Is it creepy to sit alone outside riverside bars and restaurants?

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Re: Is it creepy to sit alone outside riverside bars and restaurants?

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simon43 wrote: Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:05 am Jeez, if I were the restaurant manager (or staff), I'd kick that guy out and fumigate the chair.

Is it really OK to walk around without a shirt on? (Yes I know PP seems to be populated by foreigners who walk around stark fcuking naked; don't really want to start a trend in flaunting downtown nakedness).
No it's really not OK.

It's fine to roll your T-shirt up to get some air on your belly though.
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Kuroneko wrote: Sun Sep 17, 2017 1:01 pmImage
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hanno wrote: Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:59 pm

Yupp, a book on cats actually:
Maybe this should be the next one! :D

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Kuroneko wrote: Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:28 pm
hanno wrote: Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:59 pm

Yupp, a book on cats actually:
Maybe this should be the next one! :D

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My cats know that one. I am sure they have read it a few times......
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hanno wrote: Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:38 pm
Kuroneko wrote: Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:28 pm
hanno wrote: Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:59 pm

Yupp, a book on cats actually:
Maybe this should be the next one! :D

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My cats know that one. I am sure they have read it a few times......
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Kuroneko wrote: Sun Sep 17, 2017 1:01 pmImage
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I might say it's a bit creepy.. It wasn't my fault. I was doing a survey and had to ask foreigners on riverside a couple of years ago.
Of course I chose those that were just sitting outside. Didn't want to disturb those who were eating.
Anyway, I asked a lot of them, they asked me things and gave me creepy eyes lol. So..
Sorry if I might sound like I'm generalizing. I'm not saying all of them are weirdos, but I just want to avoid things like that. So I don't go near anymore
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I find it creepy walking along Riverside with my wife and barang men blatantly staring at her. They probably wouldn't do it in their home country but sadly feel it's their duty to do it here. No respect.

They stop when I start staring back. Gets a bit tiring after the 20th time.

FFS find your own bitch!

Mind you the young barang chicks are also staring at me but they usually have a scowl on!
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bangkokhooker wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2017 10:32 am I find it creepy walking along Riverside with my wife and barang men blatantly staring at her. They probably wouldn't do it in their home country but sadly feel it's their duty to do it here. No respect.

They stop when I start staring back. Gets a bit tiring after the 20th time.

FFS find your own bitch!

Mind you the young barang chicks are also staring at me but they usually have a scowl on!
I hear you but they do it in their home countries as well as I found out when I visited Germany with my Vietnamese ex-wife.
Mind you the young barang chicks are also staring at me but they usually have a scowl on!
It is worse when you walk with two Khmer kids.
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• I hear you.
I don't think I'll ever get used to it.

I refuse to go out and about with my Khmer nieces and nephews alone. Especially in PP.

I once was told by a young barang girl as fact old men pick up young kids at the beach. She'd read about it online.
She's not alone.
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