ChristianPFC

Nowadays I'm looking for short time. But if a boy performs good in bed, and just stays over night, and we have another horizontal dance in the morning, I would tip 1500, regardless of twink or muscle.

Most of my offs are twinks. If I were to off a muscle boy, I would tip the same 1000, and voted accordingly.

A few times over 5 years. On Phratamnak hill Pattaya at night (looking for street trade), suddenly being surrounded by dogs. In Bangkok Saranrom at night, being followed and attacked by a drunk who wanted money. Several bee stings when out in the countryside. They come unexpected, and you don't know if there will be more, and which area is safe.

My votes is data from a few years ago. My last short time was in 2015 (?) and I paid 1500, my last long time in 2013 and I paid 2000. The rare occasions I go to bars in Surawong, with friends who come to Thailand for holiday, I see boys I would instantly off if it was in Pattaya, but as I'm neither willing to by the boy a drink for 400, nor pay an off fee of 500 (?), nor negotiate tip expectations from 2000 down to 1500, I consider these visits window shopping. But that doesn't meant I will never take a boy from Surawong bars again. Some day I might feel generous and try. Next time I go I should ask mamasan about tip expectation, and see their reaction when I counter with 1500 or even 1000 I would be willing to pay. (The above refers to bars around Surawong road, after several businesses moved away from Soi Twilight. Bars in Silom Soi 6 not included, prices there are considerably lower and I offed a boy in Super A last year for 1000 short time.)

Yes it is.

No. Traveling and studying Chinese. Still plenty of encounter with boys, just no time to write about it. To the op: In all my visits to Gogo bars I write down time and number of boys and customers when I enter and exit bars, and it's all posted in my blog.

I watched two and downloaded all of them for future watching. Mildly entertaining, but the best thing is Thai language with English subtitles, so I can try to match what I hear in Thai to what I read in English to improve my Thai. Thanks for bringing this up and for posting link.

What did you do in 10 minutes? I very rarely give or send money online (nowadays most requests are to send money online, some even send their bank account int he first message). I did for three boys in all those years, off all those boys I have met. But these three I have met several times, and more than just one-night stand, and none of those encounters were paid, before the money requests came. And once the problem was solved, no mention of money on future encounters. But some have money problems and after months of no contact, suddenly "Christian, I miss you, I love you, can I borrow 2000 Baht?" I told them when they don't remember me in good times, only when they need money, they can try with someone else.

Let me be blunt, if you buy T-shirts in Patpong market and complain about the price, you didn't do your homework. Patpong market must be the most expensive place to buy stuff in a street market. In 2010, I made the mistake of buying a wristwatch there. Starting price was 500 THB, with help of a Thai friend I negotiated it down to 250, and now I see the similar watches in local market for 100. Underwear, however, is cheaper in Silom than in local market.

I have been drinking tap water everywhere in South-East Asia for years (Bangkok and various other places in Thailand; Vientiane, Luang Phrabang, Saigon, Hanoi, Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Yangon, Mandalay, even river water in the mountains in Myanmar and Thailand) and did not get sick. That leads to a note from my recent (Aug-Sep2018) trip to Myanmar. The small ceramic tea cups are kept open side down in a stainless steel pot on the table. That pot contained some water, maybe 5 mm high. Upon closer inspection, I saw some sediment in that water and two small (about 2 mm long) water beetles swimming around. That can only lead to one conclusion: if the water is safe for the beetles to swim in, it is safe for me to drink (or in this case, get traces of the water from the rim of the cup on my lips). The vegetables and plates in street restaurants are washed with tap water. I have never seen tea to wash dishes, only tap water with soap, and then tap water without soap.

I had boys calling me boyfriend before we even met! Getting such emotional boys is a big problem for me, as it wastes a lot of time chatting (they seem to be more interested in chatting than in sex). But the record is held by a Thai women, who got me calling a wrong number, and after some chat wanted to marry me, and failing that at least borrow 10,000 THB.

No sex, but wanting to "borrow" money? I had one trying that just a few days ago, but I didn't even meet him based on that.

Most people learn by communication approach and prefer to learn speaking and listening rather then reading and writing when it comes to non-Latin alphabets. I however prefer to learn from books, mostly on my own, with help from teacher only for pronunciation and to explain sentences I don't understand. Classroom work is difficult for me, as there are so many people and too much talk! I would be content to start learning a language just reading and writing, studying grammar and vocabulary, with listening and speaking coming later. In that order: reading - writing - listening - speaking. It's coded in my body: I have two eyes to read, and one hand to write (but two hands to touch type, two ears to listen, and one mouth to speak. For speaking, there is this wonderful invention International Phonetic Alphabet, which I like very much but have to teach myself as it is not used in classrooms for all languages I learnt.

The song mentioned in my previous commend is Vicetone & Tony Igy - Astronomia (giving a name in addition to link is useful; since this thread was started, several links have gone dead) Not in Thailand, but my friend in Mandalay had me record him on tik-tok to this song Pala Pele #มาแรงในแอพ TikTok ( ปาลา เปเล ) โครตมันส์ 2018 BY [ DJ Taiy Remix ]

All correct examples. But I stand by my statement: there are few homophones in Thai. Estimated less than 10 that occur in common conversation. (Similar for German) English has much more homophones than Thai. There are so many, I once bought a book that just lists homophones of the English language. (Similar for French) Chinese is full of homophones. I guess there is no word that has no homophones. That is because there are only about 400 possible syllables in Chinese, and each can have 4 tones, making 1600 possible sounds. For most sounds/words, there are various different spellings and meanings.

Before massage, I go to shower with my trousers on and take them off in the bathroom. There might be no hook, but I always found a rail for towel, and close my belt around the rail, then my trousers hang on my belt. After massage I have to remember to take my trousers with me to the bathroom. I sometimes forgot, but never had anything stolen in massage (or I didn't notice it).

I have no interest in sitting, chatting and drinking. I want to see boys in underwear, and be able to pick one to join me in bed. My preference would be on a beach or swimming pool, but gogo bars serve my needs.

You mean homophones, not homonyms. The number of homophones in Thai is very limited. I can only think of one common homophone na หน้า face and na น่า (prefix equivalent to English suffix -ing). For Chinese you are right, is has many. I read in a book that the highest number are 177 different ways to write "yi 4th tone", each with a different meaning. For Japanese, I can't judge.

I have no interest in host bars. When I'm in Pattaya alone, I don't go to Jomtien (I spend all my time in Sunee and Boystown, in that order). When I'm with a friend who wants to go to Jomtien, I join him but we don't stay long and I don't sit and drink in a bar (just walk through the soi). There are boys to my taste in Jomtien, my current and all time favorite works in a bar there.

Out of about 6 years in Thailand: Carrying my passport with me for 1 year. Being asked by police to see it: 0 times. Having it stolen: 1 time. Keeping my passport in my room for 5 years. Being asked by police to see it: 0 times. Having it stolen: 0 times. (It was Songkran 2013, and I had both my wallet and my passport wrapped in plastic bags. The thief probably wanted to steal my wallet. And that would have been the better outcome for both of us.)

Unfortunately, many books about Thailand do not have Thai names in Thai script, only romanized names. As there are various systems, I might not find the place under that romanized name, and anyway there will be more information on the internet in Thai language than in English language. Here a recent example: Tham Si Chom Phu which I convert back to ถ้ำสีชมพู Wat Tham Pha Ya Chang Phuek which I convert back to วัดถ้ำพญาช้างเผือก Both I understand after a second of thinking, without tone marks. But I have been to hundreds, nay thousands of places, and reading both Thai and romanized names. For general conversation I have no example where I read romanized without tone marks and understand what is meant.

The one gogo bar (Be-high) in Saphan Kwai (Pradipat more exactly) closed some years ago, and now there are several boy Karaokes left.

Continuation of language discussion from retirement thread www.gaythailand.com/forums/topic/11985-retirement/ I would not want to live anywhere without being able to read the language. For me as an introvert, reading is the most important means of information intake. I would rather be able to read and write in a language than to listen and speak if I had to choose. As soon as I knew that I would be spending more time in Thailand, I took classes in Thai (2010/2011) and now (2018) the same for Taiwan/Chinese. I agree with everything anddy said about learning Thai (grammar and writing/pronunciation quite straightforward). I'm not good at tones, but tones are not crucial for understanding. I can understand romanized Thai, which has no tones. You can argue that I know most words because I have seen them written in Thai.

Dolphin roundabout. There is an airplane as decoration at Terminal 21, for that reason I will go some day.

And where did those three come from? When I was offing from Screwboys 2010-2014 all my experiences were average or good (about 5 cases, Thai or Myanmar boys).