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Originally Posted by wantasian
Well I'll tell you that the guys hanging around that whole region across from from the Grand Palace didn't know. I speak clearly and with a smile try all different pronunciations. These guys had no idea what I was talking about: room, hotel, short-stay, or other simple things. I was trying to ask if they knew a place to go. Unbelievably, some didn't even know "sex."
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That whole cruising experience was bizarre. It was like they never saw a farang in that area before, and their whole mentality was getting picked up by a Thai in a car, and they never saw a farang there before (like what was I doing there?).
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-- It's been several months since I cruised last in the gen'l. area of WAT PO, MIN. OF DEFENCE, SARAN ROM PK.
etc., so matters might have changed?
-- Apart from any obvious mil'y. types there whose English, (hailing, as many of them do, from country districts.), might be ltd., many of the other cruisers are from THAMMASAT UNI., who manage to have enough English for the business in hand.
-- Agreed, most of the young cruisers in that area were on the look-out for automobiles' drivers, (M-Benz. with tinted windows, for preference.), who were kerb-crawling, (but others, being driven in humble taxis. have reported successes in picking-up the young cruisers, as mentioned earlier in this thread.),. Other & pedestrian cruisers were v. much a final resort for these young cruisers in lieu of anything better.
-- Yes, other
farangs are few and far between there.
-- A suggested and possibly helpful book for those whose grasp of the Thai language is ltd. might be:
THAI for gay tourists;
- author: Khun Saksit Pakdeesiam;
- Pub'r.: Paiboon Publishing,
-- web.:
http://www.thailao.com;
- price:
325.Bh.;
- ISBN.: 1-887521-11-9
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