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4 hours ago, Klonko said:

Rule of thumb: wine retail prices in Thailand = restaurant prices in Europe. I buy wine in the 1000-3000 THB range, but spend less money than my beer drinking buddies, because a bottle lasts 3-4 days maintaining the quality with the Coravin system.

It's probably fair to say you're drinking significantly less than your buddies if a bottle (7 drinks) lasts you four days!

Six beers is easily doable for me socially and I'm still in control (tho I wouldn't drive!)

Any geezer who starts a second family here has a screw loose.

Even if she's an angel, you're still an old grandad, you'll very likely leave your kids with no daddy before their teen years. That's messed up.

Don't be such a big girls blouse, it doesn't hurt much at all to get it snipped!

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

Here's an example , due to historically high heat in the UK, EU , in some areas

grass has died off, and the famers are having to use their winter stocks of feed

to feed their livestock now, that's grass a plant you may not think of as a crop

but is, 

regards worgeordie

Then not enough rain plus evaporation. There goes your rice.

Alternately too much rain or rain at the wrong time in a harvest cycle, there goes your grains, potatoes, etc. 

Extreme heat and excess rain water can also effect livestock.

Extreme weather from Scotland to Australia has been basically occurring every six months for the last three years. 

And still some people have any excuse but the obvious one!

 I love Rupert Murdochs idiotic comment that a Snow blizzard couldn't be global warming, when everyone knows snow happens at relatively warm temperatures.

Winters are literally too warm for the planets own good. 

The Chinese Communists as usual loving their CO 2 emissions as they dream of a north pole year round shipping access to trade with arsehat Vlad and avoid the Suez, Hormuz, and Malacca strategic checkpoints. 

Their claims of being world leader green champions is the usual blatant BS they churn out nonstop. 

Like how they were going to turn back Pelosi. 

555 Do be brief, you red book waving nimmeranjies!

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15 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

So you want me to  not wear a helmet, throw  my  rubbish out  of  the car onto the road, speed, drive  drunk, drive the wrong way on roads  using the hard  shoulder (motorcy).........I mean you cant have it both ways

Haha. I liked this!!

But, even tho I have plenty to say about Thai hypocrisy as part of the culture, and the way it's group centric like all Asian cultures, this is the key.

Thai bigotry is bad enough without giving them even more reason to hate, it comes back to us in a thousand ways, they have the upper hand while we're on their turf.

Sadly we "lifers" all pay for the two-bit individualism of tourists who <deleted> off home!

I'm no fan of the colour politics here, but I wore black, that time when we were all obliged to for a good many months. 

In Thailand we'll have less friction if we go along to get along. 

Make no mistake, I don't like it, but I see where my bread is buttered, and make the small adjustments for the bigger benefits they bring me.

This was always going to happen.

The global lockdown was necessary while we got a handle on this thing. 

There was hope we could beat it.

We did with SARS.

This time, we were SOL.

Now, I'm in the middle. 

I'm double boosted. If C19 means a vax every six months or annual, so be it 

Masks are now I think 90% ridiculous medical theatre, but... I would rather wear one on crowded planes than not. 

You do you, I'm masking up in certain places because it "feels" safer even if it's not!

On the other hand, not masking in Bars, bed, although the mask I think is kind of kinky in a bondage sort of way!  

Sure it's irrational, but I'm now in the habit on trains and (crowded) planes, and I do feel safer in those situations.

I have always been a hand germophobe, I avoid face hand contact, escelator rails etc. and wash my hands everywhere I can get a chance, including carry my own wipes.

Beyond this, I'm fatalistic. I am now at three-score and one years now, it's all borrowed time. 

And the monkey(business) pox is absolutely going to SLAM the tourist scene, both the sex and drug (full moon) industry are going to be devastated unless people quit with thier anti-science freedumb thots and vax-up for the pox. 

Happy days ahead if you be smart, not paranoid, we're all NOT gonna make it anyway, there's a toe-tag with your name on it. 

Have a nice weekend! ????

31 minutes ago, Red Forever said:

More red meat for the Thaksin hate mob.

The worry is that Prayut will backdate the costitution signed by His Majesty in 2017. Give democracy back to the Thai people even if it means Abhisit returning.

It's a wretched cesspit of gross and all-pervasive corruption, there is no hope, no matter which set of villains is in parliament, end of report.

The judiciary are government puppets. Always will be no matter who rules. 

Incredible how people fall for the utter <deleted> Thai politicians love to put out. 

If you're one of the lucky ones who have built here. 

Then solar is a no-brainer. 

High installation costs, but you can actually sell energy back to the grid!

Has anyone here done it?

Gawhok! (BS in Thai!)

Also, yesterday in NZ I got a free Pfizer 2nd booster. 

So being in LoS prior, I now boast the cocktail of:

Sinovac

Astra Zeneca 

Moderna

and now

Pfizer.

The nurses spent a bit of time on the computer making sure I wasn't going to keel over. 

To the chagrin of many here, I'm still standing!

Dealt with a massive cold last month, the first in five years.

I've even felt a bit "off" at work on two separate occasions, but ART tests were always negative. 

We're obliged to wear masks at work, I wear the cloth variety, apparently medically useless, but they're way more comfortable plus I am over it!

The public should, but many don't and our work sometimes involves leaning in to demonstrate power tools.

Anyway, so far so good. Omicron has probably got at least half the Kiwi population by now, it overtook every other disease as the number one killer in July, but they're saying the overall infection numbers are reducing daily this month. 

Most people I work with have had Covid. I don't know anyone in LoS or NZ who's died from it.

Don't these blokes have local video stars on you tube to guide and inform newbies like the farangs do?

Please please Thailand, never adopt the insane and pointless habit of using car and bike horns non-stop for no logical reason. 

The Thai roads are bad enough as it is! 

I never saw HK until 1999 two years after hand over. 

By which time the famed Kai Tak landing approach was history too, as the new airport was in service. 

Still, it became one of my favourite cities, and as I was in my late 30s I seldom left without a hangover! 

The buffet supper at the Royal HK yacht club was a Roast Beef Colonial Extravaganza! Members and guests (visiting aircrew were guests) enjoyed one of the best deals on the planet! 

If you were savvy you knew that genuine perfume and colognes were way cheaper downtown than at the airport.

We used to buy pirated DVDs, particularly porn, ???? from shady top floor enterprises dotted around the street market in Kowloon. 

The Chinese food was ineffably scrumptious, especially when Cantonese crew members generously shared their favourite hole in the wall eateries. 

Years later in Portugal, I befriended a former Commander in the RHKP, he was in the Maritime Division, and his stories of adventure on the harbour made me wish I'd signed up back in the 70s!

His police pension was not too shabby either, €3000 a month! 

I wonder if the CCP have since ended those colonial payouts, it's very likely! 

I was last there in December 2019, arrived at dawn at the end of a Japan /Taiwan cruise, it was already falling apart. 

Male African refugees skulking menacingly in pedestrian underpasses, anti-china graffiti everywhere, visible signs of riot damage and street fires.

It was and is heartbreaking. 

There's a documentary on YouTube following ordinary Cantonese as they migrate to the UK.

Better than living under Communism, but moving from HK to the UK is probably something they'll never get over, I wish them well, and hope they do well (they will!) and at least improve the sad state of Chinese takeaway in the high streets!

I hear most of them have a hidden "authentic" menu for their own kind, while the drunken chavvies get the vile fried slop they know and love! 

Laughing boy Thaksin was a humble police officer.

Somehow he parlayed that into owning a national telecommunications company, then becomes PM.

That's all you need to know to figure out which side of the law he was always on. ????

Having said that, the entire system is built on crime corruption and feudal  patronage from the village headman right on up.

As in Communist China a "war on corruption" is just code for a bit of gangland spring cleaning to dispose of enemies who've become too powerful.

It probably won't ever change.

This will ruffle a few feathers, but tends not to happen in Xpress lane (premium boarding pass arrivals).

Never been asked in any lane ever, anyhow. 

21 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

You need some friends  mate OR You're using this thread as a mastubatory fantasy

BTW What is LTR

Are you always this skin-crawlingly embarrassing or only on the days you're on the turps?

Fortunately, I won't ever have to pollute my mind with the answer. 

You've already been blocked to restore my edition of AN to it's usual gutter level. ????

12 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Most women dont like anal.

I don't believe most men do either.

It's a porn trope. 

I believe the ratio of men who really like anal (vs like watching it)  would be equal to the men who really like pegging, as in being pegged. 

On 8/18/2022 at 10:55 PM, daveAustin said:

I hear they give a good massage... strong hands n all that. 

Only a bloke knows what a bloke likes.... 

And if you never go, they'll never blow. ????