Don't swim in the moat

Are there any karaokes without the karaoke?

Maybe where one can chat about Wittgenstein or Turing's Machine?

But really, don't they have any quiet "meeting places" without the wailing "voices" (I use the word facetiously).

I also don't like to hang out in bars with lots of younger Thai guys. Too many fights. Not worth the hassle. Last Thai bar I was in (Hua Hin) some kid pulled out a gun and started waiving it around at everyone talking about what a big person he was. I just don't have time for nonsense like that anymore. Alcohol in general mixed with testosterone is a bad combo. Easier to avoid.

I see this much more often among the young Farangs than Thais but everyone has their own experience I suppose. Thai people don't seem to get angry unless provoked in general but many drunk young Farang men come and start trouble and purposely get in fights.

Point 2 shouldn't be in there. Been doing that for 20 years, no issue.

The OP was talking about going out to different bars.

If you sit in the same bar in "Soi Old Man" (Moon Muang Soi 2) everytime you go out, then they already know that they will earn out of you and won't bother trying to rip you off..

I go to as many diffferent bars as possible. And that's also in Bangkok, Pattaya, anywhere.

Edited June 6, 201313 yr by WinnieTheKhwai

I don' get this one, why not?

94. Never say the words "phet maak" in a Thai restaurant.

I say it if they serve a lot of foreigners. Otherwise you might get hospital food.

A list of things to do,

1. Learn how not to offend.

2. Be good to others, whether or not they are good to you.

3. Learn the language and get real Thai friends. You will never understand if you don't.

4. Don't judge the nation by the actions of a few.

5.Relax. Life happens, role with it. Stop trying to control it.

+1...especially #5

Don't start a thread on TV, asking where the best burgers or pizza are to be found, in Chiang Mai ?

Don't start a thread on TV, asking where the best burgers or pizza are to be found, in Chiang Mai ?

Clearly The Dukes.

Point 2 shouldn't be in there. Been doing that for 20 years, no issue.

And point 5 is racist and bullshit.

6 also..

13.. bought a lovely jade Buddha image.. so far it hasn't eaten me or the kids.

I'll give it the benefit of the doubt that it's not a grand troll attempt, it's really quite out there.

Let's try again.

+1

Point 5 is total B.S.

Maybe the poster is a women

Point 2 shouldn't be in there. Been doing that for 20 years, no issue.

The OP was talking about going out to different bars.

If you sit in the same bar in "Soi Old Man" (Moon Muang Soi 2) everytime you go out, then they already know that they will earn out of you and won't bother trying to rip you off..

I go to as many diffferent bars as possible. And that's also in Bangkok, Pattaya, anywhere.

Wow you could write up a list of bars to hang around in with all that experience.

Might prove to be interesting.

I'd like to contribute to the list

- Don't bring your bar girls to the condo's swimming pools we have decent families with kids swimming there.

Depends what she looks like and how small her costume is!

Oh and children don't really care who is in the pool, they are too busy having fun!

Don't wear mascara during songkran.

Don't wear a bra during Songkran.

Do not ask GonzoTheFace about canned tuna prices.

I don' get this one, why not?

94. Never say the words "phet maak" in a Thai restaurant.

Sawasdee Khrup, Khun Aristide,

I wish I could explain #94 to you, but my tongue is dead.

~o:37;

Give them a chance!

99. Do not pay close attention to the friendly young lady, who has sidled up to you: if she has rather large hands, and feet, an Adam's Apple, speaks with a slightly husky voice: ignore these signs depending on, of course, your gender preferences.

Sawasdee Khrup, Khun Aristide,

I'm too old to play organ-transplant bingo.

~o:37;

I just don't get the OPs #5 What would be the point of going to a bar with no Thai men in it? Weird .

Personally I'd say you should avoid bars with Farang men in, for fear of being bored to death with sob stories about how terrible life in Thailand is

don't go to spicy sober, it may look worse than it actually is.

I'd like to contribute to the list

- Don't bring your bar girls to the condo's swimming pools we have decent families with kids swimming there.

Depends what she looks like and how small her costume is!

Oh and children don't really care who is in the pool, they are too busy having fun!

True, kids wont care... only someones girlfriend would, and the guy is too tempted to look !

Don't pretend you have free speech. (including this website)

ive never once had a problem with any thai guy at any bar. Maybe if you don't hit on their girlfriends like a cockhead you won't have a problem

Get drunk... Assume that guy on the big poster is John Cameron and throw a beer bottle at him...

Don't go native, it's embarrassing.......and don't get too up yourself with your expert knowledge of Chiang Mai or Thai culture. To the Thais your still just the farang, and to everyone else your just a crashing bore.

Don't assume people's background

Don't flash your cash

Don't think you are the smartest in the group

Don't stick to the sand restaurants