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She has other attributes I won't go into, and you would be incapable of appreciating, going by your posts thus far.

You might try buying them from Jimmy Carter.

You measure women on whether they have an MBA? Shallow as a mud puddle.

She is 149 cm. She does have exercise routines she does every morning and evening. As do I. Best way to lose weight is cut out sugar, processed foods, and carbs in general. I went from 93 kg to 78 kg on a low-carb diet.

Certainly if I was Rupert Murdoch or Kerry Stokes, I could have a much younger woman at my side in Australia. Effectively, I would have to be a multi-millionaire. Australia did not give me wealth. I earned it with hard work. I am not interested in so-called normal social circles. I am happy with my lifestyle, which is envied by the friends I have in Australia. If nothing happened to you in Thailand, I am wondering what turned you into a misanthrope.

The level of aflatoxins present depends on harvesting and storage conditions, which will be more rudimentary in third world and developing countries. Precise and accurate analysis of aflatoxins requires sophisticated test kits or laboratory analysis. Permit me to doubt raw peanuts here are labelled with their aflatoxin content. I prefer macadamias. If I want something on my morning toast, it's Vegemite.

If my GF gets to 43 kg, she thinks she is too fat.

You prefer living in a city that freezes your nuts off 4-5 months of the year? My standard of living in Thailand includes a house, a condo, two cars, two scooters. A girlfriend 23 years younger than me. I can go back to Australia on my own dime, then get the best of medical care with the private health cover I have maintained. I don't call that failure, I consider it to be success. I'm guessing something really bad happened to you in Thailand, when your opinion of Thailand and people who choose to live there is so negative.

There is also the age factor, ASEAN seems to have more than its fair share of old and embittered posters. I remember a line from one of Arthur C Clarke's novels, where he stated the old are often insanely jealous of the young.

Quite true, many for-profit aged care facilities in Australia are owned by Asians.

It depends on which culture you are in. Plenty of older Thai businessmen and people in power have mia nois and sideline girls. Western culture frowns on big age gaps, driven by Western women.

For some, it does absolutely nothing for me.

So? I'm pointing out Thailand does internet better, another item to love.

You evidently have not tried the internet in Australia. About three times the cost for one-third Thailand's speed.

AFAIK magnesium helps with night cramps. IMO quinine is more effective. There is research recently published which shows the brains of dementia patients are deficient in magnesium.

Place your phone, set to record, by your bed for a night. That should tell you if you have sleep apnoea based on your breathing patterns. Taping your mouth shut is a bad idea, it is causing the headaches. The usual treatment for sleep apnoea is a CPAP machine. If you don't have apnoea, possibly something like melatonin or a drowsy antihistamine ( Codiphen ) may help.

In quite a few countries, governments are using them to raise revenue. Road safety is secondary. A bit shy about the accidents you have had in Thailand?

I don't make a habit of it, I've been fined twice in 10 years of driving. The last fine was on one of the few speed cameras that work in Thailand. 500 baht for speeding. In Australia, the same traffic offense would have cost me 17,000 baht, plus 3 demerit points on my license. You might like draconian laws, I don't. I've never had an accident in Thailand, how about you?

I am deducing from your post you are not an normal age pensioner, but some kind of vet ( Vietnam? ) with a Gold Pass and subsidized accommodation. I don't begrudge you those perks if that is the case, I respect people who have served their country. Having said that, you are quite unrepresentative of most retirees.

Here's mine: 1/ Renting a condo or a house for less than a quarter what it would cost me in Australia. 2/ The freedom to hop on a scooter and go shopping, or just for a cruise. Relaxed road laws, traffic fines won't break the bank. 3/ Having a girlfriend 23 years younger than me, who thinks the sun shines from my posterior. 4/ Enjoying all the permutations and combinations of the multiple cuisines available here, inexpensively. 5/ Knowing I won't be shoved into an aged care facility, and fed food that would make a dog puke. Bonus - Seeing a specialist without BS referrals, and getting replacement medications at pharmacies without BS prescriptions.

The term wowser does not only apply to people who don't like alcohol, it means a killjoy in general. I drink very rarely, it doesn't mean I object to other people doing it. Their life, their business. Just as my life is none of your business. If you want to kill what few remaining brain cells you have left with alcohol, or develop paranoia with extensive pot use, be my guest. My Thai GF thinks I am the best thing that has ever happened to her, and prays to Buddha every night for a long life for me. Explain how that is exploitation. You proffer the opinion the majority thinks the same way you do - twice. As if it is established fact. It's called begging the question, or arguing in a circle. What's pathetic is your sanctimony.

The bad pictures I get here are of loud, drunk, obnoxious, dirty foreigners who dress as if they are about to go fossicking on the local garbage dump. Thais might think any Thai woman with a foreigner is a prostitute. I've never thought that way.

Why does it bother you what other people do with their lives? Does their lifestyle affect you in any way? The term wowser springs to mind.

I don't hate anything about Thailand, just have dislikes instead. 1/ ASEAN posters with no manners, who seem to think it is their duty to provoke and annoy everyone else. 2/ Foreigners who bitch about Thailand. Why the hell are you here? 3/ The cumbersome visa system for retirees. After a couple of blameless years here, why not let us be? 4/ Expensive cheese. 5/ The Thai system of licensing drivers, when the instructors probably would not pass a road test in any Western country.

I don't know the OP's intentions with the gold he brings in. For what it's worth, Thai gold is 96.5%, not the 99.9% of bullion from most countries. I don't know what the limit is. It does seem a bit like bringing coals to Newcastle.