The roads are better, the streets are cleaner but f me sideways its boring. $8 a beer in a pub to watch keno. $33 for steak and salad. The barmaids are 70kgs and no go. 

At least you don't have 6 months of British winter.

1 minute ago, Grecian said:

At least you don't have 6 months of British winter.

And a better cricket team. Your beers are better though.

 

 

31 minutes ago, Grecian said:

At least you don't have 6 months of British winter.

I believe the OP is describing circumstances in the UK. Therefore suffering British Winters.

1 minute ago, swissie said:

I believe the OP is describing circumstances in the UK. Therefore suffering British Winters.

No. The UK has pounds not dollars.

56 minutes ago, bignok said:

The roads are better, the streets are cleaner but f me sideways its boring. $8 a beer in a pub to watch keno. $33 for steak and salad. The barmaids are 70kgs and no go. 

Yep! Same all over "the west". Boredom is one thing, but expensive boredom is the ultimate "downer". Especially affecting western seniors living on a budget.
Thankfully, there is Thailand (for those that still can travel). A place where a westerner can say to a female things like "I like your dress" or "Considering your age of 95 you look smashing". All this without having to fear to be accused of "Verbal, sexist molestation of a female".

Ilive in the west and I am not bored at all I was bored in Thailand 

Just now, still kicking said:

Ilive in the west and I am not bored at all I was bored in Thailand 

Yet you post on here a Thai forum 

1 hour ago, bignok said:

The roads are better, the streets are cleaner but f me sideways its boring. $8 a beer in a pub to watch keno. $33 for steak and salad. The barmaids are 70kgs and no go. 

 

You are always moaning, try this https://www.samaritans.org/

4 minutes ago, swissie said:

Yep! Same all over "the west". Boredom is one thing, but expensive boredom is the ultimate "downer". Especially affecting western seniors living on a budget.
Thankfully, there is Thailand (for those that still can travel). A place where a westerner can say to a female things like "I like your dress" or "Considering your age of 95 you look smashing". All this without having to fear to be accused of "Verbal, sexist molestation of a female".

I like the walking. Flirt with women. Eat food. Cheap coffee.

 

West charges $5 a coffee. No women to joke with outside moles in a pub.

 

$3 curry.

 

The west is cleaner by far but stale.

1 minute ago, sungod said:

 

You are always moaning, try this https://www.samaritans.org/

Moaning about the west.

6 minutes ago, bignok said:

No. The UK has pounds not dollars.

Lot's of "cosmopolitans" use US$ to reflect cost/income etc. There are also Can$, AUS$, Singapore$.

$145 for xmas lunch in a pub. Ffs I can stay in a hotel for 5 nights for less than that.

Just now, bignok said:

Moaning about the west.

and countless other boring threads you have started with the forum back for only a few hours.

 

Give them a call, I think you will have someone to talk to.

Just now, sungod said:

and countless other boring threads you have started with the forum back for only a few hours.

 

Give them a call, I think you will have someone to talk to.

Countless? You can't count past 3? Go back to school

Just now, bignok said:

Countless? You can't count past 3? Go back to school

sorry, I stand corrected. 3 totally boring and worthless threads.

Just now, sungod said:

sorry, I stand corrected. 3 totally boring and worthless threads.

Like your trolls worthless.

46 minutes ago, bignok said:

I like the walking. Flirt with women. Eat food. Cheap coffee.

 

West charges $5 a coffee. No women to joke with outside moles in a pub.

 

$3 curry.

 

The west is cleaner by far but stale.

Occasionally visiting Thailand to escape boredom?

12 hours ago, still kicking said:

Ilive in the west and I am not bored at all I was bored in Thailand 

I lived in LOS and was never bored.

I live in the west and would be bored most of the time if I didn't have internet.

Also, the west sucks biggly- too many regulations, too many horrible people, haven't seen a feminine woman since I returned, and forget anything resembling nightlife.

15 hours ago, bignok said:

I like the walking. Flirt with women. Eat food. Cheap coffee.

 

West charges $5 a coffee. No women to joke with outside moles in a pub.

 

$3 curry.

 

The west is cleaner by far but stale.

Coffee sucks          never thought I would miss WAWA   think i will make a new post   " further casual observations about Thailand "  it will bring out the experts ,les miserables and some civil posts.

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I lived in LOS and was never bored.

I live in the west and would be bored most of the time if I didn't have internet.

Also, the west sucks biggly- too many regulations, too many horrible people, haven't seen a feminine woman since I returned, and forget anything resembling nightlife.

Pubs are boring. Watch sport or play pokies. 

18 hours ago, sungod said:

and countless other boring threads you have started with the forum back for only a few hours.

 

Give them a call, I think you will have someone to talk to.

He wont do that Sungod once they reply to him he will put them on his ignore list.

18 hours ago, bignok said:

No. The UK has pounds not dollars.

For the time being...Rishi may make the UK join USA soon....GM food coming, reverse baseball caps and opioid pill mills... and and a thousand nukes for Putin's ass.

I agree 100%. I always tell people who are visiting Thailand for the 1st time, to keep in mind one very valuable concept. This place is NOT a foreign country. It is a distant planet! As long as you realize that, the zaniness of it all can be alot of fun. And for me one of my favorite parts is the NPF. The non predictability factor. Life in the US was rather boring. Very predictable. That can be stifling for some of us. Not here! I love that.

 

And how about woke culture? Who wants to deal with that? The social justice movement is nothing less than a new species of religious fundamentalism and the fervor of its believers matches, if not outstrips, that of the religious right of the 1980s. With the uber PC movement that's going on right now, careers are ruined over one statement from a woman. Is there a possibility that she has an agenda? Of course there is. It is the utter embodiment of a nation that has lost it's footing, has really never found it's identity, and has a population of women, 90% of whom, have no ability, willingness, wherewithal, or desire to connect with, manifest, or embody their inner woman, or express femininity for anything other than personal gain.

 

 

I'm always intrigued by those seem to think you have to love Thailand, hate Home Country or vice versa.

 

I think there is a sizable sub section of this forum, who are older, and if their primary goal is cheap sex with women young enough to be their daughters, yep the West is darn boring, and can't stop telling you that

 

Then there are the ones who will trash Thailand at every opportunity, and I'm sure a large proportion of those got burned in some way of another, or through bad decisions are just stuck with no way out.

 

Both those groups are zealots, and argument is futile!

 

Then there are another group of us somewhere in the middle. Happily married, kids, wife similar age, who see the advantages and disadvantages of both.

 

I got bored of Thailand, but there are times I get bored in the US. 

 

We now live close to our kids and grandkids in the US, which is a joy, but we equally enjoy our snowbird trips to our house in Thailand. 

 

If you embrace what you like, and dislike in both cultures and lifestyles, for the non zealot you can enjoy both, warts and all!

19 hours ago, swissie said:

Yep! Same all over "the west". Boredom is one thing, but expensive boredom is the ultimate "downer". Especially affecting western seniors living on a budget.

 

Visited a friend back in the US. He had what we call a "McMansion". Over spec-ed, overbuilt, semi-gaudy, gigantic house sitting on 20 acres of property. Across the paved street were a dozen more identical McMansions, albeit on smaller, perfectly manicured, lots. We were sitting on his porch, looking over the houses, and discussing how literally everything he might want to do was a drive of at least 30 minutes. Nothing within walking distance. He then commented, "Isn't this incredible?" I gave him the answer he wanted to hear, "Yeah, it really is." -- Boring AF all. I could not leave soon enough.

 

But. The truth is. He was genuinely very happy.

Just scored invite to corporate suite @ Four Wide Nationals in Las Vegas next year.... I love the west !!

Even better it is on the company dime.

 

19 hours ago, still kicking said:

Ilive in the west and I am not bored at all I was bored in Thailand 

Hmm.  Not 'bored at all' living in the west but, apparently, nothing to do there but post on a Thailand forum.  Another potential member for the Can't Quit Thailand Club.

1 minute ago, newnative said:

Hmm.  Not 'bored at all' living in the west but, apparently, nothing to do there but post on a Thailand forum.  Another potential member for the Can't Quit Thailand Club.

Yes he's full of it.

20 minutes ago, timendres said:

 

Visited a friend back in the US. He had what we call a "McMansion". Over spec-ed, overbuilt, semi-gaudy, gigantic house sitting on 20 acres of property. Across the paved street were a dozen more identical McMansions, albeit on smaller, perfectly manicured, lots. We were sitting on his porch, looking over the houses, and discussing how literally everything he might want to do was a drive of at least 30 minutes. Nothing within walking distance. He then commented, "Isn't this incredible?" I gave him the answer he wanted to hear, "Yeah, it really is." -- Boring AF all. I could not leave soon enough.

 

But. The truth is. He was genuinely very happy.

Yes good for sitting. I like walking. Thailand is more fun.