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Easy meal. Spinache, bacon and cheese from the oven. Accompanied by some fried potatoes and egg. Lush.

Thai Red curry with rice and eggs.

Quick summary of the trip. On Thursday night I went to Soi7 and Soi7/1...... there has been some new bars opened up there. It was a little busy than Soi 4..... some bars had more than others.... but for a week night was ok. Bkk seems to be slowly coming back to life on the bar scene. Talking in some bars...the girls are starting to head back. On saying that...there seemed to be more FL around. Walking around a few business are gone and looks like will not be back. Same with Hotels... a few favorites have closed their doors but what the future holds for them...who knows...but hopefully they reopen when things pick up. On the flights ....Air Asia.... both flights on time...both flights were half to three quarters full so people are travelling domestically. Vaccinated and unvaccinated people .....all of us..... can all get about together...enjoy each others company.... and get on with things...... and the sky will not fall in. cheers

Chilli and Prawn stirfry

Just home from a morning fishing a salt water lake for GT and Cobia.

From reading his posts on various fora i always thought @galenkia was some kinda Guardian reading, woke, tee total, pink scooter riding, vegan poof. But then i met him and quickly realised he was worse!

I've been on the Thailand forums since 1997 in the days of the old FLB drop down "bulletin board" style of forum, and I've been lucky enough to make many great, kind and decent friends (plus a couple of enemies) as a result. For the most part, blokes come across as they are on the forums, that being decent, honest, fun loving guys with a zest for life and mutual appreciation of the female form. However (or, "But"), a few have been totally different from the person they portray to the person they actually are. One particular gent who remains nameless (as I've forgotten it, but I will edit in if I remember) was a reviewer who claimed to be African American but was actually Caucasian. He basically reviewed as many venues as he could but under a totally assumed and false identity. Actually, I lie, I didn't meet him, he was pointed out to me. Another who springs to mind was a BM we had on Thaigers called "Claw", he came across as a real tough guy, gave the image of being a 6'5 mountain of a guy who took no shit, had an intense hatred of causcasian women but in real life was actually a very pathetic, slightly built American Asian with a really nasty attitude problem. On another note is a current member of another forum, who goes by the name of "King Arthur". Initially I thought he was a bit of a party animal, he knew his onions and definitely had great taste in women. Upon meeting him, I was shocked to see a huge, gentle giant of a guy with hands the size of shovels but is arguably one of the kindest, most gentle people I have ever met. Lastly, from our own forum the enigmatic @Nightcrawler. I always thought he was a decadent, twisted perverted heathen who could hold a conversation with Satan and walk away with a bag of gold. I was right, he is and he can. If any BM's have the misfortune to meet me, I will try not to come across as a know all c**t, so at least I can try to be different from any expectations...

Just been watching the best YouTube video I've seen in a long time. Fucking genius!!. 🤣

Starting posting on Secrets in 2007 though started coming to LOS early 00's . To be honest iv changed as a person myself back then I was early 30s so it's obvious I'm going to change. At one point I used to like the odd wind up on the boards nowadays I know most names from elsewhere and have met one or two over the years.. Can't always like everyone and I haven't got the patience for some , but iv met a few decent lads and women (not just Thai either) from the boards and in LOS in general.

Freshly baked croissants for breakfast

Lunch at Sizzler.

Back from a walk in the woods

Tonight I cooked Pad Krapow Gai, I had chips with mine.

Two names leap out at me from Butch's opening post. Matty from Cambridge and young Brian from Dunstable ....... few BMs on here know who I mean ...,,,,,,,

Hey Matt, I found a "Bird" out in Los Gatos yesterday...at Vasona Park LOL!

John Luke and myself used to fast for 24 hours before we ate there 😋

👍 My 'go to' spot for the salad bar when I lived in Bangkok.

Where i live, it already has moved to people taking responsibility instead of Government mandates for nearly everything. The last restrictions like forced isolation, contact tracing etc are mooted to go in the Summer. You want to wear a mask, do, indeed wear two if you like, if you want to avoid crowded areas, then do, if you don't want to use public transport or go on holiday, then don't, if you don't want to go to a restaurant and prefer takeaways, then do that. Do what you feel comfortable with, take some personal responsibility. Everybody already does it in life anyway, i mean if i'm walking down the street, in a bar, restaurant whatever, and i see a couple of nutters walking up towards me, then i'll take some personal responsibility and avoid them. Rocket Science it isn't. Whilst i appreciate some, the Lefties of the Board, want Gov to continue telling everybody what they can and can't do as much as possible, love big state, thankfully not everyone is like that. Governments don't mandate for the Flu other similar viruses, and now there is a wide range of treatments and vaccines for Covid, sooner or later most places in the world will move to dealing with Covid in the same way as they do with the flu or similar. Those that don't like that or are terrified of the thought, perhaps should consider moving to China where they'll have all the mandates they love and where people are told pretty much what they can and can't do around everything. Or stay in hiding behind the sofa with 4 masks on, whatever they feel comfortable with, take personal responsibility. Covid isn't going anywhere, most places have accepted the way out of this will be it will become endemic, those that want or need continual vaccines can get them and/or the various other treatments as needed, Gov mandates and restrictions will be lifted, forced self isolation, contact tracing etc will be a distant memory, people will get their lives back and do what they feel comfortable, take personal responsibility. Some seem to have forgot what life was like before this, the Gov induced fear is still strong in them. Not everyone wants the Government telling them when they can go out to the shop or not. Where i live anyway, we've moved to a taking personal responsibility and learning to live with Covid, which i'm very happy about. I understood and agreed with the need for all the restrictions before, but now the damage they do in all sorts of ways, to the economy, society at large, people's health etc etc is more than any perceived gain, now that we have the vaccines, many other treatments and a much less severe dominate strain. Personal responsibility and living with Covid, coming to a a town near you soon. I feel a Red Hot Chili Peppers song coming on in homage to a previous member ...

I'm sure "personal responsibility" is just a polite way of saying "Fuk you Jack, I'm OK." Our Prime Minister, ScuMo, embraced the "personal responsibility" tag late last year. When asked for an explanation he said “If you want to go outside when the sun is shining, you have got to put sunscreen on. This is the same thing,” It was quickly pointed out that if you didn't put sunscreen on it was still you who got sunburned, not the person next to you. It's a tough job being PM. Last December a French backpacker blew into Western Australia from Queensland, unvaccinated although he had been offered vaccination. Several days after his arrival he developed the classic symptoms of Covid-19. Taking his "personal responsibility" seriously he and 400 or so other backpackers went to a nightclub for a party. Not until 4 days later did he bother to go and get tested. As per protocol, he was told to isolate until the test results were known. The next day when the test results were available, he was positive, he couldn't be found at the address where he was supposed to be in isolation. Police had to trace his mobile phone to find where he was sleeping after a hard night of isolating all over town. "Personal responsibility" can be a bitch at times. Meanwhile contact tracers had begun the task of finding the rest of the party goers. Once the word got out that, as close contacts, they had to isolate until tested, "personal responsibility" kicked in and a large proportion turned off their phones to avoid being traced and dispersed here, there and everywhere. There is now covid here, there and everywhere, in the country towns where it had never been before, in the mining camps which had remained covid free throughout the pandemic, on the offshore gas rigs. In the 20 months prior to the French fukwit blowing into town WA had experienced 33 cases of local transmission of covid. In the 6 weeks since the FFW arrived WA has experienced 479 cases of local transmission. Yup, I'm sure "personal responsibility" is the way out of the pandemic. Fuk you Jack!

I've met some great blokes in here (and the other forum most of in here know, and once loved). Made good friends with many I've actually met. And friends with some I haven't met yet. But I think I have a pretty good nose for who I haven't met.... high percentage of them are I'm sure great guys in person. As far as some of the phonies, and rejects. I don't waste time thinking much about them. Toss bags everywhere, waste of time and space. Sorry mother fuckers.

Middlesborough 🤣🤣🤣

Same, the Dynasty Grande was my first ever hotel in Thailand. It was very new itself at the time. I subsequently tried about 8 or 9 different hotels along the Nana/Asoke strip over the years but always had a soft spot for Dynasty Grande. The website is still up but has no updates and it is not possible to book anything through end of 2022. We shall keep a light burning.......

A married couple were on holiday in Jamaica . They were touring around the market-place looking at the goods and such, when they passed a small sandal shop. From inside they heard the shopkeeper with a ... Jamaican accent say, 'You foreigners! Come in. Come into my humble shop.' So the married couple walked in. The Jamaican said to them, 'I 'ave some special sandals I tink you would be interested in. Dey makes you wild at sex.' Well, the wife was really interested in buying the sandals after what the man claimed, but her husband felt he really didn't need them, being the Sex God that he was. The husband asked the man, 'How could sandals make you a sex freak?' The Jamaican replied, 'Just try dem on, Mon.' Well, the husband, after some badgering from his wife, finally gave in and tried them on. As soon as he slipped them onto his feet, he got this wild look in his eyes, something his wife hadn't seen before!! In the blink of an eye, the husband grabbed the Jamaican, bent him over the table, yanked down his pants, ripped down his own pants, and grabbed a firm hold of the Jamaican's thighs. The Jamaican began screaming: 'You got dem on de wrong feet!'

Todays brunch was roast beef bap with gravy. Awesome!

lunch...grilled turkey & jack, slaw, pickles

Exactly, scum can kill other scum all they want to as long as innocents don't get caught in the crossfire - this fellow's demise is no loss to the planet Earth...

Just finished packing.

Yep... Analyzing any possible CCTV recordings may indicate some things regarding the "race" of the individuals. That would be one thing to seriously look at. The report indicated 19 rounds of .38 casings. If you had two shooters and it was actually a .38 that would indicate more than two guns and/or a reload. Perhaps they were actually using a .380 semi auto with larger magazines.

It's usually Wenger who got that if he loses a game. 🤣

And the ref didn't even give them an extra 10 minutes of normal time to give them a fair crack of the whip to win the game! (Although they could have whipped their cracks all night long and not scored!)

more... Here’s What We Know About ‘Johns Hopkins Study’ on Lockdowns It's a non-peer reviewed working paper that has not been endorsed by the university. https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/02/03/johns-hopkins-study-on-lockdowns/ “Throughout the pandemic, most COVID research out of Johns Hopkins University has typically come from its Coronavirus Resource Center, an initiative run out the university’s world-renowned medical school. But the new paper, which was drafted by three economists, comes out of the university’s unaffiliated Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.” The Bottom Line The viral “Johns Hopkins study” about lockdowns was not the work of Johns Hopkins University, it was not peer-reviewed, and it was not written by epidemiologists. A number of researchers have also taken issue with the methods used in this study. Furthermore, the conclusions of this non-peer reviewed working paper run counter to published studies in academic journals that found lockdowns did prevent COVID-19 deaths...

Most shocking aspect was United not getting a decision go their way at Old Trafford. 🤣

the building dead center is where I went to high school...

Wordle 231 3/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The view from the back porch: and through a front window:

Re valuation of Man U since the Middlesborough game😃

The view out my back door this morning:

Next step that needs to happen is the daily fear reports of infections and deaths to stop. We don't do it for anything else. I think and hope they'll stop it in the UK, well, England soonish, by Summer very latest. Time to take personal responsibility and get on with life.

Thinking of buying tickets for The Cure at Wembley in Dec. Pricey, but it is The Cure, you know it'll be a great show. https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-cure/the-sse-arena-wembley/2210223

Was this him?. 🤣

Wifey on the prowl making cookies and fresh bread yesterday.

Days Holiday from work so waiting for it to stop raining. Gonna head in to town to buy some new slippers. Time was I would be heading out for cider from the offiie!. God, I'm getting old and sensible. 😂

This was more me ..