Tag Archives: farangs

Fashion Faux-Pas in Pattaya

May 23, 2012 – 12:11 pm

Pattaya is a well-known beach resort for a variety of reasons, but the fashion consciousness of its male farang population is certainly not one of the drawing points. The town boasts more sweep-over hair-dos than a General MacArthur lookalike jamboree and a surprising number of gentlemen sport beards and moustaches better suited a b-grade pirate […]

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The Fatality of Infidelity in Thailand

May 18, 2012 – 12:56 pm

Several years ago my friend, Sam Royalle, suspected his girlfriend was seeing another man. “It wouldn’t bother me if he was farang, but I think he’s Thai.” “How do you know that?” I always have suspected that the reason Thai girls insist of showering after sex is to erase any evidence of sex, although the […]

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The 6th Commandment in Pattaya

August 5, 2011 – 11:40 pm

The religious right in America have sought to increase the influence of God on the government by trying to place the 10 Commandments in various courthouses and legislature. While I am not a follower of the bearded Jehovah in the flowing muumuu, I have nothing against erection of the twin tablets of NO this and […]

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Sorry is Not Enough

August 4, 2011 – 1:47 am

My sins are legion, but as George Carlin states in his famous monologue THE TEN COMMANDMENTS that the having ten was only a marketing device. The late comedian trimmed the commandments down to two along with Thou Shalt Keep Thy religion to Thyself. Thou shalt not steal is downsized to being honest, however honesty is […]

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End of Moneyless Utopia

December 27, 2010 – 1:41 pm

My daughter was born seven years ago on New Year’s Day. My son will be two and a half. My two step-children are still under ten. I love them all and reacted immediately to their mothers’ request for money by tramping through the snowdrifts of Brooklyn to the nearest Duane Reade to send money. “Couldn’t […]

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