thaiophilus
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18 hours ago, vinapu said:
isn't it better to talk to real doctor ? Most of us perhaps are not qualified enough to understand and even less to qualify what Dr. Google type of websites are telling
Certainly. (Probably better still to talk to a pharmacist - they are likely to have more detailed knowledge of things like drug interactions etc 😀.)
But the site I linked may provide helpful basic information to answer most of the questions that have been asked above (how long does it last, what are the side-effects etc.). It's a bit more than "Dr Google" : the information is authored by a team of identifiable doctors, name-checked complete with their professional registration data.
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12 hours ago, BiggusDikkus said:
So is one of these drugs, Viagra or Cialis, more effective than the other? Does one have fewer side effects? I've only tried Viagra, and it leaves me a terrible two-day headache.
Cialis lasts longer (something like 36 hours compared with 4 for the others) which may be why it's also prescribed for BPH.
Otherwise just try them and see which has fewest side-effects (headaches etc) but also note that some of them can interact with other medication and some heart conditions.
You can find more useful medical information on the Doctor Fox website. (But note that as a registered and regulated online UK pharmacy they won't deliver abroad 😕)
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1 hour ago, macaroni21 said:
Not a crazy story at all. This really happened to millions of Cambodians in 1975 - 1979 after the Khmer Rouge took over. I don't see any embellishment at all in the story he told you.
Indeed. Two phrases for anyone who thinks it's fiction: Killing Fields and Tuol Sleng.
When I first visited back in the late 1990s a couple of statistics stuck in my brain. At that time the median age of the population was around 16 years, and around 1 in 250 of the population were amputees.
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3 hours ago, BiggusDikkus said:
From the story:
Despite the encouraging results from our study and the fact that drugs to treat erectile dysfunction are now available without a prescription
Really? Where? (I mean other than at any drugstore in Thailand.)
In the UK, any pharmacy can supply Viagra Connect (50mg) without a prescription.
For bigger doses or alternatives to sildenafil there are online GP services where you just fill in an online self-assessment form and a real GP signs a private prescription (for a fee, naturally). Also useful (and cheaper than the high street) for getting anti-malarials and other travel medication that needs a prescription. The reputable ones don't bombard you with emails.
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3 hours ago, BiggusDikkus said:I don't understand this strategy. Why not lie and say it's your first time, then call out the mama-san when the BS starts?
Because "face" is not a zero-sum game, and calling someone out is not a winning strategy in Thai culture. If you make someone lose face, you are inviting trouble. You are also perceived to lose face on your own account because of your inappropriate (as they see it) behaviour. Moreover, if you make a scene, that embarrasses the onlookers and can make them lose face too.
On the other hand by discreetly signalling that you have already heard all the BS (true or not) you enable everyone to save face.
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1 hour ago, Tomm42 said:
It looks a very modest shop indeed for an outfit to be charging what its site suggests it charges. It doesn’t even look open!
theophilus - I’d be really keen to get a sense what you thought of the session you had there, and how long it lasts as the site is very vague on length of time. Did the clinician whom you couldn’t choose deliver an earth shattering treatment? Hehe
It was several years ago, so my recollection isn't going to be exact.
I suspect some of us first came to LoS expecting to find skilled oriental courtesans tending to our every exotic need, only to find that mostly we're dealing with obliging but unskilled farmboys. If so, this might be the other side of the coin 😀.
"Very modest shop" - that's the street door in the picture. More "discreet" than "modest", I think. Inside, it's as you might imagine from the pictures on the website. Lots of wood panelling, crisp linen, elegant decorations, very spa-like.
How long it lasts? probably 45 minutes for each part. I imagine if you book just the tantric massage it would be an hour or more.
Earth-shattering treatment? yes and no, the therapist deliberately doesn't deliver that, which is sort of the point. The aim is for you to lie back, close your eyes, relax in a meditative sort of way, and think of England while he edges you just to this side of the earthquake, and you're supposed to tell him if he's going too far (no need, he was pretty good at judging it.) After that, you get a few minutes to relax before the conventional masseur takes over, and from there on you are in control again and the earth shatters (or not) as you wish.
Did I enjoy it? Yes. If you like skilled delayed gratification and the sensation of having somebody else taking care of everything, that's what you'll get.
Would I go again? Not often, but I wouldn't say "never": it is expensive, and it is an impersonal sort of experience compared with the usual massage, but I don't regret having tried it.
If you don't try it, you'll never know.
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Two airlines, but is it one ticket? If so the delay is their responsibility and they should make some effort to get you on another flight. If not, ☹️
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15 hours ago, vinapu said:
I leave it to others to try then
I said "the atmosphere they are trying to create". Didn't say they succeeded 😀
BTW membership and dress code were not required.
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3 hours ago, Tomm42 said:
Reader and vinapu - I’ve just scoured and search, and the bangkok spa outfit I meant is spabangkok - https://spabangkok.net/silom/ . But gosh, baht3200 that they have advertised there for their tantric massage - and likely tips on top of that - is very steep! I’m mulling… and wonder if any in the forum have tried that!
Yes, once, because if you don't try you'll never know. I went for the package with tantric followed by a regular (HE) "aroma" massage. The etiquette is interesting: You choose the regular masseur from a lineup and are expected to tip him, but you don't get to choose the tantric therapist (I think that's the most appropriate word - he dresses more like a doctor than a masseur) and you don't tip him, so the atmosphere they are trying to create is that the tantric part is more like a medical procedure than a sexual service.
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1 hour ago, Olddaddy said:
Yes I think the poppers did cause a infection in my throat ,what's in them ?
It's a leather cleaner apparently
Two minutes on Google would tell you what's in them.
They are alkyl nitrites. Used medicinally they are a treatment for angina. Some are safer than others, but when they are mislabelled as leather cleaner, who knows what's in them?
The "leather cleaner" nonsense is part of the pretence that they are not for human consumption and therefore not subject to medicines legislation.
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On a lighter note re. poppers:
Recently I was walking past a piece of waste ground near my home and saw evidence of a party of some kind. Among the discarded beer cans and laughing-gas cylinders was one solitary party popper 🎉. I wonder if someone had heard that you can get high by inhaling them? 🤣
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3 hours ago, Slvkguy said:
if it’s parasites - the treatment is 10 days of Flagyl. DO NOT DRINK ALCOHOL WHILE ON THAT DRUG
Metronidazole, sold under the brand name Flagyl among others, is an antibiotic and antiprotozoal medication. It is used either alone or with other antibiotics to treat pelvic inflammatory disease, endocarditis, and bacterial vaginosis. It is effective for dracunculiasis, giardiasis, trichomoniasis, and amebiasis.
The alcohol warning should be taken seriously, because It has similar effects to disulfiram aka antabuse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronidazole#Adverse_effects
It can also interact unpleasantly with many other substances, so make sure you come clean with the doctor about anything else you might be taking.
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3 hours ago, gerefan said:
On arrival at BKK I always bear right at Immigration and go through the fast lane (sign posted Diplomatic ...but when you get further along it also says Seniors). Over 70.
Got through in less than one minute!
There is also the same thing in Departures. Well worth knowing about.
Is 70 the threshold "senior" age? There doesn't seem to be a consensus in other parts of LOS (TiT, after all).
For example, on MRT (quoting from memory) the wording is something like "persons over 65 are entitled to discounted travel; persons over 60 have the privilege ..." regardless of nationality. On BTS the discount is for Thai nationals only.
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2 hours ago, gerefan said:
“Sunny Plaza contains many bars”
Are you sure about that? Apart from the two Gogo bars (Winner and Nice Boys) there are perhaps only 2 or 3 other bars left. They are usually empty.
So even by your reckoning that's at least four or five functioning bars, empty or not. I hope you'll agree that a bar with no customers is still a bar?
How big is "many", and is a bar that's closed still a bar? 😵
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5 hours ago, 12is12 said:
Like Ben, I've never been to Pattaya and intend to visit (Nov). I went over Vinapu's post, and marked all the places on gglmps. Here comes my first batch of newbie questions.
1. Why r NiceBoys & others defined as Jometien Complex, when they r so far from it?
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4. According to gglmps, Sunee Plaza bar is "prmnntly clsd"....
1. *Where* are they defined as Jomtien? Nice Boys and Winner are both in Sunee (ok, NB is technically just outside, but it's at the entrance)
4. Sunee Plaza contains many bars. Not all are shown on Google. Some are closed, permanently or otherwise, but not all.
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4 hours ago, z909 said:
Something similar to the photos below would be sufficient to win my custom.
Just for the record and as a matter of public interest, which bar was that, please? and which year? 😀
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2 hours ago, PeterRS said:
I agree totally with @thaiophilus. That is a particularly long thread and basically compares parts of Ukraine with Taiwan. I don't see any proselytsing for Putin, merely what it is like to live in Russia and the various benefits citizens get from the state compared to Taiwan.
I don't entirely agree 🙃. It has probably mutated (I tuned out after a hundred or so pages) but the earlier part of the thread did indeed contain a good deal of pro-Putin DARVO, though it is diluted by all the usual suspects trying to score points off one another.
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