PeterRS

There are certainly such bars around but you will be hard pressed to find any. There is a very large Thai underground sex scene but it is only for Thais. Exceptionally if you can find a Thai who knows where they are you might just be able to gain entrance. The nudity that was part of the gay Thai gogo bar scene for tourists existed from around the late 1970s until the government mandated a new social order campaign in the early 2000s. Thereafter virtually all the gay gogo bar scene eventually got rid of most of what had been regular nudity.

To go off on a bit of a tangent, one piece of marketing advice your bf may want - and another he definitely will not. First from the musical "Gypsy". And then of course if he runs out of ingredients, there is plenty of advice in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sweeney Todd". This version was filmed at Sondheim's 80th brthday bash in 2010 and features the one-time Queen of Broadway Patti Lupone, the wonderful George Hearn and the equally fine Michael Cerveris. One beauty of this version is that Sondheim's genius as a lyricist is easily heard. Hearn was also the original and superb Albin in the Broadway production of "La Cage aux Folles" alongside Gene Barry in 1983. And it was in that show that Hearn magnificently originated what became the gay anthem "I Am What I Am."

Just realised that after decades in Asia, I have never tried duck's feet! Not that I want to, mind you. Chicken's feet are bad enough, but my Chinese friends all love them. Also never tried picking up ice cubes with chopsticks. I can understand the ice would be just too slippery. I'd probably just use a spoon!

Can I suggest that even though you have difficulty with chopsticks, sitting at the bar with all those cuties, they would notice your difficulty and you could ask one to help. I suspect more than one would have come over and become quite friendly. I am sure you have seen videos of how to use them. This one is quite useful - Once when I was in Beijing at a dinner with several guests not used to using chopsticks, I tried to show them how easy it can be and proceeded to show off by not only picking up one peanut but two. After three or four minutes, one of the others cut me down to size and outdid me by picking up three!

Thank you for that thought. Much appreciated.

I hate to disagree with you because what you say is really quite obvious. But the fact is that the revenues contributing to Thailand's GDP from gay gogo bars must be the tiniest fraction of the tiniest fraction of 1%. After all, how many gay gogo bars are there? A few in Bangkok, a handful in Pattaya, a couple or so perhaps in Chiang Mai and the same in Phuket. Think back 30 years when the gogo bars were really in their heyday and not only the b-in-b but the economy as a whole did no doubt gain a lot more. I have zero doubt that the multitude of girlie bars all around the Kingdom actually generates vastly more to GDP. From reading threads in other forums, it seems that gay gogo bars around the world have been vanishing at quite a rapid rate. As one who revelled in the variety available in Thailand all those years ago, I wonder why this is. On the other hand I can understand why saunas and massage spas have retained - if not increased - their popularity. Perhaps we should not isolate gogo bars and think of the sex industry as a whole (and this means not just in-person sex but other aspects like Thailand's large underground movie industry). We know that behind the tourist facade there is a very large sex industry in Thailand. It's almost impossible to find figures but I have seen it claimed the industry as a whole amounted to US$60 billion in 2012. Let's assume for the sake of discussion that this grew to $80 billion in 2024. This compares with 2024's GDP of US$2.2 trillion. In other words (if my math is anywhere near correct) around 3.6% of GDP. Let's also look at Japan where we also know that the sex industry is all-pervasive, extremely well organised and caters almost exclusively to the local population rather than tourists. In an article last month Kyodo News estimated that Japan's total annual Defence spending in 2024 amounted to approx, US$70 billion or around 1.6% of GDP. 13 years ago the Japan Subculture Research Center estimated that the total spend on sex in Japan then to be US$100 billion. If we assume that this could have risen by as much as 50% (given the particular circumstances in Japan I am assuming the annual trend will be higher than in Thailand), then Japan spends more than twice as much on sex as it does on defense! And that perhaps rather surprisingly equates roughly to the Thailand percentage of GDP. Yet I have seen a figure somewhere that Japan actually spends 5% of GDP on the sex industries. So it is very important to stress again that accurate figures are extremely hard to find and estimates on various websites show major differences. My point being that taken as a whole, the potential revenues from gay gogo bars in Thailand (locals and tourists) is as small as a mosquito compared to the komodo dragon we think it might be! https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/04/2ddf9dea797c-urgent-japans-fy-2025-defense-related-costs-to-total-18-of-gdp-minister.html https://www.japansubculture.com/sexnomics-japans-billion-dollar-sex-industry-and-the-pink-zone/

I had that joint procedure at BNH about 3 years ago. But please note that as with Bumrungrad, the total cost does not include the services of an anaesthetist should you wish one.

Isn't the real problem that people no longer want to examine facts? It's so much easier just to believe what they are told - or what they have picked up from social media.

What about the pesky quarter and half satang coins that still turn up occasionally in change in Thailand. I have a drawer full of them! Mind you, when I was a kid I started collecting what used to be called "bun pennies" in the UK - the oldest penny coins issued with Queen Victoria's likeness on them still in circulation. I assumed that over time they would be worth something. Then, of course, I had no idea that coin collectors only want mint condition coins. So I now have 100 or so of those worthless well-used coins!

My sincere apologies to one and all. I am so used to posting almost daily on just one Photos thread, i had totallly forgotten that there are in fact many of them. All that @bkkmfj2648 did was take my actual advice which i had not realised would mean one separate photo thread. Big istake on my part and again apologies. Sorry also to @spoon for wasting your time! I have asked the moderator to take down the nude photo i posted earlier.

Apologies for misinterpreting. I will try to fulfill your desire in the next day or so!

I thank you for trying to solve what seems to have become something of a mystery. But I am sorry to say I do not see how it works. Just now I just did as you suggested. I posted one nude photo in the members only Photo forum. I then clicked and pasted that url on to this post. And this is what I got - https://www.gayguides.com/topic/13298-photos/page/100/ i.e. no photo as such appears. The problem is that if you post a url you get the entire page which includes other photos. Is there a means of linking just one photo? I was inaccurate in that I should have stated a written link - not a url. But presumably @bkkmfj2648's photo should also be on that Photo Forum. But I can not see it there. If I have been wrong, then of course, i apologise to all. But I remain confused how that single photo can be isolated from other photos on a url link. The point I have made from the outset is that the rules are obviously the rules and this one is clear - This website is geared toward an adult audience. However, we are not an adult pornographic website. NO posting of nudity in any form is allowed. Any such posts will be immediately deleted. The only nudity permitted is in the Photo Forum. @bkkmfj2648's first post was in a general thread. There it could there be seen by any casual reader - even non-members - and that is why it was barred. Who barred it and why is the recent subject of the discussion with some members suggesting there is an algorthm that does this automatically. That cannot be true because the original post was up for quite some time before the bar notice was placed. In my post made well over an hour ago, i did what I believe is eactly the same process adopted originally by @bkkmfj2648. I added a nude pic into my post. Now if there is some sort of algorithm, my post would have disappeared within minutes if not seconds. Yet mine is still up more than an hour later. So I fail to understand why a barring notice goes up on one nude pic in one post unless the moderator has done it - and yet the nude pic I put up as a test still has no bar notice. The only possibility is that the moderator takes this role. There cannot be an algorithm, Any other thoughts?

I still have no clue what you are on about. You reckon I extracted concessions from my employer? That has to be one of your jokes! They were the benefits advertised by the employer for anyone who wished to be considered for employment. They were nothing like concessions! They were an essential part of the job! You reckon millions of readers to not get their paychecks on time? That is another joke?

I am merely testing what @bkkmfj2648 and @vinapu have stated. I have now - finally, I hope - proved that their comments about my posts and nudity are wrong. The Board rules are correct. Now 10 minutes have passed and the very obviously nude photo remains in place! PS: Now it has been 20 minutes since the photo was posted. There is clearly no system or algorhythm which automatically turns nude pics into an apology that the pic has had to be deleted! Case proved, and surely @bkkmfj2648 and @vinapu now have to agree. Besides, where is the message that @vinapu claims was automatically inserted in place of the nude pic he posted. I cannot see that notice anywhere. But as he posted a pic, it must have appeared. Please inform us @vinapu. Thank you. Finally, If @floridarob wishes me to go home, fine. Just confirm that and I will do so.

So you are wrong. My photgraph is still on the page and this is five minutes after I posted it. And I did do as you suggested - logged out and then in again. If there was an app or whatever automatically deleting nude posts, it would have been taken down minutes ago!

What must be going through the minds of those graduating cadets, when at the podium is a president who consistently lies, cheats and steals? . . . and who in the presence of immaculately dressed cadets behaves like the idiot he is by wearing a bright red MAGA baseball cap. Presidents are supposed to lead by example. God help America is this President gets into a war.

We know Trump is a liar. He lies all the time. White lies? Not a bit of it. Whopping great big iies on the international stage - and he gets away with it! Anyone who does not believe that is living in some weird fantasy world. Take his Oval Office meeting with the South African President last week, Cyril Ramaphosa. He accused Ramaphosa of the systematic killing of white farmers. Rubbish! He has already permitted several white farmers refugee status in the USA because otherwise they would be victims of genocide. Rubbish! He dimmed the Oval Office lights to show a video showing roughtly 1,000 white crosses. "They're all white farmers, the family of white farmers . . . those people are all killed." Rubbish! For these were not graves. They were props which had been placed during a demonstration as a protest some years ago. They were then removed, but of course the video does not show that. Trump then pulled out a blog post showing an image of South Afrcia. Only it was not South Africa. It was the Democratic Republic of Congo. After the meeting, Trump as he always does doubled down on his false claims. Also on that Trump trip was his DOGE, the South African Elon Musk who had earlier been party to the false allegations of mass murder of white farmers. Yet Musk's shareholders are surely now a very unhappy bunch. Not only are Tesla models worldwide being outsold by China's BYD cheaper electric vehicles (Warren Buffet's company had seen its 10% investment in BYD made in 2008 rise by a huge 41 times by June 2022), its sales are dramatically down. In Europe alone: 59% in France, 81% in Sweden, 74% in the Netherlands, 66% in Denmark, 50% in Switzerland and 33% in Portugal. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/24/elon-musk-doge-scott-galloway Britain is now seeing what has become quite an extended backlash against Brexit, the 2016 exit from the European Union. The verdict was extremely narrow and one reason for that were the lies told by the Brexit campaigners (called in an article in today's Observer newspaper "mendacious garbage"). Leaving the EU would free up £350 million per week to aid the National Health Service was one of their many false claims. Rubbish! To mention just two, there has been outrage in the UK from small businesses about the massive amount of form filling now required for exporting their products, and from individual Britons who now have to pass passport checks every time they enter and leave an EU country. I had to do that last year to get into Holland and then out from there to Switzerland. It was huge time wasting madness! Overall, the Observer reckons Brexit has already cost the UK "tens of billions of pounds." 55% of Britons now say Brexit was wrong. Now, though, the new government has taken the Brexit bull by the horns to undo some of that madness. A Brexit reset is finally under way. Immigration controls throughout Europe are being reconsidered, as are items like farming policy. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/23/britain-left-eu-reset-keir-starmer-tories Finally, Israel. During my education, the mass murder in Vietnam meant little. It was way too far away. The beleaguered state of Israel, on the other hand needed help and many students spent a month or two in the summer working in kibbutz - and were happy to do so. Now, though, the ghastly and disastrous actions of the Netanyahu government in the virtual destruction of Gaza and its inhabitants seems to concern none in power anywhere in the world to the extent that they will actually do something to stop it. Just today we learn of the family of a doctor, a paediatric specialist dedicated to saving lives, nine of whose ten children were massacred by a missile strike when sleeping in their own home. A tenth child and her husband remain seriously injured. And the Israel Defense Forces have the absolute gall to announce in the light of this particular massacre, "The claim regarding harm to uninvolved civilians is under review.” WIll any israeli be charged with murder? Of course not! Israel's constant lies are worse than Trump's. At least Trump does not kill - yet! When will all the killing and the lying stop?

Sorry it's not the same. In this forum all pics are available for all readers, members and non-members, to see. Only dick pics are to be placed in the Photos forum which is barred to non-members. At least one of the other forums which I also visit from time to time - sawatdee - there is a policy that non-members can see no pics at all. At least I believe that is correct.

Thank you.

The answer as I understand it is 'no'. The moderator rejects nude photos once he finds them. If there is any software that prevents a dick pic in all its various forms from appearing, I certainly do not know of it. But in this case, only the moderator can inform us how @bkkmfj2648's dick pic was barred for non members. If the rules have changed, perhaps he can advise us. Until then, the rules state they can only be posted in the Photos Forum. There's an easy way to prove this. insert a dick pic in another forum and then see if it is almost instantly erased. I believe the moderator now lives in Thailand. If a pic is posted overnight in Thai time, your software would erase it within minutes. If the moderator erases it, that would take quite a few hours.

What are you talking about? Fragile ego? As you know perfectly well the people who paid for most of my air tickets, my hotels and other expenses were mostly business corporations, my employers! You consider that is the kindness of someone else? That's frankly nonsense! You mean to say you get no benefit whatever of any kind from your employer which you do not pay for? Then when I paid for myself, much of the time it was a result of using the mileage and hotel points earned when on business. You suggest I should have been paying my own way? FYI I did pay cash for intercontinental air tickets to return home for the illnesses and funerals of my mother, father, uncle and a very close friend. As for the rest of my travelling, please do not be so facile!

Only charged 50% fare. Same when I used it a couple of days ago. My guess is that as long as you have the old cards, perhaps you are charged only the 50% rate. Or it just takes the machines time to updrage to charge the old cards the full rate. no idea!

I know from experience that colonoscopy packages at Bumrungrad are quite expensive.. Now the hospital is offering 20% off provided the package is booked prior to August 15 and completed prior to August 30. The quoted cost is Bt. 27, 900. Note, however, that this may not be the full price you pay. It includes the facility charge, the doctor's and nursing fees. However, many undergoing a colonoscopy also wish the attendance of an anaesthetist in addition to the mild sedative provided. This may not be to put you completely to sleep but to dull any pain that might occur during the procedure - and it can do, as I know! As far as I am aware, it might also be recommended if you have heart issues. The last time I enquired, the additional cost for an anaesthetist was between Bt. 10,000 and 12,000. On top will be the laboratory charge for checking if any polyps excised may be cancerous or benign. I have not checked the prices at other hospitals. I recently had a CT scan at BNH and it was considerably cheaper than the quote I received from Bumrungrad. Other hospitals maybe even cheaper. I would not consider public hospitals for a colonoscopy for various reasons. You have first to register as a patient. You then have to be seen by a doctor allocated by the hospital. You then will be referred to a specialist. And finally you have to join a queue of patients already lined up for the procedure. That might take many weeks. https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/packages/colon-screening?utm_source=edm&utm_medium=insider&utm_campaign=yhya-en-23-may-2025&insEmail=1&insNltCmpId=10585&insNltSldt=10080&insPnName=bumrungrad&insUuid=NjQ0MzMyMzM2MTMyNjc2RTJCNTg2RjU1NDg3MDU2NzE3MjMxNjEzMTU1NTEzRDNE&isIns=1&isInsNltCmp=1

Sorry but not according to the rules which are clearly set out. Non-members are able to view all posts - except in the Photos thread. Nude photos are not permitted in general forums. They are only permitted in the Photo forum. The relevant part of the Rules is - "we are not an adult pornographic website. NO posting of nudity in any form is allowed. Any such posts will be immediately deleted." The only exceptions, which appears to be the case with your post above, is if a moderator sees a nude post and himself then deletes it. But the moderator does not read all posts quickly and to be safe you are far better posting nude photos under the Photos forum.

Horrors? Once again, and with respect, you totally exaggerate! I have been extremely fortunate in my life in having spent more than half of it working for major companies based in Asia, and this has entailed a huge amount of regular international travel - I estimate around 8 million kms and counting, most of it thankfully in business class. Just by the law of averages, there are going to be things like an occasional diversion, a couple of aborted landings, an aborted take off at Hong Kong. These are not horrors. A horror would be an aircrash followed either by death or permanent injury. At least I have not had to suffer endless and repeated trips to Thailand squashed in to the back of an aircraft and having to pay for that pleasure myself! 🤣