Taking a Thai BF to a go-go bar?

[justaguy]

I have a Lao boyfriend, does that count ? We went to the go-go bars a few times, just to see the show. Can't be bothered nowadays, as drinking prices are simply not what I am prepared to pay.

You are now moving to Vientiane ? Wow much better idea then Chiang Mai. You will have to sort out the visa though, and remember doing a monthly visa run into Thailand might not be feasible, because you are now limited to only two overland exempt stamps in a calender year. Having said that, the Lao most likely still allow you to purchase a 30 day visa each time, so it might actually work, you'll have a bunch of entry refused stamps from Thailand this way

[goji]

I would think "the boys" don't like gogo bars, since (i) they don't need to go there to see guys of their own age in speedos & (ii) there is always the risk of their farang friend finding a new boy.

Moving to Vientiane solves the gogo problem, since there aren't any.

I thought Laos had some reasonable rules for farang to get visas for business, or something. But could be mistaken.

As for heavily fortified border, well a lot of it is river & there are many boats around. I wouldn't want to cross it illegally, but it can hardly be like the iron curtain.

[a447]

You will have to sort out the visa though, and remember doing a monthly visa run into Thailand might not be feasible, because you are now limited to only two overland exempt stamps in a calender year.

Mmmm...could be difficult getting those stamps, as he apparently doesn't have a passport.

I guess he could always get a stamp on the back of his hand - you know, like the one you get when you enter a night club.

[frequent]

Not me. I'm waiting for the film to come out!

I say the same thing to purveyors of The Big Issue magazine if I'm in a country where they're sold on the streets

[Smiles]

For fuck sake ... now this Canadian nut job is going to move to Laos after begging for help and assurance that his upcoming move to Chiang Mai was a done deal, cut in stone, the end game, while at the same time going blinder and blinder by the minute, knowing full well that it's hard to see those pesky land mines strewn through the dark back alleys of Vientiane even when one is 20/20.

An amazing tour de force of utter bunkum (also known as 100% bullshit). H L Mencken would be all over this nonsense.

[frequent]

I honestly have a hard time faulting that decision, except for the fuck he better not fuck me over. He's been taking care of me every single day since I went blind though, so if there's anyone I can trust in this life, it's him.

Let's face it you told him just a few short weeks ago that you were prepared to spend 500K baht buying him a Thailand Elite visa. He's got your (supposed) wealth counted down to the last satang

[arsenal]

Aware of the dangers of a cyber security 'break in' Commander Dude Matt has gone temporarily AWOL. Fully conversant with all electronic gadgetry smadgetry he knows that if even the merest hint of this planned to the minute getaway becomes public then his and Leo from Laos lives would be in danger. There is little that the hardened crime syndicates wouldn't do to get their hands on the hard drive literally bursting with a Bitcoin bonanza.

[sglad]

Mmmm...could be difficult getting those stamps, as he apparently doesn't have a passport.

I guess he could always get a stamp on the back of his hand - you know, like the one you get when you enter a night club.

Nana, you can be really funny sometimes.

[sglad]

I would think "the boys" don't like gogo bars, since (i) they don't need to go there to see guys of their own age in speedos & (ii) there is always the risk of their farang friend finding a new boy.

...or running into an old colleague or two.

P.S. Why wouldn't want they want to see sexy guys their age in briefs? Plenty of younger guys go to see the shows in Soi Twilight.

[Marsilius]

I would think "the boys" don't like gogo bars, since (i) they don't need to go there to see guys of their own age in speedos & (ii) there is always the risk of their farang friend finding a new boy.

(iii) the more intelligent boys - especially the many who have been brought up by the country's education system to see Thailand as the "best" country in the world - will find it demeaning, shaming and an affront to their beliefs to see their countrymen openly bought and sold at the whim of capricious foreigners,

(iv) anyone who, like me, prefers to have a heterosexual (though accommodating) temporary holiday companion will know that a straight boy understandably finds boy go go bars simply boring.