Prubangboy

My new 58-year-old partner has a small business. She does fairly well at it and I will invest a small sum to help her grow it a bit. We cannot predict our future together, but at her age, her chances to make a change in her livelihood are sharply diminishing. Shoring her up and improving her financial independence is a no-brainer. Her long-term goal is to bring on board a family member to do a lot of the grunt work to allow her more leisure time. That would definitely suit me. We started talking about a future together and then decided to table the discussion for a full year while we get to know each other better. To the people here who have had a spouse who has not worked for a long time, how do you re-introduce the topic?

I think you are talking about the place I went to a dozen times. The Taye Restaurant. I’ve eaten in a dozen Ethiopian restaurants around the world, mostly in Washington DC, New York, and Paris. This is in the top three such restaurants I have tried, including a five star one in Paris. They definitely grind their own spices, which you can also buy. It’s a modestly pretty room to eat in as well with the beautiful Ethiopian art on the walls. I had three Tinder dates there, obviously with white women. No double way does a Thai woman want to go out for Ethiopian food on the first date, or maybe even the millionth date.

Again, the incontinent, butt sniffing Soi dog has nothing to say on the topic, but RainMan is twitching in his usual autistic manner to remind us all that he is here. He knows nothing of this subject, but he cannot leave it alone. He must make even North African food solely about him reacting to it negatively. Even though he has never eaten it. There’s an Ethiopian restaurant near a bum run grad hospital that I’ve eaten in a dozen times. I agree with Northland Ryan, it is all basically similarly tasting glop, soaked up with a spongy brown wonder bread type bread. What makes a great Ethiopian restaurant is whether or not they make their own Berber spice. Back in the states, Washington DC is renowned for having a whole street of Ethiopian restaurants. They shine best in the seafood department getting a Mediterranean flavor with a lot of olives and preserved lemon like Moroccan food. If I live near Ethiopian food, I would have it about every other week. Since I lived at the Chidi mansion at the bottom of Soi 11, I had it a dozen times in a month. Not much variance between the dishes, so get the mixed plate. Mark Weins does have a hard to take presentation manner, but it is memorable, and he does give you the food facts and describe how things taste very vividly We went to Ginger house in Chiang Mai after watching one of his videos, and the mixed northern appetizer plate was like a college course on the subject. You cannot go wrong going to any place that he recommends. We also went to the Khao Soi place he recommends since we had a car, and it was definitely a cut above Mai Sai Khao Soy behind the Maya Mall.

Side effects are minimal, and the pre-consultation was very thorough, accompanied by a blood test. The long-term effect is that your body stops making its own testosterone. Therefore, getting off of it requires some stepping down and dosage overtime and a period of readjustment, which will include a lot of fatigue and some weight gain. The longer you are on it, the longer the step down period would be to get off of it. So it’s like weight loss drugs in that you should really do your research before buying into it. But as long as you have 12,000 baht a month, you could stay on it forever with no real downside

Due to my new relationship, I started taking testosterone and B12 shots today. Apparently, there will be a new spring in my walk by Saturday. I will report back. Is anyone else taking this supplement? Is anyone else doing anything to preserve or enhance their libido? Many people here have generously shared that the bloom is definitely off the rose in their long-term relationships. How do you maintain this aspect of keeping your relationship healthy? Do you notice any difference in dealing with keeping the fire going here compared to back home?

Siem Reap feels like a mini Chiang Mai to me, so I can see how it would appeal, particularly with the low prices Anyway, I finally connected with a nice Thai woman on Tinder: an immigration lawyer, age 58, fluent in English, formally married to a westerner. Very petite, ultra lush brown hair, a solid eight looks wise with a very sweet disposition. It’s been six weeks, we’ve taken too long getaways. We will probably end up together. Thanks to all for participating in this thread.

I always prefer the vegetarian mixed platter.

During the 80s AIDS era, there was a funny story in New York Post about how I see were Picketing a gay bath house and a bunch of them came running out It’s a running joke in the New York area, but they’re all perverts

In New York City, the hassid Jews were always getting busted in gay bath, houses and stuff. And tons of underage stuff too. It’s just not that great to ever be completely orthodox and then some within a major faith group. religion is toxic above a medium dose.

I just saw it in another thread Rain man Stuck like a broken record asking how much is a can of Coke over and over again. But I’m not here for empathy, I’m here for laughs. If they want empathy and understanding for their mental deficiencies, they should be in the Special Olympics, not here.

A lot of it is just untreated autism. Arguing with them is 100% pointless given that fact. Everyone here knows explicitly who I am talking about, but he is not alone.

Impotent, dim wttted rage appeals to impotent dim witted rageoholics. Who knew? It cracks me up how insubstantial it all is, just a lot of regurgitated blather and butt hurt posturing on complicated issues by complete know nothings. I enjoyed it recently when some moron was waving off the economist as a bad source. The odds that this miscreant has ever read an issue of the economist are zero.

I was there last weekend. I prefer Mae Rim. Without a car, CD is not really doable. With a car, it’s pretty spread out. The restaurant by the Buddha Cave was surprisingly good though.

As long as I’m here, and since I was appropriately attired, wearing a $150 lacrosse special edition polo shirt with 1 million little alligator all over it, what’s it like to live in Chiang Dao? I was only two days, three nights there. We went to the cave, which was really stunning, we donated a fake gold brick to the giant Buddha, and went down a twisted little jungle alley to a place next to a little stream and a waterfall and had a fairly decent hang lay curry. I already forget the name of the place where we stayed, but it was little chalets on a well landscaped plane with the big white Buddha in the distance. The other higher end place was glamping inside of geodesic dome type tents. They were all arranged tightly in a row, and my girlfriend is extremely loud when having sex. So I went for those thick wall chalets. Our place was very modern interior design, with a low table, expensive mattress on the floor, and not a single usable chair in the room. There was a massive hot tub dead in the middle of the room, and that’s strange new design idea with a glass wall between the bedroom and the bathroom means you can watch your wife take a dump. 80% of the other visitors, or if you prefer, guests, were Chinese young women, traveling in pairs. But someone on Reddit incorrectly described it as Pai for old people. I had this hope of little coffee bars that you could walk to easily, and stuff, but it is all spread out along a pretty busy highway. Did I miss anything? it seems like a day trip for a Buddha Cave fan, of which I am one, and some local food at a passable, but not great restaurant. My GF did buy some of the CD only spinach to take home with her. Apparently, this spinach is a bit more bitter than the average kind and was much enjoyed by her extended family fried up water, spinach style with oyster sauce. What do you do all day in CD, and how many experts do you think live there?

If that's your attitude you really shouldn't be traveling abroad where you're a guest. If he’s paying, how is he a guest? If I see Thai people walking around in New York, I don’t think of them as my guest. Do you think this person whose name you do not know is really your guest?

I sort of think of myself as a plain clothed hippie. Was just in CD. Stayed at a $200 a night place. People were dressed pretty poorly. It’s just the way it is now. Get over it.

So many arguments here remind me of two bald men fighting over a comb.

Most work is meaningless. most people are comfort seeking. The more comfort they get, the less meaning they will seek. UBI will provide very bare comfort. The argument that people will then go on to live more philosophical and deeper lives freed of meaningless work reminds me of the optimism that cable TV in the Internet would make people want to learn more and attend government meetings either on TV or online online. But they did not. When these astonishing inventions happened., people wanted to watch porn, like I said, not that great comfort, but comfort all the same.

Anyway, met up with lovebirds at Hummus Chiang. Brilliant, but too bland for Thai people. My GF popped into meet them for 10 minutes. They def give off a couple vibe and have a little banter, much improved from my last meetup. They both are a little shy with each other out in public. She is a cute stunner, if you like them cute. Her new haircut was more in the 300 baht range , no way worth 5K. So let the debate rage as where the other 4,700 baht went. Fred Wiggy, feel free to sit this next segment out. No narcissists, covert or un-, we’re involved in this Mediterranean dip fest. I swear. We too all had bad relationships in the past. We feel for you, but have our own sh to deal with. You have been given more than adequate sympathy over a period of years about your long ago suffering. Again, no need to respond.

Please just stop. Or I will block you instead of skimming past you. You use up entirely too much screen space with your miffed butthurt blather. Nobody cares. Just stop. I used to like you and engage with you. Now I can’t stand to see your time wasting name.

I just ate with him and Phuket girl. Will update later

Almost 2 Meter high stack of books about SEA back home suggests that yes, I would still want to be here even if it costs the same and the women were uglier. ‘Moved here with my American wife, currently enjoying life more with a Thai partner. We’d been here a couple of times and when Covid passed, we were here like a shot. We both still wouldn’t live anywhere else.

Nice day out at the Buddha Cave. Had some B+ Khao Soy Noodles there. My ex is a little bit freaked out about meeting her, but this meeting will happen. Perhaps with Phuket girl providing a bridge of understanding.

Fred have you always been with rural women here? How do you meet then?

I am just not seeing the downside. What disasters have you witnessed? It’s 90 minutes in a restaurant + 15 of loom-viewing. With other people. Me and my ex haven’t slept together in 3 years. It’s like when I met her Mom. Chiang Dao, not much here. Had a hot tub soak. In Thailand, more of a luke warm tub. Then we had a look at an orange grove and some lunch in a jungle cafe down a steep path. She loves to be in an orange grove. Hang Lay curry, never less than a B+. She bought a hill tribe bead bracelet, and one for my ex at the jungle cafe. 100% Chinese clientele except for us. She’s working at her law job. I’m doing this. Then sex, dinner, sex, and sending up a candle lantern to signify our love. It comes free with the resort.