Popular Post bignok Posted November 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2023 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. 3 5 6 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Grecian Posted November 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2023 At least you don't have 6 months of British winter. 2 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignok Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 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. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post swissie Posted November 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2023 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. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bignok Posted November 23, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2023 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. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post swissie Posted November 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2023 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". 10 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post still kicking Posted November 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2023 Ilive in the west and I am not bored at all I was bored in Thailand 1 1 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bignok Posted November 23, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2023 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 5 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sungod Posted November 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2023 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/ 1 1 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bignok Posted November 23, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2023 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. $3 curry. The west is cleaner by far but stale. 1 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignok Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 1 minute ago, sungod said: You are always moaning, try this https://www.samaritans.org/ Moaning about the west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swissie Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 6 minutes ago, bignok said: No. The UK has pounds not dollars. Lot's of "cosmopolitans" use US$ to reflect cost/income etc. There are also Can$, AUS$, Singapore$. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bignok Posted November 23, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2023 $145 for xmas lunch in a pub. Ffs I can stay in a hotel for 5 nights for less than that. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sungod Posted November 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2023 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. 1 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignok Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sungod Posted November 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2023 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. 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignok Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 Just now, sungod said: sorry, I stand corrected. 3 totally boring and worthless threads. Like your trolls worthless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swissie Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post thaibeachlovers Posted November 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2023 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. 2 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charleskerins Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 (edited) 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. Edited November 24, 2023 by charleskerins add 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignok Posted November 24, 2023 Author Share Posted November 24, 2023 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarraMarra Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 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. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freedomnow Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post spidermike007 Posted November 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2023 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. 2 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GinBoy2 Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 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! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post timendres Posted November 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2023 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. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralf001 Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 (edited) 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. Edited November 24, 2023 by Ralf001 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newnative Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignok Posted November 24, 2023 Author Share Posted November 24, 2023 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. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignok Posted November 24, 2023 Author Share Posted November 24, 2023 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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