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Get with the program. The plan is to leave the slim wallet safely stashed in a sock, its disappearance explained by a sad and terribly unfortunate theft on the train. That's a panty dropper right there. Then just carry on with the ol' wit, charm, and debonair cargo shorts to get an invitation to her room, hopefully within easy walking distance. There begins the long-anticipated expedition to find the wet spot.

And why would the east find you more interesting? Have you perchance been a hit with any of the many Asian communities in Australia?

Probably key. Want friends, pack 'em in with you. Point for the OP is that there's not going to be any hot attractive young women there or anywhere else in Thailand giving out free sex to a middle-aged, overweight, impecunious, prospectless Australian male. Very different situation from that of a young, handsome guy with a trust fund--as I can attest from the countless amorous adventures recounted by a young acquaintance of mine. Those, while also holding down a rich hi-so girl getting her MBA from Chula. Met her once, briefly.

Offshore oil laborer, hod carrier, Uber driver (your car!), contract engineering and programming, digital nomad. Blogger and social influencer. The west is bored with you. Why would the east be different?

You might read the latest studies on anti-depressants for correcting serotonin levels, inevitably "perscribed" by proper doctors. There's no money for "proper doctors" in prescribing saw palmetto. Large studies may show it doesn't work. Alas, studies are often wrong. I can give you some impressive "proper" documentation on that. Including the meta analyses one of our members believes in religiously--when they support his point, ignoring those that don't. ???? Such is our forum. However, if I had BPH and read the "small studies" and all the anecdotal evidence, and keeping the placebo effect firmly in mind, I'd have no real reason not to give it a try. Cheap and pretty harmless. What if I happened to be one of those it worked for, seemingly? Great. If not, move on. You got a problem?

Ccleaner. Get the Slim version and even then avoid the option to install another browser. But go to the Chrome web store and get stuff like Do Not Track Cookie Cleaner Cookie Autodelete Clear Cache Click&Clean

Risk of a hacked BIOS is infinitesimal on an old consumer laptop. As for the drive, if you're that paranoid you'd boot from a separate boot disk/drive with a rootkit scanner and do a scan. Half the members on here have "free" Windows and a software package installed at a Thai shop. Not much of a worry, obviously. Come to think of it, despite all our experts continually sounding their alarms here, I don't recall any member complaining, justifiably, a Thai shop had installed a virus on his machine. It's always PLBKC. Still, a solution best avoided, I completely agree.

For some time, before he stopped posting, one of our regulars regularly complained that a well-known Irish-themed bar, still open, charged 60 baht for a bottle of water. Things could be worse. 5 baht worse, anyway. ????

Difficult. Best thing to do is get one from a reputable shop from Lazada and rated well. This one would do: https://www.lazada.co.th/totalsolution/?q=All-Products&from=wangpu&langFlag=en&pageTypeId=2 Me, I'd get an old Thinkpad. Great builds, parts widely available, upgradable, still get lots of love on computer forums. Check a few threads here: https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/search?q=best+used+thinkpad&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all They typically run Linux well. Any problems have long been sorted out by Linux geeks. For example, this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/vsiq8c/how_many_of_you_guys_use_linux_or_windows_on/ If it comes w/ a DVD drive, you can lighten things up by just removing it, maybe even replacing it with an adapter for another SSD.

I have basically an old Chromebook about the same spec, and it runs Fedora XFCE well enough for surfing around, chatting, reading an e-book, and checking email when I'm traveling. Very light, and convenient to leave in the hotel room when I'm out with no cares if it's stolen. Take it! ????

Nonsense, as you probably know. But by that theory you'd want to exercise strenuously for brief periods (read: intervals) to condition the cardiovascular system enough to bring down your resting heart rate signficantly and so conserve the number of beats. A common chart: And resting heart rate correlates with mortality: --https://heart.bmj.com/content/94/5/561

Yes, still better watch the diet and the numbers. You're not off the hook, sorry. --Alan Watson

Not to worry. Above, we've already identified the perp.

You beat me to it. But most people, having read only headlines, don't know that Fixx suffered from the serious effects of his previous unhealthy lifestyle, most notably heavy smoking. He ignored them despite obvious signs of arterial blockage and even the urging of Ken Cooper himself to come in for tests, which he finally intended to do. We may speculate that he'd expired even younger without his running. Nonetheless, his exaggerated faith in it was simply irrational. Such could easily be the case here.

But the police will never discover the obvious we all know: it was driven by his wife's Thai boyfriend. Thank you, CSI: TVF (AN)!

Yesterday I received the "received your information successfully" email at 5:16 PM and then the approval only 4 hours later at 9:23 PM. I had filled in only the required information using a fairly pristine Chrome browser. No problems, no re-submission needed. What's not to like? ????

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.