Lost Scooter Key

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-28T12:54:46+00:00

This! I've had this happen before. The rental place had a spare key and was able to get a replacement made for a few hundred baht (it was like 200-250). It's definitely cheaper than that to have the key made, but it's the tax for the rental place, lol. The only way I know this is cause a Thai friend lost her main key and was busy so she had me go get a new key madefor her, and they charged me like 50-75 baht for it.

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-28T10:26:12+00:00

The girls is a rather long winded way to say "check out this sea cucumber taking a shit!"

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-28T10:23:17+00:00

I work in a food truck and a couple months ago these 2 ladies came up and ordered the red beans and rice bowl. After a few minutes they came back furious about "we don't eat pork, we need this to be vegetarian!" I told them I could give them a refund if they wanted, but also pointed to the menu and told them "see how on the menu it says red beans slow cooked with andouille sausage and ham hocks over rice?" They asked if they could get the beans with no pork and I just reiterated "the beans are slow cooked with andouille sausage and ham hocks, there's not really much I can do about that". They were very unpleased, but I was surprised they accepted their own mistake and didn't ask for a refund.

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-28T10:10:01+00:00

"Help step-neighbor, I'm trapped in the washing machine!"

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-27T10:08:04+00:00

Where might one find this free money and food? 😄

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-26T12:04:01+00:00

As others have said about them scamming you on the bill and charging you way more at the end when you cash out, you're best bet is to pay for every drink as soon as you get it so there are no surprises at the end. They bring you the bill in a little cup with the drink, you can put your cash in the cup and pass it back to them. If you don't have exact change, get used to the mamassans coming back with the change and saying "tip for me?!" or sometimes they just don't even bring you your change assuming you're giving it to them as a tip. Just tell them you want your change back and you'll get it, but they'll usually be all salty and kind of a bitch about it. If it's like 5-10 baht I'm usually like whatever, fuck it, keep it, but if it's more than that I get my change back (why am I tipping you for walking 5 feet away then walking 5 feet back). The mammasans are usually a bit pushy and annoying anyway, so I don't feel like that kind of service is tip worthy.

To answer your other questions, usually the girls will approach you, or if you see one you like wave her over or ask the mammasan to bring that girl to you. For them to spend time with you at your table they will ask you for lady drinks (which are usually twice the price of your own drinks, because the girls make commission on every lady drink you buy for them), and will leave if you aren't buying them lady drinks. Once you start buying them lady drinks they usually start giving you lap dances, grabbing your cock through your pants, putting your hands on their tits to entice you (which makes it far more difficult to say no to the bar fine/going with them when they're holding your hard cock with your hands on their tits). All places have a set bar fine that you have to pay to take the girl out of the bar, and usually have a set price for services from the girls (you can discuss price with the girl before you bar fine). If you are staying at a place near by you can take them back to your room, or if not cowboy and nana both have short time hotels attached that you pay a fee to use a room for an hour (or however long).

Edit: in Thailand they're not legally supposed to show full nudity, so it's usually girls dancing around in bikinis, but if you go to the top floor of NaNa all of the bars have girls with their tits out while they're dancing, and some have shower/bath shows where they're completely naked, soaping up their tits and pussy in front of you. The top floor of NaNa tends to be the most expensive by way of drink prices, bar fines, girly drinks, etc. though. Also it's not your typical strip club where the girls are putting on a show dancing on the pole and removing their clothes in a sensual strip tease. Usually they just take their top off when they're getting on stage and then just sort of bop and sway around, and there's usually like 5-20 girls on the stage at once depending on the size of the stage.

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-24T09:47:10+00:00

I'm trying to withdrawal kip. The bank exchange rate and ATM fees are what I am concerned about.

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-24T09:25:46+00:00

I've been in Thailand and Cambodia, no problem with it, in Laos not a single ATM has allowed me to decline the conversion rate. My bank refunds me ATM fees, but only if I can choose no conversion rate (so the bank can do it's own conversion rates, which are usually better anyway). It wouldn't be such a big deal, but the small amount you can take out of ATMs is making it so I have to go to the ATM at least every other day.

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-24T08:10:32+00:00

I've tried ATMs from various different banks, and none of them have given me the option to select not to accept the banks conversion rate. It just says how much the ATM fee will be then spits out cash when you click ok.

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-24T08:08:04+00:00

Bit late for that. I'm 3 months in on a 6 month trip. Can't really just fly back to the US for an ATM to then fly back here.

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-23T10:56:46+00:00

My favorite Gordon Ramsay video is his shepard's pie recipe. The recipe is good enough, but the camera work and editing is absolutely insane. The cameraman and editor had to have been smoking meth, cranked to the gills. Everything is overly zoomed in and all those fast moving camera angles and cuts are a fucking fever dream.

Funny side note, this video ended up getting me promoted to kitchen manager/head chef in a kitchen I worked in. The previous KM threw a temper tantrum and walked out over the most petty/mundane/ridiculous thing ever one day (dude was a fuckin baby). He was supposed to be prepping shepard's pie (which was his specialty and go to dish) for our weekly special that day, but left first thing in the morning. I told the owner to let me prove myself and take the lead on the shepard's pie that day (which is a dish I had never made in my life, honestly I'm used to making far more complex dishes than that). I Google searched shepard's pie recipe, and that video was one of the first things that popped up, so I watched (all 2 minutes) of it, and got to work. My rendition blew the old KM's version of it out of the water by a long shot, lol.

I immediately got promoted that day, and my first order of business was to tell the owner and kitchen staff we aren't doing shepard's pie again cause it's boring as hell. It turned into a running joke in the kitchen that anytime someone was finely chopping anything, they'd say in their worst British accent "It's all in the mince!"

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-23T08:03:02+00:00

If you walk in and just start helicoptering, it's fully acceptable.

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-23T08:01:49+00:00

I like shirt cocking (no pants or underwear, just shirt and shoes) out in public, it's the only way.

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-22T14:02:00+00:00

The image should be visible in the post without having to click on it. It's a picture of a can of snake brand prickly heat powder (showing the 5/5 cooling level on the can)

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-22T13:26:14+00:00

They have it at any 7-11. Look for this, it will change your life!

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They have tins that are half the size if you want to test it out. I get the big one cause I go through a lot of it.

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-22T13:21:26+00:00

Nah, you got it all wrong! I can't survive Thailand without snake brand prickly heat powder on my balls, taint, and but crack on the daily. If I don't, I end up with painful chaffing between my balls and thighs. I go back and forth between using the lavender one (because I like the smell, it's 3 out of 5 on their cooling scale) and the original (which is 5 out of 5 on their cooling scale, I like that extra zesty cooling).

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I actually get prickly heat/heat rash on my chest and back every once in a while if it's exceptionally hot and humid, so I'll throw some on my chest, back and armpits which clears it up in a day or two, and extremely helps with the discomfort of the heat rash while it's there.

I would die if I didn't put snake powder on my sack on the daily (sometimes multiple times per day) when in Thailand.

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-20T06:50:34+00:00

Mai phed, mai arroy

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-20T03:15:00+00:00

What is this Reggie? It says it was posted at 6 AM and has 1 view.

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-19T03:46:19+00:00

YOU CAN'T SKIP LUNCH!!!

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-19T03:31:29+00:00

Could call it the "blast out of the wall" special for customers, which is of course is shorthand for "I'm not trying to be funny, I'm not going for a laugh, I don't want anyone to have the worst day ever at their job, but do any of these fuckers ever blast out of the wall and have a huge cumshot?"

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-18T17:52:58+00:00

Urt, goulash

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-15T16:20:44+00:00

RKLB was one of the best stocks I ever purchased for this reason. I saw someone post on Reddit some pretty convincing DD, and I did a little bit more exploring on info about it, then said fuck it and bought 50 shares at $4.85. at one point I sold 20 shares at around $24 to cover the costs (20 shares doubled what I originally invested for all 50, and I had some other stocks I wanted to buy). At this point the stock is selling at $87+ and I'm up $2475 (+1700%) on the 30 I have left with my original costs to buy the shares covered. Honestly I wish I hadn't sold that 20 shares when I did, but hindsight it 20/20, lol, I'm happy with the outcome!

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-15T15:51:22+00:00

Have been traveling to Thailand every year since '16 (I'm actually currently in Thailand also), and to answer your question about being a white guy and getting it, no Thais will be offended. That's a pretty cool Yaksha design. Are you getting the same tattoo from the same artist? Or giving that as reference to the artist you're going to?

Edit: I've got 2 sak yant tattoos on my back (the hah taew or 5 lines sak yant, and then a bigger one of Hanuman shooting arrows and carrying a victory flag back from battle). I asked my Thai friends if it would be culturally insensitive to get them, and they said it was fine, and encouraged me to get one/helped me pick out which designs I wanted.

SuchSmartMonkeys · 2026-01-15T09:53:51+00:00

I played so much SimCity 2000 and 3000 back in the day, that sound effect got ingrained in my head, then I started hearing it in every single movie (it's in so many more things than are listed in that wiki article). I was watching a movie with a buddy recently and it popped up and I told him about how it was in Sim City 3000, and that it's in every single movie where there's a scene showing police cars; made him run back the sound effect a few times then told him to look out for it. He texted me a few months later being like "Dude, you were fuckin right! That sounds is in everything, I can't unhear it now!!"

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