ChristianPFC

I had plenty of train rides that were >100% occupied, i.e. all seats occupied and people standing. On some rides, I had to stand. Open windows? Can't read a newspaper because wind blows to strong, and it blows in all kind of plant and animal matter, and in burning season flakes of soot! Nonetheless, train is my favorite method of transport, and it's amazing to walk through the tree, especially 3rd class, and observe all possible forms of live on a train.

The problem lies elsewhere. Morally, carving iron is as reprehensible as making shoes and belts from leather. The problem is that elephants are killed, in addition to being an endangered species. If only ivory from elephants that died peacefully from old age was carved, that would be fine for me. However, as this is difficult to control and verify, all ivory is banned.

A happy zone is an area where it is forbidden by law to overcharge, scam, rob or pickpocket tourists.

A car or motorbike? Heaven forbid! The inconvenience of parking and coming back to the same spot, and expenses for buying and maintaing it, far outweighs the advantages. Seems I have to try Uber next time I go to Chiang Mai. A friend in Bangkok swears by it, but in Bangkok I have no need. Last night, I had a 7 Baht (seven Baht!) songtheo ride about 10 km in Bangkok, around 11 pm. That comes as a surprise. In estimated 1000 taxi rides in Bangkok, I have encountered 1 (one single!) cute driver. However mocy and tuk-tuk can be cute.

When chatting with Thai or overhearing Thais chatting, "mai mi tang ไม่มีตัง" (tang is slang for money, short for satang) often comes up. The one thing that is most missing everywhere, everyone, is money. They can stay with their wife, kids, friends tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and the entire next week and get a financial bonus for long time today. Go stay with your wife, kids, friends tonight, but don't ask me for money for food or whatever!

Wrong country!

Not for me. My Songkran 2013 was the worst thing that ever happened to me. And this year still some inconveniences around Songkran (limited offer on market, restaurants closed).

A friend had the following information: landlord of Jupiter2002 saw that the business is going well and did not extend the lease, rather let it run our (or ask for an outrageous rent?) and operate a similar business in the place. Can anyone confirm?

From Maya to Adam's Apple it's 2.7 km, that would be 40 Baht in a Bangkok taxi. With aircon! Any time of the day! No haggling! Public transport (songtheos 30 Baht) and tuk-tuks in Chiang Mai are grossly overpriced compared to anywhere else in Thailand I have been, except Phuket and Samui.

When I went in 2013, I had to queue (and so had many others, around 100 waiting outside) in wet clothes to get in. The activities inside couldn't compensate for that. A never-again experience.

Troll or not troll, sglad writes good English and his posts are a pleasure to read. I hope some day he puts this skill into use to post interesting, useful, accurate, verifiable information about gay life in Thailand (and I wouldn't mind tourism, hotels, public transport, food).

Unrealistic. A belated April joke. Would cause as much trouble as changing the side of driving. If they go on, there will be a huge public outcry, could even start a civil war. I applaud the clearing of sidewalk in Silom and some other areas, where only overpriced crap was sold to tourists. (Easy to detect: markets for locals have prices posted. As soon as a wendor wields his electronic calculator and hammers in a number, you know you are going to be overcharged.) But street food is necessary, for millions to get a cheap and quick meal, and for ten or hundred thousands who work as cooks or waiters.

Lesbian bars! I didn't know such thing exists. I did some research into gay saunas, and it seems that one gay sauna is viable for every 500,000 inhabitants of a city. With fewer lesbians than gays (or they just lie low?) you need a much larger number. Let's assume for 5,000,000 inhabitants of a city, one lesbian bar is viable.

With the other pictures being pretty accurate, allowing to easily identifying the place, where was the last picture taken?

Never. I haven't even heard of this before this event. This dynamic pricing is to keep people busy. The same for all other memberships schemes I know of. About 10 years ago, I calculated advantages and disadvantages of membership at supermarket or agoda, and came to the conclusion that it inconveniences me more than I gain. (A Farang friend came to the same conclusion and rejects all discount vouchers and similar stuff.) For me, the anger about changing prices is stronger than the joy about a cheap flight. Anyway, this is all just to trick your mind. Sounds like a conspiration theory, but I think most of what happens nowadays is to either anger the public or to make them happy, just to keep them busy to they don't know, leave alone think, about the real problems. I have flown about 200 times in my life (others probably more, share your stories), and never missed a flight or couldn't take it because something more important came up in my life. For this reason, I don't take travel insurance which is usually 10% of the flight. Taking the risk is cheaper for me. Anyway, I would have a system of the shorter before flight you cancel, the lower the refund. Like 1 month 90%, 2 weeks 50%, 1 week 30%.

Because there is no other choice. Similar to cathode ray TVs and monitors. Do you remember these heavy and bulky devices? Now replaced completely by flat screens, but at that time there was nothing better.

What is the reason for the bar closing? I would say as the smallest bar in Pattaya, Vassa just had not enough volume. A bar twice the size of Vassa and twice the number of boys would pay double for rent and double for the boys, but draw in three times the number of customers. Vassa was simply below the optimum size.

I used the word troll incorrectly. None of your posts were "disruptive or attempting to sow discord", but most of what you write is difficult to believe. However, I'm a scientist, I don't believe, I know or I don't know, verify or falsify facts. But I can't verify everything, especially if logic is working against me. If I meet you in Chiang Mai that proofs that you are there, but if I don't meet you in Chiang Mai that does not proof that you are not there. It's very easy to proof that someone is who he claims, just meet an established forum member. It's difficult, close to impossible, to proof that someone is not who he claims. Welcome to gaythailand, try your luck here! Share your experiences, ask your questions, let's see what others think. I'm certainly willing to give you another chance.

As far as I see when I book flights, flexible flights are about twice the price of fixed (date and time) flights. And fees for changing date and time of flight are substantial, estimated 10-20% of flight price. There is something wrong (morally) in this scheme of overbooking flights. You just don't treat your customers that way (only in airlines and gogo bars - I'm referring to vinapu's reports on boys reneging on settled deals when something better came along - does this pass without customers boycotting the business). We established above that this lowers prices in low single digit percent range. I would rather pay a few percent more and do away with overbooking and dynamic pricing.

On the other hand, it's a buyer's market. Most boys don't have a customer. And furthermore, the customer has the option to have a wank to porn instead of offing a boy, whereas the boy has no other option to get money for food and rent.

Different pricing structure. Girls command short time fees starting at 3000 Baht, from reading stickmanweekly. So drinks are cheaper in girly bars, but short time or long time is more expensive. And there is this awful coyote girl scam, girls that cannot be barfined or command even higher fees, like 1000 off fee and 5000 short time.

This is the address: http://christianpfc.blogspot.com/ Can you open it? If not, I have no idea. But let me know where you are, it might be location.

Singaporean exchange student in Chiang Mai? I have heard that story before: http://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showthread.php?18348-Hey-there! (for those who don't read SGT: sglad was outed as troll and banned there)

After many years of experience (sounds nicer than: disappointments, lies and deceptions) I do long time only if we click and the boy initiates it.