# A Very Sad Man in Thailand **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2008, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-sad-man-in-thailand/446105 "2008-04-20T12:08:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-sad-man-in-thailand/446105/41 "2008-04-23T07:52:36Z")
NOTE: Well, it looks like you cannot look at the YouTube video at the beginning of the other thread, because it’s been removed by the person who submitted it. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-sad-man-in-thailand/446105/42 "2008-04-24T03:51:17Z")
After reading that, the last thing I want to do is point and laugh. I mean, he’s obviously not the sharpest tool in the shed, especially when it comes to Thai bar girls, but he just as obviously was really into her. Painful, sad, and tawdry tale. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-sad-man-in-thailand/446105/43 "2008-04-24T03:57:12Z")
[Cached, no pics](http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:KpTGasTEwXcJ:www.phenchaloemphol.com/+www.phenchaloemphol.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=safari) The link says I’m using Safari. If it doesn’t work for you, I found the cached site by googling the URL without the http. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-sad-man-in-thailand/446105/44 "2008-04-24T04:04:01Z")
[The plot thickens…](http://bargirlsrpeople2.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/glass-houses/) > [@](#): > > oooh it gets better.. > > Is it just me or is he… the same as this guy (a registered sex offender)… > > \ > > When I did the WhoIs against his website I could see he had registered it in his name (William Brandes). I then did a Google search for William Brandes and voila! Same name, same hair (including the dodgy hairline ;-)),same [city] (San Diego), same face > > He is a SEO yet he stupid enough to register the website in his name which when googled gives a link to him on the Florida Department of Law Enforcement - what a dumbass! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-sad-man-in-thailand/446105/45 "2008-04-24T04:09:26Z")
I’d say his children are well rid of him. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-sad-man-in-thailand/446105/46 "2008-04-24T04:41:29Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] I am probably in the minority when it comes to guys living here with a wife or girlfriend and who don’t cheat. At least, among the guys _I_ know, and it’s not just that I know a bunch of degenerates (although there IS that, too). We’re not in Kansas, Toto; when going down to the corner BJ bar for a quickie becomes as normal as picking up a pizza or a newspaper, no one really thinks about it. [/QUOTE] As I explained to my wife, who had been a Navy wife and made it in the Pacific as far as Guam, “They don’t call it Bangkok for nothing.” I eschewed intimate contact on my one visit there. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-sad-man-in-thailand/446105/47 "2008-04-24T05:06:20Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] I am probably in the minority when it comes to guys living here with a wife or girlfriend and who don’t cheat. At least, among the guys _I_ know, and it’s not just that I know a bunch of degenerates (although there IS that, too). We’re not in Kansas, Toto; when going down to the corner BJ bar for a quickie becomes as normal as picking up a pizza or a newspaper, no one really thinks about it. [/QUOTE] Ugh, that is so repulsively gross _puke_ ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-sad-man-in-thailand/446105/48 "2008-04-24T07:11:15Z")
[QUOTE=nyctea scandiaca] Ugh, that is so repulsively gross _puke_ [/QUOTE] And I haven’t even mentioned the handjob bars! We have several. The most unique is in the Soi Cowboy bar area and called After Skool. The girls all dress up in school uniforms. The wanking is done in an area called – I’m not making this up – the Naughty Boy Corner. It’s at the bar, around the far end, so of course you can only see people there from the waist up. It’s funny to be in there having a beer when some guy is off in the Naughty Boy Corner with the girl and acting like nothing is going on. I mean, _no one_ sits in the Naughty Boy Corner without getting wanked. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-sad-man-in-thailand/446105/49 "2008-04-24T07:57:55Z")
It’s threads like this make me realise why I subscribed in the first place. Fucking hilarious ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-sad-man-in-thailand/446105/50 "2008-04-24T08:01:50Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] I have heard similar stories from Gay guys who go to Thailand and fall in love and - well, different strokes - but same story. One thing that amazes me is that most of these guys apparently do not have a mirror at home…the picture of the guy in the OP’s story is not all that bad, but I know guys who are grossly obese, or old as dirt, or both - with few if any redeeming physical features - and they go to Thailand and fall in love with some cute young thing. Then they are shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that gorgeous person 30-40 years their junior seems to want money! Imagine that! Who’da seen that coming?! Idiots. [/QUOTE] In Costa Rica two years ago, four of my five coworkers used to go to bars a lot (number five was a weirdo like me: early person, doesn’t drink and can smell a paid girl from three blocks away); the one who attracted girls the most was the least attractive one. He was freaked enough by all this unusual attention from curvy chicks in breakneck heels to catch the mentions of kids, boyfriends with open minds (open by some other guy’s wallet, that is) and so forth. He never really got the notion that these girls were prostitutes (excuse me, temporary girlfriends expecting remuneration), though. Ugliest number two got lucky one night and still swears that she could no way have any relationship with his wallet and his roomie’s being missing next day, along with any personally-owned electronics (she left the company-owned computers). Unlike number one, number two (obese and bald at 25) actually thought he was attractive… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-sad-man-in-thailand/446105/51 "2008-04-25T03:34:27Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] Lolita’s chain of BJ bars used to have a website, which I posted in another thread, but it’s down now. The bar is still there, but there’s some sort of weird tussle in upper management, and they let the hosting lapse. Not sure what’s up with that. [/QUOTE] Aha! The website is back up. For those of you who want to see, it’s here. I would say this is NSFW. That’s NOT safe for work. The Patpong branch actually shut down after a few months last year. Stiff competition (pun intended) from the older nearby well-established BJ bars forced them out. But they still have the one off Sukhumvit Road and then their upcountry branches. If you click on the Patpong link, it seems to take you just to the main Sukhumvit location. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-sad-man-in-thailand/446105.md?page=2)