What do you do to pass the time during covid?

[DBath]

18 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

I am a little distressed by the number of people I have seen with nothing better than to criticise imaginative posters on this forum.

 

If you have anything negative to say about your fellow posters, please watch pornography, and if necessary, complain then about that, rather than the people who contribute positively to making this forum interesting, regardless if their stories are incredible to you, or beyond your narrow experience or vision 

I consider myself to be 'an imaginative poster', so thank you for your consideration.

 

Seriously though, all kidding aside, I think the world could use more civility and compassion. Generally, I don't think we are there yet, collectively here as a forum - overall.

[DBath]

4 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

As I said so many people different in the way they enjoy and live in Thailand, so fair call to you. 

I'm a farm boy. ????

My family were/are farmers in Colorado, so I would be hard-pressed to ever talk bad about a farm boy!

[Bohemianfish]

Same as before, but avoiding crowds and stores as much as possible. Every month feels different going through what's going these days, so better not to dwell on what's going on and roll with the punches. 

 

Walking, (lots of) reading, cooking, writing, photography, watching movies, local travel and camping. Activities of solitude in retirement (wife works - she likes to make money). 

 

It's been nice to slow down, live in the moment more, spend more time at home in activities of solitude...

 

 

[DBath]

36 minutes ago, Bohemianfish said:

(wife works - she likes to make money)

Would I be correct in assuming your wife is Asian? I only ask because a) I don't want to presume; and b) my wife is Chinese and making money is all she talks about. 

 

Her favorite line is, "if I'm not working, I have no purpose". A concept foreign to most, but not all, western women, IMO.

[Gottfrid]

Asking people irrelevant questions on TV.

[DBath]

16 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

Asking people irrelevant questions on TV.

Adding nothing of value to the topic at hand on TVF...

 

I'm sure you'll get over it though, lover...once the nasty hangover subsides.

 

Miserable much? ????

Edited September 12, 2021 by DBath

[talahtnut]

5 hours ago, DBath said:

My family were/are farmers in Colorado, so I would be hard-pressed to ever talk bad about a farm boy!

I have a vehicle from Colorado, did you or your family have a blue one dating

from 1969?  That would be a funny coincidence wouldn't it. I'm in the UK

on a farm!

Edited September 12, 2021 by talahtnut
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[thaibeachlovers]

16 hours ago, DBath said:

And if I do by some chance ever get the desire to go near the beach again, it's only a 3 hour drive in either direction.

The irony of Pattaya for me was that despite it having a "beach", as in sand and sea water, I always went far away to stay on a "beach", in many cases over 12 hours to get to.

Takes more than sand to make a beach worth staying on.

[thaibeachlovers]

16 hours ago, BusyB said:

The funniest thing about this is that people always complained about having 'no time' before the pandemic, and in the pandemic where time has become as sand on the beach, the complaints are about boredom and 'too much time'.

Even allowing for the obvious downsides like distancing and household separations, I have been dismayed at how fast people want to return to the same old same old.

I had naively hoped that people might enjoy the slower pace, and the quiet, and the fresh air in the city etc. and try and maintain at least some of it as lockdowns were eased, but no such luck.

IMO it's human nature to be always dissatisfied with whatever situation we find ourselves in.

[thaibeachlovers]

16 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

having no time (stress, anxiety) and having too much time (boredom) are as bad as each other

 

except that stress is usually caused by outside forces, and no one, IMO, has to be bored unless they choose to be.

 

[thaibeachlovers]

14 hours ago, khunPer said:

Stop reading news articles about it, and stop following Covid-postings on Facebook and in ASEAN NOW...

IMO just reading "social media" on facethingy would make people depressed, but my life got a whole lot better when I stopped going on that corona specific subforum on TVF ( till they can make it simple to abbreviate ASEAN NOW I ain't going to type it every time ).

[hotchilli]

On 9/11/2021 at 7:49 PM, DBath said:

These are no doubt very, very difficult times for all of us. What do you do to take your mind off all the chaos and escape the whole topic of covid?

The same as I did before Covid...

[thaibeachlovers]

9 hours ago, DBath said:

I consider myself to be 'an imaginative poster', so thank you for your consideration.

 

Seriously though, all kidding aside, I think the world could use more civility and compassion. Generally, I don't think we are there yet, collectively here as a forum - overall.

I've been on other forums in the past, but I never saw so many posters that IMO live to attack other posters as on this one.

[zzaa09]

4 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

except that stress is usually caused by outside forces, and no one, IMO, has to be bored unless they choose to be.

 

Sure. 

Boredom is an invented and learned feature in which we use justify our guilty existence. 

 

Those whom are unable to simply sit peacefully and watch the world go by and engaged one's own thought, have already miss the picture.

[hotchilli]

On 9/11/2021 at 8:18 PM, zzaa09 said:

Sphincter lice...?

It could be worse, he could develop a sideways gait.

[thaibeachlovers]

8 hours ago, DBath said:

Would I be correct in assuming your wife is Asian? I only ask because a) I don't want to presume; and b) my wife is Chinese and making money is all she talks about. 

 

Her favorite line is, "if I'm not working, I have no purpose". A concept foreign to most, but not all, western women, IMO.

I see many western women who's purpose is apparently to eat as much bad food as possible, but that could also apply to many western men.

[Gsxrnz]

20 hours ago, talahtnut said:

Are you in it too then?

Obviously. Chapter One is entirely devoted to me, and I'm the only one in the novel deserving of a capital "C".  I'm the leading actor in my life and refuse to play any form of walk-on roll to satisfy anybody's ego.  I'm renowned for starting an opinionated sentence with "I know I'm a C..., but..........." 

 

I'm entirely comfortable when I overhear one of the c's I know saying as I approach them, "Here comes that C again."  ????

[thaibeachlovers]

7 minutes ago, zzaa09 said:

Sure. 

Boredom is an invented and learned feature in which we use justify our guilty existence. 

 

Those whom are unable to simply sit peacefully and watch the world go by and engaged one's own thought, have already miss the picture.

I'm not sure if your first sentence is sarcasm or not. Perhaps you need to use one of those little face thingy's so we can all know.

 

Just to be clear, I have zero guilt about my existence.

 

Agree with second sentence

Edited September 13, 2021 by thaibeachlovers

[zzaa09]

IMO.......????????

[NoshowJones]

On 9/11/2021 at 7:55 PM, tonray said:

I spend most of my time on ThaiVisa, learning from erudite membership. Just this week I've learned that Ivermectin can keep me free from Covid and kill those worms I get from those fermented paddy crabs in my SomTam. 

Could you imagine what would happen if ivermectin really did keep people free from the Cvirus?

If they could produce lots of it quickly. The people selling it, the hospitals etc, particularly in Thailand, would be making massive profits, and the unelected PM and his generals would be the first with their hands out.

If there is one thing that sticks out during this pandemic, and should never be forgotten, it's the greed of the top people in the medical profession, and their shameful treatment of the ordinary people.

But back on topic, how do I pass the time? Here on TV/AN, watching movies and old TV shows, out riding my bike for exercise, the occasional trips to the city for western food, that's about it.

Edited September 13, 2021 by possum1931

[Freddy42OZ]

On 9/11/2021 at 8:18 PM, zzaa09 said:

Sphincter lice...?

Depends how hairy his ar*e is.

[Freddy42OZ]

A combination of working, trading crypto and binge watching TV. 

Recently moved into a bigger condo after 10 years in the last place and really enjoying life at the moment. 

[BusyB]

7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

IMO it's human nature to be always dissatisfied with whatever situation we find ourselves in.

Dukkha ... 555

Edited September 13, 2021 by BusyB

[brianthainess]

On 9/11/2021 at 8:45 PM, Kwasaki said:

Hasn't been difficult at all being retired.

There's only been a few things that I can't do but no big deal.

Same here, stopped going to bars and restaurants well before covid, I have enough to occupy me at home, garden, cars, although I've become more lazy and spend more time on my laptop mornings, TV watching YouTube, lunch, snooze,  and Netflix in the evenings with a couple of drinks and a smoke, dinner, sleep. Off to fix the bum gun yet again, soon as i get off of here.

[Kwasaki]

1 hour ago, brianthainess said:

Same here, stopped going to bars and restaurants well before covid, I have enough to occupy me at home, garden, cars, although I've become more lazy and spend more time on my laptop mornings, TV watching YouTube, lunch, snooze,  and Netflix in the evenings with a couple of drinks and a smoke, dinner, sleep. Off to fix the bum gun yet again, soon as i get off of here.

Off topic ???? but I have found the bum guns in Global House with the metal lever not plastic are lasting well. 

[Thujone]

1 hour ago, Kwasaki said:

Off topic ???? but I have found the bum guns in Global House with the metal lever not plastic are lasting well. 

I find eating less works quite well.

Eat less - Less wear and tear on the bum gun.

What to do to pass the time during covid?

Eat less.

[canthai55]

Life not changed much. Still tour on my bikes. Go out for lunch. Shop.

Weekends spent exploring in the car with the wife.

Only difference is the mask wearing BS

Oh - and when I want a dose of vitriol, P and M, I come here.

 

[Alwaysthailand]

I have a LOT of SEX.  Non stop.

[GammaGlobulin]

I wear PINK, one day each week.

 

Monday is yellow.

Tuesday is pink.

Wednesday is green.

Thursday is orange.

Friday is blue.

Saturday is purple.

Sunday is red.

 

I have always loved the color purple.

 

I never have sex, simply because I believe in celibacy.

[GammaGlobulin]

Seriously though, one should do something one had always longed to do, if one only had the time.

 

Now, we have the time.

 

Who would not wish to learn a new language?

Maybe you could learn to juggle, or become an architect.

 

Or, you could learn to sing and dance like Mick....

And, make love with Lisa on stage.

 

Just do something you always wished you had the time to do.