Are you sociable ?

[Patanawet]

On 11/25/2022 at 10:43 AM, maump said:

 

.  but if you are alone at the bar or sittting next to me at a gogo bar without a boy, i will probably try to start a conversation. 

Please don't.

[Londoner]

It was difficult enough for me to engage in any sort of verbal contact with the guys I offed from bar. An inevitably better-looking and wealthier falang  would have made it impossible!

[forrestreid]

16 hours ago, Olddaddy said:

Stranger even is sometime on a message board who could appear to be extrovert then meet them in real life and it's the scrawny bloke in the corner with thick glasses with his head down 🤣

Indeed. You never know who you are going to meet if you venture to see them in real life.

I remember one time a trip I took to Pattaya coincided with a birthday party in a Sunee Plaza bar organised by Rainwalker, a poster on one of the boards (think he has since passed on, unfortunately). He issued  a general invitation to board members to come, and I went along.

I didn’t really recognise anybody, and so was going around introducing myself by my screen name, and giving my real name, and asking theirs. It was interesting to see the faces behind some of the handles. But I was a bit taken aback that some refused to divulge their forum name. I though it was a bit weird. Okay if you want to be discreet about your real personal details, but why not say that you are "olddaddy" or "floridarob" or whatever?

There was one particularly grumpy-looking middle-aged guy sitting alone and looking a bit fed-up who I went over to chat too, and when I asked him his handle, he answered "I  prefer to be discreet about that". Feeling a bit annoyed about what I saw as a rather precious attitude, I impulsively said to him "a guy over at that other table told me he thought you were Bad Boy Billy", just to wind him up. (Bad Boy Billy was an Australian poster at the time who was a bit of a troll, and always starting rather sensational and probably made-up threads about this sexual exploits. Maybe he’s your cousin Olddaddy, lol).

Anyway, to my surprise, the guy didn't realise that I was patently pulling his leg and very indignantly demanded that I point out who it had said it with the implication that he was about to go over and confront him!  I had to admit I had made it up.

Our chat didn't last too long after that...
 

[gayinpattaya]

When I first moved to Thailand and was living in Bangkok, I felt obliged to meet up with forum members. Most of them were ok, although not my people. I met a couple of real weirdos. This one dude with his pen and notepad, writing about boys clothing. Well, they write horror movies about freaks like that.  There were men who I was scared to even be seen talking to. I learned my lesson there. My best meet was FloridaRob. We honestly hate each other, but we have different taste in boys, can chat about a load of rubbish, and nothing is ever taken too serious. 

If you have never met anyone from here before, just meet FloridaRob. He's so laid back, he's usually laying on it. 

 

[floridarob]

You're just giving me a compliment before I could shit on you 😝

[VancBCMan]

Like many of the folks who have responded to this topic, I am also shy and an introvert.

But I do connect with folks I know well and keep in touch and communicate with them often.

At a go-go bar, I won't be sitting in a corner, but won't be sitting in a prime location either.

I normally don't start up a conversation with strangers. However, one the exceptions is when I'm on a group tour. Since I travel on my own, I try and connect with a couple of people that I think I may have something in common with. We usually hit it off and we then try and look after each other for the rest of the trip. Also keep in touch with them after the trip.