jaywalker

3 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

it is good some people are trying to tell other people what they should do.

I was sending my wife out on an errand once,  ( I wish she was still as naive).

She had no idea where it was, and Thai addresses are made for people on Mars....No Google Earth back then either.

Told her she'd have to ask directions, and not if, but when the guy/gal somewhat pointed towards the moon, she's have to ask them again to be more specific.

She told me I was just like George Bush, and that I "just wanted to tell everybody what to do."

Somebody has to do it sometimes.

Why are the Swampy restrooms 1/10th the size of those at the Mo-Chit Bus Station, and all the concourse seating looks/feels like it was designed for a US Super-Max prison?

I loved old Don Mueang, even though it was under 7 feet of water a few years ago.

On 3/15/2017 at 4:42 AM, ricklev said:

Exactly!  I take a van out to Rangsit every once in awhile.  When they are speeding down the Don Muang Tollway at 130 there is a beeper that goes off every second or two.  That's what GPS does.  It requires the passengers to listen to the beeper when the van is speeding.  Of course most of the drivers have muffled the beeper so it's not too loud to disturb them all day.  

I wonder if their GPS will "Fail" as often as their brakes?

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Had a taxi w/ Indian driver taking me from Dubai to Abu Dhabi once. I was knackered after a 30 hour flight.

No GPS, but the beeper was tied into the speedometer.

Talk about annoying! I was ready to strangle the guy!

8 hours ago, elgordo38 said:

Patient to Robbie the robot. Robbie all these pills are any dangerous to my health and my kidneys? Robbie Bleep let me get back to you on that one my program does not compute bleep. 

Kinda sounds like the Pattaya crosswalk traffic lights.

Of yeah, I LOVED Robbie the Robot when I was a kid.

Hadn't thought of him in decades. Thanks!

I needed a cyst removed from my testicles once upon a time years ago.

Embarrassing as it gets, from the female receptionist on.

At BKK-Pattaya hospital.

Had a male doctor & he said he could laser scalpel it off there.

Pregnant, female nurse had me drop my drawers & applied a local anesthetic (some kind of numbing cream & a band-aid) on my ball-sac & told me to go wait outside for an hour.

Back then I hardly spoke any Thai, but I gathered it must've been some field trip day for some med students, as the doctor invited half a dozen young 20-ish kids in there to watch him do the procedure.

Not sure if a robot could have done better, but it would have certainly been less humiliating!

12 hours ago, captnhoy said:

Let's focus on the big picture folks - as long as the Thai worker is not losing their job to a farang, mai pen rai. True story too - I went to the pharmacy of my local (provincial) hospital trying to resupply my eye drops for glaucoma. I explained and showed the nearly empty dispenser. she tried to supply me with nose drops.

I went to an optometrist & told her I'd like to buy some PLUS 5.25 contacts (far sighted)

She sold me MINUS 5.25 contacts (for near sighted people).

Being half blind I couldn't read the box, so I got the wrong thing

So they use 25 trees for their poster & burn a bazillion watts on lighting for their photo op.

2 hours ago, DualSportBiker said:

Just like reversing on a highway having missed one's exit.

I can recall a few times where it might have been safer/quicker to back up on the expressway (I'd missed my exit).

I drove on to the next exit, thinking I'd make a U-Turn & wound up in the 4th or 5th dimension.

It added HOURS on to my trip.

37 minutes ago, webfact said:

new applicants for driver license will now be required to pass a minimum of 15 hours of instruction at qualified private driving schools

My wife couldn't drive a ten-penny nail into a piece of cornbread when I met her, so I had her do a 40 hour driving class in a stick-shift.

She still can't drive a manual transmission vehicle, but does pretty good with an automatic.

18 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

He could've been sleep walking, or got up to use the loo and was disorientated, found the balcony not the loo, he's only been at the hotel for 10 days, I hate staying in new places, I always get up in the night for a Jimmy due to one or two too many beers and have trouble locating the bog, these days I leave a light on in the bathroom and the door slightly ajar. 

 

RIP sir.

I know a guy who was fishing at night in a bass boat, stood up to wizz over the side, put his hand out like he was going to lean against a wall, and fell in the lake.

He was sober too! Just sleepy I guess?

A few years back I was on Walking St. & hear/noticed a sound like somebody welding.

There was a power pole with wires that were arcing a big blue flame about 3 - 4 inches across.

This was far South end of WS, so I made my way up to the police table at the North end to tell the cops.

Young cop there spoke perfect English & told me not to worry about it, as it always does that.

15 minutes ago, SunsetT said:

....I would have thought there was an excess of happy zones in Pattaya already...........some erogenous and some erogerinous.

Ad nauseum buddy....

Did you just fall off the turnip truck?

If so ask for advice, but saying all of Pattaya is/has been a happy zone has been obvious for decades.

I suppose the sky is blue as well, and when it rains things get wet.

15 minutes ago, alex8912 said:

So your analogy is being in bed in pattaya by 11 pm and any tourist city in the USA at 3am??  I don't get it. 

Many tourist cities in USA have all bars closing by 2 am including San Francisco and Boston.  

You cant say pattaya at 3 am is safer than many USA tourist cities at 3 am. Tourist areas in the USA have police out and available to help with anything for free!  They are almost always in extremely safe neighborhoods. They also have CCTVs  that work. Just read TVF on occasion and Pattaya at 3 am is far less safe than almost any USA tourist city/tourist area.  You can't even compare slightly. 

I just know my limits.

I get drunk & go to bed, get up & have fun with my wife & daughter the next day.

I don't drink and drive, & don't stay out all night.

I don't stumble around Miami nor Chicago nor LA at 0300 hrs drunk.

I like drinking. I also like living. I never said anyplace was safe, nor that you should adhere to my code.

I just feel safer when I'm curled up next to my wife in the middle of the night, and turn out to be a better man the next day!

If you want to run the streets anywhere you want in any urban area, then, by all means Sir, "Move out & draw fire".

Any thug/lowlife after you is one less after me.

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Edit... I never said Pattaya was safe. Baghdad & Yemen & Kosovo are probably safer. I've been in all three when mortars were being lobbed in.

7 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Not too familiar with Pattaya. Maybe someone can help. Is the 'Happy Zone' near the 'Happy Ending Zone'?

 

Go to Soi 6 and/or Soi 6/1.

Oh yeah, be careful about any "AMAZON"-looking women, as they'll most likely be a transvestite.

Any Thai "woman" over 5' 6" tall is probably a man.

8 minutes ago, Nice Boyd said:

Chewing Ice could mean Iron Deficientcy , Google it  

Yeah, she's starving to death, almost 5 feet tall now at 11 years old.

Just now, robertthebruce said:

 

 

Heard it it all now....take your wife and child to that area.....great Educational start....

 

Sorry, but not my idea of a Good Evening...

It's an open air restaurant off 2nd Road Robert.

It was a comedy show for crying out loud!

One guy that looks like an NFL linebacker playing Tina Turner & a bunch of harmless katoeys on the stage.

The guy that played Tina came over & had a drink with us after the show, sans the wig, yet had a bit of lipstick still...Which I found even more comical. He spoke great English.

No harm, no foul. We had a few drinks & parted ways.

I was there with another American friend, along with his wife & daughter, and we just had a fun time.

Nobody got robbed, mugged, raped, beaten to a pulp.

The kids enjoyed the show.

At least the katoeys here were professional, and not out picking tourists' pockets, were gainfully employed, and the male actor was just that. An actor.

Pattaya is always a circus!

6 minutes ago, Slaps said:

 

 

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That was the early day's 

 

Think that'  how they used to spike your beer without you noticing

 

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It wasn't too terribly long ago. I saw most of the idiocy at Nana Plaza in 2001 or so, yet saw some CRAZY stuff off Walking Street in about 2006, as in a live sex show.

I was out with a couple friends, wife was in Surin, & they had a live sex show.

Not really my cup of tea, but I was just yapping w/ some old friends.

I'm immune to pornography. It does nothing for me.

Anyhow, the woman is getting porked onstage, live, by a Thai guy, and he did something that pissed her off in the middle of the act.

She jumped up, grabbed a bathrobe & some flip-flops & took off down Soi Diamond.

One of my two buddies, handed us his check-bin & asked us to cover it (no problem Bro), and took off after her with a raging hard-on.

He wound up keeping that gal 2 DAYS!

She was an older gal too, but I guess she was experienced. He wound up happy & she came out a few thousand baht richer.

1 hour ago, whatawonderfulday said:

Cute and a little lady of eleven years now

Yes she is & thanks for the compliment. She's almost as tall as her Mother now, and will be 12 in October.

I'm looking forward to her getting interested in the opposite sex the same way as I'd look forward to a firing squad.

The BOYS will face some HEAVY DUTY due diligence by Daddy before she starts dating.

When she was 3, I told my wife to quit feeding her, as I wanted her to stay that age forever.

She just keeps growing though.

18 hours ago, boomerangutang said:

Thais emulate celebrities.  How about some TV and music stars step up to the plate and make public appeals.   In the US, during the 50's and 60's there was a jingle that became popular:  "Please, Please, Don't be a Litterbug"  I tried to find the original jingle on Youtube, but couldn't.  Instead, here's a modern rap version.

 

 

              The kids of Thailand and Asia need to be influenced to do what's right.  They don't listen to politicians or Sangha, but they will sit up and listen to celebrities close to their age and/or puppets/animation.  As for Asian adults, fogedabowdit.  They're beyond the pale.  But kids can still be influenced for the betterment of Thailand's natural environment.

 

 

Good idea, just get the snowflake Thai celeb's to quit getting DUI's & running over cops is the first step.

BUT, yes it could work if they'd get the message out on Farcebook in force.

10 minutes ago, dotpoom said:

Leaving out "randy" gits........what is there in Walking St./Pattaya for the world to enjoy.

   The first time my Ex came to visit me in Pattaya she made the statement...."This is a town only for men". 

 

I love that term "Randy!"

Where I grew up, there was a kid named Randy that always wanted to fight.

He was only 10 & I was 9. Unbeknownst to us at the time, he just needed a week in Pattaya.

Just now, Searat7 said:

Where will all the ladyboys who specialize in stealing gold necklaces be relocated ?

California would be a great place for them.

Never seen the 3 liter Coke bottle one, but don't doubt you at all.

I've seen ping-pong balls, darts & balloons, goldfish etc, but the one I like best was when the gal cracked open a Singha beer bottle lid with her ass cheeks.

Now THAT was some talent! She then proceeded to spin around a pole a dozen times, all over the stage, clenching the bottle in her ass cheeks and never spilled a drop.

33 minutes ago, fruitman said:

My daddie showed me the bears in the zoo yesterday, after that we went on a waterbicycle which looked like a swan, soo much fun.

 

Well my daddie showed me the katoeyshow in Pattaya and all the sexy bargirls played with my curly hairs...

And we saw many old fat farang men walking with their "granddaughters" hand in hand.

 

Up to you mate.....

 

The waitresses at Jameson's are not hired for "being sexy bargirls" They're mostly competent, hard working waitresses/bartenders dressed professionally, wearing far more clothes that your average farang on the street.

It's a rather upscale place at high noon.

As for my little kid seeing offensive fat pigs with young women, I fail to see your point.

I teach her proper values, then just live and let live. What some fat guy does with some young girl is none of my business, nor is it hers.

15 minutes ago, fruitman said:

Did your kid see the magicians and their pingpongballs? Or the ones with the rasorblades?

 

That one who can hide a whole coke-bottle is impressive, i hope your daughter won't try it herself though.

 

Amazing how they can shoot darts through balloons , the grouptours will talk about it when back home i bet 

Never took my daughter into a Walking Street bar dude.

Don't be crass.

I DID let her sit at the bar with me at Jameson's Pub once in North Pattaya.

It was lunchtime & I took her pretty much everywhere I went when she wasn't in school.

I ordered a draft beer (and some lunch) & the barmaids went nuts over a ha-sip, ha-sip curly haired kid.

I got my little girl a glass of ice. That kid can eat ice....LOVES IT!

Took her & my wife into a Tranny show once off 2nd Road. They were just dancing.

The star was some athletic Thai guy that would dress up in drag and lip-sync Tina Turner perfectly.

3 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

List the five contractors, detail the management/structure, show any links to the junta, follow the money.

 

Or don't.

Doing that, IE: TELLING THE TRUTH will get you arrested in Thailand.