Jimslim

 

 

I'm sorry, but I don't believe for one second that someone can claim to be just as happy back home versus kicking-back in Thailand or another SE Asian country.  

 

 

There's at least one exception to every rule.

 

You're a man of means Mr.Pentire and unless having a few wagers is considered work you're a man of leisure too.  

You started out with a pretty bold statement there but I'm glad to see you can now admit that a least one of us is happy now. 

Me I've just been for a cycle along the riverbank in the spring sunshine , home for a quick snack then out later to play football with my mates .

In between I'll go online and buy a few records I've been after I'm pretty busy most weekends Djing now .

Not long to summer when I'll spend most weekends in the mountains ...ah the great Irish outdoors .

I might even curse the British Royal family out loud secure in the certain knowledge that I won't get eight years hard labour for doing so .

Life sure is shit ...when I'm tucked up all snug in my new bed with freshly changed sheets tonight I might dream of a 400 Baht room in Soi Buckaroo with faulty aircon 

 Or hold it in rather that spending 5 baht for the bog.  My money, up to me.

So it was YOU that left the puddle on the Jontiem baht bus ? 

What colour is Guinness ? 

Ask people whether they'd prefer being in a foreign land doing whatever, however, whenever versus being woken by an alarm clock for work at least 5 days a week.  I think we all know the true answer.

 

 

I'm sorry, but I don't believe for one second that someone can claim to be just as happy back home 

 

I guess self-denial is one way to deal with reducing the Thailand Blues. 

You are basing that solely on your own experience .

If someone offered me the chance to live out the rest of my life in Thailand now I wouldn't take it.

To me Thailand is somewhere I holiday , I would like longer breaks there especially in winter but I couldn't live there .

I'm a home bird  .

Over the years I am sure we have all read posts by guys saying how much they hate being home and live for their trips to SE Asia.  They make it sound like a living hell as they count down the days to their next trip/fix.  Personally i enjoy being home, I always make the most of the situation I find myself in and avoid the "grass is always greener." way of thinking.

 

 

I'm happy here even if I won the lottery I'd still live in Ireland its a beautiful country .

Sure I'd like more holidays but you can't have it all .

When I return from Thailand it takes me a week or two to adjust and settle but after that I'm fine , you can't beat the comfort of your own home and your own bed .

I feel sorry for guys who spend their lives counting the days until they return to Thailand there is much more to life than that  life is for living every day .

 Longer you stay or visit thailand you become better informed of how you like to spend and where.

Too true .

If you throw your money around you are no better thought off infact you are seen as a mug .

I have a daily budget and with an ever falling exchange rate it gets further depleted I have to cut my cloth to suit .

Indeed Brucie boy .

Sam ad would be better using that little chappie to stir his tea .

Definitely a good line up in Lita's now as good as its been in a long long time .

I love Litas Bar but the only problem is I can't go there for a quiet night , Lita always produces shots and cocktails and after that its 3 sheets to the wind ....ah well I suppose there are worse things in life 

Taj Mahal ? 

Instant wood !!!!! 

Hoo Haa !!!! 

And he's actually proud of that ? 

That would be Pond 

Bow is a sweetheart well worth taking out for the night chaps .

A few years ago a ladyboy who shall remain nameless and I were getting ready to to out for the evening to Walking Street .

She came out of the bathroom with just a skimpy top and underwear and high heels and slung her handbag over shoulder and that was her ready ...I had to do a double take .

I asked her did she not want to wear a dress or skirt and she said no she wanted to look sexy .

Later that night I was carrying her piggyback down Walking Street as she was mau mak mak a couple of young buckaroo's thought it would be smart to remind me that it might not be a bona fide lady hanging on to my neck .

One of them shouted "Oi mate I don't like the look of the one you're fucking " 

To which I retorted "Well she's better looking than the one you're fucking " 

They both stopped and looked at each other quite bemused ...... and then the penny finally dropped ........

Yes normally Pattaya to Bangkok taxi's are a necessary evil and pretty uneventful but that one was strangely erotic .

EX ? 

I have told many of you over the years the tale of the dude who came into Pooks Swan one night with a headless, armless and legless clothes mannequin and has a drink with "her" while watching the comings and goings.  One of the most unusual things I have every seen in Patts and that is saying something.  Here is the gent in question along with his tilak.  Legend!

That is some picture .

Pattaya has probably one of the highest proportion of "interesting" people per square mile than anywhere else on earth .

I remember seeing a naked guy with just a cowboy hat on standing pissing into the oncoming traffic on Beach Road at 12 midday one day .

Nothing surprises you in this crazy city .

I have a theory that perhaps smart phones are a major part of the reason why guys get ignored. 

You could be on to something there and I don't think its unique to the Thai bar scene .

In my city I see people sitting in restaurants not taking and playing with their phones , ignoring the person facing them who is probably doing the same .

People walk down the street with their heads down gazing into Facebook absorbed in reading what their friends had for breakfast totally oblivious to the real world around them .  

Yes let me elaborate

 As my handsome friend will agree we were refused entry to the said disco because we were in  the company of two respectively dressed LBs , apparently they didn't allow them though we did see some giving a backhander to the door staff and getting in ,

The girls were upset  and to be honest I wish I had of done more , they were wankers .

What a disgrace .

Same as the old one - No Dogs No Blacks No Irish .

There was a bit of a debate the other night about whether Alis ex of La Bamba is circumcised  or not.  

Was this a question in a quiz ? 

The first one probably asks for more money .

Times must be be very tough if Indian tailors are hanging out at Coconut Bar .

Goodness me that is a strong accent, almost as though he's playing to the camera. 

Yes I think he is, apparently he has a YouTube page where he does impersonations of that Irish legend Daniel O'Donnell .

It is a cracking accent though and yes people do talk like that especially in the Derry direction , when someone from there say's the word one as in " I'll have one please " it is pronounced waaaannn .

Speaking of  Daniel O'Donnell I remember reading a few years back that Barack Obama planned to acknowledge the part he had played in American history when he visited Dublin .

I had to do a double take but he was in fact referring to Daniel O Connell  who was a strong advocate for abolishing slavery and not the County Donegall warbler . 

And there's me thinking all Americans wanted to be Irish