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Contra-view:
1) The vast, open sea is one the greatest sights in the world and on a cruise ship you'd see plenty of it.
2) The food is like a Marriot buffet. Other than it always being warm, not hot, you'd have no complaints.
3) Unlike solo travel, you could calibrate how much sociability you'd have in your mix. lone buffet table or group dinner?
4) Possible sex adventures. People put pineapple refrigerator magnets on their front doors -indicating swinging interest. You're welcome to come on in. Life's a box of chocolates.......
-I still wouldn't do it. The demographic leans too heavily Trump Trash. Not so in Ubud or Paris.
My one time I did it, it was swarming with Black Trump Trash. They kept getting in my face about "I'll bet you're surprised that a black man likes Trump".
I just waved them off: "Your gullibility is about you being upset that the Mexicans who swum the Rio Grande last week are zooming past you economically today".
To get on a cruise with sensitive, non-bonehead liberal people who want to explore Greenland or go to vineyards, you're talking about about $1,000 a day, not $82.
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Just now, bignok said:
Donation only too i think.
300 baht a day is the whitie expectation, but they'd be very forgiving.
A desk clerk in MHS drove us there for free. Due to our sack of rice, she piggy backed on our merit (and brought a big box of laundry detergent herself).
It's very unstructured. Consider downloading some guided meditations. Joseph Goldstein (my fave teacher) has some good ones for free. Or just go to Youtube a see what one you like.
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6 minutes ago, bignok said:
Might go there.
You can keep your phone and you don't have to be silent. That's as lax a retreat as you can get.
You can also opt into silence by wearing a Silence-badge (no one will talk to you or talk near you).
A silent retreat with no phone is at least 10 times more impactful, but whatev's.
The food is veg. curry with a lot of cabbage in it and rice. Not much food after lunch.
Downer: the chanting (long and dull). But Asians love a good, long vibrational chant. If you try to dodge the chant, they will come knocking on your little kufti-hut door. In the west, it's either chant-lite or chant-optional.
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1 hour ago, Ebumbu said:
Hi. Could you share some more information about this please?
It's a forest retreat between MHS and Pai. Grab Cab-able.
The English-speaking Abbot gave us amulets and had a little chat with us (we donated a big bag of rice).
As per the custom, the abbot passed the amulet to an assistant to give to my wife -lest he inadvertently touch a woman.
In Laos, The abbot of Luang Prubang had never touched a woman in his entire life (he was 80). It was a matter of great local pride.
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Had one ND and my wife had one. Verdict: a very blanked-out sleep, live 5 mg of Xanax.
Maybe we were too baked from pot to find the tunnel of light.
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6 minutes ago, Rockhopper said:
Try Zen
Def has the hottest women in Buddha-dom, plus the Boheme glamor of The Beats.
BUT: Numerically tiny, like sub-Quaker. Prob 90% of them world wide are in N. California.
And like you said, just too hard. I did a week in Mount Koyasan in Japan. The hard mat was part of it. No thanks.
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34 minutes ago, Gandtee said:
Then why do Thai practitioners of their version of Buddhism seem to have inflated egos and to lose face is something unbearable?
Because spiritual practice is no guarantee of anything.
Are catholics saints? They have a lot of exemplary saints to point to (many of them made up), and yet, on average, catholics are nice people who are trying to lead a better life and like that particular lifestyle brand.
I live next door to an advanced Hindu meditator who has a scholar level knowledge and deep connection about Shiva-worship, both as a Jungian icon and diety. When we moved in, he asked us, "I hope you don't mind a little Vedic chanting".
We told him that we'd pay extra for Vedic chanting. He took us at our word, It's been a wailing, glottal-stopping journey. He's going home soon, we're crushed. We talk about meditation a bit, he's def hit the Jhana states.
On the other hand, he recently warned us to buy Crypto because Biden will soon be faking an alien invasion (like the moon landing) to take over the world (via Ukraine).
The worth of meditation is mostly interior for the meditator. Whether that work makes you a more evolved or loving person is on you, not meditation.
That's why I, who love meditation, almost always urge others not to do it. The guy who said it makes him nap needs to take the cosmic spiritual lesson that he needs more rest in his life and maybe a bit more hydration. He's good to go.
As to the Thai aspects, I see those as more poor person in poor places behavior issues. You'd find the same defensiveness and worry about status in Cancun or Bradford.
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2 hours ago, bignok said:
Why is the gene pool so bad?
"Why is MY gene pool so bad? I think that cousin was really my aunt."
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3 hours ago, bignok said:
the Pattaya "golfer"
I love that guy. Has the deets, will engage.
A solid must-click when I see his name.
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I'm 71. And said so a couple of times in this thread.
This is another thing you do after, I....I....don' unnnerstan..... ("help MEEEE"). You pretend to misremember things to strengthen your non-arguments.
But since your own age seems to be on a sliding scale (along with your sex count), you may indeed be as genuinely confused as you front.
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2 minutes ago, bignok said:
I went to some in Europe. World rated. I wouldnt want to spend much time talking about it.
"World Rated" art galleries? Pretty goofy.
A lot of people here are Brit or commonwealth. Famous around the world for their odd, fusty, sexual squeamishness. Until they get in a room with a 1,000 baht new friend. Then the creepiness seems to just evaporate.
Like magic.
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Just now, bignok said:
True. But would you hit a 76yo guy?
Amongst the legendary imaginary internet hard men, one particularly hilarious poseur shows some mercy in altercations that happen only in his own head.
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10 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:
it can be a bit creepy where posters ask for and provide too many details.
Man, I would love that. Anal dilation width details? Sign me up.
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Further thought from my wife, just now:
"He thinks art galleries are posh" -followed by snort of derisive laughter.
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1 minute ago, bignok said:LaosLover is trying to be witty but failing over like a drunk down steps after rain.
Def get in touch for a meal.
Status update: I'm on a weed fast. Maybe for good. My wife looks in here and won't meet you. As she put it:
"He's no StickyRiceBalls".
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It sounds like you agree with me. Pre-Thailand, your life was terrible (prob some rage and sadness in that mix). Most people I meet here are processing some life trauma. That's among oldies. The young in my building are here for NGO work or Muay Thai.
Thailand is like the old conception of The French Foreign Legion, which people famously joined to "forget". Except for Laurel and Hardy, who forgot what they were trying to forget by the time they travelled by foot to Morocco to join.
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Friends reference -and I'm the one who's out of date?
You can never argue anything because you really have nothing to say beyond "look at me".
Your various interruptions are 100% about that. Even in this simple discussion about whether playing the creepy card is loser move, you are incapable of staying on topic.
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Tell us more about this paralyzing creepiness you suffer from that seems to flick on and off like a light switch.
Is it a physical sensation, or just a temporary malaise that attention has briefly shifted away from you?
Your creep-aversion is wholly made up and completely unbelievable -unless you can articulate it.
But like your planned physical confrontations with people here, that's likewise never going to happen.
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I...I.... don' unnnnerstannnn -is your other big dodge.
If you're so easily sexually creeped out, stop going to hookers.
I mean, duh.
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No wait.
YOU'RE the bigger retard for leaping into the troll net like a dumb carp at every slight provocation.
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Nothing is lamer then the insult of creepiness. If you are so easily creeped out, time to buy a fainting couch.
Creepy is a term used by people without any real complaint, as a weak attempt to shame. Women use it when an unattractive man approaches them. So conveniently vague. Just a dumb, cowardly dodge. You use it about every third post.
Because you have no insult game either. You thought that people talking about sex was "creepy". Are you a Mormon? You say you had sex with 400-550 women (depending on the post), and yet when OTHER people talk about sex, you retreat behind your powder puff like a fop and sniff, "it's sooo creepy".
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Iron clad rule:
Any BigNok post past page one and a half is just him fighting over absolutely nothing with people who hate him, but are totally lacking in terms of amusing insult game.
It's like watching retards walk into street sign poles, but without the comical BONK! sound.
I see a lot less posting by me in his duller than dirt feuds in my future.
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The child is a hostage used to extort cash. And when push comes to shove, the child will side with the mother, not you.
Eventually, the mother and the child will leave and/or find another branch to swing to.
After 6 years of a worsening situation, it's time to go.
I supported someone else's kids for 8 years. Those kids don't speak to me, through no fault of my own. It's a loss, but I got over it. And so will you.
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Looked hard at Borneo. You're pretty much locked into a pricey tour these days. Sulawesi is unique among junglish places with a little bit of anthropological interest in that it lacks a strong touristy brand. You virtually never hear about the place. I'd liken it to Trinidad, a place with a lot of interest that doesn't really need or particularly want tourists due to natural resources and port status.
See also: Amazon Rain Forest, Madagascar, African Safari, Easter Island -other expensive places where you're kept well on a leash. Small boat cruises to the little Indo islands run about $500-$800 a day, with a painful single supplement if you go alone. Oddly, Antartica cruises are very forgiving about the single supplement these days. But doing them outside of the summer months is pure misery.
This coming burning season is my year to push out the boat, travel-wise. I want more of an Indiana Jones type experience than luxury (but not too onerous) It's not been hard to find places to take my money. The adventure travel segment has plenty of vacancies.
Pattaya makes the top 10 list on Expats best low budget places to move abroad!
in Pattaya
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I might eventually have to agree.
This next smoke season is said to be running March to June due to El Niño -so a little worse than last year. A place I love is def less lovable if I have to rearrange my life 25% of the time.
We've re-signed for another year (no rent raise). If Smoke Season '25 looks dire, we're gone.
In which case, The Dark Side of Pattaya starts to make sense (not into the beach partic) for having the mix of whitie pleasures and services; not to mention other whities. Close to Bangkok one way, lots of lovely towns like Chantaburi the other way.
Nonthaburi BKK is another option. I'm going to look in on Phuket this year for the first time since '99.
Unless you have a GF who's putting out sex, going to No Whitie-Land is self-flagellation (and not the good kind). Reports here say that that the ardor cools substantially around month 5 in Roi Et.