15 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I don't concern myself with what other people do. Their life, their decisions.

I am now down to one glass of wine and one Sangsom and diet Coke once a week. My life, my decision.

I've seen a couple of alcoholics die when I lived in Chiang Mai, and it was far from peaceful.

why was it not peaceful. Please share this experience with us

1 minute ago, jack71 said:

why was it not peaceful. Please share this experience with us

One fell down stairs in the condo and broke his hip. Carted off to hospital, had the DT's drying out, died in hospital in a lot of pain because the painkillers for the broken hip were ineffective.

 

The other guy had been such a heavy drinker when he was younger he was told one more drink would kill him. Had chronic fatigue syndrome for years, the last three months he was defecating blood. Finished up committing suicide after going back to New Zealand.

 

Alcohol destroys the liver, portal shunts are usually the last resort. 20% of patients die within 90 days of having the operation, which is not a great testament to its effectiveness.

Tats, wife beaters shirt and a drop dead looking young sao som noi would make it understandable ,me thinks.

I only drink after 8.

23 hours ago, HuskerDo2 said:

No judgment please

Makes me wonder what the "healthier" option is.  A morning beer or a full "fry-up".

 

So..   Junior (s) ....  if you go out and have a Bloody Mary with breakfast that's ok ?  But a beer is not ?

Next question ..  does your stomach know the difference between  8am and 1pm ?

I eat when I'm hungry ..   not when the  clock strikes XX:XX

I drink when I'm thirsty

I go to sleep when I'm tired

Myself and countless others have put in our long hours of hard work and we are here to live our lives..  the way we want to 

Does anyone know if that clinic is still open ?  the one that removes the  stick from A**'s

 

Old men drinking a beer at breakfast time in bars along beach road pattaya.

 

living the dream...

16 hours ago, sezze said:

Why do you bother ? Is it your business ? I do not live there but i know a person back here also saying the same and i told him before why ? But it is morning ... i say morning for you perhaps (i work shifts) . Prob the old man isn't working nightshiftrs but again , who are you to decide on others peoples lives. If he gives troubles and comes in drunk everyday , ok . If that isn't the case , and he is just enjoying a drink in the (your) morning , why do you bother ? People always assume their daily routine is like others ... but it isn't and i can tell after 32y of full continuous shift work that it certainly isn't . Some people are night people , others are morning ( most and that is how all society works but it aint the thing for everybody) , others switch from day to day . That is just talking daily routine / sleeping patterns not even talking about drinking , which can even be much more different . Maybe that old person just enjoys 1 drink in morning breakfast and after he doesn't drink alcohol for all day . So many people , so many options , you are not the reference .

Spot on. I'm a night owl myself and drink coffee in the early morning hours before bed. We all have our own schedules.

 

It's a good thing Jack didn't spot me drinking coffee at 2 am - he might have freaked out LOL. I do online trading till about 5 am, so that's a good time for coffee, but poor Jack thinks that everyone wakes up at 6 am and goes to bed at 10 pm.

 

You can drink beer any time of the day or night. Those old guys he spotted along the beach are cool. Young guys waking up at 6 am and going for early morning jogs - now that's weird in Pattaya. You can do that sh*t back at home.,

2 hours ago, jack71 said:

why was it not peaceful. Please share this experience with us

It was for him he passed peacefully in his sleep,the passengers on the bus he was driving however…..

3 hours ago, Khmer Surin said:

It was for him he passed peacefully in his sleep,the passengers on the bus he was driving however…..

That's a great joke , I even recall first hearing it about 30 years ago on television .

52 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

That's a great joke , I even recall first hearing it about 30 years ago on television .

I think it was the late,great Bob Monkhouse a very funny man :

 

”They all laughed at me when I said I was going to be a comedian,well they’re not laughing now!”

Quarter bottle on Sang Som muck and on the cheers extra now so far. Going out to a Red Cross concert later, might ask about a check up while there see what state the liver is in!

On 12/7/2022 at 5:34 AM, Scouse123 said:

It took me a millisecond.????

Obviously 'spouse ' you would be using one to catch the other.. ????????????

I ve seen heaps of men drinking beers in the morning on Beach Rd over many years? My reaction? Not my thing, but who cares. It's their life.

Men often go to Pattaya to get away from the BS and overregulated West.

I don't blame them!

On 12/6/2022 at 10:20 PM, steven100 said:

you really need to get out more.

Yes, but then the OP would see this every day

Just now, Kalasin Jo said:

Yes, but then the OP would see this every day

then it wouldn't be a shock to him

On 12/7/2022 at 6:44 AM, Gsxrnz said:

wearing short-shorts with no underwear, and their tackle poking out?

you seem to be a close observer

On 12/6/2022 at 11:06 PM, Liverpool Lou said:

Worry about yourself, geezer, not them, their condition is none of your business.

There is nothing in itself unusual about an alcoholic drink in the morning.French workmen traditionally enjoyed a small glass of red wine in the morning.

 

The depressing aspect about Pattaya (I dare say the scene is repeated in other parts of Thailand where tedious old farang gather) is the combination of inane conversation, obesity, smoking, repulsive tattoos, ugly "girlfriends", horrible accents, limited education and racist invective.It makes the task of those trying to project Pattaya as an upmarket destination (often burdened with gor blimey vowel sounds themselves) as rather challenging

31 minutes ago, jayboy said:

There is nothing in itself unusual about an alcoholic drink in the morning.French workmen traditionally enjoyed a small glass of red wine in the morning.

 

The depressing aspect about Pattaya (I dare say the scene is repeated in other parts of Thailand where tedious old farang gather) is the combination of inane conversation, obesity, smoking, repulsive tattoos, ugly "girlfriends", horrible accents, limited education and racist invective.It makes the task of those trying to project Pattaya as an upmarket destination (often burdened with gor blimey vowel sounds themselves) as rather challenging

 

 

You are not prone to stereotyping are you?

13 hours ago, jayboy said:

There is nothing in itself unusual about an alcoholic drink in the morning.French workmen traditionally enjoyed a small glass of red wine in the morning.

 

The depressing aspect about Pattaya (I dare say the scene is repeated in other parts of Thailand where tedious old farang gather) is the combination of inane conversation, obesity, smoking, repulsive tattoos, ugly "girlfriends", horrible accents, limited education and racist invective.It makes the task of those trying to project Pattaya as an upmarket destination (often burdened with gor blimey vowel sounds themselves) as rather challenging

Why are you addressing that dreary, condescending, haughty garbage to me?

On 12/8/2022 at 4:11 PM, steven100 said:

then it wouldn't be a shock to him

OP? 

On 12/7/2022 at 2:09 PM, Andrew65 said:

Drinking in Thailand. If you're retired, and have nothing to do every day, what else is there?

Up to you.

I was retired and had plenty to do, even when living in an hotel. Certainly never thought spending my time getting boozed was good thing to do.

8 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Up to you.

I was retired and had plenty to do, even when living in an hotel. Certainly never thought spending my time getting boozed was good thing to do.

16 hours of every day 24/7/365 is a helluva lot of time to find 'things to do'. Things worth watching on the TV are very hard to come by. It's very easy for a few drinks a few days a week to turn into going down the bar every day and getting sloshed, it can be like a 'slippery-slope'.

That was my experience in Thailand. I now live and work back in the UK. I wasn't old enough or had enough money/pension to remain in Thailand indefinitely when I was 53 y o. That was just my experience of it.

On 12/8/2022 at 7:36 PM, jayboy said:

The depressing aspect about Pattaya (I dare say the scene is repeated in other parts of Thailand where tedious old farang gather) is the combination of inane conversation, obesity, smoking, repulsive tattoos, ugly "girlfriends", horrible accents, limited education and racist invective.It makes the task of those trying to project Pattaya as an upmarket destination (often burdened with gor blimey vowel sounds themselves) as rather challenging

1. Why do you go to bars to talk to white foreigners?

2. Smoking is banned in Thai bars.

3. When you're in your 60s, any younger woman (under 50Kg) is 'attractive'.

4. Doubt there are many 60+ yo men in Thailand with degrees, before the 1980s only 2% of the population went to University.

 

I don't see what you expect of foreigners visiting Pattaya?

As a retired person, I have a beer when I feel like it.

 

Shocked by geezers drinking in the morning in PATTAYA. Any idea what they may have been getting up to all night? Go check a business class lounge in any international airport in the region you will see many successful looking business travelers applying themselves quite energetically to the free-flow booze without any concern for what random people think of them.

1 hour ago, Captain Monday said:

Shocked by geezers drinking in the morning in PATTAYA. Any idea what they may have been getting up to all night? Go check a business class lounge in any international airport in the region you will see many successful looking business travelers applying themselves quite energetically to the free-flow booze without any concern for what random people think of them.

So - these guys are waiting for their flight? ---????????????

An inflammatory post and the replies have been removed.

There are a lot of alcoholics in Pattaya. Also, sex addicts and people who spend uncontrollably. Self-control and health is not high on the list of priorities.

 

It can look and feel weird if you used to being in a normal city where people are working and raising families.

2 hours ago, pgrahmm said:

So - these guys are waiting for their flight? ---????????????

Yep, rather similar, just the minor difference is that the guys at the airport are waiting a few hours for their flight to depart and the guys in Pattaya bars are waiting a few years for their flights departure .

   Airport departure time : 20 30 PM

Pattaya bar departure year : 2027

On 12/6/2022 at 10:01 PM, jack71 said:

there was one old guy drinking a beer. I was a bit shocked to see this. 

 signal that viritue harder why dontcha?