lvdkeyes

I have a retirement visa. When I get a multiple re-entry visa, it is good for as many times as I want until the expiration date.

Maybe Thailand will lower its import taxes.

Ah! In that case "always" should be included.

Smiling and being happy are not what the UNDP's criteria was regarding quality of life.

I have lived in Thailand for 5 years now and have not returned to the US, so no need for a US mobile.

Isn't that how Markie Mark (Mark Wahlburg) got started?

What's wrong with every, never and forever?

Because the French are the lovers of the world. AHEM!!!!

That's even better.

"Welcome", when shouted at me by girls outside the girl bars. That shrill high pitched word goes right through me.

24/7 BFF (yuck) totally

He is rather hunky!!!

[quote But damn, those are some pretty good-looking guys. Sorry, I can't agree with you on that, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

When I first moved to San Francisco, I knew very little about Thailand. I saw a restaurant named Phuket. Given how we westerners pronounced "ph", well, you can guess the rest. I thought "only in San Francisco would they name a restaurant that."

Yes, but a lot cheaper than Phuket or Samui.

My old US mobile didn't have a SIM card. I had to pay monthly for incoming as well as outgoing calls. What a rip off that was!

Thailand is the Land of Smiles, but I hardly think the millions of poor people here would say Thailand has a high quality of life. I will hasten to say that I love Thailand with all of its foibles.

"What is this world coming to?" Earthquakes have been occurring for thousands of years, there is nothing new about it.

The problem with an employer suggesting an employee have sex with him/her is that the employee may perceive refusal as a possibility for firing.

No way for me!!! I got very squeamish at the top of the Macau Tower where they have thick glass on part of the floor. Just stepping on it made my balls crawl up inside me.

Afraid they won't have their surgery, no money and the won't do the surgery in prison.

Probably because he has the money and wherewithall to fly away.

CANNON BALLS!!! DID YOU KNOW THIS? It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the cannon on old war ships. But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem. The storage method devised was to stack them as a square based pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on sixteen. Thus, A supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer from sliding/rolling from under the others.. The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called, for reasons unknown, a Monkey. But if this plate were made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it. The solution to the rusting problem was to make them of brass - hence, Brass Monkeys. Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon balls would come right off the monkey. Thus, it was, quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey. And all this time, folks thought that was just a vulgar expression?

I prefer the Sister of Perpetual Indulgence.

Actually in 1997 the baht hit 54/$1. I, too, was unfortunate. I didn't have the money or ready to retire at that time.