Looking Back, Now..….What Was Your Favorite and Happiest Year in Thailand?

[1FinickyOne]

11 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I am not just joking here.

I think you are on to something here... jokes are shorter and have a punchline... this is just way too long.

[BritManToo]

29 minutes ago, Saltire said:

Why when I read your OP do I hear it being read aloud by Noel Coward?

Did you type it wearing a smoking jacket?

 

Both gay?

[BE88]

41 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Yes, that internet thingy is a terrible thing , would be better if everyone stopped using it

r/s

No I don't think it like all things and moderation internet is always better especially when watching porn videos

 

 

[Mac Mickmanus]

2 minutes ago, BE88 said:

No I don't think it like all things and moderation internet is always better especially when watching porn videos

 

 

Just a bit of sarcasm from me , people on the internet complaining about people being on the internet . 

  People online complaining about people being online .  

[thaibeachlovers]

49 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Yes, that internet thingy is a terrible thing , would be better if everyone stopped using it

r/s

Indeed it would. I'd have loads of time to do other things, but I'm addicted to it, unfortunately.

[Mac Mickmanus]

Just now, thaibeachlovers said:

Indeed it would. I'd have loads of time to do other things, but I'm addicted to it, unfortunately.

What other things would you be doing ?

[thaibeachlovers]

Just now, Mac Mickmanus said:

What other things would you be doing ?

Reading, cooking, photography and other such like stuff that has nothing to do with looking at a screen for hours.

I loved reading before the internet arrived, but sadly have to make an effort now.

[CharlieH]

Sometime in 2003 I watched a late night TV program called "bangkokbound" couldnt believe what I was seeing, never thought about it much before that, within weeks I was in Bangkok, jaw dropped open, totally overwhelmed, the rest as they say is history. Those first 2 years I was bouncing back n forth every few months, until I got caught by the Mrs in 2005 and moved here 2006.

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, HappyExpat57 said:

I arrived late 2006. After discovering soapies, EVERY year they were available was best!

Really?

It seems few farangs really enjoy them.

I mean, sure, they are a lot better than bathing alone. But it seems many of those girls have a very mechanical attitude to their job. 5 times per day the same procedure as the day before...

[HappyExpat57]

9 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Really?

It seems few farangs really enjoy them.

I mean, sure, they are a lot better than bathing alone. But it seems many of those girls have a very mechanical attitude to their job. 5 times per day the same procedure as the day before...

I was never too picky and enjoyed every one in Pattaya. I had one, however, in Bangkok. When we got upstairs and she removed her clothes, I asked myself "Where did the girl I selected go?" When you have to fantasize to get where you want to go during a soapy, well that's just sad!

[OneMoreFarang]

2 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

I was never too picky and enjoyed every one in Pattaya. I had one, however, in Bangkok. When we got upstairs and she removed her clothes, I asked myself "Where did the girl I selected go?" When you have to fantasize to get where you want to go during a soapy, well that's just sad!

Did you ask her to switch off the lights or just turn around?

[ArcticFox]

11 hours ago, couchpotato said:

Well one of mine was 1977.  Co-owned (with another Wesgeco guy) the "Pitstop Gogo Bar" in Patong (next to Rick's Grand Prix and 2 doors down from the Book shop). Great times for a couple of years.

But the high light of that year was bedding both the famous twins (featured in the Deerhunter) from the Mississippi Queen Gogo Bar (located opposite Pitstop).

For those wondering, I have added 2 photos from 44 years ago of both twins dancing....enjoy.

Imagine what they look like today?  Annica. ????

[Mac Mickmanus]

2 minutes ago, ArcticFox said:

Imagine what they look like today?  Annica. ????

Go and have a look when drinking restrictions are lifted , they are still working in bars 

[thaibeachlovers]

4 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Really?

It seems few farangs really enjoy them.

I mean, sure, they are a lot better than bathing alone. But it seems many of those girls have a very mechanical attitude to their job. 5 times per day the same procedure as the day before...

You just didn't get the right girl(s). I had some amazing soapies in one of those huge soapy palaces in Bkk.

One of my major gripes with Chiang Mai was that I couldn't find a decent soapy. Mind you, Chiang Mai has to be the worst places in LOS for anything to do with bars or massage places etc. The city authorities seemed intent on destroying anything sanuk. Pattaya wiped them off the map every time for a fun time.

[OneMoreFarang]

24 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

You just didn't get the right girl(s). I had some amazing soapies in one of those huge soapy palaces in Bkk.

One of my major gripes with Chiang Mai was that I couldn't find a decent soapy. Mind you, Chiang Mai has to be the worst places in LOS for anything to do with bars or massage places etc. The city authorities seemed intent on destroying anything sanuk. Pattaya wiped them off the map every time for a fun time.

Why is a beach lover in Chiang Mai and not on the beach? ???? 

[BritManToo]

36 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

One of my major gripes with Chiang Mai was that I couldn't find a decent soapy. Mind you, Chiang Mai has to be the worst places in LOS for anything to do with bars or massage places etc.

You didn't look hard enough.

Ping Payom hotel was infamous .............

SaYuri was a bit too dark skinned Issan ............

The Star Six gogo bar 11pm 'artistic show' was very popular.

Hotshots at the PornPing Tower for freelancers (always lots of nurses).

There were a couple more hidden away.

Bizland, Adventure hotel, The Ark, Movement, China Chic themed rooms. 

I had the time of my life!

Edited August 3, 2021 by BritManToo

[thaibeachlovers]

10 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Why is a beach lover in Chiang Mai and not on the beach? ???? 

After I got divorced Chiang Mai was the cheapest place to live with amenities like decent hospitals. Couldn't afford the beaches any more.

 

[thaibeachlovers]

4 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

You didn't look hard enough.

Ping Payom hotel was infamous .............

SaYuri was a bit too dark skinned Issan ............

The Star Six gogo bar 11pm 'artistic show' was very popular.

There were a couple more hidden away.

I think the one in the Ping hotel closed.

Hidden is the correct term. so well hidden I couldn't find them.

 

Wasn't interested in looking, so why would I go to that gogo?

[Sparktrader]

15 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

What I tell anyone who will listen to me is that, so very honestly speaking, the place I live in Thailand is, with zero doubt, the best place I have ever lived in my life.

 

I have lived in a few places, such as Canada, Hong Kong, China, Japan, and some of the most beautiful places in the US. I mean, I am not from Oklahoma.

 

Thailand is, by far and away, the very best of all. Or, I should say....NONE OF THE ABOVE!

 

When I first arrived here, I thought that the shine might wear off.

As everybody knows, living in a new country goes in definite stages.

First you love it.  Then you tolerate it, And then you are sick of it.

So far, this has not been the case with me and Thailand.

If anything, I love it more now.  And, I am just very nostalgic about the beautiful times I recall during the first year I arrived.

Or, I should say, the second time I first arrived.

I first arrived in 1971, just for three days.

My next visit was many years after this.

 

Although I still very much love China, just as I do Japan, and as I also love Canada and the USA, and even Taiwan, there is truly no place like Thailand that I love so much. Go ahead and crack your jokes about my love of Thailand, even more than any other country. But my love of this place stems mainly from my love of the culture and the people...that is the crux of it all.

 

After a decade of loving living here, I would be surprised if my feelings for this place were to change much during the next century.

Hard to change a culture such as that of Thailand.  And hard to change my opinion about this place.

As long as the culture remains the same, then my love of this place will remain constant.

 

And so, I wish to leave everybody here with this condensed thought from sonnet 116, as Shakespeare wrote about my love of Thailand:

 

 Love is not true if it changes with time; true love should be constant, regardless of difficulties.

 

I know you guys might think that I am being less than honest when I proclaim my love.

 

But, you should not doubt my constancy.

 

(Is Thailand, at least for me, better than any place I have lived?  I can only tell you what I honestly believe.  The answer is YES.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What city?

[Sparktrader]

50 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

You just didn't get the right girl(s). I had some amazing soapies in one of those huge soapy palaces in Bkk.

One of my major gripes with Chiang Mai was that I couldn't find a decent soapy. Mind you, Chiang Mai has to be the worst places in LOS for anything to do with bars or massage places etc. The city authorities seemed intent on destroying anything sanuk. Pattaya wiped them off the map every time for a fun time.

7/11 has soap

[rumak]

15 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 Love is not true if it changes with time; true love should be constant, regardless of difficulties.

pardons to Khun Shakespeare..... but i doth protest .   If its love of a person ,  or a dog  ????  ,  surely

Rumak would expect it to grow .   Of course,  dog lovers will probably agree that it is much easier with a canine than a humanoid .       ( "familiarity breeds contempt "  we shall leave discussing for another day )

 

As for the "love" of a place,  or a period of one's life.  I will go with "the only constant in life is change".

Every decade of my life has been marked with change,  sometimes chaotic,  and as i enter my seventh decade only one word comes to mind.  WOW !   " what a long strange trip its been"

 

For me,  this is how it should have been .  Would I change anything?  Not really ...... but maybe a few "alterations"  if it were possible.     The crazy thing is how schizophrenic life can be.  I am constantly restless,   but i have always wanted stability.   Old age finally forces that on most of us .

 

To stay "on topic" ......... I agree with you that Thailand has been all i could have wanted.  I love the life i have had here.   Through the wide-eyed rose colored glasses,  to the blurs and confusions, to the attempts at stability,  and the bounces and bruises .......... its been a trip.   

 

The last time i returned to my birth home ( twenty plus years ago)...... I was driving, made a turn, and suddenly could not remember what side of the road i should be driving on.  I was rudely reminded when an approaching car yelled "   Go back to where you came from !! "

 

I have....... and never looked back

[rumak]

16 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I think the one in the Ping hotel closed.

Hidden is the correct term. so well hidden I couldn't find them.

 

Wasn't interested in looking, so why would I go to that gogo?

ping phayom was not a gogo.   think soapie  !   I had some nice baths there  ????

[rumak]

27 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Hotshots at the PornPing Tower

I was the little guy with a bottle of Johnny Red and a "friend or two"  helping me through the night

[thaibeachlovers]

10 minutes ago, rumak said:

ping phayom was not a gogo.   think soapie  !   I had some nice baths there  ????

Britman was discussing soapies far as I know. He claimed the gogo had a soapy show.

[JAS21]

6 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Sometime in 2003 I watched a late night TV program called "bangkokbound" couldnt believe what I was seeing, never thought about it much before that, within weeks I was in Bangkok, jaw dropped open, totally overwhelmed, the rest as they say is history. Those first 2 years I was bouncing back n forth every few months, until I got caught by the Mrs in 2005 and moved here 2006.

Charlie

 

You beat me to it by a year. But MrsJ did live with me in the UK for the previous five years.

 

I can’t pick one year out. Even this year started okay … March/April almost three weeks in Phuket/Phang na golf/snorkel etc and shortly after a week in Khao Yai golfing.

 

Then it all turned to <deleted> and now we are in nearly all the time, all the jobs left for a rainy day pretty well done.

 

Suggested earlier today that tomorrow we should pack up some coffee in a flask and the odd sandwich and drive off somewhere .. (20or30) kms  park up and have a picknick/picknic in the car whilst watching the traffic go by …..lol

[BritManToo]

9 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Britman was discussing soapies far as I know. He claimed the gogo had a soapy show.

The Star Six gogo show often ended with a naked girl in a shower booth on the stage. Apart from that show, I didn't go to the gogos much, wasn't really my scene. I much preferred the bars and a slim young lady squeezed against me trying to convince me to take her home with me.

Edited August 3, 2021 by BritManToo

[thaibeachlovers]

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

The Star Six gogo show often ended with a naked girl in a shower booth on the stage.

Super Baby in Bkk had a shower show every night and wasn't confined to just one girl. Super Baby had the best looking girls in Pattaya, but sadly closed long ago.

[3NUMBAS]

for awesome crumpet the 80s and 90s were the best  before the internet killed it...

1987 for 100 baht to the pound was also good

[Sparktrader]

9 hours ago, BritManToo said:

All my years in Thailand have been great  (2009+).

Still enjoying it, but old age has changed the ways of my fun to a slightly quieter and more sedate level.

 

Plenty of ups and downs, but that's  what attracted most of us.

What city u in?

[zzaa09]

17 hours ago, couchpotato said:

Well one of mine was 1977.  Co-owned (with another Wesgeco guy) the "Pitstop Gogo Bar" in Patong (next to Rick's Grand Prix and 2 doors down from the Book shop). Great times for a couple of years.

But the high light of that year was bedding both the famous twins (featured in the Deerhunter) from the Mississippi Queen Gogo Bar (located opposite Pitstop).

For those wondering, I have added 2 photos from 44 years ago of both twins dancing....enjoy.

The good old days.

Some of us can even go farther back than above date stated. 

Thank goodness for clear memories and a much clearer Thailand. 

 

Cheers!!????