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A time without the slim, elegant, beautiful skating of Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu seems strange. He has been a part of our lives for virtually 10 years ever since he won the first of his two Olympic Figure Skating Men's Gold Medals back in Sochi in 2014. For me Hanyu has the perfect body for a men's skater - medium height, slim, lithe but not muscular. His progress over the ice was always serene, almost magical, his immersion in the music better than almost any other skater I have seen. His short programme in PyeongChang skating to a Chopin Ballade was definitely the finest skating I have ever seen. He himself was the perfection of beauty - although others naturally have other…

From Coconuts Bangkok A university in Bangkok’s western Nong Khaem district said Sunday that students who forced others to dance naked as part of an off-campus hazing ritual would be punished. Southeast Asia University said it would discipline seniors who forced three male freshmen to dance in the buff to music as other students watched and laughed. A row of female student spectators was visible in the clip, which was shot at an unspecified beach. “The university has a clear policy for organizing creative student activities,” the statement replied to the clip on Sunday. “Organizing activities outside the premises and activities that violate the rights of j…

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXzeQkPUYAAQmRe?format=jpg&name=900x900 How silly...probably just going to use as an excuse to invade them anyway.

So, they're still going to try the "high quality over high quantity" tourism thing.

From Bangkok Post A New York City neighbourhood long known informally as “Little Thailand” may soon get official name recognition under a bill passed by the city council. The official designation for a stretch of Woodside Avenue, between 76th and 79th streets in the Elmhurst neighbourhood in the borough of Queens, was one of a number of renaming proposals adopted by the council this week. The area is well known throughout the city for a large number of Thai restaurants and other businesses. Other proposals approved by the council included the renaming of Macdonald and Church in Brooklyn as Little Bangladesh, and Brighton Beach Avenue and Coney Island Avenue…

If you're a US citizen arriving at JFK's Terminal 4 (the large international terminal), be advised that the passport scanning kiosks have been removed. Installed in 2013, the machines allowed you to scan your passport, answer some questions, and then hand a receipt printed by the machine to a CBP officer before proceeding on to baggage claim. When I asked a CPB guard what had happened to the kiosks, he said the agency is in the process of acquiring new technology. In the meantime, be papered to queue up for an individual check by a CPB officer at one of the old booths. Global Entry holders will be glad to know that a dozen or so machines remain for their u…

I’d imagine there are more than a few members who’d consider going his bail. From the Thaiger The Royal Thai Police finally arrested a serial mobile phone thief known as “Mr. Underpants.” Mr. Underpants broke into 9 BANANA mobile phone shops in locations all over Thailand, stealing thousands of mobile phones in total. Every time, he wore only his pants. Mr. Underpants broke into BANANA branches in Yala, Hat Yai, Patthalung, Nakhon Nayok, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Nong Bua Lamphu, Ubon Ratchatani, Hua Hin and Sai Mai in Bangkok. He stole hundreds of phones every time, sometimes until there were almost none left in the store. Wanted on 4 arrest warr…

Just interested. What happens when you mark a forum as read?

One of my favorite porn sites Latinboyz.com seems to have stopped updating for a few weeks. The site used to update very day or two. I wonder if anyone knows who happened to it? It is really the only site I have ever paid for and they have some of the hottest guys on there from Colombia and Mexico.

I'd go for Panama, Indonesia and Cambodia..... https://fb.watch/eci5fUsGo_/

I have in the past railed against parts of the so-called democratic system as practised in the USA. Let me now redress the blaance a little by looking at the present disastrous situation that exists in the UK. For those who do not know much about the UK policial system, it is largely dependent on a series of constituencies, each of which eoects a Member of Parliament. Although there are more than two parties at Westminster, as in the USA there are two dominant ones - the Conservatives (often called the Tories) and Labour. Members of Parliament are elected on a first past the post system. So it can happen that the governing party has a minority of all votes cast. The…

From The Thaiger Thailand’s Chamber of Commerce yesterday insisted it is addressing the shortage of migrant workers needed to help boost the nation’s economy. The department accepts more than 500,000 additional foreign workers are needed in its manufacturing and services sectors to support economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic but says it is doing all it can to support the kingdom’s businesses. Thailand’s Chamber of Commerce yesterday insisted it is addressing the shortage of migrant workers needed to help boost the nation’s economy. The department accepts more than 500,000 additional foreign workers are needed in i…

Let’s just say I have them

From Bangkok Post The Ministry of Public Health has revoked its previous declaration of seven countries as Covid-19 danger zones, citing an improvement in the pandemic situation and the global vaccination coverage against coronavirus. The decision to remove Italy, Iran, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Indonesia from the list of dangerous epidemic areas was reached at a meeting of the national committee on disease control held on Friday.

From CNN Passengers traveling on an Emirates flight to Brisbane, Australia were stunned when they noticed a huge hole in the side of the aircraft while they were disembarking. Those on board the Airbus A380 from Dubai to the Australian city became aware of the damage as they exited the plane following the roughly 14-hour flight on July 1. Images of the aircraft shared on social media reveal the extent of the puncture, which was due to a ruptured tire caused by a “technical fault” during the journey, according to the airline. One of the passengers on board has since taken to Twitter to describe the “terrifying” incident, which took place “during cruise.…

Anyone know what happened to the old Rent Men site. It appears to have been taken over by something named rentmasseur. https://rentmasseur.com/

If you’re not familiar w Dr Jeff Cohen - maybe worth a look. Interesting information re; digital LGBTQ issues & more twitter page has extensive information & links

Effective immediately, the U.S. Consulate General in Chiang Mai is temporarily suspending all consular services until further notice due to staffing shortages. Although we hope to resume consular services soon, consular services in Thailand are currently only available at the U. S. Embassy in Bangkok.

I suggest that the controller of this site split the Thailand Forum into 4 separate forums. One being Bangkok, a second being Pattaya, a third being Chiang Mai and a fourth being the remainder of Thailand. This would make it easier to get to the topic that interests you. Just my thinking. Anyone else concur?

From The Thaiger and The Nation While government figures report around 2,000 new cases of Covid-19 per day, a respiratory disease specialist says that the actual number is hugely underreported. In a Facebook post, Dr Nithiphat Chiarakun, head of the department of respiratory diseases and tuberculosis of Mahidol University’s Siriraj Faculty of Medicine estimated that there could be as many as 50,000 new Covid-19 infections every day in Thailand. The associate professor says that the information he’s receiving put the daily new infection rate at about 25 times the official reported numbers from the Ministry of Public Health. He says that the situation is quite tro…

From Channel News Asia BANGKOK: Thailand scrambled fighter jets near its border with Myanmar on Thursday (Jun 30) and ordered its defense attache to issue a warning to the military government, its air force said, over what it called an airspace violation during a combat operation. Two F-16 fighter jets were deployed when a radar detected a plane in Thai airspace close to the Myanmar border late morning Thursday, air force spokesperson Air Vice Marshal Prapat Sonjaidee said. An aircraft from an unknown side violated the border over Phop Phra district in Tak province while attacking an ethnic armed group along the border," Prapat said in a statement. A s…

From Coconuts Bangkok “Please do not lean on the poles in the train,” the BTS Skytrain admonished riders this morning, with a whole lotta booty. In what could have been a gentle reminder for “the betterment of society,” the Bangkok Mass Transit System included in the now-viral post a bizarre graphic art of an uncomfortable female university student looking at a grinning shadowy figure, whose thicc glutes can be seen clenching the pole of the train. “The main purpose of the poles in trains is for commuters to get a grip to provide safe travels for everyone,” the post read in a tone far more measured than the sophomoric art unleashed on unprepared eyeb…

From CNBC Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday said landmark high court rulings that established gay rights and contraception rights should be reconsidered now that the federal right to abortion has been revoked. Thomas wrote that those rulings “were demonstrably erroneous decisions.” The cases he mentioned are Griswold vs. Connecticut, the 1965 ruling in which the Supreme Court said married couples have the right to obtain contraceptives; Lawrence v. Texas, which in 2003 established the right to engage in private sexual acts; and the 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which said there is a right to same-sex marriage. Thomas’ recommendati…