PingRoundTheWorld

Which venues? (so we can avoid) I don't do drugs so don't have to worry about that, but getting caught up in a raid will ruin the night. Pretty stupid of them to do it during high season as tourists affected may not return next time. The drugs they should worry about are not some party favors at a club - it's meth and ice and other hardcore stuff that's used regularly by so many Thais.

As she should. Going in an elevator with a guy twice her size is a bad idea for any girl, Thai or not. It will be interesting to see what his version of the events was.

It's quite simple: anyone shooting at them, trying to stab them, or otherwise attacking them is a "terrorist". By definition Hamas is a terrorist organization, so any known member is a terrorist.

He should've filed a police report rather than look for them with his friends. Police have a higher chance of catching them and probably would've. Either paranoid that the police would side with the attackers, or there is more to the story and he provoked them first. They say "German" but more likely it's Muslim immigrants. Even if provoked verbally the attack was still racially motivated, but Israelis could do a better job of not sticking out and not provoking groups of Muslims overseas.

Many have left the game, many have moved to Pattaya, and younger ones go directly to Pattaya and Phuket so no one to replace the ones who quit or move. Basically Bangkok clubs are now a mixture of wannabe hiso, old freelancers who haven't given up yet, and foreign pros (Vietnamese, Africans, Russians, etc). Not much interesting anymore. I still go visit BKK occassionally to see friends, but generally moved to Pattaya which is a lot more fun. Speaking of Pattaya and Indians, on any night you'll see groups of Indian tourists going to their hotel with 1-2 fat chicks to share between a few guys. I've never seen them take a girl I would consider attractive. I'm not sure if they just like fat women, or these are the only women who target them because they have no chance competing with the hotter ones who target falang and Asians, or if these women are just willing to get paid a little extra to go with multiple men. An Indian guy once told me and 4 friends hired a girl for a bachelors party, each had a round with her, went out to party leaving her in the hotel then came back for another round in the morning and she left. They each paid her 1000 so she got 5000 total which I guess for a less attractive woman in Pattaya would be impossible to get. They don't bother me too much in Pattaya since they tend to stick to their clubs and the girls in those clubs, but in Bangkok they are definitely a prime cause for soi 11's decline. Falang stopped coming, and with that women who liked them stopped coming. Everybody loses. Except the Indians, maybe.

Interesting. Can you give an example of such a venue? I like the occassional gogo but the prices have gone up drastically. I also used to go to soi 11 on a daily basis pre-Covid - it was always more expensive but these days the prices are even higher and so not worth it with the type of crowd that shows up. I just moved to more falang friendly venues, zero interest in soi 11 in it's current form. It was good while it lasted.

Yep. I know many girls with tattoos who are not prostitutes, but most foreign guys in Thailand only ever engage with ones who are so have blinders to the fact not every girl you meet in an entertainment venue is a hooker. Reminds me of a girl I dated who works in a car dealership who had several (discreet) tattoos and so did her friend (hiso rich ***** who liked foreigners but absolutely did not need their money). Also basically most girls I've met from Isaan had tattoos, working or not.

You're taking biased "studies" done in western developed countries where there is a heavy stigma around prostitution and workers do suffer humiliation and poor conditions and applying them to a country where the attitude about sex and morality and money is very different. There is a whole spectrum of sex work in Thailand and while sure there are many who have suffered trauma and abuse, the majority did not. An extreme example would be girls with dayjobs who just moonlight occasionally to make ends meet, or a student who sidelines to get through school. As far as reasons for tattoos go - I think there's many reasons: some girls do it to express themselves, some for the art, some think it's attractive, some do it after trauma, some do buddhist symbols because they think it'll bless them. And some are indeed suffering from varying degrees of mental illness and punish/brand themselves so they can feel pain. Personally I like the tattoos on them if done well - especially full back tattoos - but I myself have no tattoos because I don't want to put anything permanent on my body in case I'll regret it later. I know these days it's possible to laser it out, but ouch...

No need maybe to own farm land and land for investment, but for residential purposes absolutely there is a need. It's ridiculous that foreigners can live in Thailand for many years, even be married, and still cannot even own a house.

You're speaking like she was a drug dealer or something. She just owned rental properties. The real question is why foreigners cannot own land in Thailand. I'd understand a limitation to X properties per person, sure, but a swift ban on foreigners owning houses is ridiculous and is the reason why this so-called "illegal" activities are taking place.

So they're stealing it. Legally. FFS.

Agreed. Pattaya people are used to seeing people drunk off their ***. That in itself would not provoke a beating. You'd have to be drunk and aggressive and annoying enough for them to snap.

And no word about the hundreds of thousands of Israeli refugees who had to leave their homes in the north due to Hezbollah bombardments, and the ones in the south near Gaza (now already returned). These things aren't black and white - there is collateral damage on both sides. Yes- I do feel sorry for the Gaza people who have been displaced, but Hamas overplayed it's hand and needed to be wiped out at all costs including the collateral damage. Hopefully the war will soon be over and things can get back to semi normal on both sides.

Bull<deleted>. Next. Seriously.

How exactly do you know that? Pattaya and other parts of Thailand are full of Muslims, and yes- they drink and party. And yes- many of them are good people. Assuming they won't attent a party because Muslims are not supposed to drink is just stupid. Many do. The end.