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Nice to see you got the diagnosis before anything really bad happened and good luck with treatment moving forward….
What’s with the garage cartoon? Middle class folk in the US don’t clean out the garage? I am stupid and do not get it. Please explain.
» Posted By Dan On 21/September/2024 @ 8:52 pm
Don’t share wifi with customers? What is it, a govt nuclear facility? Amazed you stayed.
» Posted By Dan On 17/July/2024 @ 9:56 pm
Civil war would have started? Dream on. The left would certainly kick off were that scenario to be reversed. But there’s something detached about the right. When they should step up to protest, they step back for fear of being called racist or something. Yes I follow the January 6th protest was a fancy dress parade allowed to spill over its designated grounds.
» Posted By Dan On 15/July/2024 @ 1:24 pm
Title reminded me of Churchill’s remarks in his speech to the Candian Congress.
“Missshter Hitler said he would ring England’s neck like a chicken. Some chicken!……
…..some neck.”IDK could mean:
1. I Dig Korea
2. I Date Koreans
3. I Delude Koreans.
Sorry, that’s all I’ve got.» Posted By Dan On 12/June/2024 @ 8:05 pm
That pic tho. You look like if the America of that era was a person. Or as if your family is on the other side of that tree.
Keep em comin!» Posted By Dan On 03/June/2024 @ 10:02 am
Ironic to the point of disturbing if the FBI spam had been in pursuit of Bush Diver (RIP). Just for our information, can you clarify exactly what child molester vibes look or sound like? I’m guessing your average criminal psychopath goes to great lengths to understand what they are and go about doing the complete opposite. One mistake was naming himself after a child’s portion-size sweet snack. Must be unnerving to be amidst a community that these types gravitate towards. The only pedophile activity that should be actively encouraged is their public dismemberment.
Saw that some clown referred to your writings as “drivel” recently. Pay no heed to such tedious low blows and keep up the stream of posts.
» Posted By Dan On 10/May/2024 @ 9:50 pm
I don’t get that you do all that walking and still have that stomach. Is walking bullshit?
» Posted By Dan On 15/April/2024 @ 12:25 am
That’s one incredible looking woman in the Isanbul pic. You justifiably look like the cat who got the cream. But what’s up with insane drivel in the comments below? The internet wasn’t that new in 2005.
May interested readers ask who was Carol?» Posted By Dan On 02/April/2024 @ 11:13 pm
You seem to have the most alluring, stunning woman in all the pics. Unsure why you don’t go all in on radical dietary changes and switch to something like red wine while you’re about it. When life is giving you what you long wanted!
» Posted By Dan On 12/February/2024 @ 6:40 pm
Danny looks like a rum sort. Don’t wish to sow any seeds of doubt but can you trust him round your dogs, property and women?
» Posted By Dan On 11/January/2024 @ 5:06 am
Just another town along the road
I paused at the fish market to get a picture and the gal in the blue apron greeted me with a hearty “hello, sir John.” Then she asked me if I was feeling better after the operation. I’m standing there thinking, who the hell is this? She looked vaguely familiar and I assume at one time she must have worked in a bar I frequent, but where and when I have no clue. That actually happens to me quite often.
I mean let’s call this what it is. It’s waaaycism. With the best will in the world and despite our tactful goodwill, we just DO NOT register and recall faces outside the in-group as deeply. Plus you have a somewhat transactional relationship with the female population there and no one is that good at recollecting shop workers. Those fish look tasty.
Got to say, your woman looks kind of classy in pics so props to you on an upbeat ending to a year in which the health gods sought to test you out. Any serious new year’s resolutions…?
» Posted By Dan On 24/December/2023 @ 10:16 am
“Dan, yes, it turns out my problems were all in my head. Once they were removed, I could breathe normally again.”
Nicely done!
» Posted By Dan On 17/December/2023 @ 9:46 am
I always said your health concerns were bullshit but never once have you admitted I was right and apologised. Off topic, I know, but what are your New Year’s resolutions? For the record mine are to cause more racial offence in the trans librarian community but, as usual, I’ll probably give up on Jan 2.
» Posted By Dan On 16/December/2023 @ 10:16 pm
Putting the cart before the whore
Good post. Read the linked post you wrote in Korea all those years ago and that was interesting, too. I know there that you -at that time- had found your discussions with bar girls in the PI “depressing” and yet, and yet. Not depressing now every day?
I wonder if “so sad” ever found his kid. Plus, the chances of it being his kid were fifty fifty.
» Posted By Dan On 11/December/2023 @ 5:46 pm
“Why in the hell was I directed to check in three hours in advance of the operation? I was hungry and cranky but powerless to do anything but submit to the Filipino way.”
Pretty sure in advance of surgery requiring general anesthesia that would be the way any place. Stay cranky. You’ll drop some weight through the limpid recovery days and get the chance to reassess things.
» Posted By Dan On 10/December/2023 @ 9:04 pm
I am reminded of some words from the Bagvagadvita. “And now I have become God, a destroyer of worlds. But I still like tits.”
» Posted By Dan On 09/December/2023 @ 9:34 pm
Fingers crossed all goes well. I’m sure it will and I have full confidence in the Philippines health services and professionals but if you do die can I have your flatscreen?
» Posted By Dan On 09/December/2023 @ 7:27 pm
You don’t want to be overdoing the general anesthesia fears to that hospital. There’s a possiblity they undershoot the necessary sedative and you wake up mid op. Better to get tanked up with lovely yummy drugs and wake up smiling Sunday.
Insomnia is a bitch. JP recounts his day’s every moment when he gets it. He finds it puts him back to sleep. But then having consumed alcohol changes its nature, as the dopamine is either rushing out or charging back in as the booze leaves the body (can’t remember which).
» Posted By Dan On 07/December/2023 @ 2:15 am
Try a movie called Fair Play on Nflix. I realized I was enjoying it in a kind of throwback fashion after a few minutes and a grim opening sex scene because it is redolent of a 90s mood thriller. Though it has some credulity stretching relationship aspects Eddie Marsen is in it so there’s that.
» Posted By Dan On 25/November/2023 @ 2:53 pm
Hey, not looking bad in that pic with the sly feminine company. From your updates, I’d expected you to look like a sack of shit. Good news on the liver and bladder. The liver is a true marvel of recovery -not that I wish to tempt old father fate- but that SOB loves to take a beating then go off on its own to self heal. Plus it probably laughs in the face of that weak pissy beer you drain.
But boy you so play both ends of the ukelele. Chilling with the rent a chats then home to do the red wine on the veranda thing in good civilised domestic order. Not sure the two have ever been successfully combined long term in the sad history of mankind. Do it right, brother or shit’s gonna fall on your head.
» Posted By Dan On 23/November/2023 @ 8:34 pm
Two words: sleeping pills. I mean, at this point, why wouldn’t you? Use them to get you through this temporary health hump then cease and desist when your Zzzzs return to normal.
I just spread Godfather 2 over three nights on Netflix. They have the massive 3.5 hour cut with nothing left out. Thoroughly brilliant. Then there’s that doc about the well to do southern family whose paterfamilias offed his wife and son, can’t remember it’s title. You’re welcome.» Posted By Dan On 22/November/2023 @ 7:34 pm
Even too much vit B can mess with sleep taken at the wrong time, sounds like you’re glooped up on stimulants. Try l-theanine, magnesium, and chamomile tea but don’t take my word for it. Seems a harsh result for a non lifelong smoker. Point of interest, how many a day smoker were you…?
» Posted By Dan On 19/November/2023 @ 4:10 pm
x-rays. Just correctin.
» Posted By Dan On 18/November/2023 @ 1:47 pm
Pneumonia shows up on days. just sayin.
» Posted By Dan On 18/November/2023 @ 1:46 pm
Get some beers in and don’t go out for a few weeks unless it’s to the hospital. I once read that rest: HELPS RECOVERY. It was the advice of the same wise Chinaman who said man whose cock hard have soft head. But at least -yet- you haven’t been classically scammed by a south-east Asian pick-up artist in a pink bikini with sleek golden curves yum yum. Thank god for Netflix in our times of troubles, oh Lord.
Amen» Posted By Dan On 17/November/2023 @ 3:55 pm
What a shit day at the office. But in terms of your legacy you actually changed history by proving dogs are not our best friend. So well done. You simplify didn’t make him sit up and beg enough. One has to treat dogs like one treats one’s woman: make it very very clear you don’t really want them in the house past 11.
Seriously though I wouldn’t be putting up with those dogs on the street. Can you Macafee them?» Posted By Dan On 10/November/2023 @ 6:44 pm
People hammer you for downing beers but literally what else are you going to do there? As an expat you could walk the dogs and read the papers but that still leaves 14 hours of daytime and we all need some community. Just so happens that yours hangs in bars. Unless there are tea shops full of English language speakers you are not letting us onto about I don’t know how you would have friends if you did not call in on these establishments so fuck the naysayers and keep on doing what keeps you sane. Health obstacles would appear even if you mummified and subsisted on organic lettuce. That said, I would also take up learning something.
» Posted By Dan On 09/November/2023 @ 9:44 pm
It is a well known fact in business naming circles that an establishment calling itself any derivative of ‘orchid (The Black Orchid, The Lonely Orchid, Orchidaceous Interior Designs etc) is hiding a dark lie from the customer. Avoid.
Yes, time does proceed abnormally quickly of late, even for non-drinkers; though they’ll swear they are getting more out of life, despite their debts, messy relationships, and down time feeling miserable. They probably sit around, tending to their orchids, bringing their orchids up in conversation, knowing the dark lie they are hiding from the world.» Posted By Dan On 08/November/2023 @ 11:31 am
“Teri and Swan watched television and I drank alone while singing along with some sad songs on my Spotify app. That’s even more pathetic than buying lady drinks in exchange for some company.”
lolled at this. Great opening paragraph for a novel I’d actually read.» Posted By Dan On 04/November/2023 @ 5:32 pm
«« Back To Stats PageAlways disappointed at the photos of your fellow walkers/expats. Expect more deranged biker types with forehead tats carrying an 18 year old under each arm. Your acquaintances look Victorian by comparison. If Victorians wore vests all the time.
» Posted By Dan On 03/November/2023 @ 6:19 pm