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I just recently found out the name of this song and the artist. I'd heard the music in Pulp Fiction first, during the scene where Vincent asks Mia for a sip of her $5 milkshake. Then I sort of filed it away. Then a few weeks ago I was watching a video of the deleted scenes from The Warriors. One deleted early scene has the gang walking abreast down the boardwalk at Coney Island, with their leader Cleon a few steps behind. I thought there's that music again, and after straining my brain and asking other fans of The Warriors, about this song, I came up with it. Rumble, by Link Wray and The Wraymen Some cool facts about it: It was banned in several US radio markets, because the term 'rumble' was a slang term for a gang fight, and it was feared that the piece's harsh sound glorified juvenile delinquency. The record is the only instrumental single ever banned from radio in the United States. Bob Dylan once referred to "Rumble" as "the best instrumental ever", and the piece has remained widely used in various entertainment media. It has been used in movies, documentaries, television shows, and elsewhere, including Top Gear, The Warriors (in the deleted opening scene), Pulp Fiction, Screaming Yellow Theater with host Svengoolie, Independence Day, SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One, Blow, the pilot episode of the HBO series The Sopranos, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Riding Giants, Roadracers, and Wild Zero.

Hi The-Sith Match up in terms of what? Popularity? Sexyness? Gravitas perhaps ? I can immediately think of TJ's/onlyfans Lily who beats all of those on all counts and is more of an internet star than even Areeya was with her own pay2view website. Then we have other comparably popular contemporaries like Mona, Chalita, Donut, Paula, Beauty, your pick Sandy, my pick Pook's Annie etc etc. I was in Obsession NEP last October and there were no fewer ladyboys or less attractive ones than there used to be in the early 2000s. It's just that I did not know any of them and none of them knew me. While in the "glory days" I would know all of them and they would be jumping off stage to mob me before I even set foot in the bar. I am the one who is always hammering about "the glory days" being the early 2000s because that's back when the ladyboy scene was exploding with far more sissies coming on stream than there were mongers and the relatively few of us mongering felt like pioneers and rock stars. That's also back when 90% of the bar sissies could be found in just a few bars: Casanova, Obsession and Cascade at NEP; KC3 at Patpong; and Limmaquai, Linda and High Boss at Pattaya, which meant you could keep track of all the sissies all the time. The rest of the bars you can think of did NOT exist and when more bars started to open that was the end of what I call "the glory days" but perhaps not what other BMs like to think of as "glory days" when they were introduced to ladyboys in second-generation bars like EZY, C&D and ... Guess Bar !!! which to me was a gathering of "old glories." Cockatoo, Sensations, Baby Boom, KRUs, are 3rd generation bars and that's when (early 2010s) the ladyboy scene peaked in terms of numbers of bars and ladyboys, but the ratio ladyboys per monger was alredy going down. Now I am afraid that ratio is approaching decimals (i.e. more mongers than sissies)... Besides the increased competition from mass arrivals of mongers, the mid-2000s were also a time of societal change in Thailand with the youths becoming less GFE and more business-oriented, to which contributed the generalization of cell phones. That's about when I started negotiating LTs because prior to the late 2000s the ladyboy default was LTs. The problem was getting rid of them in the morning... I agree that our own fond memories of younger more potent selves, and of the excitement of the first few trips to TH also bias our perception of what glory days should be... Hope this helps Rom PS - The emergence of the ladyboy boards also contributed to the end of the glory days with the sharing of information that much eroded the insiders' edge of those of us early cumers... and it fueled the mass arrivals of more and more mongers and sexpats... and made ladyboys more self-aware of their branding and market potential... PS2 - I remember discussing this "glory days" concept with my friend Captain-Outrageous who has been into the ladyboy scene since way before even me and he agreed that such "glory days" were the early 2000s. Prior to the internet (1980s/90s) ladyboys were fewer and less dolled up and there was not much interest from foreigners. By the end of the 2000s, the internet had changed everything and ladyboy mongers and sexpats were arriving in droves and the ladyboys could afford to ruin their looks and sex-change themselves with plastic surgeries...

China is opening up in January, so a bit nervous about those crowds.

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Jomtien is 5 minutes away from Pattaya by baht bus. From Suvarnabhumi Airport there is a bus going to Jomtien for 143 baht or a taxi booked in advance will cost 1000 baht. Don't know how old your sister's family is but there is a waterpark on Dongtan Beach in Jomtien. There are many attractions and day trips offered by tourist agencies that offer touristy things but I've never done any of them. Koh Larn is better than ever due to the absence of the big Chinese tour groups so those considering Koh Larn should do it soon.

I find Koh Larn is worth the trip. Accommodation is not 4 or 5 star for sure, but adequate. You can get there by ferry or speedboat. The beaches on the Ocean Side are very good. Warm water and nice sand. The local baht buses will take you there. Mind you having company such as that in the photo made the trip all that much better!!!.

Whether anyone thinks I am representative or not of our ladyboy mongers community, the tradition of me (and only me) every year picking THEE Ladyboy Bar of the Year started haphazardly at that other Board where at first I would just casually post in a bar’s thread congratulating them for being what I thought was the best bar in Pattaya or Thailand at that time or because they were newly opened bars that brought something special to the scene. Only starting in 2016 did I start picking ladyboy bars of the year as a deliberate annual endeavor staged through the “Hitler videos” first posted at (and all obliterated by) the other board and reposted here at the Romscars Club. To recall, the winners were: Boomerang Twin (2016); New Bar (2017); TJ’s Music Bar (2018 and 2019); Sweethearts (2020); and Check-In Bar (2021). This thread is for recalling the best ladyboy bars of the year that I had picked or would have picked prior to 2016. I am doing so out of a sense of duty for historic documentation and of nostalgia. So here goes: Thailand’s TOP Ladyboy Bars of the Year 1998-2015: 2015 Katoeys ‘Are’ Us, Pattaya As soon as it opened that year it was clear that finally Pattaya had a ladyboy gogo worthy of the GOGO attribution at the same level as the best GG gogo bars in town. And the prices were not so steep at first. 2014 Baby Boom Agogo, Pattaya Still in the original location but already handjobs and blowjobs on the couches had become the house staple; I like to think it was me who pioneered such shenanigans but, even if I was, other mongers quickly got the hang of it. 2013 Sensations Pattaya, I remember posting at the other board that one night I counted 30+ ladyboys there and packed rows of farangs and that I was in awe of such never before seen sissy-mongers concentrations, especially at a run of the mill outdoor bar plaza slot. That was about the time Scott and Paeng had been cast on the Sky TV show and Scott could count on a legion of groupies to pack Sensations. 2012 Cocktails & Dreams Patong Beach As much as we all missed Nick Jackson after he tragically died, somehow Jimbo was able to make it even more popular through his bromancing in person and on the ladyboy boards. Mongers flocked to Phuket in unprecedented numbers not so much for the ladyboys, but for Jimbo. Prior to 2012, I did not post much at ladyboy Boards, so I did not post (or mentally picked) any TOP bars of the year. But I would like to now retroactively do it based on what I recall I felt at the time: 2011 Famous Bar, soi VC Pattaya After the crack down on Sunee many of the femboys moved up the street to Famous and while it lasted it was the connoisseur’s choice. With the last gasps of Sunee, it too eventually closed and Lita reopened it elsewhere as the Lita bar. 2010 The Pook bars, soi 6 and soi Buakhao Pattaya The soi 6 one had been open for years as a GG bar and started hiring ladyboys and then another all-ladyboys one opened on Soi Buakhao in what was to become the new ladyboy frontier. 2009 EZY Bar, Pattaya Lita has spun several sissy joints and this was the best of the lot. Great vibe and unusually friendly sissies including among themselves; should have hung out there more often while it lasted… 2008 Stringfellows Agogo, Pattaya Stringfellows was already allowing in the 2000s what Baby Boom became famous for in the 2010s. Solid line-up of internet-featured staff to plan in advance or to relive afterwards. 2007 Minou bar (+ the 2 or 3 other associated Sunee Plaza gay bars owned by same the French guy) soi VC Pattaya. Pristine femboys galore. And better not elaborate on that because all those bars had been shut down for good when I came back the following year. 2006 Guess Bar at its soi 1 original BKK location Ladyboy owned and operated, the feminine touch and staff motivation showed in the premises and in the hospitality. Best short time rooms and rates I can remember. 2005 Cascade NEP BKK At its peak with internet stars like Areeya, Noon, Cindy (very young), Nadia, Helen. Never in the history of ladyboy bars was there such a concentration of quality and quantity. More than Excellent ! Glorious ! Magnificent ! 2004 Obsessions Club (Penthouse Hotel), Pattaya Notwithstanding the bill padding, the joint operating of a ladyboy bar with a GG one on 2 stages 5 meters across from each other was gutsy and groundbreaking. As far as the ladyboys, the turnover was high which meant that many of the superstars passed there. 2003 High Boss, soi 6 Pattaya Thai-owned and operated, it opened in 2002 to become THEE Pattaya gateway for so many fresh-off-Issaan sissies who would become the internet stars of the 2000-2010s glory days. If I was not so unbiased and inclusive, I would give Bar of the Year to High Boss for the rest of the 2000s. Definitely Rom's favorite bar ever. 2002 Obsession Nana Plaza, BKK I remember them making such a contrast with Casanova with their much younger and cuter ladyboys in numbers never before seen. It was the herald of a golden age of ladyboys. 2001 King's Castle 3 Patpong BKK First bar in Patpong with more ladyboys on staff than GGs. With time it became all ladyboy bar with bona fide schlongs because if they got the chop they would be transferred over to King’s Corner. 2000 Casanova Nana Plaza, BKK It was the only ALL ladyboy bar in BKK up until then and the first brush with ladyboyness for so many of us self-professed GG mongers who would become mostly or full time sissy mongers in subsequent trips. 1999 Limaquai (?or something like that?) soi Diamond Patttaya (where KrUs is now) Only enclosed ALL ladyboy bar in Pattaya at the time (there was Linda but it was open to the street). The ladyboys would sometimes dance on a mini-stage but mostly it was about taking them right upstairs. I did not realize it at the time, but it deserved bar of the year because it was the precursor to the many Pattaya sissy bars that popped in the 2000s. Until then Pattaya ladyboys were all freelancers on the move or oddities in the GG beer bars. 1998 Linda Star Bar (and? Jenny Star bar if it was around in 1998?; can never remember which one is which but they are the same concept). Freelancers on the move stop by these 2 sissy stops with Jenny right under the Marine disco where sooner or later a drunk farang would leave alone and would give a sissy a try. Linda was around longer further down Walking Street and it had mostly elderly, scary-looking thieving bunch of sissies but those were precisely the ones who first made many of us wonder if we were gay as we passed by and hurried our step. That’s it. Coming up the 2022 Thailand Ladyboy Bar of the Year. I think this year the choice is obvious and I have made my pick. Does anyone else have a suggestion? Please speak now or forever hold your peace.

Not sure how you got that idea, @Rom, but I think @bumblebee deserves some Romscar recognition for his photography, at least for the below shot.

Here's a girl I have known for about 6 or 7 years online (but never met). Used to work the cam shows until rules changed in Phils a while back. Very nice person and someone I think that could be a great person to meet if you get the time while visiting. Treat her well as she is blessed.... you will see and yes guys it's 100% real and will rival anything you have seen or dreamed about before. Phone: +63 936 307 6885 YM: cyber_sexy_shane03 E: cyber_sexy_shaeynne1903@yahoo.com

I will be in Thailand in February and my sister & her family is also passing through. Was thinking of staying in Jomtien since I want to avoid the PTY scene with family around. I haven't been to PTY since 2019 (like most) and Jomtien since 2005-6, so I don't remember much about Jomtien, but it seems like easier to get to than Hua Hin and likely similar beach, etc. Aside from mongering, what else is there to enjoy in Jomtien? Any recs on where to stay? Also, never been to Koh Lan, is it worth the trip out? Are the beaches better than PTY or Jomtien?

Zeppie. It is that some here have thin skins. While I am at it. Likes etc are a bone of contention. Some BMs here and on other forums have a cheer squad. They might say that the sky is blue and they get 5 likes!. Makes the like totals look just nonsense. Haha, showing my thin skin!..

The first bars / restaurants in Bangkok already putting signs up to not welcome weed smoking customers. A good initiative,

Yes that's true.... the early days have a bias for most people. But i havent found any "SuperStar" talent from a visual and vibe perspective in BKK over the past 7 years (obviously have to disregard my past 3 years of being away from BKK). We all know the stars of the past 7 years versus 15 years ago.... can any girls today match up to Areeya, Lusi, Noon, Moo, Talisha, Jenny, etc.....? I mean Job from CIB was super beautiful but she didn't have the wildness and durability of the girls mentioned above. And I can't name any others that can otherwise come close to the older batch of babes. Maybe it's also because the top girls get sponsored earlier now that trans is more acceptable overseas. what girl from the BKK bars in modern times is at the level of the girls 15 years ago? a/k/a the Golden Age of LB Mongering.

Good question! I agree that we mongers look back with fond memories and that we had more fun back then. But I don't think the ladyboys themselves were more fun. For many of us sex with ladyboys was new and exciting circa 2007 but now we're jaded. Newbies, like blondes, have more fun.

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I'm also going to nominate Guess Bar 2.0 which was on Soi 4. I loved that place because it was the first time I experienced an LB lounge and the talent was off the muthafuckin charts! Plus there is the famous story of Jean-Claude Van Damme coming in with some buddies during a movie shoot and taking LBs that had already been taken and bar fine paid off the arms of some of the regular mongers.... I think sexy Moo was one of his selections. The poor lad reported it next day on AsianTS Forum. So many superstars at Guess (I don't think I ever went to the 1.0 version on Soi 1 that Rom accoladed). I remember incredible nights with Jenny (a monger favorite with a good size cock) and her friends. They don't build LB babes like that anymore. Pictures from their FB site (Jenny in white earings and black pants):

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Photos of the girls from the party night. Annie Bell Bo Cream There are more photos to follow shortly.