If you are a bit more ambitious, work long hours in a job / on a business that requires smarts, did not get that work via corruption, actually make decent money from it, you got exactly zero in common with thais you will normally meet anywhere.

Thailand is a feudal peasant society, with the royals on top, then high level corrupt officials, then business people of chinese descent, then hereditary land owners, then the peasant masses that have next to no education of western standard. Neither of them has a concept of the world outside Thailand or an interest in it, save for middle class Bangkok girls that want you to finance their sex and the city life in NYC.

They mostly eat in dingy restaurants you wouldn't go to, live in ****ty apartments that are often worse than European prison cells etc.

It's not a place where you exactly should aspire to integrate.

Most younger western people living in Thailand long term either have a sufficient number of western acquaintances to talk to or live their life mostly on the internet.

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the only deep ''interactions'' i have with thai people is in the bedroom ahhahaha

don't you mean "deep" interactions?

He means f**king.

I don't recommend Fast-Track if you want to avoid immigration hassles. I think it makes it more likely you'll be denied because they scrutinize your record in advance of going to the immigration counter. I was detained for 3 hours yesterday and they never even asked to see money or accused me of working.

Do you use VPNs in Thailand? Any problems associated with not using a VPN?

i meant "deep" to highlight his small pecker

Porn is blocked so you'll need a VPN to access many sites + a selected few websites like http://www.andrew-drummond.com/ which were blocked for defamation or w/e.

not that i'd read it anyway but its funny that the daily mail is blocked here

What service did you use?

The one I used, Bangkok flight services, doesn't have your record before you arrive at the counter, they have nothing to scrutinize, it's not immigration it's a separate company.

What happened in those 3 hours?

Just saw Tim sharky on beach road , so he's alive

Have pokerstars, skrill, or neteller USD for thai baht if anyone's interested, post or pm me.

On a related topic, would anyone be able to post a walkthrough of how to get Skrill/Neteller $ ---> Cryptocurrency ---> thai baht that someone whose never used a crypto would be able to follow?

Don't use https://www.limousine.in.th/ . They use immigration services and they scrutinize your record in advance of your arrival.

I used that one twice with no issues. If what you say is true it's pretty weird cuz my passport history looks ugly af.

Selling 27" BenQ few months old, PM if interested

Have you guys ever eaten pot noodles in the 7/11? If so do you or the staff put hot water in the pot? I ask because this ***** refused to put water in telling me to put it in myself, it was late and I couldn't be arsed working out how the machine worked but this ugly hoe insisted I do it myself.

I thought they do service in there, like microwave **** etc, what about pot noodles?? Lol, srs would like to know though!

Seems like they do just about everything in 7-11. Has to be one of the worse jobs in the country but the hot water in the noodles may be over by the slurpees.
This particular dumb ho may have been within her right to refuse your drunk ass.

Edit - ugly ho, sorry

Welcome to the land of ****ty customer service.

Even in the rare few restaurants where staff wais to me (seems to be going out of fashion if you don't want to suck up to someone) they regularly mess up my orders.

But, nothing social happens without food.

i was once with a thai girlfriend (by girlfriend i mean prostitute you rent from crazy house) who got a bowl of noodles from family mart to eat in the room. it was already 4am by this stage so i didn't mind. i don't remember her boiling water or anything.

Just finishing my first 24 hrs in BKK. Random thoughts/experiences:

- Got ****ed buying a SIM card. Went to MBK and found a phone kiosk. Asked for a month of data/phone. 800 baht sounded like too much but I just wanted to get it done. After talking to a few more vendors and other people, I got ****ed hard.

- First meal: Spicy pork soup. 60 baht. Filling and delicious.

- Motorcycle taxis are so fun and so dangerous. I will probably die on one.

- Lots of girls chatting on ThaiFriendly =/= lots of girls willing to **** for free. Met a girl from Tinder at a bar near Nana BTS. She was only part Thai; her attitude was actually very Western. Just had a few drinks then she split. Not a bad experience, but certainly not an easy lay either.

- Drinking in BKK is EXPENSIVE! 300 baht for entry and 1 drink at the bar, then 1000 baht for 3 more drinks??? And the girl was Thai and assured me these weren't farang prices. I won't be doing this type of thing very often, if at all.

- It's deceptively hot right now. Like, it doesn't feel that hot walking outside, and it's mostly raining, but after walking a quarter mile I was drenched in sweat.


Ironically (after just saying drinking is too expensive), I'd be more than willing to meet anyone for a drink somewhere. I'll pay for the first round if you share some wisdom. I like it here but still feel pretty lost and alone. Naaaaaa

Drinks seem too expensive and I think the girl might of been in on it. Some others can chime in but I think a beer is like 100 baht or so. Could of been the place you drank at but that's very expensive imo.

800 baht is possible of you load of data but you can for under 500baht as well if you only need a few gig. Check out dtac or some other website to see how much the sims cost.

That's funny about the wais. I am not sure if they expect me to wai back at them but they were all eager to wai at me when I first arrived but once I was settled they all pretty much stopped with the wai.

Yeah that's right the hot water isn't behind the till, she just pointed to the hot water were you get tea, I guess. I had no idea as it was my first time in 7/11, I just assumed the troll could of been somewhat helpful is all.