Never thought it would come to this

[thaibeachlovers]

5 hours ago, Doctorbu said:

Pattaya 20 years ago was much more laid back, way quieter for sure. There were no malls, no Chinese or korean tour busses, and a lot less lady boys; and it seemed safer.

These days it is what it is......for me it’s a love hate relationship❤️?

Your memory must be worse than mine.

Royal Garden mall was there in the 90s, and Mike Shopping mall carpark was full of tour buses bringing Asian tourists to go shopping. Loads of tour buses grinding up Beach Road every day.

Big C shopping Mall in North Pattaya. 

Plenty of Lady boys around then too. They even had their own bar on walking Street by the Marine escalators.

 

However, it was safer.

[swissie]

On 11.2.2018 at 8:45 AM, JSixpack said:

 

I think what's changed is merely that after more than 3 decades of tourism Pattaya Thais have learned to recognize at a glance a tight old fart who probably posts whinges and Thai bashes on TVF. I have a lot of friendly interactions w/ Thais in Pattaya.

 

The only bone I can throw out for you disaffected is the crucial revelation—good news, ultimately—that Pattaya treats you differently. It's merely trying to help you reach ASAP the terminal "last nail in the coffin" and "killed the goose" gibbering stage and bugger off. After all, that would be best for you and spare the rest of us more of your bashing. It's the only way, as reasoning is utterly futile.

 

Fact is, now, that Pattaya somehow detects your puckered sphincter even before you start mindlessly chanting the forum wank-words: "tea money," "scam," "promenade," "dead," "tunnel," "condo glut," "stupid," "unwanted," "quality tourists," "targeted," "shoddy," family resort," "CCTV," "pollution," "Ocean 1," "balcony," "lowest ever," "inside job," "jet ski," "tour buses, " "minivan," "baht bus driver," "Chinese," "TAT," "Starbucks," blah, blah, blah. (Whew! Need me a cold shower . . . .) KNOWS that you just ain't gonna be able to enjoy our street carnival daily. Never gon' let a due appreciation for surreal sidewalks, cold Chang from a 7/11, a cheap haircut, and classic Pattaya double bubble sandwich massages outweigh what you think are the negatives.

 

You just ain't no hansum man and that's all there is to it. Why? Who knows. Maybe you're too superior. Too negative. Too weak; too delicate. Too inflexible. Too intolerant. Can't accept risk. No street smarts. Can't learn any Thai. Don't have the money. Can't find a way to cope. Whatever. You can be in Pattaya but never of Pattaya.

 

So Pattaya simply figures that, in the absence of all hope of your redemption and achieving true cesspoolian status, you gotta go.

What Pattaya's Gon' Do For Ya

 

So Pattaya's gon' warp the local reality surrounding you personally to help you reach ASAP the terminal "last nail in the coffin" and "killed the goose" gibbering stage.

 

In all benevolence, with your very best interests at heart, cashiers shortchange you without even a smile; mechanics leave lug nuts off your wheels; dentists extract the wrong teeth; parking attendants suddenly appear in vacant lots; barbers give you white sidewalls; ladies all have unexpected appendages; baht bus drivers charge you 20 baht; Air Asia won't refund your money; ISPs block and throttle your internet; ATMs swallow your cards; loud music or karaoke plays nearby so you can't sleep; the pumping station by the entrance to Walking Street stinks at you. And your eyesight! The shops at CentralFestival seem always empty. Bars are filled with those golden eggs-laying geese, but you can't see 'em!

 

Yeah, everything just piles on to make your life as miserable as possible. Oh, torture without end. Oh, whingeing, cynical, fatuous posts without end.

 

Obviously, now, the beach has biases against certain people and so it treats them differently. If an old doomsayer walks near, it will immediately send a turd floating by to be the subject of a later indignant TV forum rant against The Great Satan: City Hall. City Hall is always wasting and stealing their flyspeck of tax paid.

JSixpack, on 2014-05-17 17:57:06

The idea is for you to take the sphincter, shut up and ah! bugger off to find happiness in a different country entirely whence you won't be coming back to Pattaya and, one HOPES (as it's not always the case), can forget about Thailand. And then start bashing and whinging about that country instead. Here for example in the paradise of Portugal is an obvious Pattaya refugee:

 

Whatever happened to the noise abatement act?

I KNOW it's summer,I KNOW everyone is outside having fun! Actually the tourists aren't the problem..It's the wretched services..Maybe it's me?but has anyone else noticed how b****y noisy all the garden equipment is these days.?We no longer use our gardeners because quite frankly-they don't garden!.What they do is TRIM and BLOW. They use industrial size hellishly noisy machines to reduce shrubs,hedges and even some trees into bald submission.Ditto for the very few lawns we have around us. They don't coordinate this activity either, they do it on every single day of the week bar sunday,and at every concievable time from 7.30 am onwards.I know I sound like a GOW,but at least I know it will magically stop at the end of the season.The poor tourists have PAID for this awful intrusion. This area is known as the Areio do Sonho..Place of dreams...hardly!!!

Anyone else as fed up as I am over this ever increasing mechanical intrusion?

 

GeniB, NOISE!!!

 

Here Ya Go

 

Lemme give you a nudge in the right direction; anything for a good cause. Reading material:

 

 

Emigration patterns from Patters

 

Sixpack is unique. TVF would not be the same without him. Without knowing me, he knows more about me than myself, my mother and my uncle combined. A borderline case between Clairvoiancy and Witchcraft.

I only know one thing. As far as Pattaya is concerned, he can hear nor see no evil. (Or the bad aspects of Pattaya as it were, even if some bad aspects must be staring in his face on a daily basis.)
He must have undergone some serious brainwashing to be able to block out all the negatives that plague Pattaya these days.
Unable to classify such an unconditionally one-sided point of view, in desperation, I consulted with my Indian-Guru. He came up with the following possible explanations:

- He might be selling off-plan Condos to Farangs.
- He might be married to a very nationalist Thai-wife, threatening to hit him over the head with a blunt object if he ever should utter anything negative about Pattaya.
- He might receive a regular salary from the TAT/Pattaya City Hall.
- He is young, vigorous and plans to run for mayor of Pattaya.
- He may have discovered a smokable weed that turns every S*ithole Country (Town), into a great place to live. (S*hithole Country, = Copyright Donald J. Trump).

In case the smokable weed is the deciding "booster", I woulden't mind taking a puff or two on occasion. That way I could move to the South Bronx and find it a great place to live.
Indeed, without Sixpack, TVF would not be the same.
Cheers. 

[Doctorbu]

11 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Your memory must be worse than mine.

Royal Garden mall was there in the 90s, and Mike Shopping mall carpark was full of tour buses bringing Asian tourists to go shopping. Loads of tour buses grinding up Beach Road every day.

Big C shopping Mall in North Pattaya. 

Plenty of Lady boys around then too. They even had their own bar on walking Street by the Marine escalators.

 

However, it was safer.

I stand corrected....you are right...my memory is probably worse than yours. Too many trips in the last 30 years (50+) I’m loosing my mind?

However the ladyboy thing has gotten much worse...for sure. 

[simoh1490]

12 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Your memory must be worse than mine.

Royal Garden mall was there in the 90s, and Mike Shopping mall carpark was full of tour buses bringing Asian tourists to go shopping. Loads of tour buses grinding up Beach Road every day.

Big C shopping Mall in North Pattaya. 

Plenty of Lady boys around then too. They even had their own bar on walking Street by the Marine escalators.

 

However, it was safer.

Arguably the 90's were some of the best years to be in Pattaya.

[Rimmer]

A couple of troll posts have been removed

[JAZZDOG]

Experiences are not exactly random but based on certain input. If 80% input includes Soi 6 happy hour 7 days a week and waking up hungover half the time I can see where OP might have a point. I have only been here a 18 months. Met the sweetest lady ever, pretty much happy and smiling all the time, not just with me but with all who she interacts with. Bought a guesthouse/café that is doing outstanding thanks to her attitude, genuine smile and 14 hour days / 7 days per week. She never complains, always happy and appreciative. All her family are as nice as I have ever encountered. The little I invested in the business was money I could easily lose and not have any effect on my life style but has been a dream come true for my lady and priceless to me knowing I am able to give something back. Experiences are the sum of what you make them. Not really fair to judge all the locals while all your observations are from the bottom of the barrel.

[The manic]

On 09/02/2018 at 12:34 AM, tonray said:

 

 

I wouldn't get your hopes up too high but at least the damage is contained to a few Sois in HH. Pattaya has not been very "Thai-ish" for a decade now. The place is the one place I never want to return to in Thailand, overrun by corruption, drugs and Farang gangs in cahoots with local authorities. Should not judge Thailand by Pattaya, or any of the seaside resort towns for that matter...they attract exactly the type of element that feeds off itself to make it a cesspool.

Pattaya is quintessential Thailand. The only international city left in Thailand and there is no drug scene here. Never smelt pot once in decades. Great Thai, Issan and international food. If you see a cesspool and not a great cosmopolitan city it's you projecting your inner demons and sickness.

[The manic]

56 minutes ago, JAZZDOG said:

Experiences are not exactly random but based on certain input. If 80% input includes Soi 6 happy hour 7 days a week and waking up hungover half the time I can see where OP might have a point. I have only been here a 18 months. Met the sweetest lady ever, pretty much happy and smiling all the time, not just with me but with all who she interacts with. Bought a guesthouse/café that is doing outstanding thanks to her attitude, genuine smile and 14 hour days / 7 days per week. She never complains, always happy and appreciative. All her family are as nice as I have ever encountered. The little I invested in the business was money I could easily lose and not have any effect on my life style but has been a dream come true for my lady and priceless to me knowing I am able to give something back. Experiences are the sum of what you make them. Not really fair to judge all the locals while all your observations are from the bottom of the barrel.

Well said and well done.  Many Pattaya bashers have never been here, have low intelligence, and are right wing Christian fundamentalists who have infiltrated this forum.  PM me and I will visit your bar. Good luck mate!

[The manic]

On 12/02/2018 at 11:21 AM, JSixpack said:

 

Simplistic binary thinking. Pattaya has both, I can assure you. I deal w/ genuine Thai people in Pattaya all the time.

Thank you for a rare injection of common sense

[JSixpack]

Well, I did report your post as off topic but as it wasn't deleted guess I'll need to respond.

 

 

16 hours ago, swissie said:

Sixpack is unique. TVF would not be the same without him. Without knowing me, he knows more about me than myself, my mother and my uncle combined. A borderline case between Clairvoiancy and Witchcraft.

 

JSixpack be da man, baby. Don't be forgettin' it, neither.

 

Quote

I only know one thing. As far as Pattaya is concerned, he can hear nor see no evil. (Or the bad aspects of Pattaya as it were, even if some bad aspects must be staring in his face on a daily basis.)

 

All them Whither Pattaya and Whither Thailand space monkeys and nitpicks that plague, or merely seem to plague (try suggesting raising visa fees to help pay for improvements!), our forum snowflakes don't bother me, true. I also see the good aspects of living here that far outweigh the bad.

 

In fact I think the vast majority of countless expats living in Thailand or in our cesspool are happy enough. They merely aren't bothering to post on the forum, leaving it to the infestation of whingers, cynics, and rabid bashers. So it becomes a target-rich echo chamber. For every basher, remember there are a thousand Brits living in council estates dreaming of how they might live here permanently. 

 

My interactions with Thais are almost always pleasant (had fun just today joking around w/ some lovely nurses) merely because I learned years ago how to push the right buttons to make them so. Arrogance, self-importance, and provincialism are at the root of much discontent among farang community here and have led in part to the attitude from Pattaya Thais so often denounced on the forum. Other stuff, nothing to be done about it anyway, not my business, and I've just never needed to get attention by whinging or to feel superior by bashing. I have a comfortable life. You might review The Serenity Prayer.

 

From my Profile:

 

Q: Why are you posting?

A: To be helpful when possible. Otherwise, to correct bias and nonsense while having a good laugh via satire. I've found satire about the only hope of changing any minds around here--facts, logic, and a rational perspective are pretty much useless. I like making fun of posts by our whingers, know-it-alls, blowhards, ace experts in every field (esp economics), tea money choristers, bigots, and of course doomsayers. In the course of which, by acting as troll bait, I try to help rid the forum of trolls--and sometimes succeed. Endless supply of 'em though.

 

There aren't many members posting balanced, rational, objective views. We

• live and let live,
• accept the unchangeable,
• handle problems routinely,
• interact with Thais well, and simply
• roll with the flow,

unfazed by the mess and paradox one may naturally expect to encounter in a Third World country. Since we're pretty happy living in Thailand, we're often labeled wearers of rose-tinted classes, Thai apologists with heads in the sand, and the worst term of opprobrium known to any TVF Poster: real estate agents!

 

Underlying the good laugh is the presentation of an opportunity for the miserable to consider whether there might be another way of looking at things, and of interacting with the people of this culture, to be happier and overcome the pathetic need to whinge and bash.

 

Or, just leave and be happy, as you are moving to the paradise of Hua Hin. I heartily approve; wasn't my post helpful? The dire future of Pattaya and of farangs in Thailand has already been depicted, graphically, on THIS forum to your complete and utter satisfaction. Besides this, the TV forum posters' sage, street-smart three Primal Laws Of Survival In Thailand are enshrined as gospel.

 

And I've previously introduced an old whinger to the paradise of The Villages; he soon disappeared. Lots of helpful threads on the forum about moving back to the UK. Hart in Hampshire looks lovely, no cesspool that: Best places to live in the UK: Hart in Hampshire tops list for the fifth year in a row. Here's a glowing report on moving back to Walmart Country: Why are you still in Thailand? Thai wife loves it there. More: USA -- low budget repatriation specific locations that aren't horrible. Why wait? Enough with the excuses!

 

 

[JSixpack]

18 minutes ago, The manic said:

Thank you for a rare injection of common sense

 

Thank you. At least it was brief, eh.

[newnative]

1 hour ago, JSixpack said:

Well, I did report your post as off topic but as it wasn't deleted guess I'll need to respond.

 

 

 

JSixpack be da man, baby. Don't be forgettin' it, neither.

 

 

All them Whither Pattaya and Whither Thailand space monkeys and nitpicks that plague, or merely seem to plague (try suggesting raising visa fees to help pay for improvements!), our forum snowflakes don't bother me, true. I also see the good aspects of living here that far outweigh the bad.

 

In fact I think the vast majority of countless expats living in Thailand or in our cesspool are happy enough. They merely aren't bothering to post on the forum, leaving it to the infestation of whingers, cynics, and rabid bashers. So it becomes a target-rich echo chamber. For every basher, remember there are a thousand Brits living in council estates dreaming of how they might live here permanently. 

 

My interactions with Thais are almost always pleasant (had fun just today joking around w/ some lovely nurses) merely because I learned years ago how to push the right buttons to make them so. Arrogance, self-importance, and provincialism are at the root of much discontent among farang community here and have led in part to the attitude from Pattaya Thais so often denounced on the forum. Other stuff, nothing to be done about it anyway, not my business, and I've just never needed to get attention by whinging or to feel superior by bashing. I have a comfortable life. You might review The Serenity Prayer.

 

From my Profile:

 

Q: Why are you posting?

A: To be helpful when possible. Otherwise, to correct bias and nonsense while having a good laugh via satire. I've found satire about the only hope of changing any minds around here--facts, logic, and a rational perspective are pretty much useless. I like making fun of posts by our whingers, know-it-alls, blowhards, ace experts in every field (esp economics), tea money choristers, bigots, and of course doomsayers. In the course of which, by acting as troll bait, I try to help rid the forum of trolls--and sometimes succeed. Endless supply of 'em though.

 

There aren't many members posting balanced, rational, objective views. We

• live and let live,
• accept the unchangeable,
• handle problems routinely,
• interact with Thais well, and simply
• roll with the flow,

unfazed by the mess and paradox one may naturally expect to encounter in a Third World country. Since we're pretty happy living in Thailand, we're often labeled wearers of rose-tinted classes, Thai apologists with heads in the sand, and the worst term of opprobrium known to any TVF Poster: real estate agents!

 

Underlying the good laugh is the presentation of an opportunity for the miserable to consider whether there might be another way of looking at things, and of interacting with the people of this culture, to be happier and overcome the pathetic need to whinge and bash.

 

Or, just leave and be happy, as you are moving to the paradise of Hua Hin. I heartily approve; wasn't my post helpful? The dire future of Pattaya and of farangs in Thailand has already been depicted, graphically, on THIS forum to your complete and utter satisfaction. Besides this, the TV forum posters' sage, street-smart three Primal Laws Of Survival In Thailand are enshrined as gospel.

 

And I've previously introduced an old whinger to the paradise of The Villages; he soon disappeared. Lots of helpful threads on the forum about moving back to the UK. Hart in Hampshire looks lovely, no cesspool that: Best places to live in the UK: Hart in Hampshire tops list for the fifth year in a row. Here's a glowing report on moving back to Walmart Country: Why are you still in Thailand? Thai wife loves it there. More: USA -- low budget repatriation specific locations that aren't horrible. Why wait? Enough with the excuses!

 

 

     HA HA.  Got a chuckle out of that worst thing to be called on TV--real estate agent!  That's been hurled at me numerous times!   I so enjoy your posts.

[norrska]

13 hours ago, simoh1490 said:

Arguably the 90's were some of the best years to be in Pattaya.

No the 80s were better followed by the 70s, 60s and 2000s.  The 90s dont even make the podium.

[norrska]

4 hours ago, JAZZDOG said:

Experiences are not exactly random but based on certain input. If 80% input includes Soi 6 happy hour 7 days a week and waking up hungover half the time I can see where OP might have a point. I have only been here a 18 months. Met the sweetest lady ever, pretty much happy and smiling all the time, not just with me but with all who she interacts with. Bought a guesthouse/café that is doing outstanding thanks to her attitude, genuine smile and 14 hour days / 7 days per week. She never complains, always happy and appreciative. All her family are as nice as I have ever encountered. The little I invested in the business was money I could easily lose and not have any effect on my life style but has been a dream come true for my lady and priceless to me knowing I am able to give something back. Experiences are the sum of what you make them. Not really fair to judge all the locals while all your observations are from the bottom of the barrel.

Report back in 10 years.  Am expecting you will lose your investment.

[norrska]

2 hours ago, JSixpack said:

Well, I did report your post as off topic but as it wasn't deleted guess I'll need to respond.

 

 

 

JSixpack be da man, baby. Don't be forgettin' it, neither.

 

 

All them Whither Pattaya and Whither Thailand space monkeys and nitpicks that plague, or merely seem to plague (try suggesting raising visa fees to help pay for improvements!), our forum snowflakes don't bother me, true. I also see the good aspects of living here that far outweigh the bad.

 

In fact I think the vast majority of countless expats living in Thailand or in our cesspool are happy enough. They merely aren't bothering to post on the forum, leaving it to the infestation of whingers, cynics, and rabid bashers. So it becomes a target-rich echo chamber. For every basher, remember there are a thousand Brits living in council estates dreaming of how they might live here permanently. 

 

My interactions with Thais are almost always pleasant (had fun just today joking around w/ some lovely nurses) merely because I learned years ago how to push the right buttons to make them so. Arrogance, self-importance, and provincialism are at the root of much discontent among farang community here and have led in part to the attitude from Pattaya Thais so often denounced on the forum. Other stuff, nothing to be done about it anyway, not my business, and I've just never needed to get attention by whinging or to feel superior by bashing. I have a comfortable life. You might review The Serenity Prayer.

 

From my Profile:

 

Q: Why are you posting?

A: To be helpful when possible. Otherwise, to correct bias and nonsense while having a good laugh via satire. I've found satire about the only hope of changing any minds around here--facts, logic, and a rational perspective are pretty much useless. I like making fun of posts by our whingers, know-it-alls, blowhards, ace experts in every field (esp economics), tea money choristers, bigots, and of course doomsayers. In the course of which, by acting as troll bait, I try to help rid the forum of trolls--and sometimes succeed. Endless supply of 'em though.

 

There aren't many members posting balanced, rational, objective views. We

• live and let live,
• accept the unchangeable,
• handle problems routinely,
• interact with Thais well, and simply
• roll with the flow,

unfazed by the mess and paradox one may naturally expect to encounter in a Third World country. Since we're pretty happy living in Thailand, we're often labeled wearers of rose-tinted classes, Thai apologists with heads in the sand, and the worst term of opprobrium known to any TVF Poster: real estate agents!

 

Underlying the good laugh is the presentation of an opportunity for the miserable to consider whether there might be another way of looking at things, and of interacting with the people of this culture, to be happier and overcome the pathetic need to whinge and bash.

 

Or, just leave and be happy, as you are moving to the paradise of Hua Hin. I heartily approve; wasn't my post helpful? The dire future of Pattaya and of farangs in Thailand has already been depicted, graphically, on THIS forum to your complete and utter satisfaction. Besides this, the TV forum posters' sage, street-smart three Primal Laws Of Survival In Thailand are enshrined as gospel.

 

And I've previously introduced an old whinger to the paradise of The Villages; he soon disappeared. Lots of helpful threads on the forum about moving back to the UK. Hart in Hampshire looks lovely, no cesspool that: Best places to live in the UK: Hart in Hampshire tops list for the fifth year in a row. Here's a glowing report on moving back to Walmart Country: Why are you still in Thailand? Thai wife loves it there. More: USA -- low budget repatriation specific locations that aren't horrible. Why wait? Enough with the excuses!

 

 

Am thinking of reporting your post as War and Peace seems shorter and an easier read.

[Rc2702]

Whenever I think of pattaya I get images of cockney pensioners acting like 25 year olds with 18 year olds pandering to their needs in the form of fake laughter amd giggles. 

[Kadilo]

12 minutes ago, Rc2702 said:

Whenever I think of pattaya I get images of cockney pensioners acting like 25 year olds with 18 year olds pandering to their needs in the form of fake laughter amd giggles. 

You really need to go and satisfy your curiosity.

[Rc2702]

2 hours ago, Kadilo said:

You really need to go and satisfy your curiosity.

Can you just send me a few snaps?

[simoh1490]

7 hours ago, norrska said:

No the 80s were better followed by the 70s, 60s and 2000s.  The 90s dont even make the podium.

So many idiots trolling this site, it's making it unusable anymore!

[JAZZDOG]

8 hours ago, norrska said:

Report back in 10 years.  Am expecting you will lose your investment.

No problem there Norrska, in 10 years my current investments plus ones I have yet to come up with will provide 100 times the value of this minimal investment. Guys like me and you are different again mainly because of our experiences in life. It appears by most of your negative comments your experiences have been negative and unprofitable. Me, quite the opposite.

 

Pura Vida

[newnative]

7 hours ago, Rc2702 said:

Whenever I think of pattaya I get images of cockney pensioners acting like 25 year olds with 18 year olds pandering to their needs in the form of fake laughter amd giggles. 

     And, nothing wrong with that.  But, from my observation actually living here, most pensioners I see are with what look like their original wives or with Thai wives or girlfriends in their 30s, 40s, and 50s.  You see them out and about getting groceries at Big C Extra or Tesco, at restaurants, at the mall, and so on.  They look like they are having a far better time than stuck in some old folks home.

[thaibeachlovers]

On ‎2‎/‎13‎/‎2018 at 6:13 AM, Doctorbu said:

I stand corrected....you are right...my memory is probably worse than yours. Too many trips in the last 30 years (50+) I’m loosing my mind?

However the ladyboy thing has gotten much worse...for sure. 

I'll agree that the ladyboys themselves are getting worse, but the problem was there long ago. When returning from Walking St after day break ( back in the 90s ), I had to literally run to avoid the ladyboy gauntlet.

[thaibeachlovers]

9 hours ago, Rc2702 said:

Whenever I think of pattaya I get images of cockney pensioners acting like 25 year olds with 18 year olds pandering to their needs in the form of fake laughter amd giggles. 

and what is wrong with that? Better than rotting in a grotty bedsit back home with nothing to look forward to except death.

[JSixpack]

12 hours ago, norrska said:

Am thinking of reporting your post as War and Peace seems shorter and an easier read.

 

An imagined slur often resorted to in absence of any argument, and so addressed in my profile. I'll have to add in the "long sentences" complaint. By coincidence I do mention a fact about War And Peace you're not aware of.

 

Q: Why do you write such long posts?

A: Piece o' cake. Me, I was lucky to have had an excellent typing teacher in the 10th grade: Mrs. Brown, bless 'er. If you yourself need help learning to type, you might try here: Learn How to Touch Type. I'm also enjoying using my backlit mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX blue switches. Tried one yet? You should. For perspective, consider that Tolstoy rewrote War And Peace eight times with a quill pen. Spend more time with Henry James and Marcel Proust.

 

Behind the scenes, I do have some great tools for fast composition, like clipboard manager, scrapbook, autopager, quick text paster, web editor, etc. So many forum posts in the Pattaya forum are just timeworn repetitions that only merit the same copy-and-paste response anyway.

 

But let's not go there. Better comfort yourself w/ the (laughable) fantasy that I'm lonely, obsessed, need to get a life, etc. Cheers!

 

[norrska]

1 minute ago, JSixpack said:

 

An imagined slur often resorted to in absence of any argument, and so addressed in my profile. I'll have to add in the "long sentences" complaint. By coincidence I do mention a fact about War And Peace you're not aware of.

 

Q: Why do you write such long posts?

A: Piece o' cake. Me, I was lucky to have had an excellent typing teacher in the 10th grade: Mrs. Brown, bless 'er. If you yourself need help learning to type, you might try here: Learn How to Touch Type. I'm also enjoying using my backlit mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX blue switches. Tried one yet? You should. For perspective, consider that Tolstoy rewrote War And Peace eight times with a quill pen. Spend more time with Henry James and Marcel Proust.

 

Behind the scenes, I do have some great tools for fast composition, like clipboard manager, scrapbook, autopager, quick text paster, web editor, etc. So many forum posts in the Pattaya forum are just timeworn repetitions that only merit the same copy-and-paste response anyway.

 

But let's not go there. Better comfort yourself w/ the (laughable) fantasy that I'm lonely, obsessed, need to get a life, etc. Cheers!

 

Jesus wept!

[norrska]

4 hours ago, JAZZDOG said:

No problem there Norrska, in 10 years my current investments plus ones I have yet to come up with will provide 100 times the value of this minimal investment. Guys like me and you are different again mainly because of our experiences in life. It appears by most of your negative comments your experiences have been negative and unprofitable. Me, quite the opposite.

 

Pura Vida

Wrong you are and also overly sensitive to practical advice, resorting to ad hominem attacks...some would call that delusional, not to mention vindictive

 

[simoh1490]

7 minutes ago, norrska said:

Jesus wept!

triple post, thanks TOT

[simoh1490]

8 minutes ago, norrska said:

Jesus wept!

And again

[simoh1490]

2 minutes ago, norrska said:

Jesus wept!

Just to add to what Jsixpack wrote on that subject:

 

Many people, particularly some older posters, had a good education where they learned how to write, this before the days of the computer et al. Such posters are therefore not limited to single monosyllable words and three-word answers.

[norrska]

Just now, simoh1490 said:

Just to add to what Jsixpack wrote on that subject:

 

Many people, particularly some older posters, had a good education where they learned how to write, this before the days of the computer et al. Such posters are therefore not limited to single monosyllable words and three-word answers.

LOL, lucky for computers.  Imagine if they had to handwrite everything.  Severe writer's cramp!