7 hours ago, portisaacozzy said:

i only borrow never lend

 

I have a friend of 30+ years we worked together in the UK and Germany as freelance software engineers. 

 

Twenty years a go as we worked in Berlin he said he had a cash flow problem and needed £10k now, I transferred the money to the account the same day, he needed it for a month but it took two months in the end, I knew he was good for the money.

 

Six years later I had a short term cash flow problem, I needed £15k as I was short of that while buying a business, the next day I had the 15k, I paid him back later when the cash flow problem ended.

 

So it is possible and safe for long term friends to help each other out as long as it all genuine.

 

On 10/8/2025 at 10:14 PM, georgegeorgia said:

I will join you in the flybird condominium in Pattaya 

We can go halves in the 3000 baht rent per month,even share the same bed ,

 

You have two thumbs down so far, some people have no sense of humour, keep on taking the piss out of them as it makes me laugh. 😃

On 10/8/2025 at 10:20 PM, Alpha84 said:

So you will fall for any petty con trying to extract money from you and you also like to make gay solicitations to other AN members. Is there anything else we should know about you?

 

Yes, I can tell you he has a sense of humour, you could look the expression up, some people take themselves too seriously. 😄

 

But if you are also joking then please ignore my comment. 👍

On 10/9/2025 at 1:56 PM, Will B Good said:

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;  

For loan oft loses both itself and friend,  

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry

 

 

I'm poet and didn't know it.

 

The first line is from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

 

William, you must be the oldest man in the world.😃

Most useful of the 48 Laws of Power:

 

"Avoid the unlucky".

8 hours ago, JamesPhuket10 said:

 

The first line is from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

 

William, you must be the oldest man in the world.😃

 

 

Ha.....all of it is WS

When you loan money, you have to be ready to lose the money. 

 

When you loan money to a friend, you have to be ready to lose both the money and the friend. 

 

Fortunately, it is “only money” and the person that stiffed you was never a friend. Best to find out early on, while it’s still only money. 

lending out money and not getting it back is the story of my life in both countries i lived at for any length

On 10/15/2025 at 2:27 AM, emptypockets said:

You in jail?

 

No as I live in one as well.

 

The security blokes let us residents in and out, they keep the non-resident public out.  😄