save the frogs

someone actually made a documentary on this topic. people who drink in bars in the AM in New York City. there's even an ominous bible quote about this type of behavior. Isaiah 5:11 New King James Version (NKJV) Woe to those who rise early in the morning, That they may follow intoxicating drink; Who continue until night, till wine inflames them!

no sorry, maybe wim hof will post sth

in my opinion, it's always best to try to get it from food. supplements are not optimal. coconut water is fairly high in magnesium.

cirque du soleil probably isn't cheap. but the point is ... do you need or want to be entertained every single night? i don't. i'm more of an introvert. and i don't think i would like being surrounded by thousands of people constantly either. this is not for me. i might have a nervous breakdown on these ships.

I think calcium supplements are bad for you and should be avoided. I recommend you get calcium from diet. https://www.healthline.com/health/osteopenia#symptoms Causes of Osteopenia - not getting enough exercise - a diet lacking calcium and Vitamin D (plus others) Osteopenia Diet To get enough calcium and vitamin D, eat dairy products such as cheese, milk, and yogurt. Osteopenia Exercises Walking 30 minutes a day will strengthen your bones (plus other exercises)

that's world class entertainment. impressive that they would have that on a cruise.

This guy who wrote this article thinks cruises suck. One of the reasons is the same as the reason HappyExpat gave - the port stops are too short and you end up just visiting tourist traps. Did anyone else mention seasickness? https://lifehacker.com/12-reasons-why-cruises-are-terrible-vacations-1848945802/slides/13 In my whole life, no one who has returned from a cruise has ever told me an interesting story about their trip. According to David Foster Wallace, in his book A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, on a cruise, “Your troublesome capacities for choice, error, regret, dissatisfaction, and despair will be removed” and absent those, without the possibility of failure, real fun is impossible. While I’ve listed a ton of unexpectedly awful things that can happen on a cruise, there are no corresponding unexpectedly awesome things. Best-case-scenario is that everything goes as planned and you have a bland week full of the kind of weak-ass hedonism where you say things like, “I can’t believe how much shrimp I ate at the buffet!” You can’t decided to spend another day in Puerto Vallarta because you met a local in a bar. You can’t decide you’d rather camp than stay in a hotel. You’re not going to discover a little off-the-beaten-path restaurant. You’re going to do what Carnival Cruise Line has determined their target market will enjoy. And that, in a word, sucks.

ok, thanks for the heads up. i might try a 2 week cruise at some point just to see what they're like.

seriously? you guys got the cote d'azur, one of the nicest regions in the world. world-class cuisine, wine, warm weather and beaches in the south. also, EU passport gives you chance to retire in greece/portugal etc... also with warm weather and beaches. thailand is cool too, but with health insurance issues in later years, i would consider going back to france at some point if i were you. are you worried about recent politics? i dont think france will get worse and worse. but maybe politics is over my head, so what do I know? good luck.

and being a drug addict on top of all of that! ha ha.

the markets are always fluctuating. there's a million reasons why they fluctuate.

you asked me about cycling and the cyclist that i know just got a concussion. i realize it doesn't happen to everyone. but one might even argue that cycling is an "extreme sport" more than exercise. if not, why is it recommended to wear a helmet? i used to jog, developed all sorts of pains. back pains, knee pains, ankle pains. i met a jogger who had a friend who dropped dead at the finish line of a marathon. i will not jog ever again. there's no NEED for it. there are other much safer ways to exercise. do whatever you want. walking is the least dangerous way to get around and least risky form of exercise. walking is quite effective as cardio, but probably only effective if done an hour daily. low risk, low intensity. but still effective. no risk of over-exerting the heart. most people, especially adrenaline junkies, will find it far too boring. ideally, you can live in a busy area where you can walk to pick up groceries daily. 20 minutes of walking to pick up groceries daily is not nothing. it will help reduce risk of disease. in fact, several relatively short walks daily helps a lot because the blood glucose in the body goes down. i like tennis for cardio. but there are some problems with finding the right people to play with sometimes. or courts are not always available depending where you live. and i also think a good form of cardio is shadow boxing (or set up a punching bag) in front of the tv instead of sitting on the sofa when watching TV.

going to a different city every day gets boring? the stimulation of different sights and sense doesn't do it for you? i dunno. never been on a cruise. maybe the type of travel where you stay in one place for a long time is better for me. not sure.

I just thought about the food situation. You can eat outside the cruise ship at local destinations, so it would be hard to get bored if you didn't eat on the ship every day. But the food on the ship is already paid for, so then you would be paying extra to eat outside the ship.

Just as I thought. It's partly designed for digital nomads. There is wifi, meeting rooms ... Half the customers are under 60 ... some folks in their 20s. Rooms look nice. 128 countries.

i'm not a fan of cycling either. for one thing, there is a risk of accidents. one guy that i know has cycled for 30 years. he has had 2 falls. the first one he got lucky. he could have gotten hit by a car. and more recently, he got a minor concussion. his helmet cracked. not sure how fast he was going. so accidents may not happen frequently, but can be dangerous when they do. so now multiple hospital visits needed to monitor the concussion. and who knows if concussions can resurface in old age as dementia? like jogging, cycle can lead to competitiveness and you can overdo it. this same guy who got the concussion. he is in his 60s. the group he cycles with (maybe some younger guys) was pressuring him because he couldn't keep up with the pack. so he's probably causing too much strain on his heart to try to keep up with the others. and they usually cycle for 4 hours at a time, and probably at fairly high intensity. i'm not a big fan of high intensity cardio for extended periods of time like that. but disclaimer: i am not a cardiologist.

that doesnt really look like a sword. do you really need to get swords involved? why cant people use diplomacy?

you are the king of one-liners on aseannow

fair point. but what is excessive? how can you possibly know if you're jogging too much? wait until you feel arythmia? the only way to know is to continually go to the cardiologist to get monitored. and if you're not insured, that's more out of pocket costs. the other problem with jogging is people get addicted due to jogger's high. and it lends itself to competition ... marathons, people trying to out-jog each other. so I believe people should avoid jogging altogether and do low-intensity cardio which you won't have to worry about damaging the heart and frequent visits to the cardiologist. .

also, 3 years is a long time. what if you develop a health issue? will they reimburse?

yeah very expensive as hummin mentioned

you changed your name from bogs to bob and are no longer identifying as a female?

we dont know what their relationship was

you're right. my comments were in poor taste. but trying to guess how he was murdered is even worse. RIP to the deceased and condolences to family.

or someone whose name is Oraf but sometimes calls himself Olaf.