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« on: April 29, 2017, 09:11:35 pm »

Spa?
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« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2017, 09:56:32 pm »

Another good one, Bob.

(I have to wonder whether there is some connection between "Open Massage" and "Open Marriage."   :D   )
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« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2017, 10:53:38 pm »

Another good one, Bob.

(I have to wonder whether there is some connection between "Open Massage" and "Open Marriage."   :D   )

These "Spas" are ubiquitous in Sarasota. I keep my distance. I shot this with a 75mm lens on an Oly--equivalent to 150mm on a FF 35mm camera.
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« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2017, 03:34:43 am »

Crop of the car, and bit off the top and right so that you have 3 dots remaining. 3 dots sometimes known as "thinking dots". A bit of the sidewalk is good, since it represents: streetwise.

You then have an image perfectly representing: massage? Yeah, right!
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« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2017, 10:56:46 am »

Ah yes! If you ain't cropped it, it ain't finished.

Having spent three years in Asia during three wars, a sign that says "Oriental" massage makes me ROTFL.

Good shooting, as usual, Bob.
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« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2017, 12:10:23 pm »

Ah yes! If you ain't cropped it, it ain't finished.

Having spent three years in Asia during three wars, a sign that says "Oriental" massage makes me ROTFL.

Good shooting, as usual, Bob.

ROTFL: You nailed it. During the shoot, that BMW parked alongside the parlor at around "closing time" made me nervous. I've driven along this road countless times. I've observed that that beamer is always there around closing--at least whenever I've driven by. Over half the photos I've taken within the last year are within a 2 mile radius of that spot.
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Re: Massage
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2017, 12:16:09 pm »

Crop of the car, and bit off the top and right so that you have 3 dots remaining. 3 dots sometimes known as "thinking dots". A bit of the sidewalk is good, since it represents: streetwise.

You then have an image perfectly representing: massage? Yeah, right!

I appreciate your feedback. ... For better or for worse, I am "finished" with the massage picture. In my mind's eye, this is how I saw the photo prior to taking it. Granted, the composition is a bit unnerving.
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Re: Massage
« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2017, 01:28:04 pm »

Crop of the car...

Why? Perhaps they also offer drive-thru massage.

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« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2017, 01:33:03 pm »

Why? Perhaps they also offer drive-thru massage.
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« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2017, 01:44:23 pm »

Good! Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Massage
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2017, 02:15:18 pm »

ROTFL: You nailed it. During the shoot, that BMW parked alongside the parlor at around "closing time" made me nervous. I've driven along this road countless times. I've observed that that beamer is always there around closing--at least whenever I've driven by. Over half the photos I've taken within the last year are within a 2 mile radius of that spot.

Bob, to get the real picture of why I ROTFL, read http://www.russ-lewis.com/asia/Shorts/S-massage.html.
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Re: Massage
« Reply #11 on: May 01, 2017, 02:04:16 am »

ROTFL yes. LOL, most here in the US are a poor excuse for their window name. The Triads are very active in the US, but some are run by honest folks trying to make enough to send home to support family.

Russ, your stories really illustrate the Thai - Westerner relationship misconceptions and issues as well as the happiness in small things that the ordinary Thai  bring to their hard lives. If one is unattached, there is nothing like a relationship with a Thai lady ( in the traditional meaning ). The hardest thing is to not become a walking ATM for the family, LOL.

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« Reply #12 on: May 01, 2017, 11:55:54 am »

Bob, to get the real picture of why I ROTFL, read http://www.russ-lewis.com/asia/Shorts/S-massage.html.

I always wondered how that situation would unfold, lol. I doubt I'll ever find out firsthand.
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« Reply #13 on: May 01, 2017, 12:16:48 pm »

ROTFL yes. LOL, most here in the US are a poor excuse for their window name. The Triads are very active in the US, but some are run by honest folks trying to make enough to send home to support family.

Russ, your stories really illustrate the Thai - Westerner relationship misconceptions and issues as well as the happiness in small things that the ordinary Thai  bring to their hard lives. If one is unattached, there is nothing like a relationship with a Thai lady ( in the traditional meaning ). The hardest thing is to not become a walking ATM for the family, LOL.

Frank

Hi Frank, One problem I had in Thailand is that the people under my command were, in fact, unattached for a year. As you point out, the Thai are wonderful people, full of sanuk, which is hard to translate but comes across to me as a capacity for fun. My unattached people always were looking for fun, and once we stopped bombing in Cambodia they had an awful lot of time available for fun. As I told Bob, sometimes the resulting behavior was predictable; sometimes bizarre. Most of the time our people were able to break away, come home, and forget about all that. Some weren't, and in a few cases the result was tragic: a few broken-hearted Thai girls on one end, and on the other end people who couldn't believe their tealocks would take up with someone else. It was interesting, if sometimes sad. It was life! Once I got back in the States I found I had to write about it -- I guess to sort out my own feelings.
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« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2020, 12:22:33 pm »

Bob, to get the real picture of why I ROTFL, read http://www.russ-lewis.com/asia/Shorts/S-massage.html.
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« Reply #15 on: June 05, 2020, 02:32:54 pm »

Franz, give me a minute to get it back up. It's pretty raunchy. I took it down a long time ago and kept in my Asian short stories only the stuff that seemed unobjectionable.
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