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time to join EU, see how Central European countries were lifted up after joining

at least Americans have chance of voting him out. What chance Russians have other than waiting for God or some strangler to act ?.

Perhaps world would be served better if he had

Anti war piece coming from peace loving country of Russia who would never thought about invading other country if there are small babies there and if her dissidents have small children , instead of being imprisoned or poisoned the are getting state paid villa on balmy shores of the White Sea.

no consolation to 18 dead and their families but at least some sense of closure for survivors

nothing wrong with being naïve

Do you mean they don't speak English or Thai indeed? I wonder if BBB still have that extortionate 1000 baht off fee they quoted me in May?

Hope UNESCO will not remove Foodland's World Heritage status because new neighbour

feel sorry for people living nearby and there's plenty of those as CM airport is very close to the city core. But as we commented in Jomtien thread, Asians seem to like noise

have a nice trip and don't forget about us here

shock for me

on another had they pack bar with customers night after night so they must be doing something right and boys must like that formula for one reason or other as they are aplenty. One of BBB boys I asked told me that they are free to remove tops and still only 3 used that freedom. I'm with you that I don't see any attractiveness in paying to watch fully dressed guys but I'm not running that business

yes

hope he fit specifications Issanese are famous and cherished for

it must be mostly Asian thing. Take Indian bus, Chinese train or go to Thai bar and you will have deafening " music". They must like it and our choice is to bear with grin or leave. Earplugs may help too . Asking to tone it down if results in anything it will be cranking it up , if at all possible

we are used as ATM whether request is genuine or not but I get what do you mean. In reality, unless we are deeply involved in guy' s life we can't say it with certainty. Request may be most genuine but if made to 26 farangs and if even only half of them contribute , at one point it may turn to just money maker when guy needs 10000 and received 22000. My only advice in such a cases will be to go with your gut. No sense worrying if we are milked or not as likely we never learn the truth. On another hand we should remember that relatively small outlay from our pocket may help guy immensely. On third hand though we need to learn when to stop as almost without exception if you help once , another request will follow, form boy and his friend known to you who learned that you are so helpful. Like my grandmother used to say " if you have soft heart you must also have hard ass"

most likely auto-corrector's sinister job

in defense of guys I must say that surprisingly often , after prayers are said and money distributed they actually wait for signal they are free to go. Even at times It's me who needs to invite them to other side of door. Big screen TV, running air conditioner, access to stocked refrigerator, all have their charms. On at least two occasions this year they shyly asked if , when I can go about my business , they can sleep in the room. Since those were my regulars I agreed and in one case if gave me kind of free short time after I returned.

that's disease nowadays hitting many bars, most extreme in my opinion being BBB in Boyztown. On my last visit in May out of 3 dozen of guys on the stage , just 3 were barechested and rest fully dressed like they marched there straight from church

fully agree on both accounts. Sad fact is , there's always hotter hell. US gun deaths compared to UK are horrible , look another way to Honduras or El Salvador and USA suddenly looks as oasis of calm and serenity. We often tend to forget that such calm and serene country as Thailand is one of deadliest when comes to road deaths. There are scores of member on this forum who profess to never take motorsai taxi or prefer to go to Pattaya by bus to avoid car travel there. But scientists from Berkley and State Lomonosov University , after long research independently confirmed with certainty that one can't drown in the sea in Laos and Lesotho

as I said before , I go to Twitter, now X only to see latest feed from Moonlight. I rather spend my computer time here on forum

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and 10 times cheaper too

you too young to complain about the stairs

remember we are talking about new, just opened airport in Siem Reap