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3 hours ago, muzmurray said:

 

Ice with the holes in the center is good, cubes are, (or are more likely to be) bad.

 

 

Ice with holes in the middle come out of a machine; but that does not tell you the source of the water.

2 hours ago, Wilsonandson said:

Mine is!
What's wrong with marrying a bar girl?

I believe the problem to be in the eye of the beholder. It seems many men who marry bar girls make-up stories which state the wives came from a different background.  A bar girl who actually loves her man can be a wonderful wife, but it is difficult to accept when many of the men in the room already know her.

The major problem with some bar girls is that they start to think of themselves as a commodity for sale to the highest bidder. If a woman will do you for money, she will probably do someone else for money. It seems that many of them treat their husbands as little more than long-term customers.  Now, that is not always the case, but it appears to be all too often.

We all know the tales of woe--gambler who mortgages your home and vehicles, substance dependent junkie who will do anything for another high, constant sad tales of sick or needy family, brother who is really a boyfriend, etc., ad infinitum. Think of the women in those stories; from my perspective, most of those women came for the bars.  

On 5/3/2017 at 2:08 PM, MrNeilThai said:

Issan is  a region it is not a province. It is actually made up of many provinces. There is no way to know if there is  more adultery in Issan compared to any other part of Thailand. It might seem adulterous to you b/c  you are not Thai and the Thai women who marry western men tend to come from Issan. So you would have some knowledge of adultery in Issan. 

 

What is your knowledge of adultery in the the eastern, central, western, or southern regions? Any data on that. How would anyone know?

Don't you mean the Thai women who work in bars often come from Issan.  I live in the South, and maybe 1/3 of the bar girls come from Isaan.Granted, sometimes the girls like to go somewhere far enough away from their home province, but it seems many girls in Phuket, Samui, Bangkok and Pattaya come from Issan. Similarly, in the PI many of the bargirls come from Samar. The common denominator see is rural poverty in Samar and rural poverty in Issan. Anyone see a similar phenomenon?

50 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Never got the hang of a bum gun, my Thai partner doesn't like it either. Been using paper for over 70 years, never had piles.

Try dropping a load on your kitchen table and wiping it off with toilet paper.  Now, wash it off with water. Which was cleaner, water or paper?

37 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

 

You sir talk out of your rusty sheriff's badge, beans on thick toast with some extra mature English Cheddar thrown into the mix, or with Worcestershire Sauce or even some HP on top, chuck a fried egg on top of that lot, a meal fit for a king I can assure you 

As I said, try your beans and cheese with some good dried beans cooked in beer, onion and ham hocks; then, you may see why the canned beans are yeuck.

7 minutes ago, fishbrando said:

I see this as well, even at some of the "high-end" shopping malls.  The restaurant staff, in full uniform, just walk right out of the extremely-crowded bathroom without washing, right in front of everyone.

 

Are Indian restaurants the worst hygiene offenders?

A young Vietnamese explained that to me. He asked if Westerner's private parts were dirty because they wash their hands after they go to the toilet. He said that he was taught to keep his privates clean and to wash his hands before touching it. 

6 hours ago, Jessi said:

Many times I notice that men coming out after having a crap,stand in front of the mirror

doing their hair but never to wash their hands.

 

Personal hygiene is not big in Asia.

I agree that public toilets are not as well kept in Asia as in the West. Perhaps nanny just hasn't enforced the public toilet codes in Asia yet. However, I find Asian personal toilets to be clean and I believe personal hygiene, especially among the Asian women, is much better than personal hygiene in the West.

How many times have you smelled body odor on Asian women or men compared to Western women or men? I know several young Western NES teachers here; the guys and the girls regularly smell of sweat and their clothes are frequently soiled. I seldom see or smell that among comparable Thais.

The entire idea of toilet paper is filthy. Water with which to wash is far superior to paper with which to smear. Do you really think you clean yourself by wiping the feces around with paper? 

The last girl with whom I had sex in my apartment before going to Vietnam simply pulled up her panties and took me to the airport. The first girl I had in Vietnam took me to her squatter's shack, but she washed both herself and me before and after sex.

I have been married to two Asians and one American. The American was by far the least hygienic among the three--she washed her hair maybe once a week, she covered her face in make-up and didn't even wash it off every night, piles of dirty clothes stood in her closet, the house was rarely cleaned, etc., ad infinitum. 

Well, this is all anecdotal; but these are my reasons for defending Asian personal hygiene.

10 hours ago, giddyup said:

Sorry, don't agree. Your attitude is coming from someone who has had many opportunities in life, not so if you were born in a slum in the Philippines, or a child scrabbling for plastic bottles in a dump in India to put food on the table.

If there is a god, why are the children in the slums; why are any of god's children suffering--is he not omniscient, omnipotent?  Yes, I know, the same answer to any difficult question; he works in mysterious ways.

17 hours ago, colinneil said:

Yes i agree with what you say.

Only problem is i cant tie my shoe laces, i cant work, but i am learning new things everyday.

 

Life is not fair, i am paraplegic due to a selfish prick, driving the wrong way, and due to the police being corrupt, he walked away scot free, while i am left with my life shattered.

Well, you could have been killed. I just lost a best friend from a selfish prick, as you call it.

25 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Philestine. Beans are served warm with a breakfast fry up.

 

American breakfast - puke. American bacon is <deleted> compared to British or Danish bacon. Sausages are rank and the coffee often seems to double as gravy.  Biscuits - a lump of hot tasteless dough served with some off white sauce, looks as bad as it tastes. Now American steak and eggs, princely.

 

German breakfasts fine as long as you like bread, sliced meat, cheese, eggs and jams. Similar to the Dutch.

 

A real English breakfast, real bacon, decent sausage, fried eggs, black pudding, fried bread, baked beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, (and a slice of haggis in Scotland), washed down with a cup of fine tea, a refined drink that most consider more healthy than coffee, followed by hot toast, butter and marmalade. Kippers and Kedigree are alternatives.

 

You've probably never had a real good one,

 

 

Yes, I am aware of how many British restaurants there are where there are no Brits--somewhat akin to the European version of Filipino food. Brit sausage, like the cumberland, is more meal than meat. Please, haggis, any American scrapple is better. And, you heat the canned beans do you? I have rarely had a Brit breakfast where the beans were not just dumped from the can.  Cooked dried beans, as in the frijoles mentioned, or any of the varieties of butterbean, navy pea, great northern white, pinto, kidney or black beans are far superior to the canned beans the Brits use. 

3 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

Agnostic?

Get off the fence you intellectual coward!

Really? I believe no one can prove the existence of a god, but likewise, no one can disprove it. It all amounts to belief.

At 72, most of my life is behind me. However, I have led a very happy and exciting life and would change only a couple of things—things I did and should not have done. I have found loving relationships with my women and lasting platonic relationships with men and women. I worked hard, but smart most of my life and used my money wisely, but not frugally. I can say I have never been broke and never been without a friend or lover. I have lived large in many ways, but within reason. I am physically, emotionally, and financially secure. Am I lucky, or have I planned it well?  Perhaps a bit of both.

Life is what you make it. Like anything else, you need to be smarter than the problem. Belief in some omniscient omnipotent magical being is the ultimate farce. You named a few despots, but what about all the innocent children and adults who suffer in this world? How can there be a loving god when innocents are made to suffer—simply makes no sense to me. However, if you need a crutch, go for it.

59 minutes ago, SiSePuede419 said:

As a Mexican, I think it's hilarious Brits eat frijoles.  Not even South Americans eat beans (they don't like them--too Mexican???). ?

The baked beans are not even fried and not pinto beans either, many just open the can of baked beans and pour it on your plate--yeuck.

The Germans offer a better breakfasts than the English, I believe. The breads are better, nice home fried potatoes and good hunks of ham bacon, or porkchop and good coffee; none of that mouse-piss they call tea.  I prefer an American breakfast, with buttermilk biscuits (scones to some), sausage gravy, bacon, fried potatoes, eggs and coffee. Bourbon Street soi 63, Ekamai offers a good American breakfast; but so does The Tavern, soi 4 just down from Nana Plaza. 

2 hours ago, bandito said:

Where I live is a large lake in a park with a road arond it.

Everyday people are, me included, jogging or walking around the lake.

 There are living in the park, I guess, about 30 to 50 dogs.

What totally amazes me is that none of these dogs growl, bite or attack people.

They don't even look at people jogging.

Sometimes I have to step over one or walk around one and the dog could'nt care less.

I don't understand this as all of them are strays.

Any ideas someone?

They are Thai dogs, like many Thais, they just tolerate farangs

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

LOL. I don't deal with low socio economic farangs back home, but trying to have a philosophical and historical conversation with any of them is no easier that finding hen's teeth. People not in politics these days seem not interested in such conversations. Perhaps because they feel so powerless against the system that they want to pretend it doesn't exist.

I wouldn't get into any such conversations in LOS anyway, as it is way too easy to get into serious doodoo for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time with the wrong people to do so.

 

I wasn't discussing you and certainly wasn't discussing farangs. See the post to which my comment was appended.  I think you are a bit pessimistic. I find Thais are willing, if not enthusiastic, about discussing philosophy and history. So, once again, I have to conclude you too are hanging around too many low-socio Thais.

20 hours ago, swissie said:

Well, I did venture out of Tourist Areas for 5 years. I even learned to speak basic Thai. I was rewarded with understanding the local gossip. Beyound that, was never capable of involving the "country folks" in a discussion surpassing local gossip. After 5 years of this, I realized "this can't be it".

Respects to Farangs that can tone down their intellect to this level for any extended period of time. Of course, in order to tone down something, you have to have it in the first place.
Cheers.

PS: Can understand why  you stopped your former daily news contributions, concerning "Central Thailand News". 

I think you must be dealing with some fairly low-socio Thais. My Thai is hardly fluent, but I can get into philosophical and historical conversations with several Thai friends--part of it may be Thaiglish; so I do not feel local gossip is all Thais can discuss.

1 minute ago, Artisi said:

isn't the two hand trick normal ?

 

You are correct of course, manners, politeness and empathy,  if that doesn't work you are wasting your time.

It always has been for me; that's how I know the trick, but it never kindled the type of relationship I wanted. Any woman willing to have sex just because you have a big penis will undoubtedly have sex with someone else with a big penis. Similarly, any woman who will have sex with you just for money, may just have sex with someone else for money.

While I do not like mistreating animals; ones that attack me deserve no such consideration. I have gotten pretty good at kicking them in the head while riding my Harley and I have a 2 inch wood screw set in the base of my walking stick.

1 hour ago, Artisi said:

Just having the right equipment helps in many cases.... 

Yeah, I guess if you could wrap both hands around your penis and twirl the head of it around; you may attract some women. However, I was referring to other ways; like sweet words, a caring manner, and actually taking an interest in them. 

1 hour ago, saakura said:

As a 62 year old farang in poor mental health, yes. If you are in your thirties or forties, handsome, healthy with a steady job, money is not necessarily the only attraction.

I am 72, married, and have often been called crazy, but I still find making female friends easy. Yeah, yeah, there is a difference between platonic and sexual friendship, but it is a fine line.

5 hours ago, Time Traveller said:

If you've never cared for anyone else except for yourself, then you'll never understand. Best you keep looking out for number one, and also continue dishing out advice on how to be a quality person. You're so wise, even though no one asked, people will really appreciate you educating them on what they're doing wrong in life.   

If you don't care for yourself you cannot care for others--part of a relationship has to be value seen in both parties. If you are worth nothing, why should she even want you--except for your money.

He must have been so emotionally dysfunctional and insecure to even contemplate such an end to his life.

6 hours ago, ujayujay said:

What a stu..d comment

What makes that comment "stu..d"? You actually believe there are women worth staring yourself to death?

7 hours ago, 12DrinkMore said:

 

That is, indeed, my plan.

 

With a bit of luck I might get a decade or a tad more.

Yeah, well, that was my plan 10 years ago, now I am looking for another place to spend 10 years.

18 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

A sad way to go, alone, depressed and dehydrated . RIP.

Anyone have any idea what nation that name originates ...Mesaha Toupou,  is?

English, Yorkshire, I believe

2 hours ago, bazza73 said:

Never in the field of discussion have there been so many unfounded opinions expressed to so little effect.

Shouldn't "so many" and "so few" be in there somewhere?