Fat is a type of crazy

I am in the ‘the young over exuberant drivers, and the older drivers hoping to relive their youth and dreaming their reflexes are what they once were, are best keeping to common sense speed limits for the safety of all’ camp. 

Are they still making new Club Randoms. I assumed it stopped with the writers strike as nothing in my feed.

Well done fellow Melbourne guys. American women always seem to want to articulate everything and often have so called big personalities or have big problems to talk about or something so the possibility that they are interesting soon becomes unlikely. Prefer my women to have a bit of mystery and subtlety. This is based on a small pool of American women and what I see on the inter web so may be totally wrong. 

1 hour ago, PeterA said:

Eucalyptus trees. They kill most of the grass around them, and grow  a few meters a year.  Ours are 5 years old, and at least 4 or 5 stories tall. The root systems are huge,

so no worries of falling over in strong winds. When you grow tired of  the trees, cut them and sell them for making charcoal or building material.

Have to disagree a bit as they are not the most stable trees and can fall over in strong winds. Have many where I live and they fall from time to time in the area. They drop branches too. They were contemplating using them by roadsides in Melbourne back in the 19th century because they were suited to the conditions but stopped due to their propensity to drop the branches. 

If at hotel I tend to give 100 baht to guy taking bags to room. But sometimes one of the staff take you to room and show you and do a fair bit and a different guy brings a couple of the bags and that’s it. Tip one Tip both Not sure

Help the Aged  Pulp

Road Bear Planet

Its over ELO

The winner takes it all ABBA

Cosmic Dancer TREX

Not cry but sad

I felt so many good British bands lost it or broke up mid to late eighties

New Order

The Smiths

Echo and the Bunnymen

The Cure

British music not the same till Blur, Pulp, Supergrass of Britpop

I was looking for a job and then I found a job...and heaven knows I'm miserable now

That's how I felt in my first job with a bank

Loved the Smiths but didn't care for the solo stuff. 

Delete. Wrong location. 

You need a friend or two to chat with and talk some crap. Every friendship will involving times when you are bored or it seems they waste your time. You'll have to decide whether he has become too tedious but try not to burn bridges in life as once a friendship is gone it's gone. 

1 minute ago, zzaa09 said:

Indeed.

Misery loves company. 

 

Applies greatly here.

 

But at least you cheer things up

No family resorts with kids running everywhere thanks

On 8/13/2023 at 1:58 PM, roo860 said:

I liked Dan but since he added a new property tax and the Commonwealth games debacle not so much thanks. 

3 hours ago, 1FinickyOne said:

There are Western comforts outside of Disneyland... living in Thailand is fascinating if you want to learn about a new culture, language and way of living... though I think trashing people different from you will not be respected. 

Fair point. I see Pattaya not as Disneyland but a pretty normal place in many parts but everything is close by. Would consider alternatives if I can think of them. Maybe I am talking about the broader area rather than central Pattaya.

I like Thai people, you'll never find me trashing them hopefully, as I get older I am a bit less likely to become totally immersed into a new culture, enjoying it from a bit of distance living a bit of a western life, six month here and six months there. 

14 hours ago, LaosLover said:

I just spent 12 years at the top of a very attractive mountain in the Blue Ridges. It was so quiet in winter that you could hear the snow hitting the ground. I had an old growth forest 50 steps behind my house.

 

Too much of a good thing. I doubt I'll ever live at that level of remoteness again.

 

I'm right now ordering in from Ging Gri, the best Thai place in Nimman. An incredible feast will be here in 20 minutes. When I got to Appalachia, I asked my wife where we went to eat, she said, "the kitchen" - a room which I had previously used mostly to store vodka and hot sauce.

 

No, I'm not living anywhere that doesn't offer B+ sushi within a 10 minute walk. Ever again.

What makes a man into fancy sushi and art house cinema and theatre and bands and culture etc spend 12 years in the middle of nowhere albeit a pretty middle of nowhere. Interesting. 

When I first planned to retire in Thailand I had a picture of fruit trees and forest with my girlfriend near Chanthaburi or something but the closer I get I think I want western comforts such as in Pattaya or Phuket. 

Holiday no longer for sale. Offer withdrawn by seller. 

My experience with wife and girlfriends families is we can often think too much.

We ain't that special. If you try and act important and spend up they will enjoy your largesse but if you be yourself they will like you, or be bored by you, similar to how they are with each other. 

The percentage of suitable farangs who you can talk to will rise if you keep off topics involving right and left politics, gender, climate change etc where perfectly nice seeming people can take off and become over the top boring. 

In Australia it's easy as I have established boundaries between me and who I want to see and who I don't. If moving to Thailand on your own I imagine it takes time to work out what to do, who to talk to, and how to set up new boundaries if appropriate. 

Good memories going to the Valhalla theatre in Melbourne. They would put out a poster each three months and student houses would have it on the wall. The 80's. 

The usual foreign films like Belle du Jour, Breathless, La Dolce Vita.

Fun movies like John Waters Polyester, with a scratch and sniff card so you could watch in Odorama,  and David Lynch's Eraserhead,   and the Russ Myers movies such as Beyond the Valley of the Dolls were fun. 

Then there would be the worst movies of all time like Plan 9 from Outer Space. 

The 80's.

Here is a cool Melbourne cinema. Different colours but here's pink. 

I lived around the corner from a nice art house cinema for 15 years till I met my Thai wife and we moved to the hills. Nicer than the picture. 

50 minutes ago, Southsealad said:

I'm sure dates are flexibe.   Its a Deluxe Hiilside jacuzzi Room with Ocean View plus breakfast.

Cool. I'll send you a private message and we can work it out thanks. 

As an incentive if you feel better afterwards in 2023 happy to sell it back same price if hotel allows