Merry Christmas

[blackcab]

If you are stranded in Thailand for Christmas, in the sun, surrounded by pleasant looking ladies then here is a reminder of what you might be missing in the UK:

 

[Photoguy21]

Also will miss the daily increases in the cost of living............................................as much as a hole in the head.

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 minute ago, Photoguy21 said:

Also will miss the daily increases in the cost of living............................................as much as a hole in the head.

With Thailand's 8 % inflation rate , you arent too far behind the U.K with cost of living rises 

[Photoguy21]

Just now, Mac Mickmanus said:

With Thailand's 8 % inflation rate , you arent too far behind the U.K with cost of living rises 

Maybe not but not equal either.

[Lacessit]

Thanks for the thought; however, horses for courses.

 

My former mother in law used to have roast dinner and hot plum pudding with custard every Christmas. Completely ridiculous when the weather forecast for Christmas Day in Australia was nearly always 40 C or more.

 

I evolved my own Christmas dinner of cold crayfish with mustard sauce and lemon juice with salad, accompanied by a Margaret River dry white. Dessert was fruit salad consisting of pineapple, strawberries, blueberries, seedless grapes and rock melon.

[GinBoy2]

I work at an airport, and the bastards played the first Christmas song on the musak loop the other day. November 1st they'll start the all out 'Holiday' music loop through January 1st.

 

20 tracks repeated over and over. I swear if I ever meet Rudolf that deer is gonna get a bullet to the head!

[Simple Jack]

When penny sweets are 3p each. <deleted> just got real.

[Simple Jack]

3 minutes ago, GinBoy2 said:

I work at an airport, and the bastards played the first Christmas song on the musak loop the other day. November 1st they'll start the all out 'Holiday' music loop through January 1st.

 

20 tracks repeated over and over. I swear if I ever meet Rudolf that deer is gonna get a bullet to the head!

Oh bro. That would drive me insane.  Pretty sure Lotus or big C will be cranking out the <deleted> tunes shorty.

[Mac Mickmanus]

2 minutes ago, Simple Jack said:

Oh bro. That would drive me insane.  Pretty sure Lotus or big C will be cranking out the <deleted> tunes shorty.

What , you wont be happily singing along to the words in the song : "Its the season to be jolly tra la la la la " ?

[Kwasaki]

37 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

With Thailand's 8 % inflation rate , you arent too far behind the U.K with cost of living rises 

Don't see any increases still spending the same each month more or less for years. 

[GinBoy2]

2 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

What , you wont be happily singing along to the words in the song : "Its the season to be jolly tra la la la la " ?

I think I'm experiencing PTSD just thinking about the next couple of months

[Mac Mickmanus]

2 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Don't see any increases still spending the same each month more or less for years. 

How come price increases don't effect you ?

[Simple Jack]

15 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

What , you wont be happily singing along to the words in the song : "Its the season to be jolly tra la la la la " ?

Someone has to play the part bro 555.

 

 

[Madgee]

29 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Don't see any increases still spending the same each month more or less for years. 

What!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not sure what you're eating but it sure isn't meat ...... I believe you said the same thing a few months ago on another thread. Oh well.  

[Sparktrader]

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

Thanks for the thought; however, horses for courses.

 

My former mother in law used to have roast dinner and hot plum pudding with custard every Christmas. Completely ridiculous when the weather forecast for Christmas Day in Australia was nearly always 40 C or more.

 

I evolved my own Christmas dinner of cold crayfish with mustard sauce and lemon juice with salad, accompanied by a Margaret River dry white. Dessert was fruit salad consisting of pineapple, strawberries, blueberries, seedless grapes and rock melon.

Pizza n ice cream best

[Sparktrader]

45 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

How come price increases don't effect you ?

Eat less

[Kwasaki]

1 hour ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

How come price increases don't effect you ?

Because apart from a treat now and again monthly costs are much of a muchness give or take the odd 1000. 

[Kwasaki]

41 minutes ago, Madgee said:

What!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not sure what you're eating but it sure isn't meat ...... I believe you said the same thing a few months ago on another thread. Oh well.  

We eat meat from local market people, fruit and veg too. 

Rice is always there from family next door. 

[Cardano]

1 hour ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

How come price increases don't effect you ?

They do he just doesn't mention that each month he gets less for his budget. 

[Crossy]

2 hours ago, blackcab said:

If you are stranded in Thailand for Christmas, in the sun, surrounded by pleasant looking ladies then here is a reminder of what you might be missing in the UK:

 

Do these things actually taste as revolting as they sound?? ????

 

[Cardano]

52 minutes ago, Madgee said:

What!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not sure what you're eating but it sure isn't meat ...... I believe you said the same thing a few months ago on another thread. Oh well.  

He's one of these upcountry bumpkins that lives like a Thai farmer and likes to spout off about how Thailand is better and cheaper. Yet he never compares apples with apples.

[blackcab]

7 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

2 hours ago, blackcab said:

If you are stranded in Thailand for Christmas, in the sun, surrounded by pleasant looking ladies then here is a reminder of what you might be missing in the UK:

 

Do these things actually taste as revolting as they sound?? ????

Pleasant ladies, or the crisps?

[Crossy]

7 minutes ago, blackcab said:

Pleasant ladies, or the crisps?

 

Hmmmm, let me think about that ???? 

 

Gary Davies (sitting in for Ken Bruce this week) asked what the worst thing you've ever bought was (this after a guy spent 3 grand UK making Liz Truss doggie chew toys, which were delivered on the day she resigned).

 

https://nypost.com/2022/10/25/david-farquharson-spent4k-making-liz-truss-dog-toys/

 

One chap bought a truck load of "Monster Munch" at a great price, only to discover it was vanilla ice-cream flavour!

 

[GammaGlobulin]

One of the more understated advantages of living in Thailand is complete freedom from any whiff of Christmas, especially if one lives in the countryside.

 

Christmas in Thailand, at least where I have been living during the past years, comes and goes with no one taking notice of the blessed day.

 

Sometimes, some of my Chinese friends, and even my Thai friends, will send me a LINE message to remind me that it is now Christmas Day.  They think I care.  And so, I thank them for their caring. Their caring is touching, but they also know that they have far better holidays to celebrate, nonetheless.

 

There are many valid reasons why I deeply detest Christmas Day celebrations. For one thing, when I was young, and while all the other kids’ parents were placing presents under their living-room spruce trees, my parents would be filling our socks with lignite coal on Christmas Eve.  This was a Christmas tradition in our house. On the following Christmas morning, we would first wash the coal dust out of our socks before we were allowed to have our Christmas gruel at noon.

 

Following our meager repast, we would go house-to-house to sing to our neighbors about the manger, even though we were still hungry from not getting enough gruel, and also while shivering from the cold wind blowing through our threadbare coats.

 

After returning home from an afternoon of singing, our family would gather together to read Charles Dickens. Mostly, we would read about Pip’s adventures before he became a gentleman. And then for our Christmas dinner, we would be ladled out another half-bowl of our breakfast gruel.

 

Following our dinner, we would stroll around our neighborhood peering through windows, marveling at plates of cookies and cakes, candy canes and sugar-plums, large baskets of tangerines, and tables nearly groaning with half-eaten turkey, squash, mince pies, and cranberry sauce.

 

Having become almost full to the brim looking at all the food in the neighborhood, we would be ready for bed, and we only had one. Still we nestled the best we could, all snug in our bed, just hoping that St. Nick would answer our wishes.  But, he never did.

 

With only one Santa, and with 7.8 billion people simultaneously praying to Santa for this or that, it’s perfectly understandable that Santa may not have adequate time or resources to come down your chimney this season.

 

But that’s OK.

[Kwasaki]

5 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

Hmmmm, let me think about that ???? 

Both but within my budget. ????????????

[Crossy]

1 minute ago, GammaGlobulin said:

One of the more understated advantages of living in Thailand is complete freedom from any whiff of Christmas, especially if one lives in the countryside.

 

Christmas in Thailand, at least where I have been living during the past years, comes and goes with no one taking notice of the blessed day.

 

Sometimes, some of my Chinese friends, and even my Thai friends, will send me a LINE message to remind me that it is now Christmas Day.  They think I care.  And so, I thank them for their caring. Their caring is touching, but they also know that they have far better holidays to celebrate, nonetheless.

 

There are many valid reasons why I deeply detest Christmas Day celebrations. For one thing, when I was young, and while all the other kids’ parents were placing presents under their living-room spruce trees, my parents would be filling our socks with lignite coal on Christmas Eve.  This was a Christmas tradition in our house. On the following Christmas morning, we would first wash the coal dust out of our socks before we were allowed to have our Christmas gruel at noon.

 

Following our meager repast, we would go house-to-house to sing to our neighbors about the manger, even though we were still hungry from not getting enough gruel, and also while shivering from the cold wind blowing through our threadbare coats.

 

After returning home from an afternoon of singing, our family would gather together to read Charles Dickens. Mostly, we would read about Pip’s adventures before he became a gentleman. And then for our Christmas dinner, we would be ladled out another half-bowl of our breakfast gruel.

 

Following our dinner, we would stroll around our neighborhood peering through windows, marveling at plates of cookies and cakes, candy canes and sugar-plums, large baskets of tangerines, and tables nearly groaning with half-eaten turkey, squash, mince pies, and cranberry sauce.

 

Having become almost full to the brim looking at all the food in the neighborhood, we would be ready for bed, and we only had one. Still we nestled the best we could, all snug in our bed, just hoping that St. Nick would answer our wishes.  But, he never did.

 

With only one Santa, and with 7.8 billion people simultaneously praying to Santa for this or that, it’s perfectly understandable that Santa may not have adequate time or resources to come down your chimney this season.

 

But that’s OK.

 

Bah, humbug!!

[Mac Mickmanus]

24 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

 

With only one Santa, and with 7.8 billion people simultaneously praying to Santa for this or that, it’s perfectly understandable that Santa may not have adequate time or resources to come down your chimney this season.

 

But that’s OK.

It seems that you are getting Santa Claus, God and Jesus all mixed up and think that they are all the same 

[Mac Mickmanus]

49 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

We eat meat from local market people, fruit and veg too. 

Rice is always there from family next door. 

Where is the place that you live where there's been no price increases ? I want to go and live there as well 

[Kwasaki]

15 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Where is the place that you live where there's been no price increases ? I want to go and live there as well 

North Sukhothai where things have gone up and down. ????

[Mac Mickmanus]

Just now, Kwasaki said:

North Sukhothai where things have gone up and down. ????

Even better, what things have been reduced in price ?