I used to assume there was at least some basic level of intelligence and cognitive function required to make it all the way to Pattaya from a foreign land. After all, you have to book an international flight, get yourself through airport security, board the correct plane, deal with immigration at the other end, and then somehow manage ground transport from Bangkok to your final Puh-Tai-Ya destination. That seems like a sequence of tasks that would require at least a halfway functioning brain. For a long time I genuinely believed there had to be some minimum IQ requirement hiding somewhere in that process.

But after watching the endless parade of characters starring in Instagram clips of fights, group brawls, and crime in general who manage to arrive there every single week, I have started to revise that theory quite dramatically. The place attracts an astonishing collection of knuckle draggers, fugitives, drunks, oxygen thieves, mugs, muppets, industrial strength bell ends, and every other variety of wandering idiot from the UK, Europe, the US, India, Russia, the Middle East, and anywhere else that sells airline tickets. Some of these blokes look like they struggle to operate the zipper on their suitcase or even put on an airplane neck pillow correctly, yet somehow they have successfully navigated international travel and landed themselves on Soi Buakhao with a cold beer in their hand and a well-ridden slapper on their knee.

So maybe the real requirements are much simpler than we thought. A passport helps. A credit card also helps. A prescription for Viagra probably does not hurt. The ability to shout “well hello beautiful” every fifteen seconds in a bar is clearly essential. A heroic tolerance for beer before 10 AM is useful. The confidence to chat up a ladyboy without realizing it is a cock in a frock seems almost mandatory. And above all, the unshakeable belief that every girl half their age (or less) who smiles when they saunter by has fallen deeply in love with them in the first thirty seconds. First place "Handsome Man" contest winners, the whole lot of them. When you view it through that lens, it becomes fairly clear that IQ probably never played much of a role in the journey over to the melee in the first place. My bad. 😄

Sad desperate old men needing hookers.

Even if Susan Khaosok Harris somehow managed to escape her mum’s basement, I still have serious doubts she could actually ever make it all the way to Pattaya on her own. If George escorted her door to door she might just about have a fighting chance.

Billy has 8 different names going at once.

5 hours ago, SoCal1990 said:

I used to assume there was at least some basic level of intelligence and cognitive function required to make it all the way to Pattaya from a foreign land. After all, you have to book an international flight, get yourself through airport security, board the correct plane, deal with immigration at the other end, and then somehow manage ground transport from Bangkok to your final Puh-Tai-Ya destination. That seems like a sequence of tasks that would require at least a halfway functioning brain. For a long time I genuinely believed there had to be some minimum IQ requirement hiding somewhere in that process.

But after watching the endless parade of characters starring in Instagram clips of fights, group brawls, and crime in general who manage to arrive there every single week, I have started to revise that theory quite dramatically. The place attracts an astonishing collection of knuckle draggers, fugitives, drunks, oxygen thieves, mugs, muppets, industrial strength bell ends, and every other variety of wandering idiot from the UK, Europe, the US, India, Russia, the Middle East, and anywhere else that sells airline tickets. Some of these blokes look like they struggle to operate the zipper on their suitcase or even put on an airplane neck pillow correctly, yet somehow they have successfully navigated international travel and landed themselves on Soi Buakhao with a cold beer in their hand and a well-ridden slapper on their knee.

So maybe the real requirements are much simpler than we thought. A passport helps. A credit card also helps. A prescription for Viagra probably does not hurt. The ability to shout “well hello beautiful” every fifteen seconds in a bar is clearly essential. A heroic tolerance for beer before 10 AM is useful. The confidence to chat up a ladyboy without realizing it is a cock in a frock seems almost mandatory. And above all, the unshakeable belief that every girl half their age (or less) who smiles when they saunter by has fallen deeply in love with them in the first thirty seconds. First place "Handsome Man" contest winners, the whole lot of them. When you view it through that lens, it becomes fairly clear that IQ probably never played much of a role in the journey over to the melee in the first place. My bad. 😄

You're putting in too much effort for very few results.

Just now, Effective altruism said:

You're putting in too much effort for very few results.

You have 8 different names going at once.

1 minute ago, khaosokman said:

You have 8 different names going at once.

You underestimate me. I have 42 names going at once. I'm clever, and I utilize AI.

I don't think Susie Q is going to make it. She's looking very confused.

How much Iq to not grow old and bitter? Thats the real philosophical question.

I like Pattaya.

I wish I could go there more often.

Darn job in Bangkok cuts into my free time.

2 hours ago, khaosokman said:

Billy has 8 different names going at once.

What relevance does this have to the fact that you are the most irrelevant, annoying, unpleasant germ ever to have existed?

2 hours ago, khaosokman said:

Sad desperate old men needing hookers.

If hooker's or Rohypnol didn't exist you would have no chance whatsoever of losing your virginity.

It's possibly on the horizon Bignok but make sure you get your alibi straight before you do the deed.

2 hours ago, BilllyGOAT said:

I don't think Susie Q is going to make it. She's looking very confused.

'If you knew Susan like I know Susan. Oh, Oh, Oh, what a gal. There's none so classy as that fair lassie...... ' Apologies to Eddie Cantor. Not many around who remember him, I expect.

7 hours ago, SoCal1990 said:

But after watching the endless parade of characters starring in Instagram clips of fights, group brawls, and crime in general

Why do you watch the clips?

Some level of intelligence but not much. Most of these old farts are on their last leg of life and just want to go out thinking that their lives are relevant.

Obviously it doesn't take a lot of intelligence, getting to Patts, or the news wouldn't be full of people doing extremely stupid stuff at Patts.

Not a participant of P4P (once only), but can appreciate the convenience and low cost while on holiday, back in 1999 at least. Read some silly prices now.

Nothing wrong with being a sexpat or sextourist, though P4P as a sexpat isn't my thing. Some folks seem to have never enjoyed themselves pre TH.

Others, just enjoy the convenience and lack of attachment, which also means it could be much less expensive. Either side of that coin, depending how stupid you are.

Sadly for some, P4P is all they got, others, it's just an easy option. Consenting adults, no harm, no foul.

I bash it every now & then, but 'live & let live', as plenty of other things to complain about, if wanting.

More pet friendly accommodations for one, rather, responsible pet owners, to stop ruining it for others, probably more like it. Bastards ... 🤬

I would have to agree with post.

Having done a few days study of pedestrians walking in Soi Bukhao I must say the intelligence level of these people and self awareness is appalling

I was in royal Garden shopping centre the other day when an Australian farang asked me how to get out

I have no patience for silly questions and immediately pointed to the green exit signs !!!

Surely you can't be that stupid

9 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

I would have to agree with post.

Having done a few days study of pedestrians walking in Soi Bukhao I must say the intelligence level of these people and self awareness is appalling

I was in royal Garden shopping centre the other day when an Australian farang asked me how to get out

I have no patience for silly questions and immediately pointed to the green exit signs !!!

Surely you can't be that stupid

What study are you using to gauge their intelligence level I might ask? Is it just the one man that asked you (how) to get out?

flattery is effective

6 hours ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

Why do you watch the clips?

The original poster (OP) is joining forces with @georgegeorgia on an important study aimed at advancing scientific understanding.

10 hours ago, khaosokman said:

Sad desperate old men needing hookers.

One of perspective I guess.......I see people bright enough to embrace YOLO.

4 hours ago, Screaming said:

Some level of intelligence but not much. Most of these old farts are on their last leg of life and just want to go out thinking that their lives are relevant.

Relevant?......How does that make any sense?

3 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

I would have to agree with post.

Having done a few days study of pedestrians walking in Soi Bukhao I must say the intelligence level of these people and self awareness is appalling

I was in royal Garden shopping centre the other day when an Australian farang asked me how to get out

I have no patience for silly questions and immediately pointed to the green exit signs !!!

Surely you can't be that stupid

You still stuck in there?.....

It was only after I stayed in Jomtien for a year that I realised what a bunch of oddbods live in Pattaya.

Never seen so many weirdos with strange haircuts, purple or green hair, pony tails, beaded beards etc etc etc

But what I find totally unacceptable is the total lack of respect for other people.

I've been sat with a "gf" and blokes have blatantly come over and tried it on in front of me.

In any other country in the world that behaviour would get a smack in the face...so even though I was in Thailand I decided to act as normal https://media0.giphy.com/media/vnOQdGt1ILQEo/200.gif?cid=d9f52f32b6c0tmesqqpy8lj7n44grstr82kfk581xavc6isc&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200.gif&ct=g

He has been banging on about having multiple usernames. Seems he felt he wasn't getting enough recognition. Fixed that now so he can finally stop whingeing.

6 hours ago, KhunLA said:

I bash it every now & then

Cheaper the P4P

10 hours ago, Keeps said:

What relevance does this have to the fact that you are the most irrelevant, annoying, unpleasant germ ever to have existed?

Give the man some credit. He actually made it onto the airplane, which is already more than anyone ever expected of him. No idea where he is heading though, he looks a little stressed. Let us hope it is just because there is a long queue for the restroom and not because he somehow boarded a flight to Uganda instead of Utapao. 😂✈️

Sure we can rant about the Pattaya clientèle and most of the claims may be right or not ?...

But just look in any western nation and when top level CEO's seal a deal and end up in a hanky panky bar. They are no better, Others with more money, power, political ties etc... did avoid Pattaya for sure, as they had enough money to buy themselves a private island for their repugnant acts.

19 hours ago, khaosokman said:

Billy has 8 different names going at once.

You would know as the king of different names.

On 3/10/2026 at 7:24 PM, SoCal1990 said:

I used to assume there was at least some basic level of intelligence and cognitive function required to make it all the way to Pattaya from a foreign land. After all, you have to book an international flight, get yourself through airport security, board the correct plane, deal with immigration at the other end, and then somehow manage ground transport from Bangkok to your final Puh-Tai-Ya destination. That seems like a sequence of tasks that would require at least a halfway functioning brain. For a long time I genuinely believed there had to be some minimum IQ requirement hiding somewhere in that process.

But after watching the endless parade of characters starring in Instagram clips of fights, group brawls, and crime in general who manage to arrive there every single week, I have started to revise that theory quite dramatically. The place attracts an astonishing collection of knuckle draggers, fugitives, drunks, oxygen thieves, mugs, muppets, industrial strength bell ends, and every other variety of wandering idiot from the UK, Europe, the US, India, Russia, the Middle East, and anywhere else that sells airline tickets. Some of these blokes look like they struggle to operate the zipper on their suitcase or even put on an airplane neck pillow correctly, yet somehow they have successfully navigated international travel and landed themselves on Soi Buakhao with a cold beer in their hand and a well-ridden slapper on their knee.

So maybe the real requirements are much simpler than we thought. A passport helps. A credit card also helps. A prescription for Viagra probably does not hurt. The ability to shout “well hello beautiful” every fifteen seconds in a bar is clearly essential. A heroic tolerance for beer before 10 AM is useful. The confidence to chat up a ladyboy without realizing it is a cock in a frock seems almost mandatory. And above all, the unshakeable belief that every girl half their age (or less) who smiles when they saunter by has fallen deeply in love with them in the first thirty seconds. First place "Handsome Man" contest winners, the whole lot of them. When you view it through that lens, it becomes fairly clear that IQ probably never played much of a role in the journey over to the melee in the first place. My bad. 😄

For ages, church goers and folks with a "stiff upper lip" have declared Pattaya as a modern day Sodom and Gommorrah. So, I can't quite undertand why they go there in the first place.

Not every European male is "good looking" or "charming" or "witty" or "young". Nor have most unlimited financial resources. For all those, "the West" is a hard turf.

Therefore, for many European males that fit the above description, Pattaya has become some kind of "Garden of Eden".

Only visiting, P4P. Fine, everybody happy.

But human nature asks for longer term "bondage". The P4P concept abandoned. Ending up in a longer term relationship, sometimes very "unfavorable" for a formerly strong believer in the P4P concept.

But that's another story.

I remain: Long live Pattaya, before it irreversably turns into a"family resort".

PS: Epsteins friends had a higher IQ than the average Pattaya visitor. Granted. Otherwise............?