Why are retirees so grumpy?

[1FinickyOne]

1 minute ago, Negita43 said:

If sex is the only thing in your life then grumpy is the wrong word.

where did you get that from? The OP asked about young men - not about me..

 

what a crazy assumption... 

[Nick Carter icp]

25 minutes ago, transam said:

 

There must be some way you can attract a soul mate, surely...........😌

 

  Could meet one on here , but she would probably get removed again 

[Negita43]

Just now, 1FinickyOne said:

where did you get that from? The OP asked about young men - not about me..

 

what a crazy assumption... 

Let me rephrase that - If sex is the only thing in a person's life then grumpy is the wrong word. 

Happier?

[Lacessit]

You'd be grumpy too, reading some of the tripe that gets posted on ASEAN.

[JaxxBKK]

Speak for yourself.

 

My life is good here. In the recent what do you like about Thailand thread I think my post was the longest.

 

I'd say you are projecting...but you don't even live here.

[JaxxBKK]

2 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

You'd be grumpy too, reading some of the tripe that gets posted on ASEAN.

 

His posts in the political forum. Definitely a very biased, screed poster 👍👍 Everything peachy until tens of millions voted the against senile child sniffer.

[JaxxBKK]

1 hour ago, still kicking said:

I guess not, he posts dribbles like his master

 

He's one of those posters that don't live in Thailand yet post her from multiple accounts relentlessly

 

He very well could be JT 🤯

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, Lacessit said:

You'd be grumpy too, reading some of the tripe that gets posted on ASEAN.

 

So does AN degrade one's mental health and make a person even grumpier ?? 

 

[rumak]

5 hours ago, Magictoad said:

Pain, sick of young people, incipient death etcetc

 

this is the waiting room sir .    please have a seat .

[Harrisfan]

53 minutes ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

What’s baiting about it when it’s true.

 

Those were only 3.  

 

Are you offended?

It's funny people whingeing non stop on every topic. I don't like this topic blah blah yet here they are.

[SAFETY FIRST]

7 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Why are retirees so grumpy? 

I wouldn't say all retirees, just the ones who married bar girls and are living on the aged pension. 

 

[Harrisfan]

3 hours ago, Lemsta69 said:

 

Sparky, you're the negative one but you're too FIGJAM to realise it. Don't you have anything better to do than post your anti-farang sentiment on AN? Maybe go prowl the streets for 60 baht bugs and grubs and pretend it tastes like Wagyu steak? 

Look at you. Every post negative.

[Harrisfan]

34 minutes ago, JaxxBKK said:

 

His posts in the political forum. Definitely a very biased, screed poster 👍👍 Everything peachy until tens of millions voted the against senile child sniffer.

Look at your crap. 

[1FinickyOne]

49 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

It's funny people whingeing non stop on every topic. I don't like this topic blah blah yet here they are.

mission accomplished

[Keeps]

5 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Harris fan has some strange ideas and replies. But as told many times, we are not obliged to read them.

I don't know if the Harris refers to Keith (and Orville of course), Anita, a sexy 60s singer, or Rolf! 555

Or possibly rhyming slang. This would seem a more appropriate explanation. 

 

Ar$e = 'bottle and glass'. Short form - 'bottle'. 'Bottle' = 'aristotle'. 'aristotle' gets shortened to 'aris', and then changes to 'Harris'.

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, Keeps said:

Or possibly rhyming slang. This would seem a more appropriate explanation. 

 

Ar$e = 'bottle and glass'. Short form - 'bottle'. 'Bottle' = 'aristotle'. 'aristotle' gets shortened to 'aris', and then changes to 'Harris'.

 

I thought the Harris was for Kamala Harris as in a Kamala Harris fan.

But clearly, he's a Trump fan. 

So the username itself would be a troll username. 

But at least he's not grumpy. 

 

[Keeps]

2 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

But at least he's not grumpy. 

If he is not Grumpy then which of the other six dwarves is he? My money is on Dopey......

[rumak]

6 minutes ago, Keeps said:

Or possibly rhyming slang. This would seem a more appropriate explanation. 

 

Ar$e = 'bottle and glass'. Short form - 'bottle'. 'Bottle' = 'aristotle'. 'aristotle' gets shortened to 'aris', and then changes to 'Harris'.

 

  

[frank83628]

Because they are in loveless relationships with hookers 25yrs their junior,  thinking they are the mutts nutts, but actually slowly realising that once the money is gone...so are they

[save the frogs]

[save the frogs]

[blaze master]

15 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

Because they are in loveless relationship with hookers 25yrs their junior,  thinking they are the mutts nutts, but actually slowly realising that once the money it gone...so are they

 

Stop it. You know damn well they share many things in common.

[swissie]

We urgently need to re-evaluate "paradise" by going back in time a bit. In the early 1980ties, Farangs discovered Thailand as the Paradise. Not because of high temperatures and 95% humidity, nor the djungles, nor the temples. IT WAS THE WOMEN.

 

Daily, the Boeing 747's took off for Bangkok. Fully booked. Soon to be called "sex-bombers". Unexpetetly, a paradise found on earth.

Some thaught, it would last forever. Well, it diden't. Women have become expensive. Farangs now stuck with high temperatures/95% humidity and the djungles and the temples.

 

Reason enough to get "grumpy". Paradise lost, with no alternatives left.

 

[Patong2021]

7 hours ago, G Rex said:

 

so, you used to be Bear Grylls?

 

Nowhere close. I was the guy who walked into swamp quick mud, or who walked on the hornets nest, or would be peeing and get surprised by a large water monitor.  I still knock my footwear, even when indoors,  to dislodge sting/biting insects that might have crawled in.

[Caldera]

That's always been a mystery to me. Most Western retirees in Thailand seem to be miserable. Most Western retirees in Vietnam seem to be happy. I wonder why?

[KhunLA]

2 hours ago, Caldera said:

That's always been a mystery to me. Most Western retirees in Thailand seem to be miserable. Most Western retirees in Vietnam seem to be happy. I wonder why?

My experience is different, and most expats I engage with, seem to be quite happy, and living the dream in TH.

 

Most western retirees on AN, or that returned to the homeland with said tail between their legs seem to be quite miserable  

 

Not a mystery to me at all 😎

[Lemsta69]

7 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Look at you. Every post negative.

 

Yes, but I've chosen to do that in response to the drivel you continue to to post in here. It's called responding in kind. I also have never made any claims about myself, unlike you, Susan, who has made it quite clear that you think the sun shines out of your proverbial.

[mstevens]

17 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Health?

Money?

Sick of life?

 

My guess is all 3

 

I think for some foreign retirees in Thailand, things didn't work out how they had hoped / expected. Perhaps they miss home or friends and family from home. Perhaps their relationship with a Thai woman didn't work out. Perhaps they never felt part of the community and always like an outsider. Perhaps increasing prices made the lifestyle they sought unachievable. Thailand is a fantastic place for a holiday but it doesn't always work out as a place to stay long term. I think, for whatever reason, it just doesn't work out for some guys as they had hoped and that disappointment and lack of genuine life satisfaction can cause them to become grumpy old men.

[Gottfrid]

20 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Nope. Just read all the negative stuff. Arguing non stop. Pretty dumb to blame it on one person. One guy got 50 thumbs down- says it all. Lots of sad farangs in Thailand it seems.

Yes, and there is your problem. You base your flawed assumption on the negativity that you read. The other 90% of happy and content retirees, you are missing. But hey! We don´t expect you to understand such simple mathematics.

[jerrymahoney]

This is a quality-of-life topic from someone who is averaging about 2000 posts per month since joining AN 6 FEB (this year).