Prubangboy

No, that's rightfully only for Gamma. As to the many Mensa members here, I pulled at a Mensa meeting -as a non-Mensa. Can any Mensa here claim the same?

Can you give us a synopsis of Dr Strange? Some of us don't watch comic book movies. Movies that you derive a quote marks lesson from. You have so much to teach. I'm all ears.

In the Theravada tradition, there is a kind of empathy called Sympathetic Joy; the enjoyment of enjoying people enjoying things. It's very strong here. When you're digging into that mango and sticky rice, they're really with you on it. In Thailand, you experience a lot of empathy that is very light-feeling, instead of just the heavy burden of sympathy-type empathy.

When I lived in the Deep South of the USA, I recall having a super-heated conversation with Trump Trash about the incipient threat of wokeness. One genius wanted to station volunteer citizen guards outside of Walmart Ladies Rooms in case RuPaul showed up. I was like, "If I dodged jury duty, I can def. dodge that". This argument was at a church bake sale to raise money for some poor hick's dialysis. They might have raised seventy bucks. As I told them daily, "You rednecks are screwed in the head and too stupid to live". The socialist country Trump Trash here would not ever like to be in that man's dialysis situation. Even in Mexico, the government would help him. They talk the talk, but they would never walk the walk.

Vientiane wants to do it too. And they're much broker and more in the Chinese pocket. Went up to Boten, the northern border town there which was a ghost town except for the casino. It was def doing some biz.

I think those slatternly Pattaya harlots are finding better prospects on their phone then what's sitting in front of them at the bar. I have to believe that those glorious days when a hot-looking woman would play a game of Jenga with me in a bar, just on speculation, are gone and never to return. Who, who can I blame for this?

Most countries are def more educated than America is. To quote Chris Rock, "They be thinking a book is like kryptonite". The whole IQ-mania thing here is something I snark at, but do not participate in. Obv. success is not even remotely about being smart. I'm prob more conventionally successful than most people here. Who's voting for me to have genius status? For the rest of the world, it's the Trainspotting conundrum: "Plonkers sure, but what about being conquered by plonkers?"

There's so much less incentive for them to try. What do you get for being the best counter person at 7/11? Also: At their age, I was a hippie, hoping to make a living as a Zen poet. So I'll leave the stern judgement to imperious hospital building services professionals.

We're talking about the mildest kidding being met with this scribe of huffiness. Then the deranged he-man alcoholism boast. Nope, can't get anymore Canadian than that.

Who were you on Thorn Tree? I was btraven.

I was someone else with a Laos-oriented name for about 20 months. I like commenting on forums. I do Slate a bit too. Prob the best one left standing. Hard to find one that's not like Yahoo News where it's just random idiots screaming into a useless internet maw.

Those show biz windfalls are gone for good. You'd be lucky to see a mil out of a Netflix series. What Netflix dross will have the legs of a Friends or a Seinfeld? Will people want to watch Is It Cake? even a year from now? Is It Cake? def gets some viewership in pot bars.

Please don't die. You amuse me. I have never emoji'd the sad face or the confused face. I leave that to the passive aggressive English. "Not shure wot yer goin' un about" should be printed on the pound note. It's their go-to dodge. You do it a fair bit too.

I just read that he had a fling with Gwyneth Paltrow -"at a party". Does that mean that he grappled her in the coat room? If so, respect.

As my (new) idol, Sydney Powell, said, "Only a crazy person would take anything I say seriously".

I prefer no rankings. Idiots, when being laughed at, would often point to their ranking as some kind of goofy validation. Please take this pathetic crutch away from them to let laughing at them proceed unimpeded.

Please consider, at some point in time, getting a life. I've laugh-emoji'd you a bit. I meant it as a compliment. I will do so no more; you're just too sensitive.

I was broadly making fun of the popular trope that Canada is "too white" and that that makes it culturally inferior. And then I half-heartedly dissed the midwest, which is the birthright privilege of every New Yorker.

Jian Tong in the Nimman1 Mall had a nice duck at a decent price, but it did not have the super-crispy skin that I expect with the dish. Hong Kong Lucy Restaurant on the top floor of the Maya Mall gets closer and has the other specialty Chinese hanging meats at a good price. Not particularly cozy, tho. Haven't been yet, but Yangzi Jiang in Nimman is a pretty place that my Taiwanese neighbors like. If I have Peking Duck, it's so rich that I don't want it again for a very long time. I had a $150 Peking duck in NYC where the duck was crisped table-side with a flame gun. Best ever.

In fact, it was 39K. Sorry! I was in an out in about an hour, including the consult. No discomfort at all. When I got home, I slept like a rock for a couple of hours. The cleanup process was much less onerous than my last attempt a dozen years ago. But yeah, make sure you laptop is charged for the toilet time.

I just paid 32K at Chiang Mai Ram Hospital. If you don't want to be totally knocked out, you can save a little money.

To ask people what they think about Canada. The only person in the entire world who gets butt hurt about that is snowflake-you.

This is backwards thinking. Moving to Thailand is like joining The French Foreign Legion -For ne'er do-wells to forget their sordid pasts.

For cheap and old, try Chiang Puark flea market. I bought Kantom trays there for 100 baht apiece.

I'm in a long-term empathy deficit after years of a caretaking situation. Gotta let that empathy well re-fill. At its own pace. Will def be highly selective about engaging in empathy-inducing situations.