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From Bangkok Post Thailand's Department of Land Transport (DLT) has introduced a QR Licence mobile app to provide convenience to motorists who will no longer need to carry a driver’s licence. Seksom Akraphand, director-general of the DLT, said the app allows people to display their digital driving licence on electronic devices such as smartphones and tablets. The app is programmed to show a driver’s personal information, such as blood type and drug allergy history, as well as notify the drivers when their licence is about to expire. It also allows users to share their travel routes, location and vehicle registration number with others and send emergency messages via phone or SMS in the event of accidents. The app, compatible with both Android and iOS systems, can be downloaded from official stores such as Google Play Store or App Store, Mr Seksom said. Driver’s licences that are compatible with the app must be one of the newer types with a QR code on the back.

The Wine Connection restaurant and Wine shop in lower level of Silom Complex would definitely be my first choice. He can peruse the bottles in the wine shop and select one to be brought to your table. No corkage charge and you pay the same retail price in the store (no restaurant make up). Very good Italian, French and Australian offerings. The food (especially pizza) is fine. Food and wine prices are reasonable. https://wineconnection.co.th/

+1 Agree with Saphan Kai observation. I never ask about kissing in massage shops. If it happens, it happens. Since I like to spend 10 minutes or so massaging my masseur, it usually occurs during that time, and only if the guy seems comfortable with me.

Perhaps you'll meet J.D. Vance there. He likes masculine daddy. And cats...he likes cats.

From MSN Erika Lee, a woman from Springfield, Ohio, who initially made a Facebook post alleging that local Haitian immigrants were "eating pets," leading to significant national attention on the small city, has confessed she had no direct evidence supporting such a claim. Amid the 2024 presidential election where immigration is a hot topic issue, city officials have consistently debunked these rumors, but the claims gained even more prominence when former President Donald Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, repeated them during the televised presidential debate on Tuesday night. "It just exploded into something I didn't mean to happen," Lee told NBC News on Friday. Lee said the incident has left her ridden with guilt and anxiety due to the controversy it generated. Her post detailed the disappearance of a neighbor's cat and included her neighbor's suspicions that their Haitian residents were involved in the incident. According to NewsGuard, an organization dedicated to combating internet misinformation, Lee was one of the first to spread the baseless rumor on social media, the screenshots of which were widely shared. The neighbor, identified as Kimberly Newton, reportedly got the information about the alleged incident from a third party, as per NewsGuard's findings and reported by NBC News. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/woman-behind-springfield-haitian-immigrants-eating-pets-rumor-speaks-out/ar-AA1qA7ez

Up until three years ago I was paying $135 per month for a storage bin. Finally cut the cord and disposed of just about everything (some through donations and others through consignment shop). Hardest things initially to part ways with were books but they'd served their purpose and are easily recycled. Agree it was liberating as Vinapu and Fedssocr describe above.

And has had to turn down propositions from chubby chasers.🙂

From CNN / MSN Wth her pinkish cheeks and natural charisma, two-month-old pygmy hippo Moo Deng is making millions of fans online and drawing bumper crowds to the Thai zoo where she lives. The pint-sized new arrival at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo, east of the capital Bangkok, has been a social media hit since her keepers started uploading snippets of her life online. When she’s not gobbling up grapes, she’s rolling on the floor or taking a dip under Thailand’s scorching sun. She also loves a good chew of her handlers’ knees when they’re giving her a shower, according to social media clips that have drawn millions of views. “It is her natural cuteness, her behavior that attract tourists,” Narongwit Chodchoy, director of the zoo, told CNN. The zoo’s visitor numbers are up by at least 30%, Narongwit said, but Moo Deng’s fame has also brought unwanted disruption to her life, prompting the director to issue a warning. “Some tourists behaved inappropriately. One person poured water [on her] while another threw a shell onto Moo Deng when she lay on the floor,” he said. He urged tourists to be considerate and vowed to take legal action against anyone harming the mammalian child star. While she continues to draw admirers in person, Moo Deng has found her biggest stardom online. One particularly popular video posted on Facebook – showing her yawning and seemingly enjoying a pat on the chin from her keeper – has garnered 5.8 million views and counting. Continues at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/baby-pygmy-hippo-moo-deng-is-thailand-s-latest-online-sensation-but-her-keeper-is-worried-about-her-fame/ar-AA1qyIrH#

I've never had the occasion to use any of the internet services above. However, I've shopped in person at Home Pro and Big C many times and was never once disappointed. For the same reason I don't like Grindr (et al) is because I want to see and inspect the item before acquiring it. I've found the staff at both stores very helpful.

When everything else about your trip's disappointments fade with time, the moments you describe above will persist indefinitely. To know that you truly made a difference in a young man's future is no small feat. You'll very likely find that that those who caused you the most remorse will slowly cease to haunt your consciousness. But the one who shared the most intimate moments with you will be the reason you go to your computer and begin the rebooking process. The older we get the more we realize that we need people like that in our lives. They are far and few between but they do exist. That they challenge our concept of butterfly is something not to be feared.

Just about all of the shops identify their guys in one manner or another (Top, bottom,T&B, both). I usually only choose tops, but I've found that even some are actually more flexible but choose to only publicly identify as top for personal reasons. When I have chosen a T&B because I found him particularly attractive, most seem to clearly prefer the top role. But it's abundantly clear that minority are dedicated bottoms who relish that aspect. Every top I've found is a bit different and those differences are what keep me coming back to Saphan Kwai.

No way you can make this stuff up. From Bloomberg / MSN Bloomberg) -- Chase Herro has sold a lot of things in his career. Weed. Weight-loss “colon cleanses.” A $149-a-month get-rich-quick class. Now he’s adding another line to his resume: the Trump family’s crypto guru. Herro is the dealmaker behind World Liberty Financial, the crypto project that Donald Trump and his two older sons have been promoting on social media in recent weeks, according to two people involved with the project. Herro's long-time business partner Zachary Folkman is also playing a key role. While few details about World Liberty have been released, Eric Trump said that the startup will promote “financial independence” and Donald Trump Jr. said it will “make finance great again.” Former President Trump himself posted a video saying he'd announce the details on Sept. 16. “We’re embracing the future with crypto and leaving the slow and outdated big banks behind,” Trump said. Yet Herro, a fast-talking 39-year-old who shows off his fancy cars and private-jet rides on social media, is an unknown in the crypto world. More than a dozen prominent digital-asset investors said in interviews they had never heard of him. The only crypto project with which he was publicly affiliated attracted only a few million dollars and suffered a devastating hack. A token he promoted on influencer Logan Paul’s podcast dropped 96% afterward. In one speech in 2018, he called himself “the dirtbag of the internet” and said that regulators should “kick s---heads like me out.” “You can literally sell s--- in a can, wrapped in piss, covered in human skin, for a billion dollars if the story's right, because people will buy it,” Herro said about crypto in a 2018 YouTube video recorded as he drove in a Rolls-Royce. “I'm not going to question the right and wrong of all that.” Bloomberg News sent detailed questions to a World Liberty email address. “We all see the picture you're trying to paint here and consider it at best grossly inaccurate,” a man named Jim Redner replied. “We're confident that our results will speak for themselves.” Redner said he was not a spokesperson for the company and was "just answering emails.” Herro, Folkman and the Trump presidential campaign didn’t respond to messages seeking comment. Herro was introduced to the Trumps by Steve Witkoff, a real-estate developer and longtime supporter of the former president, after first meeting one of Witkoff’s sons, according to one of the people involved with the project. When they met, Trump was reconsidering his stance on crypto. He’d once called Bitcoin a “scam against the dollar,” but in late 2022 he licensed his image for a series of nonfungible tokens – essentially, digital trading cards – featuring cartoon images of a muscular Trump. Then in July, after Bitcoin advocates raised what they said was $25 million for his campaign, Trump flew to Nashville to speak at a Bitcoin conference, where he promised to loosen regulations on the industry and create a strategic national stockpile of the cryptocurrency. “The United States will be the crypto capital of the planet,” Trump said in the speech. At the same time, Trump’s sons were getting curious about the industry. At the Nashville conference, Donald Trump Jr. appeared at an event sponsored by a little-known token called “Make America Great Again, Again,” though he said he had no affiliation with the project. And in June, Martin Shkreli, the former hedge-fund manager who served years in prison for securities fraud, said that he’d been talking with Barron Trump about starting another Trump cryptocurrency. Shkreli declined to comment. Herro is described in the white paper as the person responsible for “data & strategies.” His friend Folkman is listed as “operations lead.” Folkman used to run a service called Date Hotter Girls where he taught seminars about how to pick up women. “OK, how many guys came here to learn how to take girls home and bang them?” Folkman said in a speech in 2014. The trademark for World Liberty is registered to a company using the same address in Puerto Rico as another company run by Herro and Folkman. Continues with photos and video https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/behind-the-trump-crypto-project-is-a-self-described-dirtbag-of-the-internet/ar-AA1qvopg

Actually majority of Americans prefer universal care, but GOP-controlled Congress is largest recipient of health care industry largess and won't allow it to come up for vote. Similarly, when provided with availability of public transport, urban Americans make great use of it. Unfortunately, Congress never prioritizes it because fossil fuel and auto industries are ready with the checks every time election time rolls around. Every attempt to bar lobbyist money from flowing to congress has been shut done by--who else--but same body.

I think they're counting on expense account Japanese businessmen who want to be close to Soi Thaniya. If there is I can't find it on website.

Oh, yes. But I wipe thought from my mind and proceed to masturbate. 🙂

The new Japanese brand hotel has opened on Silom. It's showing an introductory rate on standard room for 3,107 baht tonight. https://nnr-h.com/croom/bangkoksilom/en/

This incident illustrates the importance of having small denomination bills on hand for any taxi, tuk tuk or motorbike fare. From Khaosod English Police Investigators spent nearly two weeks tracking down a tuk-tuk driver who didn’t give change to an American tourist and stole his bag containing valuables worth almost 50,000 baht. The perpetrator used a vehicle with fake license plates. On September 11, investigators from Chakkrawat Police Station arrested Boonlert Jadsanam, 66 years old, and seized his tricycle as evidence in Soi Rama 6, Soi 21, Phetchaburi Road, Ratchathewi District, Bangkok. Mr. James, the American man, was brought in to identify the suspect. The incident occurred on August 30, 2024, around 8:22 p.m. Mr. James reported to Chakkrawat Police Station that he had taken a yellow and blue tuk-tuk with an unknown license plate from Phaya Thai BTS station to Soi Mangkon, Chakkrawat Subdistrict, Samphanthawong District. They agreed on a fare of 500 baht. Upon reaching the destination, he paid with a 1,000 baht note, but the driver immediately fled without giving change. Continues with photo https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/crime-crime/2024/09/11/american-tourists-bangkok-nightmare-ends-with-arrest-of-tuk-tuk-driver/

From The Thaiger Hong Kong Airlines is upping the ante for travel lovers, rolling out a brand-new daily flight to Chiang Mai starting on October 27. This exciting expansion marks the airline’s third destination in Thailand, adding to its Bangkok and Phuket routes, and promises to give tourists even more reasons to visit the Land of Smiles. Flight HX749 is set to take off from Hong Kong at 3.30pm local time (2.30pm Thailand time) and will touch down in the northern Thai province by 5.35pm. The return flight, HX750, will depart at 6.35pm, landing in Hong Kong by 10.20pm local time. With this new route, travellers can now explore northern Thailand’s cultural heartland with ease.

More likely he was thinking "who isn't this guy doing?"

Although I've never been to Pattaya, have enjoyed the company of a few mechanics who were very skillful with their tools (Olddaddy take notice).

I've encountered many Myanmar and Shan State guys in just about all of the shops in Saphan Kwai area, See: Massage shops on Sutthisan Winitchai Rd. in this forum.

You can find some in the Saphan Kwai shops. Although I haven't seen any that rival those who grace the Spa Boys from Myanmar pages, they are above average in that department and won't leave you wanting.

Fast forward to the 9:15 mark of this video.

Curious about rationale that you always cash out unused baht on departure, knowing that you're going to be returning at some point. Holding on to some baht would mean one less inconvenience of money exchange on arrival.

If there's a takeaway from this trip it's the growing realization that a substantial number of boys on the game have--among themselves--colluded to nail down a maximum price with no intention of making good on their promise. Although they certainly have the right to bargain as hard as they can, they're undermining their intrinsic value by what amounts to fraud.