Prubangboy

Why not save yourself stress by simply assuming that you're always in the wrong and don't know what's what? It will be true 98% of the time. As to the other 2%, you live like an Aztec God compared to these sweet, poor people. You fly in a chair through the sky whenever you want to (thank you, Louis CK). Tip well, be nice.

Thanks, but I really need to burn through the grab cab 150 baht round trip to get the 200 baht peanut butter.

I have too much money too. And very simple tastes. I allow myself 2K a day to blow, usually come in at at around 600-800, mostly eating out. It just piles up. I don't want to eat at a Ginger Kitchen-level restaurant every day. It just gets onerous. However, I do pop in for a crab meat omelette once a week. But some days the main meal is a peanut butter sandwich and a protein shake from 7/11. Hard to get good health food style peanut butter here. But a big jar lasts a month. Like 200 baht? I started buying my wife perfume a lot. Chanel #5 has been helpful towards my surplus reduction. But soon she will be glutted. I bought half a dozen high-end colognes for myself at duty-free. They will likely take me to my grave. A car? No, Grab Cab has spoiled me for life. I was way out from Chiang Mai on a farming course. On the last day, someone drove all the way out there and back to Nimman for 200 baht. So no car. Travel is no fun without her, and she's hard to pry out of Nimman. 'Don't want to eat in a 5* restaurant or stay in a nice hotel alone. A solo trip to Bangkok costs a third of going with her. We splurge on a meal in Nimman in the 1,500-2,500 range about once a week. Oysters and Omakase are helpful money-burners. But after that, it's typically another peanut butter sandwich day for me. The last time I felt, like, wow, I'm spending a lot of money was $100 at Asia Books a month ago. And that's about 4 months worth of books. I'm afraid to get a Kindle. I need hardcover books to meet my spending quota. I have an upcoming buddy trip to São Paulo. Hard to spend $100 a day there. A deathbed-level steak is $20. A good room in Little Japan is $35. Premium economy for the 24 hour flight added only $600. You can get booty licking action for $50. I wonder if two heads can fit back there.

I gave my various wives 15 days of family involvement a year. They'd usually run over the limit, but at least it kept a lid on it. Limit expectations, set boundaries. Her family, dead and alive, is her problem. Millions of guys want submissive girlfriends. If it makes her wet for you to pick the restaurant, I'm not seeing a downside. As the dominant partner, you can spank her if she's indiscrete about your sex life. For a modest uptick in effort, your life can be sexy heaven. But yeah, AI always has a kind or overwritten style like this does.

How much sex will you want in the average month? And how crazy/kinky does that sex need to be?

As per Chris Rock: Men can't go backwards on sex, women can't go backwards on lifestyle. If you can't move a woman forward on money, it's like asking you to go back to 2nd base as sex goal like in high school.

It's twice a week for 3 hours a pop. And then 2 hours a day of homework and practice to keep up. Call it six days a week. I'm a big believer in paying up front in advance to make myself do something. No way will I let 52K baht go down the drain.

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?