thaiophilus

Way back in 2010 Andrew Drummond (journalist who used to cover the sleazy side of LoS, for those who don't know) had a story about a different establishment where one of the partners died in mysterious circumstances shortly after investing a lot of capital. I wonder if that's a mutation of the same story? I won't reference it here but it shouldn't be too hard to find.

Most browsers have a 'zoom' feature hidden somewhere in their menus.

According to The Men of Thailand circa 1997, it was in Silom soi 4, but "in late 1993 the owner of Rome Club began refusing entrance to patrons thought to be gay" and the action moved to soi 2.

The city that's so good they set it to music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqGJr2Bgo5w&list=RDnqGJr2Bgo5w&start_radio=1

The drawback with exotic airlines is that if there are technical problems they probably don't have a replacement aircraft where needed, so you're stuck. Larger airlines with more aircraft and frequent flights are more likely to be able to shuffle their schedule.

Not to dispute what you've said, but on a related note I've found that online review websites are useless for comparing airlines, because most of the reviews are of flights where something went horribly wrong. Pick almost any airline and there will be a worryingly long list of 1-star reviews from badly-treated customers. If they've had a satisfactory flight most people don't bother to leave a review. My only experience of problems with Gulf carriers was Emirates in 2020 when I had to cancel a flight because of COVID. They refunded my flight in full within a couple of days, and unlike many of the other airliness there was no pressure to rebook or accept vouchers instead of cash.

For all flights departing UK/EU (regardless of carrier nationality), or arriving in the UK/EU on a UK/EU airline, all that would be a legal requirement, not a courtesy from the airline.

To be fair, most airline "crises" don't involve ballistic missiles.

Formerly known as Cupidol. (and before that, Castro, and before that Amor Pub, I think. The old maps are a bit vague about exact locations.)

He must have forgotten his auxiliary verbs. SWIDT 😈 ?

He'd need a totally different personality for that...

He can't reach it.

??? Looking at the top of the thread this is what I see: (The three pictures at the top are the end of the original 2013 post.) It looks pretty clear to me that the author of the text "In all my travels..." is Olddaddy. Do you see something different?

What? You mean these aren't genuine? https://bangkoksnowremoval.com/

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It appears to be fully open from here.

which prompts an obvious question...

hanoihouseboys.com ? https://holidayhouseboys.com/hanoi might be better 😉.

In Europe we generally just call that a "job" 😉

I don't think it is. My orgy invitation appeared to be from a name with zero posting history.

Waste of time, surely?

The obvious loopholes are the "who's online" and "last logged in members" sections on the main page, which make it very easy for a spammer to harvest usernames without having to read posts.

6 in a row! Is that a record?

Yes. Strictly it's Phra Ram IV. (Phra is an honorific denoting royalty). But in casual Thai speech, Rs tends to turn into L or N or disappear altogether.

what, lipstick?!