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Old 31-12-2007, 07:54
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Just wondering if I just can sit in a bar with a drink without being hassled or do I have to look for a bar without BG's working there ?
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The hotel bar sounds like a safe bet......maybe the mini bar for total hassle free experience.
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If you sit in a bar with BG's in it......& unless you look like the elephant man, the BG's will most likely talk to you.

All you need to do is politely ask to be left alone.

Tell them u have a GF and she doesn't want you to talk to other girls.
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Just wondering if I just can sit in a bar with a drink without being hassled or do I have to look for a bar without BG's working there ?
There are a number of bars where everything is low key and if approached (and you are not interested), all you have to do is say no-thanks. MTB is a good example.

That being said, it is always fun (especially during the day) to just chat and laugh with the girls. True, you should buy a drink now and then, but that does not mean they will hassle you. After all, who wants to just sit in a bar nurturing a drink when there are so many beautiful and fun girls around.
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A lot of bars works just like home,girls go two shift and have this just as a ordinary work,notting more into than that,just they have to deal with al the idots that just dont anderstand that

Bars like shipwreck etc is mainly just a tourist plase just like every where else,just more busy
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Just wondering if I just can sit in a bar with a drink without being hassled or do I have to look for a bar without BG's working there ?

Yes, yes you can. I don't know where this 'hassle' thing comes from but the question does get raised quite often. I think the difference between perception and reality is miles apart here, does everyone think that they are a born fanny magnet? If you want a drink you just go for a drink, how hard can it be?
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Old 31-12-2007, 08:14
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How many of the left hand bars in Bangla/from above) do hassle you ??

Fu...none they are al tourist bars this days,and earn their money that way
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The hotel bar sounds like a safe bet......maybe the mini bar for total hassle free experience.

Why leave home? I reckon 'Hotel Mini Bar' will be out on Wii before Easter. You could get not hassled from the comfort of your sofa....
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Steve sometimes that can be quite difficult, constant massaging, or you buy me dlink nah??, sellars of stuff you do not want, pictures with really large grasshopperish looking reptiles with omnidirectional eye sockets, drunk customers wanting to tell you about some boring subject in a very loud voice combined with buckets of spittle, men in frocks asking where Denver is.

So Rikky your answer is yes its possible, just hang with Steve!!!
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Yes, yes you can. I don't know where this 'hassle' thing comes from but the question does get raised quite often. I think the difference between perception and reality is miles apart here, does everyone think that they are a born fanny magnet? If you want a drink you just go for a drink, how hard can it be?

We must drink at different bars Steve??????????????????
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Yea yea Dodger,onest have you ever been hasseled in P one or Shipwrec ?

Think we onest hope we did,but those places are just some tourist spots nothing more.,

But some idots that have made to a science to f.. girls and pay and tell us ,do think al the places they go they can behave like teenagers who never been touck by a womand hand.

Its quite irritating for normal people
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Drink at the Irish Pubs then.
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So Rikky your answer is yes its possible, just hang with Steve!!!

Ouch! Maybe that's the complete answer? How hard can it be? Put up with me for an evening...........
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We must drink at different bars Steve??????????????????


Ha ha! Either that or I really am that pug-ugly ****er that can't get laid in a brothel
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I found Aussie Bar to be free of girls demanding drinks and genuine yet reasonably financed affection. They know guys are too busy watching sport.
But I like sport, buying drinks and genuine yet reasonably financed affection.
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There used to be several bars like that in BKK, where you could go and have a conversation and a brew. Trouble was most of the patrons looked like centerfolds from SOF magazine or something. I was always worried i would run into some one I didn't really want to. Most of the bars were on the Soi before the main Patpong street, I forgot the name of it.
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Dodger, now ya mentioned it...it got me thinking....
You have the kid/mother selling chewing gum, the cigarette sellers, the rose sellers, the garland sellers, the cigarette lighter & keyring sellers, the iguana & gibbon photographers, the dvd sellers, the chiang mai sellers, plus any others I forgot.
Depends on how quiet there business is, but I reckon I've been approached by all of them, sometimes within 30 mins of sitting down in a bar.

That's all before you get the "what's you name, where you from, how long you stay" line from.5555555

As to the OP, Mav's advice is what I often use in dealing with annoying BG's.....let em know you hab girlfriend.

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why should someone choose that ??
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I see (saw) 18 replies and 87 views.....
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Aw, now come on, how hard can it to be to sit in a bar on one of the most famous streets in the world and say 'I'm fine thank you, I'm just having a drink'. That's how easy it is, if being asked to buy 10bahts worth of chewing gum a couple of times a night is a 'hassle' then maybe I misunderstood the question.
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It just changed after i posted.....sorry
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You have the kid/mother selling chewing gum, the cigarette sellers, the rose sellers, the garland sellers, the cigarette lighter & keyring sellers, the iguana & gibbon photographers, the dvd sellers, the chiang mai sellers, plus any others I forgot.

You forgot HHplc Reps selling Rose Tinted Glasses ER
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if being asked to buy 10bahts worth of chewing gum a couple of times a night is a 'hassle' then maybe I misunderstood the question
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honest i dident see that as a hassle,but even that the only seats that get that hassle is the chairs almost out at the street
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The original poster, was referring to BG's I gather.

After reading Dodgers post, it reminded me of all the other goings on, that's all.

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