thaibeachlovers

Are you claiming that prayer time would be instituted in THAILAND? That's obviously not true if so, but if you mean for Thais in Saudi the Thais won't have to go pray. It's just a case of hanging around for a while during prayer time. However, they may have to work behind closed doors. We didn't stop working in the hospital just because of prayer time.

None of that is in any way related to the electronic noise that I find so annoying. How many young people listen to that sort of music anyway?

To be clear, I wasn't referring to trance or any "atmospheric" music, but to that electronic noise with a heavy bass beat that goes through everything, even max ear defenders and earplugs worn together. I don't even call it music because one can't dance to it. I suspect it's a favourite of people doing illegal drugs, of which there are many where I live. PS. I know what Trance is and quite like it, but I have no idea what "house" music is. There seems to be so many different labels now that I can't keep up with it.

I think some of that list could apply almost anywhere in the western world. Sometimes people don't realise that Thailand is probably as good as it gets anywhere now, so they imagine that returning to the country they once knew will make them happier, except the country they knew probably no longer exists, and anyway, covid restrictions have made everywhere rotten, IMO. The home country I returned to live in bears little similarity to the one I left so many years ago. It wasn't so great back then, which was why I left, but it's become worse, IMO.

Yes. If you were not satisfied in LOS, from where you could have explored SEA, why would life be more "interesting" anywhere else? It obvious that you were not so poor that travel was not an option.

You are mistaken if you think this is a specifically Thailand thing. My life is blighted by the antisocial <deleted> that think they can play their electronic <deleted> as loudly as they like, but as they are bigger and stronger ( and probably related to gang members ) than I, so there is sod all I can do. Even moving wouldn't mean it was over as the <deleted> live everywhere now.

Sadly the scum scammers have been around ever since mankind emerged from the cave. IMO they usually wore funny hats. Unfortunately, as the world's population increased they became even more prolific. They succeed because good people want to believe that everyone is good, but IMO the bad outnumber the good now.

Perhaps this is his life. Plenty of people living their life through a machine and not reality, now.

Would depend entirely on the child- if my own I might. I went through a phase in life when I would have died for my friends, till I realised none of them would die for me, so that phase was over.

Most radio channels play something I just can't listen too. They even destroyed "Down under" by tinkering with the music and adding electronic noise to it- is there no end to the atrocities? Be interested to know if any aged people on the planet actually enjoy that stuff.

I'm listening to the classical music station on radio at the moment. I was trying to find a channel that played something I could listen too, but all were playing that ghastly noise that young people like, so classical music was the only refuge. It's good to know that amidst the audio garbage there is something that is real music. I guess when my generation passes they'll stop for lack of an audience though.

Reminds me of when I took a Nana gal to Kanchanaburi for a weekend. On the tour bus returning to Bkk there were only a few people. Couple of older Australian women and a young western guy. The women didn't sit near the guy or converse with him during the trip, but at the end made a great show of saying goodbye to him, which was for my benefit, to show their disapproval for me having a young and attractive female with me. I had to restrain myself from openly laughing at them.

I had a B G girlfriend in LOS, as on holiday I liked to head to the beach ASAP and didn't want to spend time looking through the 100s of girls in Pattaya to find one I liked enough to spend 2 weeks with. Worked out well as we became a team, as it were, and she knew to stay in a restaurant with the bags while I looked for a place, without me having to explain it every time. Had to be a B G as a normal working woman wouldn't be able to go off for 2 or 3 weeks whenever. When I was married, my wife was lucky to get a week off, and one can't go far on a weekend.

Of course one has to have a shower after an oil massage. I'd have thought that goes without saying. The only decent Thai massages I had were at the massage school at the temple in Bkk- forget the name, but near the Grand Palace. They would reduce the pressure if asked. Worst ever was on Lamai beach- 1/2 hour of agony, but I didn't want to make a fuss and look like a woose so I endured it, but never went back for another.

I take it you are referring to Thai massage, and I agree that they are painful rather than beneficial, especially with a bad masseuse. The ones I used to have long before I discovered Thailand were along the lines of some oil and rub the body till the question was asked.

Do you actually believe that a "proper democratically elected government" is possible in Thailand? IMO they may have "democratically elected" but the "proper" is where I have my doubts.

how do you come to that conclusion? Thailand was ruled by the military for a great part of the time since the 1930s, and yet it became the country we all loved anyway. Perhaps you have an issue with specific people in the government, but IMO just being ruled by the military is no worse than by certain politicians elected by popular vote.

I used to go for a "massage" occasionally, back home, and got to know one of the masseuses quite well. I asked her what most of her regulars came in for and she said it was to be with a friendly female for a while, NOT the sex. She was talking about married men for the most part.

In my experience, that's rubbish.

In my experience the cultural aspect wasn't a fundamental part of their character. IMO they are fundamentally the same wherever their origin.

Not everywhere in LOS is the same. That's what I loved about the country, as it was different wherever I went. Not much traffic or air pollution on a Phangan beach.

Cats don't give unconditional love like dogs do.

Or NZ

I'd do my best to spend all my money having a good time. Can't buy anything when you're dead.

Yeah. Women will hate the guy for having an attractive young wife, and the guys will be jealous.