Unique Experience?

[BritManToo]

Boasting about your life isn't really unique experiences .......... nobody cares.

Tell us how you were abducted by aliens and subjected to medical experiments.

 

 

Edited May 1, 2019 by BritManToo

[soalbundy]

On 4/28/2019 at 10:57 AM, Krataiboy said:

Birth.

I can't remember mine but death will be experienced but it won't stick with me very long.

[watcharacters]

2 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

I can't remember mine but death will be experienced but it won't stick with me very long.

 

How do you know?      ????

[faraday]

34 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Boasting about your life isn't really unique experiences .......... nobody cares.

Tell us how you were abducted by aliens and subjected to medical experiments.

 

 

Don't forget to include the probe ...

[Pharoticus]

54 minutes ago, simon43 said:

If we're going to do lists, here's my own that I put together in 5 minutes.

 

- Worked as a DJ and transmitter engineer on an offshore pirate radio station in the 70's, arrested by the Dutch navy on my return and expelled from the Netherlands with a smile.

 

- Worked as a rocket scientist for the European Space Agency and was lead design engineer and integrator on many scientific satellite projects.

 

- Wrote an Artificial Intelligence chat application that the BBC said was the best candidate for the Turing prize (most human-like AI program).

 

- Sold my one-man band software business for more than $2 million and lost/spent all that money on houses, wives, hookers and dubious business ventures.

 

- Ran my own satellite TV station single-handed, (it was an SMS-to-TV channel 'Mobile Crazy TV'), including having to impersonate a sexy female 'video Jock' to encourage men to send their charged text messages.

 

- Rollercoastered (is that a real verb), from being rich to being bahtless in Thailand, due to the antics of my seriously crazy wife. I will always remember my close friends who stood by me and gave me food and shelter during those very difficult times.

 

- Built (meaning using my own hands), 4 successful small hotels in Phuket.

 

- Imprisoned in Pattaya for a short time to 'teach me a lesson' after I upset a very rich guy!

 

- Learnt to play the Lao khaen.

 

- Studied for an MA in Thai Culture at Chulalongkorn University.

 

- Learnt to speak Thai (also read/write to high level), Lao, Burmese and Mandarin.

 

- Reinvented myself as a Science and English teacher, and found that I was rather good at this job.

 

- Supported more than 3,000 poor students and orphans in Myanmar by purchasing all their school text-books.

 

- Changed from unfit slob to become the fastest 10 Km runner in Myanmar for my age group.

 

- Reduced my stress levels to zero, nada, nothing, absolutely bugger-all stress ????

Bravo. That's believable. 

 

Particularly like the last point about zero stress. 

 

RE: offshore pirate radio station in the 70's.

 

Are you talking Caroline? 

 

[HuskerDo]

On 4/28/2019 at 7:41 PM, faraday said:

Not difficult to find on here. Most have Special Forces experience/ ex CEO's of multinational corporations/can talk bs for hours.

 

Or something to do with a Roman legion...

Yes, yes, yes. All the Special Forces duds, ex-CEO's of multinational companies (I'm sure there is one or two) there and yes I'm sure they can talk all day. There's a reason they are ex-CEO's you know. :-)

[HuskerDo]

On 4/30/2019 at 6:11 AM, Khaeng Mak said:

Nope. Can't be bothered to explain myself to you. I have more valuable activities to spend my time on. Like I have already posted. Believe me, or not, choice is up to you.

"I have more valuable activities to spend my time on."

 

Like posting on TVF.

[HuskerDo]

On 4/29/2019 at 6:08 AM, Lacessit said:

Dammit, why doesn't that ever happen to me? Not that I've been to Siem Reap - yet.

It didn't happen to him either. Just a dream that's all.

[HuskerDo]

20 hours ago, simon43 said:

If we're going to do lists, here's my own that I put together in 5 minutes.

 

- Worked as a DJ and transmitter engineer on an offshore pirate radio station in the 70's, arrested by the Dutch navy on my return and expelled from the Netherlands with a smile.

 

- Worked as a rocket scientist for the European Space Agency and was lead design engineer and integrator on many scientific satellite projects.

 

- Wrote an Artificial Intelligence chat application that the BBC said was the best candidate for the Turing prize (most human-like AI program).

 

- Sold my one-man band software business for more than $2 million and lost/spent all that money on houses, wives, hookers and dubious business ventures.

 

- Ran my own satellite TV station single-handed, (it was an SMS-to-TV channel 'Mobile Crazy TV'), including having to impersonate a sexy female 'video Jock' to encourage men to send their charged text messages.

 

- Rollercoastered (is that a real verb), from being rich to being bahtless in Thailand, due to the antics of my seriously crazy wife. I will always remember my close friends who stood by me and gave me food and shelter during those very difficult times.

 

- Built (meaning using my own hands), 4 successful small hotels in Phuket.

 

- Imprisoned in Pattaya for a short time to 'teach me a lesson' after I upset a very rich guy!

 

- Learnt to play the Lao khaen.

 

- Studied for an MA in Thai Culture at Chulalongkorn University.

 

- Learnt to speak Thai (also read/write to high level), Lao, Burmese and Mandarin.

 

- Reinvented myself as a Science and English teacher, and found that I was rather good at this job.

 

- Supported more than 3,000 poor students and orphans in Myanmar by purchasing all their school text-books.

 

- Changed from unfit slob to become the fastest 10 Km runner in Myanmar for my age group.

 

- Reduced my stress levels to zero, nada, nothing, absolutely bugger-all stress ????

No way is this possible. Maybe I'll come up with a list too but I'll need to take some serious mind altering "vitamins" like the list-makers on this thread. Why not be honest. Yeesh!

[simon43]

RE: offshore pirate radio station in the 70's.

Are you talking Caroline? 

 

I missed out on the 60's pirate stations (too young!).  But I was heavily involved in land-based and offshore pirate radio in the 70's and 80's because I was a 'hands-on' radio amateur, skilled at building medium wave valve transmitters.  I worked on a Belgian offshore station called Radio Delmare, which was a rust-bucket hulk (no engine), that bobbed about like a cork (no ballast!) 20 Km off the Belgian coast.

 

Looking back on those days, I think I must have been mad!!

 

@HuskerDo, you say "No way is this possible."  Care to point out which event you consider impossible?  I'm happy to provide more details and/or proof ????

[Puchaiyank]

53 minutes ago, simon43 said:

 

 

 

I missed out on the 60's pirate stations (too young!).  But I was heavily involved in land-based and offshore pirate radio in the 70's and 80's because I was a 'hands-on' radio amateur, skilled at building medium wave valve transmitters.  I worked on a Belgian offshore station called Radio Delmare, which was a rust-bucket hulk (no engine), that bobbed about like a cork (no ballast!) 20 Km off the Belgian coast.

 

Looking back on those days, I think I must have been mad!!

 

@HuskerDo, you say "No way is this possible."  Care to point out which event you consider impossible?  I'm happy to provide more details and/or proof ????

I for one...would love to have more detail on some of your more memorable treks...not looking to debunk your experiences...would like to enjoy your special events vicariously...???? 

[Spidey]

On ‎4‎/‎27‎/‎2019 at 5:18 PM, Nyezhov said:

Getting charged by a bear with nothing but a .32 in my hand.

Not to me but to a work colleague who emigrated to Canada.

 

Was atop a telegraph pole in the Rockies when a bear came up and trapped him atop the pole. He made a call to the emergency services. Eventually, 2 Mountie types turned up and fired several shots in the air to scare the bear off.

 

His ordeal didn't end there as, when he climbed down from the pole, it turned out that they were Brokeback Mountain Mountie types. After anally violating him for several hours (don't time fly when your having fun? Not.) they eventually escorted him back to town.

 

My mate swears that, given his time over again, he would have taken his chances with the bear rather than make that call.

[Lacessit]

If nothing else, this thread has attracted the Walter Mitty and Baron Munchausen personalities like flies to an uncrutched sheep.

[Denim]

On 4/27/2019 at 11:18 PM, Nyezhov said:

Getting charged by a bear with nothing but a .32 in my hand.

 

Crikey ! If my penis was only .32 I would let the bear eat me.

[Spidey]

5 minutes ago, Denim said:

 

Crikey ! If my penis was only .32 I would let the bear eat me.

I think that was meant as 0.32 metres.

[simon43]

I for one...would love to have more detail on some of your more memorable treks...not looking to debunk your experiences...would like to enjoy your special events vicariously...

 

OK - here is a little more detail about 'Mobile Crazy TV'  (For those unbelievers, here is a link: Mobile Crazy TV)

 

The way this TV channel worked was that users would send a 'chat' text message from, their mobile phone to my number, I then manually checked that message for unacceptable language, then I added a few 'encouraging' words, and then my satellite channel computer added it to the list of similar messages that scrolled down the TV screen.  Punters paid about 1 GBP for each message to be publically displayed.

 

Since I didn't want to be 'tied' to my phone and computer all day, I rigged up a system whereby incoming text messages were automatically routed to my mobile device.  I could then accept or reject them.

 

I recall scenarios where I sat with my Thai girlfriend in a Thai restaurant in Chesham, Buckinghamshire.  As we eat some fine Asian food, rude text messages from punters appeared on my screen.  I added words such as 'yea give it to me big boy!' and resent the new message to my computer at the satellite uplink station for airing.

 

I even had a 'Bangkok Babes' chat session, where I employed a bar-girl sitting in Bangkok to reply to each message. She couldn't write good English, so I suggested that she reply to each incoming message with encouraging phrases that I can't print here....

 

That TV channel did quite well, with just under 30,000 GBP monthly income from the chat text messages. But running costs were also high, and I finally closed it down, (probably much to the relief of my GF).

[Denim]

4 minutes ago, Spidey said:

I think that was meant as 0.32 metres.

 

Nah, you'd faint from blood loss trying to fill it .

[Spidey]

4 minutes ago, Denim said:

 

Nah, you'd faint from blood loss trying to fill it .

I've never fainted.

[Denim]

32 minutes ago, Spidey said:

I've never fainted.

Your nickname wouldn't be spaghetti would it ?

[faraday]

25 minutes ago, Denim said:

Your nickname wouldn't be spaghetti would it ?

Apparently, it's "Swans Neck"

 

[Spidey]

1 minute ago, faraday said:

Apparently, it's "Swans Neck"

 

It's Spidey. However a number of girls (mostly Thai) have said to me, "Don't think that you are bringing that thing anywhere near me!"

[Nyezhov]

8 hours ago, Spidey said:

I think that was meant as 0.32 metres.

In diameter.

[Nyezhov]

6 hours ago, Spidey said:

It's Spidey. However a number of girls (mostly Thai) have said to me, "Don't think that you are bringing that thing anywhere near me!"

You are lucky, they see me coming and run. Of course, I am dragging mine behind me with a spiked chain and it's usually snarling and spitting

[Nyezhov]

7 hours ago, Spidey said:

I've never fainted.

I've got a cap on mine..... sort of like filling the water jacket on a Vickers

[bwpage3]

On 4/27/2019 at 9:00 AM, Wilsonandson said:

First time you go to Issarn. Now that's a unique experience. Woken up at 4 in the morning by the crowing of hungry cockerals. Washing your body in a concrete outhouse with iron roof. Drinking the local rain water. Eating fish the size of gold fish. Laying around in the shade playing cards with the old women chewing beetle nut. Watching the young farm hand climb up the coconut tree and machete the nuts down to the ground. In the afternoon having all the village kids stare at you, some touching you to see if your real. Listening to the commotion going on as the men watch boxing on the television. At night banging on the door of the local shop at 8pm for another beer because they shut early every night. Yep, it's quite an experience not just for me but for them too.

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You pretty much summed up the entire Isaan experience! I would add in having the BIL show up with some rice rats for dinner to the list!

[OneEyedPie]

On 5/1/2019 at 8:12 AM, BritManToo said:

Tell us how you were abducted by aliens and subjected to medical experiments.

Nothing like a good probing.

[StreetCowboy]

I’ve had a ‘once in two lifetimes’ experience.  Back when I was much younger than I am today, I hitch-hiked across and up and down the USA, from Newark to SAN Francisco, to Vancouver and La Paz and El Paso and Montreal and many points in between.

Back in Blighty, economic necessity led me to take a job; a colleague said to me “Cowboy, you’ve been to the States, where would you recommend?”

”The most fun I had was in Albaquerque, but ...”

 

Well Mickey was in no mood for a long rambling story, but you guys have no choice.  Two of us bowled into Albaquerque of an afternoon.  The town centre bars were not exactly hoaching so we wandered round the tourist tat shops.

”How much are the cowboy boots?”

”Do you want to try a pair on?”

”No. What about this buckskin jacket?”

”Do you want to try it on?”

”OK. What are you doing tonight?”

”We’ll, there’s a hardcore skinhead punk gig at Gold and Vine” (I may be misremembering the address)

”OK - we’ll see you there!”

 

We didn’t, but all the same it was a most entertaining evening of shaven-heided young boys flailing round the front room of a suburban house to a cacophony that serving soldiers would attribute to enemy action.

 

The coppers came and closed the gig

down, so we adjourned to an after-party, and while bail was being organised for the band, the coppers closed that down too, so we crawled off to sleep in the car.

 

Anyway, I could see that I had caught Albaquerque on a good night that might not be typical, but Mickey was in no mood for verbose equivocation or precautionary caveats, so I

let it lie.

 

Some years later I had cause to go back to Middlesborough, and I caught up with my old colleagues

”Yefookin’ bastat! Ah’ve neve’ bin so bored so quickly as in Albaquerque!”

 

So that was once in my lifetime and not yet in his.

Edited May 2, 2019 by StreetCowboy

[HuskerDo]

On 4/30/2019 at 3:47 AM, Pharoticus said:

As someone else has said, this list looks like a set of random bullet points pulled from the internet. 

 

What was the software you developed? And what were the "successful projects" you completed for the world's largest companies?

 

 

My list had only one item.

 

1. I am the Father of Simon43 and Khaeng Mak so I get credit for everything on their lists albeit the little devils tend to stretch the truth immensely. All the same I stake my claim to whatever.  ????        

Edited May 3, 2019 by HuskerDo

[thaibeachlovers]

Antarctica. I was there for a year and every day was an experience I was lucky enough to have.

Nothing I ever did before or after comes close.

However, I worked outside. Inside all the time would have been a huge drag.

 

Have to say though, the first time I drove down Beach Rd, Pattaya came close. The sun shone, the road was lined with bars full of happy punters and girls girls girls everywhere. I just knew I was going to love that place.

 

Hollywood Royale in Nana Plaza back in the mid 90s was pretty unique too. Never stopped till after dawn every night. Bliss.

Edited May 3, 2019 by thaibeachlovers