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Liar ! very poor people are not flying in from Australia to vacation in Thailand or Philippines. They may have problem to gather enough for local bus ticket or discounted meal at McDonalds

we must be long lost twin brothers

while I fully agree with you I need to add that tipping waiter or anybody else whatever amount just for being pretty is fully warranteed. Sometimes we see in bars people hanging those 1000 baht garlands on guys and they neither off them nor invite them for a drink ( of course possibility exists that off was arranged beforehand )

Answer is NO. Your attempt to make fun of me 😄 brings important issue here. We should keep in mind that our posts possibly can be read by people featuring in them , be it boys , forum members, mamasans, bar owners etc or be shown to them by other people who read it here. Years ago I remember on one of those forums member complaining that boy he offed told him he was shown some post about either himself or his bar by other member. I suspect that when after some visit at Jupiter I complained here about music too loud and AC too strong they could see it as on next visit few days later both were toned down. So when we post something some degree of discretion may be warranted if we would rather to have our post NOT TO BE VERY PUBLIC.

great piece of advice and we can only boys acquire those simple yet crucial skills. I very strongly can relate to 1,3 and 5 as practically never ( perhaps 5 exceptions in 33 trips ) engage guy who is not smiling or showing an interest in me somehow. No matter how handsome or bulgy they are , ignoring me means me ignoring them. If only management of Jupiter would understand this. As a meter of policy I always ask my Long Time offs and usually also short timers if they want to eat and also when passing by 7/11 if they want something from there. This gives an opportunity for me to size them up and creates an additional good will. To their credits not too often they order most expensive dishes and almost never try to milk me on something expensive at 7/11 although it happens at times. And 'Don't rush" thing , sigh. There's list of great guys in my head who squandered their chances for repeat business because they decided to leave ASAP under some idiotic pretence. Next time they are looking for business I bluntly tell them why I'm not interested anymore. Very few were forgiven. On another hand I don't mind even very short session if they tell me in advance that they can stay only , say 1 hr, no matter what the reason as long as I'm warned of. One of my semi-regulars recently can stay only till 3 on directions of possessive girlfriend but that disclaimer is first thing he mentions when I hint I want him to check my recently acquired stamps.

be more optimistic. All those generals and officers have wives who like to shop an get their hairdressing abroad and it's only matter of concerted effort of Thai society an foreign powers before generals will return their soldiers to barracks.

again, I'm not saying that tip is too high. IMHO it's not fair to bar guy who will be sitting with you , also cute , otherwise why you had him sitting with you ? And for being subject of your wandering hands for perhaps as long as 27 minutes you would tip him 100-200

but at least he did not try to play melody about bias and discrimination against their citizens

when comes to boys tips I always though sky is the max they may ask for.

you overreacted, 2000 Usd per month it's 2400 baht per day. That's not expensive to have guy at disposal I assume LT every day. Of course only if he is worth such semi-permanency.

that is their way of showing you how much tip they expect you to leave them just for bringing you a drink. Since I don't like those tactics either I take great care to have enough exact change when bar hopping. My usual tip for bringing drink is 20 baht. My logic is that higher tip would not be fair to boys who are sitting with us , often for quite long and allow some progressive good inspections and then we tip them 100-200 for their time and trouble.

as far as I'm concerned we don't. As much as I like boys and do my best to be fair to them as soon as I notice they have problem of separating themselves from their phones I will remind them, sometimes quite brutally that they are on paid time, paid by me. Fortunately I did not notice that being big issue, boys I offed in the past know already and those who are new may get a word from their bar friends. There are exceptions . Those who are reading my trip reports may recall that few trips ago I had guy whom I took from Pattaya for 4 days break in BKK and on the very first morning when I complained that he is supposed to pay attention to me, not his phone. He took offence and took off. To his credit when I saw him in Pattaya week or two later he admitted how stupid he was , forfeiting good 12000 baht over stupid phone. We called peace after that and I offed him again - he took great care not to tough his phone even when he went to bathroom. Lesson from that is that they are testing our bounds and it's better to show them at first occasion what those are.

I believe you wanted to say 'hold my shirt " not ' shit ?

this is one of quite a few things I don't like about Jupiter, those first row seats reserved for ' better' customers. But fortunately their boys are easy on eyes so I suffer in silence that indignity of being relegated to back benches.

no, Ake or Aek

+1

only time you may get some freshy air in Bangkok

Nothing naive in my opinion, just opposite finally brave. Sooner or later issue must come to the top , if only because there are people who are rotting in jails just because they opined about you know whose dog is of not pure race. I will never forget my shock when walking with the guy I asked him why there are so many portraits of former ...... and he whispered to my ear , first carefully looking around "it's his birthday" like it would be top state secret. Then I realised terror sown in people's minds by 112. If such law existed in USA 100 million people will be incarcerated just for saying loudly that Binden may be too old for 2nd term Handy use of it to silence any critics , real or imagined is real and like somebody noticed above , very 19th century, specially in country with skyscrapers , jets , multilane highways and electricity everywhere.

Indeed !!! Botswana rocks ! as for covid thing , I'm afraid Lyles could distribute it wider

this year, after 32 years of break I decided watch Olympics again and with plenty of time on my hands I marathon daily 8am to 4 pm and again 8 to 11 pm , day after day. I don't use ant platform , just watch what is available for free on public TV and that is plenty. But after 10 days noisy and repetitive commercial are getting under my collar. I understand that it's a price for free TV but still at times I feel it's too much. Good that some genius invented ' mute' button on my remote. It's already showing sign of wear and tear ( and so am I ). Only 4 more days to go !

if only in Tawan they had such good looking guys , sigh and sigh again

and unknowingly they help to distribute world's wealth more evenly

perhaps you are in wrong crowd? after all 14 millions voted for now disbanded party and it's safe to assume that at least half of them feel bitter about recent development

not unknown to science, one of Tawan boys I know run through at least 3 nicks.