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That seems merely a projection of and reaction to your own "somber thaughts" as related here: The older I get, the more I realise that "father-time" is starting to breathe down my neck. "Father-Time" whispering things in my ears like "Time is no more on your side and the best is behind you and the future is reduced to a big question mark at best". Resulting in "somber thaughts" occasionally on my part. Seems more than occasionally, but rather obsessively, as that statement is a repetition of It seems, the older I get, the more I dwell on things. Misery loves company, eh? But I thought you'd already arrived at a solution: What to do? Best do nothing. after concocting this excellent justification: "the future:" I myself believe, that upon my demise, nobody will ask me any questions anymore. Perfect. But instead of doing nothing, we find you taking all kinds of meds and asking your own questions in the Health forum; and now you've even left Thailand to seek treatment, so attempting to postpone the solution. Why is that? Me, I'm not having any "somber thaughts" and regularly have good laughs with my friends. Now, to throw out a bone, I do wish the Russian hotties who were decorating the beach hadn't all left owing to the Ukraine thing; this, after they were--ah!--starting to come back; but it's just not getting me down. Still lots of lovely Thais.???? I can wait.

Well, that's something and if it benefits you, great. I like this guy better, following a major authority on back pain. He's more work, however. Core strengthening is another topic I won't get into except to disagree with the above. Situps: no. Crunches, no. Leg raises, yes. Planks, yes, which you can combine with pikes as shown here, keeping the back straight and hinging. I do pikes with a TRX, but I bought my gf a couple of gliders from Lazada for the purpose; she's doing great with them like this, except adding the improvement of a slower rep and static hold at the top. Core has a few sides, not just the stomach, BTW; but again, another topic.

You don't "migrate" apps. You could make an image of your Win 7, restore it to your new laptop, then upgrade the new laptop to Win 10. But that's merely perverse and not to be recommended. You'll have to reinstall all the apps you want on your Win 10. Typically at the end of the installation the app will offer to create a desktop shortcut for you. Otherwise you may copy your shortcuts from your Win 7 as .lnk files in the following folder: C:\Users\{USERNAME}\Desktop to the same folder on your Win 10. However, a shortcut won't work if the app to which it refers isn't actually installed on the Win 10 machine. A shortcut to an app isn't the app itself, you see.

Qualified medical lab technician, as it is after all a lab. He does assist in pointing out what values are abnormal, in case you're too blind to find them for yourself. You can then do nothing, self-medicate yourself as you see fit, or consult a (recommended here, if possible) specialist doc at a hospital to get a script--as advice about your drinking, diet, and lack of exercise would tend to be self-defeating (for the doc) and ignored anyway. Now some docs will mention the latter, but their advice is usually traditional and outdated. Note that at the end of all the expensive checkup packages you get at a hospital, a GP does the same: points out values at variance with normal ranges and suggests an appointment with a specialist. In short, free beer isn’t included in the relatively low price charged by the lab, as of course we all know it should be. In other notes, if a lab test indicates you got a potentially costly problem to mitigate or fix, then no matter who does the test, you’d probably want it repeated anyway before you do anything major. Many years ago Bumrungrad, because Bumrungrad, wanted to repeat one of my Lifecare tests, did so, and found the same result.

But dinosaurs had no culture, whereas, contrary to popular Oz opinion, the Aborigines did and still do--what's left of it. I'm not sure you've yet explored all that culture. Now you may of course find quite a few living dinosaurs among the expats here. Note that you ignored my other question and points. Why's that? I might add that, among the lower orders of expats, one source of comforting racial pride is that Western countries have culture whereas Thailand doesn't. Not they've ever attended any real cultural events back home, mind you. Why not disillusion them by relating the interesting Thai cultural events you've attended and noticed to your great satisfaction? So much so that you're abandoning the cultural wasteland of Oz for the richness of Thailand?

But I thought you're just interested in "beer and sex" while keeping slim & fit by whacking bushes. Is there none in Australia? Maybe go into archeology. All kinds of exciting discoveries being made all the time in Oz. Read this recently: Ancient Aboriginal technology unearthed in rare bone discovery on Ngarrindjeri country Key points: • An ancient bone artefact has been discovered on Ngarrindjeri country in SA • It's a rare find as the last bone discovery in the Lower Murray River Gorge was over 40 years ago • Researchers say it builds a bigger picture of Aboriginal tools --https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-17/rare-bone-find-uncovers-ancient-aboriginal-technology/13252236 And have you explored these cultural attractions? Surely must be more; in fact we find our cultured, highly educated, highly intelligent Thailand expats complaining about the lack of such here: Cultural Attractions of Australia

Exactly. Think about the vast amount they waste on health-related costs owing to lack of a healthy diet and exercise--the elephant in the room.????

But seeing so much misery and questing after (cheapest) docs, meds, and hospitals in the Health forum. So much pretense of living well with illness on all those meds and associated costs. Talk's cheap, eh.

Why, when you can make your own for pennies. Could mention here saving a ton on shaving expense by changing to an old-fashioned double edge razor and blades. 'Course, shrewd AN posters will point out that one can stop shaving or getting haircuts anyway. Hee.

Most too lazy to dig around. Why not just give some links to a few freeware programs that to do the same and much more as well?

Knock yerself out, man: https://reddit.com/r/Windows11/

"Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it."

You're completely misinformed about Fixx and now ignorant forum members are as well. He wasn't at all in "Great Shape." Read and learn.

You've confused intelligence with education. We're all highly intelligent around here.

You can buy higher rise jeans. Aliexpress has them: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32841945448.html I have a couple pair of those and like them. Good quality, mid-weight, fit well. It appears the Thai Mc brand has some higher rise jeans: https://www.lazada.co.th/shop-men-jeans/?mc-jeans1630599617=&from=wangpu And of course you can order from the USA and have them sent over. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=wrangler+jeans+for+men+cowboy+cut+slim+fit&returnFromLogin=1 I have a pair of these Wranglers and they're my fave: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000KLX6DW?psc=1 Heavy mid-weight. Fantastic and indestructible. So, not a problem.

If you're moving it's fine. Otherwise I find light cotton cooler. The quick drying is sometimes convenient, esp for travel.

Jeans & t-shirt daily for me as well, cool enough, no problems either. One of the advantages, now that you mention it, is that they do help differentiate me from the uneducated Brits and the stupid tourists. The better class of Asian men also tend to wear long pants if not at the beach. So I may expect a somewhat better reception from the tourist-shocked Thais in Pattaya and be less of a target for fleecing. And I usually ride a bike wherever I go, and I feel a bit safer in jeans. It ain't Kevlar but in the worst case I'd still prefer to have denim between me and the asphalt. I only wear shorts during my walks on the beach.

Sometimes we have guys who normally wear shorts (being Brits) asking about fungi down there. OTC creams and powders available to handle that. One guy found a great solution: extra drying with a paper towel and use a hair dryer around the crotch after showering. The gf and I stay naked in the condo, so plenty of air circulating.

I dunno why we're always pretending that nobody wears, or can wear, jeans or chinos in Western countries during the summers, many days of which are often just as hot as Thailand. Often heard as an excuse why one simply MUST wear shorts to the air-conditioned Immigration office. Because summers there can also be quite hot, all the manufacturers offer lighter weight jeans for purchase, and they are commonly worn in the summer, NOT just in the cooler seasons. No need for any nonsensical special "adaptation" to Thailand. And people's nuts cope just as well here as they cope in Western countries during the summers. Why not?

Unfortunately you’ve proven yourself incapable of doing so. You've been doing some backpedaling here but only to misdirect and obfuscate. You were asked for the exact quotation from the thread where anyone has stated or even implied such a myth. You’re unable to find one, because it doesn’t exist. So you just made up that myth to hijack the topic merely because you don’t like any mention of low carb. <SNIP! Further fallacious regurgitated straw man “arguments”--no low carber claims that low carb is the only way to lose weight, an obvious absurdity> The opposite, of course. Constantly attacking low carb is not helpful in the least. Now of course you could end that silly vendetta. Some find low carb helpful if it’s OCCASIONALLY brought up by the small minority of low carbers here. Most have tried and failed to follow other strategies. And they and everyone else already know the other strategies, nothing new in your own constant harping. Starve 'n' Sweat, Whole Foods, and Push Away From The Table are right up there on the TVF Scroll Of Known Truths along with Chinese Don't Spend, Women Only Want Money, and TAT Tells Porkies. Low carb has always been Whole Foods, BTW, long before the Whole Foods fad started. We don't dare call it a fad, however.???? The fad isn't quite so simple, unfortunately. Moving to lower and slower carbs will certainly help, but maybe not as much as one might hope. And you can google for countless testimonials that Whole Foods didn't work. The Known Truths are merely derived from the countless hack diet & fitness sites saturating the internet with their plans, consultations, supplements, equipment, memberships, apps, subscriptions, and mostly dreams. Fantastic repeat business model (as you know quite well) basking in the vast financial resources of the food, pharma, vegan, and climate change industries responsible for so much funding of biased medical studies and misguided public policy. Inevitably, they all hate low carb.???? We’ve in fact had some notable success stories from members who’d heard about low carb on the forum. Low carb info is comparatively hard to find otherwise amid all the noise generated by the above industries and even here on our lowly forum what with wannabe bodybuilders blowing smoke. Excluding of course the intellectually honest @tropo, a low carber himself with whose low carb you hypocritically have no problem whatsoever. ???? I miss him. Come to think of it, I don’t recall any posters who were converted to starve ‘n’ sweat etc. with subsequent success--after learning about it here. Even wannabe lifters soon disappeared after wasting money on equipment. Being fit and healthy is ridiculously simple, but no one can make a living out of telling people how simple it is, so most people never find out. —P. D. Mangan So, contrary to your hopes, interested members here needn’t and shouldn’t be deprived of mentioning, or learning about, a long-established, well-researched, now mainstream and proven successful dieting/lifestyle strategy merely because of @robblok ‘s little hobbyhorse hostility. In fact, the low carb message seems to be gathering momentum even here. That’s obviously distressing, but just gon’ have to suck it up. My point now proven (thank you), and having wasted enough time, I’ll bow out and you may continue arguing with yourself and hijacking the topic.

Begs the question. Consider the implication of this: if you don't eat, then there's nothing to convert. Oh--you did consider that.???? The TVF Fatalistic Principle to avoid acting on matters of health and fitness except to visit docs. Related to the shrewd die early to avoid a longer period in the bedsit advice. Misses the point of attempting to slow the process of degradation and so compress morbidity. And in fact some diets do typically have better effects on the lipids panel. Few know this or pay attention, and indeed you have only an "opinion" based on your experiment of one unsupported by the numbers. P_i_ssin' the wind. Our members have long determined that health is derived from meds, docs, and hospitals. Not long ago there was an amusing example of a poster congratulating himself on his "healthy" blood pressure for his age. Turned out it was owing to one of a list of meds he was taking, and in fact he has a somewhat alarming TG/HDL ratio. Guess he's in search of another med for that. So the goal has to be "lose fat," specifically belly fat.???? Everyone knows the conventional methods, and most of the overweight have already tried them and given up. So here we are going round and round.

Merely continuing to spread the myth about the myth while throwing in some gratuitous demonization of low carb people. Counterproductive and a usual attempt to derail the topic. Try for once to stick to the topic. Focus. Think. Did @wn2c or anyone else in this topic state or even imply any such myth? Quote the exact words that triggered your own mythologizing.

But @wn2c didn’t imply one couldn’t be lean “on carbs,” whatever that means. He merely speculated that, based on the sample menu, @Moonlover probably isn’t, other things equal. If he is, he can of course say so with some informative, inspiring context. Crickets. Nothing to do with you at all, really. Accordingly, what must first die is the stupid myth that a stupid myth exists that carbs are bad per definition. Then it can’t be used in stupid straw man arguments.

Sounds like a variant of this browser hijacker. Follow these steps and see if it doesn't go away: https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-take-your-prizes-here-life/ You may have something else even in addition. Remove anything suspicious in Add/Remove Programs. Run msinfo32.exe and stop any suspicious programs from Startup. Look in the Task Scheduler and see if any bad guy is scheduled to start. And find out the folder you mentioned above and then delete it after booting in Safe Mode or via a command prompt from a Windows boot disk. To get to the prompt, follow these directions: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/boot-or-repair-windows-10-using-the-installation-media Good luck.

A non-issue. You can adjust the backlighting to your preferred monochromatic color and adjust the brightness. The ads just show what's possible and appeal to younger people esp. gamers. Keyboard backlighting is a great thing to have for working in lower light conditions. I'll always have it when possible.