I always type blind, I never ever lay my eyes on the keyboard, however yes sometimes we do make a mistake or two, as my typing speed is very very high. And yes I do work in the software industry, about 25 years now.
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Oi Freaky. Where's my fucking MRT question? It's always a thrill.
I wouldn't hold my breath. He's busy in his tiny bedsitter in the suburbs of South Brisbane - poverty central as it's known - "composing his trip report."
I'm hanging on here with bated breath wondering where we went together.
I hope it's somewhere not too rainy. I do so hate wet weather.
And let's hope the hotel was one which suited my budget and not his. But I have a horrible feeling we stayed at an air bnb. Oh, dear!
I'm guessing our destination was Mali or maybe even Benin. I reckon matt could probably type those places without too much effort.
Besides, I've never been to Africa.
But given his rather poor knowledge of geography - he once posted that Venezuela was Brazil (WTF??) - it could be anywhere!
Lol
Well now I think I've already covered the no one called your bf a thief, I merely stated that what with you being blind ( or partially sighted as you've just now clarified for us) ANY boy could perhaps rob you "blind" ( no pun intended) and I stand by that comment. Perhaps though as you're now confirming that you do have some sight ( 6% or so) that allows you to check the basics such as what bank notes you're looking at etc, as if not then you're still wide open from ANY boy who deicdes to roll you - that is just a fact and not my opinion. The fact that you state you've found a good guy who you believe won't and isn't doing that on you is great and I'm happy for you about that. Out of interest though so DID you give him your bank account PIN numbers etc to all you accounts or did you hold some of those back - as if you did then you're simply confirming my very same view that you like the rest of us are open to the possibilty of being screwed over by ANY guy or THE guy you're with - and that's the same for the rest of us, you just seem to be insisting on keep on harping back to this current BF of yours, who I've never implied has stolen a single thing from you.
As for the going blind thing - hey, if you say you're blind you're blind. I'm not a doctor nor qualified to comment on that. But I am able and willing to ask things like "so, blind or partially sighted" just so I'm clear what you're talking about as I'm sure even you would agree when someone goes blind ( or partially sighted) over the course of a few days it seems and does claim to have done to much in the way of seeking any serious medical advice or treatment re that - other than going to your local hospital, not liking what you were told there or how the doctors treated you, but then just came up and gave up trying to get yourself in a better position well I'm sure even you would be saying "wow, how strange is THAT" - but no doubt you've got your reasons and I'm sure you'll happily explain that if you felt like it - or not, I don't mind either way. But blind, over night and not giving a shit about treatment - yeah, I think I'll always probably say "Oh really, wow, how strange" when someone tells me that - I guess that says more about me than it does about you - and I'm ok with that.
And before you say "you don't know shit about what I've been though with Doctors etc" - you're right I don't as I'm only going by the little you've posted on the subject.
Yes I do look at the screen, not at all at the keyboard, even though matt seems to believe I am confused :) maybe he thinks we are talking about those pesky touch keyboards, but I am talking about good old fashioned mechanical keyboard, where you could actually feel the keys :)
Justaguy I'm with you and know what you mean as I do roughly the same and I too have one of the old trusted bang the letters hard keyboard ( in work) and a soft touch at home and my work keyboard is SO much easier and faster to type on. Like you I also ( have to) look at the screen as I type and and whilst I'm not a never look down man I have maybe looked down in total maybe 4 or 5 times whilst typing this message, but that's more as I use a mac keyboard at home and PC at work so the lettering is different and it's hard to remember which is which sometimes - but even the 4 or 5 times is whilst sitting typing with only the glare of the screen illuminating the room as I was just passing the computer and glanced at it without bothering to turn the light on when I stopped to send this message. So, I'm with you, I think what you're doing is fairly normal ( to me anyway). I guess Matt if he can't see at all relies on some speech reading . writing software perhaps ?
who types and looks at the keyboard???? must be some sort of disability definition for that...don't u instinctively know where to press??? I purposefully dont have autp correct so I can monitor if my typing is still good enough.
Yeah, I don't have a mechanical keyboard, but have a large full sized USB keyboard.
And no, I don't think you're confused. However, regardless if you look at the screen or keyboard, I bet you rely on your eyesight for typing more than you realize. I know that was the case for me at least, and it's taken a while to get back to decent typing speed.
Again, give it a try yourself. Close your eyes, and bang out a couple paragraphs of text. I bet you'll be surprised at the results.
Freaky's dilemma.
Freaky now has a problem. His MRT post has spectacularly failed to prove he lives in Bangkok, partly because such information is readily available on the internet including youtube. Now he has to try and find another way to prove to a447 (and shut him up because a447 really gets under his skin) that he does actually live there while trying so hard to not look like he's trying to prove that he actually lives there. Watch this space folks.
Watching frequent running around like a chicken with its head cut off, desperately trying to prop up his story, is both hilarious and rather embarrassing. With every post he just digs the hole deeper. Like Latin, blind as a bat matt (who I hear is about to apply for a pilot's licence) and dopey Brad, he covers one lie with another. So dumb!
His attempts to appear unconcerned - "It's only a flesh wound" -are ludicrous.
But it's all his own fault. All I do with these losers is dig up their own comments which prove they are liars.
His attack dogs have gathered around him to offer support, but their bark is worse than their bite.
Unfortunately, they are *chow-chows, not border collies.
* "Chow Chow: This ancient breed is both stubborn and stupid"
See, frequent? Your bizarre obsession with me has come back to bite you in the bum. I've exposed you for the fraud you are.
I'm loving this! I haven't had so much fun since that incident I had with the turkey baster!
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In the two days since I made a specific reply in this thread, the number of views has suddenly jumped to over 1200.Quote:
You are surely only speaking for yourself. Beyond tedium for most people.
So yes, you're right. People do find it beyond tedium.
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Actually, no. I didn't know that.Quote:
You do know that sprinkling "Lol" over a post doesn't actually make them funny, or even amusing.
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Now off you go. Frequent needs your help to write his trip report.
Maybe you can suggest the destination we went to.
Oh, and one more Lol, just for you!
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Brad, if you are not feeling the love at the moment, you've always got Surfcrest's wonderful words of encouragement to fall back on:
http://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showth...e&highlight=I%Quote:
I've grown to have incredible respect and admiration for you Brad the Impala. You're definitely one of the good guys!
Oh, isn't that sweet!
You could almost stand in front of the mirror and repeat that, don't you think?
Whose reflection would you see in the mirror?
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So we have a young and otherwise healthy Bitcoin millionaire who suddenly goes blind while staying in Thailand. Then what? He doesn't make any attempt to seek the opinion of and possibly treatment from properly trained medical doctors, maybe in his homeland Canada or at least in Singapore? He just stays on in Thailand, content with the local quacks and with his fate? Seriously, that's pretty much 100% unbelievable. If I had a serious health issue that didn't prevent me from flying home, I'd be on the very next plane.
^ A Bitcoin millionaire ? Oh the irony.
a447....lol...
..at least thats my automatic reaction to the name..lol...
First, when have I ever said I'm rich? Please don't put words in my mouth. Yes, I've said I work in the bitcoin industry because it pays better. And yes, I've said we live a comfortable life and don't go without, but that's a far cry from being rich. We're fine, but I ain't no Mark Cuban, that's for sure. All in, we spend about 80,000 baht/month, and I don't know a single Westerner who would consider that rich.
I'm working on getting to Singapore for a 2nd opinion, but all in I'm looking at probably around 6,000,000 baht by the time we're settled into a new house in Chiang Mai. I simply don't have that much right now, but am working on it. That, and I'm not anxious about it anyway. I'm sure the current diagnosis is current and itt is optic nerve damage, which means it's permanent, and no doctor in the world can fix it. Besides, I'm totally fine with being blind nowadays.
As for going back to Canada, why would I? My dad actually came out for an emergency trip to "save me" and bring me back, but I flat our refused. Why would I go back? Regardless of Canada or Thailand, I'm still blind.
At the time I was already terrified, and going back would have meant getting rid of everything in my life that is good and makes me comfortable. Leo, my dogs, home, neighborhood, community, city I've lived in for 7+ yyears, etc. I know every square inch of my house, and same goes for my local area.
Plus I know where in the city to go for everything I could need. Vet clinics, barber shops, markets, groceries, hospital, etc. For example, I know if I need something for the kitchen, go through the front doors at Central, go right, end of the mall is Robinson's. 4th floor, right of the escalator is the kitchen stuff. Granted, I need help getting there nowadays, but aat least I know where everything is.
Plus, although can't say I'm friends with them, but I know loads of people in the area, and they know me. They were beyond amazing at the beginning, as I knew they would be. Just small things like offering me a ride home, helping cross the street, get up / down sidewalk curbs, etc. They don't really help anymore because I don't need it anymore, but I did at first. Their support was of tremendous help, and there's no way I'd have that level of support in Canada, because it's more of an isolated society.
Ok, so I would have to throw all that away, and fly 12,000km across the globe to a residence and city I've never stepped foot in before, and where I don't know anyone, anywhere, anything, nothing. I was already terrified, and doing that would just run the risk of putting me in a massive suicidal depression. Not to mention, I would of had to live with my parents for the first few months, and living with my dad would drive me mentally insane.
On top of all that, who would take care of me in Canada? My parents can't, nor can my other family, and I don't really have friends there anymore. Granted, I took a decent risk because Leo and myself barely knew each other at the time, but thankfully that gamble paid off. In Canada, I would probably of had to move to some assisted living facility, and get fucked if you think I'm doing that. I'll stick it out here with Leo, thanks.
I'm absolutely I made the right decision by staying. For one, I have Leo in my life now, so that's pretty fucken cool. On top of that, it took me about 4 months to become confident being blind, and the first month is a throwaway due to emotional shock. Now I don't really know, but I'd say that's pretty fucken quick, and no way it would have been that quick in Canada.n
Ok, wow, that was way too long. Sorry about that.
oh geez....too much print...got bored by paragraph 2
for a supposedly not so rich bit coin blind billionaire with a mercedes and room for a pony...oh fuck...forgot what i was gonna type...damn spilled my wine...
Uh oh!
Frequent, where are you??
Quick! Come back!
Two of your attack chow-chows are at each other's throats!
And they're both questioning each other's credibility.
Oh, and BTW, any news on the "trip report" front? Have you decided yet where we went?
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a447....u should know by now I'm a labradoodle.
Leave him be. He's like some past his best paranoid drunk, at the end of a night out on the town, whirling round in the street with his fists up, hurling abuse at passers by, just desperate for a fight, any fight.
more like twirling his knock off versace handbag...
Excellent advice! I suggest you take it.
But before you do, how about answering these questions :
You have called for me to be banned ("pushed") from the board.
A) why do you not make the same call for frequent, who tried to destroy the board in Thailand by posting links to sites which denigrated a certain Thai family?
What do you consider I have done which could be more serious than that?
B) why did you give a "like" to Surfcrest's post in which he stated his opposition to banning?
http://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showth...OYGENIUS/page2
Hypocritical, non?
a447, just a bit of sarcasm by Brad mocking latintop not a dig at you, I hope.
relax...a447 thinks its all about him...he's soooo influential...
Those questions too hard, huh? Don't have any answers?
Ok, try this one. It may just help you out.
Here's a recent post from Surfcrest, made after frequent (who was posting at the time as kommentariat) tried to kill the board.
http://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showth...OYGENIUS/page2Quote:
I have explained to the membership already that I accidentally banned kommentariat.I can't recall why he was suspended, I doubt it had anything to do with Lèse majesté as that is not kommentariat's thing, that's more a Khor tose thing.
As you are very....err...."close" shall we say, to Surfcrest, can you explain why he is denying it ever happened when clearly it did?
The posts were quickly removed before anyone in authority saw them, but I'm sure members can remember the comments of others, condemning Kommie /frequent.
So maybe now you can tell me what I have done which is more serious, leading for your call for me to be banned.
Time to put up or shut up, Brad.
I do remember what Kommie posted and I also remember that NIrish and myself both called for him to be banned because he had threatened the board's very existence. The only other member to post anything similar is Freaky. Mmm.
...almost wish a447 would ghost again....too much small print...should go get a full time job with wikipedia
447, if I was as close to Surfcrest as you keep insinuating, you wouldn’t still be posting here! I wouldn’t put up with you dumping all over the forum as you trail your perceived enemies from thread to thread.
Can’t you find any new friends on those forums whose virtues you were extolling when you had a hissy fit, announced that you were leaving, and tried to do a pied piper act leading all the posters to the other forums? That turned out about as successful as a pissed piper act, don’t you agree?
And now you think that you are entitled to challenge any poster here on the validity of their posts, their posting history, their very existence as posters, and expect answers!!! Delusional.
If it puts your mind at ease, I don’t recall reading any posts here about “that family”.
However, you know what, I might have, and I might have forgotten what I read, or what I posted, however many years ago, whenever this event of monumental importance, to you is supposed to have taken place.
This is all just frippery here, the events of importance are in real life, but some people just take themselves so goddam seriously.
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Yes, I would. You gave a "like" to Surfcrest's post in which he stated his opposition to banning.Quote:
447, if I was as close to Surfcrest as you keep insinuating, you wouldn’t still be posting here
That's exactly what you are doing, you hypocrite! LolQuote:
as you trail your perceived enemies from thread to thread.
Yes, you made that accusation before. Remember? But when I asked you to indicate the relevant post, you couldn't.Quote:
tried to do a pied piper act leading all the posters to the other forums.
Can you do that now?
Of course I'm entitled to do that. You already agreed that I am when you gave a "like " to Surfcrest's post on the subject!Quote:
[And now you think you are entitled to challenge any poster here on the validity of their posts, their posting history, their very existence as posters,
http://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showth...OYGENIUS/page2
Christ, you are an idiot!
And not only have you forgotten what you stand for vis à vis the freedoms afforded to members on this board - it's something you continually boast about, for Christ's sake - but your selective memory apparently has conveniently allowed you to forget that the board was in danger of ceasing to exist in Thailand last year. Not on one occasion, but two! Pretty hard to forget something like that, as it really was "an event of monumental importance."
Like Surfcrest, you are denying it ever happened.
Tell me, do you often disagree with yourself?
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Look, SGT has its own very version of Trump. A delusional, ol, narcisstic (s) man who throws wild accusations around, and doesn't seem to have any basis in reality.
Now, now Matt.
That's no way to talk about Brad.
Go stick your dick in a banana peel. Maybe it'll give you a little pleasure, and stop you from being so moronic.