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03-01-15 06:18 #7527
Posts: 1264BKK Vendors
This is my first time visiting Bangkok and one thing I have not liked is the difficulty in walking down a street in the Suk area. Frequently, pedestrians have to leave the sidewalk due to congestion and dozens of vendors and find themselves on the main Suk road. Walking on Suk can be a very unpleasant expereince. The same is true for many of the Sois.
A few days ago, someone told me a pedestrian was killed while walking on the street when he was struck by a large bus mirror attached to a public bus. Other times, the sidewalk is broken or electric wires are stretched across to provide electricity for the vendors. These are all obvious public safety hazards.
I have been to Singapore and they have some nice hawking centers easily accessible to tourists and the general public. Hopefully, they can find the open space to create the same in the Suk / Nana area though that might be a problem since there appears to be little public open space available.
I would bet that very few of these vendors have legitimate licenses and clearly there is no sales tax or VAT attached to their prices so the city really benefits very little in generating revenue unless there is corruption involved in allowing these vendors to set up shop in these areas. Maybe, I should set up a stand selling, for example, used English and German books and see what happens?
I noticed the same thing in Pattaya this week. The city built this beautiful pedestrian beach paved path and it is now impossible to walk on due to all the vendor stands. Several posters in late 2014 said the vendors would stop effective the end of 2014 but, guess what, they are still there clogging up the path.
Originally Posted by RedKilt [View Original Post]
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03-01-15 05:36 #7526
Posts: 3230Clean-up on Sukhumvit?
It seems like Bkk streets are about to get a makeover.
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03-01-15 04:35 #7525
Posts: 2208Originally Posted by Syzygies [View Original Post]
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03-01-15 03:53 #7524
Posts: 12856Girl faces that you know
A problem I sometimes have in Thailand is accidentally meeting some girl whose face I know. First I have to remember if I ever fucked her. 2nd have to remember if she is from a bar or MP or some completely innocent location.
One day this week met a girl I have fucked in Foodland. Fortunately knew who it was. She works in Tilac when she is not too lazy to show up.
Today met a girl with sexy lips in Tesco / Lotus. So far can't remember where I know her from. I guess I will know next time I see her.
Woman selling Som Tam and grilled chicken looks like mamasan at Doll House so I wondered where I knew her from.
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03-01-15 02:55 #7523
Posts: 2208Originally Posted by TwoTimeTed [View Original Post]
What name will appear on my credit card statement?
Your credit card statement will show a charge in the name of "GT*isginternetsale18888890788". Any internet search for this name will not show any indication that you have bought a subscription to this forum.
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02-28-15 19:12 #7522
Posts: 12856You don't have be a paying member. The privileges are not much different. You can easily check the list of privileges and see if they appeal or not. I would gladly pay for a new membership with new handle if I could get of of probation review mode very quickly.
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02-28-15 12:18 #7521
Posts: 2208Originally Posted by Syzygies [View Original Post]
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02-28-15 09:53 #7520
Posts: 88Yearly membership
I have resisted paying a membership.
Why? Well, My thinking is, this is a public forum (on the internet) and its free to read and post (sign up).
I have got a lot of insight from my state-side mongering and escapades, but not on an international level.
Why do you other mongers give a darn whether some people have a membership or not? I guess you want them to have skin in the game before you release info?
But for a first time international-monger like myself, I looked for a one time interactive informative river of info.
I often asked myself, why pay if I'm only going to one country this year and there is a variety of info out there?
I'm not knocking this place, but I am trying to say, be sympathetic to newbies who are just going to (insert country) for the first time.
I do see the value in signing up now. I missed many things in my exploits to Thailand, PMs that I would have got to give advice, stay clear from, to visit, or to give that extra nudge of information that was lacking in the forums.
Now that I want to explore other countries, its a no-brainer to sign up. The valuable insight of first hand experience is worth it. At this writing I have not signed up, but ask how the subscription is billed to my credit card.
Pervert billing? Hope not. Answer?
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Greetings,
Let me address your concerns about using a credit card to purchase a subscription.
1. Is there any danger that your credit card data might be stolen? No. Both the shopping cart service and the credit card service I use to process the credit card transactions are both conducted on secure, encrypted websites, so your credit card information is secure.
2. Is there any danger that your credit card statement will show that you've purchased a membership to this forum? No. The credit card charge will be made under another name (which I won't write here because I don't want it being found by search engines) that looks like it's a contribution to a charity.
3. Is there any danger that a law enforcement agency might force me to divulge your forum username? No. I delete the shopping cart transaction data every few days, and that's the only connection between your credit card charge and your username. In other words, the credit card charge doesn't include your username, only the shopping cart database has this info, and I have total control over the shopping cart's database.
In addition, the forum's servers are located in Hamburg, Germany, safely outside the USA legal system, and in a country where commercial sex is legal.
4. Is there a possibility that I will take your money and disappear? No. This has been a membership website for several years, and nobody here has ever reported a single problem with using their credit card to purchase a subscription. Believe me, if there had ever been a problem, it would have been reported it here.
5. Are there any options other than using my credit card? Yes. You can purchase an anonymous, pre-loaded credit card online and at numerous retail outlets. There is also an option to purchase a subscription by mail using cash.
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Jackson
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02-28-15 09:16 #7519
Posts: 12856Originally Posted by FastEddie48 [View Original Post]
Prices must have gone up dramatically. My 2nd trip to Thailand after a long break was approx. 1991 or 1992. I could typically get a girl for whole night from Soi Cowboy for 500 Baht back then (in one case just 400 baht and hard to get rid of her). Can't recall if there were any full nude bars. ST virtually did not exist for bargirls (at least I did not hear of it). I don't recall ever doing short time except in a massage place or a Phat Phong back room. I was not into Nana Plaza at the time as it definitely did not have fully nude girls (and only a few bars), although it did have nudity a few years later at Hollywood then Bubblegum, Pretty Lady, Voodoo etc. I did try Phat Phong back then (with full nudity upstairs) like Pussy Galore, Queens Castle, Supergirl, Lipstick?, Firecat, etc. and having Annies Rose and Kangaroo BJ bars where almost anything went on in the bar area. I took girls from Thermae for whole night too at that time (no STs were ever suggested). Some really hot girls who were only part time free lancers. I don't actually remember if prices for them were any different. I seem to recall the price for a girl at the Thermae Soapy Parlour upstairs was a little higher. Not sure how much longer it lasted before being torn down.
My first trip was 1984 or 85 but had very limited play-up opportunities (married) then so don't know what the prices were. I did visit my first Bangkok and Chiang Mai Soapies though, the first somewhat by accident not knowing what went on when I walked in for a look (and I could not speak Thai at all). It was in a low even numbered Soi of Sukhumvit, not Annies or Darling, so obviously was torn down for redevelopment by time I returned in 1992. Its been very hard to find out what it was called. The matriarch "Annie" would presumably know. I should chat to her one day.
A buddy of mine was going to Thailand regularly, well before me and he remembers when could get a fuck for 100 Baht. Ha Ha! I have heard $10 girls still exist in Cambodia in areas out of town where they have no English.
Supermarket prices have risen badly too. Foodland had a grilled chicken thigh with leg for 69 Baht. That is about quarter of a chicken. I can could get that for less in Germany grilled chicken shop. It seems not many years since that would have been 20 Baht. It may well be longer ago than I think. Perhaps nearly 15 years ago. Imported coffee grounds is so expensive in the supermarket that its much cheaper to buy in Germany and put in the suitcase. I guess local Thais don't drink Lavazza or Segafreddo etc. It just costs far too much.
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02-27-15 10:18 #7518
Posts: 3230Originally Posted by Omigawd [View Original Post]
If you paid for a membership I assume some other expats along with me might PM you with some assistance, but I am not putting it on the open board.
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02-27-15 00:31 #7517
Posts: 4114Thai baht vs USD history
Originally Posted by LAGuy5 [View Original Post]
I been going to Bangkok since 1995 first time back then 1 USD is about 28 bht, the highest is back in the early 1998 it was over 53 bht to a dollar because of the Asia crisis every and I buy some gold chain in Chinatown gold back then is very cheap under 300 usd for an oz wish I bought more back then, you can get girl at Thermae café back then for 800 bht ST and 1200 bht all night.
Fast eddie 48.
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02-26-15 12:32 #7516
Posts: 96What kind of jobs are avaialble in Thailand for expats?
I know this question is more suitable for a mainstream forum but since we have quite a few folks here that are employed in BKK, I was wondering what kind of jobs are available for expats? Please be specific about job title and description rather than a vague explanation which makes it difficult to figure out exactly what kinda job opportunities exist in Thailand, if any.
I won't mind hearing about business opportunities either.
Thank you.
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02-26-15 10:01 #7515
Posts: 616Originally Posted by Phordphan [View Original Post]
In short, there is nothing to suggest the conversion rate went from around 40 to 1 to around 25 to 1 almost overnight, and very little, if anything, to tie any significant changes in the conversion rate to TARP or the bailout, etc.
www.oanda.com is a good source for tracking currency rates and historical data for those interested in such things.
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02-26-15 05:10 #7514
Posts: 3196Originally Posted by LAGuy5 [View Original Post]
But, the point was money in a US account vs. Thailand. Before TARP, the bailout, etc. , the Baht was, what, around 40:1? Damn near overnight it went to around 25. The dollar tanked all over the place, not just Thailand. One may not have lost any physical dollars from their FDIC-insured accounts, but they were worth a fraction of what they were a day before. Contrast this with the Baht that remained strong for the next two years, or so. The dollar eventually began to gain ground and is now a bit over 30, but that's still 75% of what it was before the start of this debacle. Had somebody had their money in a Thai account they would have "lost" nothing during this time.
That was what I, so inelegantly tried to say.
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02-25-15 20:25 #7513
Posts: 226Originally Posted by LAGuy5 [View Original Post]