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My aura does not attract. It says pi$$ off.

Until they are no longer rich.

I'd say there are a lot more destitute alcoholics than wealthy ones.

It's a simple formula, agreed. I wonder if it works as well when one gets an STD from a hooker, or becomes dependent on alcohol.

Not at all. As a former victim of Australian family law, I totally agree with you. When my son was at university in Australia, he observed a similar ratio of female students selling sex. I occasionally feel envious, he was one of two males in a dormitory of 30 females. Making such an insinuation would be furthest from my thoughts.

Yes I did. IMO only mugs pay for an OS which is under daily attack by hackers, when there are perfectly adequate free operating systems which don't have the same problems.

The purpose of using a spreadsheet for finances is to keep track of them. The extra comment was to illustrate what careful people do. You have already indicated you don't understand why people use such tools. I am wondering why you would want it explained, when it is obvious from your post you have no intention of applying such disciplines to yourself.

IME people who keep track of what they are doing stay solvent all their lives. It's the ones who live from paycheck to paycheck who end up dead broke. Fussbudgets like me arrive at airports a couple of hours early, to allow for contingencies. We check the oil level and tire pressures on our vehicles every week. We're the ones who are unstressed. We are never at an airport counter pleading to be let on a flight when boarding has closed, or stranded by the roadside.

IIRC, one of the best exchanges was between Rod Marsh and Ian Botham. Marsh: "How's your wife and my kids?" Botham: " Wife is fine. Kids are retarded".

Health topics. As for everything else, I have seen it all before.

I use Firefox as my main browser, it has given me very few problems over the years. I have Google Chrome as a backup for the very infrequent occasion Firefox is not acceptable. I did have Edge on a new laptop, until I purged it. Kept trying to push me into more Microsoft BS.

Cyber attack shut it down for several days.

I agree. I have lived in Thailand for 12 years, and speak reasonable Thai. Working on reading and writing it, Many relationships here begin as transactional, then develop into something else as love and trust grows. There is no way I will ever understand all the nuances of the Thai mindset.

That really takes me back, it was in use over 60 years ago when I was a trainee.

I understand from my GF a Thai who gets to 90 hits the jackpot - 1000 baht/month.

Possibly so, more public hospitals in CM than CR. How is your recovery progressing? Any news on the goon that hit you?

Fair enough, although as you know my recent treatment regime for something else was simply unobtainable in Thailand. Even if it was, megabucks. Another gripe I have is the pathology result which put me on a plane to Australia took three weeks. In Oz, a couple of days. Personally, I don't consider Bangkok is liveable for more than one day.

This is what I have used successfully, advice source Ubonjoe. RIP.

IMO this guy is remarkably naive if he believes Thai women apart from bargirls are as pure as the driven snow. It's estimated about 30% of Thai girls who have a university education have had a sideline deal with a sugar daddy, in order to help fund their education. Either that, or they are selling short-times on OnlyFans and ThaiFriendly..

I remember you had a thread on the travails you were going through. My Australian urologist said Rezum was no better in terms of side effects. I only have to look at the relative qualifications of Thai urologists compared to my guy in Australia. He has the suffixes FRCS, FRACS after his name, and those don't come out of cereal boxes. I'll trust doctors here for routine stuff, anything more complicated I am on a plane to Australia.

You may be right. However, permit me to doubt the CRS is aimed at a couple of million baht in an expat account, with transfers of the odd 100,000 baht. They are after bigger fish, who are laundering millions of greenbacks. IIRC there's a cash threshold of $10,000 one has to declare when I take that amount out of Australia, anything less I don't have to report it.

Missed that, greyscale type. Bhutan is mentioned as an example of an insignificant return.

You're telling me the UK is a miserable s#!hole? This is hardly news. I do forget things. I can't recall forgetting what I posted a few minutes ago.

LibreOffice, free spreadsheet software with any Linux operating system. Just as good as Excel for my purposes. I record my incomes as I get them. I calculate my expenditures at the end of each month. Total at end of the financial year.. Every financial year, I total up my various assets, which change as I move in and out of investments. I have no liabilities. At my current rate of expenditure, I will be down to just pension income at age 105.