PeterRS

The station's entrances can be slightly confusing as one is at each end of the line. The one you want is the one in the middle Exit 3. Depending on where you get off, the only way to switch platforms is by an underground passage which takes you to Exit 3. As you exit, just keep walking straight ahead for about a minute.

May I ask if the Etihad fare links your departure point with Thailand as the destination after a plane change? The reason I ask is that Emirates and Qatar have resumed a small number of flights out of Bangkok, but only as far as Dubai and Doha. You can not book through tickets to other countries.

Excellent news. I know you are aware of the pitfalls but lock them in the back of your mind. Concentrate on the positives and the future potential. I have just a sneaking feeling you might be back before November!! I wish you the very best of luck and happiness.

I'm really surprised this site is still alive given that PBM stopped making movies years ago. Although he did have some good models, he treated some pretty badly. There was one who used to be the barman in Classic Boys who was a top and never liked to bottom. Presumably because of cash, he was pesuaded to bottom for PBM, loathed the experience as you can see just by looking at his face during the deed. That he got away with paying only 6,000 baht is scandalous. I knew a barboy who had posed for photos two or three years before PBM arrived on the scene. He got 30,000 baht for pics and a vdo. It died almost as soon as it started airing vdos. You can still occasionally come across just one vdo on some websites, but the boys look very amateur, the camera work is boring, and I think the site never lasted more than a year.

I have quite regularly seen actors in a stage production which I have later tried to find on line. What I dislike is plays, revues and other staged events where the actors are totally naked virtually throughout, even if I like one of them. I saw Oh Calcutta in London and Naked Boys Singing in New York and the nakedness merely bored me. A bit of titllation is much more exciting! Rather like Equus where the boy has to strip naked or M. Butterfly where the alleged wife has to strip naked - but both with their backs to the audience.

You misunderstood my post. I referred to connections to London from Helsinki. Helsinki is a very plasant airport which I have used quite a few times and it is generally easy for connections.

I used to be a regular visitor for more than 30 years and stayed in many of the city's hotels as well as once at PJ's guest house which was quite near the pleasant SoHo Bar and not too far from House of Male. I remember those bars at the Night Bazaar as well as those in that sleazy alley behind the D2 hotel. As you surmised, all gone. Adam's Apple still going, though, and seemingly thriving. The main gay bars around the city have virtually all closed as well. There are some dotted along Soi 6 Charoen Pratet Road almost opposite the main road from Le Meridien hotel. We went twice and frankly found them boring. Boys with their eyes glued to their phoes and a few expats sitting at the bars. Other reports are of more activity. In another thread, one poster mentions a number of clubs and gay bars. But as he agreed, these are primarily aimed at Thais and westerners generally never hear about them unless they live in or near the city. But if as a tourist you can actually find them, apparently they do welcome foreigners.

Dubai had become the playground of the rich and relatively famous - as well as vastly underpaid sub-continent workers who had built the place. I wonder if those who bought there expecting a life of luxury and safety are now having second thoughts. If so, and they want to sell, the property market must be desperately low at present. And I wonder if the city-state will ever again regain its popularity.

I can think of another part of the anatomy if broken would be far more effective

Much more simple! Pad Thai with a vodka tonic! LOL

I wonder to what authority you refer because I have it on legitimate authority - stress - "legitimate" - that the original attack by @bkkmfj2648 on me was in fact an unwarranted attack. But I accept this drama has run its course and failing further attacks on this subject, I will cease. I hope @bkkmfj2648 contnues posting and it will be without comment from me.

Reference this disgraceful legal event highlighted by @Keithambrose, the events described did in fact occur but in real life settings. There is a chilling book The Abuse of Power by Anthony Daly about a major scandal in London's SoHo in the 1970s when young men were routinely picked up and led into a life of utter degradation. I stress young men and not young boys - although there also seems to have been a lively trade in picking them up from train stations. The author was an Irishman who came to London aged 20 to work in its leading book store Foyles. Yet he still got sucked into a life of extreme and utter debauchery headed almost entirely by aristocrats, MPs, senior police officers, judges and celebrities, some of whom are actually named. It is an excellently written if often painful read.

Written by a poster whose posts are usually just one line agreements or disagreements. Funny he only started bashing me after we had met for a meal a couple of times and then he broke Board rules by publishing details of PMs. Fire away Mr. Lawyer. But you are not the judge!

Excellent perceptive post.

Of course not. It takes two to end a controversy - as you might wish to remind Trump.