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the Ice emoji means some drugs and the leaf is weed... the DEA has more info 😱 https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2021-12/Emoji Decoded.pdf Here's some other Grindr translations: Host= a hotel=Airbnb =desperate for attention. It’s my birthday =desperate for attention. Moving soon = desperate for attention. Deleting soon = desperate for attention. Now= I will flake on you and also desperate for attention. "Hi" = Just want sex without any personality engaged. "No time wasters" = I'm a time-waster. "No dickheads" = I always attract dickheads (red flag!). "No Asians sorry" = I'm a dickhead, sorry. "Discrete" = I love endless horny talk about what we'll do together, but I'm unlikely to ever be available to hookup in person. Even if we make a date, I'll probably cancel at the last minute. Repeating already asked questions = I'm chatting to 6 other guys right now. Blank pic = Time-waster. "Horny" = Anything I say now only applies to the next 10 mins. Don't expect me to be into you tomorrow in the same way that I am right now.

Haha I'm not really much of a drinker so no alcohol is ok with me. It's just kinda disappointing that the bars would be closed on Thurs cos I love watching the shows there 😕 I agree with the above suggested action plan for Thursday. I am a "pensioner", since 2 years here, and when these types of Buddhist holidays would occur, I found myself in amazement (I was not yet indoctrinated into the Thai ways - which are VERY similar to the Italian ways of getting around the law found in Italy - where they have a word dedicated to this activity = "scappatoia") when we were at the beach with my volleyball friends and they said to me - we need to get some beer and drinks to liven things up here - as all of the bars are closed. But I replied, "we cannot - it is illegal to buy alcohol for these 24 hours..." They all laughed at me - as the Thais truly love when us farangs are bewildered. One of them said to me, come with me, and I will show you how it is done. We went to a local "mom and pop" store (situated right next to a 7-Eleven - where ALL of the 2 alcohol selling zones were taped off with prohibition signs) and my Thai friend told the cashier / owner - what he wanted and she made it happen - she looked around for anyone that might rat her out and determined that the coast was clear, and I paid and we left with 2 bags of alcohol (beer, whisky, ice, cups, and snacks) and we returned back to the beach on Jomtien soi 9 I believe. I was truly amazed and I kept saying WOW - at 7-Eleven this was a BIG NO NO but at the "mom and pop" store next door it was a BIG YES YES. My friends had a good laugh at my bewilderment and they told me - Welcome to Thailand. @Foolish - another idea that you can do is around 5:30 pm (everyday) - you can walk over to the Jomtien - Dongtan gay beach area - in front of the Pattaya Tower and Water Park - right next to the Sea Rescue station - you can watch the gay volleyball which can be fun. If you offer to buy the volleyball players some refreshments - you might be rewarded with some entertainment during the night.

Another example of the damage smart phones are doing to society. Why bother learning English when they can communicate with Google Translate? Very sad.

https://www.thelimopattaya.com/rates/ Impeccable service. Always on time. Costs about the same as a regular taxi so don’t be put off by the name Limo. used them only yesterday to go to Savnabhumi airport. All went well. I have actually been using them for over 10 years. Never had a problem.

What made you think that?

Myself and another forum member, we decided to see the Tiffany Show last night here in Pattaya. The Tiffany facility is huge and is situated very close to Terminal 21 in Pattaya. They have 3 back-to-back shows every day at 18:00, 19:30, and 21:00. We had 2 VIP Gold seats at 2,300 baht each. The show has a duration of about 1 hour and consists of 13 amazing performances: Pattaya The Glory Flare Be Italian I Am What I Am Maharaja Saigon Arirang Je Ne Sais Quoi Reflections The Magic Stone Tsarist Russia Tiffany's Follies One Man, One Woman The theatre was about 80% full and I would estimate that 80% of the crowd was Asian - predominantly Chinese. The show is great and well worth the price to see it and what impressed me the most were: The ever changing scenography on the stage - done in such a quick continuous way as each scene concluded and commenced. The use of hi-tech digital lighting and lots of amazing neon lights was truly impressive, The performers, both the lady boys and the male dancers were very talented, The originality of the individual sets - that was a very good mix of most of the cultures that visit Pattaya - very smart - from Thai, Indian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Italian, American, Russian, etcetera - there was something for everyone. Energy - as the show is very energetic and entertaining I felt like I drank 7 cups of coffee when I left feeling very satisfied. So, if you are visiting Pattaya, I highly suggest a visit to see the Tiffany Show https://www.tiffany-show.co.th/ Also, for a very entertaining smaller scaled down version, you can also see the Cabaret show at the M2M bar in the Jomtien Supertown Complex. https://www.facebook.com/people/M2M-Bar-Club-Cabaret/100063975036102/ I share some random images from the Tiffany Show - unfortunately, they were prohibiting us from taking photos/videos by pointing green laser lights onto anyone who had their phone camera out who was filming - so I could not capture my FAVORITE scenography - of the electrical neon intensive backdrop of Pattaya - as if it was from Walking Street - very well done - reminiscent of scenes from last year's "Pattaya Heat" movie - which I truly enjoyed.

Yes you can use Bolt. Make sure you understand and agree the motorway toll charges before you set off first. Did Jomtien to Silom Road last week. Wait time from booking was only 10 mins, same when coming back. Normally I use Pattaya Cabs. Never been let down over the last 2 years.

but you wrote earlier that you wanted to stay in Bangkok as it was cheaper and more fun 🤔 I also use https://www.thelimopattaya.com/rates/ for many years now and I am very pleased with their service. Eve and her husband run this business and they have other drivers available. I have even used them to bring hot sexy premium guys (only 2 occasions) to me in Pattaya from Bangkok and also from Suvarnabhumi, as that premium guy was coming to me from HatYai and I had the limo service fetch him for me.

This is one of the many reasons that I HATE Grindr. They try to play GOD too much and consequently hurt our desperate guys who are trying to make a living. Then for us on the consumer side - we can't find the guys we want because they are not on Grindr for a myriad of reasons. Grindr is like a broken kaleidoscope that prevents us from seeing the many many guys who are actually willing and available. Just compare the number of profiles visible in Pattaya of Grindr versus Hornet for example = many more are visible and available in Hornet. Also, Grindr is very expensive (when compared to the other apps) and they are always upselling additional services for things that are basic on other apps - like to be able to see who visited my profile. Grindr acts like RyanAir where they try to make you pay for every single basic feature.

This is not a make/break issue for me. Too many other metrics factor into a good experience. If it's simply size, you're on the wrong continent.

I was there today 😂 I didn't go in but it seems it's free There's only old dumbbells , and rusted barbells there in sand I was there at 1pm ,only one older Thai guy there I will check in the morning to see if any boys are there but no is your answer at the moment I will try to photo it if I can Certainly needs new equipment

I would agree with your assessment @Olddaddy, - IF you are in vacation mode with limited time, then Bangkok has much more to offer. Pattaya is more laid back in slow mode. The days are long until the night life wakes up. During the day in Pattaya you can: go to the Sanuk sauna https://sansukthailand.com/ go to the Dongtan gay beach and relax, converse with the other gay visitors, get a massage, eat, drink, or get a massage or pedicure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JoP3wf-Mio This Thai guy presents on his Youtube channel a LGBT tour - at video timestamp = 2:35 he gets to Dongtan beach go into the Jomtien Supertown Complex and visit some of the many massage shops https://jomtiencomplex.com/jomtien-complex-gay-massage/ go shopping in Pattaya city center at Central Festival and/or Terminal 21 start early in the morning and venture over to Koh Larn island and swim, relax, tan on one of their lovely beaches with clean transparent turquoise blue water

Not EVERY guy in Brasil has a big one...but if you have a big one, there's a good chance you'll end up working in a sauna. Not all Americans are Tall, but if you're Tall, people will always say, you should play basketball There are very respectable sized dicks on MB's in Thailand....not hard to find, most go-go's do a big dick show 🧐

and this sage advice is VERY true - as I found out back when I lived in Budapest and my 2 Adonis masseurs came to my apartment to give me a 4 hands massage and I was so hungry prior (due to my then stressful job where massive overtime was required I was often running in the nik of time from the office to my home for whatever appointment I had) to the appointment that I stopped to quickly eat some Hungarian goulash = BIG mistake - because as the 2 Adonis' were pushing down on my body (with my stomach facing down) I could feel the goulash coming up from my stomach towards my throat where I had to quickly excuse myself and dispose of my dinner into the toilet in order to be able to continue the massage - it was quite embarrassing as they could hear me in the toilet. So, lesson learned - better to be hungry and famished PRIOR to a massage than full and satisfied (temporarily). but, we were still ALL able to obtain our happy endings....

and Thailand with her harsh lese majeste laws isn't paragon of human right either

wise move. Quite a few massage guys told me that one should not eat at least 2 hours before massage

Not after that big meal at G 's restaurant,I could hardly walk back to the hotel ,was tempted to order a Grab

Many of the guys when I ask how much, they reply "one million baht"......I hope you didn't fall in love 😝 That's enough to ask the receiving bank what the exchange rate is....and ask a couple of banks. My 1st large transfer to Mexico I sent in USD thinking like @Moses logic.... but each bank has a different exchange rate, not as standard as you'd think and I got screwed. Had I used Chase exchange rate and sent pesos, I would've been better off. Doesn't hurt to ask first.... sucks to find out later you got screwed.... like the DCC at ATM machines, lol

Find a new friend on Wednesday. They can show you fun things to do on Thursday. Probably the beach, Jomtien Soi 12. Purchasing alcohol isn't allowed, but consumption is no issue. There is always fun to be had. Thursday you will have no problem at the beach or some bars getting served booze, they will just be discreet about it. Having said all this, ask a local expat (probably not a pensioner) and you can buy alcohol or anything else you need. It's Pattaya, anything goes.

Qatar, as we know, is a leading light in human rights,especially in the LBGT area. All a bit of a joke, really.

and this is not ONLY a Tawan = The One problem it is almost EVERYWHERE in the gay Thailand world - this FAILURE to implement basic marketing strategies. They will complain that they have no money and no customers but won't take that step to market and/or market themselves to make them visible. Here in Jomtien, so many of the local guys complain that they don't get enough customers but when I look at their app footprint I see the following problems: they only use Hornet and their entire profile is ONLY in the Thai language. I tell them if you want to reach the farang (non Thai) potential client base you need to insert some English words into your profile, many of them do not use Grindr - I keep telling them if you want to get non-Thai customers you need to have a presence on Grindr - as that is where most of the farangs hang out when they do their guy searching via apps. Unfortunately, I have heard horrible stories where if someone reports you as being a money boy (MB) on Grindr or by Grindr themselves they block them at the mobile phone level - meaning that if they even change the email that Grindr associates them with - that Grindr will still block them as somehow Grindr can see the device ID and know that it is them that they already blocked, the Heesay app (formerly BLUED) is really only used by a subset of the larger Asian population (China ? Korea? and some in Thailand). Again, I tell them to insert English words into their Heesay profile, Fear that their "friends" will learn that they are a money boy - so they write their profiles in such a way that a person visiting Thailand would have NO clue that they are available for hire. As for the massage shops here in Jomtien - they are their worst enemy - as the shop owners do not do any marketing of their guys and/or shops like they do in Bangkok - so the guys are left alone to their own devices for marketing purposes. Generally, the guys do not implement a self-promotion marketing plan and prefer to sit on those plastic chairs outside of these small massage shops for 6 to 8 hours a day waiting for that one farang who might chose them. They get desperate, especially if they have only had one customer in a given week. Furthermore, many are freelance - and so the shop does not pay them a salary and if they get a non-Thai customer and that person is not accustomed to giving a tip (on which they survive on to pay the rent and eat) their situation becomes quite dire - as it is very difficult to live on a 20 baht tip. Again, I fault the managers / owners of these small shops for not properly "educating" the incoming customers. In Bangkok, many of the massage shops are quite explicit and clear about how much you (the client) are supposed to tip the masseur as it relates to the requested service.

Well Hell you nasty little whores! Let me preface this post before I get to the nitty-gritty! If you are looking for proper grammar and punctuation then leave now bitch! To all you other nasty whore who don't give a damn a just want to hear about my dirty deeds then continue reading. It's been awhile since I've posted but I continue to read posts here and there. a bitch has been tied up with other social media accounts and work has been rewarding, but kicking my tight ass. lol. I've been to the sdq 4 times since my last post. you guys know that I always talk about and give my ass to my sexy barber husband when I'm there but I got a disturbing text before my trip last weekend. my barber husband always texts right before I arrive. I mean this guy knows my travel schedule better than I do. he texted and asked when I would arrive and I told him. he responded and told me that he was moving 4 hours away from sdq. I was heart broken because I just loved his massive dick, handsome face and the way he would arrive to the apartment, smoke his weed, shower then ram his big dick in my ass and fuck me until he nutted. so what is a slut to do now that my main dick had left sdq? well, a bitch had to rely on my book phone gallery of big dick Dominican studs. as I told you in previous posts, I follow a lot of the guys on social media. a few years ago I would tap into their friends list and friend follow and or communicate with their friends. almost all of them will fuck your brains out for the right price. my price is always $50. here is how I bait these young big dick studs when I arrive. I go to my social media pages, take pics of my arrival and the texts/dm slowly start to roll in. after the barber told me he had moved, I had to find a main dick for the weekend. I reached out to Mr baseball. you remember me talking about this young big dick fucker who likes to fuck missionary and choke his bottoms while he pounds their asses? I will post pics of this hung hunk in the comments. we arrive, my husband has his 8 p.m. appointment and I waited for the baseball player to arrive. I decided to watch my husband and his sex partner make out until Mr baseball arrives. the longer I watch my husband suck on this Dominican studs dick, the hornier I get. my husband is a pro at sucking big dicks and it was soooooo sexy to sit in the chair outside the bedroom in the dark and sniff my poppers. my dick was so hard, I thought it was going to explode. its 820 and Mr baseball still hasn't arrived. I text him and he sends me a picture telling me that he was in the gym working out. I was stunned because I was looking forward to being choked and getting mutted out. I wasn't rude. I just told him thank you my friend and went back to watching the live freak show in the dark area of the living room. a few minutes later the phone was going crazy with calls and text from the guy that my husband and I had to throw out a few times because of his erratic behavior. I kept ignoring the call but he kept calling back and it disturbed my husband during his session. he stopped, came out and asked why I wasnt fucking and I told him Mr baseball is at the gym. he then told me to come in with him and his guy. I walked in and the 3 of us start to play. this sexy mf has a huge hard dick and as much as I tried I couldnt get it all in my mouth. but I knew that there was another hole I could fit it in and as long as I had my poppers I'd comfortably be able to get it all in. I during our session, my husband nutted and I told him that I wanted his guy to fuck my missionary while my husband sucked my nipples and I jerked my dick. we put a pillow under my back and we positioned ourselves so that I could cum with his big Dominican dick in me. this guy has a huge dick and was pounding me but I couldn't cum with all that pressure in my ass. I asked him to go slow and he and I got in a fuck rhythm with me sliding and squeezing my ass back and forth on his big dick within about 3 minutes I let out a load extended moan because I was nutting, my husband was sucking and I was getting mailed by this big dick dominican. as I'm nutting my body was completely relaxed which allowed me to spread my legs even wider so he could go as deep as his dick possibly could in my ass. we all laugh, wash up then my husband and I head to zona colonial to eat. while were eating were enjoying all the eye candy that's passing by and I'm still hungry for more dick. we finish eating and as were walking back to the condo a guy, who looked extremely young spoke and I spoke back but kept walking because he looked young as hell. he followed us and struck up a conversation. I asked how old he was. he told me 22 then I asked to see his ID. he laughed and showed me his cedula and sure enough the guy was 22 years old. I asked dis he want to make money and he said yes. my next question was, do you have a big dick and will it get hard he pulls out his phone and shows me his dick picture and a video of his girlfriend taking his dick. we settled on 50 dollars and went back to the apartment. I wanted this guy to do everything he was doing to his girlfriend in the video and he didn't disappoint. after he showered, he came into the bedroom and his dick was rock hard. I begin to suck his dick and my husband immediately begins to suck my nipples. I reached down for my poppers took a whiff and before I could put the poppers back on the bed, he was asking for the bottle. he took a whiff handed me the bottle, grabbed both sides of my head and start to face fuck me. my husband backed off to watch us play, I stood up and the guy starts to passionately suck my nipples. I was in heaven. I grabbed the poppers again, took a hit then put it under his nose to take a hit. a few secs later he pushes me back on the bed, grabs the condom and lubes and tries to insert his big dick in my ass. he didn't put enough lube and it was uncomfortable so we had to put more. within a minute he all in my ass. while he was pounding me out, I realized the guy had big cow nutts and while he fucked me, his massive nutts were colliding with my ass bringing me even more pleasure. we switched from missionary to doggy and he wore my hole out. his strokes were so intense that I grabbed the pillow to cover my head because I was making so much noise. while my back is arched and were both sniffing the poppers at various intervals in the session, I head a loud moan. I thought it was the guy nutting but when I pulled the pillow back it was actually my husband cuming and moaning because of all that was going on. the 22 year old finally cums pulls the condom out to show me his cum In the condom then tells me that he wants me to cum. I asked him to lay beside me to suck my nipples. his dick was still rock hard with a load of cum inside the condom and he went back inside me. my mind was blown because his dick was still brick and he was ready to go immediately after he gave me a load. we back into a groove and while he towering over me feeding my hole his dick, he's also playing with my nipples with 2 fingers from both of his hands. again, within minutes I let out a loud moan and shoot another load. there is a lot more that happened on this trip but I'm going to end it end and finish telling you tramps the story within the next 48 hours.

The place not mentioned often on this forum - but I've come back recently from two weeks in Buenos Aires. I want to come back already. I had a blast. This is my fourth time in Argentina, but my last visit was 9 or 10 years ago. I'd been to all the best places of this amazing country before, so this time I wanted just to have a chill city vacation in Buenos Aires, a city that I always considered one of the best in the world, and certainly the best in Latin America (for me). It's very different from the rest of Latin America, certainly different from Brazil. It does not feel Latin American, it feels more like a ramshackle Mediterranean European city instead - like Marseille or Genoa. It has that European cultured vibe, museums, theaters, leafy streets, public spaces, simply excellent food, and a great bar scene. It does not have that fire of Brazilian parties, no - it's more reserved and not that in-your-face fun, it's like a more refined sister of a loud brash half-drunk brother across the border. To put everything in the proper context from the very start: it is cheap. It is ridiculously cheap. It's cheaper than Cambodia. The economy went down the drain long ago, but the election of Milei propelled the inflation even further up. The local currency (black market rate) lost 20% just in the first three weeks of January. When I look up restaurants on Google Maps and see their menus photographed in November, I know that I need to double the prices for end-January (in pesos). Prices from a year ago do not mean anything, that was a different universe. I'm reading that just before covid, the taxi from the airport was 68 pesos, it is now 37,000 pesos (or 18,000 pesos on Uber) - you get the range. The wine is excellent - I was buying mine from a Chinese car service round the corner. They likely got the wine in stock in December before holidays and forgot to change prices - so I was buying wine from them in end-January for a price not seen anywhere else - $9 for a bottle with a Vivino rating 4.5 (normal malbecs are at around $2 per bottle). In an expensive Michelin restaurant, a huge 400g ribeye steak (dare I say the best steak in the world) and three negronis I accompanied it with rang me a bill of $20 total. In non-Michelin restaurants, steaks are between $5 and $8. In one of the top bars in the city mentioned in all sorts of awards and ratings, the happy hour sees two classic cocktails (I drink Negroni, but others may choose something else) for $3 (i.e. $1.50 each). Argentinian guys are not as defined or perfect as Brazilians - I'm a sucker for pectorals and abdominals, so I needed to dig hard. But thanks god for Venezuelans - they are plentiful in Buenos Aires, and they were more than half the guys I hired. Huge shout and huge thanks to @Latbear4blk who gave some incredibly useful advice on this forum. I was using local websites Soytuyo, Leonos, ArgentinaMasajes and Skokka to arrange all dates. The #1 piece of advice from @Latbear4blk was to check those profiles against the reviews on a local forum ForoPirata - that forum is gold, and I managed to save myself a lot of time (and trouble) by discarding quite a number of profiles who looked excellent on websites but got scathing reviews from previous customers on ForoPirata. If only such resources were available in other countries... I usually got two guys per day - one for "massage" and one for full sex. ArgentinaMasajes is an excellent resource, and I was very upfront with masseurs asking them direct questions on Whatsapp about what's possible on their side and what's not. Some were more modest and I wished them luck. Others entertained handjobs or fetishes, more daring ones were fine with BJs and cumming in my mouth, and the best allowed full-on sex. Mostly, I visited them in their places (after checking against references). This worked really well. Some, I invited to my place - and BA is a city where you can get excellent AirBnbs - mine was with a sweeping view from the 21st-floor balcony over the city, a rooftop gym on the 31st floor with panoramic windows, a swimming pool and a sundeck, and security that was ambivalent to visitors (the security guy just on one occasion recorded an ID of one of my guests who looked especially brutal, but on other occasions I met my guests downstairs at the security fence and then escorted them out afterwards bidding farewell without even talking to security- in most BA apartment blocks a guest would not be able to leave the building by himself without you escorting him out). "Massages" and other visits with full sex were all in $15-25 range, some slipping to $30, but never higher. (I got a local SIM card and conversed in Spanish over Whatsapp from a local number to make sure I'm not quoted crazy prices). One of my regulars was a well-known porn star - he's one of that Onlyfans cluster of Argentinian porn stars who have individual accounts and cross-pollinate bareback between each other with endless collabs. Well, I knew his name before, and his vids are everywhere (I'll omit the name). He was coming to my place for great sex for $25 ($20 rate + $5 Uber fare) and even spoke some English. I love Argentina. But as I said, it was mostly Venezuelans. If not for them, my picture would have not been this bright, but Venezuelans are muscular, defined, tattooed, insatiable, with a beautiful face and lots of kinky thoughts (and actions). One of the Venezuelans, I was coming to him every several days in the morning for a "massage" with some kinks and fetishes, and every time while I waited for him to come downstairs and open me the door, I saw the same beautiful girl coming out with two dogs, and one of them was usually immediately having a piss in front of me. When I saw her a second time, I thought it's such a coincidence, I'm at a different time than before but her dog-walking schedule matched. When I saw her again next time for the third time, it finally clicked for me that this was a GF of my "masseur" and their two dogs - she had to leave the apartment to walk the dogs for an hour so her guy would do various things with me disguised as a massage. Next time I saw her, I almost said hi. The guy was usually coming to let me in a minute after her leaving. With all that, I didn't go to any saunas - and as far as I know, there are no Brazil-style GP saunas anyway, they are normal non-escort saunas. I went once to Cine Ideal, an old grand cinema showing gay porn now in huge cinema halls with balconies - the entrance was something like $1 or $2, the cinema halls were pitch dark, and I probably could find someone and something there, but I saw little upside if I can have a $15-20 Venezuelan in proper comfort and lighting elsewhere. A couple of blocks from the cinema, there is another curious establishment - called MasajeClub. It's a business of massage coupled with a red wine bar. Apparently it's popular with locals at lunchtime and after work - the downside is that you can't select a masseur, he's assigned to you. The masseurs are your guys next door, not model-like, but they can go a looong way during the massage. The official line of this club is that you pay for massage ($4.50 one hour) and then whatever happens in the room is up to a masseur and you. There's nothing that the masseur is obliged to perform apart from the massage, but it usually involved sucking and even in some cases fucking. There are no minimum tips, so it is up to you if you want to leave anything to your masseur on top of $4.50. For something like $15 they have what they call a "circuit" - that's a 4-stage massage where four masseurs (again you can't pick) come to your room one after another to perform something like 20-25 min of massage - that may end up in four waves of different cum-shooting experiences. One or two of the four would usually not be averse to fucking. After that, they give you a glass of malbec. I've also been to the stripper bars. I remember there had been quite a few in my past visits, now only one remains, and it stages nightly shows rotating through three different locations in the city depending on the day of the week. Usually, it's three hunky straight strippers (usually coming in a bundle "one stunning, one ok, and one ugly") doing two routines - first stripping to a flaccid cock, and then the second one with a hardon. Then they come to the audience, and for a modest tip you can grab and fondle a hardon. I saw people leaving tips accounting for $0.1 or $0.2, so when I tipped $0.8, that gave me a really good grip of the cock and then a strong hug from a naked hard hunk and then a big thank you and usually a return trip from him to me for another $0.8. Big whisky cola is $2, beer is pretty much spare change. The show lasts for an hour and starts at 01:30. And then there are normal bars and clubs - again this is not the Brazilian level of eye candy, but it is still sexy in its own way. I really want to come back, this is such an underrated city to visit.

Threads go off topic here so easily….🤣

Apps? If boys places of work are closed, they will be looking online. I think alcohol and entertainment has already been covered.

I go to the Super A supermarket in my town usually about once a week, they have a great meat section with reasonable prices, but I have a sense this is not the same thing. 🤔

or someone reports you for asking "how much" - as there is paranoia on both sides (supposed worker + potential client) with the way that Grinder polices their app traffic - which in my opinion should be confidential.

I agree 👍 I had guys using their phones last week to translate Well least these I presume Cambodian boys don't ask the same boring questions" where you come from ? How long you stay ?

As I've said numerous times, here and elsewhere, I walk out of BKK with a song in my heart , where thirty or so taxis await me, and only on one occasion in the last ten trips- the first one after Covid- have I found a queue. No emails. No phone calls. No anxious waits to see if the driver is stuck in traffic. I know others disagree but after eighty trips (or more) from DMK and BKK, I just can't see the point of altering my routine.

They transformed Buenos Aires in the best ways.

Yes it is open. It is not free but it is very cheap. My long time Vietnamese guy just sent me a photo of him flexing at gym a few months ago.

Yes it happened to me ! I received a warning ,I think it's "key words" they are using and no one reported me For example how much ? And maybe numbers ? Anyone they blocked me ,I tried many times with new email but still blocked ,ended up buying another phone😡😠

Above attachment from The Sun was taken from The World Population Review's 2024 report. Interesting at the other end of the scale...

That sounds like a good idea 🤭

find two guys who will do show for you. Once two Tawan boys upon learning that day was my birthday suggested " we will make special show for you " . I agreed , one of my best decision ever

Why you did not walk in ?

Do you still have their contact?

A good burger has some veg in. And I have a mango addiction.

Just look for what Americans call a 'mom and pop shop' --- almost certain to be open and selling alcohol. I once went to my local for a few beers but said to the lady "I'll hang on a moment, there a policeman on his motorbike outside." She replied "Don't worry, he also buys his beer here". OR send a motor bike taxi to buy for you.

This looks interesting; thanks for sharing.

I wouldn't count on it but some may be opened. Better act in advance. And remember massage boys are available just like every day.

best day to secure boy(s) while avoiding off fees. I usually arrange it day or two before. And make sure my fridge is stocked with Chang.

Rate will always better in bank where you change to it home currency. THB are home currency for Thai banks, so best way is to make exchange in Thai bank.

Yes, that's the best way to send the wire.

It's an interesting night to be there, I've been there twice on this occasion. No bars or alcohol anywhere, I never enquired at the hotel, I'm not really there to drink... I just used it as a rest and relaxation night

I like G's, good food, cold beer and always have good service there. My old routine on arriving in Bangkok (check into hotel was between 5 to 6pm) was to go from hotel to Senso for a massage and an extremely happy ending then over to G's for dinner and a cold beer. Upcoming trip will differ due to the late night arrival but will resurrect the old routine a day or 2 later.

Hi @Shonen, I do my inbound $ transfers into Thailand via the WISE app, as they give me the benefit of: fair near interbank rate, low fees, fast - can be same day if you get the timing correct {bank cutoff in Thailand is respected} or by next business day, --> most importantly, I can attach the reason onto the transfer to show that this transfer is for retirement purposes - the Thai immigration people like to see this designation when we go to renew/extend our retirement visas. https://wise.com/gb/currency-converter/usd-to-thb-rate

Expect that the GoGo bars will close. Hotels will likely continue to serve.

I recommend you Palermo Soho, Palermo Hollywood, and Recoleta. I was sick of Recoleta but I found it renewed after the pandemics. The security in the building depends on the building. You may rent an airbnb without a doorman, one with security staff who do not care about your visitors, one with security staff that ask for their IDs, it can be anything. Read carefully the details in airbnb and contact the host to ask for details. Security is standard in those three neighborhoods, and usually foreigners feel comfortable in them. There are more options I think are also safe, but others may find more adventurous, like San Telmo. Puerto Madero is also a beautiful neighborhood, but it is a little disconnected from the rest of the city. Take the regular precautions if you are inviting anyone to your place. If you are not used to do it, just use instead one of the many "albergues transitorios" around the city. Many escorts host in their places. Check the local forum and ask for experiences with the guys you are interested in hiring. https://ilikepinga.com/2018/07/27/buenos-aires/ https://ilikepinga.com/2021/08/15/foro-pirata/