1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

It says I'm too old to do much anymore, what do you expect people 70+ to do all day?

I remember my gran used to sit knitting all day, every day, but no internet back then.

 

Agree to a point, but it can also be an excuse and a justification for doing nothing with your life. My mother is 84 and is out every day, but then again there are actually things to do in the UK and it isn't like going out into a sauna, and they have actual pavements where its safe and civilized to walk.

23 minutes ago, bendejo said:

 

Hadn't been to Pattaya in a long while, decided to detour there on a trip back from Cambodia.  Just riding into town on the minbus, looking out the window it hit me: "what the hell were you thinking?"

 

 

Yea I was there back end of last year, won't be rushing back. Soi Buakhao (sp) is like the walking dead.

11 minutes ago, Stuck in Thailand said:

 

Agree to a point, but it can also be an excuse and a justification for doing nothing with your life. My mother is 84 and is out every day, but then again there are actually things to do in the UK and it isn't like going out into a sauna, and they have actual pavements where its safe and civilized to walk.

But very cold, and many cannot deal with the cold any longer.

4 hours ago, Yagoda said:

the contrarians who will argue against gravity just to get a rise

very clever👍

11 hours ago, SoCal1990 said:

If you’re spending more than half your waking hours lurking, refreshing, and posting on this site, what does that actually say about you?

 

Maybe it’s boredom. Maybe it’s just too much free time. Or maybe it’s something deeper, like a quiet addiction to the forum world where arguing with strangers and chasing validation in the form of likes, dislikes, and dopamine-drip replies becomes the daily ritual.

 

There are a few common breeds of heavy posters I've noticed. Some treat the forum like a personal diary, narrating every tedious detail of their day. Others seem to think they’ve been knighted as moral overseers of Thailand, issuing sweeping declarations on immigration, banking, language, food or how to “do it right.” Then there are the moaners, the whingers, the local experts, the self-appointed cultural interpreters, and of course the contrarians who will argue against gravity just to get a rise.

 

Different styles, same pattern: too much time on their hands and a need to feel heard. For many, the forum seems to have become a digital pub, a place to hold court, vent, swap tall tales, or just feel slightly less invisible in the long blur of retirement or midlife drift.

 

It’s easy to laugh at it, but it also points to something real. Maybe, for all the sunshine and cheap beer, quite a few guys out here are still looking for purpose, routine, or connection, even if it’s in yet another circular thread about female relationships or your latest shopping trip to Makro.

 

So is it a harmless time-waster, or does it point to something deeper? Either way, if you find yourself posting more than living, it might be time to log off and walk outside. There’s still a real Thailand out there, beyond the reply button.

And then there is you.

More petty bickering removed.This is becoming way to repetitive  from @transam @Harrisfan. Your both heading toward the bench.

 

16 minutes ago, MarkBR said:

But very cold, and many cannot deal with the cold any longer.

 

To be honest maybe have a few really cold snaps but not much these days. It's not like North America or Scandinavia in the winter,  it is, or at least not in the south. I was there over Christmas and it wasn't really cold at all.

1 hour ago, Harrisfan said:

What did you see?

The sea?

12 hours ago, SoCal1990 said:

If you’re spending more than half your waking hours lurking, refreshing, and posting on this site, what does that actually say about you?

 

Maybe it’s boredom. Maybe it’s just too much free time. Or maybe it’s something deeper, like a quiet addiction to the forum world where arguing with strangers and chasing validation in the form of likes, dislikes, and dopamine-drip replies becomes the daily ritual.

 

There are a few common breeds of heavy posters I've noticed. Some treat the forum like a personal diary, narrating every tedious detail of their day. Others seem to think they’ve been knighted as moral overseers of Thailand, issuing sweeping declarations on immigration, banking, language, food or how to “do it right.” Then there are the moaners, the whingers, the local experts, the self-appointed cultural interpreters, and of course the contrarians who will argue against gravity just to get a rise.

 

Different styles, same pattern: too much time on their hands and a need to feel heard. For many, the forum seems to have become a digital pub, a place to hold court, vent, swap tall tales, or just feel slightly less invisible in the long blur of retirement or midlife drift.

 

It’s easy to laugh at it, but it also points to something real. Maybe, for all the sunshine and cheap beer, quite a few guys out here are still looking for purpose, routine, or connection, even if it’s in yet another circular thread about female relationships or your latest shopping trip to Makro.

 

So is it a harmless time-waster, or does it point to something deeper? Either way, if you find yourself posting more than living, it might be time to log off and walk outside. There’s still a real Thailand out there, beyond the reply button.

Short answer: Maybe you are just not a forum person.

3 hours ago, thesetat said:

Aren't you supposed to be ogling young tarts saying you wished you were young again? I thought that was what all old people do?

 

Happy ogling my wife, no need to look at young tarts.

12 hours ago, SoCal1990 said:

f you’re spending more than half your waking hours lurking, refreshing, and posting on this site, what does that actually say about you?

 

It's raining outside.😋

12 hours ago, SoCal1990 said:

If you’re spending more than half your waking hours lurking, refreshing, and posting on this site, what does that actually say about you?

 

 

 

You live in Isaan?......now **** off......I have posts to post......555

6 hours ago, BritManToo said:

14 hours ago, Stuck in Thailand said:

But guess what, this has all been discussed thousands of times.

But you're a new member?

So what?  Reading the forum, maybe for decades, doesn't require membership.

5 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

relatively new members who haven't a clue what's going on

What makes you claim that about new members, you don't seriously think that the majority of those in Thailand immediately become AN members on arrival, surely?

17 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

What makes you claim that about new members, you don't seriously think that the majority of those in Thailand immediately become AN members on arrival, surely?

 

With respect, I didn't say 'new to Thailand.'

2 minutes ago, FolkGuitar said:

21 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

What makes you claim that about new members, you don't seriously think that the majority of those in Thailand immediately become AN members on arrival, surely?

 

With respect, I didn't say 'new to Thailand.'

Your comment definitely suggested that was what you meant...

"relatively new members who haven't a clue what's going on"

Could also be a way for Ex-Expats to keep in touch with what's going on and remember the good times.

8 minutes ago, Bannoi said:

Could also be a way for Ex-Expats to keep in touch with what's going on and remember the good times.

The good times are now.

2 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

The good times are now.

 

Depends how old you are if I told you I remember a man coming round every evening on his bike to light the gas street lamps the milkman delivering milk every morning with his horse and milk float the coal for the fire being delivered by two men with a horse and cart who would carry hundredweight sacks of coal on their back and tip them into the coal bunker or having a bath once a week in a tin bath in front of the fire.

 

For some of us those were the good times.

1 minute ago, Bannoi said:

 

Depends how old you are if I told you I remember a man coming round every evening on his bike to light the gas street lamps the milkman delivering milk every morning with his horse and milk float the coal for the fire being delivered by two men with a horse and cart who would carry hundredweight sacks of coal on their back and tip them into the coal bunker or having a bath once a week in a tin bath in front of the fire.

 

For some of us those were the good times.

Are you 150yo? Gas lamps is a lot time ago.

5 minutes ago, Bannoi said:

 

Depends how old you are if I told you I remember a man coming round every evening on his bike to light the gas street lamps the milkman delivering milk every morning with his horse and milk float the coal for the fire being delivered by two men with a horse and cart who would carry hundredweight sacks of coal on their back and tip them into the coal bunker or having a bath once a week in a tin bath in front of the fire.

 

For some of us those were the good times.

 

Carrying out a pan after pan of hot cinders into a stiff breeze.......won't forget that in a hurry....555

4 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Are you 150yo? Gas lamps is a lot time ago.

Gas street lamps were phased out not as long ago as you might, think.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

The good times are now.

The Now is the only time that exists. Even 3 hours ago does not exist.

Just now, Harrisfan said:

I was joking. Gee whiz.

Yeh, riiiiiiight............🤥

17 hours ago, SoCal1990 said:

If you’re spending more than half your waking hours lurking, refreshing, and posting on this site, what does that actually say about you?

 

Maybe it’s boredom. Maybe it’s just too much free time. Or maybe it’s something deeper, like a quiet addiction to the forum world where arguing with strangers and chasing validation in the form of likes, dislikes, and dopamine-drip replies becomes the daily ritual.

 

There are a few common breeds of heavy posters I've noticed. Some treat the forum like a personal diary, narrating every tedious detail of their day. Others seem to think they’ve been knighted as moral overseers of Thailand, issuing sweeping declarations on immigration, banking, language, food or how to “do it right.” Then there are the moaners, the whingers, the local experts, the self-appointed cultural interpreters, and of course the contrarians who will argue against gravity just to get a rise.

 

Different styles, same pattern: too much time on their hands and a need to feel heard. For many, the forum seems to have become a digital pub, a place to hold court, vent, swap tall tales, or just feel slightly less invisible in the long blur of retirement or midlife drift.

 

It’s easy to laugh at it, but it also points to something real. Maybe, for all the sunshine and cheap beer, quite a few guys out here are still looking for purpose, routine, or connection, even if it’s in yet another circular thread about female relationships or your latest shopping trip to Makro.

 

So is it a harmless time-waster, or does it point to something deeper? Either way, if you find yourself posting more than living, it might be time to log off and walk outside. There’s still a real Thailand out there, beyond the reply button.

 

A bad habit turned in to addiction. I get to do quite a bit between I'm posting here, but it is a simple innocent time water without consequences. I can say what I want, and in worst case I get a thumbs down or a warning. The best reward is getting 24 hours leave. And if you are doing an excellent job, you get permanent leave.

 

I do get to double check facts, and keep my brain distracted, either a curse or ? 

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

The good times are now.

I'm so proud of you, you really have turned out 100% more positive than you used to be just a few years ago. 

 

👏🔆 Shine on

17 hours ago, SoCal1990 said:

So is it a harmless time-waster, or does it point to something deeper? Either way, if you find yourself posting more than living, it might be time to log off and walk outside. There’s still a real Thailand out there, beyond the reply button.

I agree with your 'suggested' opinion - it is not harmless - it is deeper issues. But it is not a dark mental problem - it is 'social media' - it is addictive. And it can become very 'consuming' if you let it.  Just look at all the young people on their phones all day every day - it is addictive - and older Expats like using the social media 'drug' that is a forum - and debating opinions with others. I think that is more healthy than being like a teenage girl and looking and sharing BS with 'friends' and never debating or arguing about anything. 

 

Going down the pub/club and drinking beer all day to talk to other blokes aint the answer either - and IMO is worse.  I try to limit time online - when I can (if not out or shopping or playing golf or watching movies or sport or doing computer things or fixing things or whatever 🙂) I try to only log in for short periods. Right now the wife is having a post-lunch nap lunch after we were out today - when she awakes we will do something.  Speak of the devil - there she stirs - time to go.

   

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

The good times are now.

The good times are if we get to tomorrow!

1 hour ago, Bannoi said:

Gas street lamps were phased out not as long ago as you might, think.

Today, there are around 1,300 functioning gas lamps in London and several smaller networks across the UK, most notably in Nottingham and Malvern.

Gas street lighting in london - Search

Making fun of idiots is fun.

 

But not every day. I agree.

 

We all know who I am taking about.