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I'm TOTALLY against drugs, my friend. Except, everyone should be grateful to live in the age of antibiotics and vaccines. Smallpox is no fun. This is the disease which makes one smaller. Thankfully, I have been inoculated. If Smallpox ever escapes the labs in North Korea, then everybody around the world will become shorter. Thankfully, the Gates Foundation is on the case,and we need not worry about this eventuality.

This is because I am not a racist.

If you want cheap food which is delicious, nutritious, wholesome, and healthy, then please just head for the nearest university. Don't be afraid of the students. If you don't bother them, they won't bother you. Major universities have up to a dozen cafeterias strategically located throughout the campus. Also, while at Chula, you can also sign up for an intensive Thai language course. 15 hours per week of Thai. Plus food at the cafeteria. Sounds like pig heaven to me. Most tourists are idiots. Why bake oneself on a beach, when one can just as easily learn Thai at Chula in an air-conditioned classroom with dynamite instructors?

You'll be back.

Whatever happened to Arlo? Is he still alive? Or, did he finally choke on all that chicken.

WC Fields? Nobody enjoys ankle biters.

Do you know George Fazio? He designed this course: https://www.pga.com/play/pa/paoli/waynesborough-country-club/0928800 https://www.yelp.com/biz/waynesborough-country-club-paoli I just want to tell you: Never go there. I once was a member at this rinky-dink place. Established in 1965. In 1964, twelve far-sighted local business and professional men saw the need for a top flight, family-oriented country club in the Paoli area. Meeting at each other's homes, they conceived a club with first rate facilities that could be enjoyed by every member of the family. Today, the activities and facilities of Waynesborough Country Club accommodate the interests and requirements of over 600 members and their families. True to the planning and work of a dozen visionaries over 40 years ago, and with the tireless and imaginative efforts of dedicated officers and committee members in the intervening time, Waynesborough Country Club continues as a premier full-family country club. The only good thing at this course are the geese, which you can kill at Christmas Time to have your Christmas Goose, and cook it at the clubhouse. My advice to you is to stay off this course and read Dickens, instead. On the plus side: "A real 5 star country club. The golf course is immaculate and plays as a true test of championship golf. The course plays over 7000 yards from the tips and the course plays fast and long. Fairways are tight and fairly wide. Greens are amazing and very big. Easy to get lost in them and if you are a high spin player you will rip the ball off these greens. I didn't like how many plugged lies my group got in the bunkers both off the tee and greenside, we had 5 in our group which seems a lot, but the one non plugged lie I had they played beautifully. If you're fortunate to get the opportunity to play here, you'll enjoy it. A real special place!" I have never been a joiner of anything. This is why I hate all Country Clubs. I respect your love of golf.... But... This is why I hate golf: Do you see this nitwit bonnet he is sporting? This is Fazio, the guy who designed the course. Who in their right mind would ever hire a designer who had no style sense? To my mind, this guy looks like a... Anyway, I am too rough a person to play the refined game of golf. I prefer to listen to others with their stories of holes in one, and how they caught a fish in the par-three pond. Diving for balls was really what I loved to do most. Enjoy your exercise, my friend....if we are still friends, which I doubt.

CM, of course. When in Thailand, I eat only Thai food. When in ChengDu, I eat nothing but Sichuan cuisine. When in Taiwan, I never eat Taiwanese food, other than SanBeiJi. One thing I NEVER do is to Chi Doufu (eat beancurd) in Taiwan, just because it's sort of a pun. I will never again be in the Tri-state area. Therefore, I have long-ago banished Tri-state food, such as lebanon baloney from memory. Maybe I am better off without the nitrates and nitrites? Who knows. Concerning extravagant meals, I have already lost my interest. Concerning extravagant anything, I have lost my interest. Maybe it's the Thailand Effect? People can achieve happiness and fulfillment with a heck of a lot less. CM is better than Naples, Florida. In Naples, Florida, it's almost impossible to live without at least two Mercedes and many pairs of designer shades. Here in CM, one can subsist with a dozen 3M two dollah sunglasses which will last beyond the grave. In fact, I have included my dozen cheap 3M sunglasses in my will. One box of a dozen 3M sunglasses, 24 bucks, to my relatives. I just hope that they will use them wisely, and not squander them. Great Topic! Who does not like food? Who does not like peaches? Who does not like a peach tree painted by Van Gogh? Who can afford to buy a Van Gogh peach tree? Here, where I am, who can afford to buy a kilo of broccoli? Almost nobody at Bt.100 per kilo.

Are you so vain that you still think I am seeking your attention??? Anyway, truth be told, you are an excellent writer, or a writer of excellence. Obviously, I am not even half the writer you were, when you were in your prime, like Miss Jeane Brody. I canna spell, for one. You are older than I. So, in Thai culture, I should call you Pi. Take it easy, Man! I respect you. Remember when you corrected me? I had stated that plants require phosphorus. And you corrected me. You said that I meant phosphate. But, I did not mean phosphate. I meant phosphorus. By the way: The weather is now FINE for golf. Here up north, it's almost an autumn day. I am surprised that the leaves have not yet begun to turn color. Enjoy your golf outing during this glorious cool season. I used to love golfing in the month of October when the leaves were turning and the Canadian geese were landing on the green. I used to be a member at Waynesborough Country Club, way out on the Main Line. Take care, my friend. I wish you a very good afternoon on the links.

Health reasons? Funny you should mention such a thing. After having ceased all outside dining, April of 2020, I have experienced ZERO intestinal upsets. But is ZERO intestinal upsets worth the forgoing of amazing Thai food? No! Just as ZERO Covid does more harm than good. During the past 2.6 years, I have spent ZERO on restaurant dining, food delivery, or green tea yan. Also, during the past 2.6 years, I have even forgotten how to order food in passa Thai. Sometimes I feel sorry for myself, having missed eating over 1500 Thai dishes that I would have eaten without the pandemic. And then, I think how lucky I am to have not been on a respirator while being fed via a stomach tube with not much flavor, at all. In my opinion, Chinese cuisine is the best. Thai food is a close second. True Italian food is an even closer third. Cancer patients, for example, cannot taste the difference when undergoing some types of chemo and radiation treatments. This is why I am grateful to be able to enjoy my food, no matter how meagre the menu. Please don't misunderstand me. I could easily dine on prawns and crab everyday if I wanted to. It's just that I would prefer to be eating XingZhou Chao Mifen. And, just before the pandemic hit, our chef from Sichuan returned to ChengDu. After he left, it's been nothing but rice, cabbage, boiled eggs, etc. Nobody here knows how to properly work the stove. Thankfully, we are able to divert attention from food to other artistic pleasures,such as the paintings of Van Gogh. We have been reading Vincent's letters to his dear brother. These touching letters are so poignant that they almost entirely relieve us of any fixation on food. As well, we have been reading several culinary-related books, mostly Italian. Despite what you might think, we still consider ourselves, considering the world's present state, to be living high on the hog. So, please don't cry for me, Argentina...

I agree with you that skin color makes no difference to me, simply because I am better than that. And, also because, I prefer to live in a place where skin color is all the same color, except mine. However, if I were not white, like Jasmine Rice, and if my skin were black, for example, then I still would not mind being a Token Black Man. And, ALSO, I am fairly thick-skinned. So, I don't mind being called a token anything. Culture, on the other hand, is important to me.

Furthermore, I think you do not understand why I come to this forum. I come here simply because there are a few here who seem to have a wickedly dry and biting sense of humor, well written. Sometimes I come here to be derided. If I were not derided, often enough, I would leave this forum. I love to be mocked and ridiculed without mercy. This is the main reason I am here.

But then, TBH, are you really being honest with yourself?

Haha! I think it is YOU that does not understand that I don't care about the audience in this forum! As for your calling yourself a "pale face", I am just pleased that you picked up on the James Fenimore Cooper allusion, because I was not sure you had it in you to do so...

You are only able to naively say such a thing because you have never tasted brown sugar. Brown sugar, as everybody knows, is not the same.

There is a Chinese idiom which means: There is nothing that does not exist in China. I have enjoyed Oreo knockoffs which have a white cookie on the outside and dark chocolate on the inside. And, that's the way I like them.

Yes. But it was not always this way. In the past, he taught in China for a spell, until TianAnMen. TianAnMen freaked him out. He left Asia never to return. He wrote a book about his experiences, a fine collection of essays. Nowadays, it's only me, the last one standing, the Last White Mohican in Asia... Alas...

You have almost perfectly summed up some of the points of this topic. I am just a white guy in Asia. Yet, sometimes, Asian people objectify me due to the color of my skin. These days, it's all the rage to discuss the objectification of women. And, these days, everybody gets in a righteous huff about it. But what very few people talk about is the objectification of white men in Asia. For example: Five years ago, I was walking through a country village in Sichuan. One of the villagers approached me. He asked me if I wouldn't mind posing for a photo, dressed up in Qing Dynasty costume so that he could take a photo. His intention was to put my photo on a billboard in order to promote his beef noodle shops. He just wanted white beefcake, I guess. Naturally, I was flattered and acquiesced to his demand. However, most days, unless some villager asks me for a photo of me standing with his wife, just for laughs, I do forget that I am white. Even now, it's once in a blue moon that I see another white man. And, concerning white women? The only white women I have seen during the past three years is on YouTube. The only women I see around here are not the white ones. That's the way I like it. That's the way I've liked it since before the Y2K bug. Being an oddity in a foreign land is not new to me. I have only one white friend, and he is in NYC, a professor of Linguistics, not Steven Pinker from McGill.

Mostly, but not entirely.

This is an amazing mask! I purchased over 150 of these respirators, over three years ago, for personal use. N98. Great for exercise during the Smokey Season. As you will recall, about 4 years ago, the smoke was sky high! This respirator does the job while one is exercising in the smokey local mountains. When the respirator turns black, after a few kilometers of heavy breathing, then you need to break out a new mask. Fortunately, these N98 masks also work for most viruses. Therefore, when the virus hit, I was fully prepared. The cost was about Bt.80.00 per piece. Lazada had them up until the viral disaster of 2020. Try the 3M distributor in Thailand. These masks are definitely worth the money. Easy to breathe while exercising, and even while doing wind sprints or testing for your VO2 Max.

Dear Fellows, I have been here in Asia a very long time, practically since before most of you were born. During this time in Asia, I have been asked to do many things, simply due to my lighter shade of pale. I have been asked to do casual photo shoots to promote products in various Asian countries, just using my white skin which is the color of Jasmine Rice. I never charge money for these photos. I allow people to photograph me for free. I mean, if I charged money for this, then I would, in my mind, be prostituting myself. I do not consider myself to be extremely good looking, even though the girls in Pattaya would say I’m handsomer than most white people. I have been asked to work for companies solely as a result of my skin color. I do not mind it when companies such as these so obviously objectify me. There is an interesting phrase in Chinese which describes this situation: “to be a vase” (当花瓶) Some white guys become perturbed when they are singled out for being white. Not me! I don’t care if I am white. Being white has never troubled me. If anybody wants to single me out for being white, or wishes to call me white, then I am not bothered in the least. Just don’t call me some oreo cookie, white on the outside, dark on the inside, because I am not. My advice is to not charge money for your white skin If somebody wants to pay you money for a photo, then just smile, and say that you don’t take money for beauty. Never prostitute oneself for one’s skin color. Otherwise, this will be one’s first step to eventual moral ruin. So then, how many times have you been asked to be a “white vase” for a company, a photo, for a promotion, in Asia? I am guessing countless times. Just smile. But don’t take money in return. Personally, many years ago, I forgot I was white. Even when I stare in the mirror in the mornings, I do not recognize myself as being a white person, these days. It’s quite strange, really: The human brain tricks us into believing that we are, more or less, the same as the group we hang with. Even John Merrick often was lulled into this state of feeling himself part of the group. Thankfully, I am handsomer than Merrick, but maybe only on the outside. Never take money just for being white, is my advice, or you may live to regret it, like John Merrick. Best regards, Gamma

This great music will probably not last into the next millennium. And, not even into this millennium. Still... Good enough for Woodstock. But, such cacophony at the end. Totally cacophonous, almost from the beginning, even.

But....when REMASTERED.... They are still OK....

Even YouTube would not ban this link.... These guys really CANNOT sing worth...garbage....on stage.

Don't Listen to the Whiners of Manhattan Transfer when you can, alternatively, listen to the Chicago Transit Authority....BE A MAN, in other words... https://youtu.be/j8vY3vAbAdQ Check it out...because...YOUTUBE does not "allow" it. What is wrong with this link? NOTHING!