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Such as?

and if that happened, IMO no loss to LOS. Better place without those always finding fault with Thailand, the government, the people, the cops etc etc etc. Also leave more of the good stuff to those that want to stay and love the place- count me among them.

True. Thais generally don't like to make a fuss in public, but nothing improves for them because of that, IMO.

Not so. A million $ won't change a post prostatectomy victim's impotence, or cure chronic back pain.

You just don't get it. I was quite capable of taking my own shoes off, but I allowed her to do it because it made her feel good to do so. Just like the bargirls used to pray to Buddha to give thanks for a customer, it used to be part of the package. Times change and perhaps they don't anymore, but it isn't, and wasn't, a big deal. By fixating on it you make it out to be more than it was.

I felt unsafer in London than anywhere in Thailand. However, I wouldn't advise walking around the Klong Toey slum area alone at night.

I'm aware of that, but most wouldn't, IMO. Not all expats are retired and cashed up millionaires.

If you don't live in the UK I understand that you are no longer entitled to free treatment on the NHS, which is as it should be. Too many foreigners were ripping the system off when I was working in the NHS. Even if it was free, if one is that sick, one would have problems being allowed to fly on a commercial flight.

They can welcome as much as they want, but if people can't afford to they won't be coming. Interest rates are surely going to rise, everything seems to be getting more expensive, petrol price rises every other day, seemingly, cheap mortgages may become expensive ones etc etc etc. I have money in the bank and I expect to be getting some real interest on it soon. I certainly won't be splurging it on an un necessary trip to LOS.

I liked it up to the last bit. I can't say too much as would be spoilers, but IMO they should never have had the completely irrelevant sub plot involving a little thing ( those seen it will know what the little thing is ). Added nothing of any importance whatsoever to the plot. They could have shortened the movie by half an hour and it would have been better for it, IMO. I'll comment more fully after everyone has had the chance to see the movie in the cinema. At least they used the proper Bond car, instead of the foreign thing.

Misery loves company, and unhappy people don't like it when others are happy. IMO those happy with their lives are not found on this forum, other than on the helpful sub forums eg DIY. Ergo, not many positive posts.

You are only giving 1000 a month for health. My insurance was over 60,000 a year and rising with age. That's way more than 12,000 a year. You spend 15,000 a month on entertainment? I'm boggled.

I agree. So long as I could satisfy the financial requirements for a retirement extension, I'd never submit myself to the hell more onerous requirements of a marriage extension. I got a non O based on marriage to enter, but always extended based on retirement.

Seriously? IMO they are both positives, but I'd have lived in Alaska if the girls were more beautiful and available than in LOS.

It's NOT, but the ones that claim it is would, IMO, be unhappy wherever they were.

Been too many bars in Pattaya for at least 20 years. Never stopped the party before, though this time around may indeed be different.

Do you remember the Cinerama cinemas? Movie projected by 3 projectors on a very big curved screen. How the West was Won was on Cinerama in Auckland for ages. I think I have it on DVD, so I might have a look again. Did see Shalako way back, but don't remember anything except the title. There have been many movies with Cowboy in the title- I don't recall one with just "Cowboy".

IMO he's saying that he has better things to do with his time than watch a screen. I won't even watch main stream tv now it's so bad, and while I do like my movies, and some tv series, I really should be reading books or doing something instead of spending a lot of time on the internet, but the dark side is strong.

IMO the /29/30 indicates that his post is satirical. Got a few jumping though.

Depends where living.

Do any Thai insurance companies actually insure 90 year old farangs, and if they do, is the insurance actually worth it?

and in other western countries there aren't. This isn't an American specific forum.

Given that, IMO, most retired farangs in LOS are divorced from wife in home country, they probably won't "own" a house there.

You have conversations with the totty? Can't say that I remember anything beyond asking her what restaurant she wanted to eat at. My priorities when finding one to rent was never her conversational ability.

Perhaps, but he made the on film character his own, plus he oozed sex appeal, which always sells movies.