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Skip the bread only. Rest good.

Correct. That kills me. Shockingly, now, much of the world may not know the definition of the word chippy. Seems outdated, as most of today's moobs owners surely acquired them otherwise than by eating chippys. However, Brits here unfamiliar with the more recent term are no doubt characteristically grateful for your explanation. I believe the portmanteau m[an b]oobs is probably more widely known internationally. Mind you, it also originated in the UK and has attained proper respectability with its acceptance into the OED. Congrats on your own achievement, however. Life must be better without carrying moobs around. 🙂

No. Enough with the paranoia. Thais can be great characters with some interesting if not remarkable stories. They're fun to joke around with, too. So you'd need an appreciation for such, consider them as real people rather than paid servants for your convenience.

Well, no, then it'd have to done for Russians, Chinese, and Thais. Turn off too many of our lads here.

Can't reach the aircon remote, eh.

When will they ever learn?

Farang out there enjoying the time of his life. It's everything he dreamed, legal bullying and causing possible injury with no repercussions. Hee. Watch me crash her motorbike! Stupid Thai. Hee hee! Let's git dat b*tch! BONUS: you may enjoy the impressive moobs on display: But besides the fun and the fabulous moobs show, you get to mix & mingle with the Western intelligentsia of high net worth--people like yourself whom you'd like to meet. Network, man.

Resistance exercise is necessary for slowing the progression of muscle loss and sarcopenia, among other benefits, including cognitive. It's hardly necessary to join a gym for it. Many home options exists. Needn't be time-consuming, either. As for 10,000 steps, this may be of interest: Forget walking 10,000 steps a day. Taking at least 50 steps up the stairs each day could significantly slash your risk of heart disease, according to a new study from Tulane University. --Walking more than five flights of stairs a day can cut risk of heart disease by 20%, study says

Starches aren't a necessary food group. Keto does include veggies, and veggies, meat, fruits (berries) and dairy contain all the nutrients you need. I don't do keto but I follow low carb and it's been quite effective.

She may have bought some drinks for staff as well.

Happy, but probably earlier. Along with the food, your meds. Perhaps partially blind with one leg amputated already. I do think our forum "short but happy life" advocates should, along with the fave food pics, be required to post pics of the meds as well and give the current dosages. Also informative would be some figures relating to yearly medical costs.

In Pattaya it has always started in the bar areas on the afternoon of the 11th. We'll see if the tradition holds this year.

ANF Poster Boomerang Principle at work again. @BritManToois the forum's foremost proponent of Genetics Voodoo, except he hypocritically attempts to thwart it whenever perceived in his own self-interest.

Excellent. TOTALLY agree! Too modest to mention them myself. 😉

May have something to with all the fraud they've encountered, easy to perpetrate in the digital age. Same reason they began to require the embassies to verify the income of farang getting income affirmations for their visa extensions. In Pattaya the very strict requirements keep the yellow book and pink cards away from all the riff raff. It's a big deal because those documents are official verification of identity. Best to be sure they're as accurate as possible.

Way to go. More specifically the yellow book behind the pink card.

Imagine you, a bunch of condescending older educated farts with more degrees than a thermometer being, like goldfish, unable to speak Thai well enough, and insufficiently knowledgeable about culture common to most Thais, to make trivial conversation with an uneducated Thai girl about the things that Thais are normally interested in. Who are her favorite singers, for example? You dunno. You were clearly out of your depth.

Against the spread of such egregiously bigoted nonsense the mods need to invoke the "disinformation" rule as they did so liberally during COVID. But perhaps some posters are privileged.

Maybe it was simply your own anal retentive attitude they reacted to. I'd really not have expected them to get going promptly at 7 and just made a little joke when they didn't, smiles all around. Waiting in Thailand is par for the course. You should have learned to roll with the flow by now. Been many years since I had an unpleasant interaction with a Thai. Oh, poor baby. 👉Expect the unexpected. Were you lying on the pavement bleeding out, m'lord? Say this: "Ouch!" Then get in the car and close the door. You ain't owed anything. Haven't had a good whinge thread since Monday's Inconceivably Inconvenient Shelves Restocking whinge. We'll see how long this one lasts.

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Life at the keyboard, posting fiction the morbid old Brits like to hear.

Additional compensation to the victims for pain & suffering. I hope they survive.

LOL. I seem to be on the few on the forum healthy and fit enough to need no meds, thank you. OH. It does NOT, in that narrow case.🙂 But YOU have determined it DOES apply when she hasn't expressed politely and gently--according to your standards of "class" and "control"--her mental distress and subsequent legitimate request for due compensation. Correct now? Hee. Now the concept of tort was broached in Gladstone's Commentaries and has been a branch of law for more than a hundred years. The Brit legal system, formerly ruled by men, was traditionally reluctant to recognize the concept for what they termed "women's maladies." After all, women do express their "maladies" vociferously at times, unlike tough guys such as yourself. Now the courts certainly do, however, in the UK and the USA, as suggested by the recent fine of 93 million imposed on a prominent figure in the US for crying claims of trauma over an imagined incident nearly 30 years ago with no hard evidence. Widely applauded here, BTW. In that case, perfectly understandable, LOL. Call her a drama queen if you like. 🙂 Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events. --https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/overview/ Though you may have your womanly side, you don't really know how stressful it was for her to be suddenly kicked in the back at night by a big foreigner and cursed out, with possibly much worse to come. Clearly it was quite a shock. And you can't definitely say the event, and subsequent events, didn't cause lingering emotional distress for this lady that could be described as at least mild PTSD. Could she have nightmares? Not a far-fetched idea. Does she have the right to let a court decide the matter? She does. But your "class" and "control" would have her just suck it up as you would have, if kicked in the back in the dark by, say, Taylor Swift on public land in Hawaii. In reality your PTSD would have come on much, much sooner, LOL. Typically in such legal cases the plaintiff will put forth the "best" case. We see similar in claims for GoFundMe by all these Brits injured on their scooters. Nothing unusual here, really. Including Boomerang posts such as your own.

You get the copy of the passport validated and then find a translator either in or around the MFA or elsewhere (mine was in Pattaya) to handle the MFA's blessing and mail it to you. One gotcha is that you need to be sure the spelling of the name on the translation is exactly the same as the translation that appears on any previous official document, such as marriage certificate or land deed. Otherwise you'll need to get another translation or change the spelling on the other document. Thais are known for being consistently inconsistent in their transliterations, and so idea is that at last your name should have ONE official spelling.

But that's not the predicted scenario that fits the shrewd assured prophecy, you see. The bribes, including covert payment to the doc, would ensure that events didn't reach a certain publicity level and all would be buried and quickly forgotten. It would appear then that our smug experts were just full of cr*p as usual.