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[Syzygies]

This chick who I have been messing with for years works at a restaurant. She was telling me about an upcoming holiday where some customer wants her to prepare a bite-sized desert. I forgot the name of them, but they have to be made by hand. Usually she charges 5 baht each for them. But this customer needs like 1500. So guess how much she will charge? 6 baht each! I said but they are giving you more business so you are supposed to charge them less. She said but since it is more work for her to do she has to charge them more. Well since you put it like that...

I just asked and she sent me a picture of them and said this time she only had to make 1400. She said in February she had to make 3000 for the same customer.

Suppose she could ring up 5 other persons that sell these things, and orders 300 from each at a discount of 4 Baht each. If she sells at 4 Baht she will make nothing. If she sells at 5 Baht, she will make 1500 Baht, but quality of the product is not guaranteed. She wants to make some of them herself to increase her profit and obviously 6 baht each greatly enhances her end profit by another 1500. She figures that customer will accept 6 Baht. So in the end she will make a tidy amount, depending on how many she can produce herself. She does not want to put up with just the normal small margin for such a big order. LOL. If she could round up all the members of her family to help make the whole lot of the 1500, good but still its only 7500 less ingredient costs to be shared.

Amazing what a street vendor sells a whole BBQed chicken for these days. Could be close to 200 Baht. I could get it in a Germany roast chicken shop for much less than that. 15 years ago, the BBQed chicken was sold vastly cheaper than modern prices in Bangkok, perhaps 50 Baht (I can't remember exactly), yet everyone is surprised when prices of girls goes up some similar amount.

In ten years time I probably won't be able to afford mongering in Bangkok any more. Everyone will have moved to Phnom Penh. I will be growing my own veggies in the country.

[Robert Long]

This chick who I have been messing with for years works at a restaurant. She was telling me about an upcoming holiday where some customer wants her to prepare a bite-sized desert. I forgot the name of them, but they have to be made by hand. Usually she charges 5 baht each for them. But this customer needs like 1500. So guess how much she will charge? 6 baht each! I said but they are giving you more business so you are supposed to charge them less. She said but since it is more work for her to do she has to charge them more. Well since you put it like that...

I just asked and she sent me a picture of them and said this time she only had to make 1400. She said in February she had to make 3000 for the same customer.

I buy products in Indonesia and Bali and it's the same logic there. The more you order the higher the price on handmade items. They have to hire helpers and they complain that employees are hard to find so they must pay them more to work.

I love Asia.

RL.

[Mr Enternational]

This chick who I have been messing with for years works at a restaurant. She was telling me about an upcoming holiday where some customer wants her to prepare a bite-sized desert. I forgot the name of them, but they have to be made by hand. Usually she charges 5 baht each for them. But this customer needs like 1500. So guess how much she will charge? 6 baht each! I said but they are giving you more business so you are supposed to charge them less. She said but since it is more work for her to do she has to charge them more. Well since you put it like that...

I just asked and she sent me a picture of them and said this time she only had to make 1400. She said in February she had to make 3000 for the same customer.

[Mr Enternational]

Hence Bongkot massage sounds like Bong-got.

I live on Soi Bongkot, but for some reason when I tell 90% of the chicks where I live they always repeat Soi Buakhao? The average westerner, even if something is not pronounced correctly, could extrapolate what the person is trying to say. But it does not work like that in Thailand. Seriously, does my pronounciation of Bongkot sound anything remotely like Buakhao?

[Syzygies]

Good info, thanks Syzgies. Does the letter "k" always sound like a "g" as in Kanchanaburi? I'll never be able to learn Thai but I would like to improve my pronunciation a bit.

Yes most people would be surprised it sounds like GARN-chana-booree. Kan sounding Garn is a common Thai girl's name, too, short for Kanchana (sounds like Garn-ja-nar), or also can be short form of Sukanya.

In most Thai words or syllables starting with a K, it sounds like a G (but lacking a buzz or vibration of an English G). If they really want the English K sound, then Kh will be used, as in Sukhumvit / Sukhumwit.

Hence Bongkot massage sounds like Bong-got. Kai sounds like Gai and is the chicken. Khai is the egg.

To get and English T or P (aspirated) sound, usually use Th or Ph in the English spelling of the Thai word, as in Thai and Phuket.

An English Th sound does not exist in Thai language, nor in German. Other English sounds that don't exist in Thai:
Th, Sh, v, x, z,
and lots of consonant sounds in English never appear at the end of a Thai word, e.g.:
f, h, j, l, q, r, s.

Thai l and r are a bit different to English versions.

Many Thai vowel sounds are rather different to English vowels and closer to European vowel sounds like in German as an example.

Unfortunately it takes a very long time to learn Thai pronunciation properly, to include the tones. I would say first 6 months of learning Thai is concentrating on pronunciation. That is the hard part. Vocab is not so tough and Grammar is easy, so little to learn. If someone gets past the first 6 months of hard work, Thai gets a lot easier over time.

I try to learn Isaan too now, however find the pronunciation of the tones very difficult to comprehend, and difficult to find any teacher that can explain it properly, even if they speak Isaan. So the tones are different to normal Thai. Tricky.

[Allover]

Something I thought was very amusing: There is no such place as the River Kwai in Thailand. It is actually the river Kwae (sounds like Qua as in Quack) in province Kanchanaburi (pronounced Garn-chana- booree). Kwai means buffalo but has no relevance at all to the famous river near the "death railway". I guess westerners changed the name to Kwai to make it easier to pronounce but most Thais would have no idea what is being spoken of with wrong pronunciation. As a newbie to Thailand, taxis would misunderstand where I wanted to go, purely because I could not pronounce places properly.

If you tell the taxi to take you to Colonze, you have better pronounce it Co-lawn-SAY, or they will look baffled. And La Defense becomes Lar-day-fawng, Chao Phya 2 becomes Jao-Phra-Yar Song. Its all so tricky for a newbie.

I was once taken to the wrong place because I did not say "In-trar" when I wanted to go to the Indra Regent Hotel. I ended up at the Regent Hotel instead.

First time I asked a taxi to go to Henri Dunant road I had no idea it had to be pronounced: "Ang-ree-doo-nang". I don't know if this is close to the French way or not.

Maybe print a Map including Thai writing if you cannot say it the Thai way, although not sure that Thais can read Maps. LOL.

The most important one of all, there is a place called Pattaya, which does not sound at all like Pa-THAI-ya. It must be like Put-a-yar (Put rhymes with nut), and Phuket sounds like Poo-get.

What makes it all difficult is the English spellings for Thai places are often way off. Thais often spell person names into English in very silly ways too.
The ex prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. His surname is actually sounding like Wait-char-chee-wa. In Thai อภิสิทธิ์ เวชชาชีวะ
There is no letter V sound in Thai language. Sukhumvit road is really Sukhumwit road.

Some guy recently reported his girl was called Van. Since English V sound does not exist in Thai, it probably should have been Waen which means "ring", a common Thai girls name.

Good info, thanks Syzgies. Does the letter "k" always sound like a "g" as in Kanchanaburi? I'll never be able to learn Thai but I would like to improve my pronunciation a bit.

[Syzygies]

Something I thought was very amusing: There is no such place as the River Kwai in Thailand. It is actually the river Kwae (sounds like Qua as in Quack) in province Kanchanaburi (pronounced Garn-chana- booree). Kwai means buffalo but has no relevance at all to the famous river near the "death railway". I guess westerners changed the name to Kwai to make it easier to pronounce but most Thais would have no idea what is being spoken of with wrong pronunciation. As a newbie to Thailand, taxis would misunderstand where I wanted to go, purely because I could not pronounce places properly.

If you tell the taxi to take you to Colonze, you have better pronounce it Co-lawn-SAY, or they will look baffled. And La Defense becomes Lar-day-fawng, Chao Phya 2 becomes Jao-Phra-Yar Song. Its all so tricky for a newbie.

I was once taken to the wrong place because I did not say "In-trar" when I wanted to go to the Indra Regent Hotel. I ended up at the Regent Hotel instead.

First time I asked a taxi to go to Henri Dunant road I had no idea it had to be pronounced: "Ang-ree-doo-nang". I don't know if this is close to the French way or not.

Maybe print a Map including Thai writing if you cannot say it the Thai way, although not sure that Thais can read Maps. LOL.

The most important one of all, there is a place called Pattaya, which does not sound at all like Pa-THAI-ya. It must be like Put-a-yar (Put rhymes with nut), and Phuket sounds like Poo-get.

What makes it all difficult is the English spellings for Thai places are often way off. Thais often spell person names into English in very silly ways too.
The ex prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. His surname is actually sounding like Wait-char-chee-wa. In Thai อภิสิทธิ์ เวชชาชีวะ
There is no letter V sound in Thai language. Sukhumvit road is really Sukhumwit road.

Some guy recently reported his girl was called Van. Since English V sound does not exist in Thai, it probably should have been Waen which means "ring", a common Thai girls name.

[Syzygies]

Check Inn 99 (with the Philippean band) has relocated:

From 01 August 2016 edition of "The Midnight Hour":

"When the Check Inn 99 closed on July 2 (or the wee hours of July 3.) of this year, a new home had already been found on Soi 24. And for consistency's sake, it would be another (soft) merger. This time with the Admiral's Pub & Restaurant. And for consistency's sake, yet again, both signages may be found on entering. It will be interesting to see what the final signage will read. But you can take it to your bookie that it will have a "99" therein. ".

Also look here for pics of Chrome bar and Wood Bar (the new Dr. BJ frontages), (find "Chrome bar"):
http://www.bangkokeyes.com/

[Squalid]

I recall some "know it all" (I forget his handle just now) on the forum, well before the Nataree raids happened, rubbishing me, when I suggested that many girls there did not have full freedom to do what they like and that Traffic-ing was going on (and many non Thai girls), big time. I am only just catching up with the old news now, as was overseas not paying attention..

Where in the article of thePhuketnews is written that the girls in Nataree had not full freedom to leave the job? I read that many of them were "lured" to work at Nataree. English is not my first language but I think that "lured" does not mean "compelled", "forced" or "constrained".

I have been with several girls at Nataree and all of them showed me a good smile, either before the session and after (when I gave them their tip, LOL). My experience is that I never had the impression to be with someone forced to stay there.

The investigations director of the "anti-traffic ing organization" who provided the audio recordings proving that the girls were "lured" into prostitution at Nataree, now is surely very happy that the women were fined and are lacking the full freedom to leave the detention center.

[VishudJb]

I recall some "know it all" (I forget his handle just now) on the forum, well before the Nataree raids happened, rubbishing me, when I suggested that many girls there did not have full freedom to do what they like and that Traffic-ing was going on (and many non Thai girls), big time. I am only just catching up with the old news now, as was overseas not paying attention.

http://www.thephuketnews.com/five-br...rges-57836.php#BB1 WEjKTrAywZFVp. 97.

Apologies I could not find any really recent news popping up from a search.

Now I recall Mr. Ixgzca, saying these things were in the past, (on 18 july 2015 - I found it by search):
http://www.internationalsexguide.inf...=1#post1748265

Naturally I feel sorry for the girls caught up in this problem. Plenty of girls have the unfortunate problem of not being legal simply because they were not born in Thailand. Obviously the legal girls can just move to some other place to work. Let girls make an honest living, providing there are no pimps to control them.

I much prefer uncontrolled girls free to do whatever they want, free to turn up to work as little as they please, etc.

Nice FR with good information bro.

[Mr Enternational]

I much prefer uncontrolled girls free to do whatever they want, free to turn up to work as little as they please, etc.

I wish I could do the same at work. But unfortunately a business can't be run when employees get to come to work only when they choose. But if you work for yourself and are your own boss, then hey, knock yourself out. Even then, you are going to lose customers if you choose to work sporadically.

[Syzygies]

I recall some "know it all" (I forget his handle just now) on the forum, well before the Nataree raids happened, rubbishing me, when I suggested that many girls there did not have full freedom to do what they like and that Traffic-ing was going on (and many non Thai girls), big time. I am only just catching up with the old news now, as was overseas not paying attention.

http://www.thephuketnews.com/five-br...rges-57836.php#BB1 WEjKTrAywZFVp. 97.

Apologies I could not find any really recent news popping up from a search.

Now I recall Mr. Ixgzca, saying these things were in the past, (on 18 july 2015 - I found it by search):
http://www.internationalsexguide.inf...=1#post1748265

Naturally I feel sorry for the girls caught up in this problem. Plenty of girls have the unfortunate problem of not being legal simply because they were not born in Thailand. Obviously the legal girls can just move to some other place to work. Let girls make an honest living, providing there are no pimps to control them.

I much prefer uncontrolled girls free to do whatever they want, free to turn up to work as little as they please, etc.

[Dashy767]

I have fucked both of them.

Pam twice. She has a car and one time she met me at the airport.

They are both great pieces of ass and very nice.

Google.

Pam has new boobs now. No lb. YMMV but personally she takes care and is honest.

Definitely not Lb. PM me for latest details and photos. Could not upload.

[Dinghy]

Reads like a novel. Throw in some adventures featuring lions and man eating tribals, this could be the next Oscar winner.

Separate thought. I wonder how this poor prince charming is doing now, rescuing a bar girl is hard work.

Well, there is an old saying - "you can take the girl out of the bar, but you can't take the bar out of the girl. "

[D Cups]

Rawlinson must be gay or some kind of preacher fanatic or both QUOTE=Intransit;1 l-pay-for-bad-things-weve-done-revelations-of-aussie-sex-tourists-.