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64 Responses to “Best Gogo in Soi Cowboy”

1. 1 Pants Elk Oct 4th, 2007 at 7:57 pm

   Hoorah! Perhaps you could offer your readers a prize for guessing the badge number of the Baccara Bambi who inflames our loins the most, with her cutoff skirt and her strangely appealing yampy dancing. I can't get a look returned from her ever since she sat with me for a drink and I didn't follow through with a short-time love parade. I mean, since when has a lady-drink been a contract to fuck? I rate Baccara very highly as a fine place to drink and letch, but the attitude problem is definitely there.
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2. 2 Penfold Oct 5th, 2007 at 2:22 am

   wanky rules re: lady drinks aside i think baccara is spot on
   granted you pay more then anywhere else for beer but you get wat you pay for
   not really rocket science though - good music great looking girls, i dont know why more bars dont follow suit
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3. 3 Slave Oct 5th, 2007 at 11:15 am

   Blind drunk on Christmas day in the winner sounds like a good plan - but haven't they scheduled the election sometime around Christmas?  Will the bars have to close while the voting is going on?
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4. 4 lil leroy Oct 5th, 2007 at 11:45 am

   looks like it's still a good plan - i saw a headline today indicating the elections would be on the 23rd.  the thais are partial to holding elections on sunday.
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5. 5 Bangkok Bad Boy Oct 5th, 2007 at 11:46 am

   @Pants: I've found that you just need to be assertive.  A nod and a wink tends not, for some reason, to always be that effective.  But wander over and collar them, and they're actually very approachable.

   @penfold: Some bar owners think that a laser display system is more attractive than a bunch of cute girls. Go figure.

   @Slave: The election is scheduled for December 23, so I'm guessing that 22 & 23 will be "dry" days, unless you know where to go…
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6. 6 Khun J Oct 5th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

   Mandatory 2 lady drink minimum and bad attitudes.
   Voted the best Go-Go Bar in Bangkok? 
   God help us.
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7. 7 werewolf Oct 5th, 2007 at 2:09 pm

   It seems enlightening to see you run this poll over a planned 4 month period. 

   Mandarin Club (4th in the Nana Plaza Poll) seems to be getting better every week.

   Baccara, just named #1 in Cowboy seems to be suffering some image issues initiated by a single post from a punter several weeks ago.

   By the time you get to the November Poll for best go go in Bangkok, I think you ought to include the top 3 or 5 from each nightlife area.  The quality of go go bars (or at least opinions about that quality) is so unstable that it may not be meaningful to only put in the winner from each area.

   Of course, this isn't A.C. Nielson, so do whatever you want 
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8. 8 Bangkok Bad Boy Oct 5th, 2007 at 9:28 pm

   @Khun J: Not yet. Merely the best go-go in Cowboy.

   @werewolf: Er, I thought that's what I said I was gonna do
   November will pit the five winners from each poll in a grand poll to find the best go-go bars in Bangkok
   
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9. 9 werewolf Oct 5th, 2007 at 11:43 pm

   Well, don't I feel stupid…
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10. 10 Penfold Oct 6th, 2007 at 12:27 am

    if i wanted a laser show id go to………. erm im struggling here……. somewhere help me
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11. 11 Bangkok Bad Boy Oct 6th, 2007 at 2:11 am

    @werewolf: Well, if you will read the site when asleep on the stairs in the Big Mango…

    @penfold: Blackpool?
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12. 12 Penfold Oct 6th, 2007 at 2:49 am

    ding ding ding
    buy that man a drink (during happy hour)
    blackpool **shudder**
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13. 13 werewolf Oct 6th, 2007 at 4:08 am

    What do Baccara and Rainbow 4 have in common?  From comments I read both are said to have the highest number of beautiful girls in their respective area, and both have a reputation for bad attitudes from both the service staff and the girls.  Sounds like maybe we only have ourselves to blame for poor service and bad attitudes.
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14. 14 Khun J Oct 6th, 2007 at 5:43 am

    "Sounds like maybe we only have ourselves to blame for poor service and bad attitudes."

    Exactly.
    The results sound like the Best Go Gos to boycott.I don't mind the expense but the shitty attitudes, I just can't take.
    When one of those bitches demands a drink, it is like fingernails on a chalkboard.
    The last thing I came here for is to have some Issan spinner with a 4th grade education, disrespecting me and bossing me around.
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15. 15 John Oct 6th, 2007 at 12:17 pm

    A briton picked a Pattaya hooker, married her and gave her 17 million bt. Later she kicked him out ( Nation, 6/10/07 ). So much for trusting a whore.
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16. 16 Bangkok Bad Boy Oct 6th, 2007 at 12:47 pm

    @werewolf: I personally voted for Baccara, because it has the hottest girls on Soi Cowboy. Some of them can even dance (okay, not many). Yes, I can get cheaper drinks and cheaper girls elsewhere. But I like hot girls. I've personally never had an attitude problem from the girls there. Obviously others have.

    @Khun J: If I want a girl to sit with me, I buy her a drink.  Yes, it's rude if they ask first.  I'll shoo her away if this happens - I like to at least get past "Hello, what's your name?". And if they come over uninvited, I'll usually shoo them away anyway. But assuming that I get that far, and that she's attractive (physically and emotionally), then I will offer her a drink. Given that there are scores of other men competing with you, I think you have to play by the rules.

    It's a sorry (but common) sight in the quieter bars, when a guy will have a girl sat with him for an hour or more without offering her a drink. If she's sitting with you, she's off-limits to all the other spenders. So I think you have to make it worth her while.

    @John: Yeah, I saw that one yesterday. I've heard variations on that tale so many times, you'd think people would have learnt by now! Here's the link if people want to read yet another retelling of the same old story!
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17. 17 Cabby Oct 6th, 2007 at 2:57 pm

    John: re: 'So much for trusting a whore' I hear more of those sort of stories staring accountants, lawyers, CFOs and CEOs instead of hookers.

    Well… I guess 'so much for trusting a whore' could include them too. But they generally don't marry the victim first 
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18. 18 Penfold Oct 6th, 2007 at 5:30 pm

    handing over 17million baht to a whore is madness
    i know no-one 'deserves' to get ripped off, but if you gonna be that hap-hazard with your cash you gotta expect it

    a fool and his money are easily parted, but are lucky to be together in the first place
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19. 19 MSB Oct 6th, 2007 at 7:45 pm

    it does not mention she was a hooker. But assume the worst. Still it might have been true love?
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20. 20 Combover Oct 6th, 2007 at 9:48 pm

    So where's Shark? These results are quite ridiculous.
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21. 21 bibblies Oct 7th, 2007 at 1:57 pm

    @pantselk: I'm guessing #177 (formerly #57 - don't know why she changed numbers). Stared/drooled/leered/smiled at her in my usual fashion for 3 days straight and got no reaction. (It seemed like I got approached or at least come-on smiles from the entire rest of the bar in that time too!)

    I reckon she's got it down to such a fine art that she only really SEES Japanese. She doesn't just ignore the rest. She has trained her brain to not recognise our existence.
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22. 22 chicagobob Oct 8th, 2007 at 1:14 pm

    Not related to the topic, I know, but can anyone help with a visa query? As I understand it, a border run will get me a 30 day tourist visa, but I need to keep my Non-Imm 'B'. Do I have to go to Phnom Phen to get that, and if so, can anyone give me the low down on the low life there? Thanks.
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23. 23 Bangkok Bad Boy Oct 9th, 2007 at 5:09 am

    @Combover: The people have spoken. Beats me, I love Shark

    @bibbles: Wrong, but I'll keep a look out for her next time.

    @chicagobob: Phnom Penh is reputedly the least friendly consulate in SE Asia, so wouldn't recommend going for a visa there.  Search for "phnom penh" in the search box (top right of every page) for a review of the nightlife though.

    Eagle-eyed readers may notice that I'm currently abroad - bit busy, but will respond while I can. No new articles coming for a while though, sorry…
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24. 24 hanuman Oct 9th, 2007 at 3:46 pm

    Come on BBB even an article about England's nightlife will do
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25. 25 Bangkok Bad Boy Oct 9th, 2007 at 4:08 pm

    @hanuman: If I find any, I'll let you know.
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26. 26 whorin cunt Oct 10th, 2007 at 8:44 am

    your all whorin cunts..shame on you..your mother would not be proud. but you'd probabley fuck her too if she was on the market
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27. 27 doctorbond Oct 10th, 2007 at 11:18 pm

    Well I am about to go the other way BBB - so I will take over the reins for you…. drinking and whoring that is… sod the writing bit
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28. 28 The Scotsman Oct 11th, 2007 at 4:41 am

    We are many people European men who get fucked up with all the fat American tourist man who every night come to Nana Plaza and Soi Cowboy. Why you not take your fat bodies and stau in the US with your MacDonald and KFC!
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29. 29 RonBaltimore Oct 11th, 2007 at 7:53 am

    what language are you speaking Scotsman?  that's pathetic.
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30. 30 balabutiro Oct 11th, 2007 at 3:25 pm

    Can someone recomend a decent hotel near cowboy, with internet and also girl friendly?
    Thanks
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31. 31 The Heckler Oct 11th, 2007 at 4:56 pm

    I kinda like the KFC down the street just where it is.  Fits in real nice with the colors and all.
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32. 32 werewolf Oct 11th, 2007 at 10:22 pm

    @@balabutiro: The Honey House is one smaller place that you may be interested in… it's open just a few months so it should be pretty clean and the rates fit into a budget.  It's got free wi-fi and is on Soi 22 (Soi Cowboy runs between Soi 23 and Asok Road).  Between Asok BTS/Sukhumvit MRT and Phrom Phong BTS. 

    URL: http://www.honeyhouse.co.th/
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33. 33 modelscout Oct 12th, 2007 at 7:21 pm

    Hey man, you are a frreaking trip. Love your comments. Just came across your site since I am due there tomorrow for a stretch and trying to get a feel for the place. Something tells me I will see you around sooner or later since I will be there a while.
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34. 34 balabutiro Oct 15th, 2007 at 2:41 pm

    @werewolf: Thanks
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35. 35 chicagobob Oct 15th, 2007 at 4:52 pm

    Action of the week:

    A farewell bonk with a gogo girl before I left Thailand. And a wank on the plane. I am currently in the UK.

    I just know I'm gonna regret this but,……on the plane?!?!?!
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36. 36 Bangkok Bad Boy Oct 17th, 2007 at 1:39 am

    Hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go…
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37. 37 chicagobob Oct 17th, 2007 at 8:33 am

     Were  you "flying solo" or is that one of the benefits of 1st class perhaps?
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38. 38 Bangkok Bad Boy Oct 17th, 2007 at 8:41 pm

    I believe the time-honoured wank-in-the-aeroplane-toilet is colloquially referred to as "joining the half-mile high club".

    Just don't ask me about the farang girl I went home with the other night…
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39. 39 hanuman Oct 18th, 2007 at 12:31 am

    Don't tell me that the farang girl was worse than the wank in the toilet?It's a good thing that you have to return to England once in a while so you remember what we have to endure every day.
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40. 40 Penfold Oct 18th, 2007 at 4:11 am

    @BBB i share your pain bro - i been back in the myre for 2months and i refuse to entertain white chicks fullstop
    why would i wanna dine on grissle and scrag after feasting on steak for the last year?!? you tell me
    seems attitudes have got worse (if possible) since i been back - last saturday i spent 90minutes getting kicked to pieces @ football by a 16stone meathead whos nickname was 'bones/bozzhog or klump' who at the end threatened to 'cut my f'cking head off'
    god im glad to be back
    how long you got left on your sentence BBB?
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41. 41 chicagobob Oct 18th, 2007 at 8:40 am

     believe the time-honoured wank-in-the-aeroplane-toilet is colloquially referred to as "joining the half-mile high club". Just don't ask me about the farang girl I went home with the other night…

    Now if that isn't an invitation to ask, I don't know what is!!!! O.K. Go on, tell us about the farang girl you went home with………
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42. 42 Bangkok Bad Boy Oct 18th, 2007 at 4:55 pm

    All in good time…
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43. 43 Pants Elk Oct 18th, 2007 at 11:01 pm

    A very wise man once said "have a wank, money in the bank", but if that's right I should have been a millionaire by the time I was 14. I am still partial to the occasional Hand Shandy - it's the only sex I get (or want) while serving time in the UK. Philip Larkin (a Poet, you fucking philistine) said "why bother when you can have a wank?" when asked about courtship, chatting up, seduction, whatever you want to call it. As he was talking about English women he had a point.
    And as Woody Allen said, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with somebody you love.
    On a plane? Depends where on the plane, doesn't it? Down a hostesses cleavage, ten points. Into the bog, one. Into the pilot's ear, fifteen. Into your neighbor's sick bag, eight. While she's being sick, twenty. Directly up your own bum swinging from the lockers, fifty. How did you score, 3B?
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44. 44 doctorbond Oct 18th, 2007 at 11:52 pm

    Seeing as how this thread has turned into a big of a free-for-all in BBB's absence and as i have just returned to the LOS - here is MY rant of the week.  What tossers surfaced all the shopping mall carparks with a substance that makes your tyres squeal at 2 mph.  Do this individual have a Starsky and Hutch complex?
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45. 45 chicagobob Oct 19th, 2007 at 8:28 am

    Pants Elk, that, ma man is an absolute classic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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46. 46 Prufrock Oct 19th, 2007 at 2:11 pm

    @ Pants Elk:  Dude, Phillip Larkin was as closeted as my old powder blue senior prom tux with the black piping and as gay as a plaid rabbit. This may have had something to do with his attitude
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47. 47 Pants Elk Oct 19th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

    @Prufrock: Dude, I can find no reference to his being gay - just the opposite. From all written evidence (and personal testimony from those who knew him) he was a lecherous pursuer of women, had a string of affairs, and a long-term partnership with a woman. I'm prepared to admit you may know better. But even if he lived in the closet with all those women, that doesn't prevent him from formulating a valid opinion about them, does it?

    Are you sure you're not thinking about Allen Ginsberg?

    (Larkin: "Depression is to me what daffodils are to Wordsworth" and "They fuck you up, your mum and dad")
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48. 48 Prufrock Oct 19th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

    @ Pants: Larkin's life- nothing if not a labyrinth of contradiction.  Astronomically complex attitudes and postures vis. women, well-documented in Motion's 1995 bio.  . . .  Admittedly, circumspect and quite open to interpretation Larkin's sexuality was hardly the point in this exhaustive work. (And this place Some see a series of sweaty affairs others see a string of Platonics at best; fag-hags at worst. Surely not the latter as PAL was in many respects de facto poet laureate of a United Kingdom in decline.
    My remark as it showed up in this site goes more to color commentary rather than trashing a giant of the angst posse.
    Surely, if there was ever a man whose libidinal conflicts  were, at once, motive for his work and irrelevant to his status as one of the great moderns it would have to be PAL.

    As for PAL's anything excluding him from making a comment on anything and having an opinion on anything (valid or otherwise) I'd just like to opine that this "anything" might have some bearing.

    His contempt for courtship etc. is probably the only PAL position I do not share.
    Like, he's even smarter than L. Ron Hubbard, eh?

    I fear that further lewd talk along these lines risks incurring the wrath of 3B's moddie squad. But, just for laughs, how many Thais think that PAL as anything other than an ancient VHS format?
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49. 49 Bangkok Bad Boy Oct 19th, 2007 at 8:33 pm

    I think this is possibly the most extreme case of topic-drift I have ever seen on the internet. Carry on.

    But PAL isn't, strictly speaking, a VHS format. Merely a color encoding system, invented for broadcast rather than recording.

    This must be some sort of record…
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50. 50 Prufrock Oct 19th, 2007 at 8:48 pm

    @BBB - Yeah. Off topic.  Nasty scratch.
    Hmmm.
    A free Beer Lao to the guy who gets this thread back to plane-wanks and fat chicks from the the UK with rashy,  leathery-red love pouches.
    Two shot rule.
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51. 51 Pants Elk Oct 19th, 2007 at 9:27 pm

    Your fault, 3B. You should know by now that inflight onanism leads directly to accusing poet laureats of being stuck in wardrobes. I meam - cuh! - how long have you been blogging?
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52. 52 Pants Elk Oct 19th, 2007 at 9:31 pm

    And I notice 3B is still rotating his toe in the hot sand when it comes to giving us his in-flight monkey-spank score …
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53. 53 Bangkok Bad Boy Oct 19th, 2007 at 9:50 pm

    @Prufrock: Those “rashy, leathery-red love pouches” will be making an appearance in a future article, real soon now.

    @Pants: Some things are best left to the imagination. More importantly, Larkin was never the laureate (he declined the post).

    Does anyone want anything bringing back from IKEA?
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54. 54 Prufrock Oct 19th, 2007 at 9:52 pm

    @ Pants: Well, not exactly,  "directly".
    There was a bit of yellow-brick-roadage  in there, somewhere n'est-ce pas 
    Geez.
    I'm sorry. 
    The powder blue tux, the plaid rabbit, Andrew Motion's exhaustive 570-page 1993 biography

    Oh well. I was just trying to be funny.
    I'm not very good at it, it seems. (sigh
    Shark Bar time.  Slutty one with the big ass and the big tits,  fourth from the end.
    A cage fighting angel in white voile with an overdue phone bill and some g-club pretenses.  (moves her arse around in coyote-style figure eights) .

    @BBB it's still low season. Even on Friday night.
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55. 55 Pants Elk Oct 19th, 2007 at 11:30 pm

    Yay! An Ikea thread!
    I want a "Smegma" brushed aluminium scatter rug, please …
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56. 56 Bangkok Bad Boy Oct 20th, 2007 at 12:30 am

    @Prufrock: What if "low season" never ends? Will the bars just put their beer (and barfine) prices up again?

    *shudder*

    @Pants: I have a smegma-brushed mattress, will that do?
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57. 57 werewolf Oct 20th, 2007 at 5:21 am

    Remember what the man said about Bangkok:

    "You never masturbate in Bangkok…  at least you never masturbate alone."
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58. 58 fucku Oct 21st, 2007 at 3:34 pm

    how many of you have hiv?

    just curious.
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59. 59 Bangkok Bad Boy Oct 22nd, 2007 at 10:19 am

    @fucku: How apt.
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60. 60 Old Farang Sep 23rd, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    @fucku:

    In Thailand 1.4% of the population are HIV+. A good chunk of them injecting drug users and homosexual men, as well as local men and women who work in actual brothels that cater to locals.

    Sure, that means there are potentially one or two hundred thousand bar girls in Thailand who are HIV+.

    The chance of getting a HIV infection from unprotected penetretive intercourse varies of course depending on if the man is circumcised or not as well as many other factors, either way, it’s well below a 1:10 chance.

    Now here’s the big secret, a 40 year old virging living under a rock like yourself may not yet know this:

    There are condoms you can use. They are about 10 baht each.

    These are just lazy stats because I can’t be bothered to do any homework to respond to your comment in more detail but the chance that the girl is HIV+ *and* the condom fails *and* I am unlucky to actually get infected that one time, are negligible.

    Sure, if you visit local brothels, especially in rural areas *and* enjoy unprotected P4P, nobody can help you.
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61. 61 Old Farang Sep 23rd, 2008 at 5:37 pm

    Omg I just saw this is over 11 months old
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62. 62 sideshowBOB Sep 23rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    of

    try this thread:

    http://www.tfs2m.com/reader-submissions/2008/09/23/getting-an-hiv-test-in-sukhumvit/
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63. 63 Werewolf Sep 24th, 2008 at 12:11 am

    I can also recommend this oldie but goodie:

    http://www.tfs2m.com/reader-submissions/2007/04/04/is-it-like-playing-russian-roulette-by-werewolf/
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64. 64 JT Jun 10th, 2009 at 9:59 am

    @BBB-Could you maybe do an update on the best bars now?
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