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31 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

“Won’t be fooled again”—The Who

Will be fooled again—The WHO.

Good one!

8 minutes ago, earlinclaifornia said:

 

What part of the trial where they OMIT the President words hours after, have you missed?

The video you posted is 8 hours long.  I am, and I would guess a few others are, confused. ????

1 hour ago, CrunchWrapSupreme said:

As a kid in the 80’s, San Francisco was my dream. A truly magical place. Everything was vibrant, exciting, full of life. There were people at all income levels, mom and pop shops, street vendors, it seemed like anyone could make it there. I ended up taking my first date in high school to SF Japantown, one of the happiest days of my life. I thought surely, we’re going to live here soon, get one of these cozy apartments, be like one of these happy, exciting people.

 

Then the dot-coms came, the rents skyrocketed, and coupled with an ineffectual government more and more people were left by the wayside. Only the highest incomes could survive. I had friends at $100k who were scraping, as over half their income went to the rent. As a result, more homeless, more drugs, and soon the streets became a literal toilet, filled with trash, needles, and human waste.

 

Whether you’re right or left, I’m sure everyone can agree that among these issues, mandating things like paper straws and gender neutral bathrooms should be a bit lower on the list of priorities. Yet there they are. Meanwhile, cops have stopped answering “non-essential” calls like for shoplifting, and thus people had been entering Walgreens drug stores to simply fill their backpacks. Now many of these stores have been shut.

 

A few months ago I remember hearing of the mentally ill homeless randomly harassing and attacking random passersby, with little effect, so it’s sadly not surprising such incidents are now escalating into murders. Who knows what it will take for them to do something. I couldn’t wait any longer, and have long since escaped California. Oh San Francisco, my long lost dream.

Thanks.  Similar to my story.

I agree with the above comments and would suggest the OP read Body By Science by Doug McGuff.  He's got some good (free) videos out there, too.

In my own case I started exercising after a 25 year layoff.  I, too, did not trust Thai or farang trainers and did what was suggested in BBS, and did not get a gym membership, just paid the daily rate at several local gyms until I found one I liked, then still paid the daily rate.  BBS recommends machines for several reasons, one of which is they are safer than free weights, especially for the beginner.

Now I do bodyweight exercises at home using a chinning bar and a home made suspension trainer as described by Drew Baye. I also do dips using two dressers spaced an appropriate distance apart.  Finally I use timed static contraction for my neck as described by Drew Baye.  All this can be found by using google.  I would suggest not laying out of lot of money because you may change your approach.  Ignore the gym membership specials.  IMO the whole gym, exercise thing can be a racket that seperates you from your cash quickly.

Above all, get clearance from your primary care physician and cardiologist if you have been sedentary for a long time.

I'll end with a quote from Arthur Jones, inventor of Nautilus.  He wrote this *after* he sold Nautilus for millions. 

"Apart from a rather limited number of hardcore bodybuilders who are misguided enough to believe that they have a
chance to compete against the outright genetic freaks that now dominate bodybuilding competition, just about anybody
else in this country can produce nearly all of the potential benefits of proper exercise without spending much if anything
in excess of about twenty dollars. You can build both a chinning bar and a pair of parallel dip bars for a total cost of
only a few dollars, and those two exercises, chins and dips, if properly performed, will stimulate muscular growth in
your upper body and arms that will eventually lead to muscular size and strength that is very close to your potential.
Adding full squats, eventually leading up to one-legged full squats, and one-legged calf raises, will do much the same thing for your legs and hips. Using this very simple routine, when you get strong enough to perform about ten repetitions
of one-armed chins with each arm, your arms will leave very little to be desired.
Or, instead, you can do what many thousands of others are now doing and <deleted> away thousands of dollars and years of
largely wasted effort while producing far less results. The choice is yours.
One of the best pair of arms that I ever saw on a man belonged to a guy that I knew about fifty years ago in New York,
and he never performed any sort of exercise apart from chins and dips, and damned few of them."

HTH.  Good luck.

They learn just enough to pass the written and driving tests, then that gets them the license.  After that they practice, sometimes having a decal in the rear window indicating they are a new driver.  The license is basically a learners permit at this stage.  This also explains why many licensed Thais appear to be unable to drive a car; they can't.

One person here on TVF years ago said he sent his wife to a commercial driving school where she *really* learned how to drive.  Could drive large trucks with the best of them. If I were again teaching a Thai woman to drive (did it once), I'd look into doing it that way.

2 minutes ago, Mahseer said:

Airasia.com.

 

https://www.airasia.com/select/en/gb/CNX/HHQ/2021-02-14/2021-02-27/1/0/0/R/N/THB/ST?key=e87863d1-6165-11eb-943f-25507d8a7a691611837588.47

Was looking for some kind of news blurb.  Thanks.

3 hours ago, Mahseer said:

For anyone interested the Hua Hin flight is now scheduled once more. Two flights a week on Friday and Sunday with first flight on 19/02. Flight south departs 0940 with return same day departing 1510.

 

May be wise to hang on for a week or two just in case plans change.

Source?  Can't find it on the Air Asia site.

Just one more reason to not go back any time soon, if at all.

Let's see how 46 handles this.  That's why he makes the big bucks.