Prubangboy

2 hours ago, Celsius said:

 

 

The worst part is boring sex... 

Once that lower body part checks out, the rest of her is not far behind.

If you've gone 3 months without decent sex (or worse, without any sex), that ship has sailed and is never coming back. 

Maybe google The Ick. It's irreversible.

32 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Generally the ladies are good, you seem a bit out of touch, the ones doing less than 60 mins are usually newbies

In retrospect, I agree with your astute observation.

My newcomer Thai life attitude is that I find them charming in being a little slack in all ways and have some empathy that they're making such low dollars. 

But if I'm still here a few years from now, I can def see myself shifting more into your column.

Now I'm leaning 4 Seasons, Like 5K all in with the alcohol add-on and the ++.

YOLO, as the kids say.

Nimman area of Chiang Mai is good fun for NYE. There will be bands at the Nimman1 mall, tons of vendors and food, and the streets behind it are low traffic for greater ambience.

Also, the tourist mix skews Chinese and Japanese potheads, no prob no drunken fights.

Retire now on 80K a month and let that other 20K keep growing to cover inflation.

3 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

a lady with a poor work ethic

Does her "stolen" time even amount to $2?

These are mostly older women, probably single moms, doing an unpleasant job of sheer tedium and drudgery. They're lucky if they see even half the massage fee. I expect a sub par experience on the cheap going in, rendered by minimally trained, disinterested ladies, and I am seldom disappointed.

What incentive does a 50 year old broke and tired woman have to excel? It's a biz where repeat customers are few, and provides a mere pittance at best when they do very infrequently occur.

Relatedly, on my corner there is a happy ending place with various tantric wanks on the menu. My favorite option is the offer to have 3 diff women do you one after another, while you are blindfolded.

I'm convinced that it's actually the same women, perhaps wearing heavy shoes for one massage segment to convince you otherwise, and using different, Monty Python-eque voices throughout to sustain the illusion.

I hope to love a woman someday at the level that Gamma loves Chomsky.

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1 hour ago, Bday Prang said:

Strangely on a thread about lamb, there has been no mention of mint sauce

.....Thinking about a marinade in spicy mint chutney now......

This dinner is a pot luck supper that'll be about 70% western people. So Thai people will def find something to eat if they don't like lamb.

Even if they don't love it, they'll be happy to try some on someone else's dime. Indian food is not something they've typically not had either. So it's a 2 for 1.  In my limited experience, they like -don't love- Indian food.

Hence, the vindaloo. It's a younger crowd, so they'll eat everything.

And corn bread. Everyone wants corn bread. It's a pricey add on at a Texas BBQ place here. Inauthentic sweet corn bread, with jalapeño's.

'Can't believe that you can get very respectable corn meal in a supermarket here. 

Want to do a leg of lamb for a Christmas party. What supermarket carries it? Can I get a big joint (as the English possibly still call it)?

Lamb Vindaloo taco's with lots of add-ons -I see some east meets west appeal.

Agreed, it's down to:

-spice level (I like it medium)

-sweetness (minimal)

-spice (I like a dash of 5 spice powder in with the cinnamon)

There's a place down by the old night market where the gimmick is that they pour the coconut milk into the chicken stock at the table. I think it adds about 10% flavor-wise, but that may be down to placebo effect 

I suspected the much-hyped Islam Kao Soi was getting good reviews just to bend over backwards to like something muslim. True: subpar crispy noodles, and just too sweet.

In the old city, around the corner from Wat Yu (and not far from NOOM N. Thai Cuisine) is an old temple restaurant with an original and beautfifully patina'd old wood interior. Vegan Khao Soi with shredded tofu that almost passes for chicken. 40 baht from the steam table (they're done by 2 PM). Google for Ming Kwan Vegetarian. There is no English language sign.

Mae Sot is a medium-good Mae-a Mayanmar mashup, the uniqueness of which is def overstated. Nice waterfall (zzzzz). A bit of the old teak left standing.

Mae Sariang is just a poor village, prob the most under-achieving Mae. If one wanted to study indigenous Islam among tribal people, well, that prob would not be you. 

The Mae you want is Mae Hong Son. That's a Mae where you can kill 3 days. And see long neck people for free, drinking coffee. 

And then you could take your long-suffering GF to Pai, like she actually would prefer.

Been 4 times in the last year. Very good. A must for visitors . Try the beef Khao Soi. Get there at 11:30 AM and there is no line.

Khao Soi Nimman another good 'un. It's gets dissed on Youtube for having air conditioning and hanging ferns.

Ging Grai on Soi 11 off Nimman Road is my fave Thai restaurant in CM; we order in at least once a week. Solid Khao Soi.

The absolute best Khao soi I've had to date is the vegan version at Good Souls in The Old City. I was sceptical, but that broth is perfect. 'Don't even miss the chicken (tofu and mushrooms instead).

1 hour ago, bignok said:

CEO.

That somtam isn't going to pound itself.

To quote my idol, George W Bush

"Why do you hate freedom?".

2 minutes ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Maybe true.   

You gotta stop thinking of the $$ impact you have on the nice local people adjacent to you and think in terms of the macroeconomic.

An expat is much less spendy than an average tourist. Few are springing for the 150 baht durian ice cream cone, but yeah, we're big, big consumers of bottled water.

When I think of it, my landlord is a fellow New Yorker, 80% of the dining I do is in non-Thai owned places.

My biggest $$ contribution to Thai people is 1) Grab Cabs 2)Weed.

27 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

How will they cope? My guess is that they won't even try to have the bandwidth for that. Which might mean they'll leave us alone  

Agreed, it cost money to chase down these tiny amounts. A haircut on remittances is very unlikely to happen.

33 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

In Jan 2022 I decided to start taking vitamins at the weekend. 

 

 

 

And yet, you list no vitamins.

Maybe double check on that increased mental clarity claim?

99% of the world thinks "taking vitamins" means taking the pill form. 

As long as I'm here, how did you arrive at this diet/vitamin formulation?

This sounds like medium-extreme intermittent fasting. What are your thoughts on that approach?

1 minute ago, Dan O said:

So thats what you got out of what I wrote?

 

It is indeed a mean ol' world full of low-morals opportunists. All of the world economies have a lot of problems. 

Thanks.