travelingman1959

I could ask, why do Thais in my soi walk around shirtless? They even go into 7-Eleven. So Ok they are local and only 100m or so from their houses. 
But i doubt they leave the soi shirtless so same should apply to tourists . On the beach or 100m away in nearest 7-Eleven OK. But downtown in Tesco supermarket, NO. But then Walmart gets all sorts of weirdos. 
 
Much the same can be said about walking around in BKK wearing a "wife-beater shirt, shorts and rubber thong shoes. It is after all the capital city.

Didn't see shirtless farangs walking around stores or cities in other counties.....
 
What makes it acceptable here ?

That I agree, somehow it doesn't look good.

I ran into this same young lady, she told me pretty much the same thing, " your boobs are bigger than mine"... I took it as a compliment.. right????

Well, you guys complain too much. Go to some of the islands in the south seas, you see lots of people walking around with no shirts on, nothing wrong with that. Just keeping cool. Do I have to wear a shirt to please you? Is that an unspoken law that I am not aware of?
Better still go to Papou nouvelle guinee you see a lot of men wearing gentleman outfitting made from a plant gourd(penis shealth) . I think they look cool. You could judge the size of the manhood so if a guy talks big you could remind him of his manhood size. 
This guy in the picture is doing the right thing, chill out in a air-condition supermarket. Enjoy your shopping!
 

To get the tan...outside, but in supermarket?

Compare the cost of living these days to that of 1987, 30 years ago. According to an online historic inflation calculator £1 in 1987 is the equivalent of £2.69 today. That means UK inflation has increased by 1.69%. If for example Thailand inflation increases at the same rate, then the cost of living in 2047 will be almost 3 times the amount it is today. If it requires 43000 baht per month to survive in Thailand today, in 30 years it will require 129000 baht per month for the same standard of living. That would mean saving 46440000 baht in 30 years, or 1,548,000 baht per year, or £35950 per year for the next 30 years. That means without being in some some sort of pension scheme, saving for old age out of earnings is going to be out of the question.

Well I must say, I didn't realise  that anyone contracted out would end up getting a total of State plus additional pension that added up to less than the £159.55 per week full State pension, my mistake.
 
This of course isn't fair.

I just checked, I'll reach state pension age at 68, in the year 2059.. I could be alive still if I look after myself, eat heathy and world war 3 doesn't start ..

Thats your choice and your opinion. Thanks for sharing 

i hope people hang on in there and one thing i all ways do is enjoy the crack at concrete seating areas.
 
Is that were you get your food from for your nightly meals :)

When reading some blogs the xchange thai to pound seems realy bad at the present..im thinking ov moving from uk to udon area with my thai wife in 3 years .its got me thinking what if the bart falls more .i hope people hang on in there and one thing i allways do is enjoy the crack at concrete seating areas.

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Any ideas which visa would be best as there are to many im thinking ov moving to udon area with thai wife from uk.im 58 so there is a retirment visa or marrage visa .what would be the easyest for me i can easy meet the 800 thb thankyou