Prubangboy

Why can't people use the basic brains that God gave them and hit the return key to create occasional paragraphs? This fundamental stupidity underlies and explains the bigger stupidity. Agree as per above: the whole story isn't being told her and I detect a whiff of troll-dom.

I am 80 days weed-free and feel the best I have felt in years. I'm still coughing up grey gunk, tho. Weed put that grey gunk in me, and coughing it out can only be to the good. I never met a person who gave it up and regretted. Caveat: most weed quitters are back on it within 2 years. 2nd Caveat: Since I smoked more pot than Bob Marley (he died young, I kept on going) I would never harsh the mellow of someone bonging up by mentioning my new ability (not to mention new inclination) to read 2 books in a week and turn the treadmill up. Leave those degenerates in peace.

If you ban it outright, there will def be much less cannabis use, partic among Thai people. When I lived in England, where it was much less available, I smoked a lot less weed. The premise that the black market is immune to suppression is very specious. It's not 100% effective, but it's not wholly ineffective. You may seen weed use reduction as "no benefit" but many Thai people -who vote- disagree with you. The growing mood I get here is along the lines of: "We've catered to the whities too much for too long. MTGA." Make Thailand Great Again. It's amusing to see so many MAGA righties here arguing that's what's sauce for the goose back home is not -and can never be- sauce for the gander where they are currently enjoying a cheapskate paradise.

Loving this discussion, but banning cannabis is being pursued as a moral issue, much more than as a health issue. The government and a big part of the middle and upper class view THC intoxication as wrong to do. It may be hypocritical to view cigarettes and booze as OK, but just like in the states, among conservative people, most opposers are very comfortable with that double-standard. Constantly reiterating about that double standard is pointless. There is no desire to toss a new vice in the mix, and a lot of pushback against it. Weed is net/net bad for you. This is undebatable. Arguing that it's not fatal-level bad is a very weak argument. Likewise, huffily complaining, "well, it's not bad for ME, personally". I am 100% for full legalization, btw. This is a Buddhist country and Big B was def down on intoxicants. Likewise gambling. The concern about the young is genuine. I was surprised that weed ever got legalized. I won't be surprised if it's not in a year. I hear a lot about harmlessness in this chat, but can anyone point to a societal net gain from weed? Jobs? Mostly low paying, dead end crappy jobs. Tourism? Amsterdam is moving away from weed tourism and is still packed out, as would be Phuket. Money? For whom? Foreigners? The tax base? Short version: What's in it for the Thai Middle Class? They don't want their kids near it and they don't like seeing stores with cartoony leaves on a sign out front. How would you convince them otherwise?

Unless you got here yesterday, you should know that Thailand is the land of no-small-bills. It is your job as a whitie zillionaire -who has plenty of time on his hands- to have the appropriate change to simplify the lives of lovely, hard-working people who are working for 10 bucks a day. Under no circumstances should said poor people be expected to subsidize you, ever.

I thought the secret smile was a coded reference to the vertical smile (the one below the waist).

My wife schooled me: "Don't say on the spectrum. Think of Cousin Billy. Say Neuro-diverse. It allows for wiggle-room".

Sadly, you don't make my TrumpTrash cut of faves here. Let's review: YellowTail -literate, has passable movie recco's. BigStar -knows who Big Star were. Respect. ThaiBeachLover - a god among men, like the New Zealand Bukowski (I know, I know a former brit). SkipAlong - Just great to point and laugh at that perennially darkly muttering dolt. You -just a whiny crank.

Just was laughing hard about how Rudy has to return many unauthorized payment to vendors in his bankruptcy settlement TODAY, or they will go after the vendors and seize the money back from them. This will make him an untouchable in terms of any kind of credit or even the ability to order up food from Grab. Extra special sauce: His accountant dropped his pen and fled into the night last week. https://www.newsweek.com/rudy-giuliani-news-unauthorized-payments-deadline-today-1899768 So what are we; 6-9 months from this happening to Trump? Sweet. On that same Newsweek page is the promise of a tantalizing article that I hope one of my fave Trumpies will read and summarize: the glowing testament of a Mar A Lago employee gushing over how "nice" the Trumps are: https://www.newsweek.com/i-worked-trump-mar-lago-family-lovely-people-1897907 -I'm particularly hoping that the hilariously, severely humor-challenged Skipalong will weigh in. But all TrumpTrash are welcome to feel the lurrv.

I'm looking to get out of the house and do something. And it's in The Old City, which I love, but barely visit. They have a tantric sex workshop too. I am so on that.

We're talking about a whopping $140 blow out while on vacation? For several people? Parties cost more in Haiti. Get a grip.

I just signed up for 35 Qi Gong classes here in Chiang Mai. It seems like Tai Chi, but with more emphasis on balance. It's like, if I lived in Paris, I'd drink more wine: I live in CM, so why not study with a semi-name Qi Gong guy? I'm going to shorten my gym visits to squeeze it in. Anyone here done any so-called spiritual exercise? Muay Thai qualifies. What did you get out of it? Bonus question: Anyone had any romantic experience with a yoga-enthusiast? Was it chill or hot?

Saraburi is worth a look. I did a search here about Nonthaburi (also worth a look) and found that several posters here had moved there, since they found Nonthaburi too built-up. Spent two days there. If you're home-centered and content with Pizza Express and Swenson-type options at the mall for whitie-food, def worth a check-out. A little too sedate for me; I'd opt for Nonthaburi. I'd pick Cha Am over Hua Hin, but again, it's the battle of small versus smaller (with smaller winning out for me in that case).

I don't really care if they do or they don't. If they are a net-positive for me in terms of selling produce cheaper or having a taco truck I like, or doing some bad job that no whitie will do anymore, or picking fruit so an apple doesn't cost $5, I say come one, come all -and feel free to have your separate ethnic thing. The melting pot demand is obsolete, nearing a full century of being hilariously out of date. We need the warm, able bodies since we're no longer birthing our own and never will again. My mother in law's Mex caretaker gets $200 a day tax-free, plus room and generous board (5 people are also living there and eating). She nets out at more than a bank assistant vice president who went to a good college. Crazily, no poor whitie wants to do that job for that money. If one could be found, Mamacita would be quickly drop-kicked back to whence she came by my racist, TrumpTrash in-laws. Mamacita looks around and isn't sweating it. Hell, my mother in law gave her a used Rav4 car. When she dies, she will easily leap to another gig. She's gone for good back to adobe-land in a decade at the longest.

Again, as a Yank: Thank god for the Mexicans. They assimilate easily, are christian, want to move back home as soon as they can, contribute massively to Social Security for my boomer-benifet. And: Mexican Terrorism: Not since Zapata.

Def give this book a read (warning: no psychometric analysis): https://silkwormbooks.com/products/way-thais-lead It's about the Thai concept of Face (as in: saving face). Synopsis: if you keep going out of your way to humiliate very poor people, you are making them lose face. And it's only a matter of time before one of them punches you in your's.

Laos -real estate that no one's ever going to fight over. So I'd guess I'd go there. Udomoxi -lovely in the spring.

Lamest, most unfunny joke ever. Truly, just give up. Do you wear your funny red hat with your diaper?

the jokes just write themselves. Trump fans are now wearing diapers to support their incontinent leader (Snopes confirms). I theorized here (and got like six likes) that so much Trump lurvv was not so much racism and dumbness, but scat play enthusiasm. I will always denounce racists and will always stand up for fetish perverts: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cult-wearing-diapers/

In Nimman, Chiang Mai, the genie is way too out of the bottle for that to happen. I'm going to estimate pot stores at 5% of all retail store frontage, partic along Nimman Road. A couple of have closed due to ineptitude, and I notice that no one else has re-rented them. I almost never see a soul in these stores, even on the weekends. It's the hipster equivalent of putting an unemployable rich kid into a coffee bar biz to have something to do where he might shift a half a dozen cups a day. Forget the pot heads leading a torch-lit protest to Anut's house, won't someone please, please think of the landlords? Full disclosure: I was a drooling, slobbering pothead when I got here, but got too high and have since sworn off it for good. My desire to stop others from my dismal former fate is bumping along zero.

For my TrumpTrash friends, here's a pretty good song that shows that TrumpTrash is now the real counter-culture -not hippie intellectuals like me. It's a shared identity that goes beyond politics. The crowd reaction is intense and visceral. Said Michael Corelone about the Cuban revolution: "It means they can win".

You're white boy summer has come and gone. White boy summer was 2021. Are you still upset about goofball white boy summer? Chill, Bro.

You gotta get over this. I went to dozens of Peace demo's in the 70's. I never saw a flag burnt. Have you? Like, in real life? You're traumatizing yourself over something that confined to your nutty noggin. Are you not in cheapskate paradise where thin women will finally sit on your face? Why so glum, chum?

I'm just not sweating feminists, trans, wokeness, or the green economy. I live in Cheapskate paradise (with my white, older wife). Every day is great. I'm signing up for a one year Thai language course at Chiang Mai Uni so I can get even more into loving it here. Chill, Bro.

I'm done debating Trump here. But if I hear or think up a good Trump joke, I'll still toss it out. His orange make up thing is out of control. Has anyone ever seen natural skin that color? It's proof of his deep madness and how scared all of his minions are to point out how absurd it's gotten.