1 hour ago, fredwiggy said:

I remember you saying, as Harrisfan, that it wasn't normal when I said I've been with about 100 women in my life, that most only have 3-5, but now you've banged hundreds in just your 20's to 30's? Guess you forgot what you said.

Most were 1 night stands etc. Not relationships.

2 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Your claim is total nonsense. Guys who have had a lot of sexual partners don't suddenly lose interest in sex and take up knitting.

If hookers bother you so much that you feel compelled to go in every Pattaya thread and crap on everyone and convince everyone to move out, I'm guessing you have some sort of psychological disorder regarding sex and/or women in general.

Pattaya hookers don't bother me, just ugly low class. Euro hookers are miles above. Your life sounds very boring. What do you do? No girlfriend, no gym, no travel. You said you were going to quit the forum yet still here. You said you would put me on ignore yet still quoting me. You sound lost dude. No direction. No hobbies. No goals.

Go do something with your life!

2 hours ago, newnative said:

You are, of course, correct, oh great and wise one. RR, I suspect, must be a rabbit, as he once boasted on a different thread of seeing more of Thailand in one week than the poster he was responding to could see in a much longer period, which I can't remember. Might have been a lifetime. Wow, that's fast and I simply can't compete. No way, Jose.

I, alas, and my Thai spouse, are turtles. We have done our exploring of Thailand at a leisurely, turtle's pace. Indeed, on one of our four visits to Chiang Mai, we went by train. It was faster than a turtle, but not by much, We enjoyed the train ride, though, and liked the slow pace.

In hindsight, we should not have visited CM four times. What were we thinking? It must have severely cut down on the count of other provinces we could have visited, instead. Had we not visited so many times, we might be a little closer to RR's province count. But, again, we enjoyed immensely each of the visits--and everything we saw in the greater CM area each time.

I know we always looked forward to stopping in Lampang, on our three driving trips to CM, and visiting each time a favorite large pottery store we discovered on one of our trips, to stock up on treasures. I have a photo of us taking a buggy ride around Lampang--oh, dear, that was slow-paced, too! We are cursed to be turtles rather than rabbits.

Hang on. One thing that was quite fast was our speedboat ride to Koh Lipe, which we enjoyed visiting. There have been other fast boat rides to other islands, as well as car ferries at a slower speed to one or two other islands. At our slow pace, we have only visited about a dozen or so of Thailand's islands, but we have been to some more than once--again, what were we thinking?

One thing I don't regret is a wonderful driving trip we took south from Pattaya during covid. Again, being turtles, we took our time working our way south, stopping at anything we liked. One stop was at a beautiful resort that had just opened. Since it was covid, there were only a handful of other visitors. They upgraded our room to one where you could open the terrace door and jump right in the huge pool--which we mostly had to ourselves. Since the restaurant was closed, they brought our breakfast to our room each morning.

We enjoyed stopping at a number of places on that long trip, including Phuket, and taking boat rides, with snorkeling, to spectacular spots with very few tourists. It was all heavenly, but again, frightfully slow, now that I look back.

On a second trip south we were fast and slow. We took a plane to Hat Yai--fast--and then hired a driver wit a van--slow--to take us around to various things to see during our trip. The highlight for me was our early morning visit to the Sea of Mist Skywalk mountain attraction. Slow-going (not again!) up the mountain, with a lot of turns, but well-worth it--the scenery was breathtaking.

I confess I have not counted the number of provinces we have visited. I know we visited Trat province, where my spouse was born, so that's one. We live in Chonburi, two, and does Bangkok count? We have a condo there. I'm pretty sure the total's more than your 6, but I fear we will likely never catch RR, being turtles, not rabbits.

I've been to CM a dozen times. Great city. But you are one of my emoji followers aren't you? Lol

9 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

You sound lost dude. No direction. No hobbies. No goals.

3 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

You are too introverted. Go set some goals and create a new life. Stop over analysing everything.

56 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

I've been to CM a dozen times. Great city. But you are one of my emoji followers aren't you? Lol

This emoji malarkey really seems to be bothering you.

Have you ever thought that if you stop being such a knob people might give you less thumbs down? I doubt it, but it might happen.

Give it a try.

58 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

My life would be 10 levels above most. I would not want to live in Patts. Swimming is boring. I do more in 5 months than many do in 5 years. You can have Patts. Dirty city with low quality people. The locals and the foreigners. Really low class trashy city.

It seems apparent that you don't have a life outside this forum. Anyone that doens't live somewhere, endlessly posting about that somewhere, is seriously twisted. Talking about low-quality people... take a good look in the mirror.

You bring up swimming again. You seem obsessed with the topic. No one does laps for fun. Few exercises are actually fun... but if you swim hard enough, you can't be bored as you'd be too busy sucking air... It's hard work, unlike when you doggy paddle across the pool, pretending you are swimming. It's how good you feel after the swim that is the point, and it's good for your body. You should try it sometime... I mean, real swimming.

Edited June 7Jun 7 by JensenZ

14 minutes ago, JensenZ said:

It seems apparent that you don't have a life outside this forum. Anyone that doens't live somewhere, endlessly posting about that somewhere, is seriously twisted. Talking about low-quality people... take a good look in the mirror.

You bring up swimming again. You seem obsessed with the topic. No one does laps for fun. Few exercises are actually fun... but if you swim hard enough, you can't be bored as you'd be too busy sucking air... It's hard work, unlike when you doggy paddle across the pool, pretending you are swimming. It's how good you feel after the swim that is the point, and it's good for your body. You should try it sometime... I mean, real swimming.

Enjoy pretending to being Ian Thorpe aged 67.

16 minutes ago, JensenZ said:

You should try it sometime... I mean, real swimming.

I swam 1500m non stop age 8yo.

19 minutes ago, JensenZ said:

Few exercises are actually fun...

Tennis, kayaking and snorkelling are fun. Krabi has great kayaking. Swimming in a Patts pool is kind of lame. Walking around Bangkok and Chiang Mai are fun too. Interesting cities.

8 hours ago, Rockyroad said:

Most were 1 night stands etc. Not relationships.

No, most were girlfriends. Remember, assuming has you no idea what happened in another's life.

On 6/6/2026 at 12:03 PM, still kicking said:

I do agree, being single and alone must be horrible. I live in the west and gave up my car months ago. I am lucky my Thai wife is a nurse, and she looks after me, taking me shopping and driving me to appointments (yes, I am your age). We go out twice a week, which I could not do on my own since I am a bit disabled and can't walk very far. Posters will say, "Now, you live alone." Yes, I do live alone, but my Thai wife of 23 years still checks up on me every day (living alone for tax reasons). If I were alone, I would be buggered.

Wow you don't live with your wife. Yikes.

3 minutes ago, blaze master said:

Wow you don't live with your wife. Yikes.

they live apart so he can scam government benefits.

5 minutes ago, blaze master said:

Wow you don't live with your wife. Yikes.

She lives apparently at a different house address so they can claim Social security payments as technically they are divorced

9 hours ago, Rockyroad said:

My life would be 10 levels above most. I would not want to live in Patts. Swimming is boring. I do more in 5 months than many do in 5 years. You can have Patts. Dirty city with low quality people. The locals and the foreigners. Really low class trashy city.

How is your life 10 levels above most if you only know a few people personally, and even then not what they do all the time?

Swimming is one of the best exercises, and also relaxing if you're not doing it as training. It's right there with total body weight training as the most effective exercises. What's boring to you has no bearing on what's fun for others.

How do you again know you do more than many if you don't know but a few personally?

Many seem to like Pattaya, likely because it's a party city and they aren't country living people, preferring the night life , at least for now. It's not for me, as I like country living and family life, but to each their own. Cities aren't low class, people are. All major cities have trashy areas. Poverty does that. You seem to know quite a lot about all these cities, Pattaya included, so how can you judge it unless you are spending a lot of time there?

Edited June 7Jun 7 by fredwiggy

9 hours ago, Rockyroad said:

Pattaya hookers don't bother me, just ugly low class. Euro hookers are miles above

The sex workers are different, in the west they look much more hardened, who wants that? not me. I had one massage and the hardened women in Glasgow did the oil massage with Marigold gloves on, never again

9 hours ago, Rockyroad said:

No goals.

People who have goals are probably trying to beat anxiety or something

16 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

People who have goals are probably trying to beat anxiety or something

Goals can give discipline, curiosity, responsibility, ambition, survival, creativity, meaning, and a reason to build a better life.

That helps prevent anxiety, mental health issues and boredom

42 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

She lives apparently at a different house address so they can claim Social security payments as technically they are divorced

Interesting. Very interesting indeed.

1 hour ago, georgegeorgia said:

She lives apparently at a different house address so they can claim Social security payments as technically they are divorced

Ah so technically he should refer to her as the ex wife, i wonder who she lives with

9 hours ago, JensenZ said:

You should try it sometime... I mean, real swimming.

I once was on a work trip to Chicago staying at a hotel near Lake Michigan. And there was a bunch of people swimming in the lake and I noticed there were guards. So I got my swim gear and joined them in a swim.

When I got out I went over to one of the guards and said: This is really great that you have a swim set up like this. He said: No we don't do this regularly -- these are people warming up for the Chicago Triathalon.

And that's with whom I joined for a swim.

The number one determinant of whether or not you will be happy after some event (Relationship, retirement, more money) Is whether or not you are happy right now.

The posters I like here like scuba, Steve or Brit man too are happy right now. It’s not determined by whether they are bored at the moment.

And you, Georgie, seem very much the same. You are a whirlwind of energy and anticipation, and that probably won’t change no matter how much your circumstances change.

The only funny Buddhist joke:

Wherever you go, there you are.

21 hours ago, JensenZ said:

Oh, you're still working on getting negative rep... You don't quit, do you...

A 30s woman dating a 67 yo? No, she is not "normal" as in what you would normally expect an older expat to date in Pattaya... but we are not dating. We live together. It gets even better... she doesn't have children, has a professional career with a degree, and owns her own apartment and car, all the proceeds from her own hard work... oh, and she looks great too, with a nice bod.

You're just a loser who doesn't know sh*t and could find a good woman if you tried. You've visited 60 provinces and still failed. Now your life is trolling this forum, posting cr*p and hate. A bigger loser would be very hard to find. You take first prize there.

In your opinion, which province has the best massage shops? Perhaps you could start a thread rating Thailand's massage establishments?

"A bigger loser would be very hard to find."

Truer words have never been written.

53 minutes ago, Prubangboy said:

The number one determinant of whether or not you will be happy after some event (Relationship, retirement, more money) Is whether or not you are happy right now.

The posters I like here like scuba, Steve or Brit man too are happy right now. It’s not determined by whether they are bored at the moment.

And you, Georgie, seem very much the same. You are a whirlwind of energy and anticipation, and that probably won’t change no matter how much your circumstances change.

The only funny Buddhist joke:

Wherever you go, there you are.

Only funny Buddhist joke?

What about?:

A Buddhist monk walks into a pizza parlor and says:

Make me one with everything.

11 hours ago, Rockyroad said:

I've been to CM a dozen times. Great city. But you are one of my emoji followers aren't you? Lol

I wouldn't call myself a 'follower'. I do try to read what you post, which is often clueless, nasty nonsense, especially when it comes to Pattaya, and I'll give you a thumbs down--as I did in the post above, where you called Pattaya a 'Dirty city with low quality people. The locals and the foreigners. Really low class trashy city.' Making untrue, sweeping, blanket statements like that just makes you look really ignorant--and nasty. Not a great combination.

In a free moment when you aren't unfairly, untruly trashing someone or some place, you might examine your very unhealthy fixation with Pattaya. Normally I would suggest you join the Just Can't Quit Pattaya Fan Club but, in your case, no. Those poor, suffering club members pining for Pattaya have enough to deal with already.

So, you get lots of 'thumbs down' from me because you make lots of thumbs down, untrue, nasty posts. Sometimes I will reply to one of your posts when your ignorance is so great that it needs to be responded to and corrected. You'll remember I did that when you posted about how dirty and trashy Pattaya beaches are (they aren't), but posted a photo to make your point--of a non-Pattaya beach. Spoke volumns of your arrogant, nasty ignorance. You might think about taking the good advice that Keeps gave in his post.

Actually, there is a dark side to pattaya.

I will link a video where he discusses a specific type of expat in pattaya who wakes up, doesn't shower, and heads straight to the bar. And repeats this day in and day out and slowly wastes away.

Most people avoid this or isolate themselves completely from this lifestyle.

But anyone moving to Pattaya needs to be aware of this and protect themselves.

So it is worth discussing when talking about Pattaya.

This guy does a good job describing this in his video.

But Rocky Road's comments about "low life trash" are not really academic.

Bachelor or Divorced?

You know what we used to call men who never got married back in the days when "gays" didn't exist and Johnny Carson made jokes about Liberace (definitely not gay)...?

"Bachelors"

I have no idea what they do all day.

Workout at the gym in front of the mirror? 😜

Edited June 8Jun 8 by SiSePuede419

27 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Actually, there is a dark side to pattaya.

I will link a video where he discusses a specific type of expat in pattaya who wakes up, doesn't shower, and heads straight to the bar. And repeats this day in and day out and slowly wastes away.

Most people avoid this or isolate themselves completely from this lifestyle.

But anyone moving to Pattaya needs to be aware of this and protect themselves.

So it is worth discussing when talking about Pattaya.

This guy does a good job describing this in his video.

But Rocky Road's comments about "low life trash" are not really academic.

The problem is not Pattaya, it's alcoholism. If they didn't come to Pattaya to end their lives, they would do it back at home. This happens in every city in the world - alcoholics are drinking themselves to death. Plenty of Thai people do the same back in their own cities/towns/villages and Pattaya. If people want to end their lives, it's their choice.

I fortunately I have never felt "lonely" in my life.

And since we invented internet, never bored.

14 hours ago, Rockyroad said:

Most were 1 night stands etc. Not relationships.

LOL, one-night stands? It would be surprising if you could keep one for a whole night. I pity any female caught in the bedroom with you.

Edited June 8Jun 8 by JensenZ