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  1. Expressways and highrises reminds me of an incident some time in the 90s. I was in a taxi from the airport, having newly arrived and we passed one high rise beside the expressway on which was an enormous poster of a spectacularly beautiful girl advertising something. The intention was to get the attention of passing motorists, which it did, but not in the intended way. Turned out so many drivers were so beguiled by the beauty of her, that they were causing accidents, and she had to go, so next time I passed by she was, sadly, no longer there. Just one of the interesting things that happens in LOS that likely would not happen elsewhere.
  2. I don't know how many, but some up in the north by Hezbollah rockets. Apparently they had to evacuate all the occupants and they are living in hotels further south at great expense to the israeli government.
  3. Good for her. Seems Biden is in for a whole lot of pain if more of his staff leave for the same reason.
  4. I was working in Saudi at the time and was rolling in cash, so that wasn't it. It was because the hangers on kept trying to rush me and I didn't like it. When they tried to rush me choosing a "feeder" that was the last straw. I didn't have to pay anymore but that was possibly because I didn't ask for "full service". Is there anyone out there that manged to work it out?
  5. Would that have been mainly for businesses? If I remember correctly in London internet cafes didn't really get started till 1998. I used to go to a big new one near Trafalgar Square that had free internet after midnight till morning as an introductory offer. I had to get someone to turn it on as I had not a clue. I don't remember what I did on it though. Quite common by about 2002 I think. I went to one near where I lived, but it had to close as the owner let too many friends use it for free and it went broke. Only way I could save anything was on a disc. By then I had a desk top and an internet connection of my own from British Telecom, I saved everything to an external hard drive as big as a large book. It had less capacity than a flash drive the size of my little finger nail now.
  6. That was probably a brick? My cousin had one and it was quite large. I don't remember the first time I saw a cell phone in Bkk, but it was in the back pocket of a gogo dancer. They were probably the only non rich Thais that could afford one, and would have used it for getting customers outside the bar. That has to be near or after the turn of the century.
  7. I was left feeling ripped off, so unless you spoke perfect Thai then I don't think you missed anything. First time left me puzzled, and on the second visit they managed to make me really angry before I even started the meal, which didn't make for a nice time. That one did speak a bit of English so I was able to explain why I was so angry. Nice girl, bad experience. I don't remember, but I probably gave her a tip for putting up with an angry farang and being nice.
  8. The common theme in all western nations discontent is the housing crisis, which IMO is down in it's entirety to governments allowing too many people in when there are just not enough houses for everyone. IMO an entirely government created crisis. It wouldn't have even been necessary if they educated people properly, and made lazy youths get off their fat backsides and get a job.
  9. One wonders if the Bkk places are headed for the same fate as the world famous Bugis street in Singapore? During LKY's puritanical era where he sanitised Singapore it got shut down, apparently became derelict and eventually reincarnated as a shopping/ restaurant street, like a thousand others. All that remains of it's fame is the name. Perhaps Patpong will become the hub of bag shops, Nana will be three levels of restaurants and bars, and Cowboy- well who knows? It'd be nice if they preserved it as a museum of when Bkk was actually interesting, and not the hub of shopping malls. Perhaps they could build a replica of one of the R and R hotels as well. It'd be popular with us old guys for sure. Does anyone remember the Carlton Hotel, just around the corner from Cowboy? I had my first lesson in Thai customs when the waiter brought a jug of water that had suspicious things floating around in it, but my GF to be wouldn't let me complain. We just didn't drink it.
  10. I was fortunate enough to visit both before they ceased to be. Can't say I was impressed by either though, but I guess they had their regular clientele. Did anyone try one of the No Hands restaurants? I never did get the hang of them, and never knew if I was supposed to get more than food or not- I didn't, but perhaps I didn't know the secret password or something. I only tried twice and gave up on them. It was early days and I didn't speak any Thai and they didn't speak any English.
  11. I liked that food court. It had the best satay I found in Pattaya. I think we got nam pla or bottled water for 10 baht. No free water machine anyway.
  12. Perhaps it's easier to sort out the con artists on line. Con artists are expert at presenting themselves as attractive individuals instead of the vile scum they really are. That's harder to do if not face to face.
  13. Because it's creepy if the guy is hitting on her. What other reason would there be for him to do so? I don't know where you are from, but two guys kissing in public isn't normal where I live.
  14. I knew that many western women that were prepared to go out with a guy to get the freebies, but are not interested in giving him a home run. I imagine it would be similar in LOS. I even had a nurse friend that used to to go to pubs for an evening with her friends, the guys would flock around and they would get free drinks all night, then they would leave. She used to laugh about it, and she was actually a nice person. I hate to think what nasty women get up to.
  15. Errr, what's the chance that a random Thai woman met by chance speaks English well enough to a/ even understand a western joke b/ has a western sense of humour? I've never encountered any Thai woman that had a western sense of humour, and I have never been amused by what has them rolling around laughing fit to bust. What I have encountered are Thai women that pretend to understand western humour as they can sense a big pay off comin'.
  16. Agree. To look at it from a non hooker perspective, who could imagine that attractive Thai women ( is any guy going to try it on with a woofer? ), who get hit on all the time anyway, are going to welcome some strange farang trying to hit on them when just trying to do a bit of shopping? Do they imagine that a/ attractive Thai women are just hanging around malls waiting for a farang to ask them out for wild sex b/ attractive Thai women are interested in strange farangs c/ that they are such God's gift to women that their animal magnetism is going to sweep attractive Thai women into bed with them? I was working on the assumption that said farangs are not wanting to spend an afternoon enjoying the history of various temples around Bkk, followed by an slap up dinner at their expense and a peck on the cheek as they say goodbye.
  17. Nonsense in YOUR opinion. Thousands enjoyed his column, so why do you persist in trying to bring him down? Did he insult you personally or something? Why can't you just let posters that enjoyed his contribution to our lives celebrate his column? Why do you have to be so nasty about him. You didn't like his column, OK, can't you leave the thread be and not come on just to be a wet blanket. Bye.
  18. I have to fundamentally disagree. From the early 90s till well into this century the farang scene in Bkk, which was basically Patpong, Nana, and Cowboy, remained basically the same. Purachai had a major impact during thaksin's diabolical period as PM, but it did come back, even if not as vibrant as previously. Early closing also made a huge difference as the scene in Nana after closing moved into Sukhumvit where small businesses soon moved in to provide pavement tables and drinks. Nana itself carried on much as always. I can't speak for Patpong this century as I no longer went there due to the vile night market, and many of the Gogos were gone and replaced by bag shops. Cowboy, which I did visit occasionally remained much the same, except for Tilac, which was my first hang out and the source of my first long time Thai GF, went horribly flashy and unpleasant. IMO the most drastic change has come from the internet which means the better girls no longer have to rotate around a chrome pole for some hours, in hope of being rented out. I prefer to think that Trink was woked out of his job. Had he just been simply retired as no longer relevant, they would at the least have given him a decent send off, which they didn't. New brooms and all that.
  19. Are you saying Thailand had e mails since mid 90s? I didn't even see mobile phones back then. You seem to have a personal grudge against Trink to despise him so much. To myself and thousands, he was an informative and interesting source about Bkk night life to read weekly. Google is not my friend on finding out when internet became commonplace in Thailand, so the best I can do is this https://blog.apnic.net/2019/09/04/thseries-mapping-thailands-past-present-and-future-internet/ “Back then there were no commercial Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Thailand. The first [Internet Thailand Company] was established in 1995; it deployed a 512 Kbps leased line to UUNET in the USA. So not exactly commonplace then. Another major change in the history of Thailand’s Internet (noted on the map) happened in 2001 following the passing of the Telecommunications Business Act (B.E. 2544). This made getting a license to operate a telecommunications business a lot easier, as previously ISPs were required to be a joint venture with the Communications Authority of Thailand. Which fits with my memories that internet cafes didn't start in Thailand till this century. Even in London, the first internet cafe I was able to use was very late last century. If you can provide proof that Trink may have been able to use the internet in the mid 90s and the use of e mails in Thailand was commonplace then, I'll bow to your superior knowledge.
  20. IMO every country I have been in since I started working overseas, because NZ paid nurses a pittance, has got worse since then ( except for Saudi which couldn't get any worse ). Why should Thailand be different? Biggest change for me in LOS was staying in the country. I started on 90 day visa exempt back to back visits, and ended up paying an agency to avoid the BS, but that is a once a year thing.
  21. I don't, as I need more opportunities to have a laugh and his posts are often very comical.
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