phuketrichard wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 1:55 pm i long for the old days of K440 an the early days here>
it was like Cambodia was, raw, exciting, nothing held back

Now all we get is weird ones posting stuff that always features themselves, ( welcome Walter Mitty) as the stars, others confident that their intelligence will show thru in their words & obvious trolls
Than OTOF the Anonymous fuckers posting, cause they dont want their posts linked to them

Bet KIR is turning over in his grave

As they say,


......you should have been here........"

carry on

Fridaywithmateo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:13 pm

Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:50 pm Most of us who were about 20+ years ago aren't tearing around trying to kill ourselves anymore - our attitudes and lifestyles have been reoriented. We've become stately refined bastions of society mellowing in older age so we might squeeze out an extra five years at the end of what must be a considerably reduced life span because of our earlier waywardness. Our contributions (and lack of them) on these forums, their sedateness or benign nature are representative of the tired subdued resigned old boots we've become.

And frankly, I'd much sooner place my exposed arse on a nest of particularly voracious ants than get involved in much of the expat giddyup and gobbledegook that forums offer. I'd just quite like to travel somewhere and a nice cup of tea.

Every day is a gift for me ... I've died 3 times ... life is a gift.

It was an exciting time to be in Southeast Asia because although it was only twenty years ago, the area was still relatively undiscovered. Thailand in 1983 was to some extent the Wild West. For better and worse. You were often getting accosted by strangers with uncertain motives in the street—even when you got to the airport (it was a fairly rickety airport in those days), people would loom out of the dark showing you albums full of pictures of scantily clad girls or all kinds of places you’d never want to go to. Things had a lawless, open feeling that they’d lost in Thailand even by 1988.
But at the same time I don’t conform to that comforting notion we often have that places get spoiled. I think it’s more that our perception of them gets spoiled. After that first impression, when we go back to a place, what we’re doing is not seeing the place naked but comparing it with the place we saw before and registering some fact about how we’ve changed or how we’ve lost an element of innocence. So I think corruption is in the eye of the beholder, more than in the place itself.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:19 am

Fridaywithmateo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:13 pm

Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:50 pm Most of us who were about 20+ years ago aren't tearing around trying to kill ourselves anymore - our attitudes and lifestyles have been reoriented. We've become stately refined bastions of society mellowing in older age so we might squeeze out an extra five years at the end of what must be a considerably reduced life span because of our earlier waywardness. Our contributions (and lack of them) on these forums, their sedateness or benign nature are representative of the tired subdued resigned old boots we've become.

And frankly, I'd much sooner place my exposed arse on a nest of particularly voracious ants than get involved in much of the expat giddyup and gobbledegook that forums offer. I'd just quite like to travel somewhere and a nice cup of tea.

Every day is a gift for me ... I've died 3 times ... life is a gift.

Here we go...

Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:13 am

Doc67 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:19 am

Fridaywithmateo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:13 pm

Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:50 pm Most of us who were about 20+ years ago aren't tearing around trying to kill ourselves anymore - our attitudes and lifestyles have been reoriented. We've become stately refined bastions of society mellowing in older age so we might squeeze out an extra five years at the end of what must be a considerably reduced life span because of our earlier waywardness. Our contributions (and lack of them) on these forums, their sedateness or benign nature are representative of the tired subdued resigned old boots we've become.

And frankly, I'd much sooner place my exposed arse on a nest of particularly voracious ants than get involved in much of the expat giddyup and gobbledegook that forums offer. I'd just quite like to travel somewhere and a nice cup of tea.

Every day is a gift for me ... I've died 3 times ... life is a gift.

Here we go...

Tell Fridaywithmateo you've got a cold and he'll tell you he's got pneumonia brought on by fighting grizzlies in the freezing waters of Alaska.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:19 am

Fridaywithmateo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:13 pm

Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:50 pm Most of us who were about 20+ years ago aren't tearing around trying to kill ourselves anymore - our attitudes and lifestyles have been reoriented. We've become stately refined bastions of society mellowing in older age so we might squeeze out an extra five years at the end of what must be a considerably reduced life span because of our earlier waywardness. Our contributions (and lack of them) on these forums, their sedateness or benign nature are representative of the tired subdued resigned old boots we've become.

And frankly, I'd much sooner place my exposed arse on a nest of particularly voracious ants than get involved in much of the expat giddyup and gobbledegook that forums offer. I'd just quite like to travel somewhere and a nice cup of tea.

Every day is a gift for me ... I've died 3 times ... life is a gift.

Here we go...