Prubangboy

On 6/20/2022 at 7:25 AM, bbko said:

Perhaps it's their way of saying you need to check your breath?  

On average, we smell bad to Asian People.

So now you're advocating for tastes bad too? As the brits say: 'not 'affin' it.

I have a friend with a 35 years younger Thai wife. Who does he lust for? My 60 year old wife.

I came home once and found that he had taken her out for sushi. Just to bask in her educated whiteness. I want to set my wife up on OnlyFans where she can keep her clothes on and just talk to lonely drunks in Issan about Brexit.

He asks me -a lot- if I go to massage parlors for happy endings. I told him I don't even happy ending-myself; she takes care of that -and that I regard a hand job as the American cheese on Wonder bread of sex-sandwiches.

I know people who have great Thai relationships, but for me, it's a case of water, water everywhere, but not.......

After The Grand Canyon and The Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat is the biggest bang tourist thing I ever saw.

But you really have to like ruins. Typically, I do not. I was a tad bored at Machu Piku, Petra, and The Roman Forum. I felt no need to see the further afield Khmer ruins this time around, tho I have seen every last one when I was a newer, hungrier tourist. I did Angkor 3 times and that was enough.

My post-covid visit of last year to Angkor, where I wandered thru it without seeing another soul still haunts me in my dreams and is among my best travel memories. If it feels like a forced school trip to you, there's no reason to suffer through it.

Nor is there much need to go north of the capital. Unless you want the eco-lodge experience for 30% off of Thailand prices (Laos does it better for even cheaper). Kampot is just as nice as Battambang, closer, and you can then transit to one of the lovely Thai Islands of the eastern seaboard in half a day.

Deciding via Youtube is very valid. We decided not to try a Khao Soi place based on the look of the fried noodles.

'Can't imagine what in the Battambang video's is so compelling, 90% of the time, YouTubing veto's a place for me rather than makes me want to go.

2 minutes ago, bignok said:

Siem Reap and Battambang be my choices

 

Battabang had a little hey day ask a old Frenchie building/foodie spot like Luang Prubang.

But like LP, Covid has crushed that and it will not soon return. No longer worth going out of your way for.

that thread:

21 minutes ago, bignok said:

Laos was more expensive than Thailand too. Hotels 15 to 20% more.

The hotel is a bit more, but they're practically giving away the food -which I rate over Thai food. A taxi mafia that would shame Phuket too.

Still, it was hard for us to spend $80 a day in Vientiane, and that was with taking people out.

Do a search, I linked to an article saying just that about 4 months ago. If anything, you sound a little on the low side.

Just killed a 2 liter sake carton with 3 other people over a couple of parma ham and artichoke pizza's. Can't fault it.

3 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Do you dabble with Thai ladies?

I def get some status from having done a lot of meditation and being very Buddhist-positive and Buddhist-curious.

Many women have never had faith conversations with a man. Buddhism doesn't have too many affluent bachelors floating around in it.

That my white wife also identifies as Buddhist is also very statusy for me. I have a ton of Buddhist face, and none of it is really earned.

BUT: Just they'e not getting that dewy, wet, into me feeling.

A lot of cheery Buddha-kaaa-ing is nice, but it's just not dirty enough.

For dirty, you really have to go to white women.

Just now, bignok said:

7/11 girls are hard to pick up. 

One of my fave old ThaiVisa myths was that 7/11 girls were gunning to lure me away. I've had two real approaches since moving a year ago. Both around 40.

There is no Red Pill-ian Wall for classy, reasonable weight (not thin) good looking white women. If she goes on Tinder, she'll get 100 hits and I'd be lucky to get 3.

She's 60 to my 70, so I guess that's my leg up.

8 minutes ago, MrPancake said:

 

What's wrong with living with your wife in Pattaya?

 

Since we're not beach people, I def took a research trip to The Dark Side of Pattaya. Very western couple-ish. Super-value.

But we're more self-contained and prefer the beatniks that drift in an out of our condo. She told me that if I need to go off with a 7/11 cashier, she'll just wait me out.

Just now, bignok said:

Does she follow sports?

No, we both never think about sports even for a single moment.

If she knew her framed footie shirts at the pub, she could prob ditch me for richer pastures.

Unlike you, I'm not anti-bogan. Stop, stop the self-hatred.

I envision a Star Wars-like moment between you and BobSmith where he says, "Luke, I'm your father".

2 minutes ago, bignok said:

I'm not a bogan.

 

 

Why not put it to a poll? 

Why not be like Chav Superstar BobSmith and just wallow in it? Note his favorables compared to your own.

1 hour ago, bignok said:

Calling people you never met bogans is abuse. Give it a rest.

As the first person here to rightly pronounce you a Bogan, I ask you:

Why do you think it stuck so easily? Where are the contrarians saying, "no, he's not a bogan' .  

Is there even a single one? Will they come forward today?

Wow, you went to Chum in The Old City on my recco.

Next time, this is the place that all the locals rate as #1:

I live 2 minutes away, but I never go. Maybe twice in a year. 

Reason: too much meat and spice level at 5. It's YouTubed to death for a reason.

I don't love it, but it's not Vietnam's fault:

-Less Buddhist and less Sanuk attitude

-Food's a little boring; hard to dodge soup and spring rolls. My least fave SEA food.

-The traffic kills it (including the boat traffic in Han Long Bay)

-dodgy visa that wasn't delivered on time (use an agent)

What I liked: 

-Sapa, the train system, Hue (very under-rated), communist monuments, Hoi An (worth 2 days, still), cocktail culture.

Still want to do, but will prob be a bit underwhelmed:

The beach, boat trip from the delta to Phenom Penh, Dalat.

If I go again, it would prob be back to the North only.

Getting back to Chiang Mai overland is a rough, strange week on the road.

6 hours ago, FruitPudding said:

 

I honestly thought you were sarcasticly joking. Haha. 

It's a diff color wheel here.

Do you love orange and green like at the temple? I do. We have a 60's modern house back in the states. Thai color theory suits us fine.

https://www.google.com/search?q=panatone+thai&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiqvoLWpbSCAxU0bWwGHT-dDbcQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=panatone+thai&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQDFD1BFirE2CgIWgAcAB4AIAB5wGIAeQOkgEFMi45LjKYAQCgAQGqAQtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZ8ABAQ&sclient=img&ei=VHBLZarEC7TaseMPv7q2uAs&bih=727&biw=1440&client=safari#imgrc=6Xi4o00gscWsPM

Just saw the new Scorcese. An hour and a half too long. He makes the same film over and over now; a morally flawed Leo Di Caprio is lured by a Robert Di Niro villain, who's just phoning it in. 

I thought this post was about Gamma Globule.

Then I saw the word Or.

Just now, bignok said:

Hows Chiang Mai? 

You can smell the flop sweat desperation.

Off to the loo -or am I really franticly running away from his searing bon mots?