The Old Hands here ...

[CharlieH]

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[PJcm]

Longevity on this forum means nothing if it's not backed up by lessons learned first hand. Having said that - I took my grannies advice in many situations around the world and it always worked.

Personally I blame the breakdown of family life in the western world for most of the increasing numbers of travellers with insufficient commonsense to blow their own nose. Good luck to the young farts who scorn the voices of experience - grumpy or otherwise - those impetuous youngsters are doomed to repeat all the basic mistakes until they get the lessons into their heads and start advising the next crop. And so the wheel turns.......

Those who don't learn from the elders are destined to repeat their mistakes

[CharlieH]

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[transam]

Longevity on this forum means nothing if it's not backed up by lessons learned first hand. Having said that - I took my grannies advice in many situations around the world and it always worked.

Personally I blame the breakdown of family life in the western world for most of the increasing numbers of travellers with insufficient commonsense to blow their own nose. Good luck to the young farts who scorn the voices of experience - grumpy or otherwise - those impetuous youngsters are doomed to repeat all the basic mistakes until they get the lessons into their heads and start advising the next crop. And so the wheel turns.......

Those who don't learn from the elders are destined to repeat their mistakes

, you are a wise chap.................

[oldsailor35]

I'm from New Zealand.

Nice to meet you all.

Is this seat taken?

You're welcome but bring yer own sheep

[oldsailor35]

One thing i found out here about guys here they appear to bullshit a lot so hard to filter out the reality from the crap. I have met guys who felt they could enlighten me about things here and from what I had read and experienced,lots of what they said didnot hold water. On the other hand I have met young guys who have very good ensight into whats happening around them.

When I meet an old guy who doesnot speak thai,doesnot eat thai food,but is married to a thai for years I really wonder has he learnt anything. He has survived but money can do that here not knowledge.When you live in a sandbox you get to know it pretty good,but may know nothing about the park it is in. I have been with TV a few years now and honestly feel many times its the empty vessel making the most noise. The gems of wisdom appear to me to come from the less spoken, I feel those are the old hands the op is referring to and I always have the most respect for age and knowledge and experiences that these folks share here and look forward to reading more from them.

The people who interest me as old hands are the ones here before paved roads and tv and mobile phones. Or electricity in rural areas. May I add running water. To many it maybe hard to believe but only 30 years ago many areas still hard dirt roads,no electricity etc. I remember watching Thais .watch black and white tv ran on car batteries,while the rest of the village was in darkness. Same village getting together a volunteer group lead by Pu Yai to go into the jungle and lay pvc from a small lake to the village and using gravity to get water to the village so they no longer had to carry all the way from the lake.When finished the village had one tap, People got their water there a much shorter walk.

Guys who came here to run bars and do business are a different breed of old hands of these none interest me. I take nothing away from them to some they make be of great interest to me it is just business and not why I came here.

I go on a bit too much sorry for the rant. rant.

Good Lord man! Was that an attempt to inject some gravitas and direction into this thread?

This is the TV good ol' boys circle jerk (or reach around if you prefer) and bugger all to do with whether anyone thinks they have earned the right to be gobby and pontifical or even listens to their sage words of often dubious advice anyway. I mean look!... there's a self-confessed kiwi been standing around for a couple of hours still waiting to be allowed to sit down. Has he no shame?

Obviously not ! he has just confessed to being a KIWI

[NeverSure]

Thanks to the experiences of all of the old hands here, I'm going to move to Thailand, get married, buy her land and build her a McMansion, and buy her and all her family members Mercs.

I don't want to be left out.

[benalibina]

Thanks to the experiences of all of the old hands here, I'm going to move to Thailand, get married, buy her land and build her a McMansion, and buy her and all her family members Mercs.

I don't want to be left out.

Dreamer.

[AYJAYDEE]

Thanks to the experiences of all of the old hands here, I'm going to move to Thailand, get married, buy her land and build her a McMansion, and buy her and all her family members Mercs.

I don't want to be left out.

not ALL, pal

[transam]

A pillock is someone who did something DAFT and should have known better................Blimey, sounds like me...........

[CharlieH]

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[harrry]

Thanks to the experiences of all of the old hands here, I'm going to move to Thailand, get married, buy her land and build her a McMansion, and buy her and all her family members Mercs.

I don't want to be left out.

Are you sure you will be able to find someone to marry. Thais can spot a faker miles away.