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Also try going directly to the login screen: https://member.lazada.co.th/user/login Seems to work much better.

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Long-term rentals in The Villages Rent, look around for a "situation," perhaps w/ one of the lonely ladies. Good ratio in your favor. If not, then

You really don’t have to do ALL that, now do you? Try to focus. Concentrate. Answer the questions asked of you. You’re worried about yourself, not about me. Here you’ve just discovered that you’ve been living in an alternate reality formed from a worm’s eye view of Pattaya. Your opinions were either nonsense or fantasies. And you’ve learned that ready solutions to your issues have always been at hand in Pattaya since you’ve been here. SHOCK! What a revelation. Get going, man. Sitting in bars I’ve always thought a waste of time and money, not to mention unhealthy, so I never do that, with a couple of exceptions. Once in a while, a couple of friends visit from Bangkok. After breakfast we typically sit in the Red Cat bar near Soi 9 and enjoy watching police catch idiot motorbike drivers. I have one Singha there. I stop in the TQ once every couple weeks, when I happen to be downtown, for a cool one, music, and visuals. After all these years, I know the staff pretty well. Happy? In fact, I don’t know anyone who sits in bars except one alcoholic Ozzie living in my building. I may see him sitting in one as I drive by. He's one of those I call "Marked For Death," after the name of a magical shout in the game Skyrim. Otherwise, yep, I walk the walk as noted above. Always have plenty to do among the activities I listed above. Learn something new and useful daily, may jot it down in the note-taking app always running on my desktop. The other day in the Twitter feed of one fitness guru I follow, @AJA_Cortes, I ran across As a guy, a lot of your problems would go away if you stopped acting like a b*tch. Seb, why can’t I — bla bla Just go do it bro, figure it out like everyone else did. Surprising you and our resident professional Pattaya Hostage have preferred whining to figuring it out and acting. Low T, perhaps; vaccinated, though. Seems an appropriate note to end on. I’ll be hittin' the gym today. Will implement a new tip I learned recently about a post-workout shake. OH—the link for the Pattaya City Expats Club. Presentations, events, activities, no barflies, middle class types, often with impressive backgrounds, who have things going on in their lives—just what you claim you want. I know one of the board members and am friends w/ a past board member. I sometimes attend a presentation, have attended events and enjoyed them. So that’s a start for you. Lots more, as noted previously. Not good enough? Is the complexity of Pattaya really incomprehensible? The Villages is exactly what you want. No bar sitters, quality people, countless activities, organized, programs already figured out for you, everything at your doorstep, free pickups--and one of the sex capitals of the USA. What's not to like?

Keeps pretending he's been held hostage, lol.

No, I see no reason for Win 11. Win 10 does all I need.

It has some advantages. Unless, of course, you do crash or are hit by another driver. It's amazing how many cyclists are killed yearly in the USA. But real cycling as typically practiced, casually, tends not to be strenuous enough. It can be, of course. Static cycling can force a consistent fast pace; regulated intervals are easy to do (in one sense), and these save all kinds of time. The weather's never an excuse not to do it.

But you aren't working, studying, or ambitious, so what would you have in common with those who are? Would you simply vegetate while you're listening to a recitation of work/study activities? Sounds pretty boring for both parties. What does someone else's activity and ambition have to do with you? Seems you haven't bothered to look beyond the bars. You join the expats clubs? Blows your stereotype. Pattaya Sports Club? Cricket? Hash House Harriers? Several bicycle clubs, taking regular trips? Bridge (ha)? Where's your forum topic asking to meet people w/ your common interests, whatever they are. True, nobody's interested in holding swap meets, lol. You could hit Collingbourne Auctions, though. Sigh. No, Thais aren't all in menial jobs. Utter nonsense. Obviously, you've never visited a hospital. Pattaya has a large number of business owners, managers, and professionals. One person's "interesting" job may not be another's. Since you yourself have no interesting job, or seem particularly interesting otherwise, it's not clear how you'd hold up your end of the relationship or even conversation. How's your Thai? You got that MAJOR part of the culture all down? If you can speak basic Thai, some of the conversations you get into and the stories you hear can be pretty entertaining. Amazing how people can live in Pattaya and not know much about the place. ????Very few, if any, lie on the beach all day. You don't seem to know much about retired people. And most middle class expats, property owners, always have things to do. Home maintenance, hobbies, computer stuff, reading, keeping up with developments in various areas of interest, keeping in touch w/ friends, spending time w/ the family, going on trips here and there, even taking online courses. Friend of mine regularly goes to Bangkok for concerts, etc. I always see retirees in the gym. You hittin' the gym regularly? Should be in great shape by now. Sounds like all you do is walk around the bar areas with a puckered sphincter--when you have the energy.

Probably that they wish you'd get the ultrasound over with.

Liberal hack journalist writing in notoriously "progressive" media inevitably siding with the mob. Dismissed. The sarcasm angle has been refuted by the real authorities, including one you've referenced. Nor was your use of it sarcastic but merely illiterate. Repetition of the same nonsense won't make it true.

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. — Jean de La Bruyère

Sorry if I've touched a nerve. After all, you are still here, and so your posts are still good for a laugh as well--for which you have no cogent reply. But keep in mind, now, as Paul Fussell writes, that satire holds out The frail but noble hope, that is, that so much labor has not been lost, and that such a creature as man shall not in the end find nothing for his efforts at dignity and redemption but a broken promise and an unregarded grave. --The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism Hope. So, ever helpful, I thought of what your very first app, finally, should be, while you're pretending to be stuck in Pattaya. To wit, some sort of goals and time management tracker, like one of these: 15 Best Time Management Apps and Tools. Your innovation could be to add the hitherto lacking AI component, a ChatGPT that advises intelligent things, like get off your *ss and move to Chiang Mai--and automatically adds them into the ToDo list! Give it a social justice component, too. The cool thing is that you'll be such a great beta tester it'll be perfect by the time it's released, oh, five years from now. Ooh. And you heard it right here. Hey--call it ANF co-working space, man.????

Nonsense. Diet & exercise, lean & fit, never bored, numbers are all great, no meds needed at age 73. Silly stereotypical know-nothing view.

It's good idea in general for older people to live near suitable hospitals. I wouldn't live out in the weeds. I'm not concerned about a sudden emergency, but you never know. Most of these aren't sudden onset, but long in the making and preventable. Metabolic diseases start with insulin resistance. As others have noted, exercise and diet are the keys to prevention. Falls are preventable via strength training, esp for legs and lower body. However, most posters here prefer docs and meds to diet and exercise for that short but happy life. One needn't go to a gym, either. I stayed quite fit during COVID with a TRX suspension trainer, resistance bands, a couple of dumbbells, and a treadmill. (But I recommend an exercise bike, preferably a recumbent bike, and interval training.) I used a lot of static contractions to increase the intensity of the body weight. I did some isometrics. I did back hyperextensions, reverse extensions, and leg raises on my bed. When I did get back to the gym, the ramp up time was fairly short.

Yah, yah. In the course of your endless repetitions of your worm's eye view of Pattaya and fatuous worries about "world opinion," you were also making nonsensical claims about being "stuck." And no, you mostly haven't been "stuck," chose to stay even longer when you could easily have left, and you aren't stuck now. Did Mark Zuckerberg or Dustin Moskovitz worry about their leases before they moved to Palo Alto? Of course not. You can easily break your lease any time you choose. Note how you ignore this point. ???? And you're still here, going around in circles, wasting your time. What can we conclude? Only that our ace dynamic entrepreneur, digital nomad, world traveler, and formidable critic of English prose is simply fooling himself while posting BS on the Pattaya forum. Or, more likely, just another phony. So my benevolent advice to stop dragging your *ss making excuses and running around looking for cheap testosterone enanthate when you could already be happily riding your bike and hanging out in a co-working space, breathing all that "true essence," creating an indispensable mobile app--that advice was both appropriate and extremely valuable. Yet, here you still are.???? By this time you could have created two apps, assuming you know how, and paid an Indian contractor on Fiverr for three more. Nor does ingratitude augur entrepreneurial success, BTW. Very disappointing. Just no way to go through life, son. Chiang Mai has a good thing going by emptying the wallets of all these hapless dreamers.

Projection on your part. She didn't confirm both are "correct." She's no authority, so merely conveyed what Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com say about how they're being used. By whom, exactly? Oh--people.???? "People use the two phrases in the same way” is a flawed rationalization for the leveling of the real differentiation conveyed in the original English and persisting today in Brit English. As she correctly notes, “Americans corrupted the phrase.” Which Americans? The uneducated. And she agrees that probably nt was dropped by "less than precise speakers." I gave a reference for this earlier. She recognizes the illogicality. Along the way, she rejects the sarcasm theory that @Jingthing tried to float earlier. I also gave an authoritative reference for that. The flaw in the modern dictionaries' rationalization she couldn't see, or wouldn't dare point out, is that the "people" who use the corrupted phrase “in the same way” do so ignorantly without knowing what the other way is. And that’s a large number, but hardly everyone. Americans who do know, because they’ve studied under a competent English teacher or from reading great writers, don’t use the two phrases in the same way. Some of them may be annoyed by the unwashed, others may laugh; yet, as an indicator of literacy, the misuse may undermine the credibility of the speaker with the knowledgeable. It appears @Jingthingfinds that just awfully annoying, so annoyance may exist on both "sides." Modern dictionaries carefully omit this distinction among "people" except under favored circumstances. That reflects another sort of corruption. Good thing we have older reference sources and as-yet-uncensored great works available. So far, anyway.

It's embarrassing.

Yes, a colloquial but logical phrase.

Merely the Americans oblivious to proper usage. That's a very large number, of course. It's one of many commonly misused phrases, for example, these: 20 Embarrassing Phrases Even Smart People Misuse. Similar list oriented more towards the UK: The 30 most misused phrases in the English language. Some phrases seem often misused in both the UK and America, but I haven't bothered looking into that. Modern dictionaries now pander to the mob, as @Jingthingfound, so, like many formerly reputable sources, are no longer trustworthy. Part of the overall cultural decline.

But they could use the literal meaning of the phrase. That they never do merely confirms that it's an illiterate version of could not care less. As Bryan A. Garner says, If you could care less, you're saying that you do care some. Invariably, though, writers and speakers who use the phrase mean that they don't care at all. Which is what @Jingthingmeant, then blew a lot of smoke to justify misusing the phrase. None of his authorities made credible arguments, some rather silly. "Do want feel miserable because the mob doesn't use correct English? OMG. Do it their way." I'm with the Brits on this one. To the unusual credit of the members, no one's agreed w/ @Jingthing. I could agree with you on a participation award, however.

Doubling down doesn't help your case but is only to be expected. Quite a bit of effort expended for something you purport not to care about, no? That doesn't work, either, though relying on one's own like is comfortably progressive. Although some apologists argue that could care less is meant to be sarcastic and not to be taken literally, a more plausible explanation is that the -n't of couldn't has been garbled in sloppy speech and sloppy writing. As a linguist explains: "A listener has not heard the whole phrase; he has heard a slurred form. Couldn't care has two dental stops practically together, dnt. This is heard only as d and slurring results. The outcome is / c'd care less." Atcheson L. Hench, "Could(n't) Care Less," 48 Am. Speech 159, 159 (1973). For a careful seven-step explication of the loss of this alveolar closure, see James Sledd, "[kut] [kut] Be [kut], [kut] It?" 68 Am. Speech 218-19 (1993). --Garner's Modern American Usage Educated in what is the question; how well-read, another. Lists of misused phrases commonly include yours: 20 Embarrassing Phrases Even Smart People Misuse But habits formed in youth can mean lingering misperception in adulthood. Great editors correct the best writers. If they failed to catch an illiterate could care less, they may now find solace in your authoritative rejection. Nowadays, writers have access to tools like Grammarly to avoid such embarrassments and later excuse-making. It's just a browser plugin, so, in theory, you can use it. A Complex Question fallacy. It's fun laughing at all the mistakes in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and syntax here. In fact, ANF has its own canonical spellings, e.g., boarders for borders (this has been vigorously defended with tortured nonsense when called out), loose for lose, etc. But we can't really talk about this, so I hope you're able to see my post before it's removed.

"On the other side of the DEBATE, AHD labels could care less as an idiom, although secondary to couldn’t care less." Attempt to normalize a common mistake or mere illiteracy. Couldn't care less isn't an idiom but a standard phrase. couldn’t care less. This is the standard phrasing. Avoid the illogical form *could care less—which, though never understood in its literal sense, is a badge of linguistic carelessness. --Garner's Modern American Usage “COULD CARE LESS.” An expression that once made sense, however overused, has become a cliché in mutilated form. Educated users are uttering the very reverse of what they think they are saying. --The Penguin Dictionary of American Usage and Style

Change doctors. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15831-fatty-liver-disease That would have to include yourself, having poisoned your liver. Best diet, exercise, cut out the alcohol, etc. Avoid being a bad influence on others.

Improper American usage. No.

As a historical note, I wonder if these brekkies were begun by Henry VIII?