Advice for a newbie to Thailand

[sglad]

Your cell phone whipper stuff has nothing to do with me, nor my post, no need to quote me in order to describe your experiences with phones.

Ring! Ring!

[frequent]

When in reality, they're just being good Buddhists

They're just being nosey

[frequent]

This is why it is important to use quality lubricant, and resist temptation of cheap coconut oil.

I use cheap champagne - doesn't everyone?

[sglad]

I use cheap champagne - doesn't everyone?

Even cheap champagne can become expensive if it's used to lubricate a large orifice.

[scottish-guy]

Hence he always buys a Jeroboam, uses the contents as lube and the empty bottle as a butt plug

[sydneyboy]

Omega
We were newbies to Thailand once and I hope you separated the wheat from the chaff and found some of the comments to your sensible thread of benefit.

[FarangRuMak]

Omega
We were newbies to Thailand once and I hope you separated the wheat from the chaff and found some of the comments to your sensible thread of benefit.

I was a newbie once and I'm an oldbie now and I still don't know how Mai or Tik or Mot is going to react to what I say or do.
Many S. E. Asians have genes from an extinct humanoid (not neanderthal) that Caucasians don't have.
This explains why the poor blind kid who sits near Tuk Com is far happier when I give him my 3 monthly saved loose change collection as is, rather than in paper notes. Believe me I've done it both ways.

[Omega]

Omega
We were newbies to Thailand once and I hope you separated the wheat from the chaff and found some of the comments to your sensible thread of benefit.

Thanks... yes a few tips. But not quite as helpful as I'd hoped. It seems some on here only have sex on the brain and can't see how someone else can have more than that in mind.

[Omega]

This explains why the poor blind kid who sits near Tuk Com is far happier when I give him my 3 monthly saved loose change collection as is, rather than in paper notes. Believe me I've done it both ways.

If he's blind, maybe it's just easier for him to know what coins he has in his hand. Maybe he gets ripped off when he uses notes to buy things.

[FarangRuMak]

I don't think so.
He's blind and poor but not stupid.
He handled the notes very dexterously.
But I would have to defer to our blind poster from the village to have the final word on this.