Prubangboy

"I have nothing to say. And my wife won't talk to me. So here I am".

Funny article on Slate about Republican's fierce -and growing- opposition to recreational sex. That's why I find faux-conservatives who moved to Thailand just to (finally) shag something thin hilarious in their signing on to this dim-witted puritanism -which again, they don't even believe in. Is this the most goofy of their many turkeys voting for Christmas contortions? But back to the topic. I'm still involved a bit with a refugee resettlement organization. Those people are the most apolitical I have ever met. Refugee's will go anywhere and do anything. I've seen them bring back moribund Trumpian S-holes from collapse. They're not "poisoning the blood", they're doing your laundry. TrumpTrash don't want to get laid and they don't want their laundry done. What exactly do they want? I keep asking, but they never say. I think it's down to them mistaking their dopey, made up rage for a testosterone surge. Like the retards here who impotently physically threaten me on the internet. Like a giant boxing glove on a spring is going to pop out of my laptop screen and (finally) "deliver retribution", like they love to say. Too funny. No need to flee the HandMaiden State of Alabama to move overseas. Just go somewhere where they're not suffering Jesus Derangement Syndrome. Generally speaking, you can leave these dumps and just drive 200 miles to a blue-ish suburb.

I'm with you. We do well Air BnBing our house. And we have some trees to sell in a few years. Otherwise, I'm running out the door for good behind you.

You're too into this stuff. You go straight to butt hurt. Every. Time. Where's the bantz?

He pretends to care. I guess the connubial bliss light bulb has gone off. For good.

It amuses me that in 8+ years, none of you nitwits could think up joke #2. I'm just gonna write off your autism-speak of "Orange Man Bad".

I guess I might qualify. The Covid decimation of my Appalachian county (one in four dead) and the subsequent local health system collapse was a primary cause of our move. But that was only tangentially connected to Fattie. We'd made our peace with the Lord Lovers and fake militia cammo wearers long ago. We called them: Family. I see Latte sippers moving to a blue state instead of overseas. As long as I'm here, Morocco is up and coming as retirement place for Frenchies. Problems: A grand a month to rent an apartment in Casablanca in a whitie-friendly area. Where you'd want to be to be near so-so health care.

The culture of Buddhism, the practice of meditation, is something that a lot of people like me like about Buddhism in Thailand. By Thai Buddhist standards, a California-style Buddhist is to a local Buddhist what a quaker would be to a catholic. Caveat: I am not a Buddhist. Conservative interest in other cultures is at the level of: "It's poisoning our blood" (hilarious real quote).

People don't move for political reasons unless they're dodging a holocaust. Fattie's not my flavor, but he's too inept for that.

Thai cultural interest means you're Buddhism-friendly. That's about 99.99% liberal-oriented in the west. -In the west.

Uh, I just did. Right above you.

Jingting is one of half a dozen posters here who inspired me to post here after a decade of lurking. So I don't want to derail his thread into just laughing at Trump people here. -PLUS, so much of their ardor feels weirdly performative. They hold armloads of fairly liberal positions on everything from healthcare to gun control. And then travel, which real republicans never do. Finally, they are very suspiciously Jesus-lite. I've asked about this dozens of times, and they always turn into Marcel Marceau when pressed. I suspect that they are just lazy faux-contrarians. Back on topic, ONLY liberals care about Thai culture or cultural anything. Conservatives are truly just here for the cheap noodles and willing women. As I tour Morocco, I am extremely unlikely to encounter a republican. Liberals in general are more likely to be expats for that reason. Then pretend-conservatives like we find here, and then finally, ex-military who are likely to have some former connection to a place they expat to.

I -Looked at Mazlan, Mex. Heavy ex-military and cop. Uh, thanks for your service, but I'll be shuffling off to somewhere more enlightened.

Yeah, I like a guy who went to cooking school and makes the sauce out of crushed shrimp heads and has some aspiration. I am super-supportive of chefs here trying to evolve wonderful Thai food and celebrate it. Like if I go to Italy? I might pay more for a pizza, since I will be in a place I can eat the absolute best pizza on earth for $3 more. I'm in Morocco right now, and the best goat cheese does in fact cost 20% more -to eat the finest, and support the people trying to do a little bit better, and enjoying the support of tourists who allow them to do so. -Rather than gobbling down a gummy, too-sweet mess for 70 measly baht. I am in touch with basic reality that good food costs money. I am unsurprised that TrumpTrash eats swill. It's who they are. In every aspect of their lives.

How smart do you really have to be to be me? I mean, if even I can fall out of bed and do it? But to play: got my BA by mail (like prison inmates do), got a Masters from NYU, where anyone with $$$ is admitted super-easily as long as they keep paying.

Thanks to the amateur demographer who never sleeps, MikeLister, I know that at most only 50K Americans live here. It's like the Passport Bro's on Reddit. Millions claim to be moving here, but few will ever actually pull the trigger, even at the 2 week millionaire level. Coming from the very anus of TrumpTrash-land, I could make the claim, but really, I'm here for the good pad thai (the kind that costs 200 baht, in a restaurant with a full bar and expensive hill tribe handicrafts for sale). Even more than having the money and personal freedom ability, being an expat requires a very unusual mindset. So no, not much uptick likely and most refuseniks will be drifting -ironically- south of the border. When I was living in Mex City 2 years ago, all of Mex's were cheerfully chanting: "Build. The. Wall".

Love your deep dives into forgotten 60's films. I saw it as a play with a very tortured Richard Chamberlain and super sassy Sylvia Miles as the hotel owner in '75. When I was an aspiring actor, to pad out my skint resume, I claimed I played the title role in Night of the Iguana. But no one ever got the joke.

Hard to believe that we get deep into page 5 before someone (me) says they're here because they are ga-ga in love with Thailand. I had a good life in the states, and if visa's were not an issue (big if), I could afford to live in most western places. But I'd happily pay double or quadruple to live in this fascinating, ultra-chill sanuk wonderland. I am joyful, engaged, and spoiled every day of my life. With the cheaper-everything, I figure I get paid an extra $100+ a day as a reward for having the brains and good taste to choose paradise. My now unpaid state income tax alone covers my rent and health insurance. Previously, those tax payments were essentially just tossed down a well in terms of benefiting me. Those sweet $100 bills just keep on piling up, day by day. I'm writing this from Morocco where I am dodging the Chiang Mai smoke. In just six weeks of passive $100 bill-stacking, Morocco is essentially "free" now too. Short version: I can afford elsewhere, but I would be bedbug crazy to go there.

If you come from a place where tipping is not a thing, I have no problem with people not tipping. Thai people don't tip much (if at all). Our rule for Grab delivery is 50 baht, unless they're coming from the Old City or beyond, then we go up to 100. They def like seeing a tip on their phone upfront. One guy we love texts us to say, "I'm really waiting a long time for the food", but it's still a flat 50-100.

Me too. Cake and eat it, tho.

I hafta vote no. Conviviality abounding, but a diff vibe from when you plan a menu and mix of people.

He's a human rights Snow Bird.

He thought it was bad to go with Thai women, due them all being sex slaves. "Sex slaves in that good Story of O-way?", I pressed. But he didn't know the book. Of course. The wife was another diehard advocate for more Merino Wool in my travel wardrobe.

This guy was a human rights academic, so woke-wise, I was left in the woke-dust. I read The Economist, I have friends in refugee resettlement. But it was like talking to Mount Rushmore -assuming one of the stone presidents were wearing a turtleneck ("Merino Wool, it's very important. Merino Wool"). He said Europe's situation with boats arriving hourly was "difficult". He called for "balance". I got up and took a long whizz. I at least had him laughing, Me? No laughs to be had from Nanook of the North. Can you point me in the direction of the simp-guide you live by that says I have to be endlessly nice to retard dullards? Because that's a book I want to avoid.

So like, is your wife stupid, or what?