thaibeachlovers

I'd be up for that myself, if I were 20 years younger. Instead of having to go to Pattaya and spending a few days of my holiday looking for a good one, I could meet her at the airport and head straight to the islands.

Listen to that with your eyes closed and then claim it's "good music", 55555555555555555555. I can't even watch it anyway, because the length of time between cuts is about 1 second. Does my head in trying to watch anything that cuts so frequently.

IMO the last 13 words are what it's all about.

As is Ariana Grande, who attracts massive audiences, but I don't know the name of a single song she sings. Like I said, it's all about sex appeal. If they weren't on music VDOs I doubt they'd be successful based on their singing alone.

We agree on something. IMO the Beatles were <deleted> from Sgt Pepper on. A good example of why illegal drugs are bad for us. The Rolling Stone mag is important? Not in my opinion. Time used to be important, if one needs an example of important.

If it does catch on, the bar scene is doomed as it was IMO. Why bother trawling around all the bars between Walking street and Naklua looking for the elusive "one" when one can find her on line before even getting on the plane. I'd imagine the number of farangs that only want to play connect 4 and buy drinks for assorted women is limited.

Be interesting to see how much she herself ends up with after all the fees are deducted.

I like K pop/ J pop, but not for the songs, which IMO is what it's all about. If the songs were important, they could be sung by one singer, instead of by large groups of drop dead gorgeous, nubile, young girls doing complex routines in skimpy costumes. Rolling Stone magazine? 5555555

IMO the songs are nothing special but doing complex routine dancing in high heels does require talent. It's not about the songs anyway, IMO, but the sex appeal. According to a documentary I saw many years ago it started in Japan to cater to computer geeks that couldn't get a girlfriend. Back then, they were more intimate affairs and the audience was a lot smaller and sat quite close to the dancers.

Woopdee doo. IMO the only reason J pop and K pop are popular is because of the girls. They could sing "Ring a ring a rosies" and still be popular. It's all about sex appeal IMO.

What you wrote may be true, but I wouldn't want to live in Malaysia, and Singapore is too sterile and expensive. For all its faults, Thailand is the cheese for many of us, though I doubt we fit the government's desired profile.

You don't prove your case by petty insults.

IMO not true. I could do all that and more and never got hassled for it. I was even out digging ditches during a flood while the local officials were there, and after a storm I'd be out with the locals cleaning up. Did plumbing, electrical work, and repaired the roof in public view with no problems. If what you claim was true, no farang would be buying DIY tools at HomePro.

Indeed, that is the million $ question. Personally, I can't see them changing for the better. Even if they made it easier for the rich, I can't see them making it easier for expats like myself.

I can't see seriously rich people coming to live in LOS. It's just too dirty and decrepit. They might if they give a better deal re immigration and such than other countries in the region though. Depends on immigration changing it's "making it up as they go" policies, IMO.

I wonder if in 20 years those new to Thailand now will be missing the "good old days" ( now ). Certainly IMO Thailand 30 years ago was far more interesting and fun than now.

I've no idea and no interest in finding out as it would never concern myself, not living there. Google may help you though.

Speak for yourself. I'm getting burned.

5555555555555555555 Most, IMO, of us western guys of my generation were sex starved, given the western women that we lived with. As for "are they worth it?", millions of western men have thought so.

You assume too much. IMO most would be like myself with zero interest in "acclimatising" to the society. I learned enough Thai to get by and that was as far as I was willing to go. Never had the slightest interest in conversing with Thai males, and the females I was interested in all spoke excellent English. I was in Thailand because it suited me to be there, not because I wanted to be like them. Happily, it's not required for farangs to "acclimatise", so long as they don't want to become a citizen.

Ah, I hadn't seen your post when I posted something very similar. Apologies.

Indeed. It's a strange psychological thing. Girls wear very short skirts and then spend a lot of effort not exposing the knickers to view, and guys are turned on by very short skirts, but girls can put on a bikini bottom which is basically just knickers, and it's OK to look at them, and guys are not usually overcome by lust when seeing girls on the beach.

Singapore (a place I find many posters on here mythologize) Can't say I've noticed that on here. I'm almost the only poster that comments about Singapore far as I've seen. Singapore was the cheese in the early 70s and then it went greedy, and puritanical. I'd have gone there to work if things had been different, but I'd never want to retire there. Waaaaay too sterile and expensive for my liking. I'd rather live in Thailand, for all its faults.

That would require those in charge to give a <deleted>. IMO they don't. In the end, IMO they only allowed us to stay because it suited them at the time, not because they wanted a load of old foreigners about the place.

You must have started after the pill was available. When I was a young adult, the nice girls I knew didn't, because they didn't want to get pregnant, ergo my sexual experience started much later than yours.