Jambo

1 hour ago, Yesitisdakid said:

I just wear it and throw it away and buy new ones laundry is too much trouble😊

I do that with my bed sheets and save on laundry by turning my boxer shorts inside out after a skid mark inspection.

On 8/18/2023 at 10:44 AM, coxyhog said:

& Sir Geoffrey of Boycott

I have been trying to imagine Boycott fitting into the style of Stokes current England test side particularly if he was opening the batting on a 4th innings run chase.

I've given up.

23 hours ago, Krapow said:

That's over 3 Stone in old money, a massive achievement, especially when your condition is currently such that you can't exercise as much as you'd like.

Well done!

Thanks, much appreciated.

The simple fact is that on the 13th April I stood on the bathroom scales and gave myself the fright of my life. Limited exercise and comfort eating resulted in me actually feeling ashamed of myself. If my scales had been of the "speak your weight variety"  it would have said "Will you two stop fucking about!"

When I was playing football in my 20's to 30's my adult playing weight was 13st 7lb, never got knocked over and I could run for ever. I was a "box to box" player without ever knowing it. 🤣

I am never going to get back to that but my target is to get to 13st 12lb by the 13th October which completes six months on the diet. When I do that, and I will, I will have lost just over 26 kilos. I have 5 kilos to go and 7 weeks left.

I may not have too many years left but my new hip and I are going to enjoy them.

I passed a big landmark today.

Tuesday is my weigh/in day and my total weight loss is now 20.6 Kilo ( 3st 3lb).

That leaves me 5.4 kilo's to still lose by 13th October to hit my 6 months target weight. I am regularly losing a kilo a week so I am on track. I might even be really close when I go in for my hip replacement operation on the 15th September.

If only my hip would not stop me doing my old daily sit/up regime I would have been able to rid myself of the last stubborn strip of belly fat which refuses to disappear. I cannot wait until I can turn that belly fat into stomach muscle. There is a six pack underneath for sure. 😄

1 hour ago, tommy dee said:

for anyone who remembers, and f course for newbies who didnt know him, Lanza built this board.  He was also the father to Young Thomas.

three years ago today I think

 

this was written at the time

GOOD NIGHT LANZA LAD

Deeply saddened to inform all of the passing of Phil Gaines, aka Lanza/Lanzalad.

As some will know, Phil had been battling cancer with all his might for the past few years. the ups and downs have been enormous. sometimes when we spoke I was convinced it would be our last chat ever, he could hardly breathe to finish a sentence. a week later he was up and atom, as they say. but the past few months really took their toll on him as cancer did its evil deed.

Several others here were in regular contact too, and we all saw him come back, and post, and do the admin and enjoy the board even quite recently. all will confirm that the last few weeks were fAR from a comfortable period and that, sadly, his passing will in many ways have been a relief to him

Phil was fortunate to have a wonderful wife who has been his real strength these past years. She is a strong woman by nature but the series of shocks regarding his health hurt her deeply, this as together they introduced Little Thomas into the world, a little man who quickly became the apple of Phil's eye.

In the last few weeks, two pals in the UK have been in regular contact and visits which I know cheered him up no end. I wont name as thats their business but they are welcome, please, to do so, and from all of us who couldnt, a big thank you for the effort.

WE ALL HAVE MEMORIES OF PHIL,

Where ever he is, the bald northern git with a heart of gold, I hope he has a laptop , and is reading this. I will probably get a Pm later that will begin.. "yeah but Tommy, the thing is...." cos that was his start to most discussions.

Love to his family, and miss ya mate

Tommy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice one Tom.

Lanza helped me on several occasions and refused to take any monetary consideration for his time and expertise. The best I could do was to leave a bottle which I hope he enjoyed.

A real nice guy.

41 minutes ago, Glasseye said:

 

These are my two canes. I haven't needed to use them (yet) as a walking aid. But they are strategically located in various parts of the house for denfensive purposes (blocking blows or head caving).... along with my Louisville slugger which stands loyally next to my bed.

 

The hand carved wooden cane is perfectly balanced. 

 

I'm not a violent guy. But I would take that metal cane that broke on you to the store and wrap it around someones head.

 

But better yet.... if you have a witness.... hire a lawyer, document everything and sue the f**k out of them. I think you have a good case.

You can make a seirious claim that it aggravated your condition. There are probably other cases of the same. You have a strong case IMO. Don't hesitate.

 

Jambo... call a lawyer today !

That wooden one reminds me of my Bearded Collie who could not go out for a walk without coming home with sticks like that........

ONLY bigger! 🤣

About 6 weeks ago I finally allowed common sense to overcome my ego and started to use a walking stick to get round whilst the days get closer (finally) to my hip replacement operation next month.

On Saturday I walked out of the bathroom and the following happened

 That is the stick in two pieces after the handle snapped. Only the fact I was at home and managed to use my free arm/hand to stop me falling saved me from potential injury. This just should not have happened and it was sheer luck I was not walking outside.

Not that I can walk far outside.

Amazon delivered walking stick mark 2 which looks the business!

9 hours ago, Horizondave said:

I concur, I do visit Le Pub when in town, although that hasn't happened for a while. Even on my next trip I will not make Pattaya, I will be based in Hua Hin. I would love to clink glasses with Phil but that will have to wait for another trip.

The age bit is possibly making my eyes a bit blinkered, because I don't see much in the bars these days that rocks my boat.  I believe I was spoiled back in the late 80s and 90s with top shelf girls both in the go gos and the beer bars. Going into a go go was just a special visit as the beer bars offered exactly what a younger punter needed. Prices also were basically capped and everybody knew what they were meant to pay.

My last trip to Pattaya left me less than enthusiastic for what was on offer. For me to go into a go go or club such as Milk, I would need to be absolutely certain that what was on show was top shelf and easily stood apart from what was on offer in a lessor setting such as a beer bar, especially with the much higher prices available today..

With due respect to all those trying to make a living, most of what I saw in the go gos last trip, would have been girls that would have difficulty getting a bar fine from a beer bar. Now, of course, there are stunners still in some of the go gos in Walking Street and LK Metro, but the quality overall has gone down and, even if I was on the prowl (not likely these days) I still believe I would be heading home most night solo.

I am on a forum in the Philippines and guys are always showing their conquests (proud to show the forum) yet I find myself thinking that I wouldn't even consider any of them for even a drink, let alone, taking them home.

I don't think it is my age, I just think that what guys see today and drool over shows the quality, of what is on offer, has gone down. Probably many of the best lookers (and best bodies) are on social media and I can see why many guys arrange a liaison via social media. Why would the best girls sweat their bootys off when they can make more money sitting at home.

This is just an opinion but comes from having entered my first Bangkok bar back in January 1987.

Good post.

Nothing ever stays the same including it would seem the size of the girls. I am certain that when I first visited Thailand back in 2002 the majority of the girls were much slimmer than they are now. Of course there are still good looking and slim girls around but are they not the exception rather than the rule?

Do you remember Secrets Shop next door to the bar?

Every time I was about to leave the shop I would look up and above the window was a set of large photo's of a number of the original dancers. All of them were stunning, not an ounce of excess weight and I would have hated to see their age on their ID cards.

I think I knew a couple of them quite well. 🤣

4 hours ago, tommy dee said:

the pub s ok and phil is ok too, but this lineup, really, maybe its just me but i expected to see them in a pen with rings in their noses waiting to be turned into mincemeat

I would love to have the nerve to say something like that!

Is that against the rules???

11 hours ago, Horizondave said:

I must be getting old, I will stick to Le Pub and spend my money on drinks and grub and maybe a ladies drink.lol

I would imagine that sentiment would be expressed by 99% of all forum members apart from maybe a first curiosity Milk visit and a half pint.

We visit Le Pub to see Phil. Everything else is background ambience.

3 hours ago, misteregg said:

The line-up tonight in MILK soi Diamond 
Smoke free environment, conversation level music. 

Nice slim girls mate!

There is a chance I might be checking for myself before the year is out. Depends how quickly I get over my operation.

Better start saving up given your prices for drinks. 🤣

Just completed 15 weeks on my carnivore diet and total weight loss is now 17.5Kg or 2 stone 10 lbs in old money.

I have 8Kg to go by 13 October to hit my target weight and return to a more balanced diet. One that includes vegetables and fruit. 🤣

Not at all easy as when I lose weight it is mostly 1 Kg a week with several weeks when I did not lose anything, three weeks when I lost 2 Kg and the first week when I lost 3 Kg.

I find sticking to the diet incredibly easy because I never feel hungry. I enjoy my food when I am eating it but I have no cravings at all. Not even for the bar of Bourneville chocolate my son-in-law left me or the litre bottle of Bailey's my mate Sweatie gave me when he visited the UK recently. Both will not see the light of day until I hit my target.

4 hours ago, Yesitisdakid said:

 

This is with out question the hardest post I have ever had to make and ever will have had to make. He is resting and at home they suggested he remain in the hospital but as he was not going thru with the operation he chose to remain in his condo. His birthday is tomorrow when he will be 70. I am gutted at the thought of losing my best friend

Larry mate, that is so very sad news.

I was not as close as you  but countless was the times we bumped into one another over the years.

My thoughts are with the both of you.

4 hours ago, Pumpuynarak said:

I'm planning on having it painted exactly the same colour Mike and guess who picked it 4 years ago ? and it won't be getting changed this time by wifey, she still likes the colour that she chose lol

F****** funny you talk about the car on the drive, i insist we park nose first as wifey in common with most lady drivers has a problem reversing the car and i don't want the house demolished lol. Reversing out into the road is a far better solution for wifey as we live in a cul-de-sac and its in the main free from traffic. I kid you not about wifey's reversing problem, on many occasions when we're out, she's driving but i have to reverse the car if the space is somewhat restrictive lol

I must give her some reversing lessons...... 

It is not only Thai lady drivers who cannot reverse. How my youngest daughter passed her test first time, or any time, is a mystery to me.

A week after passing her test I bought her and her older sister a new wee Citroen car because they were offering free insurance for young drivers with full no claims bonus after two years. One week after that she managed to do significant damage to the Citroen and another car she drove into at Edinburgh's Ice rink.

Six months later, whilst reversing off our driveway she caught the front "bumper" on a gate post and pulled it off.

Some time later the house opposite us had a builders skip outside. They marked it with a couple of cones and even a light at either end. That did not stop daughter driving off our driveway again and managing somehow to hit it.

The car was sold when the end of the two years free insurance was looming by when they both had boyfriends with cars.

My daughter drives me regularly now whilst I am semi incapacitated. Her driving has improved significantly over the years  but she still changes gears at the speed of light and I often close my eyes as she hurtles into most every corner.

Women drivers...............you have to love'em! 😄

11 hours ago, Pumpuynarak said:

Now i'm shortly gonna need my house exterior painted, its the Thai traditional rendered walls. I'm no painter/Dec and never do myself so i have no experience. When painting should a primer/undercoat be first applied then 1 or 2 coats of top coat ? I previously have had done by way of a recco from friends but i'm not convinced the correct process is followed as i'm seeing signs of wear ie not enough paint being applied.

Many thanks guys for any help.

Take care as I believe that officially you need a work permit to paint your own house as you would be depriving a Thai National from earning an honest living.

You will probably be OK if you have not upset any of your neighbors enough that they report you to Immigration.

I spent 2 months painting the whole of the outside of our house in Bangsaray before my (extended) trip to the UK including all the walls and fences. It was not in too bad condition and the bulk of the preparation work involved filling in cracks etc and a certain amount of sanding and very limited use of primer. Two coats of quality paint and I was very pleased with the end result. The biggest and most annoying problem was uplifting and temporary moving all the plants and shrubs to get at the exterior walls.

A word of advice.

We farlangs are not used to any kind of manual work out in the sun in Thailand. Even in the shade it does not take long for the heat to make life very uncomfortable. In the sun, and you will not be able to avoid working at some stages in the sun, is a killer. My solution was to start work as soon as it was light enough to see what I was doing and stop as soon as I could not take it any longer. I then came out again for an hour or so every evening.

That also has the advantage of limiting the number of pissed off at farlang Thai painters who see you up a ladder with a paint brush in your hand.

Good luck. I really enjoyed doing some real work for a change.

19 hours ago, Zambo said:

Rod Stewart was born in England with a Scottish father. If Scotland was a separate country then that would be sufficient for him to be Scottish.

If ever Scotland does leave the UK and Scottish passports are needed Rod Stewart won't be the only one who has to prove his case.

Annie, my Grannie was born in Edinburgh which makes me enough of a plastic Scot to have played football for Scotland.

As this born and bred cockney did not learn this fact until I was 37 years of age I never faced the difficult choice between offering my services to either England or Scotland. 🤣

Rod Stewart - Whole family lived 5 minutes walk from my home in Highgate Village, North London. I played several times in the same Sunday morning footy team run by his uncle and brother. I was still at school and relied on a lift to the ground. He turned up once in a Lamborghini Miura. Strictly speaking, he is English.

Lulu and Maurice Gibbs were part of my newspaper round in Hampstead.

If I had failed my 11+ I would have been at school with Ray and Dave Davies of the Kinks. 🤣

Sting and George Michael both lived in Highgate. They didn't drink in the Red Lion and Son or The Gatehouse.

11 hours ago, boydeste said:

The Black Pearl was great afternoon fun, we used to change up 10 baht coins and your lady would strip off and dive for them, before you dived for her. 😜

That is exactly what I was remembering! 🤣

1 hour ago, SteveBC said:

Dunno how far Google history goes back Mr. Force, but it was the Black Pearl around the 2011 / 2012 period mate.

My mates and i had a few memorable Birthday parties there, as you rightly state, there was good ( bloody great in fact ) fun to be had there....

It was most definitely The Black Pearl I was thinking of and Aqua-Demi was the one quite close to where I went fishing a few times. In fact it was the guy that owned the fishing park that took me there the first time.

Who remembers the various bars on the Darkside that had swimming pools?

I used to go to a couple from time to time which were really "dirty". Well the girls were not the pools!  🤣

I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the bars. I make new friends every day as well.

One was near where I used to go fishing but the main one I am thinking of was way out but very popular. Had a fair sized  indoor pool the girls used to romp around sans kit if bought a drink. I remember sharing a wee plunge pool wondering if I would survive. 😄

7 hours ago, Yessongs said:

What is the overall recovery time for an all out hip replacement....as in, when do you actually feel better and can get on with life? I know it would vary from person to person, how bad it is etc. 

Nothing but the best going forward...

 

Well the actual operation seems to be relatively routine these days. From U-tube videos I have viewed they have you up and walking almost immediately like the next day.

I have been on my *diet in hope that my luck would turn and I would receive notification of when I could look forward to the operation. I thought that getting down to my target weight would make the recovery period so much easier. There is bound to be a post operative exercise program to be followed.

I remember Larry (Soi 7) having his double hip replacement and although I cannot recall how long he took to recover it did not seem to have been all that long. What I do know, for sure, was that for maybe years after he used to go on a long walk almost every day.

Today I am hobbling around with the aid of a walking stick and in great pain. If after the operation I can throw away the stick for ever and walk again albeit maybe with some discomfort I will settle for that for sure.

*I received the good news phone calls whilst doing my usual Friday visit to my daughter. When she was giving me a lift back home she suggested celebrating the good news. I broke my diet for the only time in 13 weeks by sitting in the car and eating something called a "Fleurie Galaxy" ice cream from McDonalds. It was delicious! 🤣

On 7/25/2023 at 1:42 PM, Glasseye said:

Impact sports mate. Contussions to the joints, etc.

A couple years ago I developed lower back issues. Basically a buldging disk. The initial pain was extrodinary. I took steroids and muscle relaxants my first two weeks. Began doing basic back exercises and continued to walk through the pain (blood flow helps with the inflammation). Over time things have improved but not to the level I would like. The pain is always there, but I have learned to tolerate it. I also believe that in time I can improve even more.

Around the time this disk thing developed I began to notice my neck (upper spine) cracking. I never had this before. It is very noticable. Doesn't hurt much but it annoys the piss out of me. I asked doc if there is anything that can be done. I figured it is primarily a build up of calcium (ageing). I kind of smiled as I was  asking him because I pretty much knew what the answer would be. He kind of smiled back because he knew I knew. He just answered "nope". We both got a chuckle out of it. 

We get stiff and creaky as we age, try to manage it the best we can, expect some pain. In time hopefully things will improve. When this kind of stuff first hits us it is depressing, as time goes we learn tricks and routines to better manage. Do whatever you can to keep the blood flowing. Paraplegics even have upper body row machines, there are things you can do to keep the blood flow up without banging your knees.

You mentioned the cracking from your upper neck area and how annoying it is. I get a lot of pain from my knee/hip but the thing that like you really pisses me off is the constant cracking I get, in my case, in my knee.

The "experts" completely ignore my knee referring always to it being residual pain from my hip. There may be an element in that but it feels to me that I am walking bone on bone in my knee.

7 hours ago, forcebwithu said:

A CNN article on how a healthy lifestyle can add years to your life. I'm hoping that by going out drinking with friends, socializing (point no. 8), will counteract point no. 6. 

These 8 habits could add up to 24 years to your life, study says

No. 1: First on the list was exercise, which many experts say is one of the most important behaviors anyone can do to improve their health. Adding that one healthy behavior produced a 46% decrease in the risk of death from any cause when compared with those who did not exercise, Nguyen said.

 

"Exercise according to the experts is the No.1 factor in improving ones health and life expectancy"

I have been a distance runner; footballer; golfer; jogger; hiker, and daily cyclist.

So how come I have osteoarthritis in both knees, take two types of opioids to counter the pain and am in the queue waiting for a hip replacement operation?

I love "experts".

I tried to obtain clarification from my medical "expert" as to whether it is safe to take oral morphine in addition to co-codamol or instead of co-codamol. That has never been made clear to me. The first appointment for me to speak to him over the telephone is 10:00am on 25th August.

Not being completely stupid, in the interim I have taken the default position of if I feel the need to take the oral morphine I skip the co-codomol.  Neither appear to make any difference anyway.