Prubangboy

I was googling. Usually, it's the other way around: most women are hard-nexting a Trump guy.

I read on Reddit that they try to get a foot in the door by claiming to be pretend-moderates.

Most cited drop-kick moment: "I don't like how he acts, but he has a lot of good policies."

-Than, poof! gone.

Has anyone reading this encountered a Trumper woman in the wild here in Thailand?

I knew a guy who was upset his GF didn't know who Hitler was, but really, why should she? Can I name the King the Ayuthaya kingdom?

I have yet to hit it off with a sex worker, though I have popped into all 3 Hillary bars (on recommendation) to see if I might.

Jinting, what does the bedroom draw have be to have sex with a Trumper?

I gotta believe they can't be allowed to be the top.

That was the annoying part. I don't mind a Trump-Goober like I left behind in North Carolina.

They are to be cheerfully mocked to their inbred, bovine faces and occasionally given a zesty thump on the nose.

But she was a former IBM consultant. So basically a garden variety racist, like all of the average intelligence ones always turn out to be.

Just now, Jingthing said:

I would do a hookup with a Trumpist.

But not beyond that.

I prefer intelligent people.

I am 72. So 60 is on the young side.

But I get that I may just be slowly sliding down the old white woman greasy pole here and will end up with a nice Thai woman, like everyone does.

So as long as I'm here, how low, age-wise, can I expect to go without crossing the catfishing line?

Because at my age, 95% of the people who are excited to see me on Tinder live in Nigeria.

To offer an actual actionable suggestion:

Try meetups.com. I go to 3 a week. There's aways a sprinkling of 30-ish Thai and Chinese women. Also, Internations (which I don't go to because it's def a bit of a sausage fest).

If I do 3 meetups, that generally generates one date -which then goes nowhere.

I broadly agree with the sentiments here about money. Given the broad income equality here, you will likely be dealing with a lower middle class person who will have some money problems that just naturally accrue from having no money. And if you have a relationship with them, you will want to help them.

I went out with a woman who owns her home in the suburbs and works at a power plant. She's a responsible, non-grabby person. But if she makes even $20K a year, I'd be surprised. I we got involved and she had a problem with her roof, what am I, rolling around in baht, supposed to do?

So that's who you'll likely be mixing with, not lawyers and brain surgeons. OK-ish women who love Buddha, their family, and then you a very distant third.

I got nothing, more or less:

Convivial relations with my ex (white) wife in Chiang Mai, a best friend in Brazil. A brother back home I email with twice a year. So in a major health jam, that's my back up; pretty much listed in order.

It's not terrible. My wife has a daughter. That daughter has a lot of drug and crime problems. My brother is a life long addict. Family often doesn't live up to the hype.

Was in Luang Prubang 18 months ago. A bit of a ghost town due to Covid, I hear it's slowly coming back. Used to have an amazing collection of SEA fusion foodie places, now down to 5. Laos food in the Luang Prubang style is frenchified Issan food.

Didn't love Bhutan. Food is poor, temples are not nearly as good as Tibet/Nepal. The big plus was the very green Himalaya's. I'd say do it for 5 days.

Unless you're doing the trek. That was like going back 100 years. But that's a 25 year old recollection.  They've seen plenty of gringo's since. Prob still very other-worldly feeling tho, I am sure.

Add Tahiti to my list and a mail boat drift back to Melbourne, and my bucket list is done.

Try a short phrase when you get obsessive. Some suggestions:

-Be here now

-Choose Freedom

-Create some mental space.

Break the deadlock, see what comes up.

Drop 16 kilo, Do Yoga class 100 times, Learn conversational Thai and simple reading, get a girl friend.

Travel: Brazil, Papua,  Chengdu, Mongolia, possibly Myanmar to meditate.

2 hours ago, Negita43 said:

As the years go by - medical expenses, flight back home, your 80th+ birthday. As Reacher - would say hope for the best - plan for the worst!

I aint going home. My bio-age is 10 years younger than my chronological age.

And my 80th birthday party could be held comfortably in the back of a tuk tuk.

May as well flaunt it. 'Don't want to leave it on the table.

Why not use the basic brains that god gave you and google teaching English as a second language school in Chiang Mai and get every last question answered within 6 minutes?

But noooooo.

45 minutes ago, newnative said:

     Worth every penny.  We thought, '800 meters, well I guess it's not that far.  And, the condo does have a shuttle bus to take you to the station.'

     

And this will be my first rainy season spent in Bangkok. I figure April through September will be worth it alone.

There's a Japanese Hotel at Thonglor BTS that you can enter directly from the train station that has a monthly rate. Not cheap, but what am I saving for at age 72?

Yeah, I am def considering it. That would def catapult me into wealth-flaunting status, tho, and I live for Gamma Globule's approval.

But Asoke is really yoga-central and that's a new interest and woman-meeting plan for me so.....

My one deluxe move will be paying the extra 10K in rent to be very close to the BTS when I book an apartment next week.

Like, $10 a day more. 8 minutes distance max. 4 minutes would be better. 

Might have to go for a two bedroom unit to be in the right building. So in that case, $15 a day more. 

Man, I am really rolling in it. 

I have Youtube, ThaiPod and New York Magazine. And Morningstar and Seeking Alpha for investing.

No to streaming services. I might get bored and cycle through Netflix and Hulu and then drop them at some point.

I share a password on Criterion Films. I passed on Spotify. Youtube has more music than I can ever hope to listen to.

I wear polo shirts with the little alligator on them.

So yeah, I guess I do.

17 minutes ago, HugoFastor said:

I guess you were. 😊
 

If you were not such a great roller, then you went for the EZ Wider brand. They were thick and clumsy, but it was hard to miss rolling with those. I think on average back then he would probably put about half a gram into a normal joint. 
 

One of the Cheech and Chong movies was even titled The Big Bambu. 

I doubt that my pre-Thailand joints had even a quarter gram of weed in them. So it's like I fell in to the Super-size Me-movie.

My Amsterdam sojourns were all half-gram joints. I might have had 3 of them on a party-hard day.

So goes the world. Our food is polluted to make you fatter and want more of it, our weed is going the same way.

I'm on vacation in Sri Lanka (which I really love). All of the food is super-natural and I eat much less of it with greater satisfaction. You have to search for coffee you'd want to drink. A pack of cigarettes is close to a day's wages. The local booze, Arak, is like a smoother San Thip. 

Weed is virtually unknown here. No local market for it. No tourist market either. People are here for culture and yoga. India was the same.

The chill factor and functionality here is through the roof. I could live here. Kandy is Chiang Mai on valium.

Prob harder to hook up with women here than even Malaysia, tho. My guide says you gotta be pure Buddhist. No amulets, no Nang Kwak.

My couple of months camping out on Soi 11 definitely softened me towards Indians and Arabs. They are low key partiers who are really grateful to be free from their cultural straight jackets.

Ultimately, Soi 11 was not for me as a permanent living arrangement -despite jaw-dropping restaurant options.

But I can't think of anywhere else on earth where Norwegians toke up with Bahrainians. Cheap Charlie's may be gone, but it's still very much an intercultural crossroads and I hope that never changes.

18 minutes ago, HugoFastor said:

each one came out as a perfect gram on the scale. One of those seems like it would be enough to pass around between four or five people.

I would smoke one of those 4 times a day.

So I was smoking pot for 20 people.

Out of the two strains, Indica was def my enemy. I could feel my IQ lowering.

Though after the second spliff, it didn't seem to matter too much what kind it was.

Just now, RSD1 said:

You should have been going short-time every day instead. More "bang" for the buck. 😊

If I could get hard for hookers instead, I'd still have a mass of grey matter left. Oh, well...... I'm still trying to talk myself into pay for play, but it seems more boring than the weed.

The vaped weed that put me over the edge was supposedly 45% THC. And I smoked it all day. I have heard since that 45% weed is impossible. 'Can't say if that's true, 'don't want that level of weed knowledge.

It wasn't all bad. I experienced a deep interior silence akin to a 10 day meditation retreat for a while. But then my thoughts came back all shmushed together, really unpleasantly. Then I just sort of went blank, but knew enough to cross Soi 11 super-carefully.

A lot of people go off weed and drink more. For me, my weed binging killed all sin. I might have 2 alcohol units a week these days, only with food. And def never at home.

I'm on green tea over coffee. Sugar, almost never. Bad habits beget bad habits.

Also, I was buying retail at Soi 11 prices, so call it 1,000 baht a day. It was like paying a second rent.