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18 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Sorry, I can't resist it:

So Rooster played a prostitute. Was it a pantomime or a farce?

My performance was farcical...

It was the first time I have played competitively since January and though I have kept up solo practice at home of about six games a day (average for me) I felt very rusty. A word like COTQUEAN is bread and butter to me though as it is called a BENJAMIN - a word that can be extended by three letters on the front. QUEAN quite often starts games and also means a pro....

Rooster

10 hours ago, newbruisers23 said:

An improvement from last's weeks. Did you have a couple beers at the pub to relax your writing a bit? Or haven't they opened yet?

I'm not a drinker. My only vice is Scrabble, that relaxes what is left of my brain.

Thanks for reading and glad this week was more to your liking.

Rooster

41 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

That sounds a great adventure.

In the mid 1980s a girlfriend and I had an idea to do UK>Singapore by train, but via the good ol' USSR.

That would have taken six weeks and cost 6,000 UKP each even then.

Needless to say it stayed a dream.

Yikes, looks like I need go fund me.....

Any offers? I wont guarantee that you will get rid of me but I promise to write about it!!

Rooster

6 hours ago, mr mr said:

buddy again with the new normal garbage. just stop it. it is getting kind of weird now. 

It's a brilliant term. If it wasn't for 'social distancing' it would be phrase of 2020

Rooster

18 minutes ago, roger101 said:

Rooster. Can you tell us how you're going to the UK by train?

If I plan it right it is going to take 16 days and cost a fortune. But I figure the adventure will be worth it. I shall only go back if my daughter gets married or my son ever graduates!

Rooster

36 minutes ago, PaDavid said:

Thanks Rooster for my weekly dose of Thai news. A few points.
 

Firstly, wouldn’t p(b)la ra be called p(b)a ra in Isaan? No l in fish up here!
 

Beware any furry looking caterpillar. Mostly they’ll give you a nasty stinging rash. 
 

I expect March’s road deaths to be way down due to Covid keeping so many people off the roads. Could Thailand set another first by becoming the only country in the world whose overall death rate actually falls during the epidemic?

March was in the figures I quoted. Perhaps A-M-June will be more stunning!

Rooster

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

Why would immigration arrest the blackmailing bint from Bangkok? Surely, that would be a job for the regular plod. 

I think they were doing a bit of a Big Joke

Rooster

4 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:

How did you manage to remember his phone number after all this time ?

I remember his sister's too...08 8888 8888.

Rooster

4 hours ago, mr mr said:

stop pushing the *new normal* garbage. it is getting quite stupid now. stop putting it in the headlines.

Sorry, but putting it in the headline is the new normal.

Rooster

4 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

I have a friend who worked there, in admin. Her grandfather or great grandfather was the King of Laos! 

 

Did you ever meet Bowie? He was my idol.

 

My paths never crossed with David Bowie. 

One of the original owners of the Harrow International franchise is a woman who is the great great granddaughter of Rama IV. She was instrumental in helping me get Thai residence. 

We had many famous alumni there and at Patana. I actually taught Tata Young and many other celebs. Yingluck's son was in my Thai Studies class at Harrow. 

Once I asked the kids to give me their phone numbers in case of emergency. One said it was 07 7777 7777.

Son of DTAC owners!

Rooster

8 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

The first time I came to Thailand was in 1990 for six weeks as part of my world backpacking tour. It became a stay here for almost a year, the rest of the world tour went out of the window.

 

I remember Patpong too, the GoGo bars seemed more relaxed then. Not so much hassle, but also more risqué.

My involvement at that time was writing letters for bar girls to their boyfriends, pledging their undying love and requesting money. That was well before the internet or mobile phones here. My payment - one beer per letter.

 

I rarely wrote such letters though I did teach English briefly in a bar in Nana Plaza and for a considerable time to staff at the Nana Hotel. 

Rooster

3 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Actually, it was Aberdeen grammar School, and I was in the Byron house.

 

Harrow is a relative new school, 450 years.

 

I believe Scotland has the best schools and unis. in the world, the Queen of England sent her sons there and the future king, Wiiliam, went to uni there;)

Right you are!

I never imagined there was such a thing as education north of Watford. ????

Rooster

I'd like to say Royal Enfield or even Triumph if I had the money....

Incidentally I would like to sell a very well maintained and low mileage white Honda CRF 250 dirt bike (2012) if anyone is interested. PM me. 

Rooster

22 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Actually, as my school is 750 years old, there are probably a few other famous alumni.

Aha...Harrow.

I taught at Harrow International School in Bangkok and we named one of our houses after Byron. Others were Nehru and Churchill for similar reasons. 13 children of Rama V went there too and I have a great painting of them in my condo. I made a trip to the Hill in 2008 and had a memorable day there including booze for lunch! We had many exchange students in Bangkok from Harrow in London including a right nitwit called Cadbury who said daddy was in chocolate. 

David Bowie grew up near me and Marc Bolan of T Rex fame was expelled from my school. In my first job in journalism I sat next to Stephen Dillane who I saw in The Crown recently in a memorable scene with John Lithgow. 

Rooster

I grew up in Thailand going to Patpong. 

I find it very interesting that in translating thousands of stories about Thailand for Thaivisa over the last four and a half years I don't think I have once written one about Patpong, either trouble there or otherwise. We have few stories from Nana Plaza and Soi Cowboy too.

The Thai media seems to be obsessed with Pattaya though.

Rooster

I used to spend a lot of time in meetings with a Gik. 

Khun Khru Gik at my school to be precise.

I was guest of honor at her wedding.

Rooster.

44 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

How many Christians wear a St Christopher chain for the self same reason?

 

How many send prayers of thanks to saints for 'miracle' cures?

 

How many thousands make the pilgrimage to Lourdes every year seeking cures?

 

Are they all in the 14th century too?

Yep.

Rooster

5 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Never let a woman in a 'casual sex' encounter know your name and address.

Hi, I'm John from the UK (Bruce from Australia, Joe from the USA, or Hans from Germany).

It is simple to find out the real name even address of anyone these days esp if they go online. Anyone with malice aforethought can have such information in minutes. 

Rooster

On 5/25/2020 at 1:11 AM, HannahD said:

Perhaps then Mr. Rooster you can shed some light on the subject. I was reading on-line a highly vituperative discussion on the relative intelligence of races. One participant introduced into evidence, or perhaps counter-evidence, the "fact" that nearly all high level scrabble tournaments in Europe both Anglophone and Francophone are now totally dominated by West Africans. Is this true?

Nigerians in particular are brilliant at Scrabble but I wouldn't want to assign intelligence to the game. 

I am, after all, rather good at it.....

Rooster