Prubangboy

It's a good place to get essential oils, incense etc. Prob 20% off of Chinatown, which is also good. It's also the only place in Thailand where I found Lao Coffee, and at a reasonable price. But you do eventually get marketed out. You've seen one hanging duck, you've seen them all. You age out of tee shirts with pictures on them. When I was in Oman and Borneo this year, the visit to the market was a tour highlight for most people. But I live near the Chiang Mai Uni Market and I never bother to go anymore.

Another gloriously ugly Ubon hotel, this time in the brutalist-revival style

To be fair, those faux-Deco chairs would fetch $2K apiece in a Manhattan vintage furniture store.

Ubon Hotel. A brutalist masterpiece. ha an all-concrete karaoke bar that looks like Hitler's bunker.

Those highly skilled tailors could not sew a button on a shirt, it's all sent out to a sweatshop. May as well answer Walker 88: 'Can't speak to any jihadi cells at the The Grace Hotel, but I recall Osama tee shirts being sold on Suk right after 9/11, with the slogan, ANTHRAX WAR NOW! Eventually, they were withdrawn from sale. 10 people wanted me to get them one. One suggested I wear it on the plane.

This is Bignok speak for: "I'm outa gas. Bye". He pretends you're frustrated. Then he runs away.

The artist formerly known as SusanLea.

I'm making fun of Bignok. The conversation thing -it seems to elude him. We talk about The Nana Hotel, then we talk about the tailor shop there, then we talk about other tailor shops in other old hotels. To him, this is akin to splitting the atom. "What about when I go to a gym for 40 baht?". "Huh?'.

He doesn't love Thailand for its super-unique, layered, lost in time mashed up against crass modernity-vibe. He's here for a cheap breakfast and to have someone sit on his bogan face. Not that that's a bad thing.

If I break up all the way with my white wife, I am thinking about middle-aged Chinese women as a dating option. Here in Nimman, they are everywhere. Pro's and cons over a Thai partner next chapter? I see more brains and kinkier sex, but meaner over all; which would suit me fine.

I stayed at The Grace Hotel recently. Verdict: a full letter grade up from the Nana, a letter grade down from The Ambassador. Again, truly zany tailor shop windows. I may do a photo essay. Circa '98, I recall that a lot of mongers were wearing over-tailored shirts. It's sad those peacocks have passed on. Bignok alert: All of the milk you wanted at breakfast. Feel free to fill up a whole glass to save money on lunch. Passable gym too. Save your much-bragged about 40 baht gym admissions to buy your not-really-a-dentist pretend-girlfriend a second meat on a stick. 'Can't fault The Miami: on a great corner, big room, retro pool area.

I have fond memories of the Nana Hotel tailor shop. Truly demented shirts with Nehru collars. I would pay $100 to meet someone who says, "I only trust my luxury tailoring to The Nana Hotel". And yet, somewhere, that sartorial mad man exists.

Circa 2,000, My sister adopted a Vietnamese orphan. I was skeptical, since it cost 25,000 then-dollars. Supposedly, it was a catholic charity. They put her up in The Nana Hotel. She was agog. Her new trafficked baby was quite a hit among the freelancers.

I'm a huge fan of The Kramer Guy. He's made his peace, he likes his life. He's sort of my role model for the future.

There will come a day when the old Bangkok luxury-style of grey marble and dark brown wood will have a heyday. But probably not in our lifetime. Asia Hotel is the best kept-up example, The Ambassador isn't bad. Stayed there recently. Costs the same as The Nana -poor, not laughable breakfast

Best sex poster in the history of the board? I think so.

The thought of you guzzling down grade Z, bootleg Coffee Mate and then thumping yourself on your back over your "thrift" delights me.

Have a great day, Elon.

You never said you had 1,500 GF's and an IQ of 185? Are you running away again now like you always do when you are questioned, even lightly?

You forgot he is Hitler I said he was too stupid to be Hitler. It's that kind of arguing over nothing, pretending to be a sharp sceptic when you're basically a bobble headed doll here just remind people that you're here, that make you complete dead weight. Can we hear more about your 185 IQ? Your 1,500 girlfriends?

Another day of blanked out contrarianism from you, well matched with your dim-witted fantasies.

I was watching hotel video's last night. The Nana looks pretty run down. The breakfast looks dire. Coffee mate instead of milk for coffee. I can't think of another breakfast buffet where they don't put out some milk. Not even little Coffee Mate packets, just a big bucket of dubious white powder, Probably not even real Coffee Mate. Back in the day, when such things mattered, I used their travel agency, which was reputed to be one of the best.

Yeah, I know. He'll prob crash the Aussie dollar too. Your meat on a stick dates dates will go up in price too. Maybe you and your 1,500 girlfriends you claim to have had here can just share one. I was reading an old thread where you claimed to have an IQ of 185. Google says that's one in 137 million. What are you doing here with us all day, every day, Elon?

I read a lot here about wife's who go off of sex by year 2. And also about how past 50, many Thai women are just done. When you get old, you just sort of run out of road, or have to pay.

May I introduce you to the rich, rich body of postings by GammaGlobule? My work here is done.