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You're an Australian engineer. I'm a City of London trained international funds lawyer. Are you sure you want to go down the education route? You know you're basically unarmed in that regard.

I never have orgasm until I meet you grandpa. And grandpa believed her.

Humility is much underrated and invaluable. Particularly in person. It has to be genuine of course. I think that's why people loved Ozzy Osbourne so much, he was very genuine and honest. Maybe not humble, though. Reinventing yourself now and then is always good. To be stuck in a rut or a bubble is not very conducive to growth. Or we grow or we die. And if we discover how ignorant we are about life, that is helpful too.

For someone who snorted his own urine from the floor in front of strangers he seems very beloved by others. No matter what you do, people can still love you. It's a testament to humanity, this love for OO.

i'm sure it won't happen if you tend the garden carefully every day. It was just one of the things you mentioned prominently in why you felt so happy now. Clearly a good partner is crucial. Yet if it depended on that other person it would be a fragile happiness. Everything does have consequences. Scary but true.

So if your wife cheated and left you, your happiness would be gone? The garden analogy is good, and of course it's true, you need the financials to be sorted before you can even think about happiness. Without good financials the basics would not be in place.

Careful, those are your two only readers...😂

Oh so no major publisher for this monumental 160,000 plus words master piece? That's disappointing. I thought there'd have been a bidding war between Penguin and Macmillian for an autobiography of such an important personage. Obviously not. Shame. Well, enjoy uploading...😂

I'm sure both of your readers will be disappointed. Just as I was to read "on it", when grammatically "in it" would be more usual. But you always were a free spirit. I hope you put enough money away for printing the two copies.

This is why submissive rituals with the female are so powerful. The problem in Thailand is the language itself sadly, to master Thai is an uphill struggle for most, and to master English is not easy for her usually. Unless she went to a bilingual school. So the niceties of language play a much diminished role in Thai and Farang relationships, sadly.

I just remember Domino's from Grand Cayman, it was one of the best on the island. I've never had it in Thailand. I do know for a fact that Pizza Hut has far worse pizzas in Thailand than in the West. No idea why. Tried it once in Thailand, couldn't eat it.

In Chiang Mai we also have authentic wood fired pizza: https://byhandpizza.com/ Pizza my heart in Nimman is also very good. Italics in Akyra Manor if you want it elegant. Adirak Pizza is also good.

The pain pleasure principle is ultimately very interesting because pleasure is of course stimuli, say a skilled masseuse, but again you can overdo it, and then it becomes pain. Just a matter of dosage. Ultimately pain and pleasure are the same thing, stimuli.

Well, these adrenaline or dopamine peaks you can get with extreme sports, sex, drugs or other stimuli are always going to be limited. You only have so much adreanline, dopamine, your stomach is only so big. Indeed our system can only take so much, some musicians have tried to over indulge in drugs, and paid the ultimate price. Since we are not designed for permanent peaks of happiness, indeed, if we seek them out we may die, these ultra hedonist pursuits of pleasure are bound to never be fully satisfied. Particularly since you need ever increasing larger doses of stimuli to get the same effect. So how come you feel so happiy with yourself now? Because you lsot a lot and had to restart and you feel you've overcome that obstacle?

Bliss does exist, and you can get it via MDMA, sex, even a great meal or hanging with cool people, but those are peaks of happiness. Just peaks. What if we are always happy, or almost always? And those bliss moments are just temporary peaks. What if extra-ordinary happiness is neither real nor desirable, ie not real in the sense of very fleeting. There is a limit in how much of these happiness peaks you can experience. You can only eat so much, shed so much dopamine. So this is always limited. I think bliss is a false hope

Maybe the best post all day. I think his advantage is that he has managed to adjust his expectations radically.

I like the New York all cheese version as well, but clearly not a real NY pizza. Not bad though.

The worst, after you abstain for a week or two, hedonist pleasure gets even better.

My problem with lowering expectations, and I did try this and live in a Zen monastery for a while, it's incredibly hard. I'm very attached to my hedonist pleasures. Rationally I understand that letting them go would be sensible, but I'm just too attached to them.

I thinks this is a good way to live. There is a thing called hedonistic adaptation. If you won the lottery, the happiness will wear off after some time, just as if you break your leg, the misery will ear off in due course. The peaks in happiness which hedonism, say, food, sex or drugs, gives you, are very fleeting. However, a modest life will reqauire modest expectations, which is the real key to happiness.

Was that the chicken pineapple pizza? Quite like that one, the sauce is better than the tomato sauce, lol.

Aye, Antica Pizzeria da Michele. Now that's pizza.

I dont' know why Domino's got such a bad rap, quite good pizza. Pizza Hut now also do artesan Napoli style pizza.

I thought this thread was about Oprah.

The sauce is way too sweet. They add too much sugar in the tomato sauce. There's too much of it as well.