Gav (not) the Gaffer

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There's a retired UK expat vlogger I follow who's grown his channel well over the last year. Lately he's obsessed with budget western food, promoting wide boy life insurance, and squabbling with his own followers. The life cycle of an expat vlogger can be predictably short

Today I discovered Bangkok's EmQuartier has a first class lounge. Which must be a good place to recover while mia noi blows 200k on imported fragrant water

@SirMuttley Yeah AI is great for indexing, sorting, finding. I'm using it to analyse and connect with DNA matches. I don't trust it to find BMD records as it eventually disappears into itself and invents stuff

@GavTheGaffer I did upload the GED that I have from Ancestry where I maintain the family tree. That definitely helped. I also copied and pasted extracts from the book. It was able to find things in 5 minutes I missed in over a decade of doing this.

For hundreds of years my family told the same medieval origin story. Today I asked Claude about a photo of a print of our family coat of arms and I learned half of it was fiction. 🧵(yes, really, a thread)

6 years was ages as a child. I was raised on a diet of The Beetles and The Rolling Stones, which gifted me street cred as a 70s toddler on the estates of Merseyside, and especially when pitched against the Showaddywaddy groupies in the school playground

A national treasure in so many people's eyes. Does more to educate about the urgency to protect the planet than most. I do wonder, if he were a new kid on the block today, whether he'd be drowned out by accusations of being woke as others seem to be.

@rumrunnerthai You may recall pre-2016 Phil. Straw polling my bar's clientele ahead of Brexit, just for shits n giggles. Almost to a man, and without blushing. Then frozen state pensions took a dive and never recovered. Never saw them much after that. I'm sure that'll be someone else's fault

@GavTheGaffer Also their country is over run with illegal immigrants, so their response is to live in Thailand on a dodgy visa.

There's a running theme in Pattaya chat groups: Vietnam trumps Thailand on everything. Yet they never make the move, just tell you how great it is. For years on end. While sat in Pattaya. Complaining about Thailand.

@aronlisb @WritingByMatt Aah.. but is it "index worthy"????

@WritingByMatt @GavTheGaffer Jamaican roti is the same way in Toronto. Bread and potatoes with a little meat. A traditional peasant meal really but always priced way above it's class

Next month Matt discovers wine, cheese, steak and chocolate...

@BryanKilvinski I'm fortunate to be born with foresight and left Britain because of Brexit 2 years before it happened, just to observe expat pensioners self harm and beat a hasty retreat back to Skegness. That's one way to get rid of the immigrants

@GavTheGaffer Yes, they are rather like Americans who threaten to move to Canada but never do. Or Brits who said they would leave the UK because of Brexit.

@JohnRentoul Possibly because of the rabid misinformation that any mention of the EU is likely to create. It needs debate, not Boris-ing

If Keir Starmer’s EU reset is so popular, why sell it after these elections? independent.co.uk/voices/keir-st…

@TimRussellPhoto Oh I don't know.. combined with pajamas they can really lift the mood of a Sunday morning trip for a KFC bucket breakfast on a retail park on the edge of some god forsaken monocultural provincial town

Hands down the most disgusting fashion trend of all time 🤮🤮🤮

Face masks to be worn at all times, people must sit 1 meter apart

Apparently it was Mexican mayonnaise day yesterday. And millions of people stretching from northwest Europe to New Zealand are none the wiser as to why Bangkok would care

Reading about foreigners bunking off over a 2500b bin in Pattaya. Times must be tough. 10+ years ago 10k thb tabs were common. Thai logic was always to price gouge when numbers fell & biz got tough. Doing so during a global squeeze however is short sighted

I find this snidey. Just display the real price, don't get sneaky with your add ons. That's false advertising.

@onthemove555 Indeed we do. Yours however sounds epic

@GavTheGaffer Not a badly spelt tattoo but I did get my own name tattood on myself down on samui, looks horrific. I'm sure those of us who've been here a while all have a story to tell.

Like Jonny, my biggest regret after living here 7 years now. Partying too hard. Some will believe this, some won't, my first 3 months living here I spent £27,500 that I had in a UK account. Drink, drugs, girls, travelling round #thailand #thaitwitter youtu.be/Ak11E0DeHwI?si…