Tropposurfer

You say you're an acute alcoholic. If you are an alcoholic then simply returning and not having support or a concrete plan for help and support to leave behind your addiction then you are increasing your dangers exponentially. Contact one of the residential alcohol and other drug rehabs near your home area or as close as can maybe in the UK and ask for a 'remote/over the phone assessment for admission. This way you will have treatment, and a place to go to straight off the plane, or very shortly after you arrive home. There is AA in Thailand and you can look them up via the web easily enough so you're not alone and struggling with your anxiety and addiction by yourself. They'll have a yarn with you anytime and if they're close by someone might meet you and spend a bit of safe easy time with you. If you contact The Samaritans, St Vincent De Paul, The Salvation Army in the UK they should be able to help you find temporary accommodation that's safe until you can seek treatment. I'm not sure of your social security services in the UK but if you ring their overseas free number you might be able to register for unemployment benefits so as soon as you arrive they will begin to give you some money. All these services above will help with all this sort of stuff. If you drink really heavily every day and have been for a long time DON'T stop drinking immediately - sometimes folks can have seizures if they do. Cut down slowly and do your best to reduce a few drinks a day for a week or so until you are down to 1 then start to do the 24 hour thing i.e. I won't drink for today and repeat each day. If you have had any seizures I would see a doctor (tell him the truth about how much you drink) and he will advise you, and maybe give some medication to help your withdrawal. I understand all too well what you might be going through mate. Good luck, stay safe. Remember that drinking is only a temporary fix, it will actually increase your anxiety the next day before you take another drink.

Looks like a moth larvae to me. Watch out for any clothes especially woollens in the house. They'll eat cotton too if the can't find tasty woollen faire. We vacuum pack our cold climate woollens as soon as we get back and wash them as on da island these little critters cause terrible havoc. Wool suits also vacuum packed.

Manuel the perennial fall-guy lol ???? Que???

yeah overcompensation mak mak ????????????????

I'm too smashed to be able to answer that question with any clarity ????

I stayed in and older complex on Srisoothorn Rd Surin Beach for about a year before the house, that place was about 17 years old. Half the owners hadn't paid a baht of fees for many years and never came to the place ????????????????. The poor manager was being stiffed by the juristic dude, and of course as top-down social structures do he passed that pressure into the lowly maintenance and shift-work managers and so slowly the place went downhill. Rotten wooden railings, broken pool tiles, holes in the pool decking timbers ???? that you'd fall right. Railings if you leant against them!, never ever pressure gernie'd the pathways and driveway, garbage areas too small and filthy without enough bins lol???? The driveway was s slippery slide of moss n slime in rainy season lol, ???? All these examples stemmed from two fundamental and common thing poor juristic fee payments and juristic corruption. Setting aside the legal aspects of condo juristic parameters (often none of these matter a penny) ... Why? Because it so often the case that some or many owners not paying their juristic fees (sadly this usually means the Thai owners are not paying their monthly fees, the falangs usually do, and, the older the complex is the more this becomes the case, and so there simply aren't funds to get things done that contractually should be done, AND the manager is, because of 'face', stuck uncomfortably between the juristic dude, the majority Thai owners, and you) ... ... Ergo you often have low odds in getting financial support for the juristic to mend the balustrade (if it is part of the contractual parameters of same). This issue of folks being totally absent on their juristic fees is common and often not understood by falang folks who buy into condo complex's. This becomes more and more the common as the building ages. We find out all too late, and to get things done its often just simpler to arrange for your own tradies and let the managers know your doing work, what that is, and sling them a few hundred baht to grease the wheels and alleviate them of any pressure to oversee and 'manage' things. Just wander around and look at the general state of many complex's and you can see the deterioration in and lack of regular 'standard/normal' maintenance. As long as you replace/repair the balustrade in a way that they appear to match those of other condo's you shouldn't draw the ire of other owners or put the manager in a tough position. As other posters have mentioned use good materials e.g. raise the height of the balustrade to over 1100 mm at the topside of the railing (Aussie standards), over engineer the gauge of any materials you use, especially your retaining bolts (watch the tradies closely to make sure they do this work exactly as should be done), and weatherproof materials properly.

Lets hope he don't steal national super-secret stuff, the silverware, and anything not bolted down like the tangerine traitor Trump hahaha ????

I've always found BA nice to fly with around LOS. Kind and attentive flight crews. Flights on time. Planes clean and tidy. Pre-packed food not gourmet but edible.

And the boys cried wolf !

Secretly lusting to put on some heels and a dress for years and finally found his chance lol ????

We've got a small Braun table-top food processor which does everything. It has a 2 litre pot with handle for easy movement and emptying. Its great for a small batch of tabouli, hummus, or curry paste. We've also a food processor that sits atop (as an attachment) our Chef XL Kenwood mixer which can chop, mix, blend, puree, and liquify anything and large quantities too. Both cut finely, fibrous stuff like gingers, galangal, lemon grass.

Interesting experience by our poster. From my experience here I would say as one example of cultural comparisons Thai's are way quieter than Aussies when out and about. Yeah the karaoke is off the scale for din but otherwise ... Try sitting in an Aussie restaurant and hearing anything said, even with the person next to you at your table compared to a Thai restaurant. Thank the gods where we live it is beautifully quiet (careful choices of location was one of the paramount criteria in choosing our slice of nirvana).

Too right!: Beginning with a very thorough frisk ('pat-down' for the English language deprived).

It is, from what Benz have told me, to be a selectable option when it is introduced so take a chill pill outraged and freaked out A.N. members. THE MBUX system is awesome.

I'm fair skinned and have had my collars up polo and other cricket and tennis gear since I was a primary school student descendent of the very best quality convicts in the antipodes. I still do.

Then I'n definitely batting for the other side lol ????

Speak for yourself .. I'm very hansum man ... Judging by the unsolicited greetings I receive as I go about my daily business lol ????????

Taurines are good for cooking fish dishes in I hear ????????????????????????

A listener to and devotee of the toxic male Andrew Tate I would imagine. Misogyny and patriarchy writ large. I wonder does he come from an evangelical Pentecostalist background or personal faith/cult?

I feel like musing on the subjective experience of loneliness. Aloneness and loneliness are two different experiences. Loneliness is said to be an increasing experience around the world. In my home nation Oz the separation of the generations and internment of the elder generation in 'special' homes is common, with the multi-generational cohabitation of families rare albeit with some ethnic groups bucking increasing trend. I have experienced both blissful aloneness, relishing the silence and quiet of being with oneself. I've also experienced extremely painful loneliness. I had to work at facing in me my comfortability with being alone with the pain of accompanying loneliness. Being alone for me requires less work than being with others, its easier in many respects. Others challenge the safety and predictability of just by myself. After all its a heck of a lot easier to manage life with only my needs and wants to consider. I had much to learn about allowing others in and letting go of the tapes in my head and the fear in my gut of that dreaded vulnerability that comes with deep intimacy. Equally learning to stay with myself no matter what others did or said was liberating to say the least. The cursory (passing) nature of most relationships, and by relationships I do mean all interactions with others, and just as figuratively the relationship I have with others in my head and gut is a life truth and once accepted becomes all but inert while interacting. Aware of yes but damagingly interrupting and confusing, no. As to "those people" you refer to there are in life those who's relational styles are transactional, agenda driven, and harmfully selfish in nature. Some relationships are 'you have something I want, will you give it to me?' is appropriate especially when we are exchanging money for goods. The parameters of these are clear it is right for others to expect payment for services rendered. Here we falangs have more money (usually) than Thai's, especially so when looking at the lower rungs of a rigidly tiered society so its natural for many in such a performative society to 'do dances' to access the privilege my money brings should they gain access to it. When we think on this performative behaviour it not unique to Thailand at all nay it is necessary in negotiating and staying alive, lest we be cast out lie the leper and die of emotional and material sustenance. While I see the cultural and societal pressures here in LOS to take and give I also see a simplicity break through in Thai's negotiating in relationship, often. I recall watching a truly beautiful woman singing an ancient song about Buddha and the oneness of existence and its impact upon her and others. An impact that made possible the shedding of the schema's around 'what can I get from you' to a oneness, an egoless state shared briefly by many who were present. Yes, we are all actually seeking to get our needs met in relationship this is inherent in our drive to be a-part-of which is hard wired into humanity (there are exceptions to this and conscious too to choice to remove oneself from the vast majority of relationships e.g. solitary lives, religious orders. Paradoxically both isolation and grouping together makes life easier yet more complex. For some this drive to get what we need and want is pathological to the point of harming others. A perfect current-day example of this pathological, neurotic need satiation is Donald Trump. I'm slowly beginning to grasp and walk with the notion that people will always be asking me for something. I'm a slow learner, what can I say?! lol ???? This wanting/needs, as I said is inherent in the experience of being a sentient human being and unavoidable, deniable but unavoidable. Of course various forms of sedation (projection is a good one and requires no ingestion of a mind altering substance) can be initiated to delay awareness of this but is only temporary in relief of our perceived (imagined and projected), and actual pressures in negotiating relationship. The power of controlling whether I acquiesce to others asking me for something; control in various forms e.g. money, sex, intellectual attention, childish attention seeking satiation, or simply human contact in the form of a smile, eye contact, or a thank you is indeed mine to decide whether to give or not to give. Seeing that the human relational world exists on a transactional continuum, and I accept this existential truth it becomes far easier to acknowledge others seeking something from me, and most importantly and foremost my wanting things from them! I agree it is more 'pleasing' to interact with someone who is honest, someone who 'owns' their agenda and does not attempt to disguise their requests behind feigned interest in me e.g. to get me to open my wallet. But it is equally important that I acknowledge others needs to attempt to "relieve me of my gold" (see Robert Bly 'Iron John'). However noticing a manipulation occurring offers me a chance to be more Buddha-like and compassionate and generous of heart, and yes sometimes of wallet. I admit humbly to, when I do feel lonely, and yes I do at times, despite having much comfort and love around me I have and can be willing to happily sup on such performed interest in me because I have the capacity for a prurient shallowness for attention ... lol ????

What a bl@@dy disgrace! A land awash with fresh green veggies and beautiful fruit. Makes my blood boil!! Could it be someone or someones skimming the money away from the kids lunches?

I wonder OneMoreFarang if they might be selling stones at the event ala Life of Brian. I do enjoy a good stoning.

I went in recently for a hang-nail, died, and now I'm lying in a unfashionable plastic bag in a cold dark isolated room. Be careful!

Send it registered surface 'normal' (pay at point of departure postal surface/normal airmail with the insurance component added in case of theft. Take off the watch band, remove the buckle from the band, mark it 'used watch and watch parts') this way you might avoid import duty.

Ahh ... The messiah returns. Thailand is saved lol ???????? I wonder if folks will congregate along the route waving palm leaves?