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Sad thing is Woodie, in her mind she probably thinks she is still a bit of a babe!!!!

I am with Dukey on this. Much as I wish I never started smoking and would love to quit for good, choice should still be available to young people. Yes one could argue it is good thing to stamp out smoking by extreme measures, the fear is where does it stop? Do they go after alcohol next, or put limiters in all cars so they can't go above 70mph? maybe a timer on your television so you can't watch more than two hours per day? We are becoming too much of a nanny state overall in the west.

I got one of the young girls who works with me to do mine - took her 5 minutes and accepted about 20 minutes later maximum. Secret was getting somebody who knows computers and how to transfer documents to jpeg. I would have been fooked trying to do it meself!!!!!

We believe you BBG, honest.

He is certainly spending like P Diddy recently. Rumour has it that he will be seen swinging from the bell in every establishment on soi buckaroo come December.

Lambert & butler Silver are £10.30 in my local Tesco. Think Bensons are closer to £13.00 That latest rise of tax in Thailand will bring a pack up to about £2.25 at current rates, roughly.

I think he and Kathleen are now separated and he has a new partner. Roxxy if I am not mistaken.

He is so spot on about the DUP and Northern Ireland.

Doing that in N.Ireland also Eyemahk. Free Pizzas, free taxis and complimentary concert tickets are part of the incentives to get the younger generation vaccinated.

Dear Lord!!!!

Whereabouts on Jomtien is that PD?

I honestly thought La Bamba would close, but with a favourable lease agreement and Nok's boyfriend I assume assisting with finances, I believe they will be in a position to open again. I certainly hope so, I have been known to visit there he odd night. I reckon 69 Bar may close, no offence to them, just an opinion, and obviously some have already closed. Be interesting to see one way or another.

It's easy to criticise these events and declare how wrong they are etc. But without condoning what they done, the truth of the matter is that humans are social animals. Many of us, myself included, can happily stay inside and not socialise with others for long periods of time, for others this is not possible. So in a way, I do have a bit of sympathy for them.

Love it.

Totally agree Duke That's what gets me about the Western world - too many people come into the country and believe they are exempt from that country's law, because of their religious beliefs. And they get away with it!!!!!!

All pretty nice condos, but wayyyyy over priced. Obviously hoping to tap into the farang with more money than brains market.

I fully agree with everything you have just said BBG, and like Seven, I really fear for the younger generation now who will probably now live the rest of their lives in a media induced fear bubble, and be subject to lockdowns (called for by cretins as you describe them) every time some fooker sneezes. But I also feel a bit sad for some older folk, like my dear old Dad. Touching 80 years of age, he is in reasonable health, despite suffering a stroke last year. He says he wants to live out the rest of his days, knowing they are limited, enjoying his health while he has it, and that means going full hog to the best of his ability. He can't stand the fact that all things he enjoys have been forcefully taken away from him by some fucker scientist, telling him it is for his own good.

I concur with Big Tel's sentiments, I am happy us guys have those memories to reflect upon, built up in the golden era when what we did was new and exciting, and pretty much all the guys we met and became friends with were/are a great bunch. The scene changed several years ago and the newer guys, although this seems new and exciting to them, had no idea whar it was like 10 to 15 years ago. It would blow their mind. I am booked for Xmas this year but am now resigned to the fact this will not happen. New stories will be forged in Pattaya at some stage, we will all meet up again and laugh over a few beers while some hottie is trying to rummage in our undercrackers, but until then I won't dwell on what could have or might have been. The Golf Courses around Ireland are doing magnificent deals at the minute, so my holiday time 9of which I have plenty built up) will be used on the fairways, with my hand on a different type of balls.

Would it help if I told you the videos are short but absolutely magnificent and would give a corpse a hard-on? Maybe that will cheer you up and not feel so bad for not being able to see them??

Think he also goes under the name "FarmerMichael", has some funny clips out there,

My sentiments entirely Tel, Scott is one of the good guys, always has been.

I don't agree with it being a hoax JSG, it is a serious pandemic that affects primarily a certain demographic of society (i.e the elderly or the medically vulnerable) and I am sure everybody on this forum knows at least one person in that category who would be in danger if they contracted the virus. Maybe why people see it as "nothing more than the flu" is because they can't or won't look directly at those statistics, and choose to see only the effect it has on the younger and healthier generation. But one thing I will say, perhaps slightly diluting what Duncan has stated, is that I believe that certain authorities and establishments have taken a medical pandemic and tried to turn it into a political pandemic, to work in their favour. Something we could debate all night, but I would rather do it as friends, chatting over a cold beer or several in Pattaya, than on an internet platform.

All well and good JSG on the assumption that the world leaders have your best interests at heart.

Quite right Woodie. I recall a commentator here recently stating about Chris Whitty (Chief Medical Officer) and Patrick Valance (Chief Scientific Officer) - "These guys should be looked at as nerds in bad suits, providing the Government with factual data, and then going back to their office and let the elected officials decide on our course of action based on the provided evidence. Instead, they are rolled out day after day to each press conference, like rock star celebrities, and they are beginning to enjoy the limelight a little too much"

Kind of typical to what I see here from time to time. Power hungry nobody's who have become the self appointed Covid Police, believing they now have some sort of power over people. Usually happens at my local Tesco. I feel sorry for them in a way, the people who exercise this unfounded sense of overwhelming authority are generally high school failures, whose lives haven't turned out anywhere near how they had hoped and this is their last bastion of trying to be important in society.