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  1. Given the choice, a beautiful young Thai GG or LB would choose a twentysomething guy with KPop good looks who drives a Ferrari and is hung like a Brazilian travesti instead of a LBR member. It does make sense to make it easier for farang of means under 50 to stay in Thailand without jumping through multiple hoops. But it will not be easy for Thailand to attract these farangs. Thailand's best bet is to target the Chinese. Perhaps the first step is to push the bars to the other side of 2nd Road or even across 3rd Road to really get them out of sight. Put a big splashy casino on Beach Road or Bali Hai that you can get to by monorail. But Thailand won't turn into Singapore overnight and the HiSo Thais will resist wealth distribution so hooking up with mongers will still be an attractive option for farm fresh Thai girls. If not, mongers will have the Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Bali which should all take longer to gentrify.
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  2. I have just finished watching "Cry Macho" Clint Eastwood acting and directing, when watching I realized what a treasure he is. I have grown up with Clint always being the Macho action person and now as I see Him ageing I realize that I too have also aged and see a particular vulnerability in Him. It's as if you want to care for him and want him to go on for ever in His directing and acting. What a Gent.
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  3. Rom, sorry the first "we" was referring to the Thai authorities. You are saying that the Thais will price goods and services aimed at tourists specifically to deter the less wealthy tourist and concentrate on the wealthy ones. Well good luck to them on that one!. A countries wealth is dependent on a lot of things, but with Thailand they have what appears to be an even more stratified economy than most. A very rich top layer whose number is very small, and a very poor remainder. Doubt whether your theory would apply to them. The wealthy as in most countries ,want to keep the poor very poor. Scared maybe as to what a more wealthy and educated lower class could do to their standing. What you are suggesting would not help their cause. If a meal costs 100b but is then increased to 300 baht, where does the 200 baht go to?. By the way, you are welcome to pay the 300 baht for your meal, but if you are dining in the Hilton you would be paying more than that anyway!. If as it should, their currency falls to a level that it should be at, around 35 to 38 b to the USD, that may stir up the populace (who I feel sorry for), as it would lead to an increase in inflation, but it would help stimulate tourism when the borders open. If anyone on here can explain the level of the baht, please fire away. It is almost the 8th wonder of the world!. Just on a side note. I find that what appears to be a very low priority in Thailand in the teaching of English to a degree that would allow the young ones from Isaan etc., to be involved in tourism, very puzzling. The times where I have had trouble communicating with hotel staff is too many to be acceptable. Yes I know some of you would say why only English?. It just happens to be the almost universal language when travelling.
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  4. NOT "we" cherrypicking anything Woodie !!! It's the Thais who get to cherrypick farangs by welcoming the ones who spend more and phasing out the bargain hunters whose spending is no longer of much importance in view of Thailand's economic growth and whose continued presence may turn off the wealthier ones from coming and prevent the stated policy objective of turning Thailand into a high value destination. One BM says he "puts 50,000 baht a month into the local economy" which may be a lot for him, but for farangs earning US100,000+ a year it's pocket change and it's those farangs Thailand wants going forward... You might ask : why not continue to have both as Thailand has had for so long: the budget farangs who stay at 500 baht per night rooms and the quality farangs who stay at the expensive resorts? I think they will for the foreseeble future, but my whole point is that by instituting the new VIP visas it has to be seen as an official shift to high-value tourism that will go hand-in-hand with the demise of the world of cheap mongering we love so much. It's what happened in other countries in Asia (HK, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, Japan a long time ago) where women used to be eager and plentiful and cost of living affordable and then those countries went upscale, including what remains of their sex industries... Let's just be glad we've enjoyed it for so long and that we still have more than a few good years left as I don't think Pattaya will turn into Cannes overnight ... But I do think it's going to be even faster downhill from now when it "reopens" and more than half the bars will remain closed, and the ones that open will have fewer staff, and prices inevitably have to go up...
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  5. Back in the day my town centre local was run by a great bloke called Don(al) - he was London Irish. We regularly had music nights there - very informal. A fairly regular drop in was Luke Kelly - usually when The Dubliners were playing the 'Soup in a Basket' circuit popular in the 60's/70's. Luke would chat and sing and shift the Guinness. Top Feller. !
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  6. I actually had the most beautiful French girl (who was a ski bunny), sit next to me on a flight. When this girl boarded, I was sitting in the window seat with a spare seat next to me. She walked down the aisle and all the guys were gawking. Lo and behold she sat down next to me. She did fall asleep at one point and lay on my shoulder. The urge to fondle the beautiful orbs was very compelling. I just did not fancy spending part of the flight in handcuffs!.
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  7. I don't have anything like the familiarity with Irish music as Grunt - but the Pogues (already mentioned here) were my absolutely favourite band in the eighties. And this one (I picture myself with Quinn and a jug of whiskey doing a wild jig in bar to this with a very bewildered ladyboy!) ---
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  8. Check out White Lotus on HBO. Funny as f*** "Quinn, what are you doing in there, are you fapping?" The story lines are wide-ranging and have elements of intrigue, obsession, criminal behavior, and family secrets. There are contemplations of colonialism, reparations, 19th-century poetry, “realness,” rebirth, and the natural world. The phrase “power bottom” comes up...and I’m fairly sure there’s a nod to Monty Python’s cheese shop in a scene at the front desk. We also learn the origin of the name of the resort (no accident) and the colonial land dispute on which it sits. And what anchors it all is status and money and the boundary they buy—from other people, from the world, and, ultimately, from oneself. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a36973013/white-lotus-hbo-review/ Maybe grandpa was a power bottom? What you gonna do? Stick the K-pop fans on him?
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  9. A few fetishes covered in this clip :)
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  10. so, on the Parting Glass/ Restless Farewell theme, here's Bob doing Restless Farewell at the Frank Sinatra 80th Birthday Bash in 1995. Dylan had long known Sinatra through his friendship with daughter Nancy and Tony Bennett. not so relevant perhaps, and not trying to turn this thread into a Dylan one. But it's a goody. A false clock tries to tick out my time. To disgrace, distract and bother me. And the dirt of gossip, blows into my face and the dust of rumours covers me. But if the arrow is straight and the point it is slick, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick. So i'll just make my stand and remain as i am, and bid farewell, and not give a damn.
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  11. okay so Bubba mentioned Dylan [yup i know he's not Irish] here's a song that could well be Irish, it's traditional possibly based on an old irish tune 'Lake Erin' Belle Isle.
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  12. I'm glad that you're enjoying it Bubba. Now here's a well known ditty, made famous by Thin Lizzy of course, but for now - The Dubliners and Luke Kelly: Whiskey in the Jar.
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  13. "but you would spread your wealth much faster if you paid 300 baht every meal," A rather strange comment to make. So we cherry pick which items we pay western world prices for?. I would have thought that meal prices are established in the same way that prices are established in most places. That is; cost of materials and labour, plus margin plus profit margin and be in competition with other suppliers. Is that correct? Not based on what a similar item might might sell for in the EU or the US. In most countrties petrol is much more expensive than it the US for example, partly due to taxes and other expenses. Petrol is way more expensive in Thailand than the US. Let the Thai government drop the price. That will get them a leg up!.
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  14. September 17th : Bảo Vy
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  15. well now, there i was this afternoon playing on Youtube, and also thinking about QG and his Irish ancestry. Also pondering about how to amass a few points to help me get rid of this hated 'Rockstar with LB groupies' tag that's hanging around my neck like a stone. Anyway, all that pointed me in the direction of something i love...Irish bands and singers. I'm pretty much convinced and have been for years that the Irish accent is perfect for vocals. This comes from years ago in the 70s and 80s when i hung around with a part Irish band in London called 'Mantilla' so, this is my Irish music thread. Dedicated to all the Irish guys on here..BB, Ciobha, Kylemore et-al. Who for all i know may hate this stuff... but never mind. I start with the Dubliners, no doubt Liam Clancy won't be far behind. Please feel free to add to these.
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  16. BEIJING (AP) — China’s government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters Thursday to promote “revolutionary culture,” broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official morality. President Xi Jinping has called for a “national rejuvenation,” with tighter Communist Party control of business, education, culture and religion. Companies and the public are under increasing pressure to align with its vision for a more powerful China and healthier society. Broadcasters must “resolutely put an end to sissy men and other abnormal esthetics,” the National Radio and TV Administration said, using an insulting slang term for effeminate men — “niang pao,” or literally, “girlie guns.” That reflects official concern that Chinese pop stars, influenced by the sleek, fashionable look of some South Korean and Japanese singers and actors, are failing to encourage China’s young men to be masculine enough. https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-entertainment-business-religion-china-62dda0fc98601dd5afa3aa555a901b3f
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  17. What comes after the explorer badge? I'm ten points off, and I won't sleep until I know
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  18. Cute but would be a waste of time and resources. Off the bat, I can think of 5 overwhelming reasons: 1 - To cordon off Walking Street is impossible without a military style perimeter and enforcement. There are the 2 north and south (Beach Road) main entrances and then at least 5 sois coming from 2nd road and soi Arab. But what really makes it even harder is that many of the establishments on Walking Street have their own private exits to the back sois. Each door and open air bar would have to be monitored. Some (Thais) could disembark from the sea under the pillars of the seafront businesses. I have seen it from the Marine Disco balcony... Plus where would they draw the perimeter? Just along Walking Street? or all the way back to 2nd Road? If the latter, it would cover a lot of rooms crammed with bargirls and staff whose occupants cannot be denied access to their rooms regardless of covid status... 2 - More importantly: Pattaya tourism is about freedom to enjoy the wickedness and step over the lines we don't dare to back home. Who wants to be hassled with certificates and covid tests to go have a beer ? Nobody! the tourists are not going to come until they are free to roam... 3 - Arguably for the above reason, the Phuket Sandbox was a flop (https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/phuket-sandbox-scheme-for-covid-19-not-quite-the-resounding-success-as-expected) . What makes anyone think Pattaya would do any better ? 4 - From a public health perspective it's not worth the risk, especially having endured a year and half of closure, what's another 2 or 3 months ???... 5 - If you allow a Walking Street Sandbox, then they are going to want one in Buakhao, and then one in Jomtien, and why not Naklua? Not fair to channel business to some establishments while keeping others locked... If they do allow only Walking Street bars to operate, they will have the pick of all of Pattaya's hottest whores who will understandbly head there at the expense of the bars where they worked before, which will loose their best staff possibly beyond covid... PS - And speaking of covid vaccination certificates, one of my ladyboy friends who refuses to take the free Sinovac shots and can't afford the farang shots in a private clinic told me he bought one such 2-shot SInovac vaccination certificate for 100 baht...
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  19. This one I have to check out Seven
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  20. Peaked at 312 to be exact... Looksee: It's now statistically conclusive to say the worst of the Thai covid pandemic is over and although I suspect the number of deaths were undereported (15,246 as of the day before this post) it was nowhere near the numbers we saw in Europe and the US. Well done Thailand! What's next? When can we go back to the playhouse ? That's not a call I can make by extrapolating other countries' trends like I did for the peak number of deaths, so some conjecturing is in order... 1st conjecture: I doubt Thailand will reopen for mongering business before the 70% (the covid "herd immunity" threshold) are vaccinated. As of today, 20% of the population have both shots, 40% have 1 (which means they are all but immunized and will have both shots soon enough): 2nd conjecture: it took 4 months to get to 40% vaccinated with at least 1 shot, but momentum has been gained along the way so I would say another 2 months to get to 70%... That means Thailand could reopen just in time for the Christmas high season with some lesser controls in place (no quarantines, but vaccine certificates required, and possibly some testing on arrival and during the stay). 3rd conjecture: but I think it's going to take a little longer because there is clearly significant Thai resistance to the vaccination with China's Sinovac, which is the one vaccine being provided for free for most people. I know this because a couple of my Thai ladyboy acquaintances told me they would rather pay 1500+ baht for the shots with a farang vaccine in a private clinic then get the free Sinovac in the government's Issaan outposts. And knowing the Thais, if taking Sinovac somehow conveys lack of social status, then many will rather risk infection than taking it. There is also the underlying FACT that Sinovac offers a lesser level of protection and at some point the Thai authorities are going to have to come to grips with that and offer boosters or else start over with farang vaccines for ALL the Thais who did not develop lasting antibodies (and many people don't as is being documented in Hong Kong). So my fearless prognosis is: Q1-2022 might be possible to travel back to LOS with tolerable inconveniences and enough bars open in Patts and BKK. Mid-2022 will be more like it, especially in terms of airlines resuming regular flights to BKK with sufficient frequence and affordable prices. BUT... and this is a huge BUT,... if a new covid variant worse than DELTA pops up that is resistant to the vaccines then all bets are off, and not mongering in Pattaya will be the least of our inconveniences. Whadyall think? Q1-2022? Mid - 2022 ? Sooner ? Later ?
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  21. Like the bagpipes, Irish musiccan make me sad, wistful and happy. I'm an amalgam of Scots and Irish with a little Pom thrown in. Funny how isolation affects the mind, a certain song keeps going around in your head for weeks. Lately it's been Whiskey in the Jar. Thanks for bringing it all back, mates. Dunno if we'll ever get back to LOS, the way things are.
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  22. It does seem to be working in India. They like Thailand used to attract a lot of low spending tourists, backpackers and elderly retirees who would go there to get some cheap sunshine, food, alcohol and guesthouse accommodation over the European winter India too wanted to deter the cheap tourists and attract the rich. A few years back India started increasing visa charges. I think Thailand might raise visa prices and introduce charges for even 30 day visas. Also India introduced 'Luxury Taxes' in tourist areas on goods and services foreign tourists would use, hotels, alcohol and restaurant meals. Indian Nationals are exempt I believe. A bottle of wine or spirits cost 3-4 times what would be paid in London. One of the main reasons I stopped going to Goa in Jan/Feb and went to los instead. Also I do not like Modi's Hindu Nationalist Government. Despite the price increases foreign tourism increased by 3.5% from 10.56m in 2018 to 10.93m in 2019. They are promoting 'luxury hotels and tours for the wealthy. Internal tourism increased a lot, which I think is because the increasingly well off middle class are holidaying in the guesthouses and cheaper hotels previously used by the budget foreign tourists. Thailand might be looking at India and realising higher prices will likely deter the less well off tourists and attract the rich.
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  24. it's great really, how music can affect you. Country and Western makes one want to commit suicide but this Luke Kelly /Dubliners stuff just wants to make one drink.
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  25. They put up 2 statues of him around Dublin in recent years also. Good idea Grunt, will be interesting to see how much the girls can hide behind a shamrock bikini ;) Another Luke song, about how the ladies can lead a man astray before you know it :)
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  26. well, when the Irish crew [ bumble, Seamus O' Poke et al] get back here...we'll talk Emmy into having an Irish night... Bumble, if you want to bring Sarah Devlin...feel free. Just don't bring the Bachelor's! you can bring that lead singer bird from the Corr's too.
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  27. I hope it never will be although I love the french riviera and would probably retire there if I could afford it. Or north Engerland, mainly for the food , weather and their beautiful women. Thats off the table now because of Brexit though. Shame really. What makes you think they will be in a position to chose their visitors? I think your prediction is way off. We'll be fine with €1500 a month. My biggest concern is will they allow the 2 week millionaires in? I hope not. Better to allow sextourist come there for 3 to 4 months.
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  28. Gentlemen this is NOT PERSONAL neither on the part of the Thai Government towards any of you, nor on mine as I don't have any idea what income level any of you expat BMs enjoy and how the new policies might affect you if at all. But we have to admit this is a NO-BRAINER ! if given a choice between high-income, high-skills expats VERSUS low-income, bargain hunting expats, if the Thai Minister of Economics is doing his/her job he/she will pick the high-incomes. You may feel you are spreading the wealth among the neediest when you buy 30 baht pad thais from the street vendors, but you would spread your wealth much faster if you paid 300 baht every meal, which is the minimum you would pay for a cooked and served meal in your home country... same-same when you buy 50 baht beers that in western strip joints cost 500... 1000 baht longtimes that in europe might cost you 1000 euros... etc, etc I doubt Thailand will become the French Riviera, but they are now in a position to become more selective as regards who they want to live in their country... Especially regarding the sexpats since the supply of Thai prostitutes is going down (fewer children and alternative occupations) and the demand is going up from more and more sexpats and sex tourists from more countries. It stands to reason the cheaper charlies have to be culled, or the high-rolling charlies won't come. Besides the demographics, there is another factor at play: Despite the prevailing authoritarianism, Thais are becoming more politically and socially aware and will eventually not accept being the country where old foreign men come to fuck their young. When that day comes, and it will, it will be the end of sexpats as we know them, which is the message i intended when I started this thread. And then the end of sex tourists also and that would be me among them.
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  29. I understand that Thailand wants to "upgrade" getting rid of the average rif-raf pensioner and making higher revenues pensioners come instead. I don't know whether the covid crisis will help accelerate this policy or delay it for a couple of decades. I don't think that Thailand wants to put out the former average retiree but will stop attracting new ones and will try to attract better off retirees instead. If I remember well, there had been an Asian crisis in 1997 that made countries like Thailand lose high levels of incomes and they had been happy to welcome farangs with an average purchasing power. Perhaps they will be happy to welcome average mongers after the covid crisis to bring Thailand foreign currencies. We'll see what will happen in real in the next few years. Just a reminder : I stopped going to Chiang Mai since I had found the city no longer looked like an exotic touristic destination but more and more like a European provincial city. I had the same judgement regarding the Patpong area. It reminded me of tourist bars in a European captital city touristic area. Regarding expat visas, I don't really feel concerned either by Thailand or another country. After visiting SE Asia a few times, I decided that becoming an expat wouldn't be a great idea. I would be bored with what makes a sex tourist happy and I wouldn't be able to be a 52 weeks millionaire. I also distanced myself from Thailand and have felt happy for it. I know neither where I will be mongering in 5 years nor if I will be mongering ladyboys/shemales or GGs in my other destination. So, I don't place much importance to this kind of forward looking information. I will tell you what I do after I have done it.
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  30. "What do you all think ? how much time do we have to enjoy Thailand on the cheap ?" Well, I think those times have - more or less - ended already even before the pandemic started, especially in the tourist trap bars in Bangkok's RLDs [emoji20] In the ladyboy world this wasn't perhaps as apparent as in the GG universe. Pre-pandemic, even some at best average looking Thai GG girls of Soi Cowboy and Nana Plaza were demanding big money for their services (if they were willing to go with farang customers at all). Guess there will be a year or two after the restart of the sex tourist business, where the girls will be desperate enough to go for less money than before covid. But wait until after the tourist business is back in full swing and the good (i.e., cheap) days will be over again pretty soon. I think that doesn't mean there won't be any prostitutes around anymore looking for farang boyfriends for the night or week. But I'd say you will more and more often see girls from poorer neighboring countries, such as Laos and Myanmar and less and less Thai girls. As for the ladyboy sex business, I think there'll be enough Thai ladyboys around for quite some time. Their options in the regular economy are still limited and I don't see that changing anytime soon. Until they have better chances getting into good, regular jobs, there'll be enough lbs around in the short run, perhaps even the medium term. Those are my thoughts... [emoji3456]
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  31. We had a funny guy with us in Korea. A tailgunner. They blew his brains out all over the Pacific. There's nothing funny about that!
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  32. Hole in the ground. https://www.youtube.com/embed/P-JVnlB7Onk
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  34. An Emmy Bar Irish playlist could not be complete without Summer In Siam by the Pogues.
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  35. I agree, at least nothing will happen in the west. The mess in Afghanistan is worrying.
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  36. I've just reached 'Rear Admiral' status, what are they trying to say?
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  37. Quinn regarding Fauda I have just started watching series 2 on episode 3 tonight and it's a cracker, great pace and story Line following on from series One. Also at the moment downloading series 3 of Fauda which is in Hebrew but the SRT files in English are available. I finally found both series of HaMidrasha which is called Mossad 101 now hence it took me a while to find it.
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  38. most you ever explored is the first 50 metres of soi 7!
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  39. Originally in the Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948, since parodied in other films including Blazing Saddles.
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  40. I could not care less about my post counts or status tbh seven. I am not a 'glory hunter' nor do I think I 'know it all' unlike some here.
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