Thailand Webzine, Bangkok Pattaya Thailand
During the 1950s American kids were supposed to like guns. Our movie heroes majestically wielded weapons on the silver screen and TV cops danced provocative prime-time gun ballets. Armed with air rifles and plastic weapons my friends and I re-enacted World War II in the woods behind my house. Imaginary bullets tore holes through the […]
Farangs are constantly being bamboozeled in the Land of Smiles by their own kkind as much as the natives, but Thai men are just as susceptible to a smiling face as westerners as demonstrated when a middle-aged Thai man was relieved of his possessions in the Phillipines by a 19 year-old woman he met online.
Money, […]
Pattaya probably leads the statistics for most suicides by tourists. Every week the Pattaya newspapers report about a fatal plunge from a condo balcony. No one ever calls for the landlords to place a sticker on the railing saying, “Falls from this height could be dangerous.” because suicides are usually considered to be losers, however […]
From http://www.pattayaghost.com/2008/06/17/snapshots-pattaya-through-the-years/
Versus this scene in 1972
No jet skies, no beach chair mafia, no plastic bags.
And I was 20 years old, so no grey hair or midriff spread either.
GW Bush was elected president over Johy Kerry, because more American voters decided that Laura Bush made a better first lady than Mrs. Kerry, whose Heinz fortune came from outliving her husband.
2008 pits Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain in the First Lady election.
Black against white. Chicago versus Arizona. New school/ Old School.
The GOP are gearing […]
Mikie at Maggie’s Bar on Pattaya’s Soi Chaiyapoon is always raving about the girls he meets over the internet.
“She was a college student. 21. Beautiful. Only wanted me for sex nothing else.”
The beer-bellied 50 year-old had never had a loser, although this winning streak could have to do with Mikie’s myopia. His glasses are thick […]
From 2bangkok.com
see : http://2bangkok.com/08/lastdays.shtml
PM Samak easily withstood the opposition’s call of no-confidence, as his coalition-led Senate polled 280-162 for the wily politician although protest will continue against his government in the months to come. These demonstrations will amount to little since the army has vowed to remain in the barracks and nnone of the poitcal parties are willing […]
