Prubangboy

It should replicate bar stool philosophizing. Light, jokey, p-taking. Not painstaking, earnest debate with ex-mongers who can barely fog up a mirror. It's been a education here to see how many expats love stuff like JoeRogan/Jordan Peterson, Covid conspiracies, stopping the trans-menace. And it mirrors my real life experience meeting other fellow boomers here. To paraphrase Julie Burchill talking about Stephen Fry " It's a dumb person's idea of a smart person". Blissed out as I am here in cheapskate paradise, I am hard-pressed to toss these non-issues even the merest thought. So for those chats, I def retreat to an imaginary echo chamber to dodge them. It's interesting to me sociologically that such privileged old whities pick these very odd hills to die on. Euro's with plush medical insurance loving Trump is another baffler. It's like Maslow's pyramid in reverse. The happier they get, the more butt hurt they feel.

What about people who are here just for laughs? Should I have to listen to such dull, going nowhere dross from (usually) Brit coma-victims? There's a Biden might win thread. And a lot of bland posturing about polling and what it means. From unknowing losers sitting in rice paddies in Issan. Caveat: I am no better. Why try to be Wiki? What movitates you dullards? As I said above: On the internet, be funny, provocative, or gone. "Mature" posting -shoot me now.

Dating site data shows that everyone -men and women- wants a partner that's exactly 20% better looking they they are. What sane person would not? Or going by my theory: 20% more sexually adventurous/exotic than they are to offset a 20% looks deficit.

As always, it will come down to turn-out. Joe's a bucket of warm spit, but Trump's a bucket of warm you-know-what. The voting against Trump will be higher than the voting against Biden -just like if I had to choose between those buckets if I had to drink from one Who's more motivated -abortion-ragers or border-worriers? We'll know soon enough. My money's on the abortion ragers. Quite the landmine for Trump in the debates and beyond. Biden can say, "I tried on the border, but they were just too nuts". What's the Republican waffle on abortion?

A lot of seriously looks-mismatched relationships are kinky. I mean, duh. Partic true when you see a Brad Pitt-type with a fattie. Most hot, submissive-lifestyle women start at size 12. How badly do you want to be the dark lord and master? Since these women are practically never single, many, many men do. When I popped into the Demonia Fetish Club in Bangkok, it seemed like Thailand's entire obese women population had convened there to wear rubber dresses. Don't believe the Dakota Johnson/50 shades of grey-hype. If you want to tie up the average kinky woman, you will need a lot more rope than you thought. And: Married thrice. One died, one grew to hate the very sight of me (English), the third one is likely good till the grave.

Agreed. There's not enough warm bodies left here to have the luxury of ignoring anyone. The drinking poison quote has been attributed to Carrie Fisher, Plato, and Buddha. I think a version of it originates with Emerson.

In '64, I was 11, and hoping the stupid Beatles would go away. Early Motown, Early James Brown, New Orleans Rhythm and Blues -they crushed it all like a tank. They worshipped Chuck Berry too, but that didn't stop them from quickly rendering him to history's trash heap. My mother had a mob boyfriend who would bring me a bag of singles each week from his money laundering juke boxes (why the juke box was invented, really). I'd get a lot of Vic Damone and Sinatra in the mix too. Histrionic Vicky Carr and Frank remain high in my esteem, but once I heard JB, I was gone from crooner-dom for good. Said my mother's paramour whenever he came over: "Get that sweaty <deleted> off the record player and put on The Sound Of Music".

Tried it, but the area's you might live in comprise an area smaller than the Chiang Mai old city. The city is laid out so that you are constantly confronted by an eight lane mega-road or other you have to cross. The downtown historic district really shuts down after dark. Weird quirk: hard to find an apartment with air conditioning. Everything was $1,200 a month plus. Renting in Zona Roma would be as hard and expensive as renting in Soho or Greenwich Village (Thai food options: adequate). Loved that it had proper bookstores and Sun Ra playing in them, but it was easy to get bored after a month. Def no cheery Thai-style sanuk vibe. Medium hostility about Yanquie Gentrification. Less English spoken then in Chiang Mai too. And: someday, the mother of all earthquakes awaits you -we know not when- due to Mex City being built on a sinking, old lake bottom. Looked in on Quetetaro too. More spread out than the other mountain towns, and a fair bit duller. I forget the name for it, but they had a bad idea-sandwich where the bread is served sopping wet, covered in red sauce. Yuck. Do you love low grade, gristly pork? Because you'll be eating it twice a day, if you're lucky. The day after Thailand opened up post covid, I left.

During my very unsuccessful attempt at an acting career, I used to put down on my resume that I played the title role in Night of the Iguana.

Tried it for a month 3 years ago. Didn't see a one bed room for less than $1,500 and those were scarce and out of town. Very small, not much bigger than Nan. Good but not great restaurant selection. I stayed at the Zen Center for $10 a night. Maybe 3 people show up on a busy night at the Zen Center Supposedly, it has the largest proportion of older western woman expats in the world, surpassing even Bali. Those old hags must have been in hiding -and hiding out from Zen too. Guanajuato had more life to it, but was another 3 day town. They have a Thai restaurant. But not one you'd go to twice. If you go to two of these mountain towns with expensive silver and craft stores, you can skip the rest.

Whenever I log in, there's a number at the top of the page of the emoji's I'm going to see about what I posted. It's like Forest Gump's box of chocolates. I know not which little yellow face it will be, but I'm always happy that someone cared. If I've been in the mood to laugh at TrumpTrash, that emoji number will usually be in the double digits. Nerve-touching or just that people like funny insults?

"I touched a nervvvvvve. I did, I did. It was a big nerve. And bold iconoclast-me touched it". -Hellooo Time Traveler from a 1997 AOL Chatroom. Being pretend-rich to pretend-win over disinterested strangers is another lost in time classic. Find BigNok, study at his feet. You need help.

150% of my lifetime emoji useage has been on this forum. I just assume (correctly) that confused emoji's are usually impotent, passive aggressive leg-humping. Like the chav mopes here who dimly sputter, "Nut shure, WOT yer goin' on about, Moyt". "I touched a nerve" is the weakest, dumbest, and most conveniently unverifiable claim on the internet -beneath even BigNok.

Agreed. Poss kitchen error on the skimpy French fries? Tho on average, the fries portion in Thailand is (thankfully) smaller than in the west.

Prefer my Bob on the rockin' side. Give me the cataclysmic closing blow out on the Nine Tonight live album any day. Other than his leather-lunged bellowing on We Got Tonight, Bob's ballard and and mid-tempo stuff is painful to sit through.

I respect him as a historically great song writer. But if I never hear his music again, that would be my preference. He really took the twee ball and ran with it. In the Beatles, John Lennon was there to balance out the saccharine impulses. I almost never disagree with Alan Partridge, except for: "Wings -the band The Beatles could have been".

For me at this mature stage of drunken whoremonger forum participation, almost certainly not. I love TBL. No one has praised him here more than me. He's like Bukowski, trapped in New Zealand. But would I take political advice from NZ Bukowski? From a socialist, tit-sucking faux hardman poseur? No. I mean, duh.

She has a lot of chronic health problems. That's why I always encourage her to order the dozen oysters, not the half-dozen.

The Marquis De Sade -why couldn't he have just been happy with a little bondage and spanking? There's always a nutter who ruins it for everyone. There's a reassessing bio on him that destroys him as a so-called philosopher. He was more Son of Sam than Sartre.

Another consideration: No need to provide for heirs beyond my wife. She's 10 years younger, but will likely go before me. I am reminded of the lesson of Howard Hughes's butler: When asked how much money Howard left, he replied, "well, he left all of it". We are front loading and upgrading our travel plans. Our Christmas tree biz is a fluke. My wife grew up in the Veuve Cliquot region for Christmas tree-growing (Blue Ridge Mountains) due the unique climate. You plant 'em (or someone else does and takes half the money), you give 'em a light trim and fertilization every year, and they are impervious to drought, insects, everything. They are a rare plant that does well on a poor soil hill slope, so otherwise useless land is valuable where we live. The tree's for Rockefeller Center or the White House often come from our area. A Rockefeller Center tree costs about $15K wholesale, but it's a 20 year wait to get paid. Bunting (pine roping used for rails, stairwells ect.) makes more money than the trees. 20 years ago, it was just useless trim that was thrown away.

I'm 71 (today). I invest for current income first and capital preservation second. Growth, third. My allocation: 15% muni high yield via VWAHX (one of the few HY Muni funds without Puerto Rico bonds -I got burned). 15% broad muni ETF (MUB) 30% mix of high and middling div stocks (including 5% foreign) 10% MLP and REIT's (for income, not growth). 20% S+P ETF (to get a little growth in the mix) 10% Foreign Stock ETF (15% total is a standard allocation for foreign stocks) I'm following a Morningstar-style bucket strategy. In a crash, I can collect income off of 70% of my portfolio and wait it out for a comeback without selling anything. This is a low growth, high yield approach. Also have a 2 year income pile in Bangkok Bank, a heart attack fund, and a Christmas tree farm back in the states. Christmas trees are only going straight up in price. But you have to wait. It's one year, one foot, one dollar accrued per tree. Mike, I too sub to Morningstar, and also Seeking Alpha. SA has a lot of fluff, but also decent analysis of REIT's and MLP's, which are less covered elsewhere.

Most Johnny Try-hard post ever? Please think about breathing into a paper bag. before posting again.

You're a very good informative poster, but not a million laughs. I am grateful for your presence. The classic example of this is MikeLister. He probably has never cracked a smile in real life, but if I see his name, he's a must-click.

Internet rules: Be funny, informative, or gone.

Telling someone else posting in a forum that they are losers for posting in a forum is like yelling pervert at someone sitting next to you in a porn theatre.