Jaffa

Strange as it may sound, porn is a big no no in Thailand. If you get caught with it theres a good chance you will go to jail and become persona non grata. Better just to stick to the real thing. TIT.

Just beware of motorcycle thieves. You lose it, you pay for it. A few years ago I hired a bike down on Koh Samui. The Thai girlfriend insisted on bringing it inside the bungalow with us every night. The story goes that there are some unscrupulous dealers who will rent you a bike but insist on holding your passport as security. You put your address on the papers when you rent the bike and so its easy for them to go round at night and steal their own bike. In the morning the renter reports the bike missing and is forced to pay 100,000 replacement cost for the bike. I think you would

Been home 2 weeks now but there were lots of servicemen around walking street when I was there. 95% were very well behaved and the other 5% were only a bit badly behaved,-- their mates soon pulled them into line from what I saw. All in all a very well disciplined bunch of guys for young blokes who have been deprived of pussey for perhaps months! Still, I have to wonder why Yanks like to talk so LOUD. You could hear them coming from down the street. I think most of the young blokes didn't really have a clue about how things work in Pattaya. They had probably heard stories of blowjobs fo

I left Pattaya at 3pm Thursday. The trip went well untill Bangkok. Traffic jams even on the freeways made it a 3 hour trip. My advice would be to leave a little earlier to be safe.

As far as I know Thailand imports all of their lamb. And its therefore too expensive for the locals. I am also pretty sure I have seen roast lamb on the menue at some of the English style pubs in Pattaya. My Thai missus pigged out on lamb for about a month when she first came to OZ, so I dont think its any kind of a taboo. The missus says the Saudi resturants in LOS are big on lamb.

Arrrr... Drinking?

It doesn't stop after you are married either. Heres a few from my own experience. Not so funny but true. 1. No. one daughter needs 15,000 baht to pay off gambling debts. Answer-- we pay half, she pays the rest. She quits gambling after that. 2. No. two daughter needs 20,000 baht bond to secure good job as a technician. Bond to be refunded after one year if no costly mistakes are made. Answer-- No. She got the job anyway. 3. No. one daughter needs 20,000 baht to pay for damages caused in a motorbike accident. Answer -- No. What about insurance? Result-- Settlemen

Thankyou gentlemen for your advice. I will be in LOS next month to buy land for our retirement home and I will post of my progress.

Can anyone recomend a good farang friendly real estate agent in or near Pattaya?

You can log on to Thai radio and TV for free over the net. Just type "thai radio" into google search.

I speak only from my own experience having been married to a Thai for the past 10 years. I stand by my original advice to let the girlfriend advise what is expected, and to respect her wishes. If your girlfriend asks you to wai to her mother and you refuse it would be seen as being very disrespectful. The waing protocol is not that difficult. The basic rules are as follows-- 1. The younger person should wai to an older person FIRST as a mark of respect. 2. The higher the hands are held up to the face and the deeper the bow, the greater the respect shown. Its not some myst

Eric, There seems to be a lot of bar stool experts giving advice here. You should be guided by your girlfriends advice on whats expected of you to show respect to her Mum rather than a bunch of sex tourists. It may seem cool to some tourists to refuse to show respect to your girlfriends Mum by refusing to Wai in the traditional manner. Its such a little thing and it will probably mean so much to your girl. If your girl asks it of you, please do it for her. And, the thousand baht note in the envelope should be handed to Mum by your girlfriend. Its more a mark of respect than any

Go for a day trip. Find local motorbike taxi driver who speaks good English and hire him for the afternoon to take you round and show you all the bars, massage parlours, karoike places and any other place that might be of interest. I have never been to a single bar at Jomtiem, just the beach, but I know there are a few sanuk places around. And having a guided tour in the safety of daylight might be an interesting way to spend a bit of time in the afternoon. Exploring can be a lot of fun, especially if you get the right guide.

Can anyone suggest a good company. I will need an English speaking driver.

Eric, You girlfriend will be your best tutor. She will advise you of whats expected. The Thais are pretty forgiving of farang ignorance in their cultural protocols. There are diffeent wais depending on age and status. Just do as your girl instructs you to. A nice new 1,000 baht note in an envelope for mama will impress without breaking your bank. Just show respect, and what ever you do dont flirt with the sister.

Rice field rats are different to common house rats. The Thais wouldnt dream of eating a house rat.

Any photos?

you can allways tell the Turks by the way the keep breaking plates over their heads when they are happy. Why do they do that?

Kosan road backpackers on a working holiday? ???

And your wife thinks these girls only give massages? Lucky man! ::)

As soon as you have the cash.

Just ask a taxi driver to take you to a farang bar. Or indicate you want to find where the farangs drink. Once you locate the local ex-pats, I am sure they will give you all the info you need. There is no shortage of p4p in any large town in LOS. I went out with a couple of Thai friends in a rather smallish town one night and was surprised at the ammount of action around. By day there was nothing to indicate any p4p at all. Just the usual, lots of markets and shops etc. Well, we had a great time that night. Two karoake places with girls available. One bar with about 6 girls dancing on sta

Agree with you totally there Crackpot. It is scarrey how some people can put the basic principles of democracy and law behind them in the heat of the moment. It looks like we are going through another period of paronia like "the reds under the beds" scare back in the 50's. Paronia whipped up by passing politicans should never be a reason to ignore laws that have been developed through centuries of reasoned debate. Times of conflict is a time more than ever that people need to keep a cool head.

Greggy, I hope you dont mind me calling you Greggy, its just that I feel we are like two kindred spirirts adrift on the internet. You can call me Jaffey If you like. Now down to more serious business! I can understand where you are coming from about this silly OFF TOPIC rubbish. I, like you, have never stooped so low as to read such drivvel! However, from what other people have told me, I believe its so offensive that it should be banned! I do tell a lie there. Once I accidently stumbled onto the section and allmost had a coronary occlusion trying to find the SHUTDOWN butto

Mr Pieman, 366 posts and you still havnt figured out that all these whinging anti-OT posters were actually being FORCED to read the OT section OVER AND OVER again by some mysterious alien force. Like, every time they logged on the board automaticly took them to the OT section (against their free will I might add), and they were compelled to read everything from start to finish. Its no wonder that so many of the decent and honourable board members wanted it closed! Some of these guys had led fairly sheltered lives up till then and to be exposed to that kind of thing must have been fr