save the frogs

but your story could get picked up by Hollywood and made into a film. although that's a long shot or not sure how it works, but maybe you can write a screenplay and try to reach out to hollywood if you've got the talent i dont read novels much, only books with information since there are so many movies for fiction some people say "the book is better than the film." could be. but i like visuals and you can watch way more films than read books. also, there's a lot free animations online. i like visuals, which have mostly replaced just printed text. if I do get back into reading, it would be mostly short stories though as I have no patience for 500 page books.

met a thai girl who bought a condo she's a real estate agent and she is a local, so she knows which develepors are reliable might be a good idea to research the developer, do a background check

ok, maybe thailand is more corrupt. what do i know?

no, western countries are not less corrupt. many scientific studies are deliberately flawed and paid by Big Pharma to give people misinformation on diet so people will get sick and need to end up in the hospital system. Corruption is the oldest profession in the world.

so you think western doctors are not trigger happy with prescribing drugs? how many people have been on antibiotics for the sniffles?

every generation has pros and cons 20sthings can work off a laptop and travel the world / make money on youtube ... that wasn't possible in previous generations

this is basically the same thing as an abortion, but a more cruel version

FYI: Guide to Property in Hua Hin https://www.investasian.com/property-investment/property-hua-hin/

there's a lot of crazy people with crazy agendas so blocking free speech isn't always a bad thing

thailand gets 34/100 freedom score, but based on what criteria? seems like a silly baseless score to me.

if you're over 50, you can get a retirement visa and you can open a thai bank account with it.

talking to a screen is boring. will be fun fun fun when they start putting chatGPT in humanoid robots. we can all have our own R2D2

we don't really need pets, but we keep them. hopefully super-advanced AI intelligent beings that are a billion times smarter than us will see us the same way we view pets.

please don't.

a car stopped and let me cross where there were neither lights nor a pedestrian crossing. no rhyme or reason.

maybe no one will be too interested in solving it given the victim's criminal past.

there are cycling clubs that do cycling tours, in thailand and other parts of se asia. just do a google search.

no, it doesnt damage the reputation of all farangs. try to conduct yourself properly and you'll be fine.

what up with the rottweilers? what was their role in all of this?

good post and good topic. a lot of people here are working 6 days a week for not much money. sad stuff. i went into a bar the other night. just played a game of pool with one of the girls and bought her a drink. and then asked her if she was hungry. thought i'd be a bit charitable and throw in a meal for the possibly struggling single mother. she orders street food, i pick up the tab, then she takes one bite and leaves the rest. i asked her why she didn't finish it. she said "too salty". yeah, like she's never eaten that food before. i just wasted 90 baht thinking i was doing someone in need a small favor. maybe she's not that broke. or maybe all they care about is getting that 2000 baht for the monkey dance. but anyway, i'm not a huge fan of foreigners to come to thailand and living lavish lives. and just not looking and acting arrogant is a big deal. there's an orphanage I heard about. I think it was originally set up by foreigners.

7-11 has bananas

Just remember to boycott the Americano.

I just noticed a woman with a tiny kiosk selling coffee on the side of the road is using a yellow moka pot.

stevia has an odd taste, so i stopped using it. use cane sugar now. not 0 calories, so need to burn them off.

Do they attack people for just refusing them or did this guy insult the ladyboy?