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About 800 baht a pop. I foolishly bought 50 sessions to commit myself, so for me it's 500 baht a session. 6-12 sessions are all you need. After that, he (not many women do this) was more of an accountability partner than a trainer. I still have 20 sessions to use up, hence the Muay Thai try. My Muay Thai training session was super-basic. I punched forcefully into a big mitt he held up. I lifted my knee hard like I was kneeing someone in the you-know-whats. I held on to a pillar to steady myself for some high kicks. Very exhausting, even with breaks, and I am still pretty sore 2 days later. It made me skip a weights day. Still, I'll try again today. Moderate walking won't do it. You need to be fairly out of breath and sweating a bit, for about 10-20 minutes continuously. Leisurely strolling up a hill is better than nothing, but not doing much for your heart. The golden rule is that if you can carry on a conversation, you're not working hard enough. This is why my year 1 results were so tepid: What I thought was a strenuous workout was too easy to really progress much. It took me a whole year just to get confident that I wouldn't injure myself. Still, even with a modest program, you'll def soon get more energy and slightly better posture. Also, you'll sleep like a rock and feel about 15% more positive about everything. The endorphin effect is real, even after the first hard 10 minutes. I thought it would be more rah-rah, like in a Nike commercial. It's a very subtle low buzz of optimism that lingers throughout the day.

I def do that riff after I tell them I was kidding. No way is Chris Rock a known entity in Bible-land. I can claim it as my own bit. And after I tell them I was kidding, I tell them the real new street name will be Malcom X Avenue. They don't remember who Malcom X was, but whoever he was they're against him. Excuse me, I mean A-gin him.

Def back in Nimman. You have to book stuff like a mani/pedi or a real massage for the weekend. We like it a little full. Every is on vacation here. Just a great, cheery vibe.

I view Trump Trash as a counter culture, not a cult. So I'm super-good with them having their own songs, funny hats, flags, whatever.

I actually make him a grilled cheese sandwich when he comes over. He's an Edam-man. Always a great, slightly lost afternoon -swapping between Mor Lam, Roots Reggae, and EDM on Youtube.

We had a confederate flag rally at Walmart. I was skeptical. No double-way would vanilla-Walmart allow that. But it was only one guy. He was our neighbor. He offered us a free bible, but we'd already taken 2 off of him. In Trump Trash Land, the ettiquette is that you can turn down a third bible. And a yard sign. Fair play tho, I never met a red neck who hadn't used the ultra thing pages of a bible to roll a spliff, often in recent memory. We had naming rights on the long road up to our house. We told everyone we were going to name it Martin Luther King Boulevard. The strained politeness was sweet to milk to the max. But we're on the road to Dollywood. So our hometown has been fairly ruined for decades. Philly lives in the falafel shadow of New York, like every other non-Israel destination (except for Pai).

He's slavishly imitating Tyler Childers's style (new blue grass-ish country mega-star). That world is laughing at him hard over that. Blue grass used to be where hippie meets redneck at the fiddlin' festival. Now Bluegrass is about 95% a liberal interest, like so-called world music is. I wonder where he'll play live. Hopefully with Aaron Lewis*. But at least he wrote it himself. Tune-wise, in that genre, it's not bad at all. Jason Isbel, another Alt-Country major name said to Jason Alden: "For once, write a song. All by yourself. I want to hear it". So fair play to Beardo. Trump Trash dog whistle alert: Richmond is where the confederate fade out for good. So yeah, "North of Richmond" equals Gomorrah. *Aaron Lewis wrote the best Trump Trash song (and again, fair play, it's a fairly decent song):

Seems a little on the light side. Why not an ebook, an audiobook, AND a film? Or better yet, how about a Bob Smith Asian Now Post Compilation Immersive Experience like this one for us ALL to enjoy?

I go to Philly every other year and stay in Chinatown. Thai food: respectable (No one reading this eats Thai when they visit home). Burmese food: fair (but C'mon, at least they have Burmese food -in a room that hasn't changed in 40 years). Malaysian: 2 good options (heavy, heavy peanut sauce. Roti as entree? Why not?). Chinese: North East USA Chinese food is it's own thing, the king of all Chinese food (would kill for Schezuan in CM -only available at The Shangri-la, but it's proper Schezuan. I want Upper West Side of Manhattan-Schezuan). Can't fault it, I think of it as Boston on a budget (due to all the old Revolutionary War stuff etc.). And they have a Gaughan painting. A good one.

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Bob, your insights have made me realize an ethical dilemma that I feel that only you can help me parse. My pot delivery guy liked a computer wireless speaker that I had 2 of. I traded that speaker for a thumb-sized piece of Afghan hash. Net/net, I took like a 500 baht value-"loss" on the trade. On the other hand, owning a piece of hash that big was a boyhood dream come true. Does he owe me a couple of pre-rolled's?

I paid a boat load of taxes, I ask for nothing. My message to my fellow countrymen left behind: .

I believe it's pronounced Uh-murrr-ik-Kuh.

When we forgive others, we can finally forgive ourselves. Then our life work is mostly done.

I paid in, I should get paid out. That don't take no legal great mind to suss out. Can I just pretend to deeply feel this corn ball, b/s allegiance that you pretend to care about and then just laugh out loud when they turn their back, after I get the money? Because I would love that. And so, apparently, would you. What are these supposed benefits? Our embassies won't do hardly anything for us, ever. Medicare is not transferable over here. I guess if I need Marines to save me......well, iffy at best.

Those women had power of their sex workers that men can only dream of. They could tell the guys not to ask for money and have them go along with it and provide sex up front and just hope for a payout up the road. That shows the power of the you-know-what (begins with a P).

AN Member: "The new glass sucks. You should have been here 20 years ago. Now, that was a glass."

Yeah, I said semi-documentary. Like Pumping Iron was.

That Gambia docu of the OP was some pretty drawn out, thin crap. Gotta find Paradise Love. There's a scene in Paradise Love where a young black man is asked to go down on an older women and he starts wailing, "I can not". For further thoughts on resistance to oral love among a certain community, def listen to this salacious Millie Jackson monolog: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=all+the+way+lover+by+Millie+jackson&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:011b1080,vid:AijntbWBEZc

Would love a martial art in the mix when I am stronger. I tried Aikido while in Hua Hin, loved it, but if you're doing that, it pretty much crowds out other exercise. They have it near me at CM Uni. (I think). I still need to exercise alone until I am sure that I am not a burden on a group.

A million years ago, I stayed at a Muay Thai place near the river in Ubon for a week. They had me turning over a giant tire over and over again. Great camaraderie. Def a few Santips at the end of the day. These days, I want a/c. My trainer was my guy for my 10 kg loss. If I can double that loss in the next year, life expectancy tables take me out to 92-94. 'Have to give some appreciation to Lacesit who posts here. He started training past 70 too. Not much advice out there for such late starters. I don't agree with every last thing he says (his war on carrots), but he def helped me out a lot. Khun La was another help.

I subscribe to Ahhhnold's daily motivation newsletter. He doesn't sell your name and his advice is pretty good. In a year, very on and off and finding my way, I lost 10 kilo's. Not fantastic, but I'm fighting both a busted thyroid and Pad Thai availability on tap. Most 70 year olds are putting on 10 kilo's, not losing it.

Went 3 times, didn't love it. No Buddhism, no sanuk, too many samey spring rolls. Hanoi over HCM 10 to 1. If you go, allow plenty of time for a visa. We booked one that was supposed to show up in my inbox in 3 days. It took 9 days. Had to blow off a flight. Maybe consider paying a premium for an online agent.

I'm now fit enough to be able to get most of the way thru a 45 minute martial arts-oriented aerobics class (called Kombat at Jett's Gym). I have a bunch of pre-paid trainer sessions to use up, so will start one on one martial arts practice tomorrow. I'm 70, in medium-good shape. I don't think I will ever get in a ring for a Muay Thai fight. I see this mostly filling in aerobics-wise on my non-weights days. It might come in handy someday in a shove and run scenario. Has any oldie here ever used to Muay Thai for fitness or otherwise? And has anyone ever seen the film Ong Bak? It was one of the few Thai movies to ever play in America. A rousing kickboxing blowout with a decent plot. Has anyone has seen Ong Bak2 and Ong Bak3? In a perfect world, eventually, I will be filling in on Ong Bak4. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368909/

Jetts is nice because you can use any Jett's Gym in Thailand. They have daily and weekly rates. They really whack you on the day rate (500 baht, I think) to inspire you to go longer.