Krapow

Getting ready to go to the gym.

Personally don't like them, on me, nevermind females. 

Have got one lazered off from my lower arm, cost loads more than getting it on, and a lot more painful. 

If I could be bothered, I'd get all mine off, though the rest are pretty much covered even if wearing a short sleeve. 

1 hour ago, Bazel said:

Dave, Do you think it is fair to say that if you visit HH you need wheels?

Hope not!

2 hours ago, ArtyGraph said:

Nessies Bar -  Soi Boukhao   

Owner was dodgy.

I used to sit at Pitini's across the road and watch the owner kick lumps outta anyone passing wearing an England top. 

And we won't even mention the other mad Scot who had it a few owners later ...

4 minutes ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

I may thank you for your message.

Interesting, where did you find anything from the opposite sex that could offend me?

Whole my life I have always wanted to enjoy the girls, slept with them since grade 8. Donkey me and some luck, no teenage pregnancies.

Never mentioned or meant you personally.

I'll just leave it at that though, as said, the topic doesn't really apply to me now anyway.

Cheers 🍻

2 minutes ago, Colonel Kurtz said:

Funny it might be. Being fucked , at least humiliated, takes a lots of love to live in Thai.

Everyone's different, with different experiences, not sure I know of anyone in the scenario you posted. Can't say I ever have to be honest.

But yea, people can and do get humiliated by someone from the opposite sex all over the world.

Anyway, I don't drink alcohol anymore, so don't really miss any bar, just to keep on topic. 

@Colonel Kurtz, board member @DumbDucker found your quote about a farang taking a bar girl, opening his wallet and showing the bar girl pics of his family funny. This quote -

'Small wonder Thai bar girls prefer Japanese. They are slim, no bad smell, little drink, no all night riding,  and they are done. Nothing like farang who barfined a bar girl, drunk, can do no fcuk, shows from his wallet pictures of his family, Cries at that'.

Must admit I found it funny as well. That's all he was saying, saying you made a funny post, a complement if you like.

That's how I read it anyway.

Then things got a bit mixed up.

3 minutes ago, KhunDon said:

I’ve had Type 2 for 19 plus years and used to be on Metformin, it played havoc with my guts but I stuck with it until 2 years ago, when I told Doc I wanted off of it. He pushed me to keep using it, but I stuck with my decision, so he (reluctantly) put me on two different drugs. Gliclazide 3x80mg and Sitagliptin 1x100mg. Stopped the gut problems, I had a lot more energy and my blood test dropped a bit. 

I’ve considered the Low Carb diet and followed the programs on TV, maybe I try it soon. 

Got my yearly review next Wednesday at the Docs, I’ll wait and see what my 3 month bloods are, then talk to the diabetic nurse. The NHS don’t seem to be pushing Low Carb diets, not sure why. A couple of recent TV programs where doctors seem to be in favour of it now.

No problems with my feet, some mild Retinopathy in one eye, but, according to the Eye Consultant, not bad enough to require laser surgery yet and they monitor my eyes every 6 months with the drops and camera scans. I wear glasses for reading, but the lense prescription is a very low one and that hasn’t changed for 10+ years.

I would recommend everyone to get the test for Diabetes done, as the sooner you know you have it, the sooner you treat it and that will help you stop having serious problems in later life.

👍

 

Good advice, and good luck with the review. 

Just now, eyes4thais said:

Hi All, I have been coming to Thailand for 12 yrs and generally have 3 - 4 monthly trips a year. I do travel to other countries but Thailand has been my main destination n recent years, mainly because it is so easy.  I now try to hire a car for a week, and travel to other destinations within Thailand. 

Welcome, lots of people you'd know on here, well, from online anyway ...

Cracking thread, Kudos to the OP 💪

2 hours ago, DumbDucker said:

Some reason thinking of @Krapow

Better than fecking dancing prawns exploding all around my mouth 

12 minutes ago, KhunDon said:

If I had to choose Krapow, I would choose the years 1999, to around 2005/6 as that’s when it got really busy. 

Stupid really, I know, because we had a business there, but we never were out to make a fortune and we ran it like a club. We didn’t advertise it, we didn’t even have a sign up, we figured if you could find us, you were welcome to come in. We had time to do what we wanted, we even closed the place one day a week and paid our staff to have the time off, no business did that back then.

In late 2001, we were in Pathum Thani at the inlaws and someone rang to say our business was in The Bangkok Post, I didn’t believe it, so got a copy and there was a full page spread on the place, pictures and all.

It turned out that the editor of the Post had heard of us and visited the place, eaten some of the wife’s cheesecake, liked it and the setting, so sent for a photographer and wrote the article without our knowledge. 

The day after the article, the phone was ringing off the hook with people asking where we were.

That was the end of our quiet life, as the Bangkok HiSo crowd started coming and we got so busy 7 days a week, we didn’t have time to ourselves. Not exactly what we had planned for an easy life. So after a few hectic years, we had another house built, so we gave the business to the wife’s family and spent our time traveling. 

Back then, the pace of life was a lot slower, most visitors were from Europe, US, Australia, now it’s more Chinese, Korean and Thai, with the rest  made up of farangs.

Of course, things never stand still and the building and traffic problems are the same with any growing city and that’s to be expected. It’s just not what suites the wife and I. In fact, on her visit to Thailand in July and August, they only went to Hua Hin for one day to visit the family and the rest of the time was spent in the North. 

I’m not saying Hua Hin was better back then, people must make up their own minds on that. I just preferred it back then. 👌

 

 

 

 

 

Loving your contributions, thanks 👍

43 minutes ago, KhunDon said:

The City of Hua Hin that I moved too in 1999 bears no resemblance to the Hua Hin of 2018. 

Thousands of new houses, shopping malls, hotels and guest houses and of course, much more traffic, which the roads can’t handle, despite having a bypass. 

I remember the party and balloons, when Tesco opened a small shop in a petrol station on the main road through the city.

Very few European restaurants then. A couple of Italian ones a couple of French ones and two or three Swiss ones, that was it.

My wife supplied a few of them with sweet tarts and pies, at between 1000 -1200 a time, good business back then.

Did have a Mc Donald’s though, but getting a good, English breakfast or steak, was almost impossible!

One Englishman had a place called Buffalo Bills, which did steaks and a couple of English run pubs did English breakfasts, now almost every street pub sells them, along with Sunday roast dinners.

If you wanted to find European foods in the shops, you were out of luck, unless you went to the restaurants above or the large hotel restaurants.

There was a 3 story “supermarket” on main st, which sold mainly makeup, toiletries, girls clothes and not much else, I remember spotting a box of those individually wrapped small packs of butter in a freezer once, I bought the lot!

The place was actually very small, with toilets that a rat wouldn’t go in.

My wife made all the cakes for our coffee shop, but we had to go to BKK once a week to buy flour, chocolate, cake butter (which was white?) and Marscoponi cheese, for cheese cakes. Now, you can get almost anything there now., there is even a cheese factory owned by a couple of Dutch guys.

The areas with bars was mostly centred around the Bintabaht area and you could walk it all in around an hour. 

The council seem to want to move the bars out to other Soi’s now and gentrify that area. So whole streets on the outskirts consists of small bars that are mostly owned by farangs. They tend to open for a few months, then it goes back on the market again, although there are a few good bars that last the test of time. 

Luckly, when I took money out to Thailand, the £ was worth 76 Baht, land was cheap and you could build a 3 bed, two bath bungalow, for under 2 million Baht. The inlaws bought a few properties there back then, when they were cheap. A new, four story shop house could be had for 2.75 million Baht  in 2003, not sure what they go for now.

Now, land prices and building costs have gone through the roof and there are hundreds of second hand condos and houses on the market at stupidly high prices, which never seem to sell. Yet they still keep building them.

Having said all that, I’m glad of my time there and would do it all again in a heartbeat. 🤗

Sorry, just the ramblings of an old man with time on his hands, I’ll get me coat.

 

So, you prefer it then, or now?

6 minutes ago, Stickman said:

I know heaps of guys with type 2 in Bangkok.  The effects of it are terrible.

One had his leg amputated and died a few years later.  Another had his big toe amputated 3 years ago and the "hole" has still not closed up and healed properly.  Another has had all sorts of health problems, most of which are attributed to being a side effect of diabetes.

Diabetes is an evil disease but the good thing is that type 2 can easily be avoided.  It's a lifestyle disease so watch what you eat, exercise and you should be ok.

Yep, that's what the thread's about.

It is a horrible thing to have, but it can be prevented or reversed. 

2 minutes ago, Punter said:

I picked up Q Magazine's Legends Series on Paul Weller a couple of days ago. It's a whole magazine about him going back to his Jam days , featuring loads of old interviews and right up this year.  Good stuff.

 

Is it online?

27 minutes ago, Punter said:

I did a kettlebells class a couple of years ago and really struggled to keep up for an hour. The best time for me is half an hour before work. if I leave it to after work, it just doesn't seem to happen and the gym is a lot busier anyway. It's dead quiet at 7.30 am. I wish it opened earlier. I alternate between resistance one day and cardio the next. I enjoy the treadmill a lot more than weights. I did an outside run last weekend and a bit of cycling. I'd like to try some classes again, but it's so difficult to find the time.

Boxfit's 45 mins, the HIT and circuits are an hour, where I use.

Yea, I used to do what you do, go before work. But I now prefer the classes, and they mostly start at 6 or 6.15pm, so not too bad. They push me, and plenty of times there might only be me and another male, so you're too embarrassed to give up or stop for a breather 

2 minutes ago, Punter said:

I was there too mate. I'm getting well into Weller and going back to the Jam. I'd forgotten what a brilliant band they were.

Weller has barely out of school when he wrote many of those classic tunes, the lyrics are top notch!

Just now, Punter said:

 

Snowballed up! 

9 minutes ago, Punter said:

Doesn't this thread seem a bit familiar? Well I've learnt Krapow has excellent taste in music. I was lucky enough to see Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher the weekend before last at Bristol Down. Brilliant.

 

Well Jel, here!

Brilliant tune as well, brings me back to my youth, a song about Thatcher's Britain.