save the frogs

that's the spirit, man. i thought you quit the forum because someone hurled one too many insults at your political candidate or your dietary choices. glad you stuck around.

no matter what anyone does, there will always be people who will find a reason not to like you. the more opinions you express, the more people will dislike you because it's impossible for a bunch of people to agree with everything you say. bignok or anyone else doesn't bother me at all. I don't care who is posting what. I just respond to whatever I see fit to respond to.

report on vancouver, canada. seems like drug abuse is out of control there.

Rodney Dangerfield: I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it. My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too. When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother. This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

some people purposely "draw abuse" to themselves. I suppose you can try going the route of convincing the mods to adjust how they moderate. good luck. I ain't got the time nor the inclination.

that's one thing i love about bargirls. they been around and they got stories.

But here's the main point, in my opinion. Many people are control-freaks. You can't control what other people are doing. You only have control over how you respond to it. You can ignore people or you can go on their threads and challenge what they say.

Also, what about feeling safe as a foreign business owner in Philippines who is known to be generating a lot of income?

and yet, he might win the poster of the year award.

If your flight dates are very flexible, use the "Whole Month" feature on SkyScanner. It will give you the cheapest flight for the entire month and you can search months ahead also.

try going directly on the airline website ie airasia.com

that's pretty deep stuff.

maybe AN should have a rule to keep posts under 10,000 words. say what you want about bignok, but at least he's succinct.

Depends where you grew up. In my 'hood we would always say "was you".

There should be an overall best poster. But there should also be sub-categories. I would like to nominate a sub-category. Most Resilient Poster of The Year (MRP) The guy who can take the most insults and still not quit the forum. You can insult his political candidate and if the guy lives in Pattaya and you start a thread saying Pattaya sucks, the guy doesn't quit the forum. He just keeps coming back. He can lose 100 arguments, but he won't quit. Like honey badgers are really resilient. If a venomous snake bites them, they can sleep it off. They can withstand spears. Asean Now MRP. Resilient and fearless. Like a honey badger.

topic seems fine to me.

forum needs an edgier name. what about "The Last Samurai"?

exactly. the US govt gave people FREE money for sitting at home playing video games all day. ie people didn't need to SLAVE AWAY in the 9 to 5 grind during that period. absolute BLISS not having to slave away at a 9 to 5 grind and getting free money. maybe humanity will one day finally be liberated from the shackles of 9 to 5 drudgery and mostly meaningless jobs for once and for all. all thanks to covid! and .... how do you know who bought what with what? the article claims = means nothing

his threads have continuity. it's like a story with a plot, an autobiography of sorts. but also mostly a fairy tale. let's see if it is a fairy tale with a happy ending. or if he ends up in a gutter like many of the protagonists in his fictitious story.

Kunming sucks, apart from having an interesting climate. Spring city = climate is around 20 degrees centigrade all year round. But other places in Yunnan province in China are worth a visit, like Dali, Lijiang. Sapa Kathmandu

because he's making it up?

sorry for your loss.

so bignok voted for himself? shouldn't that be disallowed? is his mother allowed to register and vote for him too?

I gave Trump as an example. Half his tweets are probably nonsense, although I don't read them.

why would you need to slap someone after punching them? add insult to injury?