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51 minutes ago, BookmanBkk said:

Difficult to know what to make of pre season games ...

 

Are they an indicator of anything? 

Nope, they mean very little just an opportunity to have a look at your drafts and recruits and look at possible team structures.  Remember when Carlton won the night series and the spoon all in one year.  I reckon it's the 1st 5 games of the season that tell who is going to be competitive 

14 hours ago, AlexRRR said:

Hope Simon is shaking in his boots.....he couldnt be that bad again no?

Alan Richardson is there to help him.

And at the same time they are offering free visas to Chinese hoping the will flock in their thousands to Thailand.  Umm Thais get the he'll out of China as they are infected but please bring as many Chinese with you as you can.

16 hours ago, AlexRRR said:

Well chaps its about 5 weeks to go......for the footy to begin....and not a soul has stirred mentioning the tipping that Books is eager to participate in....we should charge him an entrance fee....

 

Well holy souls..I hear chanting from my open 5th floor condo sliding door....ommmmmm.........WILL has been polishing up the 65inch telly.....Fj getting the chores done, cause hes been super quite here......wonder if his mrs has encouraged him to replace that front window that looks like a pigeon hole?  and I will re subscribe to kayo on return.....which is next week.....

 

Was out on the town last night...Valenties evening normally I go under ground on the 14th due to not having an interest in my life and there for I feel to cheap to pay for a meal to a woman who just wants to spend valentines evening with a guy...and believe me....in the past ive had women more than keen to meet up on the 14th...at least here in BKK...had one taxi across town at her cost just to have dinner with a man (me, but wouldnt have mattered who just as long as it was a man) on the evening of the 14th......a university lecturer she was.....and probably the dumbest wench ive ever met...accident prone too.....knew her for about 6 months before we met on the 14th, fell down her stairs once and broke her foot, crashed her car....a trail of debris followed her, I of course couldnt believe she actually taught uni kids...anyway she stayed long enough to eat then ran....you know Thais, will travel all day to spend the evening somewhere then travel all day the next day to go home....anyway she met some guy had it plastered all over her timeline in line then 3 months later seen her back in Thai friendly....

 

I ended up about $130 lighter once dinner drinks and dropping off my friend by taxi at evenings end....known her long a long time to ascertain shes was worth blowing some doe on, Windcheater girl had been angling to coming over last night after work and staying at the time I hadn't realised it was Valentines evening anyway I got out of it and even managed to get her to agree to pay for dinner at wine connection tonight.....she can afford it.....last nights friend pulled out her new iPhone 11pro when grandma called her to check up on her....Windcherater girl has the latest high end Galaxy and me just last years humble XR....im being left behind....ho and there both wearing them fitness wearables too.....at least mine looks like an Apple Watch.....

 

Well went to Oscars nice bar cum restaurant, little bit pricey especially for drinks...3 wines and a beer over 800....Corona of course...and just $2 dearer than the local brew it was a no brainer...but not cold...wish someone would teach them where the settings are on the f******ing fridge, big problem here that setting....you know they buy the fridge get it installed and forget....the establishment had 1 free ladies drink which my friend didnt like but the hordes of freelancers apparently loved....well I assume they were, well at least half of them....never seen so many women come alone to anywhere in Thailand like this place where no drink is below 180 a pop unless they were getting paid or something for free or both....3 scretchers were sitting besides me especially the one closest to me....mid 30s in after 5 gear looking good but sounding like a train with its brakes jammed on....gave a few looks over my shoulder that didnt work eventually turned with my steak knife in hand with eye brows wrinkled and mouth turned up looking a bit like the devious Jack Nicolson...that did the trick....

 

These girls of course had a desperado farang feeding there ego...took a good look at him and thought he could do better or was extremely rich...or both..... by 10 the place had turned into a club...I been there before but never seen this so at this point..well 30 min later popped over the road and above the Aussie pub to a new club called bafro...know one of the partners from my salsa trawling of BKK days who invited me to come check it out...totaly different vibe and music to boot...paying for drinks with my credit card becasue its a night club and couldnt fit that amount cash in my wallet stayed 45 min then headed home....

 

I was reminded this morning I fell asleep in the taxi.....well my excuse is I dont do this sort of thing anymore, grandma was not waiting at the gate so I did proceed home with no stress attached....my friend said she also had given up the hard clubbing life style 7 ys before and now was into beach hills and green pastures, we had meant to go away together this trip but couldnt seem to merge the time at the same time, also destination was an issue...she wanted beach I wanted high country, she even went as far as send me a pic of her in a swim suite to get the point across....anway she changed her tune by yesterday....high country is now on her list of must do soon....so its going to have to be next time....

 

The monks have fired up again.....Checked out Pattaya earlier in the week....3 nights....ummm....not my thing thats for sure, though do like the hum I get from high density living, interesting concept with a supermarket of disinterested hookers lining up the walk of shame alone the beach road....like the taxi drivers in BKK they have got in most cases zero customer service knowledge....around 50% are on there phones, 30% are in groups and not engaging as you walk by 10% are just oblivious to you full stop then most of the remaining 10% throw a dumb smile with a few " can go with you?" or words to that affect...quality was a little higher than expected but not by much, this was a pure reconnaissance mission to see if I could fit in with all the dead beats and desperates, so what did I learn?

 

Stay further way from Walking St, stay 5 nights instead of 2 weeks...learn to sleep during the day as unlikely to get better by going out before 11 pm...my sleep pattern has been thrown out, walk slower as I did miss a couple of good ones as my policy is never to look or go back...or get a wife....

Don't worry Alex you know I always set it up.  And who's in for fantasy

Didn't they just tell a cruise ship to <deleted> of

Only took 4 yrs for my Thai wife to get Aussie citizenship.  She had permanent residency even before she left Thailand and that only took 6 weeks to get.

On 2/11/2020 at 12:09 PM, BookmanBkk said:

I guess we could follow major sports around the world. @AlexRRR is always fond of quoting his love-child , The Round Ball Game, netball, whose league is called Suncorp Super Netball, so we better call that Suncorp Women's Super Netball !!
As for Soccer, the EPL should be renamed the EPLM, the NBA renamed NBAM etcetera. I mean it's a no-brainer!!

 

Calling it the AFLW is enough to distinguish it

 

Classic case of confirmation bias.  She 'notices...:

 

AFL club memberships have been growing for years, every club as far as I know. The Clubs without a women's team have also been growing in membership. 

Should we claim that membership growth of those clubs without a women's team is increasing because people support not having a women's team?

AFLW is totally free to get in so why would you buy a membership?  you would only buy one if you wanted to attend the mens qgame

So if they have the AFLM for equality will the AFLM be free admission just like the AFLW.

Meanwhile Prime Ministers of democratically elected governments make requests they don't give orders.  Still the soldier

They increased the arrival and departure tax a couple of years ago to provide medical costs if a tourist was injured and tourists already get hit with dual pricing.  Tourism must be bad if they are going to hit the remaining ones even harder.

1 hour ago, AlexRRR said:

Little if any interest shown by members here that the AFL women's league got underway this weekend......only reason I was aware was opening FB and seeing Daisey with twins after a game where Dee's cruise to a stunning 2 point victory overt Fj's beloved Roos.....

 

If in need of some entertainment today I can recommend "Uncut Gem" staring Adam Sandler out on Netflix you should be able to get it on a download somewhere, Adam and I haven't been getting a long for along time, loved his earlier works and I guess only ever seen him as a comedian, this movie is 2hrs and 20 min long and id say a dark comedy well black.....I thought I would be turning it off but nope....ended up loving it so if you like a black comedy about the life of a guy living on the edge this could be for you...

 

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12307085 Some drama in Korat over night....and ive been there to T21, at first I thought it BKK....T21 in BKK is packed all the time, 20 dead....do they have the death sentence in Thailand?

 

On a lighter note...  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12307046 Pam at 54 and hubby at 74 end there 12 day marriage.....and everyone thought Pam was into Julian holed up in a British jail.....seems the 74 year old Jon still struggles to commit to a relationship....or could he not control her? We WILL never know until she writes that book....

 

Jen @ 50 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12305866 superbowel entertainment.....it was a latin affair....and why not? in Miami known for being the biggest Cuban city outside of Cuba, that outfit tames her latin hips....she obviously does little cardio in the gym other wise them hips would shrink....still a babe and I wouldnt crawl over her to get at Books....or WILL, in fact no one I know....I did watch the game of course and it was a good one too going down to the last quarter, at half time the cameras did swirl around the AListers recognising a number of hangers on wannabes made its there was Rupert and Gerry Hall, he in a baseball cap has adopted well to his new country, even from a far the camera caught every wrinkle on the old dude, hunched over looked a total miss match with the Ex mrs Jagger.....she obviously is in to wrinkles......so there is hope for us old dudes.....and she even pushing into her late 50s is still a babe...

 

https://www.the42.ie/katy-herron-feature-4997100-Feb2020/ even in the women's AFL there recruiting them from Ireland....Katy is a Bulldog mum at 22 and with a nice smile.....

 

https://www.thejournal.ie/leap-year-quiz-4996725-Feb2020/ Its a leap year.....for us that are single we need to find a place to hide, I was always under the impression if a woman asked to marry you on a leap year you could not refuse..it helps that Bookman and I are Pigs....were safe I think.....but the Thai women wouldnt know that....I WILL be out of the country soon and no Aussie woman I know wants me that I know....There is a survey or test of your knowledge over this quandary in that article, its sunday you have nothing to do today so do it.....

No interest in it.  Dees kick 3 goals for the game and still win

5 hours ago, PremiumLane said:

it is 'their' agenda... and what exactly is 'their' agenda then? I would point out that most homophobes hold latent homosexual feelings, but you would probably get offended ???? 

So a homosexual thinks he knows the feelings of heterosexuals.  Well I've got very bad news for you and that is, you are 100% incorrect.  

Feel sorry for his wife, what a wasted 27 years.  She could've had someone who truly loved her and not just used her as a shield for his lifestyle.  I think it was very selfish and I hope she finds true love.