Tag Archives: Pattaya

Drinking Yourself To Death

June 12, 2018 – 1:07 pm

Every week the Pattaya Media highlights another farang leaving this mortal coil from suicide. Favorite methods of self-demise tend to be jumping from a condo, poison, or hanging yourself with a plastic bag around your head, but few people ever comment on the most popular technique ie drinking yourself to the grave, since the process […]

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Hotel Sòk-gà-bpròk

March 2, 2018 – 11:25 am

My friends in the finance sector travel 4-star. I once stayed at the Hotel Imperial in Biarritz with a French movie actress. The King Farouk suite was 5-star. I know the height of luxury. My travels around the world have been on a budget. Luckily my resources allow the minimum of comfort, however sometimes the […]

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Guilty Single Male On the Planet

November 18, 2017 – 7:16 pm

This photo of Al Franken mock-groping Leeann Tweeden on a C-4 to Iraq has convicted the Minnesota senator of sexual harassment and I have to admit to the same behavior. Noi Khang and I had been friend for over ten years in Pattaya. I remembered her being thin, Noi had a good appetite. Like most […]

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Peeping Tom ala Pattaya

November 1, 2017 – 11:03 pm

Voyeurism is the ageless fascination for an unseen spectator to view a person performing a natural act, usually sexual. This predilection has ruined some people’s lives when they’ve been caught by the authorities and several years ago in Pattaya an Estonian tourist was discovered taking snapshots of two Chinese women in the toilet. One of […]

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Thai Swearing 101

October 9, 2017 – 7:39 pm

Like most farangs I had a hard time learning Thai. I can tell a joke, although my wife says that I speak with funny accent. “You should hear my German.” Speaking a foreign language with a Boston accent has never been easy. One on one I catch the drift of the speaker’s meaning, but in […]

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