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So it looks like it won't be easy to get from the Darkside to rest of Pattaya starting Monday.

Congrats AB! You had mentioned a wife but didn't know she was trans.

Yup, same same concept Snoop, a ring surrounded by bars but bigger and more crowded. A really nice experience in high season outdoors if the weather is coolish. A variety of bouts, besides guys there are often some ladies boxing. I think the beers cost 20 baht more on fight night.

Pattaya had to stop the shutdown as traffic backed up for miles. In Bangkok there was a run on beer and booze yesterday as the government announced that starting today there would be no sale of alcoholic beverages starting today for 10 days. They are trying to discourage private parties especially given that Songkran is just around the corner. Family Mar has some water guns hanging from the ceiling.

I like the outdoor fights in Lamai on Koh Samui. Free admission, cheap beer. The fighters come around with a hat for donations. I also really enjoy the fights if a mate of mine is fighting. They both lost but went the distance; an accomplishment as often in the real fights the guys on hobbling out of the ring and in one case an ambulance came to take the guy away.

Great topic Woodie. I think a receptionist's attitude comes from the top down to some degree. If an owner places great importance on things such as broken ashtrays or lipstick stained towels but doesn't adequately monitor staff friendliness then he will reap what he sows. Repeat business is important as well as Agoda/Booking.com/TripAdvisor scores. I've rarely encountered surly staff at Thai hotels but then I've spent most of my time here staying at three places where the staff is pretty good. I initially chose one of these places partially due to one friendly, ever so slightly flirtatious ladyboy who is my all time favorite staff person. In this case recruiting a good staff member and probably paying her slightly more than he going rate for a shitty receptionist paid big dividends. But I'm going here talking about the good stuff. The Sundance Riverside in Phnom Penh (not Sundance Inn on Street 172) was taken over by new ownership a couple weeks before I checked in. The new owner was quite nice but made changes to the safety box in standard rooms because too many customers customers were removing the good batteries in the safety box and replacing them with older batteries. As a result I had a safe that could only be opened by key which is not great if bringing a guest back. But to make matters worse the key (which did not work very well as it took some jiggling) was welded to the thingy that must be put in the wall that turns on the electricity so in order to open the safe at night I had only 15 seconds to put the key in the wall, quickly remove it to open the safe. So I had to practice this routine countless times to learn exactly how to do this in 15 seconds. Btw, this is an otherwise good hotel but can't see myself ever staying there again.

Three Thai men were sentenced to 3 months in the monkey house with no parole for violating curfew. No details as to how late they were out or what they were doing. Roadblocks will prevent people from entering or leaving Pattaya starting 14:00 on Thursday, April 9th. You can check out any time you like but you can never leave.

Wish I could recapture the rush of the early days!

RIP Kev. By all accounts one of the good guys!

That's my guess too TC.

The less that's said the better Arch.

Big Brother is watching! Facebook is launching new tools that use anonymized location data collected from users to show whether people are adhering to social distancing measures designed to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The company said on Monday that its Data for Good program is developing Disease Prevention Maps, which show how people are moving around regions. Facebook hopes this data can be used alongside other information that public health officials collect to help determine areas where COVID-19 outbreaks are likely to occur. According to Facebook, the maps include: Co-location data: The probability that people in one area will come into contact with each other. Movement range trends: This data shows at a regional level whether people are staying home. In the San Francisco Bay Area, for instance, a higher proportion population is sheltering in place in part because tech jobs allow for remote work. A social connectedness index: This data reveals friendships across states to show the areas where people might need more support. Facebook says it won’t show patterns around the movements of any specific individuals, and won’t be used to identify individuals who aren’t adhering to the social distancing or shelter-in-place guidelines. “We think that Facebook and the wider tech industry can continue to find innovative ways to help respond to that crisis,” said a company spokesperson. “But we don’t think the help entails compromising privacy.” The collection of location data is opt-in, meaning Facebook users will have to choose to share it, although the company has previously warned that it can pick up information about users’ movements through other features, like check-ins. Facebook also said that it won’t be looking into why people in particular areas are or are not following the guidelines. A spokesperson noted that instead, the company will explore trends across populations. For instance, some states have a larger population of people who have transient jobs, or would struggle to work from home.

Same same with me Snoop. On my first trip to the LOS I had a week alone and then my girlfriend joined me for the remaining two weeks. I wanted to be a kid in the candy store and she wanted a family. No contest!

They're also talking about closing Terminal 4.

Well said Randi!

I looked out my window at 10:30 for about 5 min and it seem most people are complying with the curfew. Can't tell for sure as the person and vehicles I saw could have exemptions such as police or 7/11 workers returning home from work.

This looks like it is going to be a good one Snoop!

Well the streets were deserted last night but with everyone leaving Pattaya there weren't many lights on tatI could see. But there did not seem to be much post 10PM traffic that I could see. Was on Beach Road about 7PM tonight and ladies and ladyboys were hawking their wares. I suppose that primetime is between 7 and 8 so there is time to do the deed and get home before curfew.

A shutdown to contain the coronavirus has killed Thailand's party scene and forced sex workers like Pim out of bars and onto desolate streets. She's scared but desperately needs customers to pay her rent. Red-light districts from Bangkok to Pattaya have gone quiet with night clubs and massage parlours closed and tourists blocked from entering the country. That has left an estimated 300,000 sex workers out of a job, pressing some onto the streets where the risks are sharpened by the pandemic. "I'm afraid of the virus but I need to find customers so I can pay for my room and food," Pim, a 32-year-old transgender sex worker, told AFP in an area of Bangkok where previously bawdy neon-lit bars and brothels have gone dark. Since Friday Thais have been under a 10 pm to 4 am curfew. Bars and eat-in restaurants closed several days earlier. Many of Bangkok's sex workers had jobs in the relative safety of bars, working for tips and willing to go home with customers. When their workplaces suddenly closed most returned home to wait out the crisis. Others like Pim went to work the streets. Since Friday Thais have been under a 10 pm to 4 am curfew. Bars and eat-in restaurants closed several days earlier. The government says it is ready to enforce a 24-hour curfew if necessary to control a virus that has infected more than 2,000 people and killed 20, according to official figures. Pim is paying a heavy price for the movement restrictions -- she has not had a customer for 10 days and the bills are stacking up. Her friend Alice, another transgender sex worker, has also been forced to move from a go-go bar to the roadside. "I used to make decent money sometimes $300-600 a week," Alice says. "But when businesses shut down my income stopped too. We are doing this because we're poor. If we can't pay our hotel they will kick us out." - High risk - The already high risks of sex work have rocketed as the virus spreads. Sex workers have flocked back to homes across the country in anticipation of several weeks of virtual lockdown before Thailand's night economy comes back to life. There are fears the malaise could last for months, yanking billions of tourist dollars from the economy and leaving those working in the informal sector destitute. The occasional tourist loiters near clusters of sex workers, before a furtive negotiation and a quick march to a nearby hotel, one of the few still open on Bangkok's main tourist drag They include sex workers -- an illegal but widely accepted part of Thailand's nightlife. There are concerns that a Thai government emergency scheme to give 5,000 baht ($150) to millions of newly jobless over the next three months will exclude sex workers because they cannot prove formal employment. The Empower Foundation, an advocacy group for the kingdom's sex workers, says entertainment venues make around $6.4 billion a year, many of them selling sex in some form. Women are suffering the most from the virus measures, it says. Many are mothers and their family's main income earner, forced into sex work by lack of opportunities or low graduate salaries. The group has written an open letter to the government urging it to "find a way to provide assistance to all workers who have lost their earnings". As the 10 pm curfew looms, Pim and Alice prepare for a final forlorn patrol for customers. "I think the government has been really slow. They don't care about people like us who work in the sex industry," Alice said. "We're more afraid of having nothing to eat than the virus." https://www.afp.com/en/news/3954/scared-desperate-thai-sex-workers-forced-street-doc-1qd9zo1

TC, Where did Nila work when there were ladyboy bars open?

What I do to resize is to load it into Facebook with the Privacy Setting of Only Me and then after it loads then download what has been loaded. For those who don't like Facebook, you can have an account under a phoney name with zero friends that you just use for resizing.

When the bars were open, I generally wouldn't go out more than twice a week and since I wasn't on the hunt wasn't too concerned about being around the creme of the creme in looks and honestly have no idea who they are. Now of course, I know Lily of TJ's who has an entire thread devoted to her here but who are the Pattaya and Bangkok ladyboys that you consider stunners?

In the video, he mentions Bangla Road in Phuket as being a hotbed for CV cases.