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Lies, Damned Lies ... And Billboards
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 06/08/2017
» The Bang Na expressway is a corridor of lies and deceit. Describing it like that may be extreme, but we are living in extreme times. We are required to react to everything in the most shocking way, and what better way to do that than to react hysterically to things which, back in the 20th century, warranted a cursory glance with a disapproving raised eyebrow.
Running onempty
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 30/07/2017
» It was when I awoke at 5am that the terrible realisation came to the fore. The previous night, just prior to retiring, I'd performed my usual nightly ablutions. I did a quick clean-up of my bedroom, placing dirty clothes in the clothes basket, as well as tossing a mountain of squeezed lemon wedges and empty yellow tonic cans into the trash.
What's love got to do with it?
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 23/07/2017
» Guys, I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is this: Never before have Thai women been so keen as to want to hitch up with you. We foreign guys are red hot in Thailand. And the bad news? That's coming a little further down.
'Mr Condom' is still causing a stir
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 16/07/2017
» How comforting to see, in the pages of the Bangkok Post, young people using condoms with none of the hang-ups or bashfulness associated with that contraception. By using them, I don't mean "using" them. The kids were blowing up condoms like balloons and wearing gaily coloured hats made of condoms in a news story that certainly piqued my interest.
Dear diary, thanks for the wacky memories
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 09/07/2017
» What a jolt to my senses -- and mortality -- to learn that 20 years have passed since the tom yam kung economic crisis of Thailand. Man, that went quickly.
A fascination that is so hard to stomach
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 02/07/2017
» My chicken parmesan was an unexpected hit. Everybody at the table commented on how delicious it was. Four hours later I am in the bathroom with a terrible case of the runs.
Check-ups turn a healthy profit
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 25/06/2017
» As a card-carrying, law-abiding expatriate in the Land of Smiles, I am required to visit my local hospital once a year to obtain a medical certificate.
Three twerks in time save nine
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/06/2017
» Back in January 1956, a young unknown American singer named Elvis Presley released his first single called Heartbreak Hotel.
Killer sales pitch
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/06/2017
» The woman gyrates in front of the camera from the comfort of her little room in the Bangkok suburbs.
Hell hath no fury like a Thai woman scorned
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 04/06/2017
» It's been a busy news week with all sorts of issues jostling for attention, but not a single Thai man skipped over the news from Phayao last Saturday. It was the story of the wife who cut off her husband's penis. He and the severed appendage were whisked off to nearby Pong Hospital.