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Does any one think maybe we are old bored men 6 pages about milk shakes?

 But it is so useful now we know more about where yo get a milk shake huh.

Hooters is way to plastic for me I prefer any bar on soi 6.

30 minutes ago, HLover said:

Yes because only delicate virgins apply to work as Hooters waitress.

Your fickle white Knight babble just caused me to vomit in my mouth.

 

Not sure what the hel l you are talking about but yah what ever.

1 hour ago, peterb17 said:

 

You just don’t get it. It’s not sad.

 

The fact that someone posts that you should visit this franchise because the women are attractive ( substitute for cute - what else does that mean???)

 

The women are there, earning a living- they do not want customers commenting on their appearance on a forum. Let’s go there- get a rise with your sundae. 

 

Its what is implicated. 

 

OP - get a blender for a few hundred baht , ice cream, fruit ( Chang Mai strawberries are reasonable - mango season !)  

 

 

 

 

 The women are there, earning a living- they do not want customers commenting on their appearance on a forum.

How can you speak for those women did you ask them if they want the comment or not? Or are you the spokes person with out given authority.

  And I will buy a blender if you stop posting these kind of posts when you do not know what the person you want to defend  wants you to do it or not.

19 minutes ago, Mac98 said:

A real milkshake has hand-scooped ice cream, not some whipped imitation. And you can never get the best, a chocolate malted milkshake.

Yes I am aware of that but have not been able to find a milk shake like that for years even in Canada. I think a real milk shake is a thing of the past. I grew up on milk shakes that were frothy,with ice cream lumps that would get stuck in the straw. 2 or 3 scoops of hard ice cream add milk ,and flavoring and place on machine.

  Today they are made from ice milk at best. Some are quite scary actually. I have been told that if you let a McDonalds shake sit ib the sun all day when you go to get it the fluid will be warm  but have the same consistancy as it does when cold.Not sure if it is true or not but really do not want to find out in case it is true.

In the past I tried the milkshakes in many restaurants and mom and pop shops in Thailand. None were milkshakes. they were like a smoothie all crushed ice and flavoring no ice cream.  Even Burger King is not authentic milk shake but hey probably impossible now to even purchase a real milk shake machine any where. All the milk shakes now a days come from a dispenser and have for decades. 

I feel this thread is drawing to a quiet close so I would like say this one last thing that I feel is so true.

   A man never stands so tall as when he bends to help a child.

8 hours ago, BEVUP said:

Not hard to understand, I will quote some of the sayings to make it easier for you

" This being Thailand we will raise the Grand child "

" I f you see an old man walking along with a young child & wife, we should think our selves lucky we can do this as this is Thailand "

Might not be word for word but does it make it clearer ?

I need to reply to this to clarify.

   This being Thailand we will raise the Grand child " 

 The above quote was meant to state that being Thailand that is the way it is done. My wife's mother and father raised her 2 children for the first 2 years of their life. She didnot dump them on the parents  it was expected that is the way it is done. My wife who has 2 degrees and had her first child at 26 and stayed faithfully with a drunkard husband for 17 years,she did it that way so we do it that way..  So your analysis of what happens inside Thai culture is warped a little.

  " I f you see an old man walking along with a young child & wife, we should think our selves lucky we can do this as this is Thailand "

   I added that quote because we are lucky to be able to enjoy taking care of the young and being part of their life and not just looking from the outside.In Thailand it can be done and get support. Many countries with citizens much like yourself look down on it.To be old and get the unconditional love of a baby keeps men young and happy. Here we can do it.and enjoy doing it.

16 minutes ago, billd766 said:

cannot replace they joy of caring and loving a small child and helping it through its early days in the world.

I think that is it in a nut shell. Well said

1 minute ago, Poppy Dave said:

I have 2 daughters, both in their early 30's. One of them has given me the greatest gift of being the grandfather of 26 months old girl and a 9 months old boy. We all live in the same house, dad works fly in fly out and is only home one week in three.

If I'd have known grandkids were SO much FUN, I'd have had them first. I'm 69 and I help with feeding, changing and all the other 'chores' that involve bringing up young kids and I  LOVE every minute of it. 

Enjoy it whilst you can mate! They help keep you young(ish)!

I am the same..The grandchild is blessing.I help the wife take care of her. Feed her,hold her ,even help with pamper change. I love every minute of it. Today she got her car seat. The wife could  not wait to get her in it and take a picture. 

11 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

I really, really hope I will be a Grandfather some day. But as I'm about to be 58 and my son has just been 3, it might be something I will have to miss out on

Sent from my SM-G930F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app
 

Do not worry about the future enjoy your son. I am sure he will bring years of joy into your life.

  Some like you are lucky to have son's. I do not. Enjoy what you have and wait to see what happens.

1 hour ago, smotherb said:

Although, I will be the first to tell you my grandson is no normal kid; I neither said nor meant to infer that he was a world-class multi-lingual orator. He still has a limited vocabulary and speaks in simple sentences. Children are knowledge sponges, if someone takes the time to teach them. Our grandson has two sets of doting grandparents and very attentive parents. Most children whose parents speak two languages learn both languages. Nevertheless, I have to admit I know several English-speaking fathers here whose half-Thai almost grown children speak only Thai well.  I believe the reason is the fathers do not spend much time with their children. Since our grandson started speaking, almost two years ago, we have consistently taught him all three languages for the words he uses and followed that with which one of us says which word. Consequently, for the most part, he knows with whom he can speak which language, but he does get confused. Just last week when when his Thai grandfather asked him for a tool in Thai, our grandson asked him in Thenglish if he wanted a "screwdriver" or "wrench."   Today I taught him "skateboard," but I didn't know its name in Filipino or Thai when he asked. I guess he thinks he has a dumb grandfather.

I talk with my granddaughter a lot. I make up the conversation as we go. I ask friends who have Luk Krueng children and they told me if we talk english and Thai the child will have 2 native languages.  I want that.

  When I enter the room and start talking she stops everything to find where I am and gives me a big smile. She really knows how to make me feel special.When she does this I sit with her and we talk for 1/2 hour or more. Me in english her in baby talk it is great..It is an english lesson in a form.She gets so excited talking to me she starts to scream out and laugh and smile. Cannot buy that kind of happiness any where.

4 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

 

What is the "terrible 2's? I have never heard that expression before.

The terrible 2's to my understanding is a time when the child is rebellious,difficult to communicate with demanding,a time when they are expressing themselves and want to be heard,and understood.Much like a teenager I quess. 

I want to add a a little something .

  I read a long time ago that a person acquires all their long lasting life skills by the age of 2 (perhaps a good explaination for terrible 2's). I want to believe this. So I treat raising her with that in mind. We try very hard to give her stability from the start,I even talk to her as an adult .She gets so much love and positive reinforcement since birth.She seldom fusses. I put that down to being well adjusted with no emotional issues as of yet. 

  With the 2 year life skill thought I feel we can do out best while I am here if I die after she is 2 I hope she has what she needs to have a full happy life.Happy is the priority. She is a grand child not my child so I feel it is not necessary I see her through to adulthood. I just want to give her a real good start in life. Of course the longer I am here to share with her the better.

   Like one poster stated it bonded the family like superglue the same happened here. My stepdaughter used to hate me not even want to be in the same room. Now we are a happy family. It is like there never was problem.

  I will stop do not want have TV start to be a parenting support group.

On 3/27/2018 at 10:29 AM, geriatrickid said:

Hilarious. The communal eating format is common only to;

- Families, e.g. husband and wife, (and even then not frequent,) mother and child;

- Teenagers/people who are close, i.e. have known each other since early school;

- Low class, uneducated, uncultured

This is not how the educated and higher socio economic demographic eat. I recently attended a dinner function in Bangkok. I can assure you that no one, NO ONE  was poking into  the common food platters with their own utensils.It's rude and a sign of poor upbringing in Thailand outside of a set social circle, just as it is elsewhere, for the simple fact that it indicates a close familiarity.

 

Perhaps the fact that so many people are hooked up with bar girls, or  upcountry folk is why they will not have seen how the rest of Thailand behaves. Thais do have table manners and many do have fastidious obsessive concerns in respect to communal utensils. Watch the Thais at a buffet at a higher end function and you will see the hand sanitizer come out or the use of one hand to touch a serving utensil and  the other hand to use eating utensils. Stop using street stalls  as an indicator of Thai customs because a growing number of Thais will not eat from them, nor even consider the use of communal cups & utensils. For example, there is absolutely no way that a knowledge grade or higher  civil servant would drink from  the same metal cup as a moto taxi driver.

Every thing you said here about  different habits with different socio,economic levels is true.

  But any one of class knows that real class does not offend its host and does not make people uncomfortable in their presence. Any and every one at the fucntion should honor the ocassion and act appropriately.

  So many of these classy people you ate with at a dinner function ate the appropriate way for the ocassion. As is expected.

  But if they are of real class and attended a function at a small village and people were eating som tom with  with their fingers, and sharing a  common bowl for soup. They would in honor of their hosts eat accordingly. If they had concerns about health they would adapt how much they ate and where from the plate they took it. But real class does not offend . Real class makes all people present in their company feel comfortable.  No upmanship no making issues. 

20 minutes ago, attrayant said:

I don't see most of the dining behavior outlined in the OP, but the dining and cooking areas in my house are right next to each other and I am more put off by the preparation and sanitation habits.

 

• Waste food container sits on the counter top and goes for several days without being emptied, so we often have clouds of fruit flies in the kitchen & dining areas.  
• Food is prepared on the floor (using a cutting board, but still).  One cutting board (which looks like a cross-section of a tree) is used for meat, veggies, everything.
• Dish rags aren't wrung-out and hanged to dry, but left sopping wet and lain flat on the counter top creating a germ farm.
• Knives sometimes aren't washed if they're used to cut things that don't appear to leave residue (bread, some veggies).  A few days later these knives will have mold on them.
• Sink where dishes are washed is right next to clean dish and pan storage, so all the clean stuff gets sprayed with dirty water during washing.
• Food is left on the stove/dinner table overnight and uncovered.  Mother in law wakes up early the next morning and boils the hell out of everything to "sterilize" it.

 

Consequently, frequent intestinal distress seems to be an accepted fact of life in my house that - thankfully - I am largely spared from because I mostly don't eat the family food any more. I have my own fridge and do my own cooking.

 

Having said all those bad things, I'd like to say that the food really is (mostly) delicious and I wish I were brave enough to eat it along with them.

I have to add one thing I saw my wife's son do.

 After drinking water from a glass he put it back in the cupboard with the clean glass's because all it had in it was water.

1 hour ago, nanglong218 said:

To those who sneer at the warnings of hygiene I will just say "do you have 6 months to spare, in pain, discomfort and fatigue, awful fatigue."  No interest in sex, your liver controls more than you imagine.  If you are topside of 65 you don't have the time to spare.   HepA and E are no joke.  Hep B and C can now be controlled, like HIV, by anti virals produced since 2004.  It's your choice.

I just play the odds. I personally do not know in my entire life a single person who has fell ill from double dipping,kissing cunnilingus etc.. You may have contracted some thing  I am sure it does happen.

  But then again I am not your average Joe from down the street. I have been left for dead in Thailand ,mugged twice in one night in Nassau, mugged and robbed in the afternoon in Mexico.. I also often  singlehanded a 27 ft sailboat in extreme weather so an illness has little meaning to me. I leave the worrying about things like that to those who want to live forever. but not have a life.

13 minutes ago, GreasyFingers said:

Living here with the baht dropping is no great hassle but I need to bring money over to buy a house for the wife (do not need the stupid comments, it will be her retirement fund as I will die long before her). I did the figures at 26 to aud:

$200K @ 26 = 5.2M baht

200K @ 23 = 4.6M baht.

That lost 600K really makes the decision much harder now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I feel the same will stay but losing a lot on exchange. The difference between now and 5 years ago for me is about 50,000 a month if it stays at 23 as compared to 30 something 5 years ago. That is a lot of baht to not have every month. That is 600,000 a year I am losing now. But better poor here than in Canada