GinBoy2

Didn't realize that, good to know

Isn't the rule of thumb it's the second Wednesday of the month?

Hmm, too lazy to read 4 pages. But me and Mrs G normal couple met at work in Singapore. Our son not an oddity in Singapore, white guy some version of Asian wife not unusual. Got a little bit weirder back in Thailand, which surprised me actually, quite a bit more judgemental Our son didn't have a very good time at High School in Thailand he was ready to escape to College in Chicago, lived with his half sister, never looked back We couldn't ever shake the 'perception' of the white guy, thai woman stereotype Trouble is walk through the mall and see the older farang with Thai woman half his age slopping through with a couple of rugrats reinforces the stereotype!

On a cautionary tale I'm coming up to some back surgery, haven't got there yet, that's gonna be in a couple of weeks, but just the costs of pre surgery tests without insurance would be eye watering

Oh and figure out Part B I forget how long it is you get to decide But if you do have an 'OH SH===T' I need to go home event and haven't signed up there is a 10% premium late sign up on Part B

These pics always get to me The guys decked out on the floor obviously needing help, but a selfie is so much more important Maybe bent down comforting him would have been more appropriate?

At least with the bar girl fake girlfriend thing I can wrap my head around how that makes money, there is at the least a 'transaction' But video's on Tik Tok!! Madness

Thats me you idiot

So to make this simple, just create a ss account you can see everything medicare or social security payments https://secure.ssa.gov/RIL/SiView.action

Good analogy although not one that one that will sit well with many on AN!

Maybe I'm just getting old, Old Dogs New Tricks, but what does an 'influencer' do? As far as I can see they just take TikTok videos of themselves doing normal sh++++t, might as well video themself on the toilet How they make money from this nonsense baffles me

Came across this ....they both love soup!

None of you are gonna like this. Back in the day when I was doing a lot of work in the UK and Europe, and remember I've told you many times I love the UK and all it's culture, the Germans had a phrase, not sure if they still use it for the Brits 'The Monkeys from the Island' That boy just reinforces the stereotype

Rather wide generalization there. Both my wives worked, and both still do actually. But both of them took time off when the kids were little, back to work when they went school. So I was the sole income at the time, so in your theory I was paying them! Prostitutes?

Maybe I'm missing something. But she didn't bring the kid home for fear of him being taken into care. So does this imply he's with a Thai father somewhere? If not I don't think there is a Thai foster care system, and if no Thai parent how could he stay without a visa. This all sounds a little made up to me

Curious picture, but this is Thailand and I've recalibrated 'curious' The poor guy is decked out on the floor and everyone just seems to be stood around looking at him. Help might have been more appropriate than a photo bomb

It's back to my previous post, the 60 yo hasn't met his 20yo tillack at work, or at a coffee shop, so we really are down to the bar thing After that it tends to get a bit seedy Not judging anyone but need to recognize what it is, and everyone around you will May well work if you stay in Thailand, for a while a least, but try taking that home and you will be greeted with ridicule, and young gal will suddenly be presented with a smorgasbord of young men her own age Recipe for total disaster, and we've all heard about it, read about it hardly fiction

Of course the problem is when older punter decides to take bar girl home. I always grimase through this scene in the movie Priscilla Queen of the Desert. although it is hilarious, but it reinforces the stereotype that every woman from SE Asia was some kinda sex worker

Didn't know he still existed. Used to read it back in the day for entertainment Wasn't ever in to that world, but it was a little like a car crash, don't want to be in it, but fascinating to watch.

Thats not true. My Ex who is a bit dusky, Mother to two of my children, is my type loves my Thai wife mainly when they are together they revel in bitching about me!

There is that My wife grew up in Chicago, so she actually sounds more American than me, so we pull it off. Born here but I still got a bit of latino twang in my speach

So let's move past the 60 yo guy with the 20 yo gal, we all know what that's about But we all have types. Walk down any street in San Francisco and I'll put money on 50% of the young white men are hand in hand with some version of Asian woman Me and Mrs G are only a few years apart in age neither of us are spring chickens any more But won't deny I still have the 'Asian Persuasion' thing going on, for Mrs G of course!

Hmm I'm with you on the age gap thing. 20/30 something with a 50/60+ something, that's a financial transaction The tats thing, well I count myself as one of the few humans left on the planet without ink, so who am I to judge for that

So I'm gonna add some gasoline on the fire, but pretty sure add a bit of English, Scottish, Irish, the Welsh don't count , it all gets pretty messy

Our cats very lazy when it came to Gecko's. They don't run like mice and aren't as much fun. I've watched my cat just lay down having the feline staring contest with a gecko just too damn lazy to even get up