Just some quick picks that I snapped in Pattaya (click here for the Pattaya trip report)
I have no idea what this flag was about. It's not even the official flag of Gibraltar
Dog day afternoon
Pattaya Beach which is on the Gulf of Thailand side. The water isn't nearly as clear as on the Andaman Sea side where Phuket and Phi Phi are
Some old dude getting a Henna tattoo on the beach. I also saw some guy giving real tattoos on the beach. Why someone would want to get inked sitting out in the blazing sun is a little beyond me.
Ahh, the favorite of girls from Issan, friend grasshoppers and cockroaches. I was having dinner in a bar in Bangkok one night and the waitress and the bartender are sitting a few feet away munching down on fried cockroaches. That will kill your appetite real fast.
I have no idea who this girl is but she insisted on being in a photo as soon as I took out my camera.
There was this beer bar across the street from the hotel and they had a pole where girls would jump up and start dancing. This little girl jumped up on the pole and started shaking it like a pro. I mean, she was more into it than the dancers. Unfortunately, if that's where her parents let her hang out that's probably her future profession anyway :-(
Hard to see because of the poor lighting but you can make out the girls working the room
This is the soi with the ladyboy bars that I talked about in my post
Porn is actually a very common name amongst Thais. Regardless I still snicker.
I wish this pic would have come out clearer. Condom machine in the bathroom of some bar. Large size for comfortable fit . . . Thai manufactured condoms are known for being a tad on the small side. Here they advertise exactly who their customers are, farangs :-)
Who even knew Tony Soprano had a club in Pattaya?
Has to be a farang owner. No Thai would get that joke
Here was the view from my balcony.
Here's a billboard claiming excellence but with a typo. Oh the irony.
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
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Hi Bill. I don’t know if you are the right person to ask but it seems that in the past six months or so I can hardly win a sit and go. I used to win about one out of 3 or 4 and cash in 3 or 4 of those. It seems like there are just suckout after suckout anymore as though I can count on my 2 pair getting sucked out by a better 2 pair etc. The other day I was playing one and there were 3 of us left and #3 went all in (who was short stacked) and #1 called him. The short stack lost with his AK to the callers 6 8 off suit getting a straight. Now who would call with such miserable cards #1 and #2 how in the heck did he get his straight? Like he knew what was coming. I always thought that online poker was fixed a little to speed things up but its getting so obvious. Can you shed a little light on this matter for me if you could. Thanks a lot. Rick
Not sure why you would think this was an appropriate thread to ask that question but . . . I’ve seen worse in live games.
Are you sure the girl that insisted being in your photo is a in fact a girl? ;)
100% positive. :-) Spotting ladyboys is a survival instinct you acquire quickly living here. :-)
I’ve eaten grasshoppers … they taste good. Kind of like raisins, but the legs get stuck in your teeth and it’s really annoying.
I’ve done the grasshoppers too. Actually not all that bad when they’re fried and crunchy. But I don’t think I’ll ever eat a roach. Especially those monster roaches they get here. Yeck.
I know you’s are talking about grasshooper’s and Roach’s, which I have to admit I haven’t tried. And hopefully never will. One thing I have tried is Rabbit. OK. Rabbit you say, isn’t that bad. Fair enough. But it was raw, I swear it was still beating.
I was in Poland on a family trip (first time I had been there) and my father had took me to meet one of his relative’s. And they brought out this Rabbit, which I never know was rabbit at the time, It looked like liver, (which I also don’t like). I didn’t want to eat it. But my father pretty much forced me saying it would affend them because it was a tradition.
So I eat it. You would swear I was on one of those, Im a celebrity get me out of here programmes the wayu I eat it.
But I promise you this never again.
p.s. Are you defenetly 100% sure. To be honest I wouldn’t risk it with that one.
Rabbit is huge in Malta. You can get it at nearly any restaurant that serves Maltese cuisine. That said, I never had it :-)
Yes, 100% sure. Not from any sort of experience but just in talking to her, her body language, mannerisms, etc.
I would say that the whole thing about ladyboys being hard to distinguish from real women is a myth concocted by guys trying to make an excuse for why they got drunk and ended up kissing a ladyboy. Even when they’re absolutely stunning there are telltale signs. I would guess that 60% you can tell from just looking at them across the room (even in a dark nightclub) because they don’t have the same body language and features as a real woman. Another 38% you can tell from talking with them for more than one or two sentences. As soon as you hear that voice crack or the wrong amount of bass you can be pretty certain. The other 2% are difficult to spot.
But it works the other way around too (like in this case). I have a friend who used to model here in Thailand. And a lot of people ask her if she’s a ladyboy because she has huge hands and feet. She’s about 5’8″ in flats but her hands are a good half inch longer than mine (I’m 5’9″) and her feet look like water skis.
I admit the picture does make her look odd though. I don’t think it’s a good representation of how she really looks.