2 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Maybe they were giving out thumbs down.

Nope, that would not accomplish there need and they would have to digest the content. The extreme scrollers take in nothing and just move their thumbs in a scrolling and lateral motion to hit like. I've seen them doing it on the train in BK and some are amazingly talented. Not a talent that benefits them but a talent nonetheless.

For better or worse, you are not the type of scroller I mentioned in my post. You are the opposite and that is why I don't get bent when you post things ( things is a good description ? ).

1 minute ago, atpeace said:

Nope, that would not accomplish there need and they would have to digest the content. The extreme scrollers take in nothing and just move their thumbs in a scrolling and lateral motion to hit like. I've seen them doing it on the train in BK and some are amazingly talented. Not a talent that benefits them but a talent nonetheless.

For better or worse, you are not the type of scroller I mentioned in my post. You are the opposite and that is why I don't get bent when you post things ( things is a good description ? ).

Some restaurants and gyms give discounts for a positive reviews on google.

11 hours ago, Keeps said:

I've not got a problem with it. Means I don't have to talk to the Mrs. If I'm sat on the sofa next to her, I'll send her a Whatsapp when it's time to get my dinner ready. I'll email her if it's something not too pressing like grabbing me another slab of beers for tomorrow.

The perfect example of a mysogynist. I bet she is so happy you do not talk to her.

15 hours ago, 123Stodg said:

There’s an attractive woman in her late twenties or early thirties whom I often see at the fitness center, and she has got me thinking about something.

We often end up exercising quite close to each other, and sometimes there are only a few other people in the gym, so it’s difficult not to notice her same pattern of behavior repeated over and over.

She spends more time looking at her smartphone than anyone I have ever seen in an exercise environment.

And I do not mean checking it between sets. I mean constantly. Between sets. During sets. Walking on the treadmill. Sitting down. Standing up. Virtually every spare second.

I have also never seen her talk to anyone in the gym. I have never seen her make eye contact with anybody. Not even the staff. If somebody walks past, she often seems to immediately look back down at the screen to avoid eye contact or the possibility of anyone saying hello to her. It just seems excessive to me and not particularly healthy human behavior.

Now before anybody jumps on me, I am not claiming to know anything about her.

For all I know, she could be perfectly happy, socially active, married with three children, and coordinating a multinational business empire from the hip abduction machine. I have absolutely no idea.

What interested me wasn’t her specifically. It was the behavior itself, because it made me wonder whether I could actually date somebody like that. Somebody whose attention always seems to be directed towards a screen rather than the world immediately around them.

Perhaps I am showing my age, but I still find eye contact, casual communication, and simply being present in the moment to be fairly important parts of human existence.

And I sometimes wonder what happens when an entire generation becomes more comfortable communicating through a device than face to face. It doesn't seem like a good way to go through life.

Would somebody like that be just as engaged and connected in a relationship as anyone else? Or does constantly living through a screen eventually change the way people relate to each other?

I'm thinking eventually, humans might forget how to interact with each other in person completely. Or maybe this is completely normal for everyone now and I am the outlier. Dunno.

But if I was dating an attractive woman who spent more than half her waking life staring into a screen, I honestly think it would be a major turn off. I would definitely find myself wondering whether I was dating a person or merely competing with a six inch screen for their attention.

Maybe some people would see it as a positive if they just wanted a partner who was more of a companion, someone who did not talk or engage too much and was happy to simply be at their side, but leave them alone. I suppose there is a time and a place for that, and we probably all appreciate a bit of quiet sometimes.

But if someone cannot even focus on the moments when they are doing something that is meant to have their full attention, and instead is focused on a little glass panel emitting blue light, then perhaps we’ve become a bit too attached to the technology that was supposed to make life better.

Perhaps she wants nothing to do with an aging, balding white man.

25 minutes ago, wil iam not said:

The perfect example of a mysogynist. I bet she is so happy you do not talk to her.

Was wondering how long it would take for you to crawl from under your rock. You moaned about imaginary insults on another thread but here you are with the above. The word hypocrite springs to mind.

My post was clearly a joke but you wouldn't get that would you? Why are you constantly so unpleasant? Life in general beaten you down?

There’s an attractive woman in her late twenties or early thirties whom I often see at the fitness center, and she has got me thinking about something.

I don't have an answer. If she's in her 20s or 30s, the only way she's dating me involves a buttload of money or duct tape and knock out drops.

This is the Master Plan of AI and Robots, keep us distracted with low value non-sense that you don't prepare for AGI and Robots controlling the World in the future.

Actually the Dopamine "drives the pleasure/reward sensation" makes you seek more content.

Endorphins - produces the euphoria sensation, like a natural high.

Different people respond to different degrees to these.

When I was on the Mobile it was to distract from the boringness of being in the gym. I liked feeling good so it was a small adjustment and sacrifice for good health.

3 hours ago, Keeps said:

Was wondering how long it would take for you to crawl from under your rock. You moaned about imaginary insults on another thread but here you are with the above. The word hypocrite springs to mind.

My post was clearly a joke but you wouldn't get that would you? Why are you constantly so unpleasant? Life in general beaten you down?

3 hours ago, Keeps said:

Was wondering how long it would take for you to crawl from under your rock. You moaned about imaginary insults on another thread but here you are with the above. The word hypocrite springs to mind.

My post was clearly a joke but you wouldn't get that would you? Why are you constantly so unpleasant? Life in general beaten you down?

I tried to send this as a PM, but you do not want to recive them, so here is my public apology.

Sorry, but it did not seem like a joke to me. I usually put 555 when I want it to be construed as funny, but was told off, so now it is 5-5-5.

I did take some of your replies as insults, I shall not go back to find them, but they clearly were.

I am NOT unpleasnat even to the point of being too nice, and my life up to now has been 78 years of pure joy.

I do tend to give sarcastic replies to who I consider to deserves it, but I never personally insult anyone.

So Keeps, lets quit this silly bickering, and use AN for what it meant for, and help each other. OK?

5 minutes ago, wil iam not said:

So Keeps, lets quit this silly bickering, and use AN for what it meant for, and help each other. OK?

Totally agree 👍 Apologies if any of my posts were viewed as a personal insult.

2 hours ago, J Branche said:

This is the Master Plan of AI and Robots, keep us distracted with low value non-sense that you don't prepare for AGI and Robots controlling the World in the future.

Actually the Dopamine "drives the pleasure/reward sensation" makes you seek more content.

Endorphins - produces the euphoria sensation, like a natural high.

Different people respond to different degrees to these.

When I was on the Mobile it was to distract from the boringness of being in the gym. I liked feeling good so it was a small adjustment and sacrifice for good health.

I crank out Pearl Jam and Metalica.

5 hours ago, Mr Awesome said:

Perhaps she wants nothing to do with an aging, balding white man.

Who could blame her. But you rarely find those type in the gym. Plenty here on AN though pumping out continuous rubbish.

If see were a 10 she wouldn't even have to talk or even look at me.

24 minutes ago, 123Stodg said:

Who could blame her. But you rarely find those type in the gym. Plenty here on AN though pumping out continuous rubbish.

Go learn how to speak Thai then talk to her. It amazes me how few farangs can speak Thai and have so little interest in the culture. Does explain weird topics though.

15 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Go learn how to speak Thai then talk to her. It amazes me how few farangs can speak Thai and have so little interest in the culture. Does explain weird topics though.

Nobody writes stupider things with more persistence and dedication than you do. Post after brain-dead post, wrong about everything, consistent about nothing except the wrongness itself. Credit where it is due though: most people who say idiotic things at every turn eventually capitulate to the embarrassment of their own ineptitude. You on the other hand have somehow turned the pursuit of being spectacularly, catastrophically wrong into a full-time vocation.

6 minutes ago, 123Stodg said:

Nobody writes stupider things with more persistence and dedication than you do. Post after brain-dead post, wrong about everything, consistent about nothing except the wrongness itself. Credit where it is due though: most people who say idiotic things at every turn eventually capitulate to the embarrassment of their own ineptitude. You on the other hand have somehow turned the pursuit of being spectacularly, catastrophically wrong into a full-time vocation.

Nice abuse. You are really good at it. Shame you have no interest in speaking Thai or learning about the culture. Explains why you stare at Thais and wonder what's happening.

You are the perfect example of the type I avoid.

Anyway enjoy your lonely gym visits with no girlfriend.

Edited June 29Jun 29 by Rockyroad

1 hour ago, 123Stodg said:

Who could blame her. But you rarely find those type in the gym. Plenty here on AN though pumping out continuous rubbish.

This is the worst topic I've seen on here. Congrats. Angry farang goes to gym alone, stares at 25yo woman at 9pm and wonders why she avoids eye contact. It's not rocket science. Your persona is off putting and scary to her.

40 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Go learn how to speak Thai then talk to her. It amazes me how few farangs can speak Thai and have so little interest in the culture. Does explain weird topics though.

Did you really travel half way around the world to listen to the daily chatter. Agree if it is more necessary than go for it but the bonus for me is not listening to low value chatter everywhere.

I am interested in the culture and continue to expand and practice the necessary or beneficial parts of Thai Life.

17 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Nice abuse. You are really good at it. Shame you have no interest in speaking Thai or learning about the culture. Explains why you stare at Thais and wonder what's happening.

You are the perfect example of the type I avoid.

Anyway enjoy your lonely gym visits with no girlfriend.

Your awkwardness genuinely deserves its own platform. The perfect example of somebody you avoid, yet here you are again, balls deep into a thread you cannot drag yourself away from. Most people who avoid someone manage the basic prerequisite of actual avoidance, yet you have redefined staying away as a creepy, one-sided pursuit, which is precisely the kind of bizarre, unsettling behavior most forums associate with pervy stalking.

2 minutes ago, 123Stodg said:

Your awkwardness genuinely deserves its own platform. The perfect example of somebody you avoid, yet here you are again, balls deep into a thread you cannot drag yourself away from. Most people who avoid someone manage the basic prerequisite of actual avoidance, yet you have redefined staying away as a creepy, one-sided pursuit, which is precisely the kind of bizarre, unsettling behavior most forums associate with pervy stalking.

I like reading your meltdowns. You are obviously a very angry and frustrated farang. Why Thais avoid you.

21 hours ago, 123Stodg said:

There’s an attractive woman in her late twenties or early thirties whom I often see at the fitness center, and she has got me thinking about something.

Oh oh. 😄

you so handsome sum she should throw herself at your feet mmm huh

6 minutes ago, J Branche said:

Did you really travel half way around the world to listen to the daily chatter. Agree if it is more necessary than go for it but the bonus for me is not listening to low value chatter everywhere.

I am interested in the culture and continue to expand and practice the necessary or beneficial parts of Thai Life.

Language allows you to bargain better and flirt with Thai women. It also helps with local knowledge and navigation.

Thais have a great sense of humour too so if you can joke around with them in Thai you will enjoy their conpany more and vice versa.

Going for a 6-10km jog or walk (outdoors) - I'd zone out listening to podcasts - otherwise its just too boring.

Going for a 6-10km jog or walk (treadmill) - I'd zone out watching TikTok - otherwise its just too boring.

Going through sets - I'm not sure there's time to watch stuff on the phone...

But - perhaps she's just far more leasurely - she's on her own, zoned out, in her own world, doing what she likes.

Work out a little - watch a little 'stuff'... its her way to decompressing perhaps - her routine.

I'm not sure if that would translate to 'having dinner with her while her face is buried in a phone'..... thats very different and the behavior my not transfer.

-- -- -- -- seriousness aside...

She's a ten - but in a committed relationship with her phone and you're the side piece.

Fine. You've dealt with worse.

Dinner, she's scrolling. You're sitting across from her like looking at the top of her head like a spare part while she likes some stranger's brunch photo. Stay calm. You're playing chess, she's playing Candy Crush.

Let things progress. Clothes come off. The phone, naturally, stays on.

So you work with what you've got. At the critical moment, you gently retrieve it, prop it on her back while smashing, open TikTok. Autoplay on. Sound up just enough. You start scrolling.... better still, phone a mate !!!

Brain rot for two.

17 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

I like reading your meltdowns. You are obviously a very angry and frustrated farang. Why Thais avoid you.

Same script, same tired narrative, zero wit, zero humor, just a one-trick creepy obsession running on a loop. The fact that hatred fuels you more than it embarrasses you says everything about what passes for social interaction in your life.

Anyone with even a fraction of a life worth living would have absolutely no reason to be this fixated on another person they have zero connection to. Yet here you are, minute after minute, proving beyond any doubt that this forum is not where you come to contribute or inspire others, it is the only place anyone can be cornered long enough to be forced to tolerate your detestable presence for even half a passing second.

3 minutes ago, 123Stodg said:

Same script, same tired narrative, zero wit, zero humor, just a one-trick creepy obsession running on a loop. The fact that hatred fuels you more than it embarrasses you says everything about what passes for social interaction in your life.

Anyone with even a fraction of a life worth living would have absolutely no reason to be this fixated on another person they have zero connection to. Yet here you are, minute after minute, proving beyond any doubt that this forum is not where you come to contribute or inspire others, it is the only place anyone can be cornered long enough to be forced to tolerate your detestable presence for even half a passing second.

Nice meltdown. I hope you didn't break the keyboard 555

6 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

Going for a 6-10km jog or walk (outdoors

I saw you the other morning, looking good mate 👍

5 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I saw you the other morning, looking good mate 👍

Put a shirt on him and that's half the farangs.

15 minutes ago, 123Stodg said:

Same script, same tired narrative, zero wit, zero humor, just a one-trick creepy obsession running on a loop. The fact that hatred fuels you more than it embarrasses you says everything about what passes for social interaction in your life.

Anyone with even a fraction of a life worth living would have absolutely no reason to be this fixated on another person they have zero connection to. Yet here you are, minute after minute, proving beyond any doubt that this forum is not where you come to contribute or inspire others, it is the only place anyone can be cornered long enough to be forced to tolerate your detestable presence for even half a passing second.

When someones reputation (from post dislikes) highlights that the are universally despised - the solution is simple.

Do not give them oxygen - ultimately they reincarnate under a different user name - yet their same vapid patterns quickly emerge - I have the same poster on 'ignore' from a handful of different user-names by now - in each of his guises he was equally classless, equally disliked and consistently showed zero redeeming features.

A true forum troll that brings nothing but degredation to every thread he pollutes - ignore is the only solution for such cretins.

18 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I saw you the other morning, looking good mate 👍

LOL - yer missus had just kicked me out.... 🤭

3 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

When someones reputation (from post dislikes) highlights that the are universally despised - the solution is simple.

Do not give them oxygen - ultimately they reincarnate under a different user name - yet their same vapid patterns quickly emerge - I have the same poster on 'ignore' from a handful of different user-names by now - in each of his guises he was equally classless, equally disliked and consistently showed zero redeeming features.

A true forum troll that brings nothing but degredation to every thread he pollutes - ignore is the only solution for such cretins.

The irony of farangs in a Buddhist nation being full of hate. No wonder the Thais avoid you guys.

1 minute ago, richard_smith237 said:

LOL - yer missus had just kicked me out.... 🤭

So you're admitting to being an adulterer?