Best thing you can do for a Issan boy?

Sorry to briefly drag this off-topic, but in direct response to the post above:

That's cool KT - I was never "Hilda".

I do not post on any other board under any other name - so my musings are (thankfully?) easy to avoid.

Anyhoo, I see the latest suggestion is that I am in cahoots with Smiles and jinks - again, totally untrue - I don't even know where Cahoots is! :occasion9:

Hylda Baker was a bit of a comedy heroine of mine - pity "Hilda" can't spell the name correctly, lol
If you DO know who "Hilda" is, feel free to tip me off.

[Shuee]

who cares how long ago this was posted, its obviously still relevant as people are replying, nothing changed the boys are still boys & money is still money in my eyes! the only thing thats really changed is that we get a lower exchange rate than when this was originally posted so we get a worse deal

[Mancs]

I agree that this is still interesting. I haven't got past the mobile phone stage with the boys and not sure that I want to. One of them suggested I send him to college and then buy him a shop but I said no to that. I am trying to be in the tip them well and leave them camp. But I do enjoy their company so that is hard. I was amazed when one of them spent his departure present on a ring. He needed lots of other things but the lure of jewellery seems strong. I gather that, in Asia, jewellery is like a deposit account in farangland. One massage boy was very proud that he had saved up to buy a cow, which lived with his family. So maybe the answer to the best thing we can do is buy them a cow?

...he had saved up to buy a cow, which lived with his family...

In many instances I've known it to work the other way round - where an old cow takes a boy in to live with her.


:occasion9:

[francois]

So maybe the answer to the best thing we can do is buy them a cow?

Excellent suggestion; easier to milk a cow than a farang, the cow has 4 teats.

[peeseua]

So maybe the answer to the best thing we can do is buy them a cow?

Excellent suggestion; easier to milk a cow than a farang, the cow has 4 teats.

And is capable of dying many times so that it can be revivified by large and frequent transfusions of farang cash...

[Mancs]

In 2009 cows could be bought from 3000 bt for a calf to around 10,000 for a prime animal. Even if they've gone up a bit those prices sound very reasonable.

Last time I was in Bangkok I saw a few Thai heifers pushing street vendor carts around.

[gearguy]

1. Make sure they are well-educated on safe sex
2. Take them and make sure they get vaccinated for Hep A, Hep B, Typhoid, etc

[joe552]

gearguy, are you suggesting that as a customer at a beer bar or go go bar it's my responsibility to have the boy vaccinated before I off him? seems a bit odd to me, and not something I'd plan to do on my holidays.