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29-04-2006, 05:20
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Enough BAGGING of LOS!!
Mike was just saying that there seems to be a lot of "Bagging" type stories about LOS within the forum...We'd really like to hear of some of you guys GREAT stories of fun and interest that make us all coming back or to want to live there...
We all know that there's always "trouble in paradise" but surely the trick is to avoid the trouble as best you can no matter which or whos paradise you're in... Just saying we'd be interested to hear of some positive, funny and happy experiences... 
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29-04-2006, 10:46
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marcia, there is too many to count,just search around and you'll find plenty. when i have something positive to say i always do, when i have some negative to say, ill be the 1st one too.thats whats the board is for
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29-04-2006, 12:29
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That wasn't a very good story Paul...
Yes I agree there are too many good stories to relate and we've read many some negative ones too...no offence intended to anyone. Just would like to hear some BM's, let's say, "special stories" which stick out in their minds as being the essence of LOS Just inviting some new ones or even some old ones that anyone would like to share...
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29-04-2006, 16:16
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Take a look in the Board Members on Tour forum, loads of fun being had in here! Soemtimes it's not possible to avoid trouble wherever you live, whether that be Thailand or not. As G says, I'm sure you will find it very different when you get here. I've been here 7 months now after several visits before and believe me, it is not the same place I came to the first time round.
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29-04-2006, 16:39
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my positives of los this trip: hanging out with jimbulljag, just a great, sincere guy and from the reaction from bm's to him, they understand, just a good guy talking with geir at love bar-just a great,honest guy seeing my friend's dodger and pablo again-once ive been away from my friends in LOS and see them again realize how lucky i am that i met such good people in los so if you see, all my good thoughts are about my friends ive met and hanging with my gf. to be honest, after this trip, if it wasnt for my friends here, id bag LOS altogether, but ive met too many good people not to come back
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29-04-2006, 18:06
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First time in Thailand back in 1998. Didn’t know anything about the place. Second week I stumble into a bar in Karon owned by three sisters. Greatest of gals. Spent the rest of the week there. Got many a free drink and they always drove me home (not BGs). If I didn’t have enough money it was “no ploblem, pay tomorrow”.
Last night I had to move to a hotel in Phuket town, but I still wanted to go back to the bar. Around 2 I noticed they all started crying. Something wrong? You go tomorrow. Sad. Sad. Sad. They then closed the bar up (this was in the “old days” with no closing times) and drove me back to Phuket town, treated me with a meal and we said goodbye amongst heaps of tears and sobs. I was hooked and have never looked back. Last edited by sundancekid : 29-04-2006 at 18:33.
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29-04-2006, 19:02
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HI again Marcia. I used to work for an airline down here in Melbourne for 10 years. Travelled twice a year 2 weeks each time plus occassional long weekend to one leg destinations. But in the main would always fly over South East Asia and head for Europe, America and a bit to Scaninavia. It wasnt until I had to pay full proce for a flight that we finally settled on going to Asia. Well a few years back we found Thailand and havent looked back since. Yeah we get ripped off - yeah some of the locals arent that friendly but bloody hell I can tell you so many stories of much much worse. For instance:
* in Paris two guys approached me from behind in broad day light and hit me in the back of the head and ripped my back pack off me and then they ran away. * In Italy a cup of coffee cost differant depending what accent you had and the yanks always got charged more than anyone. * On the Greek Isles we came across the most drunken louts we have seen. Aussies, poms mainly but a great embarressment for the rest of us. So the local shop keepers treated us with absolute distane. * In New York we ended up one night in the wrong street, which had burnt out cars on the side walk people sitting on the steps to their houses. I have never been as scared as I was that night. * In New Orleans we were on the wrong side of the street. A black guy came up and told us this. For his advice he demand $10 and so did his mate. Like I said I could go on for ages about the experiences of other countries including our own country. To us we have found LOS to be an enjoyable holiday place and when we get home we actually feel like we have had a holiday - we didnt always feel that from travelling in some other countries.
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29-04-2006, 19:36
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One of my little anecdotes...
I was going through a grump period on Thailand as I was having red tape issues that were starting to make me think that I was really not welcome in Thailand (leave your money at the airport and go type of feelings that I am sure many expats have had)... So I end up in Phuket Town and cause my girl had checked the movie times we inevitably ended up 5 mins after one showing had started and had 2 hours to kill until the next one.. So we walked down the road and ended up going into T2 club down the road.. I was the only farang face in there with about 10 Thais at another table.. pretty quiet for the size of the club.. After 1/2 hour or so one of the managers came over smiling introduced himself and said stick around they had a band on soon.. So the band comes on, the place fills up a bit but not much.. they are doing thai cover songs and deffo need a bit of practice but were having real fun as was the audience, everyone horsing around and having a laugh, winding up the band, band joking with what were obviously mates, etc... Then the guitarist comes on the mike and says something in Thai that had my girl bouncing about in fits of joy and clapping her hands and I could tell I was being talked about... Far from giving me any wind up he had just told her to apologize to me that he could not speak english well enough and want to say it was great to see a farang happy to come out to a Thai place and socialize and to say to her to tell me I was really welcome.. He then tried his best in broken engrish to say "herro wercome to Phuket, and wercome to T2 crub" which then got a cheer from the rest of the whole audience and he launched into the only English song he knew... Loads of guys then proceeded to come over shake hands, smile and press whisky soda's etc on me.. Language problems but still pressing drinks and obviously happy to make the contact. Could you imagine anything happening like that to welcome a single foriegner into a locals club back home.. Probably get the shit kicked out of him for being with one of 'our' girls.. Totally restored my faith in the 'average' Thai.. the red tape, rip offs, bad services and tea money can piss you off sometimes but when it comes down to it Thais are a really open friendly lot.. Treat them with a bit of respect and away from the tourist areas and its rewarded so well.
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29-04-2006, 19:49
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Great story Sefton, I had a similar experience at a club in Phuket Town 5-6 years ago when I took photos for this website. They started to talk to my in Thai and very basic english and everyone cheered me.
Thanks for reminding me. As for the bad experiences, I have found out that many unethical/bad things I have seen and first thought was because of farang is not always the case, same things happens between Thais/Thais aswell. I have been here for soon 7 years and still enjoy and prefer to live here rather than being a standard svensson with boring life/daily routine. The paradise is not perfect but still better what I got at home in Sweden.
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29-04-2006, 21:32
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With relation to the anecdote by LivinLOS: Not really Thai relevant, but still relevant in it’s own kind of weird way (the West vs. a third-world country).
Was in Mexico a few years back. Went to this small mountain village on route to Vera Cruz. The bus out had been delayed so I decided to check out one of the bars. I am the only westerner in there, and on my way in, this Mexican fella greets me with a handshake and says something (presumably) in English. I find a table, sit down and order a Dos Equis, whereupon I am approached by another local. He sits down and we start communicating as best we can. My Spanish was a bit rusty, but we managed to get along. Then the first guy comes to the table and starts complaining that he was the one who had spotted me first and that he was the rightful “owner” of my companionship for the evening. They almost start a fight over who should be allowed to talk to me! Anyway, we soon all get along and more people start joining us. Had a great few hour in there. And oh yeah I missed my bus. Relevance you say? Well, it’s my impression that we in the West have lost our curiosity - for lack of a better word - for the unfamiliar. We may tout our freedoms and accomplishments and levels of tolerance. But on a personal level we have this superiority complex in that we really have nothing to learn from other cultures and that sharing a few beers and laughs with the “unfamiliar” might not be worthwhile. I know that if a Mexican (or a Thai for that matter) had stumbled into the bar at my local village, they would’ve been fighting over who was allowed to kick his ****.
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29-04-2006, 22:23
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Thanks for that great story sundancekid...it's stories like these that make us not want to come home and to want to go back asap!!!!
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29-04-2006, 22:37
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Your story reminded me of how relatively safe I feel in LOS as opposed to other destinations... I have a bad habit of walking around with my handbag un-zipped, probably cause it so bloody full, but often I have been stopped by shopkeepers whilst passing and they say "this no good...must shut bag...some not good people" whilst making me zip it up before going any further. I have to agree with you about feeling like you've had a great holiday when you come home from LOS...takes a long time to stop thinking about it constantly and even then LOS is always in the back of your mind!!
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29-04-2006, 22:54
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Great Story LIL...really enjoyed that thanks for sharing!! Yes it would be different story in our own countries if the tables were turned probably end up shit kicked as you say!!! It's the little things I think that gets us mad sometimes...particulary if one is trying to conduct business and Thai's little idiosyncracies get the better of us...and every society tries to rip off foreigners in some way or another somewhere down the line...but as you say the Thais are generally very open and friendly socially...
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29-04-2006, 23:11
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You are so right Nicke...there's really no such thing as paradise...but LOS is about as close to it as we're going to get...and much better than our boring lives at home!
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29-04-2006, 23:57
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Good times.
I went through the newbie learning curve. I paid too much for massage extras, I could not find a girl that gave BJs, and the weather was not that great (December o5), but I persisted, and things got a lot better. I got advise from this forum about good massage places and prices, I hooked up with a massage girl who visited me every morning, I had other gals who would take care of me later in the day, and I slept like a baby. I stayed in Karon, which Is good for me because I like to take long walks on the beach, the only draw back was the Tuk Tuk fares to Patong, but what the f##k, It was no real big deal.
The food is good and cheap, fresh fruit every where, boner pills in the pharmacy- for those high stress days-- even when it is cloudy, it is still warm, girls, girls, girls, and more girls. Yes LOS rules. As I have shared in another post, when I came back to Canada, I encountered a couple of disrespectful immigration and customs trolls, I thought " If you were in LOS, your only out would be selling chewing gum, but here you are free to be a c##t, or in other words the LOS blues had begun to set in. I have lived in some rough places, and even there, if one is respectful, and keeps his eyes open, then one can avoid some potentially dangerous situations. I never got a bad vibe in LOS, but I have been warned not to mess with the Tuk Tuk guys. Fore warned is fore armed. Let's face it, most of the gals in LOS really need the money; they are not pumping it in their arm, or shoving it up their noses, like most of the working girls in Canada, where,If a guy wants a non-dope fiend, then we are talking $150 as a minimum. Whereas a guy in LOS can get a nice gal for a few days --depending on the time of year, according to my expat buddy--. So my rookie opinion is that that if one relaxes, while at the same time one monitors his behavior, then the odds are really high in favor of a great experience in LOS.
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30-04-2006, 06:49
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Boring???? I don't know what you do with you life Marcia but mine isn't boring at all. I like to go fishing, ride my motorbike, go sailing, go into the city, have lunch with my friends (who all speak very good English) work in my garden, take road trips, walk on beaches that aren't visually polluted with umbrellas and beach chairs, go snow skiing, know that I pay the same price as everyone else for entry to parks, museums, etc. When I go to Thailand I stay in Kamala. For sure I don't have any problems walking around day or night. However, once I went to visit my g/f's family in some sh*t hole a couple of hours outside of Bangkok. There wasn't a lot of happy people living there and I was told not to walk around by myself at night. I guess if I was from a cold European country Thailand would seem like paradise to me but I prefer a place where I know the government is stable, the is an opportunity to earn a decent living, the beaches, rain forest, jungles are as good as any, people are valued and have safety nets if life dishes them a tough hand, corruption, although it exists, is not rampant, the garbage gets collected and the sewers don't stink. I like Thailand and enjoy what it has got to offer but it's the country that I live in (inlcuding the state of New Zealand just joking) that has given me the opportunity to do this and, after many visits to LOS it is, to me, a great place to visit but I wouldn't like to live there permanently. Steve. Last edited by senor123 : 30-04-2006 at 06:51.
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30-04-2006, 11:36
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Things not going well with the GF at present or am I reading it the wrong way? 
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30-04-2006, 11:43
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The only WESTERNER? Hello-o-o! Did I miss something? Have they moved Mexico to Asia while I wasn't looking? IINM, you can't get too much farther west than Mexico. It's a good bit west of England!!
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30-04-2006, 13:04
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No mate, everything is perfectly fine with my g/f. The shop is doing ok and nothing has changed. My last trip was a bit longer than normal as a tester for me to see what I would do with myself if I spent longer in LOS. I was pretty bored and had to limit myself to not having the 1st drink before 6pm. As I was no longer just a tourist I realised how good I had it at home. I had never planned to live full-time in Thailand, maybe 6 months at a time in 2x3 month slots. Now I doubt I could even do that so, if all goes well, would prefer my g/f to spend time in Oz and me to spend time in LOS. The one thing that I don't accept is that LOS is a paradise compared to Oz. The ex-pats who I spoke to who seemed the happiest had a major businesses and a bar as a sideline and they didn't have much family in the country they came from. So they had plenty to keep themselves occupied. Steve
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30-04-2006, 14:50
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