Same shit, different ship

[malmomike77]

DJ Pat gets around

[Edmond]

Perfectly normal.

[DrWilly]

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I think that these Continentals are much more comfortable stripping start bollock naked and sitting next to each other.

Well when you say stuff like this

I say 'our' because after six weeks on this damn boat I'll be sharing the journey with a couple of pints of little swimmers.

Who can blame anyone being nervous around you.

[Mendip]

^ That's embarrassing... I hate spelling mistakes. I meant 'stark' of course.

In actual fact it was my Polish shipmate who suggested a sauna together and it was me who backed out, but to be fair maybe he doesn't appreciate my excess fluid issue. He's only been onboard for a fortnight.

Anyway, our voyage from oop norf will soon be over and I can't wait to get off this damn boat. I don't usually look forward to disembarking as strongly as this but this job has been bloody hard work and I'm pretty well knackered. A two day transit in bad weather has rounded the trip off pretty aptly.



I've promised to knock out the daughter's bedroom wall next week, so no rest for the wicked. She became a teenager last Saturday and I said I'd make her a big bedroom as part of her present. I can't say that I'm really looking forward to going straight into jobs at home but at least a bit of demolition will give my head a rest.

[DrWilly]

Wrecking the wife's buddha room? Youre game.

[katie23]

^^is the wall made of concrete or dry wall? If it's dry wall, it should be easy, right?

Btw, how tall is your daughter now? Congrats (or commiserations) on having a teenager!

[david44]

Pay Somchai 500 to demolish and a proper bloke a grand or two to make good and kick back, pool, leos, pajama gals , dogs to enjoy.Life is too short to undercut Thai Labour and you are putting back into local community is a win win for me.

[DrWilly]

Pay Somchai 500 to demolish and a proper bloke a grand or two to make good and kick back, pool, leos, pajama gals , dogs to enjoy.Life is too short to undercut Thai Labour and you are putting back into local community is a win win for me.

100%!

[Reg Dingle]

Pay Somchai 500 to demolish and a proper bloke a grand or two to make good and kick back, pool, leos, pajama gals , dogs to enjoy.Life is too short to undercut Thai Labour and you are putting back into local community is a win win for me.

He'll say he can't find the labour amongst the peasant villagers again. Although he never whines about Somchai Sasoon and his 80 baht haircuts and the real reason for the thrifty fuckers pixilated head shots in his photos

In actual fact it was my Polish shipmate who suggested a sauna together and it was me who backed out, but to be fair maybe he doesn't appreciate my excess fluid issue. He's only been onboard for a fortnight.

Did you not think of getting to the sauna a few minutes/seconds before him and telling him to mind the 'meduza'

What is "Jellyfish" in Polish and how to say it?

[Arvo]

I've promised to knock out the daughter's bedroom wall next week, so no rest for the wicked. She became a teenager last Saturday and I said I'd make her a big bedroom as part of her present

What you call a bedroom, we can a Vagine here in Perth.

[Stumpy]

I'm with David, pay a few locals to at least get it knocked out and relatively cleaned up. Then you can do the finishing work while enjoying Leo's.

Congratulations to the teenager but I suspect she will start shaving years off your life at a much faster rate now. I remember both of mine hitting that age.

Welcome back home.

[Mendip]

^ Thanks, but I'm not home yet.

There's lights along the horizon to starboard, so it's land ahoy, but a few hours still to go.



We're heading for that lighthouse at Kristiansund, dead ahead. This picture taken at 2am, the darkest night I've seen for a couple of weeks now that we've returned down south.



We should be alongside around 5:30am, leave the vessel around 8:00am to get to the immigration police (thanks Brexit)... and then I'm outta here. It'll be a long day and I'll be very glad to finally board my long haul flight, late afternoon. And I don't often think that.

Wrecking the wife's buddha room? Youre game.

I've got the go ahead, no problem...

is the wall made of concrete or dry wall? If it's dry wall, it should be easy, right?

The wall is a single skin of bricks with render, so will take a bit of effort.

Pay Somchai 500 to demolish and a proper bloke a grand or two to make good

This all sounds great in theory... several years ago I had a similar project and paid a couple of 'Somchais' to knock down an internal wall, it came down no problem and a load of ceramic floor tiles were chipped in the process. If it was an outside wall I'd get a couple of locals in, give them a sledgehammer each and let them have at it, but not inside. I have pretty much given up on finding anyone for small, tidy jobs round our way and will take the wall down myself. A few cuts with a grinder, plywood across the floor and it'll only take a morning.

I can tile the gap in the floor but aren't sure how the upstairs ceilings are made, so hopefully the wife can get that small detail sorted while I'm in the UK with the daughter over the summer. One of the doorways will need bricking up and rendering as well, so hopefully that will also get sorted. I'll do the painting to prevent the floors, windows, doors and furniture getting covered in emulsion. I've yet to find a Thai who will use dust sheets, even if I physically hand them over, with instructions.

Btw, how tall is your daughter now? Congrats (or commiserations) on having a teenager!

She was 167cm when I left a few weeks ago, or 5' 5" in real money. She grows like a weed and will probably be 170cm by the time I get back (and requiring yet more clothes, of course).

He'll say he can't find the labour amongst the peasant villagers again. Although he never whines about Somchai Sasoon and his 80 baht haircuts and the real reason for the thrifty fuckers pixilated head shots in his photos

I can never find any reliable labour locally, to be honest.

Khun Sassoon will have his work cut out () next week, with two months growth on me swede, and will really earn his 100 Baht (20 Baht tip). Although maybe I'll do it meself... there's no point in throwing it away.

[DrWilly]

Welcome almost home…

[Stumpy]

Welcome almost home…

Close enough for govt work.

I can never find any reliable labour locally, to be honest.

I have found the same for the most part. It has taken a few years to establish reliable folks. But you have to pay them accordingly. You definitely get what you pay for in that regard. If you pay 500bht, you get 500bht of effort and forward thinking. Pay a little more you get reliable quality work.

I agree again with David on hiring aomeone, but you have to open your wallet or live with the results.

[katie23]

@mendip - my half-American/half-Fil classmate (girl) grew to be 5'9". Most of us looked like Liliputians compared to her. Your daughter overtook me in height sometime last year. Lol.

Safe travels. Good luck on the renovations when you're in your "crib".

(I forgot that TH and VN usually use bricks for home constructions. Here in PH, we usually use CHB + rebar. We need the rebar 'cos of the earthquakes. Some of the more posh builds are now using AAC/Q-con blocks.)

[DrWilly]

^^ open his wallet…

[Reg Dingle]

^ Some things that just wont open...a safe youve forgot the combination to, an old jar of pickled onions, Teakdoor Most of the fukking time, Mendy's wallet

It doesn't get any tighter than planning your infrequent work trips to land on special family occasions.

[Mendip]

You know guys, if I wasn't so busy today I could really take exception to some of these comments.

You should see how generous I'll be tomorrow on Sukhumvit, my wallet will hardly close.

[Mendip]

It doesn't get any tighter than planning your infrequent work trips to land on special family occasions.

You've got me there, but to be fair I never did take to my sister's husband and I hate weddings!

[Arvo]

You should see how generous I'll be tomorrow on Sukhumvit, my wallet will hardly close.

What you call a wallet, we call an anus here in WA

[Stumpy]

You should see how generous I'll be tomorrow on Sukhumvit, my wallet will hardly close.

That would be a sight to see. An open wallet and Mendy seem like an oxymoron.

Of course I suspect Mendy thinks breaking a big bill is lavish spending.

[bsnub]

An open wallet and Mendy seem like an oxymoron.

Of course I suspect Mendy thinks breaking a big bill is lavish spending.

[armstrong]

What you call a wallet, we call an anus here in WA

Oh you're in WA?

[ootai]

mendip if you need some help demolishing the wall let me know and I can give you a hand.
All I would need is a drill and some explosives and the job would be over before you knew it.
That what you can do when you're an Engineer not a Geologist.

[DrWilly]

That what you can do when you're an Engineer not a Geologist.