Beer Bar Etiquette

When you go to a bar, it's considered good pratice to NOT do the following:

- DO NOT BRING your fat ass western girlfriend to watch the girls dancing, it's impolite to upset the other guests

- DO NOT COME with shirt and a tie or in a suit like you were some kind of VIP or High member of society, you will just look like some newbie pervert and would make an easy target for the girls. This rule doesn't apply if you come with a bunch of friends or co-workers to celebrate.

- DO NOT WAI the bar girls or the MAMASAN when you leave, you look like a fucking idiot.

- DO NOT STAND UP and start dancing alone like MJ in the middle of the crowd because you like the music, it's too fucking GAY !!!

- If you had to bring your ugly ass girlfriend (in the case of a threesome), make sure she doesn't get drunk or do the jump on the cat walk to pole dance with the other girls. It's embarrassing for ALL women and it will upset all the guests madly.

More to come when I return from Nana and see more of these "faux pas" in the bars.

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maybe the title should read "gogo bars"

Let's clarify things.......

Leave the fat farang girls at home and do not think of bringing them to Thailand in the 1st place ........let alone a gogo bar.


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As a founding member & Representative for Thailand of FLAB (Family of Lard-Arsed Babes) I would like to lodge my society's official objection to point 1 of Khun Butterfly's OP and also to all of Khun Chitown's post.

I shall be registering the complaint with head offices in Doncaster & St. Paul. Be assured, you will be hearing from some real heavyweights in our legal department.

I should like to direct you to our society motto "A little fat never hurt anyone, except the one at the bottom of the pile" and ask you to be more politically correct in future. You have been warned...:28::laugh2:

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- DO NOT WAI the bar girls or the MAMASAN when you leave, you look like a fucking idiot.

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Yes they do like drips.

whats wrong with a shirt and tie if you ae going straight from work?
By the way butterfly goes from sweaty golf course to office and then the bars with no change of clothes or shower.
he is french.

^ you are home early, why ? :bunny3:

I was waiting for you at the bars and warming up your mia nois. Music was great.

I find the unwritten rule in Pattaya is that if you are happy and drunk you can get away with most everything and maintain sanuk.
If you are miserable or aggressive and drunk, go home.

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Originally Posted by sabang

If you are miserable or aggressive and drunk, go home.

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That will be after the police release you in the morning..

^ ;) :bunny3::sexy:

Pui Ying lub you Mak Maa...

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Originally Posted by Butterfly

When you go to a bar, it's considered good pratice to NOT do the following:

make sure she doesn't get drunk or do the jump on the cat walk to pole dance with the other girls. It's embarrassing for ALL women and it will upset all the guests madly.

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I guess this might be a good example. :p

Farang Lady Dancing in Beer Bar

Vomited in mouth when I saw the fat farang lady dancing.

Vomited in mouth when I saw the Katoey join her.

Although both disgusted me, I was more sickened by the fat farang lady dancing. :confused:

Yeah I've seen worse things in GoGo(s) involving farang ladies and men - luckily not allowed to film there. :sorry1:

I resent paying 100 baht so the tart chatting to me can have a small tumbler of tepid Coca Cola. I don't mind buying a BG a drink if the conversation is real but she should at least have a proper drink.

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Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

I resent paying 100 baht so the tart chatting to me can have a small tumbler of tepid Coca Cola. I don't mind buying a BG a drink if the conversation is real but she should at least have a proper drink.

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Just buy a bottle of Sang Som - you'll soon have a gaggle of ladies around you - wanting to drink. :)

I have often been tempted to sneak one in inside my underpants and top myself up when nobody is looking.

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Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

I have often been tempted to sneak one in inside my underpants and top myself up when nobody is looking.

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They won't mind as long as you buy the mixers and share. :bunny3:

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Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

I have often been tempted to sneak one in inside my underpants and top myself up when nobody is looking.

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you did already, and so many times, surprised you are not admiting it publicly

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Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

I resent paying 100 baht so the tart chatting to me can have a small tumbler of tepid Coca Cola. I don't mind buying a BG a drink if the conversation is real but she should at least have a proper drink.

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so she can become an alcoholic !?

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Originally Posted by chitown

Vomited in mouth when I saw the fat farang lady dancing.

Vomited in mouth when I saw the Katoey join her.

Although both disgusted me, I was more sickened by the fat farang lady dancing. :confused:

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she just havin fun!

I actually don't mind watching the farang girls get drunk and dance on the pole with the rest of the girls, it's quite funny actually and always enjoying that moment.

Now when it's a fat drunk farang getting completly naked then that's another story

Last time I went to Nana, two ladies, at separate bars, asked for a drink before asking my name.

I told them both to feck off and learn some manners.



And would you please send over #26?

"- DO NOT WAI the bar girls or the MAMASAN when you leave, you look like a fucking idiot."

Look like an idiot to whom?

Which 'arbiter of cool' are we likely to find standing next to us (In Nana Plaza) with a dismissive scowl at our faux pas?.....Coco Chanel? Ines De La Fressange? Jean Cocteau?

^ The answer to that is: c - Jean Cocteau.

The reason being that Ines de la Fressange is the mama-san & so is used to drunken farang waiing inappropriately. Frankly, she doesn't give a shit as long as they pay their bill at the end of the night, pay the bar fine (& lady drinks) & tip well. Oh, and not break anything.

And Coco Chanel? She's pissed on absinthe in the corner, so she wouldn't even notice... :frog: Vive La France et les Francais!!

Karl Lagerfeld once saw me leaving the gents toilets in a Soi Zero bar without washing my hands.

I can't tell you how embarrased I was. If only I'd had Butterfly's 'style guide' before then !

Why would you have to sneak that bottle in, Scamp?

^ 20 baht cheaper! :rofl:

shutup Moog, you probably broke every rules in the book in your drinking days

back to the topic:

- DO NOT BRING the Katoey you just barfined next door into a girlie bar, it will make the girls very nervous and everybody will be giving you dirty looks or just laughing at you semi discretly. NO IT'S NOT OK to barfine a girl for a THREESOME with the Katoey, may he be cut or not cut.

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Originally Posted by Texpat

Last time I went to Nana, two ladies, at separate bars, asked for a drink before asking my name.

I told them both to feck off and learn some manners.



And would you please send over #26?

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#26 is Moog; you sure you're up for it?

^ Moog with his innocent look would be barfined in 2 seconds in any Boys Agogo

I'm not quite sure who is it that we are supposed to be impressing.

The johns care even less than the ho's about a wrongly perceived 'wai'.


But nevertheless I am enjoying this 'U and Non U guide' to etiquette - (slightly poncy though it may be)

There could be a book in this.

So what is the etiquette when it comes to your friends tipping?
I normally leave 10 or 20 baht in the tray but Butterfly literally snatches it out of the waitresses hands. i have to wrestle with him to give it back to them. He abhors tipping.
Also I would e interested to hear about etiquette regarding groping go-go dancers whilst they are on the stage still dancing. Butterfly is reknowned for sitting "ringside" and trying to cop a grope....

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Originally Posted by The_Ghost_Of_The_Moog

I'm not quite sure who is it that we are supposed to be impressing.

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Wai is a respectful salute reserved for special circumstances, a bit like a special handshake that a priest would give you.

I think that kind of handshake is disrespectful to the symbol it supposes to represent. I have had BG wai me, but I never do and I don't think they expect me to wai back.

Trying to impress the girls with a Wai is definitely "faux pas"

as for tipping:

- DO NOT OVERTIP, it's ok to leave 10 THB or 15 THB but anything above that is ludicrous. Why you ask ? because you wreck the market, once they see farangs leaving 50 THB tips, they will expect every farang to do so, no matter what the bills is. Thai don't make the distinction between bills and soon enough, they "generalize" the idea that all tipping should be the same. Tipping used to be occasional, but now you get dirty look if you don't. It just spoils the market and raise their expectations. Unlike westerners who understand the merit behind tipping, Thais don't and will take it for granted soon enough. I like to take away tips away from them, as explained above, it pissed them off and lower their expectations of farangs being just walking walets. It's a matter of principle, still I usually leave tips of 10 THB to round the tab.

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Originally Posted by Blake7

Also I would e interested to hear about etiquette regarding groping go-go dancers whilst they are on the stage still dancing.

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This is actually an excellent question, don't want to forget about it.

- IF YOU ARE DRUNK AND HORNY, IT'S NOT OK to grab dancing girls on the stage or try to remove their bikkini bottom or their top while they are dancing or sitting next to you. Likewise, touching their ass while they are dancing is STRONGLY discouraged. HOWEVER, there is an EXCEPTION to this rule, if you are a bar regular and you know the girl well or previously barfined her and it's a slow night with only a few customers in the bar, then there is no arm if this is done in all good fun with no ill intention.

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Originally Posted by Butterfly

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Originally Posted by The_Ghost_Of_The_Moog

I'm not quite sure who is it that we are supposed to be impressing.

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Wai is a respectful salute reserved for special circumstances, a bit like a special handshake that a priest would give you.

I think that kind of handshake is disrespectful to the symbol it supposes to represent. I have had BG wai me, but I never do and I don't think they expect me to wai back.

Trying to impress the girls with a Wai is definitely "faux pas"

as for tipping:

- DO NOT OVERTIP, it's ok to leave 10 THB or 15 THB but anything above that is ludicrous. Why you ask ? because you wreck the market, once they see farangs leaving 50 THB tips, they will expect every farang to do so, no matter what the bills is. Thai don't make the distinction between bills and soon enough, they "generalize" the idea that all tipping should be the same. Tipping used to be occasional, but now you get dirty look if you don't. It just spoils the market and raise their expectations. Unlike westerners who understand the merit behind tipping, Thais don't and will take it for granted soon enough. I like to take away tips away from them, as explained above, it pissed them off and lower their expectations of farangs being just walking walets. It's a matter of principle, still I usually leave tips of 10 THB to round the tab.

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hence the reason i always tip them 100baht.

makes me look better than you!

and they always remember me. good service everytime!

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Originally Posted by kingwilly

and they always remember me. good service everytime!

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I highly doubt that, but if it makes you feel better about yourself, I see your point. Wouldn't it be better to tip the girls for service rendered ?

Looking at the big picture. .......Surely paying some tart for sexual favours, eg bumming her, is equally poor social etiquette.

(Not the sort of conduct you'd want your Mother to hear about)

As much of a faux pas as a misdirected wai.

My Missus is always telling me not to tip. I am talking about in any establishment in Thailand and not just beerbars. Thais really do not tip. I keep hearing that we are supposed to assimilate into Thai society. So lets assimilate!! I am already unknowingly beiing gouged with the two tier pricing. I am thinking of starting a thread about how me and the missus went to a restaurant that we have been going to for many years. Our bill is usually aroung 150 baht. We got the bill and it was 460 baht for our normal meal. When we asked why, the waiter brought the FARANG MENU that showed the food prices at 200 baht instead of the normal 40 to 50 baht range. My wife got up and got the Thai menu (which we had ordered off of) and showed the waiter the prices. He told her not to tell me and have me pay the farang price. He told her that she was making money off of him and so should the restaurant. She told him we have been coming to the place for years, he did not respond and before it was over we paid the Thai price and left.....NEVER to return!! they lost a customer.

I was sickened a few weeks ago, when I met a friend at the airport and took him to get settled into his hotel. He tipped the bellbiy 500 baht for carrying his luggage to the room. I would have carried them to his room for that!!!

I tip sometimes.....depends on the situation and the service better be out of this world.

Sorry, I did not mean to HIJACK the thread!!!!

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Originally Posted by The_Ghost_Of_The_Moog

As much of a faux pas as a misdirected wai.

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whoring can be said to be immoral, a misdirected wai is a minor offense and has nothing to do with morality, as much as any faux pas has nothing to do with morality or moral conduct. It's only about expectational behavior. I think you are confusing two different issues here.