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4 hours ago, Lacessit said:
If you've always been repulsed by them, how would you know what they have to offer? In my day, I enjoyed the company of quite a few bar girls, some real stunners. One thing I especially liked about them was no BS about what they wanted. Uncomplicated.
Yes, I am old, bald and probably ugly. That doesn't really matter to women here, it's more what one can provide by way of financial support.
If you are trying to impress us with the beauty of your conquests, or that you are hansum man, please bear in mind we cynical TV denizens take such claims from behind a keyboard with a truckload of salt, unless you post photos.
No, just making a point that successful assignations can be done in Thailand as easily as in Japan. I knew an old western geezer in Malaysia who had to fight then off with a stick. I know another one in Thailand who's quite obese, but has a very good personality and hence has an amazing gf.
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8 minutes ago, ChipButty said:
Mine were all cashiers
Love those cashiers in BKK!
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I've always been repulsed by bar girls. My first Thai gf was a mid-level officer in the Ministry of Education. My second one was a plastic surgeon's RN. My third one was a very beautiful and shapely family cook in an open-air restaurant in Chiang Mai. All of these were the finest of women, real ladies (but passionate and open-minded). I've had interest, as well, from a beautiful airport ground staff girl, and a luscious, wonderful pharmacist. Seems to me that farang men who can't do any better than bar girls are of several types (a) green 20-year-olds who think bar girls are all that Thailand offers. They could at least have visited ThaiCupid.com before traveling. (b) fat, ugly, bald old geezers who have no other choices (c) idiot sex tourists of all types. (d) guys who have no imagination or don't even try. It's so easy to meet a "real" woman in Thailand. Then there's the desperate dowries--geezers who go up to the Udon Thani area and buy their bride with a dowry (and find themselves building a house--in the wife's name, of course--and supporting half the village.)
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16 hours ago, eeworldwide said:What a sad and pathetic story. Goes to show that with age doesn't necessarily come wisdom.
The elderly of about 80+ are particularly vulnerable everywhere. They're prime targets for various phone and email scams in the States; I imagine in Britain and Europe too.
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4 minutes ago, Venom said:The Chinese tourists will flock to visit the most polluted city in the world. Fortunately the Covid masks are dual purpose. Welcome to the "new normal" Thailand 2.0. ????
Chinese are well used to heavy air pollution.
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3 hours ago, tribalfusion001 said:Do they really want more of those commie virus spreaders back, most of the Thais hate dealing with them.
And I don't think, generally speaking, the service providers want to learn Mandarin.
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11 hours ago, bodga said:
It's very easy to understand, many Thais are simply bone idle, can't park unless it's right outside a shop, don't care if double parked and will want to get into a fight if it's mentioned, when all else fails they'll resort to telling you they are poor.
LAZY nothing more.
They're sparkplugs compared to Gulf Arabs. Parking? Makes Thailand look like social-distancing parking. In supermarkets at the checkout counter, Saudis just leave the empty cart (trolley) behind them blocking the aisle, so the shopper in line behind them has to move it!
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I've never spent two whole hours in a mall in my whole life. In any case, indoor malls are passé in the States, but I can understand their continued relevance in Southeast Asia and Dubai, Abu Dhabi, etc. An air-conditioned place to shop and browse is essential in those places.
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Just in time, or maybe a month before, the coronavirus's second wave together with the flu season.
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12 hours ago, ChouDoufu said:
not exactly banned. according to the law, they have an open internet. (at least that's my understanding.) but access to various news sites, social media sites, facebook, twitter, etc is blocked. i don't know that there is a law anywhere that bans those sites, it just......happens.
going to a banned site doesn't result in a swat raid, you don't even get a notice that the site is blocked. you get "sorry, must be a problem somewhere, can't find the site, check your connection or try again later" with a cute cartoon of a telecoms engineer trying to plug two too-short cables together.
it's all a game with the net minders. they know they can't shut down the vpn's completely, so they simply try to make it as frustrating as possible, knowing most will take the easy road and click on the approved links.
enough people have vpn's that they do know what's going on in the world. and of course there are plenty that can read english. you can be sure that anything found in the western media will make its way past the great firewall.
comments in western media won't affect chinese tourists, just as westerners in general don't worry about what politicians or media in other countries say about them. "hey, i'm just a tourist, don't blame me, blame the folks in peking or washington or brussels."
They're pretty good at shutting down VPN access. Express VPN is continuously updating its connection protocols specific to China.
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12 hours ago, DrTuner said:
Twitter is banned in China so doesn't matter in any case. And as the peasants can't read English, the other evil gweilo sites don't matter either.
First order of sanctions against China should call for demolishing the Great Firewall. Would be interesting to see how eager Chinese would be to travel after they found out what the rest of the world now thinks about them.
They think the US Army brought it to Wuhan.
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15 hours ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:
what you say is scary but acctually true.
this is way much worse the 9/11
i think the airlines, hotels, and the whole travel industry is in such
a big and deep trouble, that they are too affraid to look at the reality.
just now i was reading about new technology that emirates will use to give
passengers instant coronavirus checks in the airport, before flight, with 10 minutes results.
this is just a desperate attempt to survive.
scary, but true - tourism in thailand and the rest of the world is dead for the next 2-3 years.
The Dubai government was dumb to subsidize Emirate's massive fleet of that white elephant, the A380 (another European prestige project like the Concorde, only this one only lasted ten years in significant service. I think there are only 8 of them flying anywhere now, though post-virus, of course, that number will increase, but certainly not by much). Now who would like to fly with 550 other passengers? Any takers? And don't tell me, oh, it's only 450 passengers; it depends on how the airline configures seating. Originally Dubai's idea was to be able to ferry 800 subcontinental laborers back and forth per flight.) The plane was always a dinosaur even without pandemics, obviously; that's why further production beyond a few future orders was canceled more than a year ago. Airports around the world had to spend a lot of time and effort just to accommodate that dinosaur. Boeing had it right 15 years ago when their research showed that passengers want to be able to make direct flights between or to secondary cities around the world--say, Orlando to Budapest.
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14 minutes ago, warvet1970 said:
South America is tremendously more attractively affordable than Thailand. I posted in another thread some days back alluding to this. I’m an American and I’ve spent years there. And years here. For various reasons, not specific to the current mess, but surely including it, at the top of the list, I’m returning there after here. I consider that my hemisphere because from northern part of the continent I’m only 1.5 to 2 hours from US. I could give you all kinds of tips on travel there if you want. You’d be very happy on what you found there.
I know Americans and Canadians who have retired to Ecuador. Some have built houses near beaches for around a quarter million $US, but you can also rent downtown apartments in Cuenca or Quito similar in price to Chiang Mai. The national currency is the US dollar, so that simplifies things a bit especially if you're from North America.
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17 hours ago, daveAustin said:
If Thailand needed any more bad news. Why don't the en-masse Chinese P off somewhere else? ... like the moon!
Tibet, South China Sea, next official annexation: the moon.
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It's the virus trajectory that should determine resumption of economic and social life, not dictators and politicians.
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On 4/6/2020 at 9:11 PM, CrunchWrapSupreme said:
Off the top of my head:
1. Rent is about 1/6th of income here, rather than over 1/2 back home.
2. I get to work in about 20 mins, rather than an hour or two like friends back home, trying to stay somewhere affordable.
3. Many more available, quality women, attainable without a six figure USD income, or movie star looks.
4. I actually feel safe walking around at night, definitely not in my hometown.
5. As much as people trash the RTP, they're not liable to beat me up or kill me like the cops back home.
Sorry, I have to dispute a few points. You sound like a Russian or Chinese propaganda troll. (1) Rent is more like 1/3 of income unless you're in the greater NYC area or California. (2) How come commutes in the city where I live are only 10-15 minutes? It depends where you live, and not everybody lives in NYC or LA. Even Philadelphia, my "long" commute was 20 minutes, because the subway system is extensive. (3) no argument there. (4) The city where I live is safe, Even NYC is safe. Violent crime is down 80% since the peak in 1992 in NYC and most parts of the U.S. (5) I don't know what you're talking about. In the two times I was pulled over for speeding since 2014, the cops were courteous. True, if you're from the hood, you may want to present your best side, but remember the cops deal with some dangerous characters in bad neighborhoods.
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10 hours ago, Tarukhtah said:
Well, I guess the reason of the ban is to discourage people to make gatherings. As they will no have so easy access to alcohol that is the center of many social gatherings.
Now, whether this strategy is good or not, is definitely VERY doubtful.I guess there will be some places here and there where you can still buy booze though. Let's find them ????
A short story: I needed to rent a motorbike right the day after the suddenly forbid motorbike rentals. I called to around 10 stores in the island. All told me they cannot, the police came to their shop and forced them to close and told them they'll get in trouble if they rent a motorbike out. I called the 11 store. He said no problem come over, he was totally legit, made me a really good price, made me a legit contract with legit dates and everything. He said something like "too make fake news online" arguing that is a fake new that they cannot rent out motorbikes. I guess he has a friend in the police or either I cannot understand why he did not care to rent me out the motorbike...
So I guess will be the same for the alcohol.For Asians, food is everything. Drink is secondary but, yes, still important--especially for corporate male office workers.
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On 4/6/2020 at 7:41 PM, UncleMhee said:
We all die when we die..... come back for a holiday, get hit by a bus!! Ooops...
Better quick than throat or lung cancer.
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On 4/8/2020 at 4:58 AM, PatchinExPat said:
No, had I been in the USA 3 yrs ago, I would have voted for him.
What gets in my craw is people who guest of the Thai people
treating Thai people like <deleted>.
That is my gripe.
I don't care how much money you spend, you are still a guest.
In my experience Thais are generally good-natured but also believe they are God's chosen people and, like the Japanese, are not very tolerant of a foreigner's faux-pas.
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On 4/5/2020 at 10:55 PM, Syduan said:
Spain / Italy / France / Belgium / Netherlands / UK / ... now around 10%. ! in 10, what the f..k are you talking about.
It's certainly reported that the mortality rate among confirmed cases in Spain is 10%.
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5 hours ago, malibukid said:
Karma has finally caught up with America. all the wars and death it has caused in the world and it rampant assault on the environment.
So then, what karma befell Southeast Asia during the 2002 tsunami when 200,000 people died? As for assualt on the environment, China and India are the world's polluters. The US skies are cleaner than both Europe's and China's.
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What a broad brush the OP wields. I retired in Boise, Idaho five years ago and I find the people the most courteous and friendly to strangers I've ever seen anywhere--and I've lived in 10 countries outside the U.S. for a total of 40 years (I'm from Connecticut, originally). There's hardly any crime, and driving is safe--the courtesy to strangers extends to the roads.
I've yet to see any litter anywhere in the U.S. It's probably confined to poor inner-city neighborhoods in Detroit and Baltimore.
I think you don't know your own country very well. And much as I like Chiang Mai, I'd prefer not to die early of throat or lung cancer.
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21 hours ago, Logosone said:No unfortunately the cold meats offering in the UK is not like in Germany. Let's not compare haggis and spam to the art form that is German cold cuts, smoked duck, smoked goose, smoked beef, air dried ham, smoked ham, liver sausage, the UK just does not know and appreciate the variety and art that this culinary branch entails.
Yes, with hams, the UK has it down, there's about 70 different types of cooked ham, roast ham, honey roast ham, crumbed ham, what is this obsession with ham? Move on with the ham, there's more out there than ham!
As for sausages, I remember the uproar in the UK when the EU wanted to prohibit UK sausages, because they were found to consist of too much bread filling. Whilst I personally like the UK sausages as well, the German sausage production is of another level altogether. It is no accident that German sausages are loved the world over, whereas British ones, not so much.
Maybe in the UK you put nipples and scrotums into your sausage, in Germany the Vienna sausage contains lean meat of the finest quality.
But what speaks volumes about British cuisine is its inability to appreciate quality bread. We have 3200 different types of bread. What else would you have for breakfast? Ah yes, that boring toast.
No, I can tell you culinarily the UK was hell to live in, a good Lyoner would have been very welcome after 79 different types of ham.
Troll. You've been advised elsewhere to keep on topic and stop talking about Austrian bread.
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20 hours ago, Logosone said:
Look, for a family of four, like the Wisemans, proper french rolls from St.Etoile are 100 Baht alone, add in just two kinds of cold cuts, salami and Jamon Serrano and you're at 200 Baht, and what about coffee? Quality coffee like Ronn is expensive.
I've not seen any full American breakfast for 30 Baht. And please allow this poor family to have a warm lunch!
I wasn't talking about beer, just a simple coke, you need to drink something with that Thai meal.
You're not allowing these poor kids a fruit juice? That's 55 Baht right there.
Maybe as a single person you can live that cheap. For a family like the Wisemans the costs will be higher.
Proper French baguettes? In what universe are you? Enough already.
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Go-go bars gone as coronavirus hits Bangkok's sex district
in Bangkok News
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That's just it. My point was that there are so many decent, "nice" women. Some of them ultimately want money, but...