Prubangboy

Air BnB.

Not a huge money spinner, but an agent looks after the place for a fair whack off of the rental price. 

2 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

many Indian Thali restaurants where the food is dished out onto a banana leaf along with a mound of rice..

 

As long as the table is clean, what's the problem?

This great ol' tradition of thwacking your banana leaf with curry goo from a bucket may be gone.  

'Looked for it in vain in Singapore this year, even at fabled The Banana Leaf Apollo -who provided plates and not a banana leaf, and then brought all the little bites together from a steam table at the same time.

Same in Kuala Lumpur.  Possibly a victim of Covid?

They have this on soi 3 in Nimman, Chiang Mai. 250 baht for unlimited bucket pouring at lunch. They charge you 200 baht for excessive leftovers to make sure you eat all of the squid. Haven't done it.

At that price, it's too good to be true, like an unlimited Shabu restaurant always is.

It that you want to cling to stranger's legs on the internet to press your cheap Charlie claim -that has already been beaten to death tens of thousands of times here- that reeks of dull desperation.

Short version: As a sniffy Brit, no sane service worker expects dime-one out of you.

Given the found nowhere else on earth preponderance of self-proclaimed Mensa member genius's here, I can't afford to block anyone. 

It's just so weird that the world's intellectual 1% all live in cheap condo's, living on less money than a postman's salary, and are dating women with 9th grade educations.

It's gotta be a long game genius-thing, no? Whatever it is, I know going in that I'm not smart enough to understand it.

10 hours ago, Chris Daley said:

British cuisine.  Everyone wants it but they can't get it right.

I read here about evil miscreants stealing the bottles of HP sauce that gracious restaurants supply with the breakfast that killed more Brits than Hitler. 

Wouldn't seeing such a small potato's thief being merrily beaten about the head and neck with a bottle of HP sauce qualify as a small and under-rated pleasure?

Relatedly, Tiptree, the pricey jam people, sell an average-sized bottle of brown sauce for 3 quid. You'd have to have it on a chain. But someone would prob just bring a straw.

https://www.tiptree.com/products/tiptree-brown-sauce?pr_prod_strat=e5_description&pr_rec_id=ea4998f70&pr_rec_pid=8109239435580&pr_ref_pid=8324195025212&pr_seq=uniform

There are tons of places that do this in the states, so it may be worth sending it overseas.

I found a small micro-cassette tape of my deceased wife practicing Spanish and had it converted to a CD for myself and her relatives. $20 per CD.

Amazon USA also sells (or sold) a duel VCR/CD machine which could dupe your cassette.

Since I got here a year ago, I have had two straight up relationship propositions from attractive Thai women in their low 40's (I am 70).

While I felt affinity and affection from them what I distinctly did not feel was any groinal moisture in my direction. 

I fear that that is now the sole province of the few oldie whitie women who can even muster it up.

Yellow? I'm their 5th choice. At best. Give me a whitie 3 who's into me over a yellow 9 who wants a lap top for their kid (not that that's a true story or anything).

If I'm out in a moo ban, what does that cost to rent? Assuming no real restaurants, what's my weekly food spend?

How much will Noi want to stick around without a long face? I was talking to an old hippie who was staying by Soppong Cave for 500 baht a day, all in, including a couple of big Changs at sunset.

-Have you had sex with a white woman in Thailand? 

-If an attractive white woman was into you here, would you hit that?

Have I wandered in to the periodic 7/11 Toasty appreciation thread?

There's a nice person here who says that his dream is to retire to Thailand and counsel whitie alcoholics  who are lying face down in the gutter.

My purpose in life is to laugh at that guy.

Other than that, I got nothing.

Phuket is nicer Miami. Samui is like crappy Maui.

1 hour ago, bob smith said:

 

But if you deal with your problems head on like a man

This is the threadbare consolation prize advice for failures who simply could not manage to run away from their problems.

Which you can observe even a roach doing.