PeterRS

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! 🤣

Steven Hotze, a Republican donor from Texas and Houston-area physician, has been on an anti-gay campaign since 1982. In that year he launched a petition in Austin, Texas, to legalize housing discrimination against gay people. He called gays "criminals" and "soldomites". He alleged that giving protection from discrimination to LGBTQ people is "like thieves and murderers trtying to gain political power." Hotze has tried without success numerous times on numerous anti-gay issues. Until the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in 2015. This idiot launched a "Faith, Family, Freedom" tour using a cacophony of anti-gay slurs from his usual rhetoric saying he was fighting a "wicked, evil" movement to informing the Houston Chronicle that "Kids will be encouraged to practice sodomy in kindergarten." Now Hotze is suing the US federal government to roll back PrEP. The Supreme Court will hear the case in the next few weeks. As an article in today's Guardian points out, "A decision in his favor could upend healthcare access for LGBTQ+ people across the country – and derail a wide array of preventive treatments for tens of millions in the process." With another of Trump's idiot as Health Secretary, who is to say what Trump's court will decide. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/23/supreme-court-case-steven-hotze-hiv-prep

You have heard of Midway and Hawaii, I assume? All pilots have a list of airports to which they can divert in the event of unforeseen circumstances. Diversions do occur and for a number of reasons, rowdy uncontrollable behaviour being only one. Many years ago I was on a Northwest flight from Honolulu to MSP with a connection on the New York where I had arranged a lunch with a business friend. As the aircraft approached the runway in Honolulu I took a sleeping pill with the last gulp of my champagne. I almost always set my watch to destination time. When I eventually awoke, I was surprised when I heard that arrival at MSP would be approx. three hours later than scheduled but informed all who had been booked on connecting flights had been rebooked on to the next available flights. I called the FA to ask why the massive delay. She explained that a couple of hours after departing Honolulu a passanger had had a heart attack and the flight had been diverted to San Francisco. The crew could not wake me and so merely put my seat in the upright position, and then put it back when we took off again. Hence the overlong delay! Naturally I blamed the champagne! 🤣

No! Not in this thread! It has to be placed in the Photo forum with a link underneath referring back to the discussion in the Da Nang thread. i suggest you write to the moderator to have the photo as it exists withdrawn because it is against Board rules (as I understand them).

Does that offer English translation?

Oh! How typical! You make a statement which three major US cancer bodies reject - but you in your ivory tower believe they are wrong. Only you are right! And you seriously expect to be taken seriously? Hahaha!

There is - finally - one interesting and believable article in today's CNN website - GIVEN BIDEN'S DIAGNOSIS, WHAT A UROLOGIST WANTS YOU TO KNOW ABOUT PROSTATE SCREENING - which of course is what this thread is actually about. The writer confirms that Biden had not undergone a PSA test since 2014. He accepts that the PSA test is not one to bank on, but only because there is controversy about how the results are interpreted. He mentions the shifts in thinking in 2012 (against PSA testing) and again in 2018 (new research leading to greater emphasis on PSA testing partly resulting from the rising concern about more aggressive cancers, especially in groups that are younger that the previously suggested 55-69 year olds.) He mentions that the US Preventative Task Force, the Amercan Cancer Society and the American Urological Association each offer slightly different interpretations on prostate cancer screening guidelines. Funny how this does not accord with @unicorn's adamant assertion! The writer says he generally follows the AUA guidelines. He starts testing at 40 for those with higher risk. For others, he typically initiates cancer screening "at age 50". He stresses that with men living longer, there is a need constantly to review guidelines on all health issues. He points out that colon cancer screening now typically starts at age 45 whereas until recently it was age 50. Finally he adds, "In my office, I frequently discuss PSA screening with patients who are over 70. If a patient remains active and healthy and we anticipate good life expectancy, I generally recommend that we continue regular PSA tests. However, the final decision always belongs to the patient, after we carefully weigh the pros and cons together." https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/22/health/prostrate-screening-psa-wellness

You can always post the pic in the Photos forum with a link back to this thread - as long as you do not mention his name.