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I used to go to the Philippines a fair amount in years gone by. I always though the GGs there had a better attitude than LOS. I've only been with a few LBs there. It's been a LONG time since I was in Jakarta and Batam Island (ferry ride from Singapore). But not somewhere I think I want to live.

I have a friend who is an Aussie. He take his LB mongering very seriously and used to come to Pattaya frequently. He now only goes to the PI.

I guess along with lower libido in old age my sense of adventure is reduced also. 

I would never take a hooker back home. Everything would be covered sex, it would cost BIG $$$ and GFE would likely be the only thing that sucks...

On 1/27/2023 at 9:17 PM, Soju said:

Don't misunderstand me, I certainly believe you but yes something doesn't quite add up. I was curious so I checked another site and one guy mentioned a 300 baht BF (that popular photographer gent over there).  Granted that was over a year ago he posted that.  I was in Spot 3 times less than 2 weeks ago and twice there weren't any ladyboys. The third time I met a lady I've know for awhile and she said there aren't any BFs at the bar. So I didn't pay. I will be back in town in a few days and have a snoop around 555.

  Damn I almost need to login to this site with my VPN and pretend I'm in the US to keep from having posting issues. Double posts or it hangs up on me.

23 hours ago, Soju said:

Don't misunderstand me, I certainly believe you but yes something doesn't quite add up. I was curious so I checked another site and one guy mentioned a 300 baht BF (that popular photographer gent over there).  Granted that was over a year ago he posted that.  I was in Spot 3 times less than 2 weeks ago and twice there weren't any ladyboys. The third time I met a lady I've know for awhile and she said there aren't any BFs at the bar. So I didn't pay. I will be back in town in a few days and have a snoop around 555.

  Yes it's interesting in the thread (over there) 300 is only quoted once and there are no other mentions in the entire thread of a price. Maybe since you were obviously meeting someone there it was different. Or ???   I could be there in five minutes. But my liver needs a break tonight and it's early so maybe not any LBs there yet anyway. 

  I'll be back sooner of later. It's one of the few places that is open after 2 AM.

4 hours ago, Soju said:

Not to dispute your take on the BF at Spot but I paid nothing. Also a lady I know pretty well told me it is freelance.

Edit: Perhaps the freelancers don't have a barfine but girls who work there do?

Well Soju it was 400 before COVID and I was told 400 two nights ago. Many of the usual bars have FL working that are not paid staff and we will pay a BF for them. It's just most of the time we don't know they are FL as they are in the bar day after day. I suspect, but don't know for sure, all the LBs at Spot are FL (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I've only ever taken one LB from Spot years ago in the wee hours of the morning. She worked at another bar that had closed for the night and went to Spot after work. I got charged the BF for that one. But maybe there is more to the story than I know.

On 1/14/2023 at 11:53 AM, Soju said:

Spot Bar-- No barfine and ST up to you and lady.  This place is not really an lb bar but more a place a couple of girls drop by and sometimes there are none freelancing at the bar.

  BTW Spot Bar is open until 4 AM and the BF is 400 baht. I don't know why they can stay open until 4... But good for them as it's always been a late night kind of place.

On 1/16/2023 at 9:38 PM, Pulci Gorgon said:

Do they still exist in soi 6 ?

  I haven't been to Soi 6 yet. And even on my long winter trips before COVID I would only go once or twice a trip. It just wasn't the afternoon delight place it used to be. I always start with a walk down Soi 6/1 as a lot of LBs do (or did) hang out back there. I'll make it there sooner of later but the appeal it once had just isn't there for me.

On 1/14/2023 at 11:53 AM, Soju said:

Bon Bar Soi Buakhao-- the very pretty Mualee (spelling?)

  I think it's Meili but I still don't know how pronounce it.

On 1/10/2023 at 4:50 PM, Dan Miller said:

Lisa is wearing the black bikini. Isn't she adorable? 

And when the bottom comes off your eyes might be more draw to that area.   Da

Oh and there are rooms.

I didn't see Soi MIT posted here. I must be blind.

I likewise have purchased miles from Alaska Air. Because one can book Cathay Pacific (you have to call Alaska Air, can't do it online) Business class for 100k mile (round trip/return). If I catch a sale on Alaska enough miles for Cathay Business round trip/return can be purchased for ~US$2k with taxes. As I recall Japan Air has some OK deals there (online) also if you can't get Cathay.

United generally sucks when it comes to miles. There one way Business USA/BKK (BKK/USA) is usually 99k miles. Buying miles is not inexpensive. And often if you need to fly to the west coast to catch the trans Pacific flight that flight is Economy and not Business. United has terrible fairs internationally one way (often more expensive than RT/return total). If I use United miles BKK/NRT/DEN I book the outbound trip on another airline. I'm almost at that 99k number now and after I get it I will probably acquire miles on some other airline (probably Alaska).  Sadly United is the only airline that flies NRT/DEN nonstop but it is almost impossible to book with miles. United can get me to BKK in Business on short notice with miles so there are some perks with United if you have the miles.

Thailand has been added to the USA "avoid travel" list. I keep trying to find an excuse to try a January trip. But the idea grows dim...

Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges...

Sorry I'm apparently not smart enough to know how to report the above post as SPAM.

On 3/26/2021 at 6:45 AM, Woodie said:

And yes maybe you are sore losers like Denis Conners!. Haha

  Case in point. I had to Google Denis Conners.

  John Cleese, back in the days of the Clinton/Lewinsky matters, also said they do things a little different in in England. When we salute our leaders we only get down on one knee.  

17 hours ago, seven said:

Good. Astra Zeneca is stopped here too and I wouldn't touch it.

 AstraZeneca just released new phase three trial data in the US that showed it's efficacy was 68%. A little better than J&J and much worse than Pfizer and Moderna. But I guess all this data is on the original strain. I don't know what the scoop is in EU but the blood clot thing didn't really seem to amount to much. At least that is what we hear over here. Apparently if you take any of these vaccines and still catch COVID your chance of getting seriously ill is near zero. But even if you caught a mild case in Thailand a big chunk of your trip could be ruined, you might get stuck in Thailand, etc. 

The latest data I saw was AstraZeneca was 10.4% effective in preventing the South African variant. Thailand has purchased 61 million does of AstraZeneca although they did just approve J&J. So if the S. African variant runs wild things might not be so good. It's one thing to contract something that might be a strong as the flu where you could stay at home and ride it out. Quite another to be in Thailand where what we do involves very close contact with other humans.

I haven't booked my January 2022 trip yet. But booking with miles I need to book early so it's about time to roll the dice.

20 hours ago, Woodie said:

They are changing the name to The New Zealand Cup!

Just poking a little fun at you. The America's Cup used to be sort of a medium big deal in the days before every football, soccer, basketball, baseball, hockey, etc game became available on TV. As I recall ABC's Wide World of Sports (anyone remember that) used to cover it. I had no idea who had the cup and I follow sports fairly seriously (which means I watch a lot of ESPN). It doesn't seem like a big deal these days or maybe we are just sore losers.  

14 hours ago, Woodie said:

But they still won the Americas Cup!

Hopefully they promised not to return it...

On 3/22/2021 at 8:09 AM, BigTel said:

Your right  there Ciobha,  one little thing that stuck out to me was the clause that even if you had the vaccine you had to travel within a 90 day period of having it, I had my first vaccine on March 19th and am expecting my second any time within their 12 week window period, now seeing how I usually take my trips in November with second vaccine due before May 14th it would mean I would be already ineligible to enter Thailand using the "Had my Vaccine rule.

                                          I certainly can't see a scenario where I approach my local surgery just before a trip and say " could I have another vaccine please just to help me gain entry to Thailand.    

  I am fully vaccinated (Moderna). I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if some kind of booster shot is needed by winter for the new variants. AstraZeneca was so ineffective against the South African variant they stopped using it in S. Africa for a while. And of course Thailand is pretty much all in on AstraZeneca. 

  I likely will accept a week in quarantine for a two month trip. I don't want to and has been said maybe that will change. Hopefully it won't change for the worse. 

As usual my SiFi selection:

Star Trek Discovery Season 3 (or all the the seasons if you haven't seen them). They do a pretty good job of not making you feel like you saw this plot before on some other Star Trek (except for an episode in Season 1.

The Expanse Season 5 (or all the the seasons if you haven't seen them.)

The 100 (7 seasons). You might need to be a SiFy junkie to get by some of the B movie plots.

For All Mankind (the USSR lands on the moon before the US and things kind of go cold war downhill from there)

2 hours ago, seven said:

This sure as hell isn't helping the opening of the borders. Yesterday 6 European countries halted Astra Zeneca.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/thai-pm-cabinet-cancel-fridays-022903052.html

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand delayed the use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine scheduled to start on Friday with its prime minister and cabinet members taking the first shots, citing safety concerns after reports of blood clots in some vaccinated people in Europe.

 

 Also the AZ vaccine seems to not be terribly effective against the South African  strain.

On 2/14/2021 at 10:45 PM, The-Sith said:

Looks like you fell for the trick...... just like EVERYONE ELSE.

  WOW you are awesome! You are the only one that didn't fall for the trick. You did say EVERYONE ELSE.

On 1/30/2021 at 7:39 PM, RandiUno2 said:

I was buying gold and slilver (small positions - I'm not rich like the Hunt Brothers) throughout 2017 and 2018, and now wish I had bought more.  Personally a little afraid of gold at 1850 levels.  

Praying my silver "goes to the moon" as the Reddit crowdsource/investor group claims they are trying to do a #silversqueeze.  I still think silver a good buy at $28.  Would be funny if I call my coin dealer on Monday and he says "I'm out of silver rounds".

  Good deal on the earlier investments. The Reddit crowd had a short lived effect on silver. Seems they discovered they can't push a big market like silver around like a small shorted stock. 

On 1/31/2021 at 5:54 AM, The-Sith said:

If you aren't there..... get ready for some harsh times. The money printing evaporated the middle class because it meant having equity in your home and a 6 figure life savings totally meaningless. 

Maybe this is not apparent now but wait 3 to 5 years.

  You could be right. But the conservatives were sounding the inflation alarm bell since the money printing financial crisis of 2008-2009. Maybe they will be right this time but for the last 11 years they were wrong as inflation couldn't even make the US Feds goal of 2%. But sooner or later they will be right.  

4 hours ago, rxpharm said:

Unfortunately the Robin Hood CEO has bowed to pressure and shut down trading on Game Stop (GME), Blackberry, Nokia and AMC.

The corporate elite are putting the pressure on. It seems that Robin Hood was sellng data on what was being traded on Robin Hood apparently to some hedge fund managers and anyone else willing to pay - (no fee trading, no fees, but selling data).

  Robin Hood really had no choice. They are required by The Securities and Exchange Commission to maintain a certain amount of capital for clearing house deposits. The wild trading caused a problem with these funds. They went out and secured a lot of funding in the last 24 hours to be able to trade again today but I think they were up against it again today.

3 hours ago, RandiUno2 said:

Gold and Silver are the best long term plays.  So much free money around its only a matter of time before the worldwide equity bubble bursts,  inflation rages, and the Saudis royals and Indian consumers begin hoarding gold again. 

  Gold might be a good idea but it will be a case of buying high and selling higher if it works out. I was too stupid, as usual, to not buy gold back in 2016 when it fell to USD$1056 an ounce. As late as the 2nd half of 2018 it was USD$1186. ATM it's around USD$1845 and the USD has devalued about 8% since the start of the pandemic. So if not for the falling dollar it would be a bit cheaper. But in these messed up times it may well go up a lot. Might be worth keeping an eye on silver which is a bit later to the party

FWIW     

On 1/6/2021 at 4:35 PM, Quietguy said:

Thailand is to receive Coronavirus vaccine from China.

https://news.yahoo.com/chinese-covid-19-vaccine-far-193217226.html

23 hours ago, Pdoggg said:

The Tahitian Queen (TQ) has had to finally shut down.

The TQ was PH3’s longest running “Happy Hour Bar.”

It was first open on the 2nd.March 1987.

Owned by Woody and Bob, but run by RA. “Emperor Airhead”.

https://pattayaone.news/farewell-to-tahitian-queen/

 

I did the Christmas Styrofoam snow thing there once as well as at TQ2. It was fun once or twice. 

On 1/5/2021 at 4:45 AM, bubba said:

I trust you will have a sensible New Year and fill out those forms for Canadian citizenship as soon as possible.

I'll pack up my guns and head there now.