GinBoy2

So assuming the OP is real, which nowadays in AN I question.

Work cost me my first marriage, I stupidly put it before everything. Missed God knows how many kids soccer games, recitals.

Still love my ex, probably count her as my best friend, we talk every week.

With my Thai wife, and retirement gig I finally got it, better later than never I guess.

The job is never is never worth wreaking the home life

1 hour ago, transam said:

Where do you come from, would love to know what this squeaky crook clean country is........🤗

I think it's mainly because of the Brit heavy makeup of this forum thats distorts the data

Too many variables for any of us to make a real opinion.

But FL, really? That will drain you real fast!

I'm a Californian, but I'm not dumb and recognized, albeit I love the State, culture, scenery, that was never going to be an option for retirement.

Back after college I'd come to South Dakota as a contractor for Rockwell on B1 bombers, and when I wanted a tax free State I bought a house in Rapid City while I was living full time in Asia.

I miss the ocean for sure, but I love the outdoors of the Black Hills, close enough to Denver, and I can live very comfortably on $5k

There are a ton of them.

But I used Americas Mailbox for years. I got scans of the mail and could decide what got shredded and was was forwarded to me.

https://americasmailbox.com/

8 hours ago, Captain Monday said:

 

Often there are religious cultural reason,  but cremation is cheap so is a proper urn

I had no idea the rally had such a regular death count BTW

The cost of full casket intl repatriation must be huge

Curiously it's actually cheaper than you think, or I thought.

I always thought it would be ridiculous. Now I can't can't comment on an international repatriation, never done one

But last year I accepted an HR (Human Remains in airline jargon) being sent domestically, to Atlanta I think I recall, but the air freight charge was $450!. No idea how much the casket and undertaker costs, but definitely cheaper than I thought.

Maybe the airlines take pity on the dead

Tourist visa's for Thai females are a total crap shoot.

My then girlfriend, hi tech job, US college graduate, we owned a home I was working in Taiwan at the time but commuting back.

And, we're not talking some young gal. my now wife is, and was at the time, a middle aged women

Just wanted to go visit my daughter who had just had a baby.

Of course it was denied. Several years later nothing materially changed, except we had actually got legally married for the green card, and it sailed though

Looking back on it, I think since my wife had grown up as a teenager with her Uncle in Chicago after her parents died she was more likely to disappear, which of course was nonsense, but I get the CO's paranoia

The sad part of this, no 18 yo female is sexually 'interested' in a 40+ yo male, thats just not how nature works. 

She see's him as an ATM and he is getting his ego stroked

3 hours ago, Keeps said:

Wow - learn something new every day. May I ask how you know such specific information? I can't imagine many people outside of the undertaking world knowing such a fact. Genuinely interested. 

Working in the airline industry we go through a bunch of training, and dealing with transporting corpses is one of them.

They can only be loaded in the aft cargo bin, and cargo straps criss crossed to keep the box in place.

Due to the stress on takeoff is why we load them head up to stop the embalming fluid pooling in their head

1 hour ago, Irish made said:

I’m full sure the corpse doesn’t care how it’s loaded on to the plane. 

The family do.

It's because at takeoff if the head is facing back the embalming fluid flows into the head which disfigures the corpse

16 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Buy 3 or 4 cats ............

I'm going with cats too.

They will love you, on their terms, but low maintenance unlike dogs

Yeah that's tough 

When we moved to the US it twice poverty or $30K in savings

Thankfully we passed the theshold

TG business class 747 had that weird configuration of the galley parallel to the right window. 

I never booked any seat on the right side 

Some of this agree with.

The gift thing, totally on board with, but it's little different in the West when you go visit you take a bottle of wine or the like.

I've never liked holding hand and certainly not kissing in public, so that for me is a given

I supported my parents in their old age, but maybe an Hispanic thing not totally Asian.

Food ditto

Gik thing. Well pretty sure my wife would chop off my balls in my sleep if I even thought about it!

6 hours ago, Sigmund said:

Obviously a american made Boeing with all the scandals of poor conception and build that are leaking out even on the latest models. I definately will not board any airline that makes me embark in a Boeing from now on.

Sometimes I wonder about the reading and comprehension skills of posters on here.

Read and you will see it's an Airbus.

So that rules out Boeing and Airbus, best you be checking out flights on a Chinese COMAC aircraft. 

Good Luck with that

3 hours ago, cowellandrew said:

And the clean up looks like wash oil down the drain with big red fire engine!

😂

Thats exactly what it looks like.

In the real world we'd be covering it with kitty litter, then shoveling it up and disposed as toxic waste, but TiT, go figure!

Enjoy the water you drink, and the sea you swim in....

1 hour ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

 

They are still on the apron at Suvarnabhumi as of last Friday.

 

I have been informed that the sale has been ordered to be stopped by a court as TG still owe money due to their insolvency.

I love use of the word 'apron' it's a blast from the past

Today we use the word 'ramp' pretty universally across the world, but apron still sounds good.

Most of us come from an age where it was taboo. I'm Hispanic where it was double taboo!

About 10 years ago I got a phone call from a shocked female childhood friend, that our mutual childhood friend had finally come out at 50!

My reaction was, I always knew he was gay from when we were teenagers in HS, but back then it was always safer just to hide it away, and I'm sure thats a hard thing to shake, even as attitudes changed in society.

Try to remember what being Gay was like in the 70's. Not pretty, a lot of violence and hateful speech.

He always seemed to have 'roommates' AKA boyfriends as I understood it, but he could never get his head around those teenage fears and didn't even tell his parents.

I was his best friend in HS, of course I knew but we would never have talked about it back then.

When he finally did come out in middle age and we talked, my reaction was "About Time"

We both laughed and life went on

I kinda get this.

I love my wife, she loves me but to be around each other 7x24 one of us would be dead.

Thankfully we both work, so kiss goodbye in the morning and come home at dinner time to recount our boring day at work.

Isn't that how life works?

I'm a native Central Valley guy. Lived most of my adult life either in the Bay Area or San Diego and I still love San Diego county, my youngest daughter and my Grandson still live there.

But OMG I just couldn't live with the traffic and all the people

anymore. 

Daughter is contemplating a move to North Carolina, which I'm not thrilled about, but I get it