Is the Grotto no more?
Posted by sideshowBOB | Blog, Reader Submissions | Posted on August 10th, 2009
It has been a year already of living on Suk soi 23 – no not Cowboy. Cowboy is not soi 23 but is on soi 23. I actually live on Suk soi 23 and yes - I walk by Cowboy everyday which is a good and a bad thing. In some sense I am almost oblivious to it since it is always there. In another sense it is nice to have it there since when one wants to have a drink or ogle some girls – just a moments walk is all it takes. It has also made me lazy though since being the low hanging fruit that it is – sometimes I am less inclined to reach a little higher for something better. Either way the days at the Grotto are numbered and it is time to make a switch. In honor of my favorite TV show, Entourage, we are examining the Ari area as an alternative.
I always appreciate the precision the Japanese bring to the world – even the sex biz:
Susukino covers an area about five times the size of the Tokyo Dome, home of the Yomiuri Giants baseball team. While the number of restaurants in the district fell 14 percent between 1989 and 2008, the number of brothels climbed to 264 shops from 63, the report showed.
‒The number of brothels has increased. There’s no question about that,” Tadao Yonezawa, 66, an official at the Susukino Tourist Association, said in an interview. ‒It must be because people want those services. Where there’s demand, you get supply.”
Simple economics.
Happy detoxing…
41 Responses to “Is the Grotto no more?”
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hi ssB, good luck with the move! the Ari area would be interesting. i had a transcendent moment there once returning by taxi from an afternoon playing Songkran-target in the doorway of a business run by a Thai friend. no business was getting done except Soak-The-Farang. i had a serious neon water-blaster and was fightin’ back. no quarter: the public buses would stop and a gang of kids would squirt water into the door/windows…and the passengers would fire back.
a few hours of this and i got the taxi back. that row of strip clubs had set picnic tables on the sidewalk and the gogo gals were gyrating atop. brilliant hot April sun, soaked Thai girls hip-swiveling, every bucket-blast and arc of water backlit by the sun…when kids started planting gray-mud handprints on the taxi windows i felt like Captain Willard going upriver, slowly cruising past a tribe that had either lost the plot…or i had.
JtB
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Ari is an excellent area. Where I used to live. Great food and some posh totty on the food stalls.
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So how DO you [does one] register with the site??
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What is Tagged?
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A gaggle of assorted Apple Models (Europeans – domiciled and passing through) have found Yosawadi to be a commodious baan for the past 5 years or so. I think you’d like Ari.
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The Tokyo Reporter is quite hilarious, if you’re into weird Japanese news.
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r u a fresno boy ?
how far did u grow up from carol burnett’s childhood home?
ari? isn’t that near the Laos border?
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a – register with what site?
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msb – tagged is the fountain of free puss in thailand
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f – saw some apple models on the train with their little folders. nice.
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j – thanks. will check it.
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jd – carmel boy relocated to sacto. wetback is the fresno boy. for soi 4 folks -anything outside of lower suk is cambodia. not laos
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I don’t believe you. There is no such thing as free puss in Thailand!
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msb – yp even gets paid from tagged girls. its an online meat market.
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fuck you nigga i’m from stockton! Fresno is further south and even more wetbackified. lots of rednecks and mojados. i would say it’s a shithole but according to forbes stockton is the most miserable place in the united states.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/06/most-miserable-cities-business-washington_0206_miserable_cities_slide_4.html?thisSpeed=15000
we also have one of the highest crime rates in the country. so you can clearly see why i’m in Thailand. i’d rather dodge a red shirted idiot here than a red shirted idiot holding a hand cannon back home.
View all comments by UnCochinoWetback
‘Ari’? Where on soi 4 is that?
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un – it is wigga not nigga. thanks.
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What time you going to start showing the UFC tonight? I wouldn’t mind seeing Forrest/Silva & Penn/KenFlo again – not that fussed about the other bouts though.
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that korean site- you need to pay to access anything intrestin
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@Naki: It’s 2 hours and 30 mins long so will show at 8 and 11. Will be showing the other bouts as well though. For your sake, silva-griff is followed by penn-florian and starts 1 hour and 30 minutes into it, so 9:30pm and 12:30am for the main events.
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Aaaahhhhh tagged.com… seems to be a surge in the number of trannies knocking about on there these days. I’ve had five friend requests from anvil jawed oriental princesses in the last week alone. Only one of them was convincing. One of them even had her name set to “Kenneth”.
If I was YP I’d be in tummy stick heaven.
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ht – pretty easy to sort that out and most times I search for things so the KT issue has no bearing. I rarely accept any friend requests unless the girl or her friends are hot
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@ ssB – it’s nice to know I’m hot
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@ssB – same same.
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docbond – it was the star trek shirt. killed me.
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Tagged is full of trannies. Some see that as a bad thing, but I cant see how.
Quite a few of the Nana/Patpong katoeys flog their artificial mutton through tagged aswell. Few months back I added a very hot (but also obvious) ladyboy whos profile contained no pics of her working at a bar.
I shot her a email saying how I would gladly tear the back off her for no charge (not in as many words) and would she like to hook up sometime. She replied that she remembers my face, because I had already soiled 1 of her friends in the Kings3 toilets, and she wouldn’t ‘go there’
There are also a few (but not as many) ‘good’ LBs on tagged.com looking to get smashed about by white guys for fun. Just last week I had a hot post-op who studies in Rangsit round for a roll in the hay, and a buddy of mine snagged a beautiful pre-op LB who was a secretary for an MD for a large Thai multinational
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yp -sorry yp. those of us not into the chicks with dicks tend to feel they get in the way – esp when they pose as girls – which they aren’t
I think they should be labled LB(cut/uncut) to make it easier to sort them out
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@ssB & YP – I agree with ssB, more power to the chicks with dicks if they want to use social networking to get some. They should identify themselves loud and clear though, since they exist in a sexual niche that staddles the genders. I’ve had a few hot, hot “girls” add me from Singapore or Malaysia with private profiles, but on inspecting photos without myspace angles you can tell they’re packing a set of tackle that would shame a rhino.
Speaking as a dude who has blown out a post-op or two it’s no drama, but when I’m hunting in the civilian world I prefer natural cunt to the factory farmed variety.
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SSBs just bitter because both the LBs and normal girls, cruise past him profile, just to get to mine….
Now if their was an LB exclusive networking site, now Id be into that like a gang-on-skinheads.
I welcome any possible ‘witty’ domain names
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tagged is bloody great ,but after 469 friends it takes too much friggen time to keep them happy ,but got dates all over thailand ,easy as,just need to pick the ones that hsve good legs and speak a bit of english.
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yp – not bitter at all nor do I have issues with the lbs or the lb slayers but I have no interest in them at all
could be a niche site – lb social network for asia.
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great business idea… the world needs a place where chicks with vaginas with baseball stitching and the men who love them can collide in an explosion of jizz (other than Patpong). tragged dot com?
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ht – great as in what way? to make money? only if you could charge for it – even sites as large as tagged are barely getting by. tragged.com would have to charge the guys but be free for the um – “girls”.
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tragged.com business plan:
1. make site for trannies
2. ???
3. profit!1
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@YP, ssB, what is your MO (approach if u wish) on Tagged? Or is that “the secret of the cook”?
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@HT – Foolproof. Just foolproof.
@Fluke – Theres no hard n fast rule of how to pick up from tagged. If your a fat, overweight ferang creep, with zero game, hunting hot 19year old uni girls isn’t going to work for you. It just wont. Just look at the endless list of dull cunts leaving weirdo comments and creepy picture messages on girls profiles. Not a chance in hell.
If you have some game, and dont come across like a seedy prick, and lay some groundwork on MSN/text messages/phone calls etc then you’ll be giggling all the way to the cum-shot.
If you can message them in fluent Thai and look like Jude Law (a big NO for me on both counts) then you’ll be beating them off with a glittery stick
A few times girls Ive met and had round to my place from tagged, have forgot to log themself out of their tagged profile, having using my computer the next day/that night.
You wouldn’t believe the amount of Pattaya-esque fuckfaces using profile pictures of them in beerbars, wearing a vest and bum-bag, hitting them with opening messages such as ‘you wanna fuck?’, ‘show me your tits on cam’ or ‘I come Bangkok next week for holiday, you come my hotel, I pay you’
Its all a game as they say
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YP – I hear you, browsing profiles I saw comments from the kind of guys you described. that’s why I as wondering how the girls are making their pick….given the amount of creeps reacting to their profiles. Kudos for the reply.
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A friend stopped by the Mango last night and showed me pics of a girl he is currently pursuing on tagged. OMG, absolutely stunning. He’s had a few flirty phone calls but hasn’t met her yet, but soon he said. He showed me dozens of photos as she does modeling and my jaw was dropped the whole time.
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So..once again…it pays to have a pic wearing quality fabrics. BBK never disappoints.
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Im currently chatting to a 17year old emo-looking bitch on tagged. Is there anything wrong with 17?
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@YP – only if you get caught
@Fluke – the criteria are pretty simple – if you’re a regular guy who doesn’t post lecherous sexual comments you’re in with a fighting chance. Your chances go up if you’re able to string together a witty, coherent sentence. Once you get them into the 3D it’s all down to your game. I’ve noticed the same thing too… mostly Indian guys posting weird ass shit on girl’s profile pages. A filo girl I am seeing said the same guy kept making new accounts and posting the same weird ass comments with every one for about a week. Gotta respect his persistence.
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