Prubangboy

Def. see this in Nimman. $150 hotels are hard to book. $60 hotels have plenty of rooms to rent.

He did this exact same post a year ago.

I made fun of him for referencing the long (long) moribund Redcat site and laughed at him for thinking that the Kamphaeng historic site was much bigger than a small Makro car park. 

The Bogan asked: "Wot about the karaoke opportunities?".

On 11/15/2023 at 11:10 PM, bignok said:

Pepper tastes like pepper.

Please,  please, more Bogan foodie wisdom.

We bought two black pepper grinders. The Kampot one is almost done, the Ponchindary one (which is still better than cheap, Bogan-level black pepper) is still three quarters full.

You're lucky enough to be in a place where your chance to enjoy stuff like diff kinds of black pepper is unique..

You judge a meal by how high they pile the chips on the plate, amIright?

Bogan, just throw another shrimp on the barbie and be done with it.

Guys fighting with their girlfriends.

I'm a high earner, so it's $367 a month for me for Part B. I also have Cigna here for about $450 a month(I'm 71) with a $7,500 deductible. I have a dedicated fund to cover 2 big ticket health disasters at the same time.

My odds of ever going back to the states are low. But a very esteemed poster here told of being glad he kept his home country national insurance because he needed a kind of chemotherapy that was not available in Thailand.

I think the odds of having his bad luck are very low, and India has a chemo-industry at discount pricing. Still, Cancer can really wipe you out financially. So I follow his example and consider my $367 a month as a second wall against a health catastrophe.

But then, the guy above makes the point that going back home when near death -to a hospital where they don't know you, while staying at a motel- is probably unrealistic. The US Healthcare system is in a free fall even for people who live there and are willing and able to fight with their insurers to get their bills paid. Just hopping off a plane? Sounds tough.

I've researched the various cancers that might compel me to do this and had genetic testing which rules out 99.9% of them as likely on that basis. So for me, that $367 a month is sort of overkill. It's not a 100% rational decision. Were I to toss that $4,200 a year into a health savings fund, I'd bet I do better in terms of outcomes.

I also view it as a charitable contribution to the very stressed Medicare general fund back home. Let some poor dialysis patient live high on the hog on my unused $367 payment.

Why would she be in that awkward pose on the carseat -except for what she was doing right before the pic was taken?

Kevin Costner called and wants his image back.

Very funny article in Slate about how even a zillionaire becomes a drooling bonehead when in lust for a woman -Def the most unintentionally hilarious pic of the year:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/11/jeff-bezos-and-lauren-sanchez-vogue-photoshoot.html

So, would I? No, will pass on the trout pout lips. He's Jeff Bezo and he can't get a Gwyneth. Sad.

Have I gone crazy simpy in my life due to lust?  

Def. Prob the most with my wife. Since that worked out, simping is re-defined as success.

This is a PM I just got from the girlfriend:

"This is another disaster. First, Pai on the cheapskate plan -'have another piece of meat on a stick, but not two', he said patting my midriff. Now, I'm stuck with Mr Moody in the two-Buddha town of Nan. Back in Cha Am, he urged me, Mary climb on, it's a town full of losers and we're pulling out of it to winnnn. And now, what? Shabu shabu for dinner? At best?"

Agree with the above that protein drinks are supplemental. 

I drink one from 7/11 every other day after weight training. It prob helps me about 10% in soreness compared to if I don't do it. It's worth 40 baht to not have to clean the blender. 

Likewise, if I'm having a crap protein pad thai kind of day, I might have one in the evening. It's good to be aware of how much, what kind, and how slowly digestive the protein you eat is. It will shock you how long a cheeseburger takes to become usable protein.

My very unscientific personal experience is that the protein daily recco is too high to be practicably doable, at least for a 70 year old.  

I see recco's of drinking a shake before bedtime, so that you don't "waste" that sleeping time when you could be digesting still more protein. Let the body rest for a few hours, and then begin your protein force-feeding anew.

More protein should be accompanied by more water. And more fiber. There's only so much protein you can realistically squeeze through the butt channel and protein digestion is very stressful on the kidneys.

Drinks might work as a meal-postponer, but not as a meal replacement. You'll just get too hungry later on and devour a bag of cashew nuts.

And:

If Thailand-boredom is currently weighing on you, Nan is going to sink you like a stone.

Just smoke a lot of weed. YOU'll become boring, but you personally won't feel any boredom at all. It's like outsourcing boredom.

I do recall that the tall ginger woman from The Thompson Twins moved to NZ, but I think that she left by now.

8 minutes ago, scorecard said:

she removed all of my possessions from the house and threw them away, including the pack of photos. 

 

 

Much empathy for your story. How are you with that act today? 

2 minutes ago, Bobthegimp said:

 

The firmest bitch hand in music in his day. 

 

The Godfather of Soul didn't take any guff from the ladies.  I remember the story of him driving his pickup 70 mph in the wrong lane while giving his 13th wife etiquette lessons with the back of his hand. 

This was the era when he was playing with a 9-piece band in bars due to crack. Those were some raggedy shows ($10 on a Tuesday -$15 on a weekend).

You could have prob bought Please, Please, Please off of him for a jumbo rock or two.

I have actually asked for an autograph one time in my life -from the gospel singer, Dorothy Love Coats, who's rough-style Alabama singing influenced Little Richard. It was a park concert and I had a reception invite.

She wrote In HIS name, On this date, and then a big sig and the date. Yeah, that's gone with the wind too.

Women all over the world of different races?

Is it true, Bob, try black and you never go back?

2 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

No way, very sad thing to do asking for an autograph, talk to them is a good thing

Broadly I agree, but a lot of stars like doing it. There's some vids of Bruce engaging and signing stuff. Ringo won't sign anything since he keeps seeing it show up on Ebay.

I bought my Elvis check at a charity auction ($200). I got my Jamie Reid poster signed at his gallery showing in New York ($100 -F Forever if you want to google-image it).

I would never approach an artist to ask for anything. Tho one time I saw James Brown at a traffic crossing on 5th Avenue and asked him when his old R+B stuff would be re-released. James shrugged and said, "It all about the dollar".

Gynophobia sounds like something a Fem-Domme would threaten you with.

"By the time I'm finished with this riding crop, you're gonna be gynophobic, WORM!"

There's a weaving/indigo dye village worth a look and a lunch.

Overall tho, Korat was a bit blah. The walled city aspect did not lead to much historic preservation.

3 minutes ago, PJ71 said:

This is what often confuses me.

 

If i were in his position i'd sell the company and live an anonymous existence......very happily.

 

Why bother with the hassle. 

Kid Rock was asked how he avoided the paparazzi. He said "I moved to upstate Michigan. Easy". 

Like I said, before the usual descent into autistic morass, do you feel that moving to Thailand gave you a class-reset?

1 minute ago, vangrop said:

your op is not worth any reply. Just saying bye

Thanks for reminding us of your existence.

I mean, temporarily.

13 minutes ago, noobexpat said:

"Likewise, when I was rich, my humble beginnings were always present."

 

Why aren't you anymore? Why don't you have more now than before? Is this something that was 30 years ago. 

 

 

I retired from being rich. It was too much work. I like living in an older condo and ordering in now. That's like being stealth-rich. 

Money brings neurosis. Like in my expensive stove example, I'm no saner than the other expensive stove head cases. I still:

1) feel I have to justify it (my wife wants it) 

2) want the stove-guy to think well of me. 

I was hoping for more funny money neurosis stories. My neighbor just bought a truck that he "needed". Because he very occasionally likes to do a DIY project or two.

But did he need a truck that you need a step ladder to get into? I know the affluence-drill, so I went with, "I'll bet your kids love it".

'Yeah", he said, "I bought it for the kids".

I used to have a very expensive, six burner stove. Cooking is my wife's #1 hobby.

An expensive stove is like an expensive sports car; you will be seeing a lot of your new friend, the expensive stove repair man (assuming you can even book him). If you want 1,000 degrees for pizza, that's going to put a lot of stress on that very expensive stove. Call it 4 $300 visits a year. Cheaper than having a horse, I guess.

The repairman told us that he like fixing our stove because we never ruminated on whether or not we really wanted an expensive stove or what that said about us. Did we really need it? Wasn't a good ol' thousand dollar stove just the same? What message was this 2-ton status signifier sending to the kids? As he put it, "I'm a stove-guy, not a therapist".

As an expensive stove porn-addict, The Guardian (of course) regularly runs articles by expensive stove agonizers. Oddly, for all of the wailing, it's very hard to buy a high-end stove second hand. People keep them to the grave. This is diff from restaurant stoves, which are likely to have been in half a dozen other places before heating up your korma.

If you're lucky enough to be affluent, then it's bad taste to expect any consideration from people who are not. If you got all the money, then someone else gets all of the sympathy. If God ever offers you the reverse, don't take that deal.

4 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

We never talk about money, as there is never any need to do, nor do we talk about the things we own. 

Is this diff from how you behaved back home? How so? Why?

I had a much younger crypto zillionaire type as a neighbor for a while. We bonged up a few times. He shagged the laundry lady and I heard about it from the building manager. This kind of interaction would be impossible in the states.