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The Good Manner: Racial discrimination in Bangkok go-go bars?

The Good Manner: Love & Relationship Advice from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: Am I the victim of racial discrimination in Bangkok go-go bars? Dear Pa Farang, Three of us got 86’d from a go-go bar.  Our crime?  One of our group had just bought a drink for a dancer who sat beside him, […]

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The Good Manner: My religious brother married a Thai prostitute

The Good Manner: Love & Relationship Advice from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: My religious brother married a Thai prostitute Dear Pa Farang,  I come from a God-fearing family who prides itself on honesty and respect.  Last year my brother, who works in Thailand for a large multi-national firm, married a very nice Thai […]

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The Good Manner: Fat old man can’t get a date in Thailand

The Good Manner: Love & Relationship Advice from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: Fat old man can’t get a date in Thailand Dear Pa Farang,  This is a letter of frustration. I’m in my mid-50’s, and have been to Thailand several times.  I originally came here for good scuba, and kept coming back because […]

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The Good Manner: Tickling games curb the passion in relationships

The Good Manner: Love & Relationship Advice from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: Are tickling games curbing the passion in my relationship?  Dear Pa Farang,  My girlfriend Chalalai and I started as mad, passionate lovers. In fact, we would often spend two or three days in amorous hideaways, refusing to answer doorbells, telephone calls, […]

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The Good manner: Farang western wife doesn’t want husband going to Bangkok

The Good Manner: Love & Relationship Advice from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: Farang wife doesn’t want husband going to Bangkok  Dear Pa Farang,  You might find it unusual, getting a letter from a woman, but I’ll confess, my husband put me up to it.  We’re both in our mid-30s, comfortably living in Los […]

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The Good Manner: Is this Thai marriage or extortion?

The Good Manner: Love & Relationship Advice from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: Thai marriage or extortion? Dear Pa Farang,  A serious matter of money is endangering the relationship between me and my Thai girlfriend of one year.  I’m not a cheapskate, take her out to nice dinners, and buy her nice things.  She’s […]

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The Good Manner: Losing one’s girlfriend… to another girl!

The Good Manner: Love & Relationship Advice from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: losing one’s girlfriend… to another girl! Dear Pa Farang,  I have been with my girlfriend, Apple, for more than a year.  I’m very much in love with her, and we have talked marriage.  Unfortunately, I only see her two nights a […]

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The Good Manner: Failure to respect the King gets man in hot water with Thai girlfriend

The Good Manner: Love & Relationship Advice from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: Failure to respect the King gets man in hot water with Thai girlfriend  Dear Pa Farang,  I think I’m in hot water.  The other day, while on a boat, the wind blew some baht notes out of my hand, and, to […]

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The Good Manner: When your lady friend has wrecked your apartment

The Good Manner: Love & Relationship Advice from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: When your lady friend has wrecked your apartment Dear Pa Farang,  My heart is heavy, and I am seeking your advice. I have just come home, and my apartment has been wrecked. I am a farang, in this country for six […]

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The Good Manner: When the lady is a ladyboy

The Good Manner: Love & Relationship Advice from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: my grifriend is a ladyboy Dear Pa Farang,  As a twenty-year military man now stationed in Thailand, I’m faced with something I never encountered at home.  I’m writing to you, because I can’t discuss this with anyone at the base.  I […]

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