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9 hours ago, robblok said:

Yea but you miss one points bare are not essential but food is. So get over yourself and stop looking for conspiricies. Some services are essential, like food (plenty of that in shopping centers). Bars on the other hand are not essential. 

Mongers and bar girls would disagree. Never mind, now they are off to Isaan to spread some more.

It's already here. Massive job losses in the tourist industry. No caterers need for AFL matches in Australia, they are playing to empty stadiums. People out of work who can't pay their rent. Retirees are going to find the share dividends they rely on are going to be slashed, along with franking credits.

It's actually not a bad time to be an age pensioner, albeit being in the most vulnerable cohort.

10 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

Buffalo can be tasty if prepared correctly. Bison are even better. Corn fed whitetails are the best.

 

Except for a carefully aged Kansas or Oklahoma Rib Eye.

Sigh. I keep telling you a Gippsland eye fillet is so much better than that feedlot <deleted>, because we feed the cattle with real grass. Can be cut with a fork, so tender. One of the things I miss, with a hearty Shiraz, naturally.

Why do I get the feeling I am trying to describe colors to a blind man?

3 hours ago, AussieBob18 said:

Not that much off topic - it is about being older and surviving ????   There are many things on my bucket list I have done, and some I never will, but there is one I am hopeful of - and that is beating my age at golf.  I assume he was a good golfer and therefore probably did it in his 70s - and probably on a 'real' golf course (par 72). There is an easy golf course nearby here where par is 68 and I have shot in the mid 70s a few times - so maybe.  That is the key I reckon - finding  an easier golf course ????  No way at Augusta or Bay Hill - never will be I reckon on a course like that.

 

Shot 77 around Gymkhana age 76, but for a double bogey on the 17th, alas. IMO if we continue to set our selves goals, it is life-prolonging. My hero is Keith McPherson, in the Guinness Book of Records for breaking his age. Played with him quite a few  times. His grandson, Bryden McPherson, won the British Amateur. Good thread, it's stirring up the possums.

My Thai GF and I are fairly well insulated in Chiang Rai. The authorities have limited shutdown here to the Night Bazaar, everything else is open. Including the beer bars on Jedyod Road.

Straws in the wind though, very few customers in Big C. My GF tells me many people here have no work, no money.

RIP Kenny. You knew when to fold 'em.

The fresh food vendors? Vegetables and fruit, or the precooked stuff that sits in the sun for a day and breeds up bacteria?

I buy water from the vending machines, 3 baht for 2 litres. Then I boil it. I've been drinking that for ten years without a problem.

To the OP - get a laboratory to test for Total Dissolved Solids, Suspended Solids and heavy metals.

If the TDS is under 500 mg/L, it is fit for human consumption. Suspended Solids > 2 mg/L, you need a filter. Any detectible heavy metals - lead, zinc, cadmium, mercury - forget about it. Ditto any odor.

Cheapest option is buy a kettle, and boil it.

4 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

OK Boss, well let me know when you can Catscan and genetically sequence the climate and then we could perhaps even think of giving credit to that analogy. At least with The Chinese Flu you can blame something else other than the air or the last hysterical fit you threw when you triple bogeyed a par 3 in front of an audience for keeping you off the links.

Lose my rag on the golf course? Moi? Although one of my now deceased golfing friends did state I had the personality of a taipan when there.

You're calling it the Chinese flu, bad boy. How do you know I didn't introduce it there at the behest of the CIA? After all, Trump is trying to win a trade war.

If you don't think man is changing the climate, come up to Chiang Rai and breathe some air. Sorry, I forgot - we can't move due to coronavirus fallout - anywhere.

1 hour ago, RJRS1301 said:

Cashless society has been planned for at least five years, RB Australia was doing information sessions and modelling on it at least 5 years ago, phasin out of cheque books being the first part, it will be phased in over time.

 

 

 

I wrote my last cheque in 2014.

The only use I have for cash in Australia now is bringing it back to Thailand to exchange for baht. A debit card is all I ever use there for day-to-day stuff.

4 hours ago, AussieBob18 said:

Glad to hear you are golfing at 77 - there is hope for me too.

Leigh Winser, a former Australian Amateur Champion, was golfing well into his nineties. Broke his age many times. Each year I add gives me a better shot at doing the same. Sorry, off topic.

25 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I do wonder why some countries haven't just let the disease run, and kill whom it will.

 

As an old person I'm OK taking my chances with death.

Some societies still value the elderly.

You sound like a person who is OK with death because you have not had a good life.

3 minutes ago, AussieBob18 said:

Ditto - over 60 and have had a great run.  Also doing the golf and regular activity - and taking vitamins and drinking lots of fluids.  Take precautions is my advice - but there is no need to panic.  They will slow it down and they will get a vaccine and they will deal wityh it. They went too hard too early IMO - but that is done - now is the time to wait and see - and relax a bit.   

Over 60? You're just a young fella. 77 in May.

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

Ain't love grand!

She's had enough genuine orgasms with me to make me think she does like having me around, apart from the money side.

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

No precautions at all from me.

If death comes, I'm ready.

I'd like to keep going a bit longer if possible. My GF wants me to stick around, and does everything she can to convince me.

7 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Sort of like show dogs. You dont eat them either.

Koreans do.

When I was in Timor, steak at the hotels was always buffalo meat. Quite tasty, cooked in coconut oil.

2 hours ago, bristolboy said:

If that's the reasoning behind it,the logic is flawed. The higher your your wealth, the imore likely you are to save any additional sum. The real rationale behind this is purely electoral.

I'm not arguing the logic is valid, just saying what I think it is.

Not sure i can agree the rationale is electoral, there are more poor people than rich, and they have votes. Although I suppose in America voter turnout is another factor.

I'm more worried about being stranded in Australia, and being unable to get back to Thailand. Hopefully, things will calm down in the next 4 - 5 months.

5 hours ago, lannarebirth said:

Shouldn't the poorest people be getting the most money? I don't understand the logic of this Bill.

The logic is wealthier people will spend on things like iPads, cars etc., thus helping boost the economy. The poorest would only spend it on food, where the profit margin is low. The bottom line.

6 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

I like the obscenely bloated adjectives. Very nice. Hmmmmmmm Lets use it in a sentence!

 

Hmmmmmm...OK.....

 

So Doc, hows my ticker?

Well, Yezh, you are pretty healthy for a guy that is obscenely bloated. Do they put a trough in front of you?

I continue to live in hope for the day when you will, in a moment of mental aberration, answer a question of mine.

1 hour ago, daveAustin said:

 

 

Btw, when do you plan on removing those dodgy pantigooglers from your boat race?

He's probably become attached to them now.