops there .    I will go take a look ,  but if you have a name or just a phone number for them it could help .    

note: i speak thai ,  and usually am the one discussing the jobs . 

Your system is for the water used in your house ( sinks, shower ) ..... am i correct ?

thanks a lot !

Near Doi Saket would be great .    I do know of a shop in the Mae Hia area..... very far from here 

18 hours ago, NextG said:

Most of them were likely continually beaten by their short time companions at Connect 4…

but...... You and I are different !!    

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

A lack of discrimination? 

Indecisive?

Too much information? 

An inability to narrow things down? 

 

nah...... i was just joking,  and with that seeing how you would respond. 

A laugh would have got you an A plus .  But i understand that many here would

take offense ( i am happy to see you didn't respond.... " you blank blank "  555

none of the above...(that you listed) .        rumak

11 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Too many to quote. Some of my favorites:

 

You can’t hate an animal because it doesn’t know any better. You kick it so it learns, and if it still doesn’t learn you put it down. But you don’t hate it. I’m not going to let what animals do anger me because anger is caused by stress and stress is contagious. And it’s deadly. Negative energy spreads faster than any virus. You wake up late and you knock someone down, as you overtake them on the pavement. You didn’t mean to but they have a temper and you piss them off and they take it out on the girl at the coffee shop who got up late too and is dead tired and she gets pissed and deliberately burns the coffee of the woman with the baby who was too distracted to say thank you. And that woman with the kid needs that coffee because her newborn is ill and kept her up half the night. But the coffee sucks and she’s so tired and stressed and not coping with postpartum depression that her crap cup of coffee is the final straw as she waits for the red light at the crossing. Next, they’re scraping up her and that newborn from the asphalt and the guy who drove the bus is never going to be the same again.

Tom Wood, author

 

There is a limitation to human understanding. Our ability to comprehend is finite because our brains are physical organs. We do not expect our skin to be fire resistant or our lungs to breathe seawater, so why do we expect our brains to possess all knowledge, to unravel all mysteries? Whatever our faults, arrogance is perhaps our greatest.

It is not how you play the game. It's whether or not your opponent ends up dismembered in the woods.

Once core principals are surrender, it becomes nothing but power, spectacle and image.

Practiced wisdom is not opportunistic judgment. If you make wise judgments, relative to constraints, principles can be compromised but still retained.

 

“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. ‘Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?’ they asked me the other day.
I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, ‘Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.’ And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, ‘Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.’So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
Tom Waits

Since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness its limbs and outward flourishes, i will be brief

Democracies end when autocrats master the use of the freedoms of democracy to kill democracy.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

 

If there is a hell, if there is an afterlife, I think it is an encyclopedia. You can just look up see what everyone in your life thought about you. And if there is a heaven it is a Wikipedia, and you can change anything it says. 

Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. 
If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away. 

 

BJS, a movie great of another time. once a brilliant star in a firmament no longer part of the sky. ecilpsed by the movement of the earth and time. now her world is a projection booth, who's dreams are made of celluloid. She is struck down by hit and run years - and lying on the pavement trying desperately to get the license number of fleeting fame.

From an episode of Twilight Zone.

 

One of my absolute favorites:

Older people are perceived as cynics and misanthropes. But, they are simply people who have at last heard the still, sad music of humanity, played by a mediocre rock band howling for fame. 

 

American women may be fun and all Victorias secrets when you first meet them. But as soon as they get their claws into you they stop f****ng, and start eating. And the only ass you are going to get, is a fat one. American women invariably become spouters of self help platitudes, and become addicted to dieting and frozen yogurt. Overall thoroughly nasty, selfish and vain creatures, that don't f***. 

 

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

 

Kirk Lazarus: Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, 'Rain Man,' look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Counted toothpicks, cheated cards. Autistic, sho'. Not retarded. You know Tom Hanks, 'Forrest Gump.' Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping-pong competition. That ain't retarded. Peter Sellers, "Being There." Infantile, yes. Retarded, no. You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask Sean Penn, 2001, "I Am Sam." Remember? Went full retard, went home empty handed…

From Tropic Thunder. Classic stuff.

 

Think we are going to find anything? Yeah. We are going to find something. Mother nature is a serial killer. No one is better or more creative. Like all serial killers she can't help the urge to want to get caught. What good are all those brilliant plans if no one takes the credit. So she leaves crumbs. Now the hard part, why you spend a decade in school is seeing the crumbs. For the clues they are. Sometimes the thing you thought was the most brutal aspect of the virus turns out to be the chink in its armor. And she loved disguising her weaknesses as strengths.

From the movie World War Z

Angels and Demons can't cross over onto our plane. So, instead we get what I call half-breeds. The influence peddlers. They can only whisper in our ears. But a single word can give you courage, or turn your favorite pleasure into your worst nightmare. Those with the demon's touch like those part angel, living alongside us. They call it the balance. I call it hypocritical BS.

John Constantine

 

What are you most afraid of:
That because the last thing in the world I want to do is tweet or update my Facebook status the soul of youth will vomit me into the cesspool of the old and the worthless.

 

Both of these quotes are from the 1st season of True Detective. Possibly one of the top 3 TV shows in the past 20 years. Both uttered by Rust Cohle, Matthey McConoughey's character. Utterly brilliant writing.

 

I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures what should not exist, by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing. Walk hand and hand into extinction. One last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

Transference of fear and self loathing to an authoritarian vessel is catharsis. He absorbs their dread with his narrative. Because of this, he is effective in proportion on the amount of certainty he can project. Certain linguistic anthropologists think that religion is a language virus, that rewrites pathways in the brain, and dulls critical thinking.

 

 

 

 

One can learn a lot about someone on these forums.

I just learnt one thing about 007 .    Sit down after i ask him a question ........

From my experience,  Sept and early Oct have almost always been the rainiest months ( i live in the North) .     IF ... IF ..... if the country managed the usage and preservation of the rainfall well there probably would be many fewer "shortages"  in the dry season.

IF .............

On 9/25/2023 at 3:14 PM, Dirk Z said:

I am a retired neurosurgeon having done thousands of spinal operations and treatments. Around 40 years of practice have taught me that - unless there is clear-cut pathology, like a herniated disc, a tumor, cyst etc. - a lot of treatments are trial and error with very little evidence to support the effectiveness of one treatment over another. We also know that many conditions have spontaneous remission without specific treatment as my own experience in occasional back pain shows. That means that the last therapist always has the best result because the patient is getting better by himself. We having the saying that "nature takes care of the disease while the doctor/therapist entertains the patient".

As for lumbar epidural: I have seen the best results in acute lumbar pain and varying results in the more chronic forms. But as far as I know there is still no solid evidence for it's effectiveness. It is not easy to set up a study with matching patient groups over a longer period of time.

thanks.....  i have just read this post  ( missed it as did not see a notification) .    Question:  as i also agree that a lot comes down to trial and error .   I have had back pain before... and it did go away, though I am always careful now,  due to advancing age and stiffness.   

Do you suggest stretching ?   And ,  i just got a pull bar which i will hang from ( feet on ground) . It will take a while, i'm sure,  as my shoulders and lats really need to strengthen up .   When i was a kid i could do 20 chin ups,  even one arm chinups.   Now..... I probably could do one or two ( and really screw myself up ! )

1 hour ago, Sheryl said:

@rumak

Is the tingling/numbness in the leg on ssme side as your hip surgery? 

i do not have any tingling .  I occasionally feel a very small degree of numbness in a few toes. usually on the opposite side of the surgery .   Before i started taking 25 mg (smallest dose) of diclofenac in the morning , and one  after dinner ...... and started this post .... my legs were feeling weak , and once or twice my knees hurt .   I have now improved ( it has been about 5 days) ... no more weakness in legs or hips today .    I am walking ,  light stretches (2 very basic ones) ,  and getting some relief .  BUT......... how much is do to the meds ?  ( they definitely help) 

I never was in sharp pain,  but the weakness and tiredness at times in the legs is what had me most concerned.   Also dull ache in lower back .   I plan to keep this up (taking the anti-inflamatories and current protocol )  for at least a few more days before stopping the pills and seeing how much improvement i have made.   

So basically i am following many suggestions here... also hope to start the stretches for the quadratus lomborum ...maybe see how that feels.  My MRI  I see was 6 years ago !  quite a while but Dr Chanagan said it was not bad for someone my age.      Of course i will do another if this persists.

NOTE :  i went last week to the surgeon/hospital where i had the surgery and took xrays of that area and he examined me .  All showed up extremely well.     It was my initial concern..... but really i do not seem to have any worries from that .   ( it was a REAL RELIEF ,  as if there was a problem with the pin moving or something..... it would have meant an operation to remove ! )

2 hours ago, UbonEagle said:

Great post

i have constant thoracic pain from C5-7 bulging disc, not debilitating but requires work to maintain for 10yrs+.

 

Have long considered ESI, at age 53 and still very sportingly active it might help, but I imagine having soon after injury would have provided more benefits.

I think healthy lifestyle, stretching and quality massage are key for me, something that will be a lot easier once retired and not travelling for work in few yrs time 

2 hours ago, UbonEagle said:

Great post

i have constant thoracic pain from C5-7 bulging disc, not debilitating but requires work to maintain for 10yrs+.

 

Have long considered ESI, at age 53 and still very sportingly active it might help, but I imagine having soon after injury would have provided more benefits.

I think healthy lifestyle, stretching and quality massage are key for me, something that will be a lot easier once retired and not travelling for work in few yrs time 

Yep... you are not alone .  Good to hear from the members here who are dealing with back pain (and nerve related) .   My main take-away is the fact that everyone's issue is unique  (and, yes, has to be diagnosed properly  ,    I am pretty sure you have done research as well.   There of course are ways to deal with bulging discs... some less invasive ones but i am not up to date on that.

Hang in there.   Stay active and careful ..