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Looked into getting a hair transplant here in Southeast Asia last year.. 3500 grafts would have cost about $4k usd, about 1/5th of the price in America.. and the doctors here are mostly US trained and do great work.. Turkey is also a very popular country to get cheap hair transplants.. i have heard tell that when you catch an airplane out of Istanbul, 75% of the plane is usually dudes with their heads bandaged up .

Ultimately for me though, it was determined that im not a good candidate since im 47 with minimal hair loss (#humblebrag)… ive got minor recession and some light thinning in the crown .. but im a vain SOB so wanted some fuller hair.. doctor recommended i get on one of the medications if i wanted to grow some more hair, but i dont do those meds b/c there’s a minimal chance of side effects that i dont wanna frick with .. but that’s just me , some people swear by finasteride and similar meds, so as they say here in the Far East- “Up to you .”

After the Jarrett Lee/Jordan Jefferson locker room debacle in the Superdome, everything in America started to fall apart .

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No Caffeine After 2 PM: McIlroy limits his caffeine intake to the early afternoon to avoid disrupting his natural sleep cycle. Last Meal at Least 2 Hours Before Bed: He ensures he doesn't eat too close to bedtime, giving his body time to digest and preventing sleep disruption. Blue Light Blocking Glasses: He puts on blue light-blocking glasses in the evening (around 5 p.m. or 6 p.m.) to reduce exposure to digital light, helping him wind down. Supplements: He uses magnesium and theanine to help improve sleep quality. Optimal Temperature: He keeps his bedroom cool, which aids in better sleep quality.

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Wow, Rory and myself do the exact same things .. we are like the same person.. except im a little more extreme with my sleep hygiene .. AND i have never played a round of golf in my life .




ETA seriously though, i do agree that sleep is by far and away THE #1 thing in life for good health.. like, twice as important as diet and exercise combined.. doesnt matter what i eat or how much i workout, if i get a good night’s sleep i wake up feeling like i can conquer the world .


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Do you remember that whenever we had to take a leak, we’d have to piss against this long wall that was basically a troth ?

It’s been almost half a lifetime ago, yet i can remember it like it was just the other day.. the pounding beat of ‘Jump Around’ echoing in my head while im pissing like Seabiscuit up against that wall .

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This would have been cool 30 years ago SI is a dead brand now

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30 years ago, not only was the ‘Baton Rouge Hilton’ located at the I10/I12 split (now the Marriott)- but ‘Sports Illustrated’ was a bar in Tigerland where i spent at least 4 or 5 nights per week when school was in session .. anyone else ancient like me will remember .



ETA i see that the poster directly above me remembers


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Wandering thru a mall this afternoon in Southeast Asia and i stumbled across this place .. ‘Bake A Wish’.. aka BAW.. apparently it’s a chain with many locations, but it’s the first one ive seen..


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Their pastries look pretty legit..with the exception of these particular ones… yikes



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Like 90% of the posters here, i too have spent time living in Texas.. I’m not even sure if I would count Texas as “moving away“… I am half kidding.. To me, Texas, especially the Houston metro, is just an extension of the Northshore… It’s like if you crossed the Causeway and instead of sitting in traffic for 45 minutes before you reached your home, you kept driving for another three or four hours, that’s basically Houston.. also, true story, I went to way more crawfish boils while living in Texas than I ever did while growing up in NOLA, for whatever that’s worth.

Gotcha.. yes, i find that my American dollars go a helluva lot further when i am in cities in the Isan region like Korat, Khon Kaen, Udon and Ubon than they do in places like Krabi, Huahin and of course Bangkok and Phuket… Phuket is in some ways as expensive as America..and Bkk is quickly getting there too.. plus ive dated a couple of women from Isan and they are the best :thup: .. either way, in my experience living in, or visiting Thailand is a far easier adjustment for people from Louisiana than from other parts of the US, since we are already accustomed to heat & humidity and to spicy foods .

Ive said for a while, and now im more convinced- that i think the number of TD members who live outside of Louisiana outnumbers the members who live *in* Louisiana … obviously the vast majority of us have LA ties, or grew up there.. but i think there are more posters currently outside the state than inside of it.. i wonder if the moderators have a metric they can easily look at tell if im right or wrong about this ? And by ‘member’ i mean people who actually have an account and post at least once in a while, not necessarily just prolific posters .

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LSU isn’t just a state/regional brand. They’re a national brand

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International .

I was jogging by a group of kids playing flag football in the Philippines a while back, i was wearing an LSU shirt and one of the kids yells ‘Hey i like your shirt !’ And we exchanged geaux tigers… also the NBA is more popular in Asia than it is in America; when i tell people i attended the same school as Shaquille O’Neal, they cant believe it.. also, even though Shaq’s a few years older than me, i can tell they think i must be around 85 yrs old lol, since they know Shaq mostly as the graybeard from the pre and postgame shows .