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  1. On 11/1/2024 at 11:01 AM, brewsterbudgen said:

    Been working as an English teacher since 2005.  Couldn't get the same level of remuneration back home (UK), so here for good now.  Plus I now have a family here (although not Thai).

     

    You must be a real teacher.  Are your kids being robbed of opportunities in life due to the Thai education system?  It's like overcoming a learning disorder or speech impediment. 

     

    I came to Pattaya to take the waters.  Maybe one day I'll find them. 

  2. 3 hours ago, tmd5855 said:

    When you have a son as a junkie, all family bedrooms have padlocks fitted, car keys locked away and visitors told to keep handbags and valuables on their person at all times, local burglaries laid at your door.  Visits by 6 cops, search warrants and sniffer dogs descending on your home and if drugs found repairs to doors/windows at your own expense.  

     

    Jail!!!!!  Do not make me laugh drugs were freely available in jail, wardens/guards are the unseen pushers to keep the so called "Krazies" calm.

     

    When the nightmare does end it is usually death.

     

    29th, December 2016 aged 27 my son took his life, a nightmare ended, yet to many that never directly suffered at the centre of pain, memories become kinder??  Me, mine have never changed, drugs destroy families, destroy family relationships, drugs are not innocent fun and a cheap way to happiness they are a path to conflict, loneliness and death.

      

    Do not ask for my solution to drug taking and the problems, you will not like my solution nor its timescale.

     

    As those two young men have found out, one with his life the haphazard way taking of drugs and thinking they are in control being smart!!!!!  usually ends in death.

     

    I've witnessed the same thing with close friends, hence the seemingly harsh statement.  This young man's death is now a "tragedy" instead of a "thank God it's finally over". 

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  3. 15 hours ago, Bingo66 said:

    Cool story but he's more famous and succesful at age 21 than you'll ever be posting nonsense on thaivisa at your age ... Let that sink in.

     

    He was a high level pro with over 50 fights and still only 21.

     

    Yes, he "was" all of those things and probably a lot more. Now he'll be remembered for dying like a junkie in a 700 baht flop house off of Buakhao.  

     

    Let that sink in. 

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  4. On 10/27/2024 at 4:01 PM, keysersoze276 said:

    Wrong as usual.  Way off base.  Your posts and replies are just bizarre and often contradictory and you seem to be in a constant state of confusion.  Maybe it is the steroids or maybe whatever causes you to go to do blood tests all the time.  What possibly went on in your head to give that ridiculous reply?  A knee jerk reaction, perhaps.  Think things through before you go into these nonsensical, baseless, ramblings.  I'm not even trying to be insulting or funny.  I wish you good health, it just seems like a mental health issue IMHO.  

     

    What's this bed wetting thing?  I don't go through people's post histories.  These forums aren't as anonymous as one might think. 

  5. On 9/25/2024 at 8:06 PM, georgegeorgia said:

    Now it's going to be very difficult to get back to your fitness 

    You left it too long 

     

    Look up "muscle memory" and get back to us. It's much easier to get back into shape after a layoff than it is go get fit for the first time. 

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  6. On 10/5/2024 at 7:16 PM, steven100 said:

     

    what else can they feed them except grass   ?

     

     

     

    They can also be fattened on corn and finished on grass or grain. They grow rapidly on corn but it's hard on their guts.  An uncle raised cattle in an organic fashion and his beef was sold the day the calves showed up at the farm.  People line up for quality beef. 

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  7. On 10/8/2024 at 6:15 PM, billaaa777 said:

    Go to Buda Mountain and the museum across the road. You should like that the museum, it has a few Chinese Terracotta Warriors that are super cool along with all kinds of other great stuff. 

     

    Great recommendations.  The Chinese temple was like an oven inside in July, despite the massive floor fans all over the place. It really is a quality attraction though, and only 50 baht.  I was surprised to find terra cotta warriors in there. 

     

    George, you might want to check the definition of laminating. I'd go with "contemplating" .  Do you ride a motorbike?  It's easy to reach all of the major tourist attractions around Pattaya in a day. 

     

    There's a really cool place called "Coffee War" a few minutes past Buddha Mountain that's worth a trip.  The coffee was good and only 100 baht. The price of admission is any drink, so you could go for water if coffee isn't your thing. 

     

    Another attraction, though an hour away, is to visit Moo Deng, the world famous baby pygmy hippopotamus, at a zoo in Si Racha. 

     

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    On 10/12/2024 at 8:13 AM, georgegeorgia said:

    ,I hired a Grab motorbike taxi 39 baht from Jomtien to Pattaya,

     

    Even 50 baht for that trip seems low.  I pay over the odds for a few things because I hate the economic race to the bottom. The old taxi fares were rape, with quite a few (but not all) drivers going for the throat. Now they're all paying the price whilst large multinational corporations are making the lion's share of the profit.  There's a balance somewhere in the middle where both parties can walk away feeling ok about the transaction.  

     

    Last year I had a great massage woman in her late 40s who was skilled and as strong as a rice farmer (yes, she was a woman). The shop charged 200 baht per hour for Thai massage, so of course the women try to jack off the customer to make the extra money. 

     

    Proper Thai massage is damned hard work, especially during high season when they're busy for 12 hours per day.  I paid 500 baht per hour for an excellent massage that relieved some serious knots, and didn't have to put up with being pestered to pay for something that is taken care of by someone younger. 

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