Prubangboy

7 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

 

I've smoked 1gm every evening for the past 4 years and never cough.

Just did an expensive lung wellness thing at Bumrungrad. I'm good. Chronic bronchitis is a frequent problem for old potheads. Chronic bronchitis will def tend to lead to other problems.

Most people who give up weed report the same as me. I'm not saying it's fatal; I'm making the very common sense point that inhaling smoke and holding it in is bad for you.

How bad, how much? Who knows? I def feel better all around without it.

I smoked more than you, and yet also made it a point to leave Chiang Mai for burning season -to protect my lungs.

Logic is not a strength usually attributed to potheads.

Why can't people use the basic brains that God gave them and hit the return key to create occasional paragraphs?

This fundamental stupidity underlies and explains the bigger stupidity.

Agree as per above: the whole story isn't being told her and I detect a whiff of troll-dom.

I am 80 days weed-free and feel the best I have felt in years.

I'm still coughing up grey gunk, tho. Weed put that grey gunk in me, and coughing it out can only be to the good. 

I never met a person who gave it up and regretted. Caveat: most weed quitters are back on it within 2 years.

2nd Caveat: Since I smoked more pot than Bob Marley (he died young, I kept on going) I would never harsh the mellow of someone bonging up by mentioning my new ability (not to mention new inclination) to read 2 books in a week and turn the treadmill up.

Leave those degenerates in peace.

On 5/13/2024 at 9:12 AM, jonclark said:

 

 

If you ban it outright ( and remember there is a huge oversupply issue) it will just go back on the black market for sale and society will receive no benifit at all. 

 

 

If you ban it outright, there will def be much less cannabis use, partic among Thai people. When I lived in England, where it was much less available, I smoked a lot less weed.

The premise that the black market is immune to suppression is very specious. It's not 100% effective, but it's not wholly ineffective.

You may seen weed use reduction as "no benefit" but many Thai people -who vote- disagree with you.

The growing mood I get here is along the lines of: "We've catered to the whities too much for too long. MTGA."

Make Thailand Great Again.

It's amusing to see so many MAGA righties here arguing that's what's sauce for the goose back home is not -and can never be- sauce for the gander where they are currently enjoying a cheapskate paradise.

Loving this discussion, but banning cannabis is being pursued as a moral issue, much more than as a health issue.

The government and a big part of the middle and upper class view THC intoxication as wrong to do. It may be hypocritical to view cigarettes and booze as OK, but just like in the states, among conservative people, most opposers are very comfortable with that double-standard. Constantly reiterating about that double standard is pointless.

There is no desire to toss a new vice in the mix, and a lot of pushback against it. Weed is net/net bad for you. This is undebatable. Arguing that it's not fatal-level bad is a very weak argument. Likewise, huffily complaining, "well, it's not bad for ME, personally". I am 100% for full legalization, btw.

This is a Buddhist country and Big B was def down on intoxicants. Likewise gambling. The concern about the young is genuine. I was surprised that weed ever got legalized. I won't be surprised if it's not in a year.

I hear a lot about harmlessness in this chat, but can anyone point to a societal net gain from weed?

Jobs? Mostly low paying, dead end crappy jobs. Tourism? Amsterdam is moving away from weed tourism and is still packed out, as would be Phuket. Money? For whom? Foreigners? The tax base?

Short version: What's in it for the Thai Middle Class? They don't want their kids near it and they don't like seeing stores with cartoony leaves on a sign out front.

How would you convince them otherwise?

Unless you got here yesterday, you should know that Thailand is the land of no-small-bills. 

It is your job as a whitie zillionaire -who has plenty of time on his hands- to have the appropriate change to simplify the lives of lovely, hard-working people who are working for 10 bucks a day.

Under no circumstances should said poor people be expected to subsidize you, ever.

6 minutes ago, Sunmaster said:

I'm not sure what you're looking for or what you expect Qi Gong
 

I'm looking to get out of the house and do something.

And it's in The Old City, which I love, but barely visit.

They have a tantric sex workshop too. I am so on that.

We're talking about a whopping $140 blow out while on vacation? For several people?

Parties cost more in Haiti. Get a grip.

I just signed up for 35 Qi Gong classes here in Chiang Mai. It seems like Tai Chi, but with more emphasis on balance. It's like, if I lived in Paris, I'd drink more wine: I live in CM, so why not study with a semi-name Qi Gong guy? I'm going to shorten my gym visits to squeeze it in.

Anyone here done any so-called spiritual exercise? Muay Thai qualifies. What did you get out of it?

Bonus question: Anyone had any romantic experience with a yoga-enthusiast? Was it chill or hot?

Saraburi is worth a look. I did a search here about Nonthaburi (also worth a look) and found that several posters here had moved there, since they found Nonthaburi too built-up.

Spent two days there. If you're home-centered and content with Pizza Express and Swenson-type options at the mall for whitie-food, def worth a check-out. A little too sedate for me; I'd opt for Nonthaburi.

I'd pick Cha Am over Hua Hin, but again, it's the battle of small versus smaller (with smaller winning out for me in that case).

On 5/11/2024 at 9:20 AM, retarius said:

Immigration is great......when the immigrants assimilate into the culture of the hosting nation and start to share the ethnicity.

 

I don't really care if they do or they don't.

If they are a net-positive for me in terms of selling produce cheaper or having a taco truck I like, or doing some bad job that no whitie will do anymore, or picking fruit so an apple doesn't cost $5, I say come one, come all -and feel free to have your separate ethnic thing.

The melting pot demand is obsolete, nearing a full century of being hilariously out of date.

We need the warm, able bodies since we're no longer birthing our own and never will again.

My mother in law's Mex caretaker gets $200 a day tax-free, plus room and generous board (5 people are also living there and eating). She nets out at more than a bank assistant vice president who went to a good college.

Crazily, no poor whitie wants to do that job for that money.

If one could be found, Mamacita would be quickly drop-kicked back to whence she came by my racist, TrumpTrash in-laws. Mamacita looks around and isn't sweating it.

Hell, my mother in law gave her a used Rav4 car. When she dies, she will easily leap to another gig. She's gone for good back to adobe-land in a decade at the longest.

Again, as a Yank:

Thank god for the Mexicans.

They assimilate easily, are christian, want to move back home as soon as they can, contribute massively to Social Security for my boomer-benifet.

And:

Mexican Terrorism: Not since Zapata.

Def give this book a read (warning: no psychometric analysis):

https://silkwormbooks.com/products/way-thais-lead

It's about the Thai concept of Face (as in: saving face).

Synopsis: if you keep going out of your way to humiliate very poor people, you are making them lose face.

And it's only a matter of time before one of them punches you in your's.

1 hour ago, simon43 said:

 

 

Greetings from Laos

Laos -real estate that no one's ever going to fight over.

So I'd guess I'd go there. Udomoxi -lovely in the spring.

Just now, AreYouGerman said:

 

My White Boy Summer coming up soon ☺️

You're white boy summer has come and gone. White boy summer was 2021. 

Are you still upset about goofball white boy summer? Chill, Bro.

8 hours ago, riclag said:

 

I still get pissed when Marxist burn my flag, that I pledge allegiance to as a student!

 

 

 

You gotta get over this.

I went to dozens of Peace demo's in the 70's. I never saw a flag burnt.

Have you? Like, in real life? You're traumatizing yourself over something that confined to your nutty noggin.

Are you not in cheapskate paradise where thin women will finally sit on your face? Why so glum, chum?

I'm just not sweating feminists, trans, wokeness, or the green economy.

I live in Cheapskate paradise (with my white, older wife). Every day is great.

I'm signing up for a one year Thai language course at Chiang Mai Uni so I can get even more into loving it here.

Chill, Bro.

8 hours ago, BritManToo said:

 

So feminism probably cost him a house, his pension and his kids.

 

 

 

Feminism starts in the late 60's (at the very earliest). The laws you are complaining about well predate that.

A lot of people are sort of fan-boys of public transit.

I used to work at the Subway Museum in Brooklyn. It was very popular with international tourists. Occasionally, they would offer the chance to ride in an old subway car for a couple of hours. These tickets would sell out as fast as Taylor Swift concerts. The London Transit Museum def gets some visitors too.

I'm a bit of an infrastructure buff myself. I visited The Hoover Dam and The Paris Sewers. On my Morocco tour recently, we visited an irrigation system. Fairly interesting to see how they grow an olive tree in the desert.

I made it a point to take the train from the BKK airport straight to the pristinely preserved, 70's style Asia Hotel once. You alight the train and can walk directly into the hotel, like in Japan. 

There's also a chatty social aspect to transit that people enjoy.

6 hours ago, AreYouGerman said:

 

the more Thailand aligns with China, the less American feminism it gets.

When was the last time feminism caused you even a single iota of grief?

They got us abortion. And I did shag straight through the 70's and 80's without fear of fatherhood.

Thanks, Ladies!

42 minutes ago, Wrwest said:

I have been sorely disappointed in the current social disintegration in the USA. 

It's the death throes of the no longer remotely revelant, now outright obstructive boomers -partic the white male segment who were born on second base, but act they built the whole ball park.

Please get out of the way if you can't lend a hand, because the times, they are a-changing.

Like you, I am glad to watch these dopey mastodons thrash around in their self-made tarpits straight into oblivion from afar -in a gentle, still alive place where a doctor visit costs me $20 at the high end.

Whether it's Biden or Trump (but def more so if it's Trump), the best of us oldies, the volunteers, the givers, the arty types, the doers -are slipping away to the likes of Portugal, Costa Rica and Chiang Mai.

Empathy to the good people stuck back home. But otherwise, let them stew in the angry sewer they insisted on making. Their future is brown (or at least beige) and tough darts if they don't like it.

On 5/7/2024 at 11:19 AM, Yagoda said:

Proper  Fish and Chips is made with COLD WATER fish from the Atlantic 

 

 

100% correct.

Off topic:

-Buster's in Bangkok hits the mark.

-My wife was in London recently and never had it before. Hobson's in Soho really rang the bell for her.

Quoting my relationship guru, Chris Rock:

"A man is only as faithful as his options"

The full bit, NSFW:

Last year, I had to leave CM for two months to dodge the smoke. This year it's 10 weeks. Love CM to death, and I do like to have a block of travel time every year.

But if it edges into 1 one week in every 4 that I have to be gone, that's too disruptive and I'm outa here. Helllloooo Hat Yai.