Prubangboy

I'm doing a one year Thai Course at Chiang Mai Uni, starting in late September. 52K, every 3rd month off. That means I'll be stuck here for one of the bad smoke season months. But I am committed to learning conversational Thai, so I'll just live like a shut-in and take a lot of cabs. I'm also taking private lessons twice a week before to make sure I don't flunk out of it.

Can we hear more about the greasy-thing? What, in your estimation, warrants the greasy-diss? Otherwise, I envy Stoner his chilled out bliss. Intoxication is over for me. Sometimes, like when reading this, I miss it.

Why couldn't you just use the brains that god gave you, write off the pittance for the prepaid Air BNB, and go get a better room for $30 a night? On your once in a life time vacation? Medical fear seems to be the big boomer-spending inhibitor. But what about death? Maybe you shoulda ordered the bigger prawn.

I stopped making my own protein shakes and iced tea and now get them delivered from 7/11. More drinkable, less hassle, call it 120 baht a day now mercifully gone Along with ice. For most of my life, the prospect of buying ice was unthinkably spendthrift.

-So says The Economist. This generation of pensioners is not spending nearly as much as past generations. 10% less, and it's lowering inflation and interest rates as that unspent cash rolls over into savings. Reason: 1) fear of out-living their money due to increased life spans 2) wanting to leave money to their heirs 3) stay-at-home habits from Covid are sticking 4) oldies feel glutted with possessions and want no more Are you a net-saver well into retirement? Why? Which reason above affects your spending? Me first: I spend about 70% of my monthly allotment. The rest is re-invested. I expect to live for about 15 more years (no $$$ prob). No heirs. I eat out in a nice Nimman restaurant for my main meal every day. I ran out of stuff to buy (I have 16 nice polo shirts). I splurge a little on travel (premium economy flights these days) and I give a bit away. -And how has living in cheap Thailand affected your spending? I go to the doctor at the drop of a hat now that it's only 500 baht for the office visit.

-Ever been?

Brazil is sort of the Thailand of South America. 'Can't wait. Since I killed Dubai as a layover option, any Brazil or S.American reflections would be appreciated.

Def burn through a few in a town you don't plan to live in first.

Uh-huh.

They gotta feel attracted. Personality-wise, you may want to look into other attractiveness gambits.

Yesterday.

Since you just arrived on Planet Earth, Wiki can help you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_metaphors_for_sex

Do you even believe -or even have the capacity to recall- a single thing that you say? Very Trumpian with the hilarious amnesia. I think you get ahead of your skis here. A lot.

A woman in my writer's group wrote a story about how she wanted to be spanked. By an older man. Chinese, on a Elite Visa. 40's, not bad. I put my long odds there as better than Bignok's forays into pestering women at the payment-card cashier's counter at a food court. Hey, if he's right, I may well be a happy man.

Asking someone who claims he sleeps with 1 in 3 women he makes casual eye contact with is unhealthy obesssion?

So no dating sites for you (crazy climb down there -even for you). 1 in 3 cold approaches for a food court snack results in naked time? Assuming dental hygiene is up to snuff?

You just said, like six posts up, that you have this mind-blowing success solely by using dating sites. Do you even let them have a frappachino? Or is your sheer animal magnetism and a bottle of water enough to peel off their dresses?

I'm going to make a bold prediction that no magic dating site is going to be named and that the stupendous 1 in 3 hit ratio is going to remain very, very vague as to the how-to.

What is the holy grail dating site for finding frappachino sluts who don't even want to finish their stupid cold drink before demanding sex? I looked at Thai-Friendly too. Fairly worse than Tinder. I asked my friend if he ever saw a white woman on a Thai dating site. He said no.

4 frappachino lottery tickets and then one of them is sitting on my face? I have my doubts. I looked on my friend's Tinder In Chiang Mai, I couldn't even find 4 frappachino candidates. And I set my age minimum to 50.

30,000 baht extra to do it as two round trips (BKK-Dubai/Dubai/São Paulo) instead of 2 miserable long hauls in premium economy. Call it 7-8,000 baht a day on the ground, so call it 60,000 baht for the seven day of layovers, coming and going. 90K baht buys a better week in BKK. Or more than all of my land costs in São Paulo. Dubai is Euro-prices for a sub-par Las Vegas experience, a Vegas with no gambling and $15 beers.

How many cold coffee-approaches do you need to do to get 20 minutes of frappachino time? How many Tinder dates to get to date #3, where girlfriend-dom can find its shakey legs? I'm not dissing you, I am curious about your experience.

Hard to move from, "nice shoes", to "'time for a coffee?", to "lay down". Generally, you need to be in a setting where you see each other casually a few times. "Walking around" has a very low success rate. -Partic for the older and average-looking.

A hundred bucks for a cheap room. And yeah, it's too hot. It's too hot to wait outside for an Uber. Call it a day to travel. BKK flight leaves at 9:30 AM, gets in at 7:30 PM. Two days to mall-walk and visit some souks when it cools off. Another day to go to the so-so semi-Louvre. And the big mosque. On average, I'm good for about 10 minutes -if it's a major mosque. On the way back, maybe I'd book a two nights at the beach. But at quadruple Thai rates for a much less good beach experience. 15 hours to São Paulo, Brazil, BTW. 6 hours further to BKK. Flying from BKK to SP with a short stop over in Dubai is only 24 hours, so I'm rethinking if the juice of laying over is worth the boring-mall squeeze and paying triple for hummus. The diff between a 15 hour flight and a 24 hour one is basically 1 extra mg of Xanax. Dating fun facts: 3-5 men for every single woman in Dubai. Mostly, you'll be hooking up with Filipina's. Strong gold digging vibe (per Reddit). The Arab local women bring you into honor-killing territory. I am psyched that I'm not looking. São Paulo, Brazil is a mecca of big-bottomed, very intellectual women (per my friend). Downside: little English spoken, you must speak Portuguese.