JensenZ

A 350k per month budget is not ludicrous at all. It might be just enough to get you through a hard month of partying, but you'd have to take care, not get too drunk, and be vigilant about not getting ripped off in bars. When you get drunk, they often pad the bills by thousands and no one would be the wiser. If you party every day of the month, you'll likely run out of cash on that moderate budget. The only upside is that the excitement would probably wear off after a month or so unless you're an alcoholic, in which case you'll be parted from your cash faster than you can count it.

So I suppose you don't subscribe to the theory forwarded by a big bike rider on this forum that only big bikes are real bikes?

You must be devoid of a brain yourself to insult a large percentage of forum members who ride. To me, you'd have to be an idiot to sit in traffic all day long to get to places you can get to on a bike in 5 minutes...

Ok, thanks! Now that it's clear that you and your scuba buddy are both whining Poms I can ignore both of you for the rest of this thread.

It is pretty stupid, but he's just here to bait Aussies and doesn't have a clue about much.

And yet you still won't say where you're from? Judging by your posting style, it's from the low-class side of town.

It doesn't matter at all, but after a hard workout I'm too lazy to prepare food, so drinking a protein shake is very convenient. I'll come back a few hours later after the whey has been digested to prepare food.

It's no myth. Sorry, I haven't followed your history - are you a whinging Pom too?

I've never been concerned about artificial sweeteners and all the cancer scares. I use Equal, which is Aspartame, made from 2 naturally occurring amino acids. If I'm going to get cancer, it should be coming up shortly as I use a lot of it and have for a long time. Something will eventually be the end of me and I don't stress about it. The stress of all the worry about everything might kill you faster. An interesting observation from an extensive survey of centenarians... it was discovered that, on average, they were more likely to smoke and drink, less likely to eat well, and less likely to exercise. They have a genetic gift. The rest of us might die a lot younger from CVD, cancer, and several other degenerative diseases. Lately, I've been mixing my WPC in milk with no flavor or sweetener. It tasted fine.

That's good news. I did think at the time that they had made the process far too complicated and by the time I do my next reporting in January it would be easier. The staff at the counter were wasting a lot of time explaining to people what they needed. I won't be surprised if they go back to the old way of only needing the report slip as before. If it is all computerized why do they need all this excessive paperwork to file away in bins, never to be seen again?

I think you're being a bit dramatic. Pointing out a behavioral trait of a nationality should not imply hatred. I don't mind Brits at all, and if I think hard enough I can find unpleasant behavioral traits of Australians and New Zealanders too, and most other countries. These threads are just a bit of harmless fun.

You're whinging about people who disagree with your original comment and who are trying to point out that you are dead wrong.

Ok, thanks! It's a bit silly that you took my reply so seriously and didn't sense the irony... however, are you suggesting that no one has 186K a month to burn through? I've done it on an extended vacation, as far back as 20 years ago. Those were the days!

You're still a noob - expat. Sooner or later Monday morning will lose relevance in your life. We "debate" day and night on here, 7 days a week LOL

Much appreciated for the TM 47 form upload. On October 18 this sign was on the reporting desk at Jomtien Immigration: They were insisting on a copy of your address report (TM30 or 28) and the person behind the desk also asked for a copy of my entry card (TM 6). Has this changed since October?

Yet, in Australia and New Zealand, going back to the 70s, (when I was a teenager and young adult) the English had a nickname "whinging Poms". I didn't meet many, but the ones I did meet were true to form. You don't get a label like this without there being some substance to it. I didn't make up the name and I had no idea who did and how it had been used... it might have started at the dawn of the British colonization of these 2 nations. I think it is a general British personality trait. Whinging makes them feel good. It's part of their DNA

You're using it to start a conversation about face masks, AND insulting the person you're replying to. Good work! Even if your IQ is ok, there's still a screw loose somewhere. Didn't you have enough of this during the 2 years of lockdown? I'm sure you cut 'and pasted your pseudo-science at any opportunity you could find. It was really easy as anyone who disputed the "science" was given posting vacations.

No stoner's hand is sensitive enough to determine the difference between 12 and 14 grams. It's irrelevant anyway because the person purchasing a 13-gram box with tabs doesn't know if it should weigh 13 grams or 9 grams, and even if he did, he wouldn't be able to determine the difference using his hand.

Seriously, you're using this thread to explain your science of mask-wearing, while having another stab at anti-vaxxers while you're at it? Enough already, it has been done to death... I apologize for replying to a comment about masks. I won't make the mistake again.

If it was weed, you'd be relying on your eyesight if no gram scale is available. The "Viagra" comes in a sealed box.

LOL. The science of it all. We heard that a lot from people peddling pseudo-science. I picked up covid myself wearing a mask in a crowd. They are probably more useful on a scooter, protecting the lungs from air pollution. The Thai people had the fear of God hammered into them. About 2 weeks ago, I went for an early morning walk in the local park. On top of the hill, at 7 am a Thai man was sitting on his own, wearing a mask, no other humans in sight until I got there.

Mask-wearing had nothing to do with education, but government-sponsored brainwashing. You don't remember all the leaflets they sent out during COVID time? But don't pick on the Thais. Foreigners all over the planet were heavily invested in the practice too. Even on this forum, if you tried to discuss the futility of preventing viral infections with a face mask you received a posting ban.

Now that really IS a shopping problem. Spend 10 years (or however long it takes - I imagine a very long time) learning Kanji and come back to buy a computer with a Japanese operating system LOL. Problem solved. Your story also illustrates how English-accommodating Thailand has become. In most shops, even if a sales clerk cannot communicate in English, there's a manager or another staff member nearby who can. In Pattaya, shopping is an absolute breeze - even pleasure. Only an IQ-impaired shopper in the low 2 digits would have a problem.

A troll with a low IQ is a big problem as they are blissfully ignorant of their own ignorance.

I'm sure I'll be dying alone, but I don't give a sh*t LOL. It's quite the thing in South Korea Lonely Deaths in S. Korea