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June 2008

Enslaved Bar Girls in Pattaya??

by The Farang June 11, 2008 Bangkok Nightlife

This was originally a series of posts but they have been collapsed into one post here. Hat tip to the Pattaya Rag for this one. In a piece titled “PBS´ Carrier: Why Didn´t They Film the Rape-Stops?” on the American Spectator Suki Falconberg makes the following statement. I notice that during this 2005 six-month deployment [...]

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Spotting The Lady Boy

by Billy Bangkok June 11, 2008 Popular

In case you’ve missed it, I put together a fun little game where I took five pictures of Thai models/actresses and five pictures of lady boys and asked people to guess which is which. If you haven’t taken the test already, get your butt over there and give it a shot. No fair peeking With [...]

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Can’t I Just Read The Paper?

by Billy Bangkok June 8, 2008 Thai Girls

There’s absolutely no moral to this story nor much point to it other than to share one of those crazy experiences that only seem to happen to you in Thailand.  I was holiday in Bangkok without much on the agenda for the day other than the remote possibility that I might find myself motivated enough [...]

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Trying To Understand Bar Economics

by Billy Bangkok June 8, 2008 Tourist Life

As a business person who loves to ponder the economics of various business models I find that I am either at a total loss for how the economics of bars/go-go’s in Thailand work or there seems to be a huge potential for someone who wishes to shake up the market.  Hopefully, someone who reads this [...]

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Conflict Resolution in Thailand

by The Farang June 7, 2008 Expat Life

On my last trip to Bangkok I had gone and run some early morning errands and was on my way back to my hotel on Soi 11.  It was, as usual, hot as hell out and by the time I had made it up around Hillary II Bar I didn’t need much of an excuse [...]

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A Reluctant Traveller

by The Farang June 1, 2008 Tourist Life

Early in 2003 the scuba diving shop I used to dive with was planning a trip to Phuket.  The dive master/instructor leading the trip was one of my best mates at the time and he pressured me relentlessly to sign up for the trip.  The only problem was that I had zero desire to travel [...]

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