Several nurses/administrators at government hospitals in the Northeast have recently shown me figures regarding AIDS amongst locals, provenance of the disease, etc. Beware karaoke bars.

Several nurses/administrators at government hospitals in the Northeast have recently shown me figures regarding AIDS amongst locals, provenance of the disease, etc. Beware karaoke bars.

Why Karaoke bars, can you get infected from the mic or something?

Several nurses/administrators at government hospitals in the Northeast have recently shown me figures regarding AIDS amongst locals, provenance of the disease, etc. Beware karaoke bars.

Why Karaoke bars, can you get infected from the mic or something?

I won't say your response is inane. It's obviously well thought out and logical.

Several nurses/administrators at government hospitals in the Northeast have recently shown me figures regarding AIDS amongst locals, provenance of the disease, etc. Beware karaoke bars.

Why Karaoke bars, can you get infected from the mic or something?

I won't say your response is inane. It's obviously well thought out and logical.

More relevant would be Beware commercial unprotected sex!

Edited January 19, 200818 yr by MISTERBONK

Several nurses/administrators at government hospitals in the Northeast have recently shown me figures regarding AIDS amongst locals, provenance of the disease, etc. Beware karaoke bars.

Why Karaoke bars, can you get infected from the mic or something?

I won't say your response is inane. It's obviously well thought out and logical.

More relevant would be Beware commercial unprotected sex!

Your heading to the topic seems to narrow it down to just karaoke bars don't you think? As the above poster has stated, 'bag-up' if you fancy taking a fair maiden from the commercial sex scene.

As the above poster has stated, 'bag-up' if you fancy taking a fair maiden from the commercial sex scene.

actually that should be;

As the above poster has stated, 'bag-up' if you fancy taking a fair maiden

Non sex worker women may have been in relationships with other men who frequent these place which is why the spread rate of sti's is so rampant. Unsuspecting women sleeps with husbnad who has been off having unprotected sex elsewhere. Marriage breaksup & you meet her, you catch whatever she unknowingly has. Always bag up unless you are 100% sure of the sexual health of your partner.

Thanks for the astonishing revelation. Who would have ever thought that AIDS would have surfaced amongst Isaan karaoke workers? What's next, Burmese fishermen?

bag up??

boo, thats what goats do a few days before they give birth.... their udder fulls up (bags up)

wouldnt 'wrap it' , glove it or something be more fitting....))

bag up??

boo, thats what goats do a few days before they give birth.... their udder fulls up (bags up)

wouldnt 'wrap it' , glove it or something be more fitting.... ))

The Thais speak "tung" or maybe pronounced "toong" for condom, which literally translates as bag.

bag up??

boo, thats what goats do a few days before they give birth.... their udder fulls up (bags up)

wouldnt 'wrap it' , glove it or something be more fitting.... ))

The Thais speak "tung" or maybe pronounced "toong" for condom, which literally translates as bag.

well they say you learn something everyday

had a guy from work head out to thailand a couple of weeks ago for his first trip & the best advice I gave him was if in doubt double bag it

It's quite a common brit phrase, never knew that about the goats though

if guys dont get wives from the commercial sex scene, where wiill they get them from? church? hi so women?

if guys dont get wives from the commercial sex scene, where wiill they get them from? church? hi so women?

Are we talking about bags still? Didn't know you could get them from the church, but I'm sure a few 'hi-so' women would have them in their bags (hand bags) that is...

The teelack was telling me the other day on the phone about a guy in her small village who used to work in construction in Bangkok and brought a nasty "surprise" home to the thai wife. She left him but not until after he had infected her. He was the village idiot before that, and now he's just death on two legs.

Unless you are certain about the health of your partner it's a wise choice to use protection.

If you are partaking in commercial sex you have to be prepared for the worst.

~WISteve

In am still wondering where the Karaoke bars give you an infection.

I have been down to a local Karaoke with the wife and the family, in a hotel, and it was a closed room with a video and some tables.

Does the enclosed environment make me more prone to this? Perhaps I breathed it in? I did go to the toilet (number 2's so I sat on a toilet seat) and shared microphones

Am I at risk?

To be more serious, a silly and misphrased OP; I understand your point, but Issan is a low risk area for anybody with half a brain, surely?

Edited January 19, 200818 yr by yorkman

You have to be carefull of spittle on all mics (hose them down prior to yelling into them) also door knobs, the original OP might be familiar with the latter...

bag up??

boo, thats what goats do a few days before they give birth.... their udder fulls up (bags up)

wouldnt 'wrap it' , glove it or something be more fitting.... ))

The Thais speak "tung" or maybe pronounced "toong" for condom, which literally translates as bag.

Got a giggle a few weeks back, booked into my usual hotel in Cambodia and the reception handed me a box of 10 condoms ," Here is your best friend " she says. Took me a bit to comprehend what was going on.. then I thought ,MMM wish I had the same confidence in my ability as she had..

At nearing 70yrs,I hope the use by date is 2020.

You have to be carefull of spittle on all mics (hose them down prior to yelling into them) also door knobs, the original OP might be familiar with the latter...

= advice for those who have a habit of licking door knobs

You have to be carefull of spittle on all mics (hose them down prior to yelling into them) also door knobs, the original OP might be familiar with the latter...

= advice for those who have a habit of licking door knobs

You can lick them as well? I must have led a sheltered life.

We had a karaoke jukebox in our restaurant last year............

Now I'm really glad we got rid of it.

Why? .... did it have a knob?

Why? .... did it have a knob?

No, they took the knob and kicked it out of the front door, for putting up such a silly post

wot is the correct spelling of issarn?

wot is the correct spelling of issarn?

As if you give a toss about spelling!?

wot is the correct spelling of issarn?

this is the one and only correct spelling: อีสาน

there is no official transliteration of the Thai language and therefore nothing like a correct or incorrect spelling using the Roman alphabet...

Edited January 20, 200818 yr by MART

In am still wondering where the Karaoke bars give you an infection.

I have been down to a local Karaoke with the wife and the family, in a hotel, and it was a closed room with a video and some tables.

Does the enclosed environment make me more prone to this? Perhaps I breathed it in? I did go to the toilet (number 2's so I sat on a toilet seat) and shared microphones

Am I at risk?

To be more serious, a silly and misphrased OP; I understand your point, but Issan is a low risk area for anybody with half a brain, surely?

you can get infected with hiv/aid only through sexual intercourse or blood transfusion. sorry hope i'm not off the topic

The serious point trying to get out in this thread is that our stereotype of HIV/AIDS as a phenomenon that mainly affects the bars of Pattaya and Bangkok and has little significance in the rural provinces, is wide of the mark. The condom use campaigns of the 1990s seem to have reduced prevalence in the Western resorts, while the decrease in rates seems to have been slower in commercial sex establishments away from the big centres, where it is said that there is greater cultural resistance to condom use. Additionally the latest trend seems to be an increase in incidence among ‘low risk’ groups, most notably women who do not have large numbers of sexual contacts, but are infected through their husbands or regular boy friends. Other recent trends are greater awareness of infection among drug users and men who have sex with men.

Some of this is mentioned here:

http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/H...a/GlobalReport/

One thing to realise is that we only have indirect means of estimating HIV/AIDS prevalence in the general population. It is possible to investigate high-risk groups like drug users, commercial sex workers and male clients of STD clinics, or sub-groups from the general population like women in antenatal clinics, army conscripts, foreign migrants or blood donors, but one ends up with a partial jigsaw picture and quite a lot of guess work. I wasn’t able to find a recent breakdown of prevalence rates in Thai provinces but last time I looked Northern Region and parts of Central Region were worse than either Isaan or the Bangkok Metropolitan Area. I remember being told some years ago by a researcher in this field that Rayong (a centre for migration) has a bigger problem than Pattaya. There are some ‘hot spots’ in the NE, which last time I looked included Udon. Here is an interesting web-based article.

http://www.jcie.org/researchpdfs/RisingTide/thailand.pdf

Edited January 21, 200818 yr by citizen33

quote Several nurses/administrators at government hospitals in the Northeast have recently shown me figures regarding AIDS amongst locals, provenance of the disease, etc. Beware karaoke bars. unquote

One point not mentioned so far is in the OP's first few words. "Several nurses/administrators at government hospitals in the Northeast" What was he doing going to several hospitals and asking about this problem, or even to one place where several administrators happened to have their data available and would show it to him? Just doesn't ring true to me. Oh yes, the general warning is valid enough but seems like he has a mission to scare.

Perhaps a logical explanation lies with the the sex trade HIV testing program. Karaoke bars are not necessarily clasified as "adult entertainment" venues. As such, there is no regular testing of the workers as there is in the designated areas.

However, does one really want to end up in bed with someone picked up from a karaoke bar? How'd one live that down?

dudes in los pick up from worse places than karaoke bars.