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Last 2 days summited mettalhorn and platthorn above zermatt,stayed at a mountain lodge first night at 1800 m to break it up a bit,but still a long day,was spicy going across glacier without crampons but i read no need for them if theres fresh snow,wasnt any snow at all 😝,2nd day hiked up to hornlihut to the start of matterhorn climb,legs are shattered so today visiting climbers graveyard and matterhorn museum,such a beautifull area around zermatt pity its so expensive,now have to plan how to make my way on train and plane to spain tomorrow,ballache 😜 Not much of a summit,perched on a slab mettelhorn.

Larry was far better at Secrets than Babydolls Phil was far better at Babydolls than Secrets Ben is far better in Cambodia than Pattaya !!

Danny you're not taking enough credit we all worked hard to make it work and we were successful or as much as we could be anyway until it's self-destructed by means that you have posted. But when I left the bar at night I had no trouble sleeping. I wasn't responsible for making sure people got paid or for making sure we had enough money to even open the doors the next day. I did not have to make sure maintenance got done or anything else. That all fell on your shoulders and you carried it as far as you could. As far as the decline after my leaving I put down to failure for promotion. I remember being told the bar will survive on its own The Forum won't have any effect on it one way or the other what a stupid comment. The Forum built that bar and made it what it was and to think you could just stop promoting it basically and it would survive and carry on was just silly. When I got arrested on that setup drummed up charge who is the guy that went around to ATMs draining their personal accounts to get enough money to pay bail it was you. If you hadn't been there I would have spent far more time in the gray bar Hotel before I would have been released. In the end there was nothing you could do because the people above you just didn't care anymore. You can't save a sinking ship when the captain is not concerned

My berfday so we took my mum to a pub which does very good Thai grub.

Not her but you’ve just reminded me of something that happened upstairs…… halfway through the deed I strained my groin….. absolute agony, reducing me to tears…… your girl then said she’d go and get me some ointment…. I offered to pay her thinking she was doing a runner! But she wouldn’t take any payment. About three hours later she returned, she’d gone all the way to Jomtien….. she then proceeded to massage the ointment in and wasn’t convinced I was better until she had made me come !!

Pound of steak, salad , watermelon, and a Nespresso

Chicken cooked in cream of chicken soup in the slow cooker on my veg mix.

I had a fourth jab in July - free and easy so why not, and maybe it'll look better to whomever is checking when I travel again in December; I did catch Covid in late March but have been fine since, although I do have friends or acquaintances who have had it more than once now but with mild symptoms.

Watched this last night.. About the kids stuck in the cave in Thailand a few years back Brilliant watch the divers were absolute heroes a miracle anyone ever got out.

At one point every girl we had on that day shift could have worked at any Go-Go in this town was an absolutely fantastic group of girls.

A few observations from the trip. Singapore is generally more expensive that Thailand. No surprise and not new. We flew on Singapore Airlines, economy one way and business on the other. I do prefer the service on Singapore air to that on the low cost airlines; since I carry a fair amount of Camera equipment I am always mindful of having both check in luggage and carry on luggage. The big mistake I made was not purchasing a Singapore SIM card and looking back I do not know why I did not. I have heard it said many time that it is not necessary to have a local SIM card, because there is WIFI everywhere. Whilst that is true, there is no WIFI generally out in the open and Apple Maps and Siri both require an internet connection to function fully. It was frustrating to know that we were near a location but I did not have a clue whether it was to the left or right. Incidentally the vast majority of people in Singapore spoke English so no real problem getting directions. I know Singapore reasonably well and using the MRT was great. It was not necessary to get a taxi at all and during this trip we did not do any of the organised tours. Singapore is not as fully open post Covid as other places. There is a lot of building development and refurbishment still ongoing and particularly noticeable on Sentosa that a lot of places are not open or in the process of refurbishment. Many of the organised tours were only running one day per week; pre covid they were daily. Singapore MRT do a three day unlimited pass for 30 Singapore $; 10$ of which is refundable when you hand in the plastic card at the end of your trip. Card is renewable for 20$ for three days. It is important to buy this at the MRT ticket office. In the airport they sell a similar product but $38 dollars for three days and no refund when the card it handed in. Humidity seems higher in Singapore than Thailand. My lenses immediately on going out steamed up with condensation on the external surfaces; it was just a case of wait for the condensation to evaporate. (My cameras and lenses are weather sealed. Changi is a massive airport and took us a few minutes to work out how to get from the MRT station to departures. Check out in hotels seems to be getting earlier. It was 1100 hours. Covid and room cleaning is blamed for this, however it does not seem that long ago since check out was between noon and 1400. Food Courts in the shopping malls were very good and cheap. Menu tended to be cross Asia rather than International. Typical meal with soup and main course plus item of fruit around or less than $9 Singapore. A lot of the food is preprepared and kept warm; I avoid these and go for food that is cooked to order.

I've had 3 jabs, just recently had covid for the second time, different variant and it hit me in different ways than the original Delta one did. The Delta was much more severe by way of symptoms, I "lost" 2-3 days where I have not much memory other than in my waking hours, watching the clock tick by hoping that I'm getting better rather than any worse. This variant "BA5" the symptoms were relatively light, but they seem to be longer lasting and create longer term muscle fatigue and tiredness with more "cold like" effects rather than the full blown flu. Ultimately, I believe the jabs reduced the symptoms of BA5 somewhat. If someone had offered me the same for the Delta back then, then I'd have snapped it up immediately. the thing I noticed most about BA5 is that one doesn't just "snap out of it" over a period of 3 days like Delta, recovery is much slower and more gradual, but taking Vitamin C, keeping hydrated etc did help, but consider tnat it may have been a placebo effect though. I'll go for a fourth booster if offered. If, by chance a "worse" variant emerges then IMO some protection is better than none.

Full of raw emotion just beautiful 🤣

Some brilliant memories of the old forum .. Also met some.decent BM's at the old Secrets Sundays . Time flies

I blame all the goings on on the 4th floor, the Secretologists and of course the goat.

Haydn was a former poker playing buddy of Ben's. Basically a lovely guy but a couple of aces short of a full house. He was perfect for a bully like Ben and he ( Ben) treated Haydn like shite. The day Haydn left he presented me with his prized possession being a "silver" teapot he kept upstairs in his room. 😄 By the time Larry left, Secrets was in terminal decline thanks to Ben basically ignoring his shareholders and using the company bank account as his own to fund his world wide poker addiction. Secrets was very fortunate to have had both Larry and Mr Egg as the face of Secrets to the majority of customers. Both were my work colleagues and friends and we all did our best to keep the success story that was Secrets ongoing. It got so bad in the end that Phil and I were always the last members of staff to be paid and I was having to make up the daily floats from my own funds. I resigned when Ben returned from a Poker trip and I could not get a guarantee that Ben had the funds to pay the Thai staff wages. At the time maybe a third of regular expenses were overdue. Water under the bridge but so sad because when it was good it really was good. So many loyal staff that he simply did not deserve. Addictions come in many forms but can be equally destructive.

For me it would have to be Pulse by Pink Floyd.

Neither was Wish You Were Here. And I don't think youtube vids count as live albums either.

I stand to be corrected but I don't think that the Beatles Abbey Road album was live?

I will link the post in EP's 300 baht thread.

Cheers mate I'm working refurbishing mobile phones and tablets for Apple. Good money and I can walk to work in seven minutes. Love the job so things are going well mate.

Dinner at Yayoi in Terminal 21

I had him as mine, and swapped him out at the last moment. Oh and left 18 points on the bench. Sadly the league table doesn't lie😭 WC next weekend!!!

there are 2 movies of this event this one and another called The Cave rescue. Then there is the National Geographic documentary that came out first and IMO far and away the best of the 3 as all the footage is of the actual event. No actors just the real life guys that got the kids out. it is brilliantIf you do a torrent search for The Rescue it is out there.

I'm very pleased with this week's results but the Manager of the Week has to go to @galenkia for spotting Jesus for captain!!!

Mayhem at united..... I got rid of eriksson. That said, who knows? Anything can happen in that fixture. Considering captaining Jesus instead of Salah next game week.

Crystal Palace are Liverpools bogey team mate.

The view from this week's office... Would be better if all those people didn't want to go racing....

Some great choices gentlemen, all of these are good, obviously my favorite is "Yessongs" Another favorite I can still listen to today would have to be " Seconds Out" by Genesis.

as the inventor or LEVEL 8 in the shh forum, which drove others mad with jealousy, in fact caused serious ructions, I can honestly say that the ealry days of shh were brilliant. 1.. ben was rarely there, 2.. Lawrence the rat lover was an excellent host and 3.. the gents I sat with were brilliant company. as a quite green newbie, I owe a lot to Robbie who put me right on so many issues, but there were others too. and the girls, well Nuff said.. kept us all happy. remember the scorpion lady, ex from ripleys, who was very popular and of course Poo, who had lips like Mick jager Sundays were obligatory and Gods waiting room with the old men, and Clive, was a great corner

I'm back living in England now, in Leicestershire. The big thing I noticed when I came back was the size of the women, they are humongous now and obese seems to be the new sexy. Now we've had a few days of decent weather these obese specimens are sadly flashing more flesh and the lousy tattoo craze is alive and kicking here too. I'm with you and the sight of a fit as fook thai girl sporting those awful tatts is a real turn off for me. I can't see how anyone can think they look good ? Back on topic now, I loved Secrets but for me once Larry left it was never the same, Haydn was it ? was a joke and although all seem to love him I never found Mr Egg to be even close to being as good as Larry was. And don't start me on Ben, lowlife tosser !

In the meantime make sure you switch your lights off to save the planet....

Given there is a jet protecting it, there is a high probability that it is a test/trial of an early stealth type plane.

Was Phantom who reminded me of Talking Heads and that was always my fave track of theirs.. Brilliant Music Is Power

Must be something trending on the interweb..? A friend just sent me this... . . . Photo: The previously lost pic - of a large angular object about 30 meters long hovering in the sky with a Harrier jet in the background - has been uncovered after 30 years and is described as “an important piece of the UFO puzzle” by experts. (Daily Mirror) The image was taken before the object hovered and hummed for 10 minutes before shooting high into the sky and vanishing. Two unidentified men snapped the craft near Perth in Scotland on August 4, 1990 - police are urging anyone with any information about their identities to come forward. A university researcher rediscovered the photo in a former RAF officer’s home. It had been thought lost after it was handed to the UK Ministry of Defense - but then disappeared.

Fabulous ! I must ad.... When I pulled up that vid, and now listening to a string of Talking Heads.... My present attitude completely became relaxed and a smile upon my face. Just want to say thanks....

I watched it Saturday night and thought they had done a pretty good job of capturing the severity of the situation.

If you decide to play your WC next GW may I suggest that you bring in Nunez and make him tripple Captain ...and then make Lukaku Tripple VC .... Chelsea are doing quite well so may be worth a punt ....

She's a great girl I sure hope she is getting paid. I remember I was very sick one day and I didn't even mention it to her I guess one of the staff must have mentioned it. She came back with a whole bunch of stuff from the pharmacy and didn't want to take any money even well I don't know what she gave me they were pills but whatever it was the next day I felt a lot better. An absolute gem she is

better half is a language teacher. says its not thai sorry

100% I'd go with Pink Floyd then again music is a personal choice for me and depends on my mood at the time too.

Evening time Marine Bay.

Been open for months now, that is where all of the ''posh drinks'' come from. Same owner.

Especially with bolt ons 🤣🤣🤣

Gotta be brave to be seen on the last one 😂

Had my first day at work without our trainer's to ask for help,the ladies went home to the Dominican Republic Saturday. Everything went okay thankfully,but I'm sure they were expecting messages asking for help. We had five weeks with them so learnt a lot. Quite involved is my part of the job, about six separate processes and mostly computer work once we've cleaned and graded the phones and tablets,eight different grades of quality alone which affects it's selling price. Enjoy it and time flies by.

Lunch at the park. Pumpkin Katsu Curry and Cucumber Hosomaki from Kokoro in town. Love their food.

Forgot to mention I've walked past Papagayo on Soi Dianna a few times recently at about midnight, girls in the bar but I've not seen the coyote dancers......

I think Covid will never be over for some people, not sure if the Governments have scared them too much, they buy into too much media scaremongering, or their disposition is just to over react in general. Covid isn't going anywhere, best get used to living with it like all the other nasty respiratory illnesses. Those that want to continue with the many different boosters that will continue to be churned out, carry on. If i had some sort of underlying health issue that made me much more susceptible to an illness like Covid, i'd be in the queue for my 2nd booster, 4th jab in total. But i don't. And i've had Covid twice, once before vaccination, once after. Well, only twice that i know of, i mean, the first time i didn't even know until i tested positive for the antibodies, it was that severe! So as it currently stands, i won't be getting any more vaccines, vaccines that as it stands, don't even stop transmission against the current Covid, and it's debatable if they do much at all against the current strains. But fear not, they'll be multiple more vaccines tailor made to all the different new variants, for anyone that wants them going forward, that's for sure! My daughter has never been vaccinated for Covid, nor will she be for something she doesn't need as it stands. But to each their own, everyone can do what they feel is best. I've always been against mandates, no one should be forced one way or another, there are much better ways if need be. Personally i think there's currently much more important things going in the world to worry about, or deserve our attention at the moment. The economy for example. The UK is going into a long recession with the economy f***d. And if people think the UK economy is bad now, imagine what it would have been like had the we been plunged into a totally needless lockdown again at last Xmas, as the media scaremongering, those lefty minded and politically motivated scientists, and those prone to over reacting wanted. Thank f**k those days as over, more sanity and looking at the bigger picture. We're in a completely different place than where we were when this all kicked off over 2 years ago, completely different in all sorts of ways. Those that want to keep getting vaccines crack on, they'll be loads of different ones ongoing, that's a cert. Keep wearing a mask, don't go on airplanes, avoid crowds, do whatever you personally feel comfortable with. Me? Covid has taught me a big lesson in that you just don't know what's around the corner, so i'm enjoying life as much as i possibly can now, now that i still can. I'm not gonna leave us on beans and toast, but at the same time if i want to go somewhere or buy something, i just do it