Prubangboy

I'm an affluent white male. So basically the absolute apex of the pyramid.

As is practically everyone here. Even if they were broke in the west, they're Mick Jagger without the headaches here.

Please give your pretend-support to your Filipino co-floor moppers whom you so racist-ly disparage.

That really turned me off you for good.

8 hours ago, Korat Kiwi said:

 

 

Tried the Captain Morgan Gold from 7-11 a few days ago.   Bitch piss.   

Agreed. Captain Morgan is actually a big step down from Bacardi. Spiced rum is always terrible.

Phraya, the local upsell option is good, but hardly worth 900 baht, and that goes double for the 1,500 baht version.

We like Havana Club 7 year old brown (900 baht at Rimping). There's a no-name brand called simply Guyana Rum with a ship on the label for 700 baht (70 ml) available at a single store in Nimman, and it's very smooth indeed.

If Bob ever makes it to Chiang Mai, I'd love to kill a bottle of it with him.

I have been sipping Havana Club Rum (Blue Label, $45) here in Morocco, in direct violation of Ramadan rules. So we're drinking in our room. If Bob found 200 baht Pad Thai well, well beyond the pale, how much will pricey rum rock his world?

Bob, do you ever enjoy premium spirits, and if someone else were paying, what would you have?

Rum and Coke (just a splash) is the most irresistible of mixers. Bob, what possesses you to pour Coke in Whiskey and what hobo swill do you normally do this with?

5 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Ill debate you anytime lil fella

I no longer engage with TrumpTrash except to mock them. And that mini-urge is on a steep fade.

The greatest poster of all time here, ThaiBeachLover, is the reason why. Maybe I'll get into it, maybe I won't.

But a lightweight you aint fit to kiss his you know what. 

On 3/10/2024 at 7:05 AM, Keep Right said:

$500," Most likely a 28 sqm dump on Soi Buakhao.

 

 

You inexplicably seem to think that that is a bad thing.

Who hurt you?

6 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

 

 

 

 

1) What happened between you and your then wife to split up ?

 

2) Have you ever made contact with her again ?

 

3) Do your children who obviously would be if adult age ever forgive you ?

4) Do they still make contact knowing you left them and the mother behind ?

 

5) Does she know where you are nowadays 

1) She just flat out got sick of me. At one point, while I was railing her (which proceeded a 2 year drought, then the end), she actually said, "please finish" -shades of Soi Bukow.

2) Contact? Again? That's gonna be a hard no from me, Dawg. I had Facebook for about an hour and a half. 4 old GF's crawled right out of the woodwork. So, that was the end of Facebook for me. For all time.

3) When you get divorced AND leave the hemisphere, the "adult age" children would have to try hard to remember you to forgive you.

4) See above. They knew what was up when another boyfriend soon moved in after my ultra-tactful exit. Or maybe they didn't. Here's a quarter, call someone who cares.

5) Uh, no. She thinks I'm dead. Funny story as to how I set that up.

This GG post is even more mega-cringe then the ones where he goes on and on (and on) about his brief chat with the guy who's selling dog-eared Tom Clancy's in a bookstore in Pattaya.

Assuming that long-suffering book store guy actually exists and that torturous chat happened, I feel bad for that guy. I hope someday I can love a woman as much as this mope loved that guy.

1 hour ago, Dolf said:

Thanks for the tips

 

Shoshana restaurant is the Israeli one
 

Uh-huh.

Gotta be 12+ very satisfying meals for me there over the years. Very amusing older Thai women staff who are very fluent in hummus-ology. That whole alley is good; a 4* Indian outdoors place is right across from it.

And the Chabad Israeli community house restaurant around the corner for hummus-comparison purposes. Burger King is on the same corner for the likes of you-know-who.

Used book-wise, KSR is a shadow of years gone by. But I picked up 5 Gammaglobule-level modern novels and 4 useful, regional old Lonely Planets last year with change back from 2,000 baht.  I bought a large art book about the Bon (animist) religion of Tibet for 500 baht. That's a $300 book on Amazon.

Also: easy access to the very convenient ferry and the strip of modern fusion-ish Thai restaurants adjacent to it, a few of which are recco'd in The Time Out Guide. That whole area is turning into a restaurant row. Tourist $$$ and middle class Thai people add up to creative dining options.

5 minutes in a cab brings you to various historic buildings, forts, royal homes, major museums, top 10 Wats, and the canal boat.

You gotta be a saddo, drunken, Johnny No-mates desolutely staring into the bottom of a Chang Beer glass to have a bad time there.

Does any specific name fitting that bill come readily to mind?

I mostly post there to laugh at angsty, cancel culture poseur crybabies huffily complaining that this 100%-free, small potato's pleasure is not a 100% to their liking at all times.

And then to hear Patience of Job-MikeLister politely tell them to go and pound sand.

And also if I have a borderline joke that's not fit for a family audience, but still needs to be set free in the internet ether.

Why can't you use the brains that god gave you (albeit in limited supply) and enjoy the surprisingly good dining options there?

-The Israeli place down an alley around the corner. As good as I've had in New York.

-The historic, very solid Indian restaurant with beautiful old wood paneling in the middle of the block (up a flight of stairs).

-That whole Japanese-oriented street two blocks way, teeming with izakaya's.

-The legendary old-style Thai restaurant just outside by the monument that both Anthony Bourdain AND Mark Wiens went to.

-The tourist restaurants on the main drag that ALL deliver good value for the money due to cut throat competition.

-The legendary seafood night market by the canal that you could practically hop on one foot to.

-The Lonely Planet-famous roti-place 2 blocks away.

-Finally: The crocodile meat vendor on the main drag. I had crocodile in Siem Reap that was half, the portion, half the quality, and twice the price. Of all the stuff that "just tastes like chicken", crocodile is the best.

Face it Bob, you're a lazy sod who's not fit to kiss the you-know-what of this great land.

3 hours ago, jippytum said:

Bet the air is cleaner in morocco

Def. not to mention clearer skies and star-viewing in the Sahara than I have ever seen.

But future note to self: always check the weather.

It's so cold here at this time of year that I have been living (and sometimes sleeping) in the single sweater I brought "just in case".

No Central Department Store here to pop into and upgrade your wardrobe. It's either buy a traditional djellaba man-dress or nothin'. Djellaba's only comes in sizes small and x-small.

Plug adapter for my laptop (again, due to slack pre-trip planning) was a 2 day search and a dozen phone calls. This place makes Roi Et seem like Oxford Street.

Still a great trip. You can stay in a 5* traditional hotel (called a riad), packed with antiques and elaborate tiling, for $40. The natural sights of the dessert are at The Grand Canyon level.

More like Chinese food tastes better in New York to a tourist palate than in China.

Real Moroccan food - you wouldn't love it.

1 hour ago, Lemsta69 said:

 

All the Moroccan recipes I've seen call for heaps of spices so why do you say it is spice free?

 

Def. I made a ton of Tajines during covid and ordered up variations of Ras En Hanoute and other spice blends from Amazon. On the ground here, nowhere to be seen. It's not really a restaurant culture. Everyone eats their bland food at home. 

They're even light on salt. Sometimes a light dusting of cinnimon on a orange slice. That's it. The famous harissa chili paste has been spotted once. I see lots of cheap saffron in the market, but have yet to encounter it at dinner.

Couscous is always on the soggy side. Veg is cooked to death. Meat is tough. It's like a North African version of your high school cafeteria.

Lovely bread, fantastic olives, giant, tasty oranges. I've been eating spaghetti bolognaise whenever I see it on the menu (about every other day).

Additional fun fact: The famous Tajine pot adds exactly nothing to the cooking process. A dutch oven works the same. Google will verify.

I'm usually in my beloved Nimman top floor condo in Chiang Mai, but I'm currently deep in the Sahara in Morocco.

As long as I'm here in this moribund thread, a travel report:

Morocco is not at all hassle-central as advertised. Deep muslim-style hospitality and even the (occasional) refusal of a tip, The food is very mono and spice free, but broadly meditaranian. It would help to like mint tea. They've seen enough whities to offer a sugar-free option.

The wifi is a bit spotty after the camel ride (we took a 4X4), but the local Gnawi musicians could (and do) grace any concert stage in the world. Price-wise, call it a third off Spain. Maybe better done on a tour due to the daunting travel logistics of going into the desert. 

No sex on offer in Islam-land. Trick here and suffer an honor-killing fate.

The joke, "You alway here about Is-lam, but you never hear about 'Er-lamb" went down a storm with the locals.

(Credit to the Trink-like genius, Bernard Manning).

If half the relationships in the west break up too, why not roll the dice with Noi from the rice paddy?

The Hong Kong Lucky restaurant on the top floor of Maya Lifestyle Mall has flawless Hong Kong-style hanging meats.

I'm not a pork eater, but have their 5* duck noodles about every other week.

Yeah, but if you're in the region for cheap rent and beer, Cambodia wins hands down. 

I wouldn't live in Vietnam for free (no sanuk, unBuddhist, blah food), but a lot of people on this forum would move there in a second if they had a retirement option.

I'm very willing to vacate my Chiang Mai apartment for a minimum of 8 weeks a year due to the smoke for the privilege of living there, but I understand why a lot of people think that's crazy. It's great to hear how everyone  makes their own living in Thailand deal with the devil.

1 hour ago, JimTripper said:

Fix the problems they are complaining about and they are happy most likely.

 

What's the alternative, not complain about anything and things never get fixed or wait for problems to just fix themselves?

I enjoy the unique perspective of Jim's posts. If you don't have a relationship or a cultural affinity here, I agree: Thailand would be a bit of a hard sell. If it's down to it just being cheap, Siem Reap should be calling.

I feel the same way about Europe: it'a great, but if it cost the same as here, I would still pick here. The people who dream of Florida or Texas mystify me due to the Jesus-factor. When I lived in Jacksonville, they outlawed the selling of rolling papers. Beam me up, Scottie.

Jingthing said yesterday that for him, Pattaya was Miami on the cheap -a very pragmatic approach.

35 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

Usually resolves on 3-6 months but in rare cases vecomes chtonic

 

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24486-telogen-effluvium

Thanks, as always, Sheryl. At 3 months, she's still losing hair. She just started taking biotin supplements.

To contribute to this valuable forum, I'll pop back in up the road and update her progress and what she tried.

6 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Its not Bangladesh....     even when there...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gagging to hear about Bangla.

People have been steadily talking me out of going for 30 years, which only makes me want to go more.

It's like Asian Haiti, right? I already lived in white Haiti (Appalachia), and I've visited Haiti-Haiti.

I need Bangla to fill in my fill in the blank-Haiti card.

More chins than a Chinese phone book?

Otherwise -Meno-pause. It's like trying to stop the tide from coming in.

32 minutes ago, retarius said:

Taxes and Florida   

All of a sudden, Roi Et is looking tempting. Have you lived in these dumps?

7 minutes ago, bob smith said:

 

 

anyone who pays 200 for a plate of fried noodles is a clinical moron.

 

bob.

Already covered this with a smarter person. And why it's worth it.

Just like I drink less these days but only top shelf booze, I'd rather have one cheffy, good-sized pad thai with 4 in the shell large prawns than 3 tiny plates of oversweet gunk with little mud bugs.

200 baht pad thai is like, you know, a metaphor. Six bucks for dinner is worth it to me. You? No double-way, am I right?

You can't blame a tourist place for having some tourist hassles. I mean, duh. Idiots cry that Nimman, Chiang Mai, where I live is not "real" Thailand. Double-duh.

As George Costanza said (your doppelgänger), what ever you think you should do, you should do the opposite.