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"Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal? Why is it against the law to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?" - George Carlin

We have now merged (details below), but it should be more interesting with the power of the combined staffs and input into the magazine, than just what we alone could do. I would like more content on the local venues and news and photos on the community happenings to include in the revised SPICE! and soon on the new improved SPICE! online website. If you have some news about what is happening there in your community, send me your comments by Wednesday the 15th and I will try and get it into the next August issue. Any comments or questions, please contact me. SPICE!.. Thailand's #1 magazine for gay men for the last 9 years, has hit the Big Time! Effective immediately SPICE! has merged and will be published by PAPPA Co., Ltd., which also publishes the best-selling book in Thailand about Thailand: The Official Thailand Survival Guide. But the news does not stop there.... PAPPA Co., Ltd. is the exclusive sales and marketing agent for the Pattaya Times Media Corp., Thailand's ONLY foreign-owned and managed media group headed by American businessman Drew Noyes. · What does this mean to our readers and our advertisers? Better content, better graphics, better distribution and an association with a main stream powerhouse dedicated to keeping SPICE! the Essential Guide for Gay Men. I am now Vice President of Sales & Marketing of the combined company and will continue to contribute to the further growth of SPICE! as an contributing editor. We now have 4 graphic designers, 7 administrative personnel, 3 editors, a photo editor, 5 reporters, 2 cameramen and 12 contributors. This makes us by far the best-staffed gay magazine in the industry. · What difference will you see in the next issue? There will be plenty of news for singles, but an added focus on community news including activities for gay couples. We know people not only come for the “Bar Scene” and entertainment venues, but also to enjoy the many attractions each city has to offer, from fine dining and shopping to outdoor activities and sightseeing in this beautiful country we are in. We plan to offer many added articles and features not currently in SPICE! to benefit everyone, tourists, ex-pats and frequent visitors. Two editors are gay Thais who are Western educated and one is in a long-term relationship with a Brit and the other a bit of a playboy looking for fun foreigners. Also, another editor is a gay American who has been on the gay scene in Thailand for nine years -me! We plan to put more community news back into SPICE! to help promote our advertisers, our community and to the benefit our readers. There are really many markets to target with SPICE!. Many think of two, tourists and ex-pats, but there are long stay and frequent visitors with more disposable income. Also friends who visit their friends who live here are influenced by their recommendations. If the locals don’t get out much or are traveling to another city with their friends, they look to SPICE! to see where we recommend and to our advertisers listings to see where to Stay, Go, Eat & Play when they visit another area as they know we keep up-to-date in each venue with our local contributors and regular visits. · How will this merger make SPICE! the #1 choice magazine to read for all gay men visiting and living in Thailand? Improved exposure! 1) SPICE! will be cross promoted on This Is Thailand Radio FM103 now broadcasting live in Pattaya and soon going worldwide with streaming audio via the internet. SPICE! will link on its websites and we will offer Gay themed special music and up-coming social events. Also we plan fun activities gay men would like to attend. There will be Talk Radio segments with advice for gay men in Thailand, too. 2) In the next release of The Official Thailand Survival Guide 2010 there will be a section dedicated solely to the Thailand gay scene with great info and lots of maps provided by the SPICE! staff. 3) The Pattaya Times is the largest newspaper outside of Bangkok and is the only leading newspaper which has a "Gay Times" section (now re-named SPICE! Happenings) to which SPICE! contributes. The Pattaya Times is already distributed in Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Hua Hin and all over the 11 provinces in the Eastern Seaboard including Pattaya. There are plans for region editions of the Hua Hin Times, the Chiang Mai Times and the Southern Times serving Krabi, Phuket and Koh Samui. Next month watch for the release of our new more powerful updated website to become the Gay Portal into Thailand and Asia that will include the new SPICE! forums and gay social networking at http://www.spicemag.net. If you would like a banner, link or special mention on our website, please let me know. Now is the best time to contact me for current special pricing for advertising in the newly revamped SPICE! Magazine. Ad space is limited by region so please indicate your interest soon by replying to this message. We are also offering special package prices to advertise on the SPICE! Happenings page in our “Sister Publication”.. The Pattaya Times. It has been great taking SPICE! through the metamorphosis from Thai Guys, then Sticky Rice to SPICE! Now we have the power and backing no other gay magazine will ever get in Thailand. Hands down we are and will continue to be the #1 publication serving the English-reading, Thailand gay market! If you are not advertising in SPICE! how will your potential customers find you when all else is gone? In this economy, the strong survive. Please join us. There is power and strength in consolidation. I look forward to talking with you real soon! Sincerely, Phil Graham Vice President Pattaya Times Media Corporation Co., Ltd. Mobile Phone: +66 (0)81-941-6769 Thai Siam Publishing Co.,Ltd. Publishers:SPICE! Magazine & Website 477/19-20 M.12 Thappraya Rd., Nongprue, Banglamung, Chonburi 20150 Tel: 038-075-537, 038-075-538 Fax: 038-075-539

Considering the counterfeiting that goes on in Thailand, how do you know that what you're getting is really Kobe beef?

I have no idea, then, what could be causing the problem. The only thing I can think of to try would be to see use of a different browser makes any difference.

The following appears in the CHIANG MAI MAIL http://www.chiangmai-mail.com/current/news.shtml#hd3 _____ American Paedophile Arrested in Chiang Mai CMM reporters At 4 p.m on July 1 at Chiang’s Provincial Police Region 5 headquarters, Pol.Lt.Col. Apichart Haptasin announced that US citizen, Robert Ward Cutler, 37, had been arrested on charges of paedophilia involving at least 5 young boys under the age of 15 years, the most recent victim being 13 years old. At the time of his arrest, the accused was working as a guest lecturer and researcher at a university in Chiang Mai. Previously, Cutler, a Fulbright scholar, had taught at Bard College in New York. A search of his rented house in Muang district resulted in the seizure of a laptop computer, boxes of pornographic CDs and sex toys for use during anal intercourse. Police were initially alerted to Cutler’s identity, place of work and crimes by the Australian police in Thailand, and subsequently contacted the Foundation of Child Development. Cooperation then took place between Region 5’s Office of Protection against Transnational Crime and other relevant organisations, including Rights of the Child in America and Australia, which resulted in Cutler’s interrogation and subsequent arrest.

I think maybe that temporary replacement board is still in your cache. Try clearing your cache. If that doesn't work, try hitting the 'refresh' or 'reload' button on your browser. That should cure the problem.

The positive side of that is it's better to leave a place, still wanting more, than to leave a place, swearing never to return. I think in my case, one of these days I'll have to give Kuala Lumpur another try. I went there only once and hated ever second of it. I swore never to return. But then I read other people's posts about what a wonderful time they have there, and I wonder if we were in the same city. So, when I want one of those 'change of pace' trips, I think I'll give Kuala Lumpur a second chance.

For me, it depends on where that one place is. Personally, I love living in the place that would be my first choice for a holiday. Every so often I like going somewhere else, for a change of pace. However, that makes me appreciate where I am all the more when I return.

Having a law on paper is one thing. Enforcing it is quite another.

You may also suggest he mortgage his house in order to pay for it. I love steak too, but no steak in the world, including Kobe, is worth that kind of money to me . . . unless of course someone else is paying for it.

He was referring to an article I posted about a Thai woman who tried to claim that was her bill, in order to con her farang boyfriend. Somehow that article and most of that thread has disappeared after yesterday's problems with the board.

For me, that's simple: The rest of my life.

This may narrow it down for you: http://www.bangkok.com/restaurant-dining-e...ing-steaks.html I have also heard that Neil's Tavern is excellent: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1...ves.html?cat=16

I have not been told, but I believe this is the old version, back in place after yesterday's disaster.

Massachusetts Sues Federal Government over Marriage Law (CNN) -- Massachusetts sued the U.S. government on Wednesday, challenging the constitutionality of a federal law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman. "We're taking this action today because, first, we believe that [the Defense of Marriage Act] directly interferes with Massachusetts' long-standing sovereign authority to define and regulate the marital status of its residents," Attorney General Martha Coakley said Wednesday afternoon. "Massachusetts has a single category of married persons, and we view all married persons equally and identically," she said. "DOMA divides that category into two distinct and unequal classes of marriage." The lawsuit argues that the act, which became law in 1996, denies same-sex couples essential rights and protections, including federal income tax credits, employment and retirement benefits, health insurance coverage and Social Security payments. "In enacting DOMA, Congress overstepped its authority, undermined states' efforts to recognize marriages between same-sex couples, and codified an animus towards gay and lesbian people," the state wrote in the lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday in federal court. Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, said that about 16,000 same-sex couples have been married there since 2004, when it began issuing marriage licenses. Since that time, the lawsuit said, "the security and stability of families has been strengthened in important ways throughout the state." The state is challenging Section 3 of the law, which defines marriage as "a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife" and a spouse as "a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife." Before the act, the lawsuit argues, defining marital status was the prerogative of the states. The law "eviscerated more than 200 years of federal government deference to the states with respect to defining marriage," it said. The lawsuit also argues that the law forces Massachusetts to treat same-sex married couples differently from heterosexual married couples, particularly through determining who qualifies for the state's Medicaid program, known as MassHealth, and whether a same-sex spouse of a veteran can be buried in a veteran cemetery. "But for DOMA, married individuals in same-sex relationships in the commonwealth would receive the same status, obligations, responsibilities, rights, and protections as married individuals in different-sex relationships under local, state, and federal laws," the lawsuit said. The defendants named in the lawsuit include the Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and the United States itself. Charles Miller, a spokesman for the Department of Justice, said the department will review the case but noted that President Obama supports the legislative repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. In March, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders -- the same Boston-based group that successfully argued in 2003 for same-sex marriage rights in Massachusetts -- also sued the federal government over Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act. Besides Massachusetts, three other states recognize same-sex marriages: Connecticut, Maine, and Iowa. Vermont and New Hampshire will join their company when same-sex marriages become legal later this year and early next year.

Whatever it is, if a stereotyped American Indian asked me, "How you like-um?", my answer would be, "Stink-um."

A lot of the functions won't work at all yet. For example, that "Mother of" thread I posted was lucky to see the light of day at all. I have no idea how it wound up appearing twice, and once with a thread locked. I can't get into my own post to edit it out. In other words, the board needs a hell of a lot of work. I don't see much here, at least not yet, that makes the old board worth bothering to upgrade. I'm a great believer in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." It wasn't broke, but it got fixed anyhow. Now it's broke. The old board was working perfectly. So far, the results of this upgrade are not exactly impressive.

How would you like to be the farang engaged to this gal? Of course, every so often we see a boy or two with similar ideas. The following appears in the PATTAYA DAILY NEWS For photos, see: http://www.pattayadailynews.com/shownews.p...NEWS=0000009692 _____ POLICE INVESTIGATION PROVES FERTILE At 02.30 on 8th July 2009 a Thai woman identified as Miss Tawin Poungkum aged 35, residing at 1/1 Moo 9, Yangkun, Nongreua, Konkaan Province, made a report to a Pattaya police investigator. Pol. Lt. Col. Reungwit Rakchart that she was robbed by two men of 240,000 baht. This was later proved to be a lie. The woman alleged that on leaving her home, located on Soi Chaiyapruk on a black Honda click motorbike,no. 963, she stopped at the Siam Commercial Bank at the Computer City Building, (Teuk. Com). She withdrew 200,000 baht from the ATM machine and placed the money in her motorbike. Miss Tawin said the money had been sent by her foreigner boyfriend in preparation for their up and coming wedding on the 10th July. She continued to say that she made a second stop at the Krung Sri Ayuthaya bank, near the Friendship Supermarket on the same road to make another withdrawal of 40,000 baht. This second amount was to pay for her debt at the ‘JJ Pub and Karaoke’ in Soi Day-Night, South Pattaya. Miss Tawin, looking very unhappy, explained that while parking her motorbike in front of the JJ pub and counting her money, two men approached her. They were around 20-25. One man had a knife with which he used to threaten her not to scream or resist. She was forced to sit between them on her bike whilst they made their way to Soi Boon Sampun. At the dark area in the Soi, the two men took all her money including the bike and left her there. She made her way to the police station to report the said incident. After continuous questioning, to verify the facts, Pol. Lt. Col. Reungwit began to realise that the story Miss Tawin was reporting, were in fact lies. Miss Tawin finally confessed that she had fabricated the story in order to get a report file for her foreigner boyfriend to see, in order to cover herself that she had in fact spent the money he had sent in preparation for the wedding. Miss Tawin admitted that she had spent most of the money at JJ pub, the male Karaoke bar which she had visited almost every night. She had to pay her debt of 35,000 baht for the last two nights of drinking with the male staff. Miss Tawin said she wanted to have the report document to send to her boyfriend so he would send her more money. However, she preferred to be in jail rather than let her boyfriend know about her behaviour. Pol. Lt. Col. Reungwit filed the case and charged her for reporting lies.

As far as I know, at that hour there are none. If I'm wrong, someone will post a correction, but I think you'll have to take a taxi - about 1400 baht is the usual fare. I haven't figured out why taxis seem to be the only late night transportation to and from the airport considering so many international flights arrive between 10:00pm to 1:00am, and so many international departures require arrival at the airport in the wee hours, but unless you hire a private service, taxis are the only available transportation.

Looks like you just did . . .

I think the reason many were taken in by this was because of the way the article so emphatically states they were victims of a scam. It turned out a little differently. Of course, maybe the couple in the video were paid actors and not the real couple. Just part of the scam to make innocent people look guilty . . . Where is the couple anyway? Still in the hotel? Still in Thailand? Back in the UK? If they are, and anyone owns a store there, watch out! Despite the fact that I have never seen a "cheap motel" anywhere near the airport, does it make sense to anyone that they would have been held in such a place, rather than the airport security's holding cell until handed over to the police? Have you ever heard of anyone being held in a hotel? Have you ever heard of anyone even claiming to have been held in a hotel? I haven't. Oh well, there's a first time for everything.

If it's the dollar, I pick up!

Especially if it's a 'happy ending' massage . . .

In my case, that age was 7.

It's too bad he figured that out too late. So many died or had their lives ruined for nothing. It still goes on even now, every time someone steps on a land mine in Cambodia. You're joking about Bush, aren't you? I don't think he has the capability or learning or figuring out a damned thing. At least McNamara finally admitted he was wrong. Somehow, I don't envision a similar admission ever coming from Bush.