I have a trimmed beard and have been told I look like a fat monkey from a little girl begging for money hahaha

A couple girls have asked me to shave. When I told them no they didn't seem to mind. I will admit, I look better when I keep it under control.

Thanks for the replies everyone especially jspill. I know my pictures are a problem and I actually tried to get the first girl I met to help me take some - not for dating sites, but to register as an extra with casting agencies talked about at the beginning of this thread (I guess they could be used for both).

The second one everyone says I look real rapey was supposed to be for my book jacket/press stuff - kind of how Robert Parker or Stephen King try to look all bad-ass: http://imgur.com/EiJPs5b, http://imgur.com/5it9w7h (it's strange people want artists to be "tortured souls", but only sometimes I guess)

Yeah, the beard definitely gets a reaction. Walking down Cowboy the coyotes were grabbing it to pull me into the bars lol. Some of the tuk tuk drivers have said "cool" or "viking!" and I got a lot of those reactions in San Fran too. There's actually a bead in it now which was a suggestion from a friend when we we're 15 and listening to Cypress Hill: http://imgur.com/nIXeiFG

So, yeah I'm not sure if I should keep growing it, add more beads, trim it down, shave or what - probably why I'm looking for a woman - thinking I need some feminine influence in my life.

As far as where I've been looking for women. I took the advice and stayed right on Nana for 5 days and looked for a place within 5-10 BTS stops for longer term (found something nice off On Nut). So, since I was in Nana the first week most of the women I met were in the bars there. I think I might have been too honest with them though when I said I was looking for a partner/longer term because I got this emoji a lot

When I moved to On Nut though, one of the bar girls from Nana came over and said she had a friend and the next day I was getting a lot of interest from several very good looking women, but I was very confused (and still am) because there were so many of them and she had said "a" friend and this was only a few hours later.

So, it seemed like a lot of people were trying to set me up even parents and I was having a hard time telling what was a scam (and still am). Like I mentioned, I had been buying a lot of people drinks, not trying to be a baller or anything just friendly, and I think that's where the reputation came from.

All in all though, the experience so far as been a bit overwhelming and made me a little gun-shy. There's already the wealth disparity to begin with, but for me I think the problem is compounded because my appearance and education suggest much more money than I actually have. People are looking at me as a "provider", however one of the reasons I'm searching for a "partner" is to boost my income (someone to fight on my side since it seems everyone else is only out for themselves - including my own family).

You don't go looking for woman to be in a meaningful relationship or for the longer term at Nana or Soi Cowboy, you go there looking for sex. Should be quite obvious but don't fall in love with working girls, don't get attached, you will get played so hard, they are experts at it and you most likely will be left behind heartbroken and scammed out of some money.

Just go there to bang some hotties, don't be to serious about it. In the mean time stick to online dating for filtering out and meeting the more normal girls that are GF material.

Best of luck to you, appreciate the honesty in your posts.

Hi, what withdrawal options are working for poker sites?Is other wallets like Ecopayz,Skrill avaible for Thailand?Or only Netteler?

Hate to break it to you but, south east Asia is prob not gonna be the place... Especially if you have an affinity for places like Nana.

i agree. gogos in pattaya along walking street are great for drinking with cheap draught beer.

have a session late afternoon early evening in soi 6, drink on walking street, then go to insomnia at the end of the night for one more session.

i barfined one girl on a recent visit to bkk. actually, i barfined two, but one i kicked out because she wanted to just lay there like a corpse and was saying no to this and that. loss of the 700 baht barfine, but in in the room i got her naked and felt her up a lot. really nice body.

the girl i barfined and did **** was great. nice tight body, young, energetic, finger blasted herself on the floor at one point, wanted my cum on her face (not many thai girls like it). 2500 + 700 BF, didn't even want get around to buying her a drink in the gogo. she did insist on going to another gogo to drink which cost me 560 baht i think. normally this is huge red flag, but i trusted my mongering intuition and it worked out well.

but it really takes years of mongering experience to know to pull the trigger on a chick, whether to bail, whether to persist when they show questionable behavior.

it worked out great for me, and the price was what i consider about right.

but you have to go to a lot of gogos, and have been around a lot of gogo girls to find an experience like that in 2017.

i'm tight-aggressive in the gogos. can nit it up all night. not buy a drink (can't lose what you don't put in the middle eh). a lot of less experienced guys looking for pussy will succumb 3, 4, 5 gogos in. i can wait to the 12th or 14th gogo i visit, and still i'm prepared to walk away at the end of the night feeling completely happy with how my night went.

Maybe a scammer is exactly what I'm looking for? Except someone to run a "scam" on a person who has money of mine? And who says the two are mutually exclusive - falling in love and finding a scammer?

Also, I never specified what kind of "partner" I was looking for. Perhaps "partner in crime" should have been the labeled I used?

I do appreciate your concern as the environment does appear very dangerous and hostile. Maybe that's just what I need though.

So you go to a poor third world country to find a co-earner? Just not gonna happen. In Thailand men are still men for the most part, which means you take care of the finances or there is just no interest.

You're far too emotional for Thailand.

Thailand relationships are: I got a good stable income and will take care of you. Just look pretty, put out when I require, cook some stuff for me and clean the place. No high level conversion will ever take place. If the money is gone she leaves.

Western country: I want my best friend forever who happens to be female, earns about as much as me, is willing to tolerate weakness and capable of intellectual conversions.

Totally different mindset, which is why thai - western relationships rarely if ever work out.

I don't think that's quite true. Because this "hypothetical" person who has money of mine, well, I have concrete evidence backed up in multiple locations that could put this person in prison for a very long time.

So, if I was too emotional as you say, I don't think I would have pondered that decision for several years now. I think I have just the right amount of emotion like I mentioned how my dating profile was arrogant, but not overly so.

Anyways, as hard as it was - I must minimize problems - and it is not my job to "police" what I think other people are doing as "wrong" no matter how much it screws up my life.

That's me though. Someone with much less opportunity and restraint in a developing country, well, who knows what they would/could do.

Iliveinasia is pretty correct on this one.
Of course there are outliers but you need to be pretty established here to break into the circle of Thais you are looking for.

Have you been to the other soi nana in the Chinatown vicinity? It's where bar 23 moved to, tep bar, etc... Google it and you'll find it. You'll have a better chance of finding more like minded artist types there and pretty much zero hookers.

No, but thanks for the recommend. I've walked past there a couple times going to Mangkon Kamalawat Temple and other places. Actually found 20 baht on the ground that morning and put it in the donation box at the temple. Seemed like a perfect little karma circle/mandala.

By the way, the worst part about that hypothetical situation I described with money being taken from me is that I'm a sole proprietorship officially registered as a charity. I mean who steals from charity?

Don't want to be mean, but you're weird af, I'm sure you creep out most girls your interact with over here, with all that hypothetical nonsense.

You come across the dude who bangs a hooker and falls in love and shares all his secrets and fkd up thoughts all on the first night. And just goes on about issues from his childhood and what else.

Might be totally off, but you kind give that vibe in the few posts you made. Just chill out and try to have a good time without all the drama

I think you'd do 10 times better in the Philippines, they like older guys, don't care about beards, speak English, are all up for a serious relationship, and are a bit more compatible with western guys. I'd consider taking trips there every visa run, maybe 2 months at a time in each country so you never have any Thailand visa issues (you can do 6 months a year just on visa exemptions). Half the year in each country. Work on girls in each, but mix in more hookers in Thailand and more LTRs the Philippines.

+1

I hope this guy starts a blog ASAP - who doesn't like seeing a good car crash?

OK well just got jumped and robbed
So, I 1000% don't recommend Thailand
Taxi took me to a blind alley
Got my $400 cell phone and a $300 prepaid Visa
Don't mind fighting one on one
But some pussy ass ***** Thai kicked me in the ribs while I had another dude on the ground
At least they don't smile like when they f*ck you in like in America "It's what's best for you"

full story please

yeah, tell us everything. metered taxi?

Use Uber or flag down your own taxi, ignore the drivers that come up to you

I'd like to hear this story. Leaving from where, going to where?
I know it's happened in this country before but seems pretty few and far between but if it happened to me I'd feel pretty turned off.

Honestly SEA may not be the place for you. May not be worth the mental anguish that is probably needed for you to adjust.

full story is i've had a target on my back since i got here
most people who others would call "big time" would have bodyguard/security
management is not just obviously "slow" mentally, but cheap as well
end of sotry

lmao, alright time for you to leave now

Yes, the Philippines is better for us this guy. It's no coincidence that Dante hates Thailand but loves the Philippines.

There's a lot of other costs associated with it.

It's an acceptable price for a good ****, but when you get some starfish clockwatcher it's burning money.

In Cambodia or Indonesia or Soi 6 or insomnia its no big deal. I'm out 40 of 50 bucks.

If you pay 3k plus bf, 1 ld, st room you're looking at more like $125.

if a girl wants, can she pay her own barfine and leave work for the night?