Rants, Stupid Shit and Coronavirus in Thailand

[SubCmdr]

The big issue is the majority of punters, especially new punters can't tell a Ferrari from a Toyota when it comes to p4 p.

The stupidy of this statement is that the OP is comparing a service to a hard good.

If you don't know the difference then Google it!

[SubCmdr]

Do we really need monthly debates about Thai prostitution law?

Do we really need to know each and every time you invite a girl over to drink in your room and then SOYF? Do we need to hear your opinions on Sponsors constantly? Do we need to hear about your opinions of Bar Girls / Prostitutes? Do you need to keep asking International Tricks about Tax Law in Thailand instead of going to a qualified professional advisor on Tax Law? Do we need to hear about your lonely guy theories? Do we need read your posts where you are challenging my knowledge of Pattaya regarding, prostitutes. Thai Clubs, Blow Job Bars, use of my resources and other things?

Compared to your posts on those things I find the posts on Thai Prostitution Law to be daily reading.

[SubCmdr]

Yes. You can't go right and can't go left. You literally answered your own question mate. You are actually selfish to think an educated Thai lady who is attractive will be with you without being allowed to see you in the US and with only you coming Thailand at your convenience. I would go as far to say that this idea of yours is a very selfish one and a little ridiculous. A fantasy of yours at best.

I read it differently. Sounds like we have an old, fat, ugly, poorly dressed farang that does not want to put any work in. He is not looking for a real relationship. He could get that in his own country. He wants a one client prostitute.

How he makes it work logistically is to buy her a car, a motobike, land in her village, a buffalo, and build her a house. He then gives her a stipend large enough for her to live in the lifestyle she had become accustomed to and allows her to support all of the family members that she must once she they find out she has snagged a lonely man farang.

[SubCmdr]

A Thai Girl with dark skin has less value!

You see girls who are dark

Thank you for revealing the true nature of your character.

[Explorer8939]

Key differences between Mexican, Russian and Thai ladies:

A Mexican lady will give you a week before she dumps you. No patience.

A Russian lady will marry you, and wait five years before she gets her green card and walks out the door. After that, she brings over her Russian boyfriend.

A Thai lady will live you to death, as long as your money holds out.

[SubCmdr]

*For those that don't know Oakie, a well respected poster in the DR forums, he caught wind of Stub's behavior in the Thai threads. Oakie came here, pissed in Stub's mouth, jizzed on his face, and returned to the DR forums.

Your King has been proven to be a fraud right there in the Sosua Reports.

With his recent comments on Pattaya being like Blackbeard's he has ousted himself a monger who has never really been anywhere but the five blocks of Sosua and the comparison he made is from him not the friends he made up. Pattaya has more pure freelancer bars than Sosua than than Sosua had pickup spot even on it's best days when you had passion the latin etc. You can get chicks on the beach from Thai friendly and the many freelancer bars on walking street. Also the comparison wouldn't be Blackbeard's it would be more like passions.

For those that don't know TravelingMan, a well respected poster in the Thailand and Dominican Republic forum caught wind of Oakie talking shit about Thailand in the Sosua Reports threads. TravelingMan went there and pointed out that Oakie has never been to Thailand. He also show how Oakie was proffering inaccuracies and misinformation about Thailand. In other works, Oakie got put in check. Mate in five moves!

Allover, How you like me now?

[SubCmdr]

No free shots!

It's nice to read an intelligent and respectful discussion about this between the two of you as opposed to non-stop bragging about a person's day trading, stack and flow, and penis size.

Have you ever thought about putting that individual on ignore? If you are smart enjoy to buy a mutual fund tied to an index fund then I think you could do figure out how the use the ignore function that THE ADMINISTRATOR has made available on ISG.

ROTFLMAO

[Chop]

Pick out a few Vanguard (or similar) index funds or ETFs, start investing early, and you are good to go. It gets a little tricky as you get older and adjusting your portfolio to minimize risk.

The trick, as you've said, is start early. I'll spare the board a long story you all really don't want to hear anyway, but I had that "ah-ha" moment about starting early as a young engineering student. You know, the school that makes financial math look like child's play LOL.

Anyway, if you invest directly with Vanguard (or Fidelity, or Mason, etc.) rather than buying their funds on the open market, they take care of all that risk profile adjustment hassle (and tax structuring, also super important) for you. They take a fee for doing it of course, but it well more than pays for itself.

[LittleBigMan]

Yes, I lurk because I no longer go out and do any of the stuff many of you write about even if I did long ago stopped comparing what I do and how I do it. My life is just trying to be consistent as possible and enjoy whatever time I have. I also don't pay much attention to where I comment I also don't believe in starting new threads respond and move on. I near daily log on to ISG as I have done for over 25 years has it been that long? Well close!

Many times I start writing linking my personal experience here living with Thais, but then I just erased it why bother is my thoughts doing so I don't get a sarcastic stupid remark as I do often on other webpage.

I spend a lot of time reading Rants, because as I noted many times even at my age I'm still learning for my own self improvement how to write properly which has improved LOL, but will never get to the point even close to how some of you ***** and rant back and forth daily. Allover, Sub, Everything, long list or rant but in amazement if only I could impress myself ink wise I can only dream.

[Allover]

This is a very good discussion whether we agree or not and I think in the end we mostly do if not completely. I would be the first to admit, regardless of my upbringing regardless how poor I write regardless of where I've been I look back and think how lucky I am to have what I do. While people on this board will forever continue to talk about price and looks, cheap charlie or not I'm at a point in my life I neither care about any of it. If I pay too much if I pay too little if they are fat, ugly, pretty, fuck up personalities, give it to me with a condom or not I just let it roll off me. Why there is another tomorrow! My concern just don't touch me or fuck with me personally and things will be OK, I got too much and too important things than to worry about the small stuff.

As for money, when I left High School, I continue school to get out of the draft with my grades I realized I was going nowhere while many of my other school mates got part time jobs no one wanted me even for a clerk job. I was lucky I had good friends around me that got me straight and narrow particularly friends that were in the finance profession. I worked did side jobs for under the table money ran a bunch of illegal stuff and took that money and purchase property. I took my moms advice two things she taught me save your money and get a roof over your head I never looked back after my divorce. All the massive appreciation from those properties have carry me this far without a pension or medical since I came 20 years ago.

Today, with all the betting on sports online a love for sports I play around a bit that playing around keeps me from even touching my savings or IRA's my RMD today I must but I haven't touch what is brought here is distributed to my love ones here in Thailand.

Do I suffer NO! I have everything I need, when I do need I get it and pay whatever it takes to get it. My moto today like many To each his own why worry! Enjoy fellas in a another week I headed home for my yearly visit. Life is good and life can be bad you make it what it is!

Investing and money management is easier nowadays for younger folks. Pick out a few Vanguard (or similar) index funds or ETFs, start investing early, and you are good to go. It gets a little tricky as you get older and adjusting your portfolio to minimize risk.

It's nice to read an intelligent and respectful discussion about this between the two of you as opposed to non-stop bragging about a person's day trading, stack and flow, and penis size.

[SubCmdr]

This is a very good discussion whether we agree or not and I think in the end we mostly do if not completely. I would be the first to admit, regardless of my upbringing regardless how poor I write regardless of where I've been I look back and think how lucky I am to have what I do. While people on this board will forever continue to talk about price and looks, cheap charlie or not I'm at a point in my life I neither care about any of it. If I pay too much if I pay too little if they are fat, ugly, pretty, fuck up personalities, give it to me with a condom or not I just let it roll off me. Why there is another tomorrow! My concern just don't touch me or fuck with me personally and things will be OK, I got too much and too important things than to worry about the small stuff.

As for money, when I left High School, I continue school to get out of the draft with my grades I realized I was going nowhere while many of my other school mates got part time jobs no one wanted me even for a clerk job. I was lucky I had good friends around me that got me straight and narrow particularly friends that were in the finance profession. I worked did side jobs for under the table money ran a bunch of illegal stuff and took that money and purchase property. I took my moms advice two things she taught me save your money and get a roof over your head I never looked back after my divorce. All the massive appreciation from those properties have carry me this far without a pension or medical since I came 20 years ago.

Today, with all the betting on sports online a love for sports I play around a bit that playing around keeps me from even touching my savings or IRA's my RMD today I must but I haven't touch what is brought here is distributed to my love ones here in Thailand.

Do I suffer NO! I have everything I need, when I do need I get it and pay whatever it takes to get it. My moto today like many To each his own why worry! Enjoy fellas in an another week I headed home for my yearly visit. Life is good and life can be bad you make it what it is!

This post is inspirational Unbelievable that you find it in the RANTs thread.

Thanks LBM!

[LittleBigMan]

I too shifted to a safe haven money market fund at or near the top of the market and bought back in at almost exactly the bottom of the market after about a two year wait from 2001 to 2003.

Which made all the difference between whether I could, and did, retire early in my late 50's and live comfortably and work-free in The Land of Smiles ever since. Wish I had made the same Sell and Buy calls at the top and bottom of the 2008 Crash as well. LOL. But that one was much more difficult to apply due diligence to since the rating agencies and the Treasury Department at the time were lying to everyone about the state of things, telling us everything was fine, nothing to see here, folks.

But it takes nerve to make two big moves like that mostly because when the market is at a high everyone is saying you're crazy not to buy into it right now, we're all getting rich! And when it is hitting a major bottom everyone is saying run for your lives, there's blood in the streets, only crazy people buy stocks! LOL. So you really need to be strong enough to buck the trend in order to Buy Low and Sell High in that game. Which you did as well!

Otherwise, simple, no-brainer dollar-cost-averaging purchases every month, rain or shine, high or low and especially in a beautifully diversified, low fee mutual fund still works very well to produce a "win" in the stock market over time.

And it's hard to find a more beautifully diversified, low fee mutual fund than that Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund you and I own shares in. Back when I made those two big moves out and back in that fund was not available to me in my company 401 K plan options. It might not have even been around then, not sure. So I was in an index fund that tracked the S&P 500 instead. Which was still very good as an option for anyone, like me, too lazy or not into it so much to be an individual stock picker or day trader.

This is a very good discussion whether we agree or not and I think in the end we mostly do if not completely. I would be the first to admit, regardless of my upbringing regardless how poor I write regardless of where I've been I look back and think how lucky I am to have what I do. While people on this board will forever continue to talk about price and looks, cheap charlie or not I'm at a point in my life I neither care about any of it. If I pay too much if I pay too little if they are fat, ugly, pretty, fuck up personalities, give it to me with a condom or not I just let it roll off me. Why there is another tomorrow! My concern just don't touch me or fuck with me personally and things will be OK, I got too much and too important things than to worry about the small stuff.

As for money, when I left High School, I continue school to get out of the draft with my grades I realized I was going nowhere while many of my other school mates got part time jobs no one wanted me even for a clerk job. I was lucky I had good friends around me that got me straight and narrow particularly friends that were in the finance profession. I worked did side jobs for under the table money ran a bunch of illegal stuff and took that money and purchase property. I took my moms advice two things she taught me save your money and get a roof over your head I never looked back after my divorce. All the massive appreciation from those properties have carry me this far without a pension or medical since I came 20 years ago.

Today, with all the betting on sports online a love for sports I play around a bit that playing around keeps me from even touching my savings or IRA's my RMD today I must but I haven't touch what is brought here is distributed to my love ones here in Thailand.

Do I suffer NO! I have everything I need, when I do need I get it and pay whatever it takes to get it. My moto today like many To each his own why worry! Enjoy fellas in a another week I headed home for my yearly visit. Life is good and life can be bad you make it what it is!

[SubCmdr]

In the end I think we do agree on many things but the data particularly the definition is too anal for me for NY, if I walk up based on his past posting told him he is the beneficiaries of my mutual fund portfolio cashed out at 10 million baht made from Mutual funds started with 2 M, in 2012, that it is derived from Apples / Oranges you think he is going to refuse! Money is Money regardless of how your data and definition.

Thanks!

I like the way you think I trade almost every day. Anyone who is trying to explain the markets after facts simply does not understand them. Markets move because the market participants decide to make them move. There is simply no way to predict with any certainly every single move in the market. If so, the individual or individuals would would have wealth and access to cashflow beyond their wildest dreams.

People who money morning quarter back the markets are not real traders or investors. Real traders or investors embrace the uncertainly of the markets. They use their edge. They think in probabilities. And the best ones make profit and hit their investment goals. And if a trade does not work out in a positive manner. They cut their losses quick and move on. The only place they look for answers is in the mirror. Because real traders and investors know that THEY are the only ones responsible for their trading / investing results.

[EihTooms]

Nothing you have noted data is untrue, but in spite with all the data you miss the simple point of my simple response and implication to NY.

You noted lots of data to back up you point of view it is all true but reason guys like NY shouldn't be in the market system for individual stocks it can be scary. In the end I use my own situation to show there is option a good one for myself in spite of your data on when Bear markets happens that within those so call Bear markets data you shown % my portfolio % I've profited from those Bear market peaks. Since 1990, when I first started Bear or Bull, I got only one sell signal from advisor to go to into cash, which I did for 2 years then came the buy at the lowest and I've never look back even today even during COVID, knock on wood.

In the end I think we do agree on many things but the data particularly the definition is too anal for me for NY, if I walk up based on his past posting told him he is the beneficiaries of my mutual fund portfolio cashed out at 10 million baht made from Mutual funds started with 2 M, in 2012, that it is derived from Apples / Oranges you think he is going to refuse! Money is Money regardless of how your data and definition.

Thanks!

I too shifted to a safe haven money market fund at or near the top of the market and bought back in at almost exactly the bottom of the market after about a two year wait from 2001 to 2003.

Which made all the difference between whether I could, and did, retire early in my late 50's and live comfortably and work-free in The Land of Smiles ever since. Wish I had made the same Sell and Buy calls at the top and bottom of the 2008 Crash as well. LOL. But that one was much more difficult to apply due diligence to since the rating agencies and the Treasury Department at the time were lying to everyone about the state of things, telling us everything was fine, nothing to see here, folks.

But it takes nerve to make two big moves like that mostly because when the market is at a high everyone is saying you're crazy not to buy into it right now, we're all getting rich! And when it is hitting a major bottom everyone is saying run for your lives, there's blood in the streets, only crazy people buy stocks! LOL. So you really need to be strong enough to buck the trend in order to Buy Low and Sell High in that game. Which you did as well!

Otherwise, simple, no-brainer dollar-cost-averaging purchases every month, rain or shine, high or low and especially in a beautifully diversified, low fee mutual fund still works very well to produce a "win" in the stock market over time.

And it's hard to find a more beautifully diversified, low fee mutual fund than that Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund you and I own shares in. Back when I made those two big moves out and back in that fund was not available to me in my company 401 K plan options. It might not have even been around then, not sure. So I was in an index fund that tracked the S&P 500 instead. Which was still very good as an option for anyone, like me, too lazy or not into it so much to be an individual stock picker or day trader.

[LittleBigMan]

Your Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund is a Mutual Fund. And an Index Fund. A very good one. I am invested in that same Fund. It is listed and charted as VTSAX (well, the Admiral Shares are listed that way). It tracks what was once known as The Wilshire 5000 Index, which I referred to previously, but is now known as the Dow Jones USA Total Stock Market Index.

As the name suggests, it is a Mutual Fund of stocks that contain virtually every stock in the total USA Stock Market. As I alluded to previously, that means everything in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, Nasdaq etc is in that Mutual Fund, not just any one of them. And since it tracks a particular Index, it is also called an Index Fund.

But the fact is, whatever your advisor wanted to call what happened to that Fund, our Fund, and that Index of the Total USA Stock Market in 2018 and 2020, it declined to a close at or more than 20% below its previous All-Time high.

Bear Market Decline #1:

On August 29,2018 it closed at 73.31.

On December 24,2018 it closed at 58.19.

Which is roughly a 20.65% decline, by virtually any learned definition a Bear Market Decline. Notice I have been referring to it as a Bear Market "Decline".

Bear Market Decline #2:

On February 19,2020 it closed at 83.79.

On March 23,2020 it closed at 54.49.

Which is roughly a 35% decline, by virtually any learned definition a Bear Market Decline.

The term "Crash" and others in context of the Stock Market as well as the difference between a Sell-off, Correction and a Bear Market Decline can be found here:

A Stock Sell-Off Vocabulary Guide

https://www.investopedia.com/news/st...abulary-guide/#text=A%20 correction%20 is%20 a%2010,more%2 see%20 usually%20 occurring%20 within%20 days.

Again, note that I did not refer to those two 20% and greater declines in the Total USA Stock Market as reflected in our Mutual / Index Fund as a "Bear Market", but as a Bear Market Decline.

Which I submit is not only an accurate definition of that level of decline, certainly greater than a mere "correction", but the events also fit the definition of a "crash" fairly well.

Now, regardless of whether or not someone loves or hates Trump, those are the historical facts of what happened in "the stock market" twice in his previous presidential term.

And you can chalk it up to happening inexplicably out of nowhere, his economic policies and stewardship having nothing to do with it. But for me that stretches belief in repeated wild coincidences to a new level. I kinda sorta think that first one came quite naturally and logically as the result of what Mr. New York noticed potentially happening again; Trump's Trade War with China, his Tariffs and the outcome of both having driven major sectors of the USA Economy into Recession so deep that he had to issue emergency welfare checks to keep them afloat.

And I kinda sorta think that 2nd and bigger one came about because dead bodies were being stacked up in and outside of make-shift morgue, businesses and schools were closing, we were heading toward millions of jobs being wiped out and so on due to the spread of a deadly virus that, according to the president of the USA at the time, "could have been stopped easily" if only some responsible leadership in those Chinese labs had given us a heads up about those early emerging cases "two months sooner. " The same president of the USA who in 2019 and against all expert warnings not to do it, defunded and removed from those Chinese labs the leadership of the teams placed there precisely for that purpose.

I point that out as a historical, factual reality, of course, and not as an expression of love, hate or indifference for Trump or any other politician.

Nothing you have noted data is untrue, but in spite with all the data you miss the simple point of my simple response and implication to NY.

You noted lots of data to back up you point of view it is all true but reason guys like NY shouldn't be in the market system for individual stocks it can be scary. In the end I use my own situation to show there is option a good one for myself in spite of your data on when Bear markets happens that within those so call Bear markets data you shown % my portfolio % I've profited from those Bear market peaks. Since 1990, when I first started Bear or Bull, I got only one sell signal from advisor to go to into cash, which I did for 2 years then came the buy at the lowest and I've never look back even today even during COVID, knock on wood.

In the end I think we do agree on many things but the data particularly the definition is too anal for me for NY, if I walk up based on his past posting told him he is the beneficiaries of my mutual fund portfolio cashed out at 10 million baht made from Mutual funds started with 2 M, in 2012, that it is derived from Apples / Oranges you think he is going to refuse! Money is Money regardless of how your data and definition.

Thanks!