NIrishGuy

Ha, my eyes mustn't be all that as literally within 1 minute of arriving and walking out my hotel door for the first time I was offered some paid fun by a street hustler - which disconcertingly when I politely declined with "thanks but maybe later" ( or keeping my options open more like just in case I didn't pull lol) his next line was " well would you have any spare change for a cup of coffee then !" - meaning of course that he must have thought that I looked THAT desperately in need of a shag in the first place ! ( and perhaps he wasn't too far wrong there either little did he know lol !! :-) I should add that I was also very discerning as in another bar when almost instantly on arrival again a guy sat down beside me and placed my hand on his ( large) crotch and said "I've 8 1/2" come back to my room" and I said NO !! ( I'm still in shock about myself actually) but the bloody Thai guy had all but done me in energy wise with his "demands" and I needed some time to recharge my internal batteries - for all of about an hour I seem to recall - so yes Manchester - highly recommended and I've already booked my room for Pride in August if anyone else is going so say hi :-)

So, I've finally worked out a way to avoid all the long flights, baht rate drops and expensive off fees as last week on a whim I booked a few nights visiting Canal Street ( which is big gay area) in Manchester and I had an absolutely BRILLIANT time !! Thirty plus gay bars and clubs, everyone in party mode every night, great music, cheap drink, quality and not expensive hotels - and how about this the first guy I met was a hot Thai guy from Bangkok !!! :-) who kindly agreed to slip away from his BF for a few hours for some hot (unpaid) fun ( even though he kept insisting his BF was just his friend lol), I then met another 26 year old local guy who also then kept me up for the other half the night so its a weekends fun I won't forget in a while :-) ! So it appears that one doesn't need to travel half way round the world after all to have a damn good time - and sometimes the most obvious things and places that the ones that are staring us in the face all along it seems. So I'm now back at the airport to fly home ( wrecked after getting about 5 hours sleep in total all weekend ) and will most definitely be back for more of Manchester's delights :-)

I would think that's a question only he can answer so perhaps you should ask him and I'm also guessing ( without meaning to sound cruel) that he's already got exactly what he wants / wanted - which is your ass :-) but perhaps not, perhaps he wants never ending love, who knows, ask him and maybe he'll tell you :-) chok dee either way.

looking at the weather here in the UK of late I can only assume they are obviously blue tits then :-)

Oh thank god for second there I thought you were posting a pic of YOU in shiny speedos and sunglasses as I'm just having breakfast and you in a pair of budgie grabbers might just have been enough to sour my eggs lol

Actually I've had almost the same word for word conversation re the snow thing ( minus the box part) but When i say "I'm from Ireland" I then get the added confused "oh you from Iceland, ohhh it very cold" - I used to think the boys then knew at least where Iceland was but I've now figured "oh it very cold there" is their standard reply to basically anywhere that isn't Thailand !! :/) Also re the bandaid on the cheek - perhaps that's not as mad as it sounds as again I have had a similar story happen except the guy had a headache and was wearing a BIG plaster on his forehead which I gently laughed at suggesting it wouldn't actually help a headache - only to find out afterwards that the pharmacies and doctors DO in fact give out band aids for exactly that ! And they are strips with painkillers built in that soak straight into the skin for immediate and targeted pain relief and they are now also sold here in the UK actually as well - so perhaps your Thai friend wasn't as ting tong as he looked after all !?? :-)

Ah there ya go, as I said I wasn't referring to that site in particular in any way - but gotta say my comments re not replying to spam in genersl still stand as they are fairly much the accepted view out there these days, but as always "up to you" so just whatever works ( or doesn't) I guess is it for each person is what's best there then.

Whilst I'm not talking about that particular website as I don't know who or what is behind it can I perhaps suggest that it is usually a better option NOT to click on the unsubscribe button in any spam mail you receive as by their very nature of spam the person who sent you the spam mail in the first place could usually care less as to whether you wish to unsubscribe from their (perhaps bought in) spam address list or not. Also by clicking "unsubscribe" what you are also doing is actually confirming to the sender that they have actually discovered and sent their email to an actual live active email address, resulting in them probably at the least continuing to sending you their spam mail and worse they will usually then also sell on your valuable "live" email address in list form to other spam mailers who buy such lists of 'live" addresses for their own spam marketing / fraudulent purposes. So, the best policy unfortunately is simply to hit delete and move on and perhaps consider investing in better email spam catching software - which it has to be said is usually fairly much next to useless anyway most people find :-(

Yeah but I bet he's GAY ! Oh no wait that's a good thing on here right ? Sorry wrong board ! lol

It's ok devint6669 I think I knew exactly what you meant - and I think I also probably know exactly who to whom you are referring to as well in that bar as the guy I'm thinking of is exactly as you describe and certainly loves his job and gives it his all with no shame or care about who sees what ! Bless :/)

Actually I discovered that Tuk com itself offers free wifi throughout their entire building I believe and certainly the ground floor, which also then of course gives you coverage in Starbucks itself. But yes I totally agree with you that it's disgraceful that a coffee shop of all places and one that charges what Starbucks do don't happily give their "valued" customers free wifi considering its so widely used by their customers.

I did - and he loved it ! :-)

Is that the stuff from the stalls in the small bottles you mean? I was once told when I arrived in Thailand for my first trip never to buy that as the water it was made up with may not be "safe" and it could well just be tap water used etc so I have avoided it ever since, any thoughts on that as like most of the things I was told when i first arrived by bar room experts in Soi 4 they have turned out to be mainly nonsense, but for some reason I figured there could well be some truth to that one and may it appears have been denying myself something pleasant for no good reason??

Yeah both banana bar and Hot male bar opposite charge beer bar prices and I always start / end my nights there, although if you end up getting roped in with the waiters ( which I do) it's MUCh cheaper to give in early and buy a bottle of whiskey as inevitably I say I'm only staying for one, which means a round of beer for myself and a few boys, which then turns in to two and three, four and five rounds and at THAT point the whiskey would have been a much cheaper option ( as I usually end up buying it at that stage anyway !) Also Devint669 - you mentioned the waiters were "dirty" can I just clarify that I believe you mean "horny / sexy / playful" etc as opposed to "haven't washed in a week!" as I know most of the waiters there "personally" cough cough and I can assure you the first description is the case and not the second - but I'm guessing that's what you meant anyway :-)

Oh really, that's good to hear, now as well as having a social conscience re marriage equality and gay rights etc if we can then also perhaps get them to start paying some tax back into the UK economy after extracting their profits out of it for the good of the very customers they got the money from in the first place then we'll really have cracked the nut ! ( or in their case coffee bean perhaps :-)

See I'd love to think the SEO was telling the share holder "if you don't like our stance on gay equality you can just take your shares and go elsewhere" but I've a funny feeling the slant of his comments where more as he directly said in that "if you don't like the profit you've made on our shares you can of course cash them in and go elsewhere" - which is a whole different point. Mind you to be fair to them at least Starbucks DID put their name up openly in support of the whole marriage equality debate when it matters so credit to them for that.

Thank you Kokopeilli and yes it has been known that I look down, type, then hit post and then go MY GOD THAT LONG ! but hopefully people can both get the gist and also understand that not all of us are so careful / care so much about proof reading and double checking each and every line written. Believe it or not I do pay more attention than I used to to such matters, but only in passing it has to be said and thankfully the world keeps revolving either way it appears :-) Thankfully for the rest of you my lets say unique (i.e poor apparent) writing "style" means any hydra idea I would toy with would no doubt be spotted in seconds !

I've always presumed there is no one reason for that and there are more likely to be several reasons, which might include : Sheer boredom on the persons part with them simply not having anything else productive to do in their lives ( even if they are not aware of that) and the internet ends up taking the place of them having a real life. Or perhaps a desire to keep a thread running and ( for their own twisted reasons) make it look like it's interesting and or create a debate where none perhaps previously existed all to suit their own (again usually twisted) ends. A desire to make a thread or a board appear busier than it actually it, either for commercial reasons or just to massage their own delicate ego. Or maybe a desire to "stir the pot" and create tension between other posters in a way they would not be able to do under their own name as they could not speak so freely and openly and say what they REALLY think about issues and fellow posters on whatever board they happen to be on, again either for maybe commercial reasons if they sell advertising as most boards seem to do these days or even for legal reasons ( as its not unknown I believe for some people online to actually use threats of legal action against other board members or internet users, even thought these individuals are the same people who frequently carry out the same actions they are so quick to threaten to sue others about but their new profile name/s allows them to do this with a measure of impunity (so they think anyway) - whilst they forget of course that this is still only the internet and they should perhaps just get a life and get over themselves - but again this goes back to my first point about them not actually having much of life in the first place perhaps and so using whatever tools they need to make them feel better about themselves and achieve the end result they desire in every situation) And finally the main reason of course - that they're probably just a little bit nuts and most sane people will never be able to work out the reasoning in their twisted minds so we really shouldn't even bother trying and once their fake Hydras are identified ) even if they do use fake spelling mistakes etc to cover their tracks as they are usually quite obvious to spot anyway) they should probably be just best ignored or pitied. Although it is sad state of affairs when what appears to be a very few number of people who do carry out this practice end up affecting the overall tone and sometimes even moderation of whatever board they happen to be on at that time and again as stated above the worst thing is that their actions are usually just to aid and achieve their own twisted motives, thankfully however this is something that we don't see here on this board to often now I believe, so that to me is in itself a big plus for being here as far as I'm concerned anyway. So, that's my best guess anyway.

I'm sorry but if this board is turning into a Pussy appreciation club I'm out of here ! :-)

It does indeed - now one more question - programma ?? ( I'm guessing you mean a hot sex session with one or more of the guys) yes ?

I thought the same FH but assumed Micheal was perhaps talking about the public / bar areas where one might sit clothed - although to me that sort of defeats the purpose somewhat, but perhaps things are different there - Michael, care to enlighten us ?

I doubt many posters on ANY Thailand board will need to worry to much as no matter who it is everyone seems to be just entering their forties - and have been for the last 20 years or so :-)

Hi Micheal, I'm enjoying reading your reports, you've the stamina of a 20 year old it seems !! Lucky you ! :-) One question if I may - and I've asked this before elsewhere but never really received a sensible answer), when you decide to take a working boy ( or three in your case lol) whilst in the sauna how does that work payment wise ? I mean I'm assuming you ( and they) are mainly in just a towel or naked so do you work "on account" or is it strictly proforma payments only lol with a trip to your locker ( accompanied by them?) before you go into the private room or do they accompany you as you're leaving to enable you to settle up ( he there must be one hell of a queue following you some nights if that's the case :-)) Although I noticed you mentioned about not particularily wanting to leave your wallet in one place that looked a bit dodgy so does that imply one might take a small bag with some cash etc around with you in some places. Also again just for general info do all the saunas there tend to be "safe" with any amount of confirms and lube freely available in each cubicle or is it like the crazy system in Babylon Bkk etc where after using your two supplied confirms and one lube you have to traipse all the down to reception to ask for more - which in your case must be VERY tiring and cause sore legs with so many journeys being required in each trip !! :-)

Hell I know we're all planning to get a bit wet during songkran but if we've got to start wearing fins now I'm seriously going to have to rethink my next trip - unless if course the fins are for the bedroom where it appears then that no, I've picked the perfect place after all perhaps - now where did I put that damned snorkel of mine ! Lol

That's one big (incorrect) assumption you've made there as like yourself I don't read it and in fact I thought it was always members only generally (of which I'm not one).