Quote Originally Posted by stockyguy
I find Bangkok a bit too commercialized and westernized.
And Pattaya isn't commercialised and Westernised? So all these poor Isaan boys who come to Pattaya to be a prostitute are just doing it for the fun of having sex with... "pot-bellied, bug-ugly, be-wigged, armpit-stinking, varicose-veined, predatory homos (Scottish)"... then LOL.

Quote Originally Posted by Brad the Impala
When was it aesthetically acceptable to sit around having a beer in a bar in shorts in the capital?
Quote Originally Posted by scottish-guy
Since when were pot-bellied, bug-ugly, be-wigged, armpit-stinking, varicose-veined, predatory homos, aesthetically acceptable? Yet BKK is infested with them.
You're both right. It's never been aesthetically acceptable but I think Bangkok sexpats are a bit more self-aware than the Pattaya retirees who surround themselves with prostitutes because they actually live in a real city and have normal working Thais around them to interact with...