It's never to late

[BritManToo]

48 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

I enjoy a drink - if you don't then that's cool. Having a drink is very social, but each decides, right? 

I prefer to drink home alone.

 

As for the woman in the OP, she was probably hoping for an invite to join. 

Edited June 23 by BritManToo

[BobBKK]

6 minutes ago, BigStar said:

 

Both. Now the shrewdest of our ANF Life Coaches have always promoted that short but happy life ending with a smile on one's face during a bonk. Longer life merely means a longer time suffering in the bedsit. Healthy lifestyle = stress.

 

We all know of The Guys:

 

 The Guys

I know some guys who seemed healthy but have already died.

 

As opposed to our guarantor, The Relative:

 

The Relative

A relative of mine did nothing special and lived to 95. Oh, I will too. It's me genes.

 

What's ignored by our Medicated Lifestyle proponents is that chasing after docs, meds, hospitals, insurance, paying medical bills, carrying around a belly, suffering premature physical and mental decline, pain controlled by medication. When you think about it, the quality achieved becomes rather doubtful . . .

 Well, I hope I'm lucky then - 66 and healthy and enjoy 4/5 days of nice wine a week.

[susanlea]

57 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Having stress is actually worse, so it is all relative, as that is just one example. A life long sitting job career also reduces life with up to 5-6 years. In most blue zones in the world, were people get the oldest by far, they drink a lot of wine and beer. Wine from lunch is the standard, not the exception.

 

And guess what: over 50% of the people have obesitas, they have a lot of stress and they also mostly sit on their ass all day. Yet almost nobody would point that out. 

Japan and Hong Kong people live the longest. Not sure how much they drink, probably far less than westerners.

[BobBKK]

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

I prefer to drink home alone.

 I do both

[EVENKEEL]

I know drinking alone has a bad rep but I'm comfortable with being alone. Used to be a few guys around who were early drinkers and the bar maid was a good laugh. She's gone, one of the guys died and the other just stopped coming around. For me going to the beach with a few iced beers, a joint, a cigar, float around between beers is a great stress reliever. 

[GreasyFingers]

6 hours ago, susanlea said:

Drinking 4 to 5 days a week is still bad for your health. More than 2 beers a week is bad for you.

Were you the one the OP was talking about.

[EVENKEEL]

7 hours ago, susanlea said:

Move back then. 

I'll just have to get out here in Thailand and find the good camping spots.

[Hummin]

20 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

I know drinking alone has a bad rep but I'm comfortable with being alone. Used to be a few guys around who were early drinkers and the bar maid was a good laugh. She's gone, one of the guys died and the other just stopped coming around. For me going to the beach with a few iced beers, a joint, a cigar, float around between beers is a great stress reliever. 

Stress in Paradise, noo, not possible 

 

😉

[susanlea]

1 hour ago, EVENKEEL said:

I'll just have to get out here in Thailand and find the good camping spots.

Never liked camping. Beds were invented for a reason.

[sidjameson]

4 hours ago, Hummin said:

 

 

Incredible how much time and energy socializing with alchohol take away from a sustainable healthy lifestyle.

 

Everything most expats do in Thailand is combined with alchohol. 

 

 

What do you do with all those extra hours now you're neither drinking or socialising?

[susanlea]

1 minute ago, sidjameson said:

What do you do with all those extra hours now you're neither drinking or socialising?

I stopped drinking and now do gym 6 days a week.

[bubblegum]

3 hours ago, susanlea said:

Japan and Hong Kong people live the longest. Not sure how much they drink, probably far less than westerners.

Also have the highest suicide rates. Should not rely on @Women and Gardening@ daily.

Sorry my quotation symbol gives @

[GreasyFingers]

37 minutes ago, susanlea said:

I stopped drinking and now do gym 6 days a week.

You need to read Ecclesiastes.

[Hummin]

40 minutes ago, sidjameson said:

What do you do with all those extra hours now you're neither drinking or socialising?

It is ok to be bored, increases the creativity. 

 

Have more time for those around me who is important to me, and give more time, energy and freedom to travel. 

 

As well do not skip my daily exercise routines or work I have to do. 

 

 

[bkk6060]

Just about everyone I know who drinks in the morning or everyday wants to stop.  You know it is true.  But with weak addictive personalities, it is very difficult.

Talking about it as if it is cool seems to justify it in their minds.  Listening to old person brag about their drinking to me seems disgusting and immature.  Maybe leave it to the 20 year olds in college.

 

[EVENKEEL]

26 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Just about everyone I know who drinks in the morning or everyday wants to stop.  You know it is true.  But with weak addictive personalities, it is very difficult.

Talking about it as if it is cool seems to justify it in their minds.  Listening to old person brag about their drinking to me seems disgusting and immature.  Maybe leave it to the 20 year olds in college.

 

You seem like a recovered alcoholic. Unlike yourself I can have a couple and stop. But kudos for being dry.

[EVENKEEL]

1 hour ago, susanlea said:

I stopped drinking and now do gym 6 days a week.

Why not multi task and do some of both.

[susanlea]

9 hours ago, bubblegum said:

Also have the highest suicide rates. Should not rely on @Women and Gardening@ daily.

Sorry my quotation symbol gives @

So drinking stops suicide? If Japan had less suicide their lives would be longer. Their diet must be good. Suicide is cultural.

[susanlea]

14 hours ago, patman30 said:

no mention of breakfast or not
but just drinking early will not make you drunk quick
(empty stomach or not)
as it depends on how much and how quickly you consume
and
if you start drinking early but do not drink to get drunk
but drink very slowly and continue throughout the day
you will be able make it through the night better and appear less drunk even though knocking them back
so drinking earlier can actually make you less drunk

Good for 20yos.

[GammaGlobulin]

It's never two late.

It's never too late.

It's never to late.

Too true!

 

[Luuk Chaai]

23 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Was at the beach cracking a beer at 1000, a lady (foreigner) walks by and says "you know its 10 o'clock right?) to which I said yeah, but it's never to late.

 

10am or 10pm ..  your stomach don't know the difference    and..

I suggest you read/listen to all the words

 

[Presnock]

21 hours ago, susanlea said:

Drinking 4 to 5 days a week is still bad for your health. More than 2 beers a week is bad for you.

read any article on alcohol - it is poisonous for the body.  Yeah misconceptions on healthy drinking of 1-2 glasses of wine or beer and yeah it has been around for thousands of years because some people like to zone out so to speak.  Read the WHO report on alcohol or Wikipedia definition, first and second on the google search of "alcohol" and if one doubts the results of over use of said subject then one only glanced at the articles and failed to comprehend what was written in clear English.   In my younger days, I had a beer now and then - occasionally two or three - but one hangover cured me of that.  Then I might have a beer at a social gathering but in the last 25+ years not a drop and haven't missed it.  But, if one can afford it (financially, healthwise and safely) it is up to you.  

[Irons]

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Happened to me once i told them I have just finished a 12 hour night shift which was true 

[klauskunkel]

On 6/23/2024 at 7:00 AM, EVENKEEL said:

"you know its 10 o'clock right?

To which I said: Congratulations on your first fake Rolex purchase from the sidewalk. Now come back in an hour and see if it's still 10 o'clock...

[Peterphuket]

23 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

What is it with all these miserable middle aged, some of them elderly foreign women coming to Pattaya these days. 

 

Gawd, they're the reason I left Australia. 😡

 

 

Because of that reason, I think you can leave a lot of western countries then, it's the same educational sh*t everywhere

[bubblegum]

3 hours ago, susanlea said:

So drinking stops suicide? If Japan had less suicide their lives would be longer. Their diet must be good. Suicide is cultural.

Actually they drink a lot, really a lot.

[susanlea]

8 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

Actually they drink a lot, really a lot.

So their food diet is very good then.

[Surasak]

22 hours ago, BobBKK said:

 You are probably right, but my father drank wine every day and died at 92 - Churchill ran WW2 and was drunk most days    🙂  

IS that why it took 5 years to win?

[Yellowtail]

The Japanese do not drink that much comparatively. A lot of countries, including but not limited to the US, UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Australia, Belgium all drink more. 

 

Also, life expectancy numbers are calculated differently in different countries, so it is pretty hard to find good data. 

[Surasak]

I can't see any problem with drinking. I was given to understand alcohol is a preservative!🙏