Metapod

how much for monthly rentals?

cool video. is this like a school camp or something?

your thai is pretty good. any tips on learning?

you gotta buy a boatload of stuff for them, as is standard. I suggest you buy it on the way in, that way you can control the expenditure. I suggest a couple bottles of Laokhao and maybe a couple cases of beer. Maybe a couple super size tins of crackers or cookies for the kids. I would also invest in a styrofoam cooler for the beer.

Maybe if you are an old fossil visiting a hooker's family.

I've never been asked or expected to buy a boatload of stuff when visiting or staying with Thai families.

totally agree, i have never been put in a position when i am expected to buy anything. i have always been a welcomed guest and treated well. then again i've never dated a prostitute...

I don't know why you guys feel the need to crow about this issue every time (you think) it comes up.

We old fossils buying prezzies for the SO's poverty-stricken family aren't deserving of your time and energy in mocking us for our choices, give it a rest.

There is a difference between buying/bringing some gifts/presents, and footing the bill for an extended family and village during your stay. I've given gifts, but I haven't rocked up and been shipped off to Big C to shop for booze and food for 15 people like you fossils keep suggesting is the norm.

That isn't how hospitality works. That is called them taking the piss out of you.

you gotta buy a boatload of stuff for them, as is standard. I suggest you buy it on the way in, that way you can control the expenditure. I suggest a couple bottles of Laokhao and maybe a couple cases of beer. Maybe a couple super size tins of crackers or cookies for the kids. I would also invest in a styrofoam cooler for the beer.

And I agree with the other posts - quietly book a hotel room nearby and then escape when you can. If it has a swimming pool and you are comfortable with it... you can have the kids over for a swim. They will love it. You can enjoy aircon and maybe just maybe it will have a TV with some sport on. A hotel will have a decent restaurant nearby.

And any day you just gotta get out of there - claim 'tong seeya' (diarrhea). Very believable. And you may not need to fake it.

Maybe if you are an old fossil visiting a hooker's family.

I've never been asked or expected to buy a boatload of stuff when visiting or staying with Thai families.

totally agree, i have never been put in a position when i am expected to buy anything. i have always been a welcomed guest and treated well. then again i've never dated a prostitute...

Same as me.

Last time I spent 5 days in Udon Thani staying with her family and her friend's family. Wasn't asked or expected to pay for anything. Offered multiple times and refused. Thais are very good hosts in my experience.

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All to say, I still think friends should help a friend and not consider the friend in need a pest. I won't forgive my rich friends who didn't even want to know the amount I needed (3000-10,000 baht). I would never say no to a friend if I could afford it and that's the bottom line.

You are a moron and a scammer. You can't even develop a website (you admitted it yourself), now you are magically an SEO guru with clients on your first day?

lol. confirmed windup from another bored thaivisa fossil.

you gotta buy a boatload of stuff for them, as is standard. I suggest you buy it on the way in, that way you can control the expenditure. I suggest a couple bottles of Laokhao and maybe a couple cases of beer. Maybe a couple super size tins of crackers or cookies for the kids. I would also invest in a styrofoam cooler for the beer.

And I agree with the other posts - quietly book a hotel room nearby and then escape when you can. If it has a swimming pool and you are comfortable with it... you can have the kids over for a swim. They will love it. You can enjoy aircon and maybe just maybe it will have a TV with some sport on. A hotel will have a decent restaurant nearby.

And any day you just gotta get out of there - claim 'tong seeya' (diarrhea). Very believable. And you may not need to fake it.

Maybe if you are an old fossil visiting a hooker's family.

I've never been asked or expected to buy a boatload of stuff when visiting or staying with Thai families.

Thais love to gossip and talk about others. That is the first thing I noticed when my thai language skills improved.

Not going to be abusive like the bored fossils in this thread. I'll just tell it to you bluntly from an objective standpoint.

I'd say whatever they were saying was most likely negative. Your partner is dark skinned and not a model. You are also an aging foreigner wearing a singlet with tats. This combination screams "sexpat / issan hooker" to Thais. It could also be the way you both interact in public. Maybe you were both talking pigeon english. Maybe you both swear a lot. Maybe it could be a lot of different things.

Now I am not saying this is the reality here. Just my assumption on their perceptions of you in public.

You have to remember that Thais are very status orientated and that extends to appearances, specially in Bangkok.

As a fellow American (now 58), I appreciate your post. Sounds like you offered to sponsor your tirak to the US. That would be a BIG mistake. Fortunately she said no. Just in case she changes her mind, don't do it! Once she arrives in the US, she will realize how popular she is with all the other American guys - young, rich, white, latin and black! Each time you say NO or she gets bored or angry, she will be at the bar picking up another dude. Your heart will be broken.

Anyway, I don't think you will be able to date American women again. And Asian girls in the US will look right past you as if you are invisible. Therefore, I predict you will be back to the LOS. Chok dee kap...

But all the fossils keep telling me that age doesn't matter and that girls don't prefer younger guys who are closer to their age???

How can this possibly be????????

Girls, maybe, but not "women"

Women, who have been thru the proverbial mill, want security and bettter treatment,

they will not get that from guys their age

just my opinion, and, word for word from the girl i am with,

people seem to object to my calling her a girlfriend,

but that is what she has been,

all the way

yes.

women prefer a 50+ year old men........

LOL

amazing....

Neither is related to Thailand. Just related to another hobby/interest and a philosophical view on life.

As a fellow American (now 58), I appreciate your post. Sounds like you offered to sponsor your tirak to the US. That would be a BIG mistake. Fortunately she said no. Just in case she changes her mind, don't do it! Once she arrives in the US, she will realize how popular she is with all the other American guys - young, rich, white, latin and black! Each time you say NO or she gets bored or angry, she will be at the bar picking up another dude. Your heart will be broken.

Anyway, I don't think you will be able to date American women again. And Asian girls in the US will look right past you as if you are invisible. Therefore, I predict you will be back to the LOS. Chok dee kap...

But all the fossils keep telling me that age doesn't matter and that girls don't prefer younger guys who are closer to their age???

How can this possibly be????????

I love the way these fossils try and convince themselves that it is normal to financially support someone in exchange for sex and/or a relationship.

"cmon guys! everyone pays eventually! its no different than im 60 and paying a third world hooker half my age a monthly wage to stay with me. its normal bro"

got to keep the 'dream' alive.

I got your back,

I am 54,

she is 32

there is no doubt what brought us together

It's a life to live, and at 54, not to play any games, for "love"

your strung an uneducated hooker along with the assumed promise of a relationship and marriage, used her, then dumped her and fled the country.

I know what 'brought you together'

2 words

money and deceit.

on the other hand i think the only people who meet your qualifications are SEX tourists. NHL and speak english...................................lol.

there is an ice hockey league with thai and foreign players in bangkok.

And yet it seems no one apart from billy no mates has heard of it....

totster

its amazing what you can discover outside of nana and soi cowboy....

on the other hand i think the only people who meet your qualifications are SEX tourists. NHL and speak english...................................lol.

there is an ice hockey league with thai and foreign players in bangkok.

you would be better off NOT making friends with the people on here.

just read some of the threads on the front page from these fossils.

best bet is to just get involved in some activities you like here and meet people with common interests. You said you like NHL? Head over to Central Rama9. There is a group of canadians that plays ice hockey there.

I also play Badminton and have made friends with people I play with also.

unless you want to hug a beer with some jaded and ignorant sexpat geriatrics, steer clear of this lot. just look at their replies in your thread. just a bunch of bitter <deleted> with nothing better to do than spread misery online.

I love the way these fossils try and convince themselves that it is normal to financially support someone in exchange for sex and/or a relationship.

"cmon guys! everyone pays eventually! its no different than im 60 and paying a third world hooker half my age a monthly wage to stay with me. its normal bro"

got to keep the 'dream' alive.

Why would you want to take her to Pattaya its renowned for one thing, take your girl somewhere nice , not that rat infested sewer where without doubt many will think she is a hooker too, is that what you want ?

DONT DO IT find somewhere nicer than that shi*hole

his "girlfriend" is a hooker, so they will fit in just fine in pattaya.

depends on your budget

To some of the younger guys on here: When I first started traveling to PRChina 25+ years ago, there was no internet, no cell phone, no ATMs -- everything I did had to be by telex and I carried with me a short wave radio else California could've tumbled into the sea and I would n't know about it.

So the ease with which some come here today or go back and forth to home country, manage their finances while in Thailand, et al is a pretty recent thing. When I first started learning Chinese pre-Nixon's trip to China it was considered a classical language with no practical reason to learn it.

"back in my day we had to walk 20km up hill to get to school"

Your post is irrelevant to the topic?

It is relevant to your comment 'Majority of young guys are getting play back home and here, probably a lot more here as you know Thailand is an easy place to play around.' You couldn't until recently be back home and here and Thailand was not until recently an easy place to play around --if you wanted to play around in Thailand you had to pretty much cut yourself off from the rest of the world.

Again, this has no relevance on the topic.

Are you suffering from dementia or attempting to derail the thread?

I buy mine at Huay Kwang market. Opposite side of the road of the Elephant shrine thing.

To some of the younger guys on here: When I first started traveling to PRChina 25+ years ago, there was no internet, no cell phone, no ATMs -- everything I did had to be by telex and I carried with me a short wave radio else California could've tumbled into the sea and I would n't know about it.

So the ease with which some come here today or go back and forth to home country, manage their finances while in Thailand, et al is a pretty recent thing. When I first started learning Chinese pre-Nixon's trip to China it was considered a classical language with no practical reason to learn it.

"back in my day we had to walk 20km up hill to get to school"

Your post is irrelevant to the topic?

You won't see any girl anywhere in the world with a pin-up picture of John Goodman on her wall.

Maybe not, but I bet that John Goodman has no trouble getting dates with young, attractive women. Something about being wealthy and famous attracts them.

Thanks for proving his point.

All it proves is that men with money can get young, attractive women. Is that a secret? As far as young Western guys in Thailand go, if they were so amazingly handsome and charming, they would be cleaning up back home and would not have to be over here bottom feeding with the rest of us.

You realize you are affirming HardenSoul's and my point here? lol.

On the topic of young guys. You got beta males and losers at every age group.

Majority of young guys are getting play back home and here, probably a lot more here as you know Thailand is an easy place to play around. As for bottom feeding? lol.. I know a lot of the girls I hang with or have picked up would not even entertain the thought of some obese foreigner the age of their dad. We didn't have to move here to get laid like you. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Oh God, mate. Seriously??!! That's a weak argument . . . even coming from you.

Right up there with the "It's true, darling; size doesn't matter" some men have heard all their lives.

You won't see any girl anywhere in the world with a pin-up picture of John Goodman on her wall.

Saying that most women don't appreciate and desire men with good looks and/or well-kept bodies just proves just how deluded you truly are.

It is not important to women how men look and that is why there are not thousands of women's magazines with photos of men.

Unbelievable...

You are so detached from reality it blows my mind.

Flame? Awww. Cat got your tongue? So you tell me why there are thousands upon thousands of magazines and billion dollar industries that promote men looking at women without clothes on and almost none promoting men without clothes on for women?

I didn't flame you. I made no comment about you at all. I only asked a civil question.

Flame? Really?

Never heard of Adam Levine? Twilight? Justin Bieber? Any other prominent young male media star? What do they all have in common? What is the demographic of their audience?

Are you really this stupid? (thats a flame)

Why don't you join us back in the real world?