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[QUOTE=RedKilt;2346210]Don't forget that you have to also add on 5 to 10 years to your own age and shape when you're trying to predict the future.

For DCups, he will be 73 when she is 55.

She may well also be menopausal by that age.

Remember that there is a tipping point where no amount or type of ED meds will make much difference, so you just have to hope that you can defy statistics and will still be "performing" well into your 70's.[/QUOTE]That's the most depressing post I've ever read on this forum.

Please help if you are well-versed in the Thai language.

Thank you.

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[QUOTE=Syzygies;2346188]The Cups,So your age 63 is about right for her, but her age is borderline. She maybe in good shape now, but consider in 5 to 10 years. Normal rule for ideal age is your_age /2 + 7, so approx. 40 years is perfect. The main thing is, you can try, but it takes at least 2 years to really know the person if you are with them nearly every day. Most ladies are after a guy, fully or at least partially for economic reasons. Takes time to find out if she is really single, for example. Takes time to find out if she gets angry and bad moods a lot and for no reason. Takes time to reveal Psycho elements. My Mrs has her blow ups, when I need to stay away a bit, but fortunately not too often. No point trying to reason with an angry woman. I have decided I can tolerate the odd blow up. Just pretend nothing happened.

Next question, is do you want a partner at all, and if so, what are you looking for. Most women do not act exactly how we dream they might, especially after the first year. My Mrs has improved a lot in recent years, but early days were somewhat difficult, once we got past just being casual..[/QUOTE]Syz,

I greatly appreciate your insights and questions. Truth is I am a sex maniac and I have never been married so maybe it's not for me but glad to hear you (and others) have figured out the marriage thing. The equation for right age makes sense to me. I am also dating an extremely sexy and beautiful 28 year old singer in the Dominican Republic who has never hooked. But her English is sparse. Nevertheless, if I could manage to rotate between that one and another exceptional, educated and busty woman in the Philippines or Thailand (with an occasional discreet fling) that would probably work for me. But that is a big "IF". Even though I am 63 I could easily pass for 53 with my long hair, healthy libido and youthful, guitar-playing, basically carefree existence. Cheers, buddy. If our paths cross the beer's on me. I'll be in PI and Thailand all of September. I'll PM you.

[QUOTE=RedKilt;2346210]Don't forget that you have to also add on 5 to 10 years to your own age and shape when you're trying to predict the future.

For DCups, he will be 73 when she is 55.

She may well also be menopausal by that age.

Remember that there is a tipping point where no amount or type of ED meds will make much difference, so you just have to hope that you can defy statistics and will still be "performing" well into your 70's.[/QUOTE]Yes, RK. I am hoping super Viagra will be invented by then! Cheers, mate.

[QUOTE=Smoothy;2346222]That's the most depressing post I've ever read on this forum.[/QUOTE]Sad but true Smoothy.

It's the number 1 reason why those guys seeking to re-locate to SE Asia because of their current libido levels need to have a good think about it because you definitely need something else to keep you amused.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2346051]https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2019/07/05/trump-is-falling-almost-1-million-jobs-short-vs-obama/#648d27b98caa

"Trump Is Falling Almost 1 Million Jobs Short Vs. Obama"

"Job growth is slowing down"
(see chart)

"Not the best economy ever

The underlying economy is weaker than perceived when you look at March quarters GDP numbers and railroad traffic taking a significant downward move over the past month."

Fake news?[/QUOTE]My two cents.

I am not a doom and gloom merchant. I have around 50% of the portfolio in Thai equities down from 65% a week or so ago and now moving to overweight in cash and corporate bonds. Crashes are never expected yet they continuously happen. Last December was a scary reminder but thankfully was contained. I would say US markets now are either fully priced or perhaps 5% to 10% overpriced as they respond to expected cuts by the FED.

I don't foresee a market crash on the scale of '08 '09 which was caused by reckless US subprime property lending followed by mispricing of that lending but there are a number of signals out there that all is not well, not the least of which is the $13 trillion in negative yielding government debt a phenomenon Japan notwithstanding never seen before alongside the level of US debt over 100% and heading to 110%. A greater danger may be the irrational behavior of Trump who will do whatever it takes to get reelected and could bring about a collapse of the dollar in the process.

My point is nobody knows with any degree of certainty what's around the corner.

But what the hell, the sun is shining and the girls are waiting.

[QUOTE=RedKilt;2346542]Sad but true Smoothy.

It's the number 1 reason why those guys seeking to re-locate to SE Asia because of their current libido levels need to have a good think about it because you definitely need something else to keep you amused.[/QUOTE]Yes, for me it will be raising a family and making music. Maybe an occasional speaking engagement. I plan on importing all my music equipment and starting a light rock band (just for fun). As you know the Filipinos are quite musical. And I'm hoping to get a nice beejay every day no matter how long I live. A beejay a day keeps the doctor away! Cheers!

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2346051]Fake news?[/QUOTE]Yes. Now can we please get back to pussy?

[QUOTE=Franciscass;2346568]I don't foresee a market crash on the scale of '08 '09 which was caused by reckless US subprime property lending followed by mispricing of that lending but there are a number of signals out there that all is not well, not the least of which is the $13 trillion in negative yielding government debt a phenomenon Japan notwithstanding never seen before alongside the level of US debt over 100% and heading to 110%.
But what the hell, the sun is shining and the girls are waiting.[/QUOTE]Yes and who was president of the USA then?

[QUOTE=Franciscass;2346568] greater danger may be the irrational behavior of Trump who will do whatever it takes to get reelected and could bring about a collapse of the dollar in the process.[/QUOTE]I'm not sure what that even means. However, if Trump is re-elected, I fully expect the good times to continue. If Trump somehow loses the election to any of the Democrats currently running (all idiots), I fully expect a market crash.

[QUOTE=Franciscass;2345656]From Thai Visa.

A leading tourism official has confirmed what many Pattaya residents have suspected for a long time.

The days of Europeans visiting Pattaya in large numbers for the entertainment industry are gone.

The strength of the baht, alternatives elsewhere and the rise of Chinese and now Indian tourism has seen a marked shift on who is coming to Pattaya and what they are doing there.

Secretary of the Entertainment Industry and Tourism Association of Pattaya Damrongkiat Phinitkarn gave Sophon TV some frank and damning statistics about the low season in Pattaya this year. Down 20% to 30%.[/QUOTE]Don't forget the shaming of the western monger has taken a toll.

[QUOTE=DCups;2347490]Yes. Now can we please get back to pussy?[/QUOTE]This is a thread where we can talk about these issues instead of pussy. See, if you think the links I posted were "Fake News", that was your cue to post similarly credible links showing, say, that Trump's economy has created almost 1,000,000 more jobs during the comparable timeframe than Obama's insread of almost 1,000,000 fewer jobs and that the economy is accelerating rather than slowing under Trump vs Obama.

Recommending we quickly change the subject to pussy doesn't exactly refute what is cited in detail in those links or prove they report "Fake News", which I assume was your intention, but instead looks a wee bit like even you know you cannot do that.

[QUOTE=DCups;2347498]Yes and who was president of the USA then?[/QUOTE]Well, as far as who was president for the most recent USA stock market crash, that would be George W. Bush. The stock market had hovered within a few percentage points up or down of a traditional Correction (at or less than a 20% decline from the previous all time high) and not a Bear for most of 2008, weathering some scary venerable investment institution collapses like Bear Sterns and Lehman Bros. along the way. It had stubbornly resisted dipping well into Bear territory without bouncing back into Correction territory within a few days.

But it finally gave way and crashed demonstrably into Bear territory beginning on the afternoon of September 29, 2008, in response to a handful of House Republicans suddenly reneging on their already "whipped" Yes votes needed to pass the original TARP, causing it to fail to pass. According to them, they did that because their feelings were hurt by something rather ordinary and innocuous then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that morning before the vote. I am not joking about that.

It was that particular straw on the camel's back that triggered a massive panic selloff that sent worldwide markets crashing and our economy into paralysis on the reasonable assumption that the then current Republican influence in government left America without the political will and smarts to do what was necessary to avert another Great Depression. Indeed, that little stunt to cause the original TARP to fail passage looked very much like the exact wrong moves Herbert Hoover and his fellow Republicans made in response to their Crash in 1929 that exacerbated and deepened the Great Depression.

From that afternoon on, the USA stock market would not find a floor and begin to recover until the Republican presence and influence was switched in the White House and tilted more toward Democrats in Congress and their first major economic recovery legislation was passed with practically no Republican votes.

What followed was the longest uninterrupted economic recovery and Bull Market in USA history. Even better than the previous Dem recoveries from Republican economic downturns or crashes under FDR, JFK / LBJ, Carter and Clinton. Obama's was even better and, considering the near unified Republican opposition to his and the Dems' efforts to pull us out of yet another in a long list of major Republican downturns over the past 85-90 years, I would say a more impressive accomplishment than those as well.

Btw, there was no Crash in 2009. Only a continuation of the panic selloff Crash that began on September 29, 2008 until about March 9, 2009, a couple of weeks after that American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed and passed.

I don't believe there has been a >20% decline/Crash triggering a Bear in the USA stock market with a Dem in the White House since before FDR. Beginning with Herbert Hoover roughly 90 years ago, Crashes or Bear markets have all begun under Republican presidents. That trend might even go back to 1907 under Teddy Roosevelt.

[QUOTE=DCups;2347498]Yes and who was president of the USA then?[/QUOTE]The crash of 08 and 09 was a result of what was going on for years during the Bush 43 presidency in the mispricing by the rating agencies of collateralized reckless mortgage lending which was making billions for the banking industry. Even so it would be wrong to blame this on Bush who was busy screwing up in Iraq having being played by Cheney and Rumsfeld.

The responsibility properly rests with the banks, the rating agencies and the asleep at the wheel regulators.

As a matter of record not opinion a comparison of stock market performance for similar periods of the Obama and Trump presidencies show from inauguration and May 31st of their third year under Obama the S&P was up 56.4% Dow Jones Average was up 50.6% and the Nasdaq 92.9%. For Trump the numbers are 21.4%, 25.2% and 34.2%.

[QUOTE=Franciscass;2347715]The crash of 08 and 09 was a result of what was going on for years during the Bush 43 presidency in the mispricing by the rating agencies of collateralized reckless mortgage lending which was making billions for the banking industry. Even so it would be wrong to blame this on Bush who was busy screwing up in Iraq having being played by Cheney and Rumsfeld.

The responsibility properly rests with the banks, the rating agencies and the asleep at the wheel regulators.

As a matter of record not opinion a comparison of stock market performance for similar periods of the Obama and Trump presidencies show from inauguration and May 31st of their third year under Obama the S&P was up 56.4% Dow Jones Average was up 50.6% and the Nasdaq 92.9%. For Trump the numbers are 21.4%, 25.2% and 34.2%.[/QUOTE]If the interest rate was still zero, the numbers would be even higher for Trump. Interest rates remained zero for the entire Obama Presidency and would still be zero if Obama was President because he would not have invigorated the economy with jobs like Trump has to allow the interest rates to raise above zero. The interest rates remaining at zero for so long was borderline criminal.