Retired to Thailand.

[bucknaway]

I'm going to try to post this guy's videos here about his retirement to Thailand

[bucknaway]

[vinapu]

It's better to be retired than retarded

[Enchanted_Elixir]

I did not bother to watch either of them. 

[bkkmfj2648]

These 2 Tiktok snippets were hijacked from Youtube blogger = @thenakedguru  where Ryan Otis is the owner of this Youtube channel and is his content.

I follow Ryan - he has excellent Thai content.  He lives up in Isaan with his Thai wife and children.

 

 

[Mavica]

57 minutes ago, bkkmfj2648 said:

These 2 Tiktok snippets were hijacked from Youtube blogger = @thenakedguru  where Ryan Otis is the owner of this Youtube channel and is his content.

I follow Ryan - he has excellent Thai content.  He lives up in Isaan with his Thai wife and children.

 

 

Thank you for posting the video.  I listened to all 33 minutes of it.  At times it was sad to listen to, but refreshingly frank. 

[mauRICE]

The title of the video is misleading; it makes it sound as if David is unhappy and is stuck in Thailand. I watched the entire interview and he sounds at the very least contented, if not joyous. He looks worn out for 71 but he is recovering from a nasty accident and was a smoker and heavy drinker for a long time. His house is clean and his caretaker appears to be doing a good job. He could be doing a lot worse like the alcos living in bedsits and shoeboxes in Bangkok and Chiang Mai who can't seem to drag themselves away from the bars and the commercial sex scene, not for the sex but for the socialisation! I think he intimated that's what happened to him early on during his stay in Thailand.

I too find him forthright and quite sensible in managing his affairs - living in the here and now. The only thing I would quibble with is his generalisation that one can't have deep conversations with Thais; it may be true of the Thais in his social environment but it's certainly not true of all Thais. I've gained some of my deepest insights about anything - not just things Thai - from my partner and our circle of friends.

Secondly, while it may still be viable to use the concept of kreng jai to explain his experiences in rural Thailand, I wouldn't put too much emphasis on it in urban Thai life in 2026.

I think he's also a much stronger person than he'd give himself credit for; I'm sure the loneliness he speaks of is real and yet he's resisted any temptation to go back to the bottle or start smoking again. I may have missed it if he had, but the interviewer could have asked David whether he'd like to share his contact details for people to get in touch with him for friendship. There may be another gay man (or even a straight man) within an hour's drive who's also looking for a friend and all he needs is one.

[Olddaddy]

10 hours ago, Enchanted_Elixir said:

I did not bother to watch either of them. 

You don't have the attention span sadly 

[ichigo]

6 hours ago, mauRICE said:

The title of the video is misleading;

It's just click-bait.. a common theme amongst content creators

[a-447]

A fascinating look into the life of an expat.

I found his particular situation rather sad.

He's already looking towards his own demise, despite being only 71.  And he's living a solitary life with no hobbies to keep himself busy.

To lose interest in sex at such a 'young' age is also very sad.

[mauRICE]

22 minutes ago, a-447 said:

To lose interest in sex at such a 'young' age is also very sad.

Not everyone wants to stand in line in front of Otot-otot sauna before it opens begging with an empty sperm cup in hand.

"Please, sir, I want some more."

🙄

[Enchanted_Elixir]

9 hours ago, Olddaddy said:

You don't have the attention span sadly 

Yes young people tend to lack the attention span of the very old.

[mauRICE]

2 minutes ago, Enchanted_Elixir said:

Yes young people tend to lack the attention span of the very old.

Now, now, @Enchanted_Elixir it isn't nice of you to talk about @PeterRS2 like that, just because he could expand one irrelevant point into six pages when one sentence could have done the job.

[PeterRS2]

1 hour ago, mauRICE said:

Now, now, @Enchanted_Elixir it isn't nice of you to talk about @PeterRS2 like that, just because he could expand one irrelevant point into six pages when one sentence could have done the job.

Now, now! @mauRICE. Exaggeration! Your 4-paragraph post earller on this page is pretty long. On average my posts, long though some definitely are, are no longer than some posted by some others! And in case you forgot, you do not have to read any posts. It's entirely up to you.

In case you have not read it, @bkkmfj2648 wrote earlier today after two posts by @spoon in the The Seductive Art of Giving a F*ck: A Blind Approach to Having a Good Time which are longer than almost all of mine -

"Our writing styles (even with mistakes) is part of our persona, personality, and digital signature - and is what makes us identifiable and family here in our forum."

- a post so far given a like by @kokopelli3, @jimmie50 and @khaolakguy!

[mauRICE]

42 minutes ago, PeterRS2 said:

And in case you forgot, you do not have to read any posts.

I don't read every post, especially not long-winded, copy-and-paste ones or repetitive trip reports offering no new insight - I skim and skip. I also don't pay attention to post likes and such and didn't think that people did. Don't they have a life?

The fact that you needed to reply to my throwaway comment above...well...

[PeterRS2]

3 hours ago, mauRICE said:

I don't read every post, especially not long-winded, copy-and-paste ones or repetitive trip reports offering no new insight - I skim and skip. I also don't pay attention to post likes and such and didn't think that people did. Don't they have a life?

The fact that you needed to reply to my throwaway comment above...well...

"Throwaway comment?" That's just you being ridiculous thinking that what you write means nothing! Now we all know!

As far as comprehension of others' posts go, if you do not read them - as of course is your right - how can you possibly know if they offer "new insight" or not? You can't!

And as for "get a life!" Oh dear me! As has been written in these fora before, that is the most stupid and childish attempted putdown because it says far more about the poster who writes it.

[mauRICE]

1 hour ago, PeterRS2 said:

And as for "get a life!" Oh dear me! As has been written in these fora before,

It has? Oh my, you do collect them, don't you?

A witty or smart person would have come back with a pithy, clever retort or ignored my throwaway comment altogether, not write a three-paragraph response to it.

"Don't they have a life?" wasn't a put down but a genuine question. I mean it's quite sad if a man of a certain age only has the number of likes he's received on an anonymous forum to count as his accomplishments. It would appear that David in his humble abode in the video above has had a much richer and more rewarding life.

Anyway, I know you enjoy/need the attention but it's late and my partner's calling me to go to bed. Good night.