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    There's TOO much on my Mind, such as Waterloo Station. I can't sleep at night thinking about it.

    in ASEAN NOW Community Pub

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    Dirty old river, must you keep rolling
    Flowing into the night?
    People so busy, make me feel dizzy
    Taxi light shines so bright
    But I don't need no friends
    As long as I gaze on
    Waterloo sunset
    I am in paradise
    Every day I look at the world from my window
    But chilly, chilly is the evening time
    Waterloo sunset's fine (Waterloo sunset's fine)
    Terry meets Julie
    Waterloo station
    Every Friday night
    But I am so lazy, don't want to wander
    I stay at home at night
    But I don't feel afraid
    As long as I gaze on
    Waterloo sunset
    I am in paradise
    Every day I look at the world from my window
    But chilly, chilly is the evening time
    Waterloo sunset's fine (Waterloo sunset's fine)
    Millions of people swarming like flies 'round
    Waterloo underground
    But Terry and Julie cross over the river
    Where they feel safe and sound
    And they don't need no friends
    As long as they gaze on
    Waterloo Sunset
    They are in paradise
    Waterloo sunset's fine (Waterloo sunset's fine)
    Waterloo sunset's fine

    Where can I buy some enameled copper wire (10 Gauge) in Chiang Mai, East of the Moat?

    in Chiang Mai

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    25 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

    Transformer wire? 

     

    From a motor rewind shop. 

     

    Your next challenge find a motor rewind shop in Chiang Mai. (use google translate and search in Thai)

    Not for a transformer, but close.

     

    A gift for a child.

     

    Maybe you remember when you were very young and made your first electromagnet, or Tesla coil.

     

    Anyway, can't Google it.

     

    So...where to buy?

     

     

    The (Thai) Farang Pub has now become The (INTERNATIONAL) Farang Pub

    in ASEAN NOW Community Pub

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    I have noticed that, ever increasingly, our Farang Pub is becoming more and more subjected to scrutiny from some intolerant bounders from overseas, possibly ignorant readers from outside of Thailand.

     

    What I mean is that the cliquish humor, which we once enjoyed expressing without fear of criticism from foreigners, is now being subjected to Political Correctness value judgments from people living in puritanical places where we would not deign to live.

     

    As some of you know, ten years ago, we could express our own type of humor without fear of castigation for it.

     

    But now, due to the broadening of the internet, we must hold our tongues. lest we be criticized for posting jokes which go over the heads of people from parochial hick towns outside Thailand, and also outside the TV clique.

     

    In some ways, this change is good, just because this change signifies the fact that our words are reaching the outside world.

    Yet, from a different perspective, this opening up is not such a good thing, simply because most of us prefer that the outside world would stay outside of Thailand.

     

    Here in Thailand, most people reading or posting on the Farang Pub know a great deal about life in Thailand. Or, at least, this has been the case for as long as TV has been in existence.

    But now, it seems that, due to the internet's continuing development, whatever we say here may be read almost anywhere on Earth, within a mere few seconds.

     

    Sometimes, for example, people living in Rhode Island, especially those who have never ventured outside their state, will not realize when writers here might be writing tongue in cheek.

    Also, they might not know what it feels like to eat a banana for the first time, freshly picked.

     

    Most of them, probably, have never even seen a banana plant growing freely in their backyard.

     

    I am just saying that the world is changing.

    Seven years ago, no one read this Farang Pub stuff if they were outside Thailand.

    Now....

    They do.

     

    The Worms Turn.....

     

    I am Toying with the Idea of Returning to Trumpland with Either a Thai Woman or an Indonesian Woman (Which is Better?)

    in ASEAN NOW Community Pub

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    5 minutes ago, daphnia88 said:

    WOW. 

     

    1. What you're looking for is a blow-up doll. Fulfills all of your criteria: speaks zero English, not afraid of the sun, doesn't need to live with other people and can stay in an isolated dessert with nothing to do but sit next to you, will weather hardships without complaining, and is only there to serve your needs.

     

    2. No woman, regardless of nationality, is going to ever be tempted to live like that. Believe me (I'm a woman). Think again. Why should a woman accept your offer? What do they have to gain from it? A life in an isolated hot desert where you have to hunt for food? Geez, maybe when I've lost all my marbles I'll be your wife (I'm Indonesian but too bad my English is too good for what you are looking for). But even then, I'd rather choose an isolated cabin in the woods. And preferably with a guy who is my equal. No asian woman is going to welcome scorching heat every single day without escape.

     

    3. You sound like you have a yellow fever (more like a "golden brown" fever)..... 

     

    4. Everything you wrote is about what YOU want. What can you offer her? Why should any woman on earth want to do all of that with you? Sounds pretty selfish, no? Sounds to me like all you want is a simple dumb farm girl who doesn't want money or a better life (yeah, good luck finding that...) to wait on you hand and feet in the scorching heat of the dry desert with zero social life and zero entertainment.... Attractive offer.... 

    Perhaps you are right, but I think not.

     

    I am looking for someone who might, as I, prefer to leave here and move to a desert where, every night, the beauty of the firmament opens up and the stars burn bright from horizon to horizon over the mountains.

     

    Such a place as this is not for young people, obviously.

    Young people should be in a city where they can take advantage of cultural assets such as museums, libraries and universities.

     

    But, for me, at my age, I would prefer to be able to see the stars at night, and I would prefer not to be alone, if only someone were willing to share my desire to enjoy the beauty of the desert.

     

    Such an existence is not for everyone, I agree.

     

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