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Back to low carb for the coming week Att: Khun @boydeste please no pasta or pizza pics until the 18th….Thanks mate

Chicken jalfrezzi with added chick peas lakeside.

Hope a bit of bread is OK? Butcher's sausages with bacon lakeside.

Years ago, I cancelled my Direct TV in the middle of the month. When the next statement came, it showed a $26 credit. I thought I would be getting a check in a week or so. The next statement came, again a $26 credit. I called them and was told I should have cancelled at the end of the month and they don’t issue refunds. This went on for months, sometimes I’d throw away the statement, sometimes I’d call them and bitch, telling them if they can’t refund my money, at least quit sending me a monthly reminder that they owe it. Finally, one day I looked at their statement and it came to me. I decided to change my address with them so if they couldn’t stop sending it to me, at least I wouldn’t get it. But what new address would I use? The perfect answer was to change my address to their payment address. It worked, I never received any more correspondence from them. Almost a year later, I got a call from them. Their representative told me that they issued a refund and asked why I cashed the check and then sent them another payment for the $26. He said it had happened 6 or 7 times. Evidently, they sent the refund check to themselves, treated it as a payment and credited it to my account which triggered another refund.

Pasta bolognese lakeside.

A guy walked into a local bar, waving his pistol and yelled, “I have a 45 caliber Colt with a seven round magazine, and I want to know who’s been sleeping with my wife.” A voice from the back of the room called out, “You will need more ammo!”

Been out drinking this holiday afternoon ... now

6 eggs and a pound of ribeye, only meal of the day. My body is responding very well to this once again, I find that the more I lose, the more willpower I gain……

Maybe he was on LSD

When we went decimal I was buying 10 fishing lures at 75 pence each and the young lad used a calculator I gave him the correct money already in my hand. He said how did you know that.I said I went to school.

Life magazine sends one if its reporters to the Appalachian Mountains to gather life stories of the locals. On the first day, the reporter climbs up a mountain and there he encounters an old man sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch of his log cabin. "Good morning, sir. I'm a reporter from Life magazine. I'm here to gather life stories from the folks living in this area. I have a question for you. What was the greatest day in your life?" The old man thinks for a while and then says, "Well...I remember the day when my neighbour's sheep got lost in yonder mountains. So me and the boys went off looking for the darn sheep and we brought along some food and moonshine. But by the time we found the sheep, we were so drunk that we figured it would be very grateful, so we took turns humping it under the lemon tree! We had a grand time eating, drinking and fornicating!" The reported is dumbfound by what he just heard. "Um that's an interesting story sir, but I can't use that in the magazine. What is the second greatest day in your life?" "Let's see. Well I remember when my neighbour's daughter got lost in yonder mountains. So me and the boys went off looking for that darn girl and we brought along some food and moonshine. But by the time we found her we were so drunk that we figured she would be very grateful so we took turns humping her under the lemon tree! We had a great time eating, drinking, and fornicating!" "My magazine won't allow either of those stories to be printed! How about some sad stories? What is the saddest day in your life?" "Well, I remember the day when I got lost in yonder mountains ........"

The 6th grade science teacher, Mrs. Parks, asked her class, "What human body part increases to ten times its size when stimulated?" No one answered until little Mary stood up and said, "You should not be asking sixth-graders a question like that! I'm going to tell my parents, and they will go and tell the principal, who will then fire you!" Mrs. Parks ignored her and asked the question again, "Which body part increases to 10 times its size when stimulated?" Little Mary's mouth fell open. Then she said to those around her, "Boy, is she going to get in big trouble!" The teacher continued to ignore her and said to the class, "Anybody?" Finally, Billy stood up, looked around nervously, and said, "The body part that increases 10 times its size when stimulated is the pupil of the eye." Mrs. Parks said, "Very good, Billy," then turned to Mary and continued. "As for you, young lady, I have three things to say to you: One, you have a dirty mind. Two, you didn't read your homework. And three, one day you are going to be very, very disappointed."

More quality grub Mr. Boy....

From this years race ..

Lovely end to the day lakeside.

years ago Barry Upton gave me 4 of his cd. obviously i want going to play them but remembered. hang them from string as bird scarers. they work very well for that

Don't be in a hurry to do too much too soon mate. Your knees will thank you for it.

Just back from the first session at the gym. Blimey, didn't realise how unfit I've become. Thought I'd warm up with the stairclimber,ten minutes and I thought I was gonna have a heart attack lol. So moved on to the running machine and did 45 minutes brisk walking on a slope. Don't take long to get your fitness back, and I'm gonna do an hour a day, every day. Good thing about my shift pattern is I can avoid the peak times when it's busy 🙂

I gave up years ago when the cashier got out a calculator to find out what 10 items at 10 pence added up to. I already told her it was £1 but she just trotted off to get the calculator. Nothing surprises me anymore.

So I am at Walmart scanning and bagging my almost $300 worth of groceries while the employee that wants $15 an hour "monitors" and then this happened. Her - why are you double bagging all of your groceries? Me - excuse me? Her - you are wasting our bags! Me - if you don't like the way I'm bagging the groceries, feel free to come on over here and bag them yourself. Her - that's not my job! Me - okay, then I will bag my groceries how I please if that's all right with you. Her - why are you using two bags?! Me - because the bags are weak and I don't want the handles to break or the bottoms to rip out. Her - well that's because you are putting too much stuff in the bag. If you took half of that stuff out and put it in a different bag then you wouldn't need to double bag. *10 seconds of me just staring at her. Me - so you want me to split these items in half and put half of them in a different bag so that I don't have to double bag. Her - exactly. Me - so I would still be using two bags to hold the same number of items. Her - no because you wouldn't be double bagging. Me - pressing two fingers to my left eye in an attempt to make it stop twitching. Me - okay so here I have a jug of milk and a bottle of juice double bagged. If I take the milk out and remove the double bagging and just put the milk in the single bag and the juice in that single bag I'm still using two bags for these two items. Her - no because you are not double bagging them so it's not the same number of bags. Me - looking around at about 10 other customers who at this point are enjoying the show. Me - is this like that Common Core math stuff I keep hearing about? Her - never mind you just don't get it. And with that she went back to her little Podium so she could continue texting or playing games on her phone or whatever it was she was doing before she decided to come over and critique my bagging skills. ------------------------------------------------ My husband and I went through the McDonald's driveway window and I gave the cashier a $5 bill. Our total was $4.25, so I also handed her 25c. She said, 'you gave me too much money.' I said, 'Yes I know, but this way you can just give me a dollar back.' She sighed and went to get the manager who asked me to repeat my request. I did so, and he handed me back the 25c, and said 'We're sorry but we don't do that kind of thing.' The cashier then proceeded to give me back 75 cents in change. Do not confuse the people at McD's. ---------------------------------------------------- We had to have the garage door repaired. The repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a 'large' enough motor on the opener. I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest one made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower. He shook his head and said, 'You need a 1/4 horsepower. I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4 and he said, 'NOOO, it's not. Four is larger than two.' We haven't used that repairman since... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I live in a semi-rural area. We recently had a new neighbour call the local city council office to request the removal of the DEER CROSSING sign on our road. The reason: 'Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! I don't think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore.' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My daughter went to a Mexican fast food and ordered a taco. She asked the person behind the counter for 'minimal lettuce.' He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg lettuce. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, 'Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?' To which I replied, 'If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?' He smiled knowingly and nodded, 'That's why we ask' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The pedestrian light on the corner beeps when it's safe to cross the street. I was crossing with an 'intellectually challenged' co-worker of mine. She asked if I knew what the beeper was for. I explained that it lets blind people know when the light is red. Appalled, she responded, 'what on earth are blind people doing driving?!' She is a government employee..... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- When my wife and I arrived at a car dealership to pick up our car after a service, we were told the keys had been locked in it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver's side door. As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked. 'Hey,' I announced to the technician, 'its open!' His reply, 'I know. I already did that side.' STAY ALERT! They walk among us, they breed, and they vote.......

I think cutting costs by changing ones lifestyle is the easy fix for those people in that wage bracket. For many those luxuries don't exist and they are already running at rock bottom. Tough times ahead for many people, especially families.

Click on the link Pattaya H3's First History Book Only a few hard copies floating around now, but one of the PH3 hashers took the time to take a photo of each page. That link will take you to the online copy of his photos. Note that due to the large number of pages in each book, there will be a small delay as the pictures are loaded into the slideshow. If you see a broken image symbol, refresh the page and the 2nd reload should resolve the problem.

I have read all of the Reacher novels - some are OK and the rest are great. Have you seen the new Reacher Amazon series? Excellent and got a lot of positive reviews - 8.1 on IMDB. The actor is Alan Ritchson and he is big - it makes a huge difference to the look of things and how people react to him because of his size - just like in the books. Well worth watching. They started the series with the first book 'Killing Floor' and it was extremely close to the novel and how it read - a commitment they have made and they kept it. There is scope to keep going in the order of each book and with 26 books that could make many years to go (I hope). Staring with a movie about book 9 (One Shot) was a bad mobe, as was using someone who just does not have the size and feel of a big man that immediately intimidates people just by his sheer size. Ritchson aint the actor Cruise is for sure, but he does the role very well. @Lemondropkid I recommend reading Reacher from Killing Fields if you do go that way - Child draws out his character through each book - he clearly had a plan on how to do that from the beginning. I read One Shot first and then decided to get them all and started reading them all from book 1 - it made One Shot even better the 2nd time around as I knew and understood Reacher a bit by then - but there is even more to the guy as further books showed - best series of books I have ever read.

The commentary is amazing, if you listen back to it, the commentator doesn't see the winner Rich Strike till the shadows of the winning post. Such a shock winner it's almost like his eyes/brain have been unable to process what's happening.

This review sums up why I loved that book so much! As an aside, Bukowski wrote the screenplay for the movie, "Barfly", from 1987, with Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway, who played a couple of boozers living life in the various dive bars that came out of Bukowski's very active imagination.

Husband's call to his wife: "Honey it's me. I don't want to alarm you but I was hit by a car as I was leaving the office. Paula brought me to the hospital and I am now in ICU. They have done a lot of checks and tests, and some tests x-rays and an MRI. Fortunately I do not have any serious internal injuries. However I have three broken ribs, a compound fracture in the left leg, and they are worried they may have to amputate my right foot." Wife's Response: "Who the hell is Paula?" And if you find that hard to believe, you've never been married.

I've found over the years the simplest and easiest response to give when you see the befuddled expression on their face is tell them to just ring up the amount they received and let the cash register tell them the change they need to give out.

Another men only hash, the Pattaya Monkey H3, used to use the Thistle Bar on Soi PO as their home. Just had a look at the Pattaya H3's First History Book which covers the period of 1984 to 1988 and see the Wild Elephant Bar on Soi PO was the hash home back then. Could be it morphed into the Wild Chicken at a later date. The PH3 history books are a great resource for pictures and names of those present in Pattaya in the early 80's. Some, sadly have gone to the hash trail in the sky (PH3 In Memoriam), while a few are still active with the hash to this day.

@fforest's favourite animals.

Now that looks like it would "hit the spot" right quick. I've never tried that. Just put that on my list.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You got to love Thailand, "I bribed the security guard" Love it Larry.

All the baited areas have been primed, traps set for the night. Much warmer tonight as the sun goes down. The beer is cold and going down well.

Carp were introduced more than 150 years ago so the gentry could go fishing, along with foxes so the gentry could go hunting. If Aussie carp are too small you could always try Murray Cod.

Since I lost weight I really notice the difference in my joints. Before I was constantly aching and my joints were cracking, now their so much better.

But that would take away the challenge and skill of finding where the fish will feed and tricking them into picking up a bait. Then of course that is only the start of your problem, the huge fish I target scrap like f**k and it can take the best part of an hour to subdue them. Lots of patience and skill involved again! Both of my two big fish so far this trip have come from a trap set at 250 yards. That's a long way to control and land a big fish from! Plus the German beer here isn't as bad as the French stuff.

These photos are of the abandoned reggae Pub and Bar here in Koh Samui I bribed the security guard 100 baht to let me get in and take some photos. The road leading up to this place has about 15 beer bars all have been closed since covid really destroyed this area.