Fat is a type of crazy

It is. Good swimming and food and hotels are pretty cheap. Everything pretty clean and quiet. Doesn’t change much.

I am a creature of habit. Dinner mainly at same time at home. Work hours stock standard. Gym 4 times a week same split routine for years and years. Even in Thailand keep going to Koh Chang.

Interesting. Saves lives. Saw the John Oliver show about it. Don’t here about it much in Australia or maybe it’s me. Hear a lot about asbestos.

I’ve never worn aftershave or colognes or whatever. Not my thing. Eternity for men 100 ml edt is $35 in Australia or 780 baht at the store below. Not sure if that helps but they seem to ship overseas for some products. If they can sell it at that price there must be others. . https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/buy/52548/calvin-klein-eternity-for-men-eau-de-toilette-spray-100ml

There are some horror stories about Australian nursing homes including a recent review that made poor findings. This person got a bit lucky given the financial situation. Still many hours doing nothing and problems here and there. Never a place you want to be.

Sorry to hear it. This person had no property or significant assets so nothing to pay.

Had a close family member go through it and pass away this year. In Australia it can be free in nursing homes where they take 85 per cent of the pension. Some nursing homes personable, down to earth, nice single rooms and a lot of activities. If the lack of awareness that you are ill is slightly ahead of the illness itself then it can be somewhat of a life for the sufferer. Things like nice food, chocolate, and sunshine and massages and company bought the sufferer some pleasure. Had to face the issue of whether to seek treatment this year when they got ill. Seemed clear to me the person had a kind of life and steps should be taken to help them as long as it didn’t involve intrusive things like ventilators. Others who didn’t see them as much seemed to compare the current person to the healthy person and thought it wasn’t a life worth living. Hard decisions. Awful part was looking at diaries over the years and the attempts by the person to stay positive and document things to help remember. You see the decline over months and years. Horrible. Don’t know what I would do.

Sounds like it comes from someone too immersed in the GoGo world. Your idea that a reason girls choose to be something in life is because their first choice of being fawned over by the elderly and sleazy is somewhat flawed. Somewhat being an understatement. But you know that. It’s boring being the serious one and stating the obvious but it has to be said.

The forest walk from the top to the beach is pretty special. Funicular fun. Nice beach once you know where rocks are. Left two days ago. Beauty.

I like my oats. Can you convince me steel cut oats are worth the additional cost to rolled oats. Seems they maybe keep you fuller but it’s still oats it seems.

Wondering why tides are so high at White Sand Beach. Been coming for 10 years and like a late afternoon swim. Never seen tide so high at this time. Whole beach gone and wave hitting businesses and barriers for hours. Forget restaurants on the beach at night.

Pivoted to the soccer. Where that guy planted one right on the kisser in an over the top way.

Get your moral compass right too. No offence but some of your posts sound like you are a bit on the wrong track sometimes. That Karma thread. Feel good as best you can about what you do and who you are.

I think you might like say a 45 or 50 year old government worker who, though they may not be the most intelligent, might appreciate a more sensitive self deprecating fun guy who can make THEM feel intelligent rather than what they’ve been used to from Thai men. And you can feel your musings and ideas are appreciated, even if not fully understood, and have someone to take care.

Good one. I added the comment about how the assets test could eventually come into play as a theoretical but likely the income test would be the one to have an effect.

Keep in mind deeming applies of course to financial assets only eg not cars, furniture etc. The way I read you are deemed to have income of 64000 x 0.0025 = $377.50 if you have $64000. If you have $543750 in financial assets that would give you a deemed income of $377.50 plus $479750 x 0.0225= $11171. You are allowed if treated as a single person to earn $204 a fortnight or $5304 per year and then it starts cutting your pension by 50 cents in the dollar. So if you had $543750 in financial assets that would result in excessive income of $11171 - $5304 = $5867 resulting in a cut of $5687/2 = $2843 a year or $54 a week. You would likely earn a lot more than this from your financial assets of course. If you had this much financial assets they may get you on the assets test as you would have other non financial assets pushing you over that limit. I may be a bit off but others may know better.

Better to say I don’t think scientific method has tools to sense god and spirituality at this stage rather than say spirituality is on some pedestal above the need for scientific method, not requiring any evidence, your feelings being enough.

Used the shoestring one Thailand and Burma. Good tip of turning up at Rangoon airport with duty free scotch and selling in the car park for Burmese currency. Used the Indonesia one. Gili isles were basic and tips helped and some tips for places like north Lombok and south Flores were like call so and so and you can stay in the school or with the local town official. By the early nineties the Gili isles changed a lot as did everywhere else of course and it seemed more fun to risk a crappy hotel than follow the so called ‘Banana pancake trail ‘ set down by Lonely planet.

I will stop working next year and this would be perfect. Back and forward between Australia and Thailand. 3 months at a time. Miss the winter. Hope it happens.

Devo in 77. Impressed. Hardcore volume 1 and 2 are worth a listen if not heard before. To me being an Australian the Divinyls are a different kettle of fish. Some good songs though. Brother went to same Anglican school as Nick Cave. Not a strongly religious school but maybe an influence. It is hard to understand how some fall into faith. Prince too.

We are Devo Good to find a kindred spud.

Combinations and personal taste. At home I have broccoli steamed with nothing added. My post was about sugar and in my opinion adding it to things often dulls the taste. Yoghurt, bread, tea, breakfast cereal, wine, pancake mix, Thai food, are often or always not improved by the addition of sugar in my humble opinion. Same often with salt. I eat a lot of chocolate with a bit of sugar. Good combination.

Get a dog. Then you can be in charge and demand all of the above.

Can’t disagree more. I can’t imagine adding milk or sugar to tea. Too many things now add sugar and other things to take away from the essence of what the thing is.

Bit off topic but I liked Devo’s take on religion when they would play as Dove the Band of Love. They would chastise Devo for their devil music. Excellent version of Serve Somebody by Booji boy and there own song I saw Jesus. They would play as a separate band before their own gigs. Get paid as two separate bands.