JensenZ

I don't review any products on Lazada though, just to be sure... yet Lazada keeps nagging for reviews after every purchase.

I don't suppose you understand who gave the pardon. It's sacred and not open to discussion or debate. Give Thaksin some credit. He could have continued his life of luxury abroad, but returned to be imprisoned.

Yes it is true that my days all have structure. It's just the time of day I do stuff that varies a lot.

Seriously? More generalizations about Farang from all over the globe. It might be true of drunken guys who have been out drinking all night. I suppose it depends on the sort of company you keep but sober Farang probably shower on average more than once a day due to the climate. This Farang is fastidious about smelling good when he goes out as he's very aware of how much he sweats. My wife also insists that I always smell nice too. LOL I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Yes, but when you go to war, things change a lot and the ability to be alert on short notice and at any time becomes very important. Don't you train for this too? I've found that a 2-hour timed sleep is amazing for regenerating and getting back to action at a time I would not normally be awake. When it's over 2 hours it's more difficult to wake up again.

I have calendar reminders so I don't forget important events/activities. I'm never late for anything as I set timers or alarms. You'd be surprised how well you can perform without a routine. I've found that too much sleep is the worst thing for me. I'm ok with 4 - 6 hours on average. I feel really bad or groggy if I manage to stay asleep for 7 hours.

I understand that a tight routine is necessary when you're working a paid job, but most expats here have probabaly spent most of their lives doing that, and retirement is a time for change. My main daily work (more a hobby than a job) is online trading, which means I'm often up at all hours of the night monitoring trades and I need the ability to be mentally alert at any time of the day or night. Flexibility is very important, and you don't get that by sleeping at the same time everyday. I can't really say if this lifestyle is healthy or not as I've been on this non-routine for a long time. I'll push up daisies when I'm ready.

Obviously each situation is different. In some jurisdictions prostitutes don't give blow jobs without condoms, so that's one less consideration LOL. In places like New Zealand it is a taxable occupation and quite professional. I don't think a girl would be tongue kissing her clients, but I'm not sure. It probably depends on how well she knows the customer and if she likes them or not.

I believe too much structure and routine is a bad thing as it makes people too inflexible and any disruption to the routine causes stress and difficulty coping or performing. I have only one structured activity, my daily exercise routine, but even that is not performed at the same time everyday. Sleeping time, duration of sleep, eating time - all else is flexible. When I'm hungry I eat. When I'm tired I rest, when I'm sleepy I sleep.

You stated it as an established fact that we should remember. Thanks for the clarification.

Maybe you had problems and they don't like you, but Thais are not stupid and can distinguish a hygienic person from a dirty one.

That's what you do? You conduct surveys of working girls? Which tourists are they most fond of?

For sure the expat volume on the bright side of Sukhumvit is much higher than on the dark side, but tourists are the predominant "business" of the Jomtien office, which is in a very good location, just off 2nd Road Jomtien, so the Dark Side expats will be able to get there quite easily as most expats living way over there have their own transport.

I was specifically thinking about them in the context of being a problem in public schools in France as per topic. Are they wearing outfits in public schools to instantly distinuguish them from their classmates?

I'm not surprised you disagree as you started a thread about... but you could have disagreed a bit less. The location currently is convenient for all tourists and most expats. It will never move to the Dark Side.

No thanks. I like it just where it is, and having used this office since 2006, I've never really had any problems with overcrowding. You have to go at the right time of the day/week. The current improvements are very good and make things a lot easier and quicker. Most expats only need to apply for an extension once a year, and reporting has always been quick and easy. Moving it to the East side of Sukhumvit is a bad idea as most of the "business" is from tourists who would have a problem getting to the East Side.

They are working on it. I don't think Amish clothing is much of a concern in France... From the BBC source article: Also, religion is not a race. People are far too quick to pull out the race card.

This might be the case in more recent life expectancy figures, but going back centuries the mortality rate wasn't considered in the statistics, but analysis of the bones of the deceased to determine their age of death so it's a fact they really didn't live long. If child mortality was included in the stats, the life expectency would have been very much lower than stated in the one study I posted. Here's an interesting study about life expectancy in Ancient Rome: Health and Disease in a Roman Walled City

It's not "religious peole" which makes the difference, but the specific religion and its teaching and rules. Thailand is very religious. We see it everywhere we go. Most of Asia is religious. The problem with the Philippines is specifically the Catholic religion, which considers masturbation and contraceptives to be evil. Having sexual relations = babies, and lots of them.

Eventually, after many decades and generations the original habitants will die out and new migrant populations will take over as the migrants from poorer countries have a much higher fertility rate than the original inbabitants. They get an education, become politicians and eventually start making the rules. They take full advantage of the Democratic process and social security systems in place in Europe.

If the social welfare systems collapse, or should I say when they do, we'll probably go back to the old days of history when life expectancy was short and there wasn't a problem looking after an elderly population which for the most part didn't exist. Mother Nature will take care of the 8 billion plus current population, but not necessarily in the way many might hope. Life Expectency through the ages They were talking about the life expectency of a better fed population, not the common folk.

The problem is the labour force. There are already too many government employees getting fat on bloated salaries. That doesn't help the economy.

It's the only way it can ever be. Changes are only made by politicians that are not going to be around much longer than 5 - 10 years. As you said, there is a long delay in how decisions made today will affect the future. The world will muddle through, one problem at a time. There are no people or organisations that can have any real effect on this global problem. All countries are too busy trying to solve day to day issues rather than worrying about what might happen 20 - 100 years in the future. Then of course there is no guarantee that any steps they take will produce the results they predict. A good example is the one-child policy of China, started in 1980. The pains caused by this have only recently started to be felt. The government officials that started the program are long gone.

Donor countries do very well too. The migrants send their money back home to support their families.

What a great idea. Let's get all the old folk working on farms and in factories. It will slow production but kill them off faster and reduce the size of the plus-60 population.