captainmick

Perhaps better to wait until you can afford to pay the going rate and preferably also give the model a generous tip for good performance. If you are driven by “discount”, “cheap”, “cheapest”, you are unlikely to end up satisfied.  Better to pay a bit more, show some respect, and end up with good value.

Latintopxx must be disappointed that pony riding hasn’t been brought in as an Olympic event. He’d quite fancy his chances for a gold medal.

Latintopxx must be disappointed that pony riding hasn’t been brought in as an Olympic event. He’d quite fancy his chances for a gold medal.

The skill involved in dressage and show jumping is enormous.  I’m not into either sport but the highlights I saw of the dressage in particular were amazing.  For sportsmen and women in this field, the olympics is so important and it would a great shame if they were dropped.  Moving horses internationally is not that difficult and is a necessity of international competition including horse racing.  The bicyclists need to take their bicycles, the sailors their dinghies, the rowers their boats and the equestrians need their horses.  I’m in favour of javelin and shot put too.  Quite a skill to see how far things can be thrown.  Great to see new records being broken for fastest sprint, highest and longest jump, furthest throw etc. These simple sports are at the very heart of the Olympics.

Your assumptions are partly downright wrong - and partly vastly too simplistic! Many restaurants have closed for good. One of my favourites off Saladaeng in Bangkok Le Table de Tee closed for good during the first lock down in April last year. It was a small niche restaurant that could take not more than 20 diners per evening. Many others will never open their doors again.
Restaurants and bars are once again closed in Thailand. Some are able to offer meal delivery. Many of those that survive have fired huge numbers of staff in the hope they can keep losses to a minimum. I spent a few days in a good hotel in Hua Hin last November. Most floors were closed off and staff numbers had again been drastically cut. Many other hotels across the entire spectrum of prices have been closed for many months if not for a year. 
I have little sympathy for gogo bar owners who in the past did indeed raise drinks prices when the tourism economy was in a bad way. But I have no time for anyone who criticises hotels and restaurants for having overcharged guests prior to the pandemic. I think Thailand has always had a hospitality and restaurant industry with standards of service and cuisine that are as good as anywhere - and better than most.

“For what we are about to receive, may the lord make us truly thankful”
 

With new threads about boys and sex a bit thin on the ground, perhaps one focusing on at least one of these topics might be of interest. Less about sex, though. 
From the time I was at school, I have been sort of obsessed with the male body. At first it was faces and I had my first 'crush' at the age of 12. Naturally nothing came of it as I was too backward in coming forward and the object of my desire seemed to have no interest. I was even seated next to him at the end of term Prize-giving. Oh, what might have been! It was not long before my eyes were gazing downwards, particularly on the sports fields - well, in the changing rooms - and at the school's pool. The length of some of those cocks was a constant joy, the more so when quite a few of the guys seemed to enjoy being gazed at while they played with them.
Having made my first tentative rather furtive steps in gay sex, my twenties were hardly a riot as I was still in the closet. Then the riot started in my early 30s. I could not get enough of it and there were always plenty of young men around who felt the same way.  My first ventures into a gay sauna were a revelation for all the sex that was available. I have written somewhere about visiting Night Thermos (correct name?) in Amsterdam, a very large one in New York and, best of all, the equally large Le Continental in Paris. I suppose it was really in Le Continental that my desire for Asian boys was sparked for there were many Vietnamese living in Paris, quite a number of whom were at the sauna.  I think it was less the sex and more the sight of such beautifully smooth-skinned young Asian boys who were perfectly happy to walk around almost totally naked.
That Paris experience came home to me when I visited central Vietnam early last year before borders were closed. With my partner unable to get time off, I was on my own. Almost as soon as I had reached Hoi An, a quite lovely mid 20s guy clicked me on one of the apps. He was in Danang, about 30 minutes away, but I had not intended sex to be any part of that trip. After Hoi An I was going up to the old Imperial capital of Hue or a few days before spending my last three days in Danang. So we arranged to meet up for a dinner when I got there. He was perfectly delightful. He became a sort of tour guide. On my last night I invited him to the hotel for a drink. Cocktails in the rooftop bar then morphed into a shower in my room. The ensuing 40 minutes or so all in the shower were amazing! Belatedly I have realised there is something about Vietnamese boys which is very special. 
But it was my first experience of an Asian sauna that really opened my eyes. On a business trip to Tokyo, a Japanese friend took me to Oban sauna in the Kabuki-cho district in Shinjuku. This still is a rather sleazy nightlife area, not gay, but right there was Oban, which I think was one of Tokyo's first gay saunas. It was relatively small inside but spotlessly clean. Walking up one floor after disrobing, I was amazed to find that most of the boys were walking around totally naked. A few had small towels that they held in front but they were in a small minority. It felt like I had arrived in heaven! After the ritual washing and a spell in a hot pool, I wandered around. Coming out of the steam room I bumped into a very handsome boy who featured in several gay magazines. I was even surprised that sex took place not in private cabins but in quite large open rooms with long mattresses on two sides. These were understandably dark but still light enough to see what was going on and who was doing what to whom! Sitting and just watching some action seemed to be very popular! Those entwined in sex had no problem with that.
Over several decades I have attended other Japanese saunas, apart from the years when foreigners were forbidden, a belated attempt by the owners to keep HIV from spreading.  My memory tells me that the sex was rarely great, with just two instantly stunning exceptions. It was the sight of so many absolutely wondrous beautiful bodies in glorious nudity that has stayed with me. There is always something more fascinating about a cute glistening slim body that has just emerged from a hot pool or from the steam room than the boys I used to see naked all those years ago in Bangkok's go-go bars.
Stripping away the sex, it was always possible to see naked boys in the onsen dotted all around Japan. But you could rarely be sure they would only be young guys for attending an onsen is a Japanese ritual and all ages attend. I was not interested in looking at a bunch of older men! If there were onsen exclusively for young people, I never found them. In Taipei, on the other hand, there is at least one hot spring on the outskirts of the city which attracts mostly young guys, most of them gay. Here again sex is not part of the experience, although there may be a little  hanky panky in the steam room despite the notice outside saying no playing around. Even though I am now in that much older group which I disliked in Japanese onsen, in Taipei there seems no discrimination about age. Indeed, the one I always attend is rather like a social club. Everyone is there for an enjoyable time drifting between the five pools of differing temperatures. There are parts of each where it is easy to see who has just entered and goes to the shower area. It's also easy to see which pool they enter. More than once I have zeroed in on a young guy I have found particularly attractive and gone to sit next to him. After a reasonable pause, I will even start to chat. Most Taiwanese can speak at least a little English and I have rarely found any not prepared to chat if only for a little while. One guy I met and the partner he was later to find have become very good friends.
If particularly attracted to a guy and that attraction is mutual, it is easy to swap phone numbers to arrange to return to your hotel or hook up on another day. Or even just to discover a new restaurant and enjoy a meal sitting next to the nearest thing to a demi-god! Not that sex is always out of my mind nowadays. Far from it. t's just that there is no need to go to a hot spring for sex because there is so much available elsewhere. As in every city, you only have to know where to look! Now if only borders would open again soon, I will very quickly be on a plane first to Taipei and then to Vietnam. No need to guess why!

Perhaps better to wait until you can afford to pay the going rate and preferably also give the model a generous tip for good performance. If you are driven by “discount”, “cheap”, “cheapest”, you are unlikely to end up satisfied.  Better to pay a bit more, show some respect, and end up with good value.

“For what we are about to receive, may the lord make us truly thankful”
 

“For what we are about to receive, may the lord make us truly thankful”
 

Perhaps better to wait until you can afford to pay the going rate and preferably also give the model a generous tip for good performance. If you are driven by “discount”, “cheap”, “cheapest”, you are unlikely to end up satisfied.  Better to pay a bit more, show some respect, and end up with good value.

Perhaps better to wait until you can afford to pay the going rate and preferably also give the model a generous tip for good performance. If you are driven by “discount”, “cheap”, “cheapest”, you are unlikely to end up satisfied.  Better to pay a bit more, show some respect, and end up with good value.

There must be a "not" missing in that sentence
 
Why would you make an effort to fly that particular aircraft after it had just crashed? Or is that sentence also missing a "not"?
 
On the 737max, I agree with you about that odd engine/wing constellation, which is the root cause of all that has happened with the crashes. If I understand things correctly it was this design that gave rise to the need for that faulty MCAS system, meaning without the MCAS the plane is nowhere near airworthy. Now I understand that electronic safety and other support system are of great benefit and reliability, but using them in a manner of  electronic sorcery to make a non-airworthy plane fly at all is not really a trustworthy concept to me. I hope I'll be able to avoid this model in the coming years. 

What has the definition of monorail got to do with Quarantine Free Travel in July?  This thread has gone off the rail.

What has the definition of monorail got to do with Quarantine Free Travel in July?  This thread has gone off the rail.

What has the definition of monorail got to do with Quarantine Free Travel in July?  This thread has gone off the rail.

Herd immunity doesn’t require 100% of people to be immune. Needs to be enough for virus not to be able to transmit exponentially. I’m no expert but have read that it may be around 70% to 80% for covid.

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What do you expect given you named her Squirt?

All the relish you need is some hot Thai boys to join you for the picnic......and of course some Isaan big sausages for those hot dog buns

All the relish you need is some hot Thai boys to join you for the picnic......and of course some Isaan big sausages for those hot dog buns

Thai boys also comes with a set of delicious hot buns lol.

All the relish you need is some hot Thai boys to join you for the picnic......and of course some Isaan big sausages for those hot dog buns

All the relish you need is some hot Thai boys to join you for the picnic......and of course some Isaan big sausages for those hot dog buns

All the relish you need is some hot Thai boys to join you for the picnic......and of course some Isaan big sausages for those hot dog buns