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Just got up for my final day at work. Hard to believe after 19 years and 2 months it's all over. Last 2 weeks we have been palletising all the stock and shipping it to the new warehouse in Coventry. Not much left now so a couple of people are staying on a week or two to finish up. Checked the Internet banking and my final salary and redundancy payment has been made. Not everyday you wake up to a nice fat 5 figure sum in your balance. 🤣 Put my CV on the Internet but in no rush to get back working, got time now to look for something I really like the look of. Don't want too long off and get lazy. Plenty of work out there for warehouse /Forklift drivers and most paying more than I've been on. Would of had a nice bottle of single malt and champagne indoors to celebrate but have 4 can's of alcohol free Punk IPA in the fridge instead. 🤣 The future starts tomorrow. 👍

Gabor had the hots for the dancer in Secrets who wore glasses. He had the hump with me when he found out I had b/fined her when she first started. As he was always going on about "lame dupe over payers" I was curious and one evening in Secrets I called her over and bought her a drink and introduced the name Gabor into the conversation. I said that he had a reputation of being "keenio" to all the girls followed by "I hope he was not like that with you?" "No, he gives me 1,500 baht....................... same as you." " Good", said I. "But no 200 baht tip." Last of the big spenders me!

Pan fried Salmon & steamed asparagus

Some mad hot as f**k Northern Thai curry she tried. Not jungle curry, more spicy.

@galenkiaAlan, well done, enjoy some time off. Come to "Amelika" and will take you over to see some gals at the Viet Coffee Shops... With the cool British accent you have, you can tell them you used to be lead Guitarist for "Motorhead" LOL!

Pong

I mentioned the Secretologists bit to him .... he got mildly excited at first .... Then I told him it was total horseshit and a load of old bollocks .... he went a bit quiet after that ....

Chicken in bread crumbs with melted cheese.

We have had bad flooding in Brisbane and power is cut to a lot of places. It is 1am and I am babysitting a generator to keep the railway telecommunications systems going.

Fish. 150b There were chips, from air fryer, unpicked...

I just decided to rewatch one of my all-time favourite comedy series, Fawlty Towers. While it's still in the old TV 4:3 format, the resolution has been improved to full HD 1080p and the soundtrack given a once-over too. Available on the Pirate Bay, the total size for both series is almost 28 GB. This must be at least the tenth time I've watched them, but they never grow stale and I know I'll enjoy them, especially with the greatly improved quality.

He promoted me first to "secretologist head assassin" and then to "secretologist grand master." Lars, Eye Nitnoy and a few others were also grand masters. Did you ever get promoted? Larry was Xenu, a 25-million year-old alien who was head of the secretologist cult. When Larry started working at Baby Dolls, I asked Gabor if there would be a babydollogist cult and who would replace Larry as head of the secretologists, but he refused to answer. I wasn't allowed by the then-Mods on the Pattaya Club to ask Gabor if the cult still existed after he was allowed back. Evil

Lunch today was Morrison's salad bar, Moroccan mini falafels and a toasted olive and beetroot roll.

Punk alcohol free. Not bad, would have it again.

Chana Masala with additional black eyed beans, sweet red pepper, shallots and Jasmine rice. Served with Peshwari naan bread.

Best wishes for the future mate.

He did yea. Also seen him posting on FB earlier today, replying to some article, so he seems to be okay.

The Dental hygienist. Aye, i go every 6 months, sore, painfully and financially, but like you i want to keep my teeth as long as i can.

Yesterday, on FB, he posted that he was hoping to get on a train to Moldova.

Grown ass men 🙈🙈🙈🙈😆

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Thank you much for posting that incident. I was going to do it myself, but it will sit better with some members that you did it. Let's see if anyone writes about what a nice guy he really is after this. Also in that thread on the old Secrets board, Gabor outed Baz' real-life given and family names. That alone would get a poster banned for life on any forum in the world, from the most hard-core punter board to one on keeping parakeets as pets. After Gabor was banned from Secrets, he began posting almost daily hate rants against you, Baz and the Secrets' board. On Talk he wrote about killing Baz' baby with a machete. No one believes he intended any real harm to the child, but he crossed a line that couldn't be excused with, "It's only the Internet, I was joking." Since the earliest days in the 1990s of the granddaddy of all punter boards, the World Sex Guide, it's been a well-established convention that real-life family members are never mentioned in an insulting manner on the boards. I've often wondered what an FBI profiler would make of Gabor's posts on killing Baz' baby. Gabor made dozens of posts attacking Baz on Talk. Just to give one example: The reason he focused so much on Baz' family is that he hoped to provoke a response that would break board rules and get Baz banned. It's a despicable tactic he used with many BMs, myself included. Whenever Gabor was on the losing side of an argument- and that was always- he would lash out at his opponent with personal insults. He was hoping at least to get the thread locked to divert attention from the trouncing he was taking. He was extremely mean-spirited on the boards and in real life, not the harmless eccentric some people have portrayed him to be. Like Harris Black and all other con men, Gabor could be affable when he met some individuals, but that was only because he hoped to use them later for his own warped purposes. What was most irritating was that he was maddeningly simple. He couldn't grasp any concept more complicated than a big bowl of spaghetti. He was stuck in the mindset of the Soviet-era planned economy in Hungary. No matter how often BMs explained it to him, he never fathomed how a free economy functioned. To him, there were correct prices for all goods and services, including P4P in Pattaya. Prices in countries with communist governments had been set by ministries and political commissars. That's how Gabor saw himself, the commissar of P4P in Pattaya. He would go into a white rage whenever anyone told him he was wrong. His tactics were vicious, way out of proportion with any criticism of his crackpot economic ideas. He had also convinced himself he could get his own way by causing trouble or threatening to cause trouble for a board. That was his reasoning behind his hate campaigns against both the Secrets and Addicts boards after they banned him. If they took him back, he would stop making trouble. It's the same principle LBJ referred to in one of his most famous quotes. When he became President, everyone wondered why he didn't fire J Edgar Hoover, then head of the FBI, as it was well known LBJ hated Hoover. He replied, "I would rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in." That is what Gabor was hoping the Admins of Secrets and Addicts would say. It seemed to work with Secrets. Case in point: When Pattaya Secrets became the Pattaya Club, Gabor threatened publicly to report the Secrets Admin to the Thai authorities unless all his posts (around 15,000) were removed from the new board. (I shortened the above screen shot because the remainder only contained registration info about the old and new boards to prove they weren't the same, whatever difference that made in Gabor's paranoid mind). He came in for stinging amount of criticism for threatening to be a snitch and this was his response: Gabor knew very well it would take a huge amount of time and effort to delete his posts and having to deal with Thai authorities would be even worse, so he figured they would be forced to take him back. Is that how a nice guy acts in real life? Because MrDK (Lars- RIP) and I defended Secrets against Gabor's false accusations, he labeled us as "paid secretologist agents" and tried to disrupt our threads. He started this thread about Lars' Web site: He called Lars a liar because he gave a price RANGE for the girls' services Gabor thought was excessive. And this one about me: I was a liar because I had six weeks earlier posted a joke on the Addicts board (not Talk) that Gabor hadn't understood. It turned out to be a howlingly funny thread because Gabor couldn't get the joke. He came in for more ridicule from a string of board members. MM (RIP) asked me if I wanted the thread removed, but I told him to let it remain. Gabor's own words condemned him far more effectively than anything I could write. I'm tempted to continue with more examples, but I will resist that temptation and heed the words of Jesus: "Get thee behind me, Satan." Does anyone recognize where Pattaya's portal to Hell is located? Evil PS- Boy, did I have fun writing this post. It's not always I can say that!

Cheers dave Jl You should look no further than dji,top camera specs,and a dji shop in bangkok,not sure what the prices are at the moment ive stil got the mavic air 2 ,,think theres a 3 now,but the 2 and 1 you could pick for 15, to 20k bht maybe cheaper ,not been keepin up to speed with it to be honest and rarely use the drone now unless out n the mountains,as for license and legal stuff 🤐, i think you d get a lot of use out of it and enjoy the new perspective. Couple of pics from pak nam pran and austria. The vid on my sig was made using the mavic air 2 and a dji pocket osmo.

I've just skulled a bottle of Sato for breakfast ... nothing unusual really...except that I took the bottle top off using the cat's arse ....little fecker ..

A classic tale with the version I heard at least 20 years ago or more ending with the words " But you suck one cock......" being the story of the New Orlean's Bandido " Pierre Le cock sucker." My wife has the iritating habit of saying "You told me that already." I tried to explain to her that men love funny stories and the retelling of funny stories. It does not matter one jot that we might of heard a story before as it is the telling of the tale that matters. Sure we know the punchline but we wait for it in anticipation like the return of an old friend. We look for the subtle, or not so subtle, differences between one telling and another and laugh along. Sai listens to my explanation - "you told me that already!" Women!!!

Homemade prawn salad sandwich 🥪

O’Brien also wrote this book on Picasso. Bit of a marmite book in my view.

Oh, there’s me thinking that the cats ass was for sharpening pencils. No wonder she prefers to sit on my wife’s lap. 🤣

Read it & weep... These are the worst foods for your health, experts say Turkey bacon isn’t a healthy choice either https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/experts-the-worst-foods-for-your-health 1. Bacon Let’s get this fan-favorite out of the way first. Bacon is not good for your health. "Many don’t know that the World Health Organization has classified bacon in the same category as tobacco when it comes to carcinogenesis," says Reyzan Shali, MD, referring to the process by which normal cells are transformed into cancer cells. "We have done a good job asking people to give up tobacco, but how come we have not done a good job asking people to not eat bacon?" 2. Turkey bacon Turkey bacon isn’t a healthy choice either. "If I can convince my patients to give up bacon, the next question I get is usually whether they can have alternatives to bacon, like turkey bacon. I explain that it's the processing that makes the meat harmful. So replacing bacon with turkey bacon to make it healthier is misguided," says Shali. "All types of bacon are processed to become bacon, so changing the type of bacon does not change the fact that it’s processed meat" she says, noting that this is a difficult diet change to make, especially if someone has been eating processed food all their lives. With that said, Shali urges people to remember when they reach for turkey bacon at the grocery store that "it’s processed meat that has nitrates. And according to a study in the Meat Science Journal, in the stomach, nitrite can eventually form carcinogenic nitrosamines in the acidic environment." 3. Fried food "Fried foods, yet another staple of the American diet that is terrible for our health," states registered dietitian Angela L. Lago, also known as The Mental Wellness Dietitian. "I'm not suggesting that one never has fried foods, however fried foods should not be a staple of anyone's diet. In general, fried foods are higher in fat, salt, and calories, all of which are horrible for heart health and the risk of developing obesity," she continues, highlighting that the type of oil that fried foods are cooked in is of great concern. "Many times, especially in restaurants and fast food businesses, hydrogenated, trans fats are used, which are associated with heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity. A great alternative is to pan fry at home in olive or avocado oil or use an air fryer to get the same effect without the negative health benefits," Lago comments. 4. Potato chips Andrea Paul, MD, medical advisor to Illuminate Labs, chimes in on why this popular snack food is bad for you: "Chips are known to be unhealthy for a number of reasons. They're low in nutrition, and high in cheap fats and sodium," she says. "This obviously varies by brand, but health-conscious consumers want to avoid chips as a snack." If you’re craving a crunchy food, opt for nuts or veggie snacks like kale chips, Paul says. 5. Added sugars If you see any added sugars on the nutrition facts panels of packaged foods, steer clear. "Added sugar has essentially zero nutritional value and has been shown in medical research to increase risk of obesity and metabolic disease," Paul explains. "I recommend that consumers try to cut out added sugars entirely from their diet," she adds. "You can replace added sugar with whole foods like fruit or healthier sugar substitutes like blackstrap molasses, which is nutrient-dense and has a lower glycemic index." 6. Processed oils Try to cut processed oils out of your diet as much as possible. Arika Hoscheit, a registered dietitian nutritionist with Paloma Health, an online medical practice focused exclusively on treating hypothyroidism, explains why: "Processed oils like grapeseed, soybean, canola, cottonseed, corn, and vegetable oils are generally detrimental to human health and should be avoided. This is because they are heated to extremely high temperatures during processing, which oxidizes the oils," she says. "Oxidation produces free radicals that can cause damage throughout the body. As we age, our bodies have to work harder than they used to in order to recover from insults," she explains. "Try to limit or avoid processed oils and eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, which are high in antioxidants. Consuming plenty of antioxidants can help to protect the body from any free radicals that are produced," Hoscheit notes. 7. Hydrogenated fats This category of fats lurks in many packaged foods and fast food products. "Hydrogenated fats are conclusively shown to increase mortality rates in population studies. It's important that consumers read the ingredient label on their packaged food products, because many popular consumer brands of products like peanut butter contain hydrogenated fats," says Paul, who advises avoiding these fats entirely. "They don't even add any flavor, and are used to improve cost efficiency for the manufacturer. Peanut butter with a simple ingredient label like dry roasted peanuts and salt is much healthier than peanut butter with hydrogenated fats and added sugar," she says. 8. Refined carbohydrates These include white bread, white rice and pasta, pastries, pizza and more. "I like to describe refined carbohydrates as foods that started out as nature intended, yet were then stripped of most of their nutrients to make them more palatable and enjoyable for the American public. Refined grain products are known to promote inflammation in our bodies, they are generally higher in sugar, and are also associated with obesity," says Lago. "Gut health is also negatively affected by the standard American diet that lacks fiber and consists largely of processed, refined grain products." Lago takes the nutrient profile of 100% whole grain sprouted bread as an example. "It is abundant in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other nutrients that help our body thrive. Once the bread is processed to become soft, white bread, the nutritional value of the bread plummets, the fiber is stripped, the nutrients are wiped away, and there is little to no nutritional value compared to the original item," she shares. "Up to 89% of the antioxidant activity in whole grains is lost during processing, flavonoids, zinc, and vitamin E are reduced by 79%, fiber is reduced by 58%.," she adds. "This can be said for rice, pasta, cereals, flour and other whole grains that go through the refining process." 9. Breakfast sausages Consider this while loading your shopping cart: "According to a study [published in Current Atherosclerosis Reports titled] ‘Unprocessed Red and Processed Meats and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease, the available evidence points to strong associations of processed meat consumption with the incidence of coronary heart disorder (CHD)," says Shali. To reduce the risk of developing heart disease, Shali urges her patients to cut out all processed meats from their diet, especially from their breakfast. "I know that is not easy, and I have found that helping them take small steps over time can help get them detached from these dangerous breakfast treats," she comments. 10. Processed meat Even though it's been explained that processed meats like breakfast sausage, bacon and turkey bacon are horrible for your health, this category of food is unhealthy as a whole. Therefore, it merits a standalone section. Hot dogs, deli meats, packaged bologna, beef jerky, pepperoni and more, should all be avoided as much as possible, if not eliminated from your diet completely. "The World Health Organization has classified processed meats as a group 1 carcinogen, meaning it's known to cause cancer. Processed meats contain chemicals that are not present in fresh meat," says Lago. "Studies show that people that eat an abundance of processed meats are more likely to have high blood pressure, heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as well," she adds. If you’re looking to make this year your healthiest yet, check out these nine superfoods for a long, healthy life: Eat these foods to live a long life, experts say https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/live-long-life-eat-these-foods

A timeless classic

Something else may rise here soon, but at the moment Cafe Amazon at the Buakhao daily market is falling quickly.

FIFA being a bunch of twats ... will be backtracking very soon I think https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/feb/27/anger-as-fifa-decide-russia-can-continue-bid-to-qualify-for-world-cup

I met him when I was with @nampla in Baby Dolls in about 2012...he accused me of being a 'secrotologist' because I was a moderator on the Secrets forum and then promptly ignored me 😂

Like Morrison's salad bar as they have a great selection of veggie options, even most of the pasta choices are veggie friendly.

Gabor posted on the Secrets forum that Baz was a low life loser that married a Thai whore. He said when the baby was born that they should make a large pot of soup with it. Well I caught the post very early and deleted it. I then tossed him off the forum. Well one of the owners wanted him put back on despite seeing the screen shot of the post. Others that saw it before I was able to remove it and posted such agreed with him being tossed so the owner in question relented. But after I left Secrets he was quick to reinstate him. He thinks all bars and Agogos are out to f**k him. I remember him coming into Secrets with 4 of his friends from Hungry one night. He got up to take a piss and one of his friends came over to me to let me know they were his friends but they assured me they were nothing like him. That really says alot IMO

"Drab" is the right word. Ruined what is otherwise a great looking motor.

Russian neighbours!

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Goldilocks was taking her dog for a walk and met Miss Marples returning from Church. "What a charming little girl you are and what a sweet wee doggie you have." "Thank you" says Goldilocks "What's your name?" asks Miss Marples. "My name is Goldilocks" says the little girl. "That name really suits you and what is your wee doggie's name?" " His name is Porkie" says Goldilocks "Oh, how sweet. Is that because he is such a happy little dog and eats up all his food?" "No, its because he fcuks pigs!"

A backpacker is traveling through Ireland when it starts to rain. He decides to wait out the storm in a nearby pub. The only other person at the bar is an older man staring at his drink. After a few moments of silence the man turns to the backpacker and says in a thick Irish accent: "You see this bar? I built this bar with my own bare hands. I cut down every tree and made the lumber myself. I toiled away through the wind and cold, but do they call me McGreggor the bar builder? No." He continued "Do you see that stone wall out there? I built that wall with my own bare hands. I found every stone and placed them just right through the rain and the mud, but do they call me McGreggor the wall builder? No." "Do ya see that pier out there on the lake? I built that pier with my own bare hands, driving each piling deep into ground so that it would last a lifetime. Do they call me McGreggor the pier builder? No." "But ya fcuk one goat......"