I am in Bangkok

[anatine]

View from my apartment:

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1816/img0084ib.jpg

I think Im staying at the Grand Saint View aparments in Yannawa but since I do not know moonspeak I really cant be sure where that is, precisely.

I think its here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&sll=34.039046,-118.252551&sspn=0.019773,0.042486&ie=UTF8&hq=&&ll=13.71379,100.52052&spn=0.005795,0.010622&t=h&z=17).

Thats what is new today.

[gay sex]

HEYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo

lol cuz there was no punchline

boom meta son

[gay sex]

but seriously what movies did you get on the plane, or did they portable dvd you

[guilty]

Sex tourism?

[anatine]

the plane.. where to begin.

ok first off. i had a window seat but as i did internet check in shit yesterday, i noticed 2 empty seats next to eachother and was like OH SHIT SON and snagged one.

what i failed to really comprehend however

was that these seats were about 3" thinner than

normal seats


and i found this out

by dropping into it
only to have

the sides of the armrests very nearly tear open
my thighs

and they had those little tv screens
behind the seat in front of you
but

the controller was on the side of the armrest facing your
thigh
and i couldnt understand

why it kept scrolling through all the channels, i was distracted
by how much my thigh hurt
where something was cruelling cutting into it.

but i decided not to break any eggs and soldier up

so i plugged my laptop into the power below my seat

only to find

that there was not enough amperage to actually power up my laptop

and others were experiencing this horror as well

so i had to watch episodes of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy on my
iPod Touch

which might have been less horrorfying
if not for the turbulance

and then they fed me shrimp fried rice for breakfast

and i dont know moonspeak
and im so very, terrible frustrated.

i grossly desire sleep.

[gay sex]

holy fuck tinker tailor is god why do you know about this

[anatine]

holy fuck tinker tailor is god why do you know about this

i am improbably nonplussed that you, scooter, and i, are so heavily emotionally invested in le carre bbc miniseries.

[gay sex]

my dad showed it to me on vhs obv, have you seen to play the king?

[anatine]

i have not! investigating.

ive seen perfect spy, smileys people, and ttsp, and his interviews. thats really it tho. well, that plus the awful american movies.

[gay sex]

its not a spy thing its just a dark comedy basically

[rum dick]

this is awesome.

[rum dick]

how long are you staying?

[mama luigi]

same

[anatine]

kind of up in the air right now. at least until feb 28, possibly until late april... getting kind of a job of the bone from my job on all this.

[SkyNigger]

I looked up where you are on the map.

I regret to inform you that you do not live in Bangkok. At least, that is my initial impression.

Are you near a BTS [preferable] or a MRT [doable in that it goes to a BTS] station?

When you get yourself a local simcard, try calling 0876848696 and see what happens.

[anatine]

Im a few blocks from Surasak BTS, Soi 22, Yannah, Silom... about a mile from Lumpin I believe, 4 miles from Chinatown..

Step one for me is learning a bit more about the land's lay as it were, but my rent is so cheap, I can really relocate any time.

I had my first authentic thai food delivered today, foodbyphone sfo.

You know, old bean, some go-getters are going to eventually start a 24 hour food delivery service here and become quite the superheros for their efforts....

[SkyNigger]

Im a few blocks from Surasak BTS, Soi 22, Yannah, Silom

Well then. That's actually quite close to the action really.

foodbyphone sfo.

sftrue

You know, old bean, some go-getters are going to eventually start a 24 hour food delivery service here and become quite the superheros for their efforts....

one f time.

http://jimmyakin.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/child_praying_1.jpg

[MistaCobalina]

You humble yet?

[anatine]

You humble yet?

this and ladyboy jokes are the Godwins of the Thailand expat experience.

[Hillbilly Jim]

that guy on the motorcycle is a spy, you are being watched

[anatine]

http://www.ajinomoto.co.th/upload/Product/thumbnail/92-pic-8108.jpg

[Hillbilly Jim]

order 10 lbs of fudge and tip the guy 1lb of fudge

[anatine]

i just went to 7/11 to buy some salt so i can gargle it and ward off crazy thai-plagues.

got home, decided to be cautious and do a google image search to find out what i bought, and was surprised to find out i was the new owner of about an ounce of pure MSG.

[MistaCobalina]

this and ladyboy jokes are the Godwins of the Thailand expat experience.

So does that mean you have or have not tumbled yet?

[anatine]

Its funny how many people are like WTF DUDE ITS BEEN 24 HOURS AND YOURE NOT BALLS DEEP IN STINK.

so lets make some things clear.

1) i am surrounded by open sewers, wild dogs, a graveyard, and a mosque.

2) there is a guy at the corner of my street (its 5am btw) hunched over. he has bushy black hair, a mustache, and is naked except for his shorts and a yellow construction helmet. he ignores me and is tinkering with a bicycle.

3) the first thing i notice when i step outside, even before the heat, is the stench of fermenting urine.

4) at night, when the people disappear, the streets are overrun with wild dogs (that all look vaguely alike). if they wanted to, they could literally overpower and kill me before anyone noticed or cared.

5) i have named each one of the dogs Herrington.

6) there are sections of bangkok with bars and whores. i do not know where they are and considering what the traffic was like yesterday, its not inconceivable that i will never need to know.

7) the powers of Pants Captor Aniki grow hourly in this part of the world.

[VaughnP]

Let's all go to Bangkok?

[Hillbilly Jim]

i dont want to play chess dog

[anatine]

id like to go on the record and state that driving from the airport yesterday morning, i experienced traffic of a severity and magnitude that i have never ever imagined i would come face to face with.

last night i wanted to go out at 5am and get a taxi to Pratunam market to pick up some clothes and household nicknacks, but the thought that i might somehow even come close to encountering the first opening strains of bangkok's morning traffic killed any ambition of mine whatsoever, and it was not even close.

[Hillbilly Jim]

get scooters maid to do that stuff for you dawg

[anatine]

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/637/img0087zx.jpg

[Hillbilly Jim]

shit i just crashed my semi

[SkyNigger]

This is how you negotiate traffic dawg

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[rum dick]

Let's all go to Bangkok?


:modesto

[anatine]

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/4127/img3059k.jpg


BASS FOR YOUR FACE LONDON.

[GAMBLE-BOT]

Someone put a lololadyboy in his glasses reflection

[Vwls with one L dammit]

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/tehfunay/Sonatinewithladyboy.jpg

[Vwls with one L dammit]

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/tehfunay/Bangkok-Dangerous-Sonatine.jpg

[anatine]

and just like that, vwls makes my genitals reject the very notion of clothing.

again.

[anatine]

the monkeys are awake.

[Vwls with one L dammit]

More pics of the rabid dogs!

[anatine]

you got a deal. its rough (no pun intended) because i dont want to use a flash around them, but tomorrow night i think i can get some more shots.

[Hillbilly Jim]

More pics of the rabid dongs!:tootles

[Hillbilly Jim]

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/tehfunay/Sonatinewithladyboy.jpg

http://www.skatzpoker.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=2&pictureid=21

[rum dick]

the monkeys are awake.


thread is useless without pics of the monkeys. are they rabid too? that would be awesome.

[Hillbilly Jim]

a pictaure of a rabid dog fighting a rabid monkey would be better

[anatine]

ill see if i can arrange a dickmonkey vs dickdog battel royale on ppv.

[Hillbilly Jim]

today i heard an english lady say that a ferret was raybid

[anatine]

2/5/10

My sinus infection appears to have cleared up but in its wake, Im left with fairly spectacular allergies, at least in my room. From the second I close my door, my nose runs like a faucet and I cant stop sneezing.

Its not really an issue once I hit the outdoors/markets, however my throat becomes painfully dry outside, to the point where I have to excuse myself from conversations and gulp down water.

Its all quite unpleasant really.

However it does seem to be improving as time passes, and its only been 4 days really.

Next week I will begin getting my suits fitted, until then Im going to simply eat and sleep a lot and see if perhaps a better apartment can be had, providing I intend to stay here longer than the end of the month.

Im glad Im here mind you, make no mistake, but the heat, the traffic, the allergies, the spotty net access, the fact that its not really *that* cheap, and on top of it all I have to work from midnight to 9am BKK time 5 nights a week, which makes it almost impossible to re-orient myself post-jetlag. In short, Im a bit of a mess I suppose.

Still and all its too soon to post up and cry foul. I will feel better when I get some appropriate clothing, can sleep more than 5 hours a stretch, and maybe hire some jaded whore to get naked and watch Ichi The Killer with me a few times in a row.

[SkyNigger]

Im glad Im here mind you, make no mistake, but the heat, the traffic, the allergies, the spotty net access, the fact that its not really *that* cheap, and on top of it all I have to work from midnight to 9am BKK time 5 nights a week, which makes it almost impossible to re-orient myself post-jetlag. In short, Im a bit of a mess I suppose.
.

Standard culture shock. If you're not hating yourself initially, that means you will LOVE it eventually. I hated myself initially - then I found FoodByPhone.com and my life became...tolerable.

The prices are rising so fast. In the year I was there, I saw inner city CPI rise easily 20% - across the board. Unless that's what CPI means. Which I think it does. I either was telling you this or arguing with Steerpike about it. My little apartment on Soi 8 last yr was 60,000b/m - that's 2k usd, it was nice but nothing baller - and FoodbyPhone is expensive obv, but so is all restaurants [at least ones where food poisoning is not likely]. Shit is getting expensive in Bangkok - lots of money here, some of the shopping centres are too pristine / upper-class for me. Prices there are > US / Aust / UK

But anyway, my buddy who is in the know about stuff says True have launched 16mbps net - 2200b/m which is god. I was paying ToT 8000b/m for 2mbps faggotry.

But in classic Thai WTF fashion, they've launched it only in rural cities and not in the...um...the fucking CBD / Sukhumvit / capital. :noose

http://www.trueonline.com/en/package.aspx

Launched in Pattaya, Chiang Mai, Phuket, and a bunch of other NON-bangkok places. what a joke

but that leads me to perhaps advice :fail to you on my part - do you absolutely have to be in Bangkok? I have friends who absolutely love Chiang Mai [they say it's like a chilled out Bangkok - university city] - everything cheaper obv

[cup]

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[cup]

Scooter, you can kindly go fuck yourself.



























bro

[DankBlaniels]

i hope you are going to fuck plenty of sluts as going to thailand and not doing so is kind of a waste imo

[anatine]

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/885/img3116t.jpg

[gay sex]

i can get 50 chicken mcnuggets for 10 dollars in america son

oh and these are brand name mcdonalds nuggets, take that allegedly cheap thai prices

usa usa usa

[SkyNigger]

Wish Pike was here to regale us with stories from when he trekked to the coastal town of Chenbaati with some 'new age' friends in 1982, how shit was so hella cheap dawwg and that Bangkok was were poor people go to be baller.

[SkyNigger]

I miss Pike.

[VaughnP]

What the fuck happened to the Pike? Why did he quit this place?

[Hillbilly Jim]

night photography blowing up

[SkyNigger]

What the fuck happened to the Pike? Why did he quit this place?

My first or 2nd day back I pissed him off somehow ranting about religious faggotry or something. I expected him to return quickly but he never posted again. Never was told what I did to set him off...

[anatine]

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/6480/20050298800731219538766.jpg


thats right, its banana roti time motherfuckers. no mercy.

so today was my first official awesome day in bangkok.

- allergies

fucking gone. i have a slight rash


WHAT THE UCK THERE IS A LIZARD ON MYW ALL WTF BRB

[anatine]

:HOFLIZARD

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/7411/img3125s.jpg

ok so

allergies cleared up. mild heat rash on the left side, doubt its sticking around. nose no longer running constantly, sleeping better, things are finally stabalizing on the health front.

so one of the frustrating things about trying to shop here is that you generally are surrounded by total bullshit garbage, 99% of which you can find in any tourist area in any major city. so eventually you seriously get worn down and cave and end up spending like a hundred dollars on shirts that dont fit, etc etc.

today i had a small check clear. not enough to go nuts with but enough to put down a payment with a tailor and cross a couple of other things off my list.

actually now that i think about it, today started with me wanting to seriously set people on fire with my mind.

one of the most frustrating things about living here so far is that there is one bangkok with two names for almost everything. so, for example. i wanted to head to Milan Tailors, an excellent place to get shirts and slacks made, literally world famous. their location is right under the Asoke subway station.

so this is how my day starts:

I call the desk to get a cab sent over.

<me> Yes, please send for a cab, I need to go to Asoke station.
<bastard> Ohhhhhhh I donnooo... heh eh e hehhehe... where is....?
<me> A-S-O-K-E BTS SUBWAY STATION.
<bastard> ohhhhhhhhh he hehehhehehehe ....................... I donno!
<me> AAAAAYYYYYE----SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...????
<bastard> I'ym sorrrrry he eh ehhehehe I canno' order cab eef I dooonno where you go... he heehehehehehhe!

This has been a factor since I arrived. Asoke Station is on every fucking map, but try to get there if you dont fucking speak Thai, its brutal. Not a single cab driver to date has known how to get to my apartment unaided by the front desk. I no longer even try; I tell them to drop me off at the subway near it and I walk the final half mile.

ok anyway. Bless his heart, epicdeskguy orders the cab anyway, and after.. not kidding here.. 15 minutes on the phone with the cab driver's dispatch office, we figure out that YES.. I WANT TO GO TO FUCKING ASOKE STATION and off we go.

And from then on the day was smoother than molten glass. He literally drops me off at the tailors front stoop.

The fitting goes remarkably well. 2 pairs of cashmere/wool slacks, 3 casual shirts, 2 dress shirts w/ button collars and cufflink holes. I couldnt be more pleased; total cost was 15,600 baht, or about $470 dollars.

For perspective, the slacks alone would cost that much in the states. Fuck, the *fabric* for the slacks would run nearly that much. *A* tailored shirt in the states is going to start at $125 at any reasonable tailor.

So I put forked over a downpayment and made an appointment for the 10th to pick up a shirt and a pair of slacks, with the rest coming in the next 2 weeks.

*Fuck yeah Milan Tailor*.

So chapter two begins in 2 days on the bespoken clothing front. Speaking of which, the place I want to get the suits done? Yeah the cab I took after Milan literally passed by it on my way to Pahurat market, aka Little India. Its a quick walk from Milan. I cannot stress enough how awesome that is.

So yeah, traffic is really bad of course and it takes forever because Chinese New Years is coming and the streets are literally clogged with people buying paper lanterns and such, but finally the cabbie drops me off and I begin my search for batik tapestry.

Batik is an interesting form of silk screening; wax is poured onto fabric, fabric is dyed, wax is boiled out, reapplied, and the process continues.

Truth be told, I went through maybe 50 stalls and shops and found nothing I really wanted until I stumbled into this literal hole in the wall on the outskirts of the market, and they had some really beautiful pieces that I hadnt seen anywhere else, so I gave them a fuckton of business and didnt even consider haggling, nor would I have accepted a discount if one was offered. The prices were already disgracefully low and it was clearly a family shop. Sometimes the money is worth more in someone elses pocket, lets put it like that.

Not content to call it a day quite then, I walked back to Chinatown and copped a dvd player that blows the one at home to pieces for the princely sum of $66. Had a great cab drive back with a guy who gave me his card along with a knowing wink, tipped him massive, and bought a green tea slushie and 2 banana & egg roti's on the way home.

I mean seriously its been a implausibly wonderful day. I feel good, I just finished off some godly Vietnamese food while watching Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, and thats where its at for the night so far. My work shift starts in 90 minutes which is kind of a drag but if I can avoid either one of my bosses using me as a chess piece in their ongoing power struggle, I will be going to bed tonight happier than I have been since I arrived.

*boat drinks*

[SkyNigger]

Some days the stars align or some shit and you collapse at the end and all seems at peace in the world.

Keep the updates coming pls...

------

I am stunned those niggers didn't know "Asoke" - it would be just about the biggest road landmark in Bangkok I suspect. You're pronouncing it correctly? "ah sock"

Also Asoke is god because Soi Cowboy is right there on the Sukhumvit-Asoke interchange - great kids, all little troopers...

[anatine]

Some days the stars align or some shit and you collapse at the end and all seems at peace in the world.

Keep the updates coming pls...

------

I am stunned those niggers didn't know "Asoke" - it would be just about the biggest road landmark in Bangkok I suspect. You're pronouncing it correctly? "ah sock"

Also Asoke is god because Soi Cowboy is right there on the Sukhumvit-Asoke interchange - great kids, all little troopers...

Im sure I fucked up the pronunciation but honestly it takes not much by way of creativity to understand my intent. The cab driver literally drove me to Surasek BTS (500 meters from my apartment) and was all "TAA DAAAAAAA" before we got his dispatch on the phone to clarify and mediate.

Regardless, I dug Asoke. Not just for the tailors, but also for the Starbucks, which actually has real coffee beans and french presses, both of which I will be investing heavily in.

[Hillbilly Jim]

from what you typed you were talking japanes
AAAAAYYYYYE----SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[anatine]

tonight, i had one of those fresh coconuts and let me be the first to break it to you all; a coconutless life is a wasted life.

i also got my first batch of clothes back. im a touch disappointed; the collars on the shirts were all a bit tight. one of the dress shirts is fine but the other might be a problem.. i think im going to have to ask if something can be done about it. as 4 of the six shirts are casuals and wont be buttoned up to the neck, im not spazzing about it, but its frustrating honestly that he missed the mark i guess.

the slacks are quite nice and well worth the money spent. oddly, they ride low on me, which i guess is necessary for gut-size reasons but it makes me wonder what ill end up with when i get actual suits done.

will take some pics tomorrow.

[anatine]

tonight, i had one of those fresh coconuts and let me be the first to break it to you all; a coconutless life is a wasted life.

i also got my first batch of clothes back. im a touch disappointed; the collars on the shirts were all a bit tight. one of the dress shirts is fine but the other might be a problem.. i think im going to have to ask if something can be done about it. as 4 of the six shirts are casuals and wont be buttoned up to the neck, im not spazzing about it, but its frustrating honestly that he missed the mark i guess.

the slacks are quite nice and well worth the money spent. oddly, they ride low on me, which i guess is necessary for gut-size reasons but it makes me wonder what ill end up with when i get actual suits done.

will take some pics tomorrow.

[mama luigi]

puchase burned herrington dvds from stand, watch and report

[Vwls with one L dammit]

Regardless, I dug Asoke. Not just for the tailors, but also for the Starbucks, which actually has real coffee beans and french presses, both of which I will be investing heavily in.
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[anatine]

So what the fuck is this about.....

At least once a day (on the days I leave the apartment) I see someone with a marijuana leaf someplace. Last night, a decal on the side of a truck. The day before, a local girl wearing a black t shirt with pot leaves all over it.

And yet, last I checked, *any* amount of marijuana in this country is no less severe than its weight in heroin.

Is this some crazy batshit form of punkrock fashion or what?

[mama luigi]

its stevia

[mama luigi]

they are really big into cold fission

[anatine]

you're stevia.

[anatine]

you're really big into cold fission.

[mama luigi]

its fission

[anatine]

you're fission.

[SkyNigger]

I don't know how this type of thing works in the US - but in Australia, art / fiction / graphics [even ornamental / functional 'art' like bongs and pipes] are all legal [some restricted by +18 R etc - obv] even if they represent or are linked to activity / products outlawed by legislation [I think it's freedom-of-speech related...recently challenged in a controversial pedophile case, the result of which I can't be fucked looking up cause who gives a fuck really - civil liberties are lolz when they fight the battle on the ridiculous poles in a hope to fight the war in the centre].

I suspect it's a similar situation in Thailand - at least, I suspect that if you see stoner art, it's completely legal. But I doubt the legality of such art has any roots in freedom of expression concepts. Historically, Thailand has never really been a shimmering example of embracing such progressive concepts such as the inherent right to passive dissent / expression of opinion in public.

[SkyNigger]

Oh, by the way, prostitution is incredibly illegal in Thailand.

The police just haven't heard about Nana, Soi Cowboy, Pat Pong...ah..really just BANGKOK....yet. It's a well-kept secret that 10 mil of the 40 mil women and children in this country sell sex for baht / $.

The police are looking into some rumours but have found nothing to substantiate the anonymous claims that sex can be bought in Bangkok. Prostitution remains a serious criminal offence because Prohibition is god.

[anatine]

i mean yeah i get that its not illegal to rock pot leaf decals and t-shirts and shit like that, but usually its an expression of personal tastes.. and given whats on the line, i mean, goddamned.. thats a bold statement around these parts. this isnt a case of 'illegal but tolerated', its pretty much 'illegal and totally not tolerated' from what i gather.

[SkyNigger]

Illegal and totally not tolerated.

Unless you have x [where x is fuck-all increasing to oh fuck! the whiter your skin is] baht for the otherwise non-tolerating policeman. Or something else to barter for his toleration. Or - if you run like me - probably find yourself up against a member of the 1% Division [those gawd-awful whore police who actually want to build their careers with arrests and would not only reject an offer to sort out differences amicably, but twist such a gentlemanly offer into that ugly 'b' word - shiver - noose].

But the social situation with drugs is so ridiculous. Some stranger might wax lyrical for an hour about how dangerous it is and how common one finds oneself setup in various traps and whatnot - and then they smoke up 5 yaa baa pills as you sit there going "huh?"

Also, yaa baa is god. Well, if god was a bit fucked up and cooked by Burmese peasants who don't always know the difference between amphetamines, paint thinners, cyanide and caffeine. But definitely god. Or so they tell me. In between rants about how dangerous it is, and how the police have been cracking down [for 15 years, getting Tougher and Tougher on Drugs each year] as the morning papers say "20 million yaa baa tabs found in discarded Truck" - lolz.

[SkyNigger]

I.e. everyone knows what's on the line. Pure, utter noose is on the line. But it's a bit like nicotine. I don't [personally] imbibe illicit substances [myself] but I still smoke a pack or two a day. Graphic imagery and all.

I think it's a statement of my personal character and courage. It takes a Real Man to look Death straight in the eyes and suck back with a grin.

I'll likely feel differently when they operating on my left lung.

As those stoners stupid enough to rock stoner decals and shirts might feel differently when a cop extracts a Moran Penalty of 500 baht for being stupid enough to wear a Pot Leaf shirt when one is a stoner.

But until then, they [and I] are 'courageous'. Although I would argue I have slightly better fucking taste.

http://s.bebo.com/app-image/8122706831/5411656627/PROFILE/i.quizzaz.com/img/q/u/08/09/07/stoner.jpg

[mama luigi]

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[mama luigi]

ill just post this here

lXfThRgPnSo

[anatine]

my fucking god im bored. i anticipated hours of mindless olympics footage before crashing around 7am but, of course, canada managed to fuck that up as well and rain everything out.

i rather wish this town had a casino.

[SkyNigger]

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[nextlevelshit]

I.e. everyone knows what's on the line. Pure, utter noose is on the line. But it's a bit like nicotine. I don't [personally] imbibe illicit substances [myself] but I still smoke a pack or two a day. Graphic imagery and all.

I think it's a statement of my personal character and courage. It takes a Real Man to look Death straight in the eyes and suck back with a grin.

I'll likely feel differently when they operating on my left lung.

As those stoners stupid enough to rock stoner decals and shirts might feel differently when a cop extracts a Moran Penalty of 500 baht for being stupid enough to wear a Pot Leaf shirt when one is a stoner.

But until then, they [and I] are 'courageous'. Although I would argue I have slightly better fucking taste.

http://s.bebo.com/app-image/8122706831/5411656627/PROFILE/i.quizzaz.com/img/q/u/08/09/07/stoner.jpg

imo cigs are the lowest of the low, next to sniffing glue. All the addiction, never the pleasure. At least from the observations I see of smokers.

[anatine]

what are the observations you see of gluesniffers?

[anatine]

i want to drug treatment when i was like 18 or something and one of the fundamental survival skills they taught was "sit back, relax, and smoke a camel".

i no longer smoke cigs but by god i remember some very hard times that become a lot less hard after smoking a cig for 5 minutes while getting my perspective together.

[nextlevelshit]

what are the observations you see of gluesniffers?

glue sniffers have a vacant look in their eye.. not quite there.. animal like instincts.. they speak with a snarl, if they think you have money or are in their space.. but not really like an animal, more like a stoner who has lost all manner of logic circuity.. a fresh zombie of sorts.. they don't need much money to subsist, so they're not real dangerous.. but then that bottle of maddog might just mean a lot to them..

actually these are paint sniffers, never been around glue sniffers.

I like to make strong statements about cigarettes, because I see people who seem to get little enjoyment out of them, yet are compulsively driven to smoke. Alcohol, weed, present neither of these issues. I agree a nice cig drag can be sweet, but I absolutely despise teh taste and the 2nd hand smoke too. So I guess Im lucky that way, I can't even enjoy 1 cig very much.

[anatine]

So.

I got my first suit back. And let me be the first to say; I need to either lose a substantial amount of weight (bv) or I need to find a much, much better tailor (even more obv).

The slacks are fine, which in itself deserves a measure of praise, but the jacket... I feel like I am basically going up against the house style, which means that the lapels stay the same size regardless of the size of the midriff, which on me is a substantial amount of fabric. The result is that their relative size draws attention to my gut/chest instead of 'taming' it by drawing attention away from it.

Perhaps its just me.

Also its white (as requested) but is a bit translucent.. I dont know, Im going to take some pics now, if I find one that doesnt beg to be captioned for a failpic, Ill consider strongly posting it.

I could just be being hugely negative due to a headache and such but end game is my expectations were not really met, and I have 3 more coming in this cut. Sigh.

My hope at this point is that they are suitable for a job interview if nothing else. On the 10th I will be heading to Narin, which is generally considered the top-top of South East Asian tailors, and getting two more suits there. Hopefully that will yield 2 pieces that actually live up to promise. If it doesnt, well, its back to plan A; lose a shit-ton of weight and try again next year.

[gay sex]

my friend got a suit in thailand but he was 18 and weighed like 11 pounds, but i can ask him

also fuck losing weight, were all gonna get our uige on huge in 2010

[anatine]

i dont know, i dont want to get my jaw removed like that film faggot. seems like a big price to pay for not caring.

[gay sex]

well reign it in by june and call it our winter weight, and then go on crazy maple syrup and paprika diets, its gonna be worth it

[anatine]

well reign it in by june and call it our winter weight, and then go on crazy maple syrup and paprika diets, its gonna be worth it

BOOM.

WISDOM.

[GAMBLE-BOT]

Your suit doesnt make you look fat, your face does.

[anatine]

Pretty sure my fat makes me look fat. Pretty.. pretty sure.

[GAMBLE-BOT]

Pretty sure my fat makes me look fat. Pretty.. pretty sure.


:lmao

[rum dick]

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[Hillbilly Jim]

Your suit doesnt make you look fat, your face does.

http://i.imgur.com/UiYCTJ0.gif

[Hillbilly Jim]

my dad showed it to me on vhs obv, have you seen to play the king?
more proof that your dad is british

[anatine]

the monkeys are awake.


i dont know if i ever mentioned this, but after months i finally heard a monkey calling from my balcony so i crept up real quiet and slid the curtain back and it was a myna bird pretending to be a monkey.

[anatine]

also lol at imageshack nuking all the pictures i uploaded and then when i log in after 8 years to find out where they went, they are like YOUR 30 DAY TRIAL IS UP PLEASE PAY TO CONTINUE USING.

[boomroasted, bro]

Sex tourism?


moron atine is a coach at mike swick's gym/school.

[Hillbilly Jim]

i didnt know bangkok and phuket were the same place

[Bobby Wong]

look at jim woatelles just checking 7-year-old ip logs for discrepancies

[boomroasted, bro]

naw jim is rib shotting me cuz swicks gym is in phuket. fuck you jim. show us ur freeroll ufc draftkings lineup since ur state is lits nazi germany and u cant play for quarters like me.

[Hillbilly Jim]

i dont do ufc draft kings because im a few events behind since there is too much mma these days

[anatine]

god this thread was a joy.

what a grand adventure. what splendid personalities in here.

i actually came back to post about how much i miss billy herrington and although thats still the case, this thread made for good company.

[gay sex]

uuuuuuuuuur welcs that a little thing called the iraq ski team existed old boy

[gay sex]

that maybe took a genius to dream it up but you know shoulder pats are passe