Daily Moan

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I like Sumatra. Where abouts?

I left Sumatra about a year ago. Now in Bali. The quiet part beckons.

[VocalNeal]

I left Sumatra about a year ago. Now in Bali. The quiet part beckons.

OK I have lived near Lake Toba.

[happynz]

I've been to Toba. I liked it well enough, but prefer other Southeast Asian locales when it comes to food.

[Storekeeper]

Passed over for two jobs in Japan the past couple weeks. Thinking that door is now firmly closed.

Looks like 2022 is shaping up to be retirement time and a return to Thailand.

[NamPikToot]

^ SK they can smell the air of retirement about you. I am in a similar situation regards time, I have to remember keep my counsel regards talking about how long i envisage having left to work. Good luck with it.

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Passed over for two jobs in Japan the past couple weeks. Thinking that door is now firmly closed.

Looks like 2022 is shaping up to be retirement time and a return to Thailand.

Consider all the options before you decide mate.

[Storekeeper]

Consider all the options before you decide mate.

Will do. But the working years have narrowed to a 2-4 year window now. No less than two and no more than four.

[Luigi]

Looks like 2022 is shaping up to be retirement time and a return to Thailand.

Congrats.

How old are you now, if you don't mind me asking.

[BoganInParasite]

The homestay business is falling away as the peak season ends so finally four days ago took the wife into Nan to the True office to sort out new arrangements for our internet connectivity, two televisions and two mobiles. After our initial 12 month contract what I mean by new arrangements is a cost reduction. Anyway they outlined an attractive package that would support one mobile only but offered more than a thousand baht cost saving per month. But they said we'd also be dropping from the Platinum television channels to Gold. Well this had us confused because we were 99% certain we only had Gold and after checking at home and calling the True call centre we confirmed it. We tried switching to the new package via the call centre but they couldn't do it because it was a local package and could offer no other alternate as attractive.

Okay, so drag the wife back to Nan today to True to do the paperwork. Guess what, the True staff said 'internet not working' and were unable to do anything for anyone. So okay, decide to go do the Makro shopping then grab some lunch and come back in a couple of hours. Thankfully their connectivity was restored and a new deal done...only took thirty minutes...

I see I've just got a text from True to rate the service today. Will need to ponder. Probably not the local team's fault there was no connectivity in the morning and the two staff from four days ago who swore we had Platinum channels were not there. Decisions, decisions.

[aging one]

Why in the world if you have an internet connection would you waste your money on True Visions? Just view what you want via the net and get rid of True who are simply robber barons when it comes to TV. You will see now that you are not busy. Hope you like repeats.

No kidding mate you are the only farung I now know who still uses them..

[Luigi]

^ Was thinking the same.

Perhaps it's a kind of business licensing issue that the TV etc has to have a legit provider.

[jabir]

Ran out of dog food, no car today, haven't trained Jimmy to ride pillion like a good Thai dog, he's never been on a public road except by car to the beach, and I have never actually walked to the shops about 500m away, so decided let's go walkies. Leash on, which he doesn't like but is getting used to, turned left out of the village straight into a pack of 4 large black dogs, 3 on one side of the road and one on the other, they started to bark, growl, snarl and most scary, circle.

I couldn't retreat those 20m or so back to the village, Jimmy was in a state squealing and tugging in all directions, I tried to fend them off but couldn't stop the advance, saw a stone and picked it up, turned out to be a leaf but I was already committed, made to hurl it at the nearest one which retreated, did same to the next and with two retreating so did the others, barking at our backs as we moved on.

Walked on, looking behind the while, straight into another pack of 4 dogs, two each side of the road that had the same script, picked up a real stone, chucked it at the leader, missed but had him retreat, then advance again, picked up another stone and this time clipped his foot, he got the message, led the retreat and they saw us off their territory with more barks and snarls.

Few metres out of their space and I found a nice metre and a bit bamboo cane which made me feel a bit more secure. Another two pounced out of the bushes further on, though the stick fcuked them right off. Just before 711 another huge dog's lying by a food vendor, raised his head with ears pricked, I pointed the stick at him and he settled back to dream of food. Into 711, got stocked for the day; now we have to get back and the only way is the way we came; alternative would be about 3-4km round the block which is infested with more packs.

Made it back home no problem, thanks to the stick though we still had to put up with the noise and the posturing.

The locals reinforce the dogs' domain by feeding them, and don't seem to mind them taking over the street, but we should not need to run the gauntlet each time we leave home on foot. Something really should be done about this, esp in a 3W country whose leaders profess a wish to move forward. I know, ain't gonna happen!

Not my first time threatened by soi dogs, or yours I'm sure, and mates have had worse experiences including car and bike accidents resulting in hospitalisation, and two bitten that had rabies courses, but like it or not the simple fact is the roads are not doggie territory but ours, and within the rules of hierarchy which dogs instinctively obey they are pegged lower than humans; so let's feel sorry for their hard life, but not to the extent that they are allowed to hold the upper hand by threatening us.

There!

[BoganInParasite]

Maybe not a legit moan but yesterday observed a car load of police in uniform park in a handicapped spot before decamping into the shopping centre (to shop [saw them in there later...not on any official business]). Almost took offence of their parking but the longer I thought about the more comfortable I was that perhaps they had made the correct choice.

[OhOh]

Into 711

Dogs are allowed into 7/11's?

[VocalNeal]

Dogs are allowed into 7/11's?

Where I previously lived the staff all knew my wife's dog's name.

[Chittychangchang]

Spent two hours in a traffic jam and covered 3 miles with no escape so abandoned the car and walked for a couple of hours tonight, on the plus side my daughter and I quite enjoyed the exercise and conversation.

[jabir]

Dogs are allowed into 7/11's?

Left him tied outside with a girl and her mum, and the stick.

[NamPikToot]

Returning to my moan on coffee.

Just spotted thjis which shows how fuking barking the whole coffee culture bollocks is. Tate Gallery, one of Britians premier art galleries is advertising a position of "Head of Coffee"...yet the technical experts, curators, are being paid less. Just highlights how fuk'd up we are getting in our celeb infused culture where kids aspire to be Kim Kardashian or some other vacuous celeb contributing fuk all to society. Here we are sending a message that we value someone pouring coffee more that the people who do the real work in the business and have qualified to do so.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jan/29/tate-britains-40k-head-of-coffee-role-sparks-row-over-low-curator-pay

[cyrille]

The story was really about how shit the pay for everyone else at Tate gallery is.

It's right there in the sub heading:

Gallery defends job advert, which critics say shows how little museum workers are paid.

What happens when a tory reads The Guardian.

[Bettyboo]

Returning to my moan on coffee.

Respectfully, you shouldn't drink too much caffeine then make complaints/moans because the caffeine tends to exasperate the issue. You need to kick that heavy Starbucks habit you have - we're with you, brother. We are your support group. We've been there (I was often at the Starbucks in Siam Square by Chula). We feel your pain.

Have you considered getting a Nespresso machine? Kinda like a morphine to get you off your heroin habit?

[NamPikToot]

The story was really about how shit the pay for everyone else at Tate gallery is.

It's right there in the sub heading:



What happens when a tory reads The Guardian.

Funny how the Guardian didn't champion the curators low pay issue before.....now do us a favour.

[raycarey]

What happens when a tory reads The Guardian.

isn't cuck always banging on about how other posters cite the guardian?

and btw, i don't doubt that cuck would have been banging on about the museum curators if he'd stumbled across a news item which implied they earned too much...and somehow turned it into his default rant about minorities.

[panama hat]

Minuscule issues, gentlemen. Minuscule!


A real moan?

My second root canal therapy for the second crown today. Next week is the mould and then fitting the crowns . . . then comes the implant part

The torturer's weapons:

By all means keep moaning about coffee . . .

[Latindancer]

Commiserations.
Crowns don't worry me, they are just tedious. Implants do worry me, as bone is drilled into but hopefully the nerve running down the jaw is not.

[David48atTD]

Commiserations.
Crowns don't worry me, they are just tedious. Implants do worry me, as bone is drilled into but hopefully the nerve running down the jaw is not.

I've had 3 implants over the past decade ... it's not as bad as you think.

Post in first, sort of feels like going to the mechanic, then 3 months later, the tooth gets fitted.

Getting the Wisdom tooth was more physical/painfull.