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A Week in Angeles City – Part Five
A fitting finale BBB. But I do beleive, sitting at a table in LD1 after your missed flight before, I used the phrase “Cebu Pacific: The World’s Worst Airline.”You were warned.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 30.11.2009
A Week in Angeles City – Part Four
I think I pointed out in some earlier comment — and am surprised BBB or someone else hasn’t repeated it yet — Tequila Reef is operated by the same folks who do that same-named fine restaurant in Pattaya.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 27.11.2009
A Week in Angeles City – Part Three
I’d scold you for settling on one girl in a town of 110 gogo bars, but you seemed pretty desperate.Lots of new bar names in this one for me: Crystal Palance, Vortex, Club Asia all weren’t there the last time I was in April ’07. Genesis and Beavers might have, but don’t remember them.
Clearly, it’s time for a return visit.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 23.11.2009
A Week in Angeles City – Part Two
I hear ya BBB. Just paid my 5,127 baht phone bill that had 6 days of the UK use in it.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 19.11.2009
BBB — 1,2,call worked over there? Surprised at that. When I go I use my Thai phone, but I have a contract and int’l roaming package. But I’ve also bought a PH sim card on one visit. Can’t remember prices, but seemed pretty much the same as 12Call/DTAC here.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 18.11.2009
It seems that somone’s standards are out of whack. EIther yours are too high or O.N.’s are too low.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 18.11.2009
A Week in Angeles City – Part One
Good to hear about the close-in MkckyDs. Koko’s food is “OK”. I often ate lunch at that sub/cheesesteak place near the bridge. Also I hear Tequila Reef has opened a place just off Fields. Gotta be better than Margarita Station. Obvioulsy, I need a trip back.On the oside-subject of free drinks, you folks obviously don’t hang with me. I get them in pretty much every gogo I visit, even Peppermint. Its the free Jaegerbombs in Roxy and free frozen B52 shots in Catz that kill me in the mroning, though.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 17.11.2009
Now that I got my piss-take out of the way, my real comment…
I like Angeles. I wish I could go more often. The flight is cheap and short, but I spen waaaaay too much damn money while I’m there.
Girls — Attractiveness is a subjective subject. I, too, prefer the look of Thai girls. My business partner, who hits AC 2-3 times a year, prefers Filipinas. I’ve never had trouble finding girls I find attractive enough to shag… usually 2 or 3 a day (although my first visit I set a personal records and had sex 9 times in 24 hours… and followed that with LOTS of sleep.)
But it does take some looking to find that one (or two and three). And, INVARIABLY, the girl I want to bang turns out to be a Cherry Girl. I have 100% perfectly accurate Cherry Girl Radar. I know any one I’m very interested in will be a no-go. Pisses me off to no end.
Cost — Girls are cheap. DOMESTIC mixed drinks are cheap (but deadlly). Hotels are expensive. So is food. And it’s crap, to boot.
Let me repeat, there’s NO decent food in A.C. WOuld it kill them to put in a Burger King or McDonald’s? Even that would be an improvement. (Actually, there are those in the mall not far from the strip, I was gleeful to discover my last trip there.)
What gets expensive is the overindulgence that AC inspires. I have spent 3 Songkrans there. The first I did 33 Hours in Angeles (which sounds like a hell of a good title for a post).
The second time I did 4 days.
The last time — Songkran 2008 — I spent TEN days there. NEVER again. That’s waaaay too long.
My routine is pretty much the same each day, starting with the arrival day. Sleep, stay in the aircon room, watch DVDs and hit the pool during the day. Then…
*** Aside, sorry: There is NOTHING to do in the daytime there. It’s worse than Pattaya ****
Then, after dark, get some crap food somewhere and hit the bars around 7. Drink really cheap Flip Vodka (I gave up on Rum after the worst hangovers of my life 4 years ago) and hit as many bars as possible. Short time or two, then stumble back to the room with a second or third for an LT around 3 a.m. or later.
Getting really stupid and nasty in the bars seems to be the defualt behavior. I’d be embarassed to go back mroe than once a year for fear they’d remember me. …. Although my last trip a couple girls did.
Morning.. nurse cheap flip alcohol hangover, Repeat.
Was hoping to go back in January. Not having a lottery-winning kind of month, however, so that looks pretty unlikely.
Good post BBB. But, for God’s sake, FIVE parts? What? You think you’re me writing about Cambodia or something?
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 16.11.2009
You slept with an English girl?
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 16.11.2009
Of English Sponosrs & Thai Duplicity
Very funny BD. Some good lines. (“Mr. T Starter set”; “bag os smashed crabs”)I have a footnote to my little tale. Now with Alex out of hte picture, she’s a bit strapped for cash. So her ex-mamasan has talked her into working in China for a month. (Good for her, bad for me.) Went with her to the airport today to say good-bye — and, yes, I did see her get on the plane — and before she did she got a text message from some other putz named Peter. She can’t really read English, so she asked me to read it for her. I quote in its entirety from his U.K.-numbered message:
Hello my darling. I hope you can get some work soon. I will send you some money soon to help you keep going. Can you give me your full name and bank number again? Take care of yourself. Miss you heaps. Love, Peter
:-* XOXO
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 03.11.2009
@WFTM — That’s no more than what that After Dark hooker catalog does. Was in Sakura Club the other night where copies of the latest issue were all around. They had a small spread of a couple girls there. Very nice. Great face, light skin, smooth flat tummy. I ask “where’s this girl.”
SHe comes over: Black as night, gaps in her teeth, small beer gut. At least she had the honesty to say to me, when I pointed out her photo, “That computer, not real.”
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 03.11.2009
For those of you in London, and willing to part with an outrageous 15 pounds entrance fee, you gotta check out the girl working the Exit door — where you return the “audio guide” handsets — at Westminister Abbey. I’m prety sure I had to physically push my tongue back into my mouth after drooling all over myself while trying to be witty with her. Stunning.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 01.11.2009
I beg to differ.
Alex is a guy who is paying out about 550 pounds a month to a girl he thought was living upcountry, looking for a home for them to get married an live in, planning to go to school and is being totally faithful to him.
I’m a guy who gave her about 3,000 baht fo the entire month to be my little fuck buddy, took her out to a movie once, played pool and had some drinks once and wants or expects nothing more than that.
Plus, I kknow all about her other trysts and he knew nothing.
Doesn’t sound very similar at all to me.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 01.11.2009
Obviously some morning coffeee is needed by some folks…
@Jax — Wrong post dude. Read the Weekly.
@Geoff — Who are you talking to? I’m the one on the good end of this.
@JB — Why do you even bother commenting?
@Phukit — Good guess but actually it really was her mother or female family member from the sound of the conversation. (Hey, write up your Pattaya time(s) as a post man!)
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 01.11.2009
Amazing video, for sure. What a huge loss of face for her. I actually felt bad for her watching that! And he’s 48? I’m betting most the audience had the same reaction I did: Got what you deserved there mate.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 01.11.2009
@ Quack: Perhaps you need a dictionary?
Duplicity: Deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 01.11.2009
Thailand Visa Roundup! by The Soi Lawyer
less than spectacular tourist numbersnice bit of understatement there (echo, echo). Now where did you say that soup kitchen was?
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 27.10.2009
hmmmmm….. Does it compare that I saw two Thai girls on the Picadilly Tube and absolutely a stunning UK girl (really) working at Westminister Abbey?…Thank God I’m back Wednesday night.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 27.10.2009
Actually, I think 47,000 baht is the list price. The store one block up Sukhumvit from where I got mine had it at that price. They didn’t seem to care much when I told them it was 35,000 baht a few doors down. Looked at me like “so?” and then went back to drinking their sangsom.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 24.10.2009
UFC 104 Preview by Young Penfold
And this is an “insider’s take on Thailand” how?
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 23.10.2009
Always a joy to read On Nutter. Great post.And so true. In good times, I do have the dosh to spend. Sometimes I go out with the stated mission of paying a BF, shagging a hottie and not worrying about money. But when it comes time to pull the trigger, the cheap-pat in me talks the honrny-pat right out of it. They get down off my shoulders and go to Champion for a 39-baht Sangsom-Coke.
By the way, I order 4 drinks just as happy hour is ending at Peppermint. When asked by a quizzical table mate why, I point out the exact same drink that is now 55 baht will be 115 in 5 minutes.
Makes perfect freakin’ sense to me!
Of course, I live in Pattaya and, as you well know, Pattaya in Thai translates to “Cheap Charle Heaven.”
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 21.10.2009
Aab namron ma gon – shut up and listen!!!! Part 1 by maximus
I think everyone commenting — especially those negatively — that people like Maximus, WFTM and even, dare I say it, Canadian Boy are contributing to this blog, which is more than those using unconstructive criticism like “sucks,” “drivel” and the like are doing.Criticizing a point or assertion, or even facts, is perfectly acceptable. Attacking someone personally or simply slagging off a post becuase you don’t like it is not. There are other blogs for those kinds of commentors. If your comments are being deleted, consider yourself one of the people that would be better served reading and commenting there.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 21.10.2009
Coyotee’s T.J. Hawley Died of Asphyxiation; Go-Go Closed Permanently
As I noted in the story, there is a minority partner from Malaysia who I met once. Deano said he owns 5 percent and TJ and Deano owned the other 47.5 percent. He neve rmentioned anyone else.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 18.10.2009
DocBond Stag Party this Saturday
Great party Doc. Can’t beleive I was that trashed by 10 pm. And I certainly can’t beleive I can’t remember what happened after I left the party….
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 18.10.2009
Coyotee’s T.J. Hawley Died of Asphyxiation; Go-Go Closed Permanently
For those of you doubting the Pattaya media would take on this story, the Pattaya Mail has got it here:http://www.pattayamail.com/current/news.shtml#hd12
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 16.10.2009
Let’s keep things civil, Billy, not personal.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 16.10.2009
On Living Dolls, the owner at the time isn’t upset, as he sold out Aug. 1. But the girls are not pleased. One mentioned to me the other night she got an SMS from a customer in the UK who saw her.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 14.10.2009
Thanks Poodle, I did mean for #100 to be a multi-topic post where I might note this little milestone, but oh well.
In truth, it’s not the 100th. I wrote 175 for my own blog and here before then, when I moved my old content to this website I deleted about half the old stories, as they didn’t really hold up over time.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 13.10.2009
Mixx disco is rife with them, I’m told.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 13.10.2009
Coyotee’s T.J. Hawley Died of Asphyxiation; Go-Go Closed Permanently
FYI — I now have first hand that be that the Pattaya Mail newspaper will have a story on this Friday.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 12.10.2009
Funeral was this past Friday. There was no media. And don’t know if Tony, etc. blocked coverage. Would be interesting to know.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 12.10.2009
Loving E-Mails From A Hot An’ Psychotic, Hi-So Bitch by Canadian Boy
CB, you heartless bastard!Oh, and by the way, no “working girl” is “hi-so.”
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 12.10.2009
Coyotee’s T.J. Hawley Died of Asphyxiation; Go-Go Closed Permanently
Alan, I work for one of the Pattaya newspapers and I can assure you there’s no conspiracy. As I wrote in my story, the reason the story has not come out until now was not due to any blackout or conspiracy but simply because the incident ws under Banglamung District, not Pattaya jurisdiction and the body quickly was quickly sent to Bangkok.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 12.10.2009
Alan, I’m sure A.D. can answer for himself, but in an e-mail to me today he put it this way:
. I sort of have a passing interest because I look after Australia occasionally, but it’s still a little tacky, and a reflection of what happens in this side of the industry.
And in Auz nobody is gong to care much about a guy who runs a Pattaya Go Go bar.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 11.10.2009
Hi Andrew, good to see you here on TFS2M. Too bad TJ was not British. I’d have liked to see you take on this story.
As you might imagine, I’ve had to obfuscate who my sources were for this story. More people were interviewed than you beleive, I think. And, despite what the publisher of one of the Pattaya “hooker catalogs” would have you beleive, it was not just a bunch of bar owners.
In fact, I spoke to no managers or owners for this piece. I have a direct line into the police.
I don’t think we’ll ever get much more than I already have. The Thai women involved can’t/won’t be interviewed and the other sources only have speculation or have told the cops what they know.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 11.10.2009
Samsung is the only ones in Thailand I’ve seen doing LED screens.They are BEAUTIFUL.
And VERY expensive.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 11.10.2009
Then I stand corrected: Does the Sony come with a ball and chain as you do?
Oh, yeah, and congrats
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 09.10.2009
Is the Sony also attached to a ball and chain? As you soon will be?
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 09.10.2009
@John “Ray of Sunshine” Brown –
Living Dolls is a bit of a different bar for me as its more of my local watering hole where I go like 4 nights a week to hang with the manager, boss, etc. All the girls know me and have known me for so long (and seen me with so many other LD1 and non-LD1 women) they either don’t want to know me or think of me as “just friends” and so, yes, some persuasion is needed. There was a time when I had Bf’d like 14 women on the payrool there, but that was long ago. I haven’t BF’d anyone out of that bar in probably two years.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 09.10.2009
Honest to God story about Oh:
A couple years ago, before she got the boobs, she had a flatter chest than me. Yet she was still pretty and, one night, I persuaded her finally into a barfine. However, it was early and I didn’t want to go back to the room yet and didn’t want to take her around the bars paying for her drinks. So I told her I’d be back at midnight to pick her up.
In Pattaya, at least, once you pay the bar, the girl has to stay there if you leave and want to come back later. Problem is, I got so drunk, I simply went home.
Found out she was stuck in the bar until 3 a.m. and she’s never considered a barfine since.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 08.10.2009
Santa wrote…
a post about sex, Pattaya, Gogo-Bars, TV’s, museums, Indian mongers, sex-tourism and Thai politicsWow, now that you put it that way, I guess this post did cover a lot!
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 08.10.2009
Regarding Jeezo’s comment about there being several signs with questionable personalities see here. (I thought I used to be able to add images to comments, but no longer…)
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 08.10.2009
@Jeezo — Yeah, good price. Off-brand, off course. But 2ms, if true, is very good. The LG is 2.4ms, 120 hrz and 100,000:1 contrast. Everythng else in 30,000 baht range was 5-8 ms. and 33,000-70,000:1 contrast.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 08.10.2009
Canadian Girl wrote: Indians are the #1 tourist group? U care to site your source on that?Tourism Authority of Thailand Pattaya Office Director Niti Kongkrut in the Friday edition of the Pattaya Mail. Story is not yet online, but the following is an excerpt from the piece:
Speaking at the Thai Hotels Association Eastern Chapter’s “Pattaya Marketing 2010″ seminar, Niti Kongkrut director of Tourism Authority of Thailand’s Pattaya office, said Indians now rank No. 1 among tourists to the region and will continue to do so through next year.
“We’re finding that tourists from European countries will not raise much and only a small amount from Russia,” Niti said. “But what’ s most interesting is that visitors from India are growing steadily. I believe that by the end of 2009 Indian tourists will remain No. 1 in Pattaya.”
@Ed — As I noted in the story, my UBC box got fried. Just got it replaced today. Will let you know on the colors later.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 08.10.2009
Thanks CB. Pretty sure the Monster brand isn’t sold here, but I get your point. Blu-Ray DVD player is next on the buy list, once I get money again. As for the dust, I have a hottie come clean my place weekly who takes care of the TV and my pecker.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 08.10.2009
hang WITH
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 06.10.2009
Watched the first disc of the first season of Entoruage and hated it. No one on there is anyone I’d want to hang and certainly not be like.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 06.10.2009
I think a point of order that needs to be made is that I — and Ed at Pattaya Rag — were referring exclusively to Rent-A-Girlfriends. As Ed wrote, for bargirls, you don’t need any more game than the money in your wallet.For “good” girls — wives, mothers of your children, etc — you do need more than that. So the criticism of the “real” girls is a bit unfair. If you are 20+ years older than the girl you’re chasing, fat, bald, dress badly, etc., you’re not going to end up with someone doing the strutting at Paris Fashion Week.
What’s the old line about spouses looking alike?
Finally, Katch — Pregnancy plays hell with a woman’s complexion and body. Give her a break. The skin clears up after the bun pops from the oven. Also, keep an eye on her teeth. Babies suck all the calcium out of their mothers.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 05.10.2009
MSB — Both airport and Iron Club are single shop houses, but way too narrow for the stage, bench seats and then stools. In his review of the place today, Dave at Thai-Anxiety says this:
There’s likely to be all sorts of bumping and barging, surely not a good idea for somewhere where people are likely to be a little drunk after a few beers.
This exact thing happened to me Saturday night. Some pock-faced English Southie literally (and intentionally) stuck out his foot as I was going by. I said a few words and the prick and his hairy-knuckled mater actually followed me outside and said he’d normally knock me out for that. My drinking companion, fortunately, was bigger than him and convinced him to go back inside.
As for the girl, Fon, she used to work at Airport and is a complete psycho. She’s was actually featured in my blog last year when I did a piece about a Muay Thai boxer who got into a Fatal Attraction situation with a go-go girl. She told him she loved him after 5 days, stalked him and then actually broke into his apartment when he ignored her calls.
My post no longer exists, but his original tale about her is on his blog here.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 05.10.2009
CB — No idea.
SCJ — Good point. After all, look at most the women working at Eden Club. Not exactly date material, but they do all requests….
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 05.10.2009
Mango Weekly – 03 October 2009 – Damn it Jim, I’m a pmmp, not a Doctor!
Thank you CB, I’m touched. And, no, not by Penfold.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 04.10.2009
I’m predicting this post is going to be a chart-buster on the comments ranking list…. Now, where to start?
Well, firstly, I think it especially fitting that Canadian Boy should submit the winning entry, but, of course, misspell it. :rofl:
As for the “guff,” I agree with 8-ball. Much of it is self-inflicted.
@The MAN — Kamagra is to be taken in SMALL doses. One whole gel-pack resulted in one of the worst headaches I’ve ever had. In fact, I don’t even mess with the gel anymore. They sell it in tablet form and — although I actually rarely use it — when I do, I break each tablet into 4 pieces. Just that quarter tab is enough to either offset the effects of alcohol on the hydraulics or give me enough gusto for a 2-hour session at Tulip.
@pmmp — This Apcalis stuff I’m gonna have to try. Never knew about it. Also gonna have to locate some of that Lecithin. But, honestly, if it makes you hornier than you already are, then I know a few of my regulars (who get popped at least 3 times in a long-time session) are not going to be happy.
Really, though, what is the benefit of a larger sperm load, other than the shock effect (and extra laundry)?
@Katechon — The bus-station Viagra shakedown was reported by Stickman, so it may not actually be true. But, assuming it was, it’s a scam. The police have been known to target farangs at the bus station and search then in hopes of a payout. Just one more chuckle in the Land of Smiles.
As for the post?
Nyquil is a must-have. I actually buy it in the gelcap format and bring over Costco-sized boxes of it. Bigger quantities can be transported more easily with less weight and less fear of leakage.
Antibiotics. I cannot repeat often enough pmmp’s warnings about antibiotic abuse. The number of antibio-resistant strains of bacteria, including gonorrhea, is skyrocketing. Thai doctors pass them out like candy and so many farangs I know throw them back at the slightest hint of a cold or cough when, in fact, nearly all colds and flu are a result of a VIRUS which cannot be treated with antibiotics. Zithro I can understand buying on your own, but I do not recommend people going out and buying up Cipro and the other general ones. Someday, not far from now, these will have no effect on many, many bacteria.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 03.10.2009
Actually, since I personally know everyone involved, down to the man’s wife, I was being a bit more careful with what I said and when I said it.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 02.10.2009
Yes, it’s true apparently and I am shocked. The owner in question is TJ Hawley of Coyotee’s, who ssB wrote abour recently. His former business partner Deano confirmed the death on the Secrets message board but I haven’t talked to him yet.
The girls are nattering that he was shot but there’s no real word on whether it was suicide, homicide or natural causes. Certainly a case can be made for any of these considering Coyotee’s and his own personal problems with the law lately. But he also had some earlier health issues.
I didn’t know TJ outside the nightlife, but considered him a close drinking buddy for the past year and am gobsmacked. Hoping it wasn’t Pattaya justice in action. That would be truly a shame.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 02.10.2009
California Wow Pattaya 699 / month, no contract. I paid 5,300 for a full year.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 30.09.2009
The Fallout Over ‘Big Trouble in Thailand’: Blunders, Recriminations & Naiveté
Just received an e-mail from Gavin Hill wtih the preview of Episode 4. It may actually stand a chance of not pissing off the authorities:Bangkok Airways plane crashes into a control tower on Samui, killing the pilot and local Tourist Police Volunteers and British Consul respond. Brit passengers are injured, some tell of their miraculous escape. Programme contains never-before-seen video and photographs of the immediate aftermath and rescue effort.
It’s Songkran in Chiang Mai and mayhem on the roads – we’re on the scene of another DUI incident involving backpackers on a motorbike – hurt, under the influence and no helmets. And we visit a motorbike ‘graveyard’ with Chiang Mai Tourist Police Volunteer Rob, from Manchester.
We’re out on river patrol with the tooled up border police in Chiang Rai, looking for drug smugglers. And this week’s Thai jail inmate who gives us his account of life in the monkey house is Michael Connell from Manchester – he’s doing a lot of time for drugs in Bangkwang.
And what would Big Trouble In Thailand be without Howard who finds himself in the middle of a punch up between a Thai man and a group of deaf tourists. DO NOT RESIST US!!
And tourist Police Assistant Paul Harrison is also in this week’s programme, responding to a fire at an apartment block in Pattaya.
Would you bet money on Thai Police giving two thumbs up to a second series?
Not in Thailand you wouldn’t, of course – plenty of gamblers being nicked coming up later in the series!
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 26.09.2009
Big Trouble in Thailand – Thoughts from a video editor
Someone publicly speculated somewhere in the past day or two that in light of Episode 3 Howard Miller, chief of the Foreign Tourist Police Assistants, probably now regrets his decision to work with Gavin Hill on the show.Not so, it seems.
Someone (not me) posted a link to this “John Obama” piece on the Pattaya Secrets message board and Howard responded as follows: A) This “video editor’s view” is “predictable,” he said. But what’s interesting is that his comment below stresses that if you are over 35 years old, the program wasn’t meant for you to warch, so you probably shouldn’t.
I suppose you could say that my response to this is “predictable” but I also feel that the program will not harm tourism in thailand. Let me try and explain myself, even though it’s late and I’m tired:
This is a reality TV show based on the work of the Thai Cops and the foreign volunteers/assistants who help them. People who know the basic synopsis of the program will expect the usual scenes of fighting, drug taking etc etc etc that these types of programs churn out on a daily basis.
The “reality” is, people love to watch these shows. I just checked their viewing figures for Episode 1 on www.barb.co.uk. Taking into consideration the premier and the repeat, this was Bravo’s highest rated show of the week. People love this stuff.
It will put some people off from coming to Thailand but I would think that the target audience for this show (lets not forget who this program was made for) will look at it and think “Fuck me…..I have gotta get out there”.
The majority of Reality TV viewers are used to watching these programs and in “reality” don’t take them seriously, but after the 8 weeks, I can assure you that Pattaya, Phuket, Koh Samui, Chang Mai and Bangkok will be etched on viewers brains. Similar shows have been made in Ibiza, Greece, and even in UK. They do not put people off from going to thee places, they encourage the target audience to go there.
One point that people seem to be missing when I read these blog entries about the show is who the program was made for. I am sorry to sound ageist but if you are over 35, you should not be watching this show, ironically that includes me!!!
If you do, remember who it was made for and if you are coming out to Thailand from UK in the coming months, I predict you may be sitting next to a group of “lads” out on the “razzle”. Many on here will be horrified by that statement but the Thai’s will love it and adapt to the influx of youngsters coming out here to get laid (many for the first time!!).
I hope this makes a bit of sense, my eyes hurt too much now to read it back and check it for mistakes.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 25.09.2009
My bill will be in the mail. Pass it on to Obama.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 25.09.2009
CB — Funny, your long comment just above seems so familiar… kind of like John Obama, just with more misspellngs, mispunctuation and odd capitalizations.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 25.09.2009
The Fallout Over ‘Big Trouble in Thailand’: Blunders, Recriminations & Naiveté
For those of you who like YouTube, here’s are the 4 parts of episode 3.Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 23.09.2009
Well folks, the hits keep on coming….
Camera director of ‘Big Trouble in Thailand’ makes ‘tactical withdrawal’
A British producer cameraman has had to flee Thailand after filming a sequence in which British Royal Marines were held at gunpoint by Thai mafia after hiring a Jet Ski on a paradise beach.
The cameraman Gavin Hill, 40, from Manchester, a former bureau chief for Associated Press Television, was today back in London, after fleeing Bangkok, as his Thai crew faced up to a year in jail.
“I’ve made a tactitcal withdrawal and am in London to discuss how we can help our Thai colleagues. But yes, I did not wish to argue my case from prison. We filmed the mafia but suddenly we are the criminals apparently. The atmosphere is a little bit hysterical. The Marines are behind me thank God.”
http://www.andrew-drummond.com/2009/09/21/camera-director-of-big-trouble-in-thailand-makes-tactical-withdrawal/
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 21.09.2009
YP — I’d have used the real words had I been able to understand him. You know these scousers. Can’t understand a damn thing they say.
ssB — First time for me. Read about it many time, but still find it hysterical some guy renting a gogo girl wants to get so hot/bothered or even start a fight out of jealousy that some other guy is doing “his” girl.
Waaaay off topic now, I realize. But Billy started it with all his Big Trouble in Expat Thailand.
Episode 3 tonight. Get your downloaders ready.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 21.09.2009
Billy — Can I suggest another episode, this one that occurred to me no more then 30 minutes ago:
* I pick up the phone and see an unknown number ringing me. I answer and with a connection that sounds like someonne talking in a Liverpool accent through 2 tin cans tied by string I get the Scouser equialent of the following:
“Hey mate, I found your number on my girl’s phone. What the *bleep* *bleep* *bleep* kind of *bleep* *bleep* are you? This is MY girl so *bleep* ….
Sir, you’ve reached a business and….
*bleep* *bleep* *bleep* *bleep*
Sir, you have a wrong number, I’m sure…
*bleep* *bleep*
Hangup.
Now, I suspect I know who the guy is, but “his girl” works the pole and sleeps with me about 3-4 nights a week when she doesn’t have a customer. But this guy is in for a week and gives her 50,000 to stay with him while he gets drunk and plays golf. But while he’s away, she comes over and shags me.
I’m sure through al the *bleep* *bleep* *bleep* he’d tell me “she’s different.”
True story.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 21.09.2009
Billy — I hear they’re now offering insurance to prevent against that…
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 21.09.2009
I read in the Phuket papers the rental rates are usually 1,500 baht for 15-20 minutes. Phuket Wan estimated that, with insurance, the rate to tourists likely would only increase by 100 baht.
Somewhere else I read that guys like JJ clear in legitimate profits from rental about 120,000 a month … before the scams.
And Billy Bangkok, I’m surprised at you:
If people quit renting because the price is too high then the operators will go out of business and the insurance company will have less operators to insure.
You’ve been here long enough to know that’s a very UN-Thai way to think! Just look at the bars and hotels. Fewer customers = higher prices. Or, in the case of the girlies, take a lower rate from Farang A for multiple days or score half that amount for one night. They’ll take the one-night deal every time.
Thais do not ever consider long-term economics.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 20.09.2009
Along those lines, ssB, here’s another outtake from my interview with Hill you might find interesting:
I have no motive or inclination to make myself unwelcome in Thailand. I love Thailand and given the opportunity wouldn’t hesitate to help redress any perception that Thailand’s many positives don’t get enough attention.
Given half a chance I’d leap at the opportunity to work for TAT. Fabulous hotels, unbeatable service, wonderfully welcoming people, safer than most countries … and I could wax lyrical about this incredible country.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 19.09.2009
I’ve seen the first two episodes and can’t imagine anyone who’d been considering a trip to Thailand would want to step foot in the country after watching them.silbundio — My interview with Hill obviously gave me more content than I could use but Hill said something related to your quote above. He — no surprise — disagrees with you and thinks no one will stay away from Thailand because of what is in the series:
Do I think my series will put off the 18-34 viewer from holidaying in Thailand? Honestly? No, I think they will come in droves having watched the series and hopefully be better informed when they do.
There’s nothing in our series that doesn’t happen elsewhere and, in my view, Thailand is pretty tame compared to many other countries. I agree with many who argue that worse happens in a U.K. provincial town on Friday and Saturday night.
Google another series of mine, Generation Xcess. It’s on YouTube. More Brits behaving terribly. U.K. TV can’t get enough of it, but does that put anyone off traveling to Sandbach in Cheshire because a bunch of blokes are getting their kit off in the local pubs? (The RFU did take a dim view of their antics, though.) Will people stop visiting Blenheim Palace, another series I made a short while back, because John Terry got married there? (Well, I might.)
Also, just my own point: You’re very wrong about children in Pattaya. I’ve been here six years almost and there are many, many more families that holiday here, small children or no. I’d have no problem taking my kids (if I had them) to this area. Lots for all to do here.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 19.09.2009
Katchmeifyoucan — Not at all. I actually quite admire Drummond’s work, but he’s guilty of a little selective reading here. I did nto create any scenario. I posed a question based on the very Hill quotes Drummond used in his own blog/newspaper article, as well as Hill’s quotes, the same day, to Phuket Wan.
Then I simply asked the readers whether they beleived this could have caused some problem with the production team. I didn’t state as a fact there was one.
And, yes, Andrew, my identity is known to many in Pattaya.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 19.09.2009
Big Debate Over ‘Big Trouble in Thailand’ (+ the Producer Responds)
Seizhin — Check back later tonight fo rmore on the fallout, but the company you’re referring to — Black Sheep Productions — is a video production company that worked for/with Hill to shoot on location. In any sort of filming operation like this a foreigner will always have a local company helping. Hill referred to a “fixer” and this is likely part of hat. You can’t easily as a freelance film-maker, but come in with your own crew. You hire a crew on the ground.Having internviewed Hill, I’m confident all the right paperwork is in place, all the episodes will air and what you’re seeing now is the Thais backtracking to save face.
More after 10 p.m. Thai time.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 18.09.2009
…and the Pattaya jumpers.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 17.09.2009
Gavin — I dropped you an e-mail at the address you used for your comment. Like to hear back from you. Can write me at TheGhost@PattayaGhost.com if you didn’t get that mail or can’t access that account…
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 17.09.2009
Doc Smith — I think you just nominated yourself for a “First-timer’s Guide” to HMC. I’ve heard so many stories of rip-offs, two- and even three-tier pricing, touts, police, COmmunist manifestos against taking girls away, etc. that it’s put me off. WHy not write up something like BBB did so helpfully for Phnom Penh. Specifically how not to get ripped off/gest best deal on:* Visa?
* Airport transport
* Hotel
* Area to stay in
* Bar area
* Rules (police, taking girls, hotel policies, etc.)C’mon man, get crackin’!
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 15.09.2009
Big Debate Over ‘Big Trouble in Thailand’ (+ the Producer Responds)
So I just finished watching the first 3 parts of Episode 2 available on YouTube and gotta say, it’s a lot less electrifying than episode 1. Drug girl goes to court, drunks get beat up at full-moon party, dopey guy on ATM fraud thinks prison ain’t that bad and a Pattaya sex tourist in football shirt pisses on a songthaew, gets beat up and pleads “please don’t kill me” as cops haul him away.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 15.09.2009
Translation please? Anyone?
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 15.09.2009
Banglamung’s Pattaya Circus #4: Dumb Farangs & Crooked Thai Guys
Talking about fighting (and other violence)….On Friday a family dispute erupted on Soi 6 and was settled when two brothers took a machete and various knives to each other.
About 12 hours before, a Thai guy was run over and killed on Beach Road at Soi 6 by a taxi driver who fled the scene.
Bangkok, where I’m writing this, seems much more peaceful.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 12.09.2009
From the Producer/Director of Big Trouble in Thailand
Down South — The fact he was arrested and more is in the main post.Bored Silly — The Youtube is in the main post as well.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 12.09.2009
Big Debate Over ‘Big Trouble in Thailand’ (+ the Producer Responds)
Lemon Farangue — Great nickname and even better story!
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 12.09.2009
Quite the Thailand fan eh “2muchFUN.” So, if the tourist places are so bad, where would YOU only go?
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 11.09.2009
From the Producer/Director of Big Trouble in Thailand
This was posted as a response on my post as well…)Gavin,
A very unexpected reply and thank you so much for taking the time to do so.
You’ve obviously been reading some of the forums, which is somethng I’d never adivse any professional to really do. They’re little more than shark tanks or, if you will, sandboxes where a few hardened keyboard warriors throw sand on everyone not in agreement with them. Anonymity spawn idiocracy and while blogs get some of that message boards are far worse.
I’m curious to see how Pattaya is shown in coming episodes. The jet ski scams are certainly here as well. I’m also curious about some fleeting footage shot inside the go-go bars. How’d you manage that?
In all, hard to watch if you own a business here. No entrepreneur ever likes bad press but, me personally, I found it not too far off the mark.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 11.09.2009
Big Debate Over ‘Big Trouble in Thailand’ (+ the Producer Responds)
A very unexpected reply Gavin and thank you so much for taking the time to do so.You’ve obviously been reading some of the forums, which is somethng I’d never adivse any professional to really do. They’re little more than shark tanks or, if you will, sandboxes where a few hardened keyboard warriors throw sand on everyone not in agreement with them. Anonymity spawn idiocracy and while blogs get some of that message boards are far worse.
I’m curious to see how Pattaya is shown in coming episodes. The jet ski scams are certainly here as well. I’m also curious about some fleeting footage shot inside the go-go bars. How’d you manage that?
In all, hard to watch if you own a business here. No entrepreneur ever likes bad press but, me personally, I found it not too far off the mark.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 11.09.2009
Banglamung’s Pattaya Circus #4: Dumb Farangs & Crooked Thai Guys
CanuckBoy — Are you drunk? I don’t understand half of what you wrote. But, for the record, I stick to print. None of that TV stuff.Bang Bang — Wow, lots of info. The only thing you left out is the bit about the Tourist Police on Bravo in the U.K. Saw episode 1 on YouTube. Maybe I’ll have to write something up….
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 09.09.2009
A Fraction of a Second by Hunch644
BBB — Yes, remember that one too. Last time I was in the Mango, there was an issue of After Dark with your fantasy girl posing in the advertisement for Gentlemen’s Club. Looked on the bar and the magazine’s sites, but no photo of her.I was in there last week and she was not. So I still haven’t boned her either…
IP — He was miserable the whole night. Like toting around a wet blanket!
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 09.09.2009
“The View” — Not Barbara Walters & The Other 4 Bitches. — By Canadian Boy
Bad timing buddy! I’ll be in the UK that week
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 08.09.2009
CB — My point was for the readers out that that there is no office in Pattaya or Naklua at all. Everyone has to go to Jomtien Soi 5. So it’s not a matter of “don’t do it there.” You can’t.
As for staying, hey, enjoy. I’m just sort of baffled how at your age you can aford to live here, not work and spend the money you do for as long as you have.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 06.09.2009
Just a point of correction here. You seem to think there’s som Immigration office in Pattaya that you can do an extension at. There isn’t. The only office in the area is Jomtien Soi 5. It relocated there several years ago after being on Pattaya Soi 8.
Just a question I’ve been wanting to know the answer to for a while: When the hell are you going home?
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 06.09.2009
1 Way to ‘Achieve the Dream’, Relocate to Thailand & Train for a New Career
1-year visas are a slam dunk. And work permits are no problem as long as you have the money. Usual fee for company setup, with Thais, and work permit is 50,000-70,000 one time and then monthly paymetns of about 8,000 baht.We handle the vidas for people and can refer to the right guy for the company and work permit if desired.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 31.08.2009
They are, but immigration checks if people have the permits. They shake down all the dive outfits in town, some more than others. I have a well-connected Thai-lawyer, so we get off easy.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 27.08.2009
Good point Brewster and one I expected someone to bring up at some point.
The simple answer is “yes,” to work legally in Thailand, you need a work permit. However, in reality, it’s not so simple.
Most dive instructors in Thailand do not have one and in most places, immigratin does not check. It really depends on the area you’re working in.
In Phuket, there is a local program that allows dive shops to obtain floating permits. Thus your shop will assign you a permit and charge you a fee out of your monthly salary of a few thousand baht.
On Phi Phi Islands, no one has permits, there is no immigration office and no one cares.
IN Pattaya, immigration solicit bribes all the shops to offer “protection” so as long as they get their monthly payoff, they don’t hassle the shops, as long as the instructors aren’t doing something dumb like sitting behind the counter and taking cash for retail sales, etc.
Shop owners, like me, obviously have one. Guys/Gals teaching? Not so much.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 27.08.2009
Hi all, sorry for the late reply. Been offline for about a day…
H.T. — If you got the money and the time, the p is just what you have when you’re not diving. Or you get lots of tourist girls to choose from.
B.B. — Great points, thank you. The money is a bit better over here at Open Water courses are what people come to do.Gear not so much. But all your other points are absolutely true and reasons why diving kicks the butt out of English teaching.
Dreamlord — Thanks man. Will catch you on the e-mail, as well as lots of others of you who wrote me today. Will be knockingout replies ASAP.
DONALD – The price shown here was just the overview and I did note that you do need to check the site. Sorry, but once you do you’d see you are actually quite wrong. $6,000-$10,0000 is very affordable when you consider that, in addition to the courses and materials, you get UNLIMITED DIVING 7 days a week. That alone covers the costs when you look at what dives costs per day elsewhere. You also gat a full set of equipment and and all your accommodations, plus job placemnet, visa assistance and about 17 courses… Plus what Dreamlord said after.
CB — Soi 6 = Muff Diving, Muff Diving, Muff Diving, Muff Diving, Muff Diving, Scuba Diving, Muff Diving, Muff Diving, Muff Diving…
BillGates — There’s many ways to reloacte. You pay someone no matter what you do. Some people want an option where its all done, in one place, for them.
MSB — There are lots of companies around the world trying to do the same. As with anything — computers, cars, search engines, etc. — who does it first is not important. Who does it best is.
Again, this wasn’t really an advert as it was a chance to ssB to do what he’s done before: Help a friend during tough times when they needed it. The offer had been made numerous times before, but I thought with the two posts this week, it offered me a chance to help others who want to make the leap.
Peace.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 26.08.2009
My firm belief is if you live here, you need to work. Living the party life off savings/retirement/whatever will gradually suck all the humanity out of you. But English teaching is NOT the way to go.There are places — and if you e-mail me I’ll direct you to it — where you can come here, train for a new career that will let you live a great lifestyle anywhere in the world, not just Thailand, and sponsor you for up to 7 months while you train and get started.
While you’re doing that, you get to experience Thailand and decide if you want to stay. If you don’t, you still walk away with a professional certification.
TheGhost@PattayaGhost.com
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 24.08.2009
An update on the dead GermanPattaya, August 22, [PDN]: Officials investigating the case involving the death of a German engineer, Mr. Uwe Keienburg, have revealed he was killed by an explosion from an M33 grenade and not C4, as originally suspected. His Thai wife has meanwhile provided more information and police say the case could still be suicide or murder.
http://www.pattayadailynews.com/shownews.php?IDNEWS=0000010119
Suicide?
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 22.08.2009
The usual reply is, “I no butterfly, I work.”Which, of course, makes perfect sense.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 22.08.2009
Bangkok Turning Off Pattaya’s Lights at 3 a.m. for 10 Days
Aug. 22 — The crackdown is over. Bars were told the curfew would be “relaxed” as of the early hours today. While the full reasons behind what happneed will liekly never become public, what’s certain is that this was not some philisophical, moral or policy decision to close up early. It was one Thai guy with his nose bent out of shape who used his position to teach a particular late night venue a lesson and, by doing it to the whole street, make sure everyone knew it was that one venue that cost them money.Welcome to Thailand.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 22.08.2009
As of Thursday night, yes, the crackdown is continuing. I’ve learned pretty much the reason for it and it’s stupid, Thai-ego related shit that cannot be talked about. But I’m told “negotiatins are under way” and the mess should be sorted out soon.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 21.08.2009
Even to this day I’m always caught a little by surprise when, in the morning, the little minx de jour comes back into the bedroom after a shower with her hair shampooed and conditioned with the Pantene I left there and scrubbed up with my Biore facial scrub. She smells so sweet I just have to get her all sweaty again…
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 20.08.2009
The path or physics is not involved. It’s simple a matter of scale, as I understand it. The general hierarchy, as I’ve been taught it is:1) Butterfly
2) Helicopter
3) Airport / Suvarnabumi
4) SkylabYes Skylab crashed and burned before many of them were born, but “International Space Station” doesn’t have the same ring.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 18.08.2009
Bangkok Turning Off Pattaya’s Lights at 3 a.m. for 10 Days
Regarding drugs, the police had last year been using (at least once at Lucifer’s) a device that could measure meth levels from your sweat. They just rubbed it on your arm and got a reading. I know they’re back to urine tests, so maybe it didn’t work. But when they were using at L’s, they were testing farangs as well.By the way, Marine got raided last night with farangs tossed out and Thais tested. I don’t know how the 3 a.m. thing went, though, as I wasn’t on the main strip at that time. The bar I was in normally closes at 3 anyway.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 16.08.2009
I have some Thai reporters asking questions, but I’ve found a bit more scuttlebutt online.
Apparently all the 3rd road beer / music / disco and karakoke bars were also hit between 3 and 4 a.m. No word on whether it was the city or the same folks as above.
Rumors and speculation on the message boards also suggested it was part of a new cleanup plan from the Mayor, but I don’t see it. Another suggested a Team Yellow granddaugter is in town. Again, if this is going to go 10 days, I don’t see that either.
Hopefully my reporters will get back to me, but not likely for about 2 days.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 15.08.2009
In Pattaya, about 2/3 of Soi 6 appears closed today. I have no info on other places today.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 12.08.2009
My Big Tattooed Pattaya Wedding
Good point. Well the dude did take the gold after and put into a safe where he has the access code. Better investment than many other choices.Means nothing. They’ll just haul away the safe. See The Nation story this week on the German guy who “killed himself” and then his two maids/sex partners were spotted carrying out a big safe deposit box afterward.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 07.08.2009
Bloggers Appreciation Night this Saturday
And Richard Quest, too. I heard that dude REALLY knows how to party.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 07.08.2009
uh, sorry, cheddAr.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 06.08.2009
Sounds like a fun party. Rapping like Jay-Z and grading the quality of the chedder.
I may pass.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 06.08.2009
My Big Tattooed Pattaya Wedding
Orenthal : Even if you were correct — and you are not since the guys you mentioned are Australian and My friend who got married LAST MONTH is a Brit — there should still be some respet paid to privacy. Besides, this story was written some time before now. It was simply a coincidence it was published around the time of the wedding.I did not say who it was and did not say WHEN it was or WHERE it was for a reason. Likewise, there’s always some about of literary license. Describing a wedding with the who, what, where, when and why would not only be boring, but certainly an invasion of privacy.
So while you’ve proved yourself an astute student of Pattaya social circles, just sit back and enjoy the story.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 05.08.2009
Asian Sweetheart had a plug yesterday about a software program called “Speak Easy Thai” she thinks is good.http://asiansweetheart.net/blog/2009/08/another-plug-for-speak-easy-thai/
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 05.08.2009
I actually debunked the whole “God of This City” thing on my old blog. The story is now in the TFS2M archive. And Climax was actually indoor and air-con.
http://www.bigmangobar.com/pattaya/2008/07/16/god-rockers-spin-stereotypes-to-hype-pattaya-inspired-song/
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 05.08.2009
My Big Tattooed Pattaya Wedding
Does K hijack every post’s thread with his tale of woe? K, write your own post.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 05.08.2009
ManWithEyes — If he finds out, I may be the one YP is referring to…
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 04.08.2009
CB — I admit I’ve been a little harsh on you. But consider my background.
Sloppy comments, which are written quickly and cannot be edited, can be forgiven. God knows my typing speed often outstrips my accuracy. But posts should be as clean as possible. You shouldn’t take it personally, I’ve been similarly unkind (if not worse) to a well-known former contributer here. As someone who has for 20+ years been paid to write and edit for a living — I currently work for a newspaper, by the way — I hate to see the language mangled. Call me a snob, but I like good prose.
Having said that, I’ll also tell you that my dick-ish behavior has made me more self-conscious in this post. Before it was published it went through FIVE re-writes and re-reads. I couldn’t very well bad-mouth you and then come back with anything less than something as grammatically perfect as I could manage.
In any case, thanks for the kind words. I do enjoy the content of your posts and they’re certainly funny. You simply need to write them in MS Word and let the spell-check and grammar-check do their jobs.
Oh, and yes, I’m very happy (and much safer) with my very-infrequent posting schedule. My blog is dead. Long live TFS2M.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 04.08.2009
Datou — English family, not Irish. Actually, didn’t get a chance to chat with mum and dad unfortunately. Actually, mum looked to be having fun, but wasn’t sure who dad actually was. Oh well.
Indu — Thanks bro. Just my 8th post this year. Just have to enjoy the rare morsel
Oh, and sorry sir. No pictures. I’m pretty sure the folks involved would not be happy if I posted their mugs. You’ll just have to use your imagination.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 04.08.2009
Also Sideshow, I think it’s an English teacher thing more than a Pattaya thing.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 04.08.2009
MSB — The bride truly wasn’t. Known her for years. She was definitely not P4P.
Somchai — I’m not funny. I’m sarcastic. You want funny, go see BBB.
ssB — Thanks. After 20+ years (on/off) in journalism, I’ve found the funniest stuff is the simple observation of real life. I’ve long said “you just can’t make this shit up.”
Also (ssB) the theme of the day for us assembled single/divorced guys was really summed up here:
We all know seriously attached guys who still enjoy the occasional (or more frequent) short-time. You think they’re going to give that up just because they’re wearing a ring? Hell, mia nois are a family tradition in some Pattaya farang families. No, we scoffed, this marriage would be like “all the others:” a sign of commitment to a respectable woman who would take care of the kids and be the dutiful trophy wife as long as the tarts and trysts weren’t flung in her face.
Marriage vows in Thailand, IMHO, mean very little.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 04.08.2009
The 12 Days of My Trip to Bangkok by fender
Very very clever. Great way to do a trip report. Kudos!
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 03.08.2009
The Peking Duck Gets Its Revenge & Ruins My Chances with Another Bird (Part 2) by Canadian Boy
Hey, wasn’t criticizing at all. Like I said, to each his own. That’s why there are so many choices. Something for everyone.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 28.07.2009
CB — If you’re claiming you didn’t pay her, then you’re mostly redeemed. But, seriously, your recent posts have me wondering if you’re out of your depth. You’re brother seems more adept at the scene! (Prove me wrong!)
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 23.07.2009
There’s a difference, the 5000 baht girl must obviously be a better liar if she convince guys to pay that.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 30.06.2009
Straight Ball’N by Canadian Boy
I Phukit — Yeah, was kind of expecting a text or e-mail from you. Knew you were in town, but dind’t know how to reach you.It was not me you saw, though. Don’t do those live music places.
Next time, give me a shout: TheGhost@PattayaGhost.com
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 29.06.2009
whatever
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 29.06.2009
Those numbers can from an article in The Nation that was filled with bad math. The article did not say “to date” and then the writer went on to say it was a 33% decrease, which it clearly is not.Apparently the writer didn’t have a calculator handy, which we know is required to determine even the change for an 80 baht item from a 100 baht note.
The figures are obviously down. I seriously doubt they’re down that much, tho.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 29.06.2009
Straight Ball’N by Canadian Boy
YP and UD… I have no ability to edit comments for typos after hitting the submit button. Posts, however, can be. I’m not being rude, just simply suggesting that that someone who wants to write for the masses and impress them with genuinely funny stories should take care not to distrct the reader by using hte wrong words. Good job, tho. (which I already said.)
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 28.06.2009
Some colorful writing there CB. Don’t know how you managed to remember so much detail being so drunk. But good job. Running the grammar check would be a decent idea before submitting it, though. Not lots misspelled, but quite a few wrong words (i.e. griping vs. gripping).
Your basic point is right, though: Still lots of fun to be had. I ran into a newvie last night — 2nd night out of 2 in town — and wile he was happy and a touch in awe over some hardcore 5, I convinced him to let me show him some better sights.
Took him to Air Port, then Baby Dolls. When I bid him adieu, he was nose deep in some Baby Doll slut with a Singha bottle hanging out of her ass and was randomly shooting ice cubes out of her love hole into various guys’ beers.
Thankfully, I wasn’t drinking beer.
As I told him, Pattaya can get pretty “excessive.”
Just the way I like it.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 28.06.2009
Oh, forgot… My phone was innundated with MJ jokes last night. But the most memorable:“The news that Michael Jackson died of a heart attack are untrue. He was found in the children’s ward after having a stroke.”
I’m bad. (Really really bad.) I know.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 27.06.2009
Hi All,
Calm down: Chicks with dicks were swinging on the poles at Jenny’s last night.
Also, on the visas, the gov’t has indeed extended the free tourists visas promotion until June 10 next year. Free ones are restricted to single-entry visas only. Want 2 entries and you gotta pay.
The one down side to this plan is that it may result in the closure of more than a few honorary consulates. From Canada to the UK, honoriaries are saying they survive on tourist visa money and w/o it, will have to close. The gov’t supposedly claims they’re going to reimburse the honoraires the funds they lose out on, but the free visas have been available for 3 months and no honorary consulate has gotten a single baht yet.
As for the trend in Pattaya? Was out last night and it was the slowest Friday night I can ever recall. Last Friday night was busy in the places that have stayed busy this low season (Living Dolls 1, Happy, etc.) but last night even those places were dead.
Three go-go owners passed through Living Dolls last night — from Heaven Above, Lollipop and one I forget — and all said they had no customers. Some bars are reporting nightly takes of under 10,000 baht!
Even LD1, where a “bad night” used to be a take 90,000, was down to about 50,000 a night last week and back in the 70s now. When told that, other bar owners said they’d kill for those kinds of takings.
Even the discos were quiet last night. My girl was out with some girl and kateoy friends last night at Lucifer and Insomnia (I was home, drunk and passed out by Insomnia time) and she said the ratio was about 80% female to 20% male in BOTH places. Lucifer I can imagine. That few guys in Insomnia? Amazing.
Lots of pickings boys. Come on down.
Closures? Byblos Club on Soi Diamond — the refuge for the mama and hotties from Coyotee’s after that bar’s purge — has closed. Rumor has it the crew moved to Champagne on Soi LK Metro.
** Mirage’s owners said they’re closing up next week. Why next week and not now I don’t know.
** Club Boesche is formally for sale for the first time, I’m reliably informed.
** Catz, also for sale, is bleeding red ink. The bosses tell me all three partners have been pumping in money to stay afloat each month for several months.
Rumors, by the way, have really started flying in these low times. Word was X-Zone closed last week. But it didn’t. Now the Jenny’s rumor.
Personally, I can’t ever see Jenny’s tanking. That’s were all the Tiffany’s and Alcazar cocks in frocks go after the show.
A 15-year and a 22-year expat told me last night this was the lowest low season they’ve ever seen.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 27.06.2009
What’s the URL of Jack’s blog?
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 25.06.2009
C is funny, but I don’t see being able to wear the shirt many places with that on it.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 24.06.2009
Banglamung’s Pattaya Circus #3: When Pigs Attack
Sandman — There are 3 silver stars. #1 on Soi 8 is the best, I think. #2 on Soi 7 probably next. One on Walking is lame and overpriced.Beach Club is slow like everyone. Insomnia DISCO.
Rindon — Never been to Stork, but this is what my buddy Dave at Thai Anxiety said in Nov.
The exceptionally attractive bar seems to get nothing but good reviews. The decor is amongst the best in Pattaya, the drinks are reasonable (bottled beer was 75 Baht) and there are some good looking short time girls around.
However after 3 or 4 visits I find that there is something very critical missing. A way for the guys to hook up with the ladies. There is no welcoming group of free girls, nor is there any entertainment whilst surveying the prospects. Not even a TV. There’s no obvious place where the free girls congregate.
You see pretty girls around but there are plenty of regulars whom they know well, so they naturally get first dibs. Or else they just hang round waiting for the suay young guys.
Perhaps this is more a bar for a group of guys rather than for single guys. But after 3 or 4 very unsatisfactory visits I feel they need to employ a mamasang who can ensure that customers are being taken care of. Better than leaving customers to watch girls sleeping on the sofas whilst having no company.
But no doubt this would be the best bar in town with the right company
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 24.06.2009
Pattaya Low Season ’09 in Photos
The middle one was definitely hot.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 19.06.2009
DW, it was indeed a typo, but pretty funny one I must say.
I don’t know about the coyotes at Ocean10. I’m assuming they are, for the right price. I’ve never tried nor even ventured into O-10. I’m betting they get their pick of young Ruskies flush with mafia cash, so it would be beyond what I’m willing to pay.
YP — Very hungry. The katoeys are jumping out and molesting guys in the middle of the street. Just your speed.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 18.06.2009
Put me down for an L size. Hoping to M size soon, but better safe than sorry.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 17.06.2009
Banglamung’s Pattaya Circus #3: When Pigs Attack
A major shoreholder in Insomnia is a Chonburi police capt. While they may sugger the occasional raid — to be fair to other discos which also get them — you can bet the bar will never be closed.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 16.06.2009
First of all Bangers, funny shit! You must have had a lot of that loopy juice the other night before writing this. I feel your pain mister.
I’m not really out that much so I can only comment on a few things. Very few bars are indeed busy. Was in the newish K agogo last week and was the only guy in there. Three hussies that worked before in X-Zone basically pulled me behind the shower stage and raped me, all in exchange for about 2 rounds of tequila and a 100 baht tip.
I know a guy who actually banged a girl in a booth in X-Zone. Discreetly, I’m told, until she had to go run to the toilet with some white stuff leaking down her leg.
Wild times these.
Me? I now work 2 jobs, have a live-in (as you know) who increasingly frowns on me going out alone and spend 90 mins / 6 days a week at the gym. No time, no money and no will to fight the missus to go out often.
HOWEVER lots of you sound like you’re in need of a Pattaya Power Price Break. (Fuck, it really is cheap to drink here these days.) And the guys above are right: The stuck-up, shit-don’t stink attitudes have really disappeared in many places.
INSOMNIA is off the hook. I see no need to every pay another barfine. (Not that I get the chance
) It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.
ANYWAY, I digress…. I know Bang Bang is out of town all from next week through the end of July, BUT if a group want to come down, I will play gracious and willing host. Some of you obviously know the ropes here and have been known to ignore calling me when in town, but for those of you that want to roll with The Ghost, I’m sure I could spare a night (or two)
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 15.06.2009
Surprised you did not mention the new immigration rules change. For those of you that missed it, as of June 4 you are now limited to 4 consecutive over-land passport stamps.Remember that a while back the 30-day stamp you got from doing a land-based visa run was halved to 15 days. At the same time, the preivous limit of 3 stamps in 180 days was removed.
Well, now you can get just 4 15-day stamps and you will not be allowed back into Thailand — unless you enter through an airport.
Drive to Phnom Penh, fly back.
Lots of hoohaw about this on the sexpat message boards, but the fact is this reg only affects a small number of people living their lives in the black economy. Considering how easy it is to get a Tourist visa — Laos is offering double entry toutists which give you a total 6 months — there’s no real reason not to get a proper visa. And, think about it, what other countries really allow you to stay longterm without a visa.
Still, I’ve met folks who’ve cut holidays short because of the 15-day idiocy. Thailand really doesn’t know how to promote tourism.
IN OTHER NEWS
The signs of downturn and recessoin are everywhere in Pattaya. Some examples:
* Walking Street — Newish disco Republika has closed. Also closed in the past month or so, go-gos X-Zone 2 and Loma. X-Zone 1 is said to be closing at month’s end.
* Subway has cut its daily 69-baht sub to 59 baht to get trade.
* Girls, especailly serivce girls, are leaving the gogos en masse. Few customers and what ones there are are not tipping. In Sisterz, the seats were full for the 48-baht well drinks during happy hour, but not one lady drink was consumed in the hour plus I was there. In the entire bar. Amazing.
* Bars cotinue to slash prices to get the few customers they can. Try BJ Club gogo on WS for 35 baht suds. Chanmpion has thai whiskey drinks all night for 45 baht. Living Dolls has some evil Isaan alcohol shots at 30 baht all night.
* Lollipop’s boss was in another bar the other night trying to poach a manager. He said his bar took only 20,000 baht last Friday night.
Doom and gloom are pretty much everywhere. Please send us some tourists.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 04.06.2009
Songkran Escape Part 5: Sihanoukville — The Final Word
John B.:The PG comes across as the cheapest bitch I have ever read about in my life. Money…money… money… do you need some PG?
Actually, yes, I do. About 70,000 baht (or dollars, your choice) would really get me out of a bind next month. I take Paypal. Or you can simply send to my Siam Commercial account.
If you would write up the same SHIT (good shit BTW) you do and expel the money and BBB references (and it seems you can’t fart unless asking him), it would all be a much better article to read.
Well, as they say, opinions are like assholes: Everyone has one. So we now know where you come from. Of course, I notice I have a 90 next to my name at right, as opposed to the “1″ post you have about being bored, of all things, in Bangkok. Let me ask you though, before you visited Soi 4 and got into your first “precarious situation” did you want to know how much it was going to cost? Or do have you more dollars than sense?
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 25.05.2009
Hi guys,
Thanks for the comments. A five-part trip report may have been a bit too much. Due to Songkran, it certainly was not as exciting or titilating as it could have been. And the Bad Boy certainly is funnier with similar material.
But, despite a comment in Part 4 about it actually being “boring”, I viewed this opus as a guide for the uninitiated. There’s some info on Phnom Penh, but very little on things off the beaten track of Sharky’s/Walkabout/Heart of Darkness. The fact I had to resort to a print guide in PP to find out what to do says a lot about the sorry state of info online.
That was even more true with Snooky, which has very little P4P info online and what there is is not current. My hope is someone planning a trip to Cambo can print out the stories here and use them as a guide, as some did last year with my Pattaya stuff.
Along that vein, John Brown, that is why prices are in the story. Refer back to Part 1 and look at the comments. The very first question asked in those comments is “how much was it for that girl.” This is a blog dominated by P4P. Most people have not been to Cambo and want to know what they will be expected pay, especially in camparison to Thailand. $10 (340 baht) short time is fucking great (pun intended). To get 6-pops longtime for 700 baht is out of the this world.
Yes, I was on a budget but even if I wasn’t, I’d still work hard to be sure I’m not paying any more than I needed to. (Oh, so I guess I AM cheap!). Value for money folks. That’s what I’m after.
As for the final couple days by the sea, Sofia was a lot of fun, Golden Shower non-withstanding. It made for great teasing material the second night. She was pretty humbled and was that helped to soften her hardcore shell a bit more. (Poodle, it was a first incident of that type for me.)
If in Snooky, look her up. Four stars. Just make sure she takes a piss before sleeping.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 25.05.2009
Songkran Escape Part 4: Sihanoukville – The Bar Crawl
Hey guys, Part 5 really sums up the trip, but here’s the short version: Songkran / New Year’s is definitely not the time to go to Cambodia. And Snooky is not good to go to alone. I think if a couple of mates had been traveling with me, it would have been much improved, as drinking the 17-baht draft would have played a larger role (although some nights it was pretty prominent.)Will I go back to Phnom Penh for holiday? For sure. Go back to Snooky? Not alone. In fact, it might be very enjoyable if I brought my own sand to the beach.
Jack — I ended up staying 5 nights. And Blue Mountain was not deemed worthy of a visit, according to the locals. Even at times that were not the Khmer New Year, it was said to have few girls and the ones there not worith the few bucks in your pocket. Likewise, the newish Airport Club disco was said to be dead and destined for closure.
Nurse — Yeah, Snake looks like a nice place and the lounge looked well-appointed.
Eddie — Not sure.
RonBalt — The Chicken Ranch is not gone, but is a faint shadown of its former self. Word is that many of tenants were offering chickens that had not hatched yet. What’s left is not fit for KFC.
Canadianboy — High season is Snooky runs October through March with a last hurrah of “normal” tourists for Songkran. So my guess is its best same time as Thailand, around Christmas/New Year’s
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 12.05.2009
Night train, G Club silly money, why Cowboy closed & patpong silliness…
K — A little common sense: If you’re not giving her money, then who is? Girl still needs to eat, buy stuff and take care of mama. Maybe you think you’re special and put yourself above guys “who have to pay for it” but the basic fact of life is we all have to work (well, except for “some white dude” and his 14 G club girls).Guys who get off on saying “I never give them money” are basically being cheap with the person they supposedly care about. You don’t want her to shag guys for cash? Give her cash to come home at hte proper hour or find her a better job.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 10.05.2009
Songkran Escape Part 3: Sihanoukville, Cambodia
Nok — Things have changed fast and the Snooky you saw is gone. Even the “happy pizza” joints have been pushed out of sight. The roads are paved and lined with huge casinos, the beaches are being privatized and built into hotels and the girl prices have gone up.The bars on the Hill is Victory Hill, which will be covered in the next part. The swamp was the “chicken farm” and is all but gone now.
More to come folks. Stay tuned.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 09.05.2009
C & V — Thanks for the sentiments, but it ain’t gonna happen. Life is much more pleasant (and safer) now that I’m back under the radar.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 06.05.2009
Poodle — Didn’t see any obvious women sex tourists, but all the waiters at the beachfront BBQ places are male and they spend lots of time giving good service to the white women. Many were flirty and I’m sure the Khmer guys do pretty well.
BBB — Yeah, but you know I was on a tight budget…
As for the beach, it’s lovely. Clean, white, water like a bath. In diving and snorkeling both, found like 2 pieces of trash on the seabed. Very nice.
As the next two parts show, yes, Songkran is not the time to go, but Snoooky is worth visiting again, with caveats to be dicussed in next chapters.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 05.05.2009
Songkran Escape: Phnom Penh, Part 2
Goeff — Yes, indeed, that’s Sharky’s. I didn’t have the code BBB uses for his snazzy captions and felt too lazy to write new code!
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 01.05.2009
Yes, there’s still a $25 departure tax. Be sure to figure a long line into your departure plans. Quite a few backpackers were sweating that they’d miss their flights. Cash or credit card accepted.
Why they don’t just roll it into the ticket, I don’t know.
Canuk — Can’t say the whole “punch you in the face” thing wants to make me run out and meet ya. But have a good time in Patts.
JB — ATMs I saw did $20, $50 and $100.
Mart — Buses suck.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 29.04.2009
I thought you all would enjoy that tidbit of demeaning self deprication.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 28.04.2009
Jack & Grundy — I think what this story (and the comments to it) show is that there’s still a lot of PP I haven’t seen. Never hard of BB Mall and not even sure where it would be. Didn’t get to his Cyrcee, not Sonya (don’t know it), nor did I find the Manhattan’s talked about in the comments section of BBB’s write-ups last year.
Freebird I knew of, but it’s out at 240, which is further than I got. Hadn’t heard of Flamingo, etc. This list can go on.
I certainly plan to return, hopefully with a mate or two in tow, and we’ll get to explore further away from the river.
Grundy — Didn’t consider the food in Sharky’s expensive due to the portion size and quality. Yummy.
OAH — Been about a year and a half….
little Ghost — No LBs, though I did see one in PP, but I do have a taste for higher-end showgirls and do like the enhanced looks. So maybe that’s it. Plain Jane country bumpkins just don’t do it for me. And, for the record, I’m proud to say no Vitamin V or C was needed.
Professor — Thanks. I’d definatley go back to Cambo (both locales) but not at Songkran. We’ll see about next year…
BBB — Just messin’ with you bro. Heart is definately worth doing now, at least. But don’t remember a metal detector at all. Maybe they took it out. As for the currency? Hotel didn’t even have change for a $100 the first time I tried.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 28.04.2009
Cabby, et. al. — It’s not for you or me to tell DW how much he should spend. If he’s confortable with up to 100k, then so be it. Those who tell guys like him they’re overpaying, blah, blah, blah are — in my book — simply envious they don’t have that kind of disposable income. Farang avarice regarding other farang’s money is worse here, me thinks, than bar girl lust for the folding stuff.Do I give my girl that much? No.
Would I give my girl that much? No, again.But every situation is different and mine knows my business sucks, she’s free to leave at any time and still stays. That’s devotion in my books. My bet is DW’s chicky would stay for less, but at least he removes the temptation from her.
I know a guy here who sends his girl (and kid) 2,700 euro a momnth. He makes good money, wants his girl and kid to be comfortable and has no problem with spending the cash.
Good for him.
Live and let live.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 27.04.2009
Songkran Escape: Phnom Penh, Part 1
Poodle — As I note in Part 2 coming up, I was almost never asked about money in advance by any girl and, in many cases, they refused to give me an amount when I asked them.As she was the first (and as she was very enthsiastic at night and in the morning), I gave the the $30 BBB said, in his piece, was standard.
But I stimply stuck the money in her pcoket as I gave her a kiss goodbye. She never even looked to see how much it was until after she was gone. So I quickly realized I could have given her $20 and she’d have been fine with it.
As I note in the next parts, that was the ONLY time I paid the same rates BBB did. The rest were $20 LT and $10 for short-time. In one case, described in Part 2, it was even less.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 26.04.2009
Mr. C — I’d love no check-in bags, but Air Asia has a cabin limit of 7 kg and staying 10 days, I need more than that.
Crhis — Stay tuned for the Snookyville report next week. Will cover all the hotels and, as noted above, the Viet chickies seem to have flown the coop.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 25.04.2009
Jack — I live here cuz the work is here.
And Snooky has changed dramatically in just the past five years. You wouldn’t recognize it now. Rooms can be had for less (more on that in part 3) but $35 for an aircon room during New Year’s was pretty much the best that could be done.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 25.04.2009
Accosted by a Spinner by Arthur
The Thai guys were probably just pimps (as you seen on beach road) and the 500 seems standard fare for the likes of them. Thought the first is a great photo and smile.I think had you taken the offer, things would have been fine. But then again, that’s bangkok, so maybe not?
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 19.01.2009
On Nut — Great read. Your writing creds are showing through (and that’s a good thing.)My guess is she’s a former beer bar girl. Too many things point to it, but not necessarily the tats.
Let me tell a true story about good/bad girls and then ask ssB and the others out there.
There’s a woman (27) who used to work for me (I have a non-nightlife company). Went to uni up in Isaan. Great English (used to be a DJ on an English-lanaguge radio station here.) Her parents are both Thai police with her mother being a high-ranking police trainer.
She’s absolutely covered in tattoos.
When she worked in the retail shop (we have a couple offices) we made her wear long sleeves to cover the tatts. Combined with big frizzy hair, braces and bizarre punkish glasses, she looks like a bargirl.
She’s not. And never has been.
She left the company last year and she and I had a 3-month fling afterward. So I do know her very well. I know that she’s only interested in farang and has had a number of farang boyfriends and short-lived quick-start sexual flings with farang tourists.
But I also know she’s never taken a baht (directly) for sex. That doesn’t mean she’s not called a boyfriend or fling weeks or months later and asked for some help “pay for room” etc. But she reviles the idea of working even as a cashier in a bar, does not go to go-go bars and (except for me) has never gone with a guy over 40.
So, good girl or bad girl?
I think there is a whole segment of the Thai female population — albeit a small segment — who fixate on farangs and have adopted a lot of Western traits and mores, including tattoos. Back home we might simply call women like her and On Nut’s girl “sluts,” but I think the world is too stuck on labels instead of simply enjoying the experience.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 03.12.2008
How To Acquire (And Ingest) A Tasty, English Breakfast. In Bangkok. For Dummies. Etc.
I don’t think it counts if it’s not on the same blog, but I do have only 12 more (uh, now 13) to match this one. Of course, it’s easy when you get a bunch of Facebook-connected, holier-than-thou undergraduate Khao San Road-type Americans all piling on….
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 23.10.2008
When Getting Laid is All That Matters by Werewolf
WW — I recognized the quote and where it came from immediately. But prehaps I’m not making myself clear.I EXPECT to get a comment like Bongo’s on that story WHEN IT IS PUBLISHED HERE (or on my site). In fact, when I put it on my blog, it got many similar posts.
People come here and my site for info on hookers (sorry ssb) and how to get laid by them. If they encounter into that does not meet the perceived objective of the site (sorry ssB) then they will express their dissatisfaction. In the case of the Fashion Club article, I was aware I was writing for a minority of hte audience.
My point was that if I took that same piece and put it on Bangkok Diaries or Absolutely Bangkok, it would have been received much differently.
Getting laid was NOT the ONLY thing that mattered to my readers. But it was the reason they opened the piece to read in the first place.
Big difference.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 06.10.2008
…. pmmp ….. WOW.
WW — I wouldn’t put it the way pmmp did, but I do think your post is off-base for mostly the reason Suk said: Yoru criticizing comments made by people on a blog to which people come — no matter what ssB says — to read about P4P.
Yes, Sideshow, the content here does range beyond that, but the majority of articles in the archive are about the naughty nightlife. If you I go down the list of the top 20 blogs at Matt’s site, the ones above this one and all but 1 of the ones below it (mine) are ‘wholesome” things baout temples, cooking, teaching, etc.
I think if you took a post about G-Clubs and put it on one of those “mainstream” sites you’d get a much different response from commenters.
You’ve ignored the context in which comments are made and, thus, negated the point of your post.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 06.10.2008
PE — I find 1/4 tab of Vitamin V (or 1/2 of generic Vitamin K) offsets any drop in ability past MPBX.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 04.10.2008
Double-dip, sorry, I didn’t realize it was the same thread….
WW — Beer MELLOWS you? From all my past reading, I thought the more drunk you got, the more obnoxious you got. Elephant Boy and Taxi Prick sound like victimes of drink to me…
PE — I took one girl (on two separate) occasions from the aforementioned street bar. Maybe there are a few. This one was a few doors down from the Suites. Maybe not the same.
Anyway, she was definately all woman. But I really chafe at having to buy “lady drinks” and “barfines” at what’s no more than some plastic chairs on the street. Plus I even got attitude when, around noon, I gave her just 1,000 for her services.
It can’t be bar if ho sign of it is not there come sunrise.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 04.10.2008
YP and others — Bud is widely available in bottles here. 7-Eleven, some smaller grocery marts in Jomtien, plus all the regulars, like Foodland, Villa, and Best supermarkets.
I didn’t drink it at home. Why the hell would I drink it here at 3 times the price?
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 04.10.2008
Also — I know, double post — I really get sick of the comments that all American beer is shite. Those spouting that nonesense are true ignoramuses.
Granted, most quality American beers are from micro-breweries, but it’s still beer and still sold at retail. (Did you know there’s a 25% alcohol content American beer called Utopia that sells for $100 a bottle?
But there are larger breweries with fine suds, including Samuel Adams, Sierra Nevada, Anchor Steam to name a few.
So, for your edification:
* The 25 Best Beers in America
* Michael Jackson’s Beer Hunter — No, not THAT Michael Jackson
And finally….
Top Beers on Planet Earth
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 02.10.2008
PE — I beleive Archa beer is even cheaper than Cheers. 20 baht a can at the little convenience store next to my office. Even the Thai clerk there won’t drink it though.
I believe public works guys use it to scrub the blood off Isaan roads after motorbike crahses.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 02.10.2008
I was introduced to LEO about 5 years ago by a friend who used to drink Chang. He gave up the “Thai wifebeater” after a trip back to Scotland, during which, the tingling and numbness he had long been suffering in his arm, disappared.
On his return to Thailand, my frined resumed drinking Chang and the numbness returned. Mentioning the circumstances to a friend, he was told, “Of course you idiot. Don’t you know it’s full of formaldahyde? In the quantitites you drink, you’re basically embalming yourself!”
I drank Leo with him steadily until Carlsberg was banished from the country and Tiger was brought in as a sad substitute. It was a few bah more expensive than Leo, but I found that I didn’t suffer the same headaches as the lion beer gave me.
I find it amazing you haven’t mentioned the San Miguel brand. In the Philippines, the beer selection is even smaller than in Thailand. You can have any beer you like, as long as it’s San Miguel — Regular, Ice or Light.
In an effort to shrink the waistline, I tried hard to like San Miguel Light and made a concerted effort to drink it instead of Tiger. I finally came to the conclusion that it simply is awful stuff that bears little resemblence to beer.
Singha Light, when you can find it, is definitely better.
Leo, by the way, is now available in small bottles in Coyotee’s go-go for 60 baht all night and in Baby Dolls for 95 baht.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 02.10.2008
I brought my own a couple of years ago and, wouldn’t you know it, I kept getting my head spun around by better-looking totty one the street. The next year I went solo.Forgot to mention….
On the massage front, if you turn right off Bangla on beach road you’ll run into a few oily massage places. Most have mnnsters soliciting you, but there’s a couple discreet ones that have pretty young things out on the sidewalks, walking around asking if you want a massage. Find one of these and you can get everythign up to full service, albeit for 2,000 baht. (But hey, i was on holiday…)
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 30.08.2008
Good report. I’ve been to Patong for a P4P holiday a few times, usually in the low season, and always had a fun, relaxing 3 or 4 days. In the past it could be said that the Phuket girls were better quality (and higher prices) than Pattaya, but I’ve only found that to be true maybe once.
I was truly bummed to hear that the Dragon go-go — which was the place where Hollywood is now — closed. That was a modern BKK/Pattaya sytle gogo with cheap tequila and a truly stunning lineup of girls. 30 on stage none under an 8 on The Ghostmeter.
It was such a stark contrast to the 1980s style gogog on Sea Dragon. Those truly suck. That’s why they don’t get any good-looking girls in them. They’re gross.
Dragon closed and some of the girls went to Roxy, but most just left the scene entirely to BKK or Pattaya (maybe).
I’ve always enjoyed Tiger Disco and had a fun night in Taipan.
Bascially, its possible to pull some good looking women there but, especially in low season, you have to work harder at it and pay more.
Comment posted by Pattaya Ghost at 30.08.2008
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