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10-26-20 14:30 #12230
Posts: 3040Long Duration Air Travel
Originally Posted by HorseTrader [View Original Post]
I also recommend getting an Ambien prescription from your doctor before the flight. I take 1 Ambien 10 MG pill and wash it down with a bloody Mary after dinner service with about 8 hours remaining on the flight. Twenty minutes later I am asleep for the next 5 hours.
Usually my flights arrive in MNL or BKK around 10/10:30 pm and although I am tired, I am not sleepy. Swampy or MNL Immigration, taxi, check in to my hotel room, take a shit, shave, shower, change of clothes and I am ready for action. Local time is a little after midnight. I Find a girl, we get it on, girl leaves around 2:30 am. I take another Ambien, watch TV, and I am back asleep in La LA land in 20 minutes. I wake up, it is 7:30 am to 8 am, Sun is out, no jet lag, and I am ready for the day. I text one of my regulars. Tell her I am in town. Confirm our reunion for the evening. My only issue is can I refrain from going to an oily in the afternoon or not.
I hear what you are saying a concerning hub airports, but for me living in South Florida, I detest Miami International Airport. They treat travelers like dog shit, so I prefer departing from FLL or PBI. I might gain 90 minutes on the longer flight duration, but I get it back with less travel time to the airport and a better experience in the airport once I get there regarding airline check in and airport security. To each his own, I guess.
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10-26-20 04:14 #12229
Posts: 3040Originally Posted by Allover [View Original Post]
The HKG bar scene was so bad that around 1:30 am I gave up, grabbed some late night dinner, and went back to my hotel room empty handed. It was the only time that happened on my entire 75-day trip. The next night, the final night of the trip, I gave up on the bar scene and I booked an attractive Taiwanese 141.com hotel reservation girl for 1700 HK dollars. The girl was friendly and session was good, but was not completely satisfied. Note: this all occurred before the "disturbances" and later the Mainland crackdown. I don't think HKG will ever recover and I know I will never lay over there again, but I will always remember the good times and the fabulous girls I had there prior to 2011!
I have never laid over in Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka, or Taipei. From what I have heard over the year, s it can be very challenging to monger in Seoul and please correct me if I am wrong, but unless you are fluent in Japanese or have a Japanese friend along to take you around, you will never get into the best bordellos and clubs or have a chance to meet the top girls. Taipei sounds interesting, however. I have never been there, so I might go one day to find out what's what. If you go, let me know if you liked the place.
And then there is Macau. I really like Macau. It is or was, pre-pandemic, ridiculously expensive, but some of the top sauna girls were nothing short of spectacular and the sex was most times right on too. I used to enter SE Asia through HKG, spend 2 or 3 nights there, and then take the ferry to Macau for 5 nights before heading to Thailand or the PI. What a great way to start or end a trip. I hope all the saunas reopen after the Pandemic.
My plan for my next big trip, to make up for all of 2020, will be to fly into MNL (spend 10 days), then Macau (5 nights), LOS (BKK 6 weeks / Pattaya 2 weeks), a visa run to Phnom (5 or 6 nights) and then finish up in Jakarta for 3 weeks. Now all this is contingent upon the venues in each of these destinations re-opening and being viable again by the time I get vaccinated and am ready to fly. It may turn out only Thailand is back up and running or Thailand and Cambodia only. It may turn out Thailand remains closed in which case I am going to Brazil. Fuck it! We all will just have to wait for the vaccine and then what's happening.
NB.
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10-25-20 21:10 #12228
Posts: 1683The Long Journey. My opinion
As with everything in life, there is a trade off between comfort and money.
Upgrading your seat from economy to premium economy may cost an extra 50%, but for me it is much more comfortable. I used to fly Korean Air, but they don't offer that class. For me, Cathay Pacific and Delta offer premium economy and affordable prices.
In years gone by, my long business trips were in business class. Felt as fresh upon arrival as I did before departure. I might spring for that sometime in the future. Cost is about 5 times that of economy.
Minimize your total travel time from home to BKK. For me, this means taking an airport shuttle or Uber to an airport 70 miles from home instead of the airport 25 miles from home. This way I can get 2 legs to BKK instead of 3. Saves about 3 hours total travel time for me. It also eliminates the chances of flight delays associated with a 3rd leg. My first ever personal trip to BKK was 3 legs and the first leg was delayed, which screwed my entire trip. Didn't get my luggage until day 3 in BKK.
For layovers longer than about 5 hours, you might find sleeping pods in your transfer airport. Longer than 8 hour layover might warrant a day room at your transfer airport hotel.
Upon arrival in BKK I’m exhausted. I check into my hotel but cant sleep. A quick piece of ass at a place like Doki Doki completes the journey and I sleep perfectly for about 10 hours.
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10-25-20 08:50 #12227
Posts: 991Layovers going to BKK
Originally Posted by NattyBumpo [View Original Post]
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10-24-20 18:23 #12226
Posts: 513Making the Best of the Long Trip from the United States
Originally Posted by BananaBoi [View Original Post]
Obviously there's no escaping jet lag. So the next morning will find me up earlier than I'd prefer. But I make the best of it by getting outside and walking to Casa Pascal for the terrific breakfast buffet, which goes a long way toward resetting my body clock.
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10-24-20 05:13 #12225
Posts: 6257Originally Posted by ChuchoLoco [View Original Post]
I think guys don't do overnight layovers on their way to Thailand because I find a short 2 or 3 day layover in another country like Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Taipei, etc. Would have more expensive flights. They also may have only 2 weeks vacation and want to spend every minute possible getting Thai pussy. None of us enjoy long flights. Why would we?
If I have a short layover of 1 or 3 hours I try looking for an extended layover of 6 or 8 hours and sleep for a few hours at an airport hotel. That way when I arrive in Thailand I'm ready to roll immediately.
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10-23-20 21:08 #12224
Posts: 3040Originally Posted by ChuchoLoco [View Original Post]
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10-19-20 13:14 #12223
Posts: 1056Bonfire of the Vanities
Originally Posted by Sinofaguo [View Original Post]
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10-19-20 13:03 #12222
Posts: 362Originally Posted by *****man [View Original Post]
It doesn't change the orientation Thailand took in the more recent years and the fact it refused to side with the US against China but instead chose to embrace China as one of its most important partners.
Originally Posted by *****man [View Original Post]
Its not like the US has been secret about this agenda.
The coalition Pompeo is trying to build in Asia against China is also public knowledge.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/06/a...hnk/index.html
The financing of several Hong Kong groups through the national endowment for democracy is also public knowledge since the NED funding is documented through different votes as its itself funded by the american gov through votes / budgets.
The meetings between the american officials and various parties in HK have been also documented and proven by the american press.
And yes there have been ties with these activists in HK with Taiwan activists and Thailand activists.
If you wish to believe they are just a group of buddies who met on facebook/line by mistake and found common ground and suddenly decided to start mass protest, enjoy the cool story...
Again, opening yourself to the US interests in these events does not mean you believe the Chinese Communist Party to be the saviour of the world. I spend a lot of time in China too, not just thailand, and have a pretty good understanding of how things can be at times for the common people... so I don't need a reality check on that. That being said in a cold war you have 2 sides and both sides can be pretty narrow minded. Saying mccarthysm in the US has been excessive at times or the use of the CIA in various parts of the world did a lot of bad things doesn't mean you love Russia and fall for their propaganda. Its not all white or all black...
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10-19-20 11:35 #12221
Posts: 922Originally Posted by Sinofaguo [View Original Post]
Of course students are going to get sick of a corrupt elite brainwashing them with an absurd authoritarian ideology and trampling over their rights and freedoms. And it's not surprising they're going to look over to what happened in Hong Kong and try to learn from them. They call it the Milk Tea Alliance. Your belief that this must be down to "foreign meddling" is straight from the trick book of the Chinese Communist Party.
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10-19-20 09:29 #12220
Posts: 1056The King and EihTooms
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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10-19-20 08:27 #12219
Posts: 1056Not Going There
So, finally we can discuss The King and I, and the opinion of LBFM movie buffs. This site never disappoints. Life has moved on since the Japanese surrendered (in Thailand, if not the Dutch east Indies and French Indo China). We also see posters up to speed on the see hina Containment game and others talking about AR15's / MI6's v machetes and bamboo spears. We all know when Thais fist fight, you should not join in. I'll be giving the AR15's, MI6's, machetes and bamboo spears a miss and thinking of those farangs who think a jab of a needle in Pattaya can allow them party on.
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10-19-20 07:44 #12218
Posts: 362Originally Posted by Turgid [View Original Post]
First look at National Endowment for Democracy and other similar structures which have been created under Reagan to takeover the job from the CIA into destabilising other country but using democracy as an excuse to make it popular in the media.
https://williamblum.org/chapters/rogue-state/trojan-horse-the-national-endowment-for-democracy
Second look at how Mike Pompeo, former director of the CIA and current state secretary has been pressuring asian countries to take sides in the US vs China cold war.
Third look at the proximity of the thai protests with the HK protests in terms of methods, in terms of wording, and look at how close the leaders have been both online and in real life through meetings with US third parties medling.
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10-19-20 07:23 #12217
Posts: 5385Originally Posted by PedroMorales [View Original Post]
I understand there was some sensitivity about it in the past. But there is only one sequence in it that I could see being taken as insulting to the King's intelligence. A funny bit where, due to her superior English language skills, he dictates a letter to the English school teacher offering to send "two male elephants" to then President Lincoln to be released into the American wild so they can produce a herd of elephants to help him win the Civil War. She interrupts and tells him he might not really mean "two male elephants". He looks puzzled, dismisses her and walks away with "you fix up the details!"
On the surface that bit of comedy could be taken as insulting his intelligence, as though the King did not know it takes a male and a female to make a baby. Highly unlikely. But I think the author actually based the joke on a Thai language quirk that does not differentiate between male and female genders. For example, there is one word in Thai for girlfriend OR boyfriend ("fan"). And many times Thais refer to "she/her" when they really mean "he/him" and vice versa because their language does not generally differentiate in that way. There is a brief allusion to that language quirk earlier in the movie when the female English teacher is addressed a couple of times as "Sir."
I suppose the offence to the King could have been that Yul Brynner was not Thai. But it seems they have gotten over it as it is on the home video version at least.
Also, there are more recent live action (non Thai actor playing the King) and animated versions of The King and I that have played on Netflix Thailand off and on over the years.
Oh, one interesting side note about The King and I is the King's number one son in that story, the one Brynner's King hands the reigns of power to as he is dying and the new young King immediately begins to decree a more liberal demeanor with regard to royalty by the royal subjects is King Chulalongkorn, the King for whom a notable universitiy, hospital, etc in Bangkok are named.
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10-19-20 06:29 #12216
Posts: 178History lesson
Originally Posted by PedroMorales [View Original Post]
Indeed neither of them were even in Thailand during WW2.
Originally Posted by PedroMorales [View Original Post]