How to stay safe while in Thailand? Tips please

[DJ Pat]

Read any of Punty's threads

[Chittychangchang]

I concur with Pat, you need to swot up on a members experiences.

Seeing as though your a newbie i'll give you a hand finding the valuable info...

https://teakdoor.com/search.php?searchid=368237

[DrB0b]

songtaew drivers sell better ya baa than tuk tuk drivers

be careful which talcum powders you powder your crotch with, it is not always what you think it is

there are fucking bones in every fucking meal and Thais eat them!

Always hold cheap ciggies pointing up or the tobacco will fall out

The traditional greeting in Thailand is to grab the strangers crotch and shout " where you come from!"

Trust all monks, their amulets are potent and cheap.

manao soda is the drink of the gods. bring me back a crate of the stuff, I cannot get it here

Policemen can be recognised by their Leo t-shirts, large numbers of amulets worn around the neck, blue flipflops, and love of the band Carabao. They have great reverence for The Police Deity Phra Thaksin Saparot Nam Daeng and always appreciate being given postcards or small statues of him. Higher ranking policemen wear coins inside their ears to show their respect for the king. They are your friends and should always be the first people you turn to. "Yet Mare, Ay Hia" is the appropriate greeting, it is a reference to the tight brown uniform they wear during the sticky rice festival in november.

Always trust farangs selling shares. Prices only ever go up and many tourists have returned home as millionaires.

[CaptainNemo]

When you get to BKK,Book yourself a flight to Manila, and go enjoy the islands there and the romance your looking for, still 7peso to the pound and not a rip off place as long as your careful, Beer hotels women are cheaper, though the woman you pull make sure they understand its a business arrangement and tell her to put her mobile away. The good thing about Flip flops is they are very accommodating but make sure you don't get caught in the position of getting married to one, they are worse than Thai women in there demands.

Better off with a nice Indo bird... much less loopy and goldfish brained than their northern and mainland neighbours, in my experience-based stereotype.

The trick with taxis is not to look like a fresh off the banana boat tourist.

i.e.: practice asking "how much to the grand palace" in Thai lots of times before you go... your local takeaway or nail salon might help... then again, why not just do your "romance tour" there?!?

What exactly are you going to get, but a more obvious opportunity to exploit a developing world girl with a primary (=elementary) school education? I suppose it's easier to organise one-on-one language tuition in your hotel room over there, but it seems a bit of an expensive way of going about it.

...ignore the soi dogs, if they just growl in a pack, they haven't got rabies, but they might have something else... and they can smell your sweaty fear

[pseudolus]

Craigslist. Search African Bird. Then come back and say it's your GF?

[Seekingasylum]

The local men prefer to be addressed as " Hey, Somchai Chickenhead", particularly any taxi driver and most club doormen.

[wasabi]

Craigslist. Search African Bird. Then come back and say it's your GF?

wouldnt a search of Lulus list produce the same results.

[pseudolus]

wouldnt a search of Lulus list produce the same results.

Fair comment. But they don't stay long.

[Maanaam]

Craigslist. Search African Bird. Then come back and say it's your GF?

That's a bit mean. He did say he was quite emotionally attached, so he may resent interlopers.

[Latindancer]

Unfortunately the long line of previous interlopers may have left their "calling cards".

[Norton]

He did say he was quite emotionally attached

Throw a bucket of cold water on him. Works a charm on soi dogs.

[NZdick1983]

Don't rent a bike (however tempting).

even my importantly, avoid smelly snatch, psycho stalkers, at all cost. (note to self)...

[Chico]

Nick nice to see you and your altered ego back.

[Chittychangchang]

She's got a smelly snatch!!

Tell her to use the bum gun ...next time