Sounds like he'd be better off in Phuket. That retirement village looks like hell on earth for an introvert.
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- Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:16 am
- Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
- Topic: Resources and recommend watching
- Replies: 337
- Views: 171750
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 6:24 pm
- Forum: Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: No grid challenge
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1238
Re: No grid challenge
It's an unfortunate truth that more air miles will equate to more Bangladeshi children drowning. On the other hand, Michael O'Leary off of Ryanair probably deserves the Charlemagne award for helping to unify Europe. We can do without cars or off season produce. But the world I think would be a more ...
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 1:23 pm
- Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
- Topic: Lifespan
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7634
Re: Lifespan
Right, natural selection has given us all an over sensitivity to pattern recognition, so ghosts are culturally universal and at least subjectively real. I had a Tarot reading once and I found it useful, if only to prompt me into asking myself useful questions. I think we sometimes throw the baby out...
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:42 am
- Forum: Money Questions
- Topic: Would 20M Radically Increase Your Happiness?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2347
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:37 am
- Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
- Topic: Lifespan
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7634
Re: Lifespan
@7wannabe5 - Fair play to her.
Astrology alone is a multi-billion dollar industry. I know of a Portuguese witch who apparently has thriving business in online fortune telling. Though she looks the part and apparently has the right ancestral pedigree.
Perhaps I should give it a go
Astrology alone is a multi-billion dollar industry. I know of a Portuguese witch who apparently has thriving business in online fortune telling. Though she looks the part and apparently has the right ancestral pedigree.
Perhaps I should give it a go

- Thu Jan 26, 2023 4:30 pm
- Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
- Topic: Lifespan
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7634
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 10:32 am
- Forum: Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Vasectomy? Child-free life?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 20276
Re: Vasectomy? Child-free life?
IUD seems most efficient choice with lowest health cost for women as birth control pills affect hormones and this affects many processes, including arousal and attraction tendencies in women. Coils seem increasingly popular. Some swear by them but it can affect periods. Contraceptive implants are a...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 4:28 pm
- Forum: Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Vasectomy? Child-free life?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 20276
Re: Vasectomy? Child-free life?
Thinking about it women have loads of contraceptive options, whereas men only have condoms and sterilisation. There's been talk for years about developing a male version of the pill, which would be a welcomed development I think. Also, I think it's possible for men to bank sperm pre-vasectomy if the...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 2:32 pm
- Forum: Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Vasectomy? Child-free life?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 20276
Re: Vasectomy? Child-free life?
In the final analysis, it's best to regret not having children than regret having them.
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 6:35 am
- Forum: Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Vasectomy? Child-free life?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 20276
Re: Vasectomy? Child-free life?
I’m not sure your numbers are accurate or at least up to date re “more than offsetting” or more Catholics in the US (which, if true and if immigration is to credit would mean less Catholics somewhere else, which is not good.) Also, statistics being what they are, how would one define Catholic? An i...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 6:09 am
- Forum: Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Vasectomy? Child-free life?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 20276
Re: Vasectomy? Child-free life?
@tophatfox - yes it could be an issue if you are adopting older children who might have had traumatic experiences. The aforementioned guy's adopted brother struggled to adapt to his new life because of past trauma. Although birthrates are falling in the west (and even more so parts of Asia) immigrat...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 5:27 am
- Forum: Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Vasectomy? Child-free life?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 20276
Re: Vasectomy? Child-free life?
I’d been purposely avoiding clicking on this thread since it resurfaced cuz I knew it would be the sort of discussion that would (a) set me off and (b) cause me to ask myself wtf I’m even doing on this forum, as I often do recently. Well I hope you don't leave as, whilst we probably disagree on man...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 4:11 pm
- Forum: Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: How do you make a house or apartment cozy?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1325
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 2:10 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: guitar player's journal
- Replies: 285
- Views: 74429
Re: guitar player's journal
What is the matter with double glazing? Windows here are double glazed. If they are already insitu there is probably nothing wrong with them, although thinking about it they may be contributing to the damp problem if the trickle vents are not sufficient. The environmental issues arises with endless...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 12:45 pm
- Forum: Housing Questions
- Topic: ERE Country
- Replies: 4
- Views: 618
Re: ERE Country
I don't think there is one. It depends too much of personal circumstances and preferences. Indeed looking at it from country perspective might be thought limiting. Even very small countries can have big variation in say COL depending on where you are.
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 12:37 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: guitar player's journal
- Replies: 285
- Views: 74429
Re: guitar player's journal
Traditionally buildings were made of permeable materials which allowed them to 'breath' e.g. lime mortar. This prevented the build up of moisture, together with daily airing like @thriftyrob says. 20th century architecture has built ridgid barriers to water ingress. Things like damp courses, cement ...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 11:59 am
- Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
- Topic: 4th, 5th, 6th Person Perspective
- Replies: 55
- Views: 4455
Re: 4th, 5th, 6th Person Perspective
You are becoming very philosophical Rigger.
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 11:32 am
- Forum: Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: How do you make a house or apartment cozy?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1325
- Mon Jan 23, 2023 5:28 pm
- Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
- Topic: 4th, 5th, 6th Person Perspective
- Replies: 55
- Views: 4455
Re: 4th, 5th, 6th Person Perspective
And the really weird part of that, is my culture is aware of methane being a more important greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. My understanding is that methane only stays in the atmosphere for a few years before breaking down, whereas CO2 will stay up there for centuries, so methane is of secondar...
- Mon Jan 23, 2023 9:16 am
- Forum: Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Acquiring plants for free or cheap
- Replies: 10
- Views: 608
Re: Acquiring plants for free or cheap
People in my area give away potted saplings, they just leave them by the front gate with a sign saying help yourself. So I do.