15 hours ago, Jeff the Chef said:

World Championship Muff Diving for me.

No muff too tough

1 hour ago, Kinnock said:

It's great in the winter, but don't underestimate the impact of heat at other times.

Suzuki?

1 hour ago, Harrisfan said:

No muff too tough

yep, you got it, when your nose is in do-da, you know where your mouth is.

Just picked it out from the suitcase, and started. This is the most challenging balance board I ever had.

1 minute ago, Hummin said:

Just picked it out from the suitcase, and started. This is the most challenging balance board I ever had.

That's a beautiful place you got there champ

42 minutes ago, Celsius said:

That's a beautiful place you got there champ

Just like mine......looking out over paddy fields, trees and some distant hills.

55 minutes ago, Celsius said:

That's a beautiful place you got there champ

Thank you, could had been worse I guess.

1 hour ago, Hummin said:

Suzuki?

Kawasaki. Made in Thailand.

13 minutes ago, wil iam not said:

Just like mine......looking out over paddy fields, trees and some distant hills.

Back side

Mountain or hills as I like to call them is around us on the sides to back. So the only neighbors is in the front

2 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Back side

Mountain or hills as I like to call them is around us on the sides to back. So the only neighbors is in the front

Go on, show us a photo of the neighbours, instead of the paddy fields.

6 minutes ago, Kinnock said:

Kawasaki. Made in Thailand.

Model?

5 minutes ago, wil iam not said:

Go on, show us a photo of the neighbours, instead of the paddy fields.

Closest neighbors in sight in the picture, and two more behind. No more neighbors in 500m

4 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Model?

Get a kindle, download a thousand books.

Learn guitar. Start will a nylon string.

Get an inexpensive micro four thirds camera, Panasonic or Olympus, and walk around your area.

Try writing short stories.

2 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Looks like a newer model Versys 650? Not sure

2 hours ago, Purdey said:

Get a kindle, download a thousand books.

Learn guitar. Start will a nylon string.

Get an inexpensive micro four thirds camera, Panasonic or Olympus, and walk around your area.

Try writing short stories.

Have you tried compiling statistics?

2 hours ago, Hummin said:

Closest neighbors in sight in the picture, and two more behind. No more neighbors in 500m

Looks scary ...I once a few years ago I rented a car from the City in Australia to go a few days in the Countryside with a friend

We noticed a dead animals in fact many on the side of the road

Kangaroos ,wombats etc , I immediately stopped and dialled triple 000

About 20 minutes later a country cop complete with his slouch hat arrived and started abusing us calling us terrible names and ordering me back to the City

I will never go to the country again !!!

2 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Looks scary ...I once a few years ago I rented a car from the City in Australia to go a few days in the Countryside with a friend

We noticed a dead animals in fact many on the side of the road

Kangaroos ,wombats etc , I immediately stopped and dialled triple 000

About 20 minutes later a country cop complete with his slouch hat arrived and started abusing us calling us terrible names and ordering me back to the City

I will never go to the country again !!!

I'm a born country idiot, so no problem, I can handle it. As you see, I got bigger glass balcony than the fellas you crying out about in Pattaya living with their doors open so you can see how they got it.

Here in 10 years I paid down my investment if comparing a rent vs a small studio the size of my balcony.

How is your boxing going?

18 minutes ago, Hummin said:

I'm a born country idiot, so no problem, I can handle it. As you see, I got bigger glass balcony than the fellas you crying out about in Pattaya living with their doors open so you can see how they got it.

Here in 10 years I paid down my investment if comparing a rent vs a small studio the size of my balcony.

How is your boxing going?

Yes I must start my boxing as soon as I arrive back in Pattaya I forgot about it

26 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Yes I must start my boxing as soon as I arrive back in Pattaya I forgot about it

Boxing or muay thai?

20 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

I'm in Bangkok next month. Come meet me in a restaurant Terry. Then you can speak to me and see if I'm impressive or not. If I'm boring get up and leave and I will pay the bill.

Nice. That's a pretty desperate gay online pickup approach. Not interested. I do not swing that way. Are you also planning to cover my flight from Hanoi to Bangkok for our little rendezvous, or is that extra?

On 1/24/2026 at 4:26 PM, davb said:

I've been growing my own cannabis. It's more difficult than I imagined, and I've only once in two years grown something exceptional, but it's a fun project.

Even if the plant doesn't turn out well, I like watching the reactions of Thais who come by and happen to see one growing in a pot. You can learn a lot about a person in watching how they react. A straight-laced Muslim woman in a hijab seemed very approving and familiar with it, for example.

I went through the painful process of teaching myself to grow it. Tried outdoors 1st but bugs ate everything. Then bought a grow tent and all the gear. Set it up in an unused shower room. Tried organic but overfed and then followed advice synthetic/hydroponic and got results.1 oz per

22 hours ago, emptypockets said:

Why would a retiree desire to be productive? What are they producing?

Being productive or increasing productivity was a term used by the bosses during your working life to make them more money while paying you the same. And most of us fell for it. Sadly.

Productive?? (And most of us fell for it. Sadly.) As did I. I worked at a Pulp Mill and never refused overtime work for 2 decades. I finally saw the light and refused all OT and told them to remove my name from the list. Thing is I never even noticed the difference in my standard of living. It was futile because taxes took half . In hindsight I sacrificed all that free time for nothing. OT at time and a half was a fools game. Only grateful for the extra pension income nowadays.

On 1/24/2026 at 4:17 PM, Harrisfan said:

Muay Thai

Chess

Cycling

4wding

Don't forget lycra is compulsory for cycling

40 minutes ago, Terrance8812 said:

Nice. That's a pretty desperate gay online pickup approach. Not interested. I do not swing that way. Are you also planning to cover my flight from Hanoi to Bangkok for our little rendezvous, or is that extra?

I see you're fake as. Poor little boy.

26 minutes ago, jaideedave said:

I went through the painful process of teaching myself to grow it. Tried outdoors 1st but bugs ate everything. Then bought a grow tent and all the gear. Set it up in an unused shower room. Tried organic but overfed and then followed advice synthetic/hydroponic and got results.1 oz per

Productive?? (And most of us fell for it. Sadly.) As did I. I worked at a Pulp Mill and never refused overtime work for 2 decades. I finally saw the light and refused all OT and told them to remove my name from the list. Thing is I never even noticed the difference in my standard of living. It was futile because taxes took half . In hindsight I sacrificed all that free time for nothing. OT at time and a half was a fools game. Only grateful for the extra pension income nowadays.

Time and half weekdays but double time on Sunday

On 1/24/2026 at 4:12 PM, ravip said:

For a start, learn AI

Ridiculous

Learn to do what with it?

What purpose does a retiree have with AI? I use it on occasion to answer questions, crunch numbers. Have no need for deep understanding of it at this point

Things to do

Travel

Camping

Exercise

Walking 1.5 hrs daily

Learn something about Thai food

Grow houseplants

Get an aquarium

Collect something light, small and portable

Day drinking

Girlie watching at malls

Weekly massage

Get a gik

*Podcasts

Not teaching!

Not start online business

Not YouTube channel

Nothing social media ugh

15 hours ago, simon43 said:

Yes, most radio amateurs verbally 'chat', but actually, I have very rarely spoken with any other radio ham, since getting my ham licence some 45 years ago! I find most of their conversations to be rather boring... Instead I usually dabble in SSTV - sending and receiving photos or images, such as photos of Lao temples when operating from Laos, or images of Thai food when operating from Thailand. (Others send female nude images, but I find that rather tasteless).

Yes, I can easily contact others on the other side of the world by email or WhatsApp. But for me, it's a technical challenge of designing and building a simple antenna from a few metres of wire, that can propagate my image to the other side of the world with just a few watts of energy.

Here's one of the SSTV images that I send from Laos :)

Very cool.

Can you explain in terms an idiot could understand how you with an image in one location can send it to another? I presume it's laptop via antenna to laptop right?

On 1/24/2026 at 5:46 PM, Jeff the Chef said:

World Championship Muff Diving for me.

That is so eighties !

8 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Have you tried compiling statistics?

You should try building a Monte Carlo simulation.