Reginald Prewster

7 minutes ago, connda said:

Here's a better idea that doesn't threaten the entirety of humanity:  Wear Condoms!

I thought that as my daughters were old enough to call me and ask me to borrow them a couple of quit to pay their debts like "Forgot to pay the rent, electric bills, car insurance"  .......

61 years now, did my best since my navy time starting 1982:

Shuffle in whatever I liked

don't leave as first the party, there are always a last "few for the road"

smoking average 0.2 ounces weed and pot a day and live on chocolate bars when the eating flash pops in... 

travel the world (57 countries) but don't miss the whore houses and get pickled in beer

ride all kind of bikes and not cars

....visit a class party last year, and be shocked that about 50% passed over the spoon

30 % had heart attacks, brain strokes or carry cancer around..

One got hit by a bus and is now kind of picking daisy flowers under his bar stool... 

I have reduced my parties a bit because since 4 years I am on a seasonal project (7 month),

working 12 hrs/day and every 2nd Saturday off.

They have here a zero tolerance safety policy. 

Hence Saturday I get usually bashed.

 Let me see, any chance I start with 27 again?

Well I guess I would just do the same as I did always....

15 hours ago, Adumbration said:

When my little dog hears roosters crowing in the distancing he starts baying like a wolf howling at the moon.

Never got used to it? 

What a fuzz about chickens here.

We have 2 Chicken Paddocks on our Farm.

Just opposite of our Houses and neither the Housemaid, Farmhelper and ourself find it annoying.

30 Brahmas with 3 Rooster and a very deep crow make us laughing often and 50 Plymouth Rocks with 5 Rooster give their best in Sophran.

A morning in Isaan... 

4 am the roosters start their competition,

me, take the phone, look how late it is and give it another 1 hr snooze thinking:

Countryside life is cool.

No loud Dickheads on their tuned motorbikes or cars, no unnatural noises, no drunk whores moaning to their husbands,  just contryside and roosters.

The next Village is about 3 Kilometers away...

6 am the farmgang starts their morning chores and i sit at my lake watching my fishes and ....well, listen to the roosters with a big grin on my face... 

Life can be fair, can it? 

LOL as young boy with 12 years of age we made some (stupid) fun with chickens.

We saked barley in strong brine and before use we rinsed it with clear water..

Neighbor's chicken went to the trench and drank water until they tripped over and drowned...

Not that I want to give you a hint, but we were kids that grew up countryside and rooster crowing was not a disturbance, it was the neighbor we didn't like at all.

He hated noisy kids playing, stealing his apples, cherries and strawberries, you know things that kids do usually...   

Well, its all about growing the right receptors.

2002 I thought "darn, that will kill the cat" but now I am used to it and actually like the smell.

Was it not the same as toddler?

I couldn't stand cabbage, sprouts, onions and so on..

But my parents never treated me to eat it.

They did exactly the opposite and told me, "you are too young to eat that" and so I challenged myself untill I developed my taste to it. 

I remember my first Burger at Mc Vomit... What a disappointment where all my friends cheered the first MC D in our town. After a few I started to like them.. 

24 minutes ago, nglodnig said:

 

You want it good - expensive

You want it cheap - shoddy

You want it GOOD and CHEAP - forget it.

My mate is since 2 years in the court since he relied in a good offer(cheap) and has only troubles as the system which is supposed to have covered twice the demand not even lasts the half night.

My brother in law has system A and B, A recharges 100% whilst B stays at 30-40%, but was cheap.

as @nglodnig states: You want it GOOD and CHEAP - forget it.

We used for our home aquaponics system clear roofing. They were hot and after 3 years so brittle that you couldn't clean them anymore.. 

On 9/22/2023 at 5:42 PM, bignok said:

Where do you store gold?

The Vault Company is called CB Lockers in Bangkok,

Price is 4500 annual fee and it's worth it.

Beside Gold we have also some documents like last will, loan contracts for Land I paid for, Power of Attorney, some very rare Buddhas from my wife's collection and so on stored in there.

Well, I sold 2002 evertything and even closed my tax books in my old home country... 

After arrival in LoS I changed the "lions part" into solid gold..

2003 I started in my job and climbed the ranks pretty fast, bought our farm (farang safe) 

....and more gold

nuff said...

Take a spanner once in your hand and you are a skilled plumber, electrician or mechanic.

In Germany you need to go through a 3 years appreticeship untill you can call yourself a trained (not skilled) person.

So what do you expect?

You start yelling and the worker incl warranty is gone, before the work is half done.

I am a skilled customer (living since 2002 in LoS) so there is a simple solution:

The worker delivers cr@p:

"Great job mate, very good work, can you do me an extra favor and do this also for me?"

The result comes closer to your expectation but still cr@p:

"Nice one, I will sure hire you again. I have some work to do, will you please be so kind and connect this to this for me, I'll pay of course for the extra job" (remember labor is cheap here)

Now your new equipment is almost installed as it supposed to be, a last attempt:

"If you have one day more for me, could you also connect these bolts to the system? That would be so nice. You know there is a reason I hired you and not an amateur"

This way I get my things at least to 90% professionally, done,

even it's becoming sometimes very motivating to shuffle my flip flop on an unlubricated journey up his arse..."  ????????????

50 minutes ago, Middle Aged Grouch said:

At least the lad has money to spend...not like some tourist overstaying farangs who think themselves superior but are totally broke.

True, this is the first time I heard that somebody had set his budget too high and overstayed because of wealth, LOL

2 hours ago, LennyW said:

How did the human race survive without google maps i wonder.....

If you have an old road map give it to a yougster and ask him/her to fold it as it was when bought...

He/she will fail. 

I paid twice for ending up in an new highway or in Taiwan expressway. 

Blaming Google maps I got the answer, YOU are the operator of YOUR vehicle and if you use maps you use it as an assistant/advisor and not as an instructor, hence fine had to be paid...

Claiming google for creating an accident seems a bit odd. 

Hi all,

since I have planted my worldwide fruit and nut tree collection on our farm in Isaan I am since more than 5 years desperately looking for some

"Para Nut" trees (Bertholletia excelsa) 

Seeds ordered are no success because of the short viability time and no supplier in Latin America wants to sell closed seed pods due to the packing size and weight.

Does anyone has good contacts to nurseries and plant collectors in LoS who has them up for sale.

Bit of info who wants to know:

The nuts are widely harvested in the wild of the amazonian area and need untouched rainforest, because for the pollination and orchid plays an important role:

A male solitary bee visits the orchid and takes over the scent of this flower, so the female bee can find the male and they can care for the next generation. 

Ergo: Orchid gone no buzz buzz, no buzz buzz no pollination of the brasil nut tree.

In India they found another solitary bee who is strong enough to reach the stamens and the nectar and first pollination attempts were sucessful.

Here comes Thailand in the game:

We have the same bee on steroids. 

That nasty black one which you hit with a flip flop and press it down.

The next moment the flip flop gets lifted and the bee disappears unscratched and little impressed.

Normally when I go for a pint and I strike the Flagg I yell "Check bin, at's enuff, wanna go home.."

BUT:

How much is too much is in my opinion scientifically not possible to put into numbers... 

My one friend:

Fitness freak - healthy food - almost no alcohol... 56 Years Old, brainstroke, now in a wheelchair counting flies...

Another friend:

Overweight, says never no to the last pint for the road, eats fat, shaggs his brain out with no permanent relationship... 60 Years old and in best condition.

My Granddad = retired fisherman (says all I belive) 

A thumb Schnaps in the morning, at lunch and two or three thumbs before sleep.

Slept in peacefully with 93 

My dad also a friend of a pint and a shot in the evening left with 89 years..

If I (61 Years) go for a drink: DILLIGAF

But I am a fan of Anglo Celtic and Irish (Punk) especially if the front singer is Shane Mac Gowan, lets see his opinion when it is enough...

but I have still every year my offshore health check with results of a 30 year old.... My Doc says; No Beer No life... 

Ger 3  - Thai 9

(10 would be considered "perfect" but there is no existence of "perfect")

On 8/16/2023 at 6:00 AM, JimTripper said:

It still sucks though. He was not Thai so he probably does not want his pictures there. Get it?

It doesn't matter in which Language you google after his Name.

His Photos are worldwide in the news.

Pretty famous that fellow... 

49 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Plenty of dreamers on this thread!

Has nothing to do with dreaming

Golden rule of warfare: You cannot win a guerilla war.. 

But shoot or nuke them or not,

I stay on my farm untill one of these mentioned fruitcakes run my farm over with his troops, plundering what is edible, and when its all over, I hope I was nice enough, gave suitable hospitality and I am farmer again.

As German who has left 2002 Germany don't ask me even who is now the leader party and Cancellor.

Is it still Merkel? and if: (DILLIGAF...)

My wife and I grow a permaculture food forest as our retirement project.

The first guests that came, were crows who love our Mulberries and Figs (very exiting isn't it?)

A few other birds popped up and my wife said she never would imagine that these birds were still existing in Isaan.

Snakes, Scorpions and Spiders are returning (well doesn't pull an Eskimo from his sleigh, does it?)

Land Crabs (the black Som Tum thingies) and Frogs returned in our 5500 sqm lake we dug out where happy Mekong catfishes stalking and swallow them in whole so as the cattle egrets do... 

The only highlight till now was a fruit bat (Tame, but be careful with rabies)

and not long ago Moongoose tried to sneak into the chicken paddocks, but despite a Cobra couldn't poison it, our 12 Joule electric fence zapper made him jumping and avoiding the chicken place but is not shy to help himself at our lunch table... 

Some gray and brown squirrels pick their share on our Surinam Cherries, Mulberries and Figs.. 

The rest?

Stray dogs, (went also for the chickens and got zapped big time until they gave up) 

Meaty rice field rats which my farm gang throws on the BBQ

Oh a bird of prey is nesting in one of our Santol trees, luckily it doesn't like chicken (5 kilo Brahmas)

To avoid that a follow up "fruitcake" presses the red button there is only one way.

The Guerrillas get fed step by step -as it happens in the Ukraine, -until the population of the Russian country create a civil war and turns against Putin.

In Russia they are on the way and I believe if more mothers start griefing the days for Putin are counted.

North Korea is another story.

The population is complete brain dead and there is almost no resistance.

Looking back a few years ago where the Leader Kim Jong Un announced over TV that the North Korean Astronauts have save the world, because the sun was almost extinguished.

They were showing soldiers in space suits lighting up dry bushes and shrubs, to ignite the sun again... 

"Good job guys!"