Riobard

Welly welly welly well well … the expected ad hominem retort of a sad sack running out of steam. If that’s the level, now he’s an omniscient divine entity and can quantify everybody’s social connections. Sociopath, psychotically delusional, or simply Asshole Not Otherwise Specified, a category not yet delineated on a commonly used diagnostic manual axis? My sense is: distinctive pathology all on its own.

Ah, sigh … so a concerted retaliatory search for examples that parallel the indiscretion of today called out, but imputing to me grandstanding/ showcasing motives as opposed to my simply appreciating like most everybody else the serendipity and wonders of entertainment in Brazil, the latter an MO that you seem to proclaim you uniquely and exclusively possess. Get it guys? Anybody daring a toe-to-toe spicy exchange is somehow a socially inept and hypocritical braggart; watch your step. Move over, Judge Judy; there’s a new self-appointed magistrate in town. Well I’m clutching my purse as a Pantsonfire College alumnus with a first in Spin-doctoring grasps for straws. Someone who, ofc, alone possesses the skills for non-sexualized socializing outside of brothel contexts. Everybody else is evidently single-mindedly exploitive re: sexual gratification and importuning for likes. Let’s just simplify it. Gogos have stage names usually consistent with their true names, albeit truncated as the local birth record trend is multiple surnames. They are sexual entertainers and circulate transactionally among the audience in a patently erotic fashion for cash tips. Everybody knows this. Yet I cannot think of any single gogo that has been explicitly identified on this board in terms of their being “offed” (as is the commonly employed Thailand forum term), though I am certain that fantasies and unsubstantiated assumptions have been dropped here and there by various posters. Moreover, much to the chagrin of many readers our board is comparatively and rightfully oriented to playing one’s tourism cards extremely close in terms of the specific players in various exchanges. I have occasionally but extremely rarely back-channelled cryptic information about being catfished, but that contained no identifying information or contextual markers that impugned anybody, and that was strategically enacted with a forecasted outcome in mind. The Friendlies are easily identifiable. I have not shared provider names or contact information with anybody on this Board or elsewhere in spite of backchannel soliciting from others. Some garotos and some gogos explicitly advertise commercial sex work on various public platforms. Nevertheless, I cannot think of any single one of these advertising fellows having been specifically identified on our board by anyone, unless I have overlooked such data; I don’t read all posts. In fact, in contrast to the assertion that my bent is to subtly out providers for the sake of drawing attention to myself, there exists plentiful content on our board that represents my objection to such reveals and corroborates the notion that nothing good or purposeful comes from them. Today is no exception and one thing that I got for my efforts is the distorted claim that they are disingenuous.

I do follow people I know on social media. It’s not an admission, as if it were a culpable behaviour (your manipulative spin) and for many members here such activities provide an entry point for post hoc interaction or setting up prospective interaction. Moreover, whatever content referenced would not have been literally stated, as if a simple declaration of shared widespread behaviour were to have been figurative. You are clearly demonizing a collective trend and vying for an arbiter perspective related to a specific member whose motivational status you think is below yours. So arrogantly self-aggrandizing. Well now we have your number on your values, willing to risk giving somebody’s identity up all because somebody else at recess in the sandbox started it. You might figuratively go fuck yourself, if of age of course. It’s not lost on many readers that you ridicule a collective supportable behavioural trend when you single out one person’s alignment with it, as if the prerogative of surfing were exclusively yours. The above social media trend is distinctive from taking a post that includes a commercial beverage business site handle and, not once but now repeatedly, proclaiming knowledge of prostitution history specific to cross-national stakeholders represented within the business profile. This you did gratuitously as you now suggest that a success narrative coupling was an absurd cover, when in fact no written reference to sex trade was extant, while in fact your own posts contain said coupling with content that more extensively risks fallout for a few people. I had initially entertained the possibility that it was a simple misstep without underlying provocation. What I perceive here is somebody conflating a commonly discreetly practiced social media ‘follow’ship agenda, by members with reveal boundaries underpinned by principles of tact, sharing common interests in trade and concomitant social components, with today’s manipulative playing “Where-the-‘ho’?” in an identified site’s posted image montage, where ‘ho’ colloquially denotes commercial sex work provider history among whom some of us are acquainted, others not but now primed to make the association never intended by persons aiming to compartmentalize various aspects of personal history. I thought it couldn’t get worse but continuously and ridiculously finger-pointing, as if an OP is the devil that prompted you do it, is a puerile low even for you. Sadly, one person’s narcissism may override the exigencies of obscuring revelations when what’s of paramount importance is backpedaling content that risks fallout for innocent parties. I heartily recommend the entire thread be cut, for good and for good, not plunked into the Sandbox.

For reals? What a pill. At what thread juncture was prostitution history mentioned? Now claiming that a previous circumspect post, as if none of us but but one exception possess a social radius beyond brothel context, later legitimized an essentially concrete reveal wrapped up in the MO of a heartwarming rags-to-success narrative is nothing short of Machiavellian. To boot, tipping off the readership about the direct relation posed by an image. I hadn’t even assumed that level of manipulation and justification. Reminiscent of a thread here of some five years where a garoto was outed, by a person unrelated to the present topic, for the sake of embellishing a BFE travel narrative. OK, figure out respective roles behind the reindeer games’ cascade effect, if moved to do so. I’ve done my part. I’d recommend simply engaging with admin to remove content explicitly containing sex work references, protecting a young Brasileiro from the caprice of chatter that could be considered defamatory according to his country’s legal conceptualization of reputation integrity. If the topic remains it obviously probably makes sense, similarly, for me to eventually back-channel my posts out of it. I’d have considered DM back-channeling under the present circumstances but for the incontrovertible expectation of hostility.

Sometimes it’s easy for indiscretion, albeit likely no ill will intended, to inadvertently slip through the cracks, and a particular post is best unwritten. What online audience would be the most likely to have few degrees of separation from a particular entity category with which personal interaction historically occurred and social media following ensued? Not my call, member autonomy being what it is, but simple enough to protect all parties ex post facto from fallout according to the central guiding principle of beneficence.

Good representative description. I would add that the street is saturated with bars and people milling about on the sidewalk, a big contrast with Gigolo and its home lighting fixture stores and seemingly one barking dog nearby that might startle the shit out of you if you’re walking by it while looking up to find the venue sign. I went once and took one private dance and his phone number. He seemed a bit pleasantly surprised when I handed him 100K. You can get a sense of the ambience via TikTok where the venue has a periodic presence but not all of the clips stay up.

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Obviously the male couple? Very moving. I understand that in the game at some point Ellie ages up to 19, but that Bella Ramsey is old enough to straddle the 5-year span. On my TV service in Canada there’s also a half-hour feature on ‘the making of’, worth tuning into.

I would love another season. However, it seems that any loose ends plot-wise that connect to Michael have been resolved. Another catch-and-release iteration might seem contrived. There may be more to milk in terms of other character arcs and their interactive dynamics but I don’t think the series titleYour Honor would continue to make sense. With it possibly done and the stellarThe Last of Us on hiatus I hope Succession will fill in the gap for a while. There’s somewhat of an entertainment fix provided by the limited series Inside Man (Netflix) if one is interested in a fictional thriller plot connecting a high profile prisoner with the real world.

Yeah I went the first weekend night I was visiting Bogotá off and on in Jan-Feb, but did not bother for about 6 more nights it was operating when I was there and would have dropped in had I thought it’s worth the effort. Again, most of the dancers are cross-affiliated with St Moritz spa downstairs and a hook-up with a massage table is easier than an unlit tiny cubicle. I was expecting loud music based on experience but I found the strobe-lighting additionally offputting. One cute well-built dancer was worth arranging contact info. He has moved on to Theatron where I think the headliner gogos may get a house paycheque.

Right, I am not being naïve. I know what I am walking into. The 1-month stay isn’t entirely meaningless because it defines the threshold at which the unit is not considered temporary accommodation under the Hotel Act. It is not subject to hotel-specific regulations. Obviously, the majority of other guest stays are shorter, so a one-month stay by one guest doesn’t reverse the implication that the unit generally runs afoul of the Hotel Act. One can simply say, if pressed by an authority, that one is aware of the Hotel Act and that one’s stay does not violate it. As an aside, there is an ongoing grace period with a tentative defined fixed date that falls later than my visit, for all operations in Thailand that would meet the definitional criteria of a hotel under the Hotel Act to get up to speed, commonly termed “up to code”, but again that does not apply to exemptions based on the one-month threshold or to the architectural structure criteria that differentiate a hotel from the type of gig-economy lodgings that we are discussing. However, the regulatory infrastructure and enforcement appears to be in a shambles for both the hotel category and accommodations not subject to the Hotel Act. Like your example, the unit in question may represent an infraction of specific condo rules regarding let periods. However, as already discussed, a specific condo owner collective that objects to lets such as these seems to outline prohibitive specificity predicated on interpretation of the Hotel Act’s criteria for temporary accommodation. Of course, one must be aware of other impediments to a smooth stay, including a specific building’s bylaws for minimal let periods, and how to collude with a host’s playbook set up due to factors that may render it impossible to operate completely out of plain sight. Additionally, vet for clues from reviews about the hosts’ capacity for physical presence in the vicinity, in contrast to remote hosts in jurisdictions where home rental platforms are widely accepted and utilized. And openly discuss any concerns ahead of time regarding the possible risks, costs and benefits. Choose a wide berth cancellation option and periodically scan reviews leading up to arrival.

If it’s NHS coverage it appears to be limited to 3 months … https://www.formularymk.nhs.uk/docs/Local and National General Prescribing Information/05-Policy for Taking Medicines Abroad.pdf

I should, then, disturb the other building residents if and when I come in late after galavanting and whoring, and take pleasure in waking up all of Bang Rak with banging racket? Tell me where and when the hot gym dudes are plying their trade and I’ll adjust my sched accordingly. I thought it might be around the midnight-ish witching hour. 😏

I spent many hours over the past few weeks searching and deciding for a 3-week trip, flight booked some time ago and dates locked in. Pay 20-21 nights for a licensed hotel apartment with separate enclosed bedroom versus pay 30-31 nights for an unlicensed unit of minimally equivalent or better size, quality, and features with stellar reviews, used only for the actual trip 20-21 nights but enabling above-board booking and payment record status in the event of being challenged. It might not always be the case and it hinges on a number of variables, but for the area I wanted the latter is the hands-down undisputed winner, both financially and otherwise. In this case the one-month discount was triggered so that the additional cost relative to 20-21 days equated to 8 rather than 10 days, and about 6% over and above the combined cost of airfare and 20-21 days of the private apartment that had originally triggered a one-week discount. Lack of hotel amenities is not a problem for me; I rarely stay in hotels and I found in the past that I spend more time tidying up so that hotel cleaners can do their thing around my stuff than it takes to just manage it all myself. Additionally, in different time zones when you may want or need to nap they tend to knock or phone, disturbing one’s needed restorative rest to inquire whether the ‘do not disturb’ sign means literally the words on the sign. No single long-term owner or tenant, or vacationer in any building is a better occupant than me. Whether in my own home or booking a vacation home on a platform I would be mortified if my presence caused a noise or odour disturbance for other residents. I also figured out long ago how to close a door, drawer or cupboard without slamming it, avoid splattering the microwave oven, and refrain from forcing solids down the kitchen sink drain or trying to flush inappropriate items down the toilet. I don’t walk with a noisy thumping heel-strike gait. Nobody will hear me come in late from a visit to Tawan.

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That shows foresight and skilled vetting on your part.

My building also passed a bylaw defining minimum rental period. Like yours, these are the exception to the usual degree of lengths co-owner condo syndicates are prepared to go, particularly since they prefer to rely on the Thai Condo and Hotel Acts, albeit ambiguous. Interestingly, my building co-ownership did not need to do it because our building falls into a prohibited zone owing to high density of hotels. In contrast, platforms like Airbnb home rental are legal in more hotel-sparse zones, and must post Tourist Home license signage. It would have been easier to invoke the city by-law and transfer surveillance to the municipality. But no, owners want to play detective in spite of being useless at it, and even still don’t report suspected infractions to the city, not that the city would possess many more skills for enforcement. Short-term renters have not been fined to date because there is still an evidentiary process that our 3rd party management is not interested in dealing with because they are paid peanuts and have their hands full dealing with miscreant full-time occupants; savvy short-term renters are usually able to operate under the radar. They tend to be, comparatively, non-guillotined chickens. I was once on the Board and threw up my hands at the chaotic presentation of evidence surrounding a raucous building terrace party that should have been open-and-shut. Should have submitted a script to Judge Judy show-runners. Suitcase no suitcase, our security personnel only have the latitude to request an unfamiliar person accessing the building sign in on a sheet. They do not possess the prerogative to inquire as to the status of the visitor. The by-law prohibits short-term rental but does not delineate the extent to which privacy is restricted, ie, no operational plan. I myself travel a great deal and often come in with loads of baggage and a new unfamiliar security guard doesn’t even look up. Toothless paper tiger.

You and the tour company have plenty of time to keep abreast of Brazil developments.

But allow for a day, maybe an overnight in Guatapé east of Medellín.

Will the Brazil portion of the group tour and the exact entry date occur prior to October 1st?

It stands to reason that as a guest, even having booked minimally 30 days and able to produce evidence of that duration if pressed, say by building Board or security, one would want to be accompanied in person by the platform host for formal check-in. And have a signed cryptic letter to be able to produce to rotating security staff if needed, ie, “Riobard will be staying with us as our guest indefinitely …” Hosts themselves may have family/friends guests that visit with luggage, just like any other unit-occupying owner or legit renter. They may have non-paying guests enjoy the unit when not booked, or block off time for company. Hence, it takes a lot to challenge any creative backstory put forward by a host and guest if an arrangement is questioned by busybodies. I can assure you that conventional building renters could give a shit, and that self-appointed vigilante owners’ bark is worse than their bite. If I were a rental platform host, with the prerogative of enjoying my unit in privacy and having company visit, I would ostentatiously have every person I know take turns hauling in and out vast amounts of luggage in full view of any onlookers that happen to be present. Any other building occupant would be welcome to challenge the narrative but, after coming in hot with me, no single challenger would likely be bold enough to ever again risk the reality of what actually transpired, accusatory harassment. They likely wouldn’t ever want second servings of that piece of my mind. I would also try to move that discussion out into public space as there are laws against verbal harassment, and I would be recording the transaction. If a guest unaccompanied by the host for the stay duration, but approached by a nosy occupant, I would just do what everybody else does ordinarily anyway: be on my phone busily loudly and animatedly talking, perhaps in a language the busybody wouldn’t comprehend, while dismissively yet non-menacingly waving them out of my personal space. But in a gentlemanly fashion ushering them through a door or elevator exit while essentially overtly ignoring them. Nuisance made invisible, next. While on the phone I might be heard saying something like: “My sabbatical is 8 months but I took a one-year lease conveniently near a BTS station, so I hope you plan to visit.” There is no law against babbling a falsehood that another person inadvertently eavesdrops on. Nobody can actually easily ascertain what business someone in possession of a building access card/fob and access to a unit is up to. The transactions are private. The only giveaway would typically be a platform guest unwilling or not smart enough to collude with an arrangement that had actually been made to their advantage.

I assume what is meant by a GdeP joining the entertainment lineup is that occasionally a small group of them will dance in bathing suits for a period of time to “warm up” the stage ahead of the main features. I follow one such guy’s social media but had never hired him at 117; no sightings of him that I recall during extended visits Jan2022-Feb2033, but he is looking awfully good. Otherwise, I have frequently and successfully used Hotel Alameda short-time option directly across the road but only those previously test-driven in a 117 suite. For a relative unknown I’d likely pay for their time and lunch or dinner at Gregora Arte or Vila Rica to get acquainted first, or even if I know them but extensive time had elapsed. I went to a former117 guy’s place for a date last month. I had known him a bit from brief social chats at the club but not ever hired him, and he disappeared for a while even before the pandemic hiatus. He began advertising not too long ago on garotocomlocal. He had progressed in appearance, given my tastes, to a 9.5 from an 8. My gosh; great fun. But seconds were not be had due to trip schedule.

Such an occupational hazard for which garotos de programa receive essentially no compensation. As a consumer with intermittent blocks of travel and close to failsafe STD protection measures I very infrequently need a sexual health clinic screening visit. In contrast, providers’ exposure along with their personal sexual partners’ vulnerability is relentless. Gonorrhea PrEP efficacy in clinical trials is proving to be mediocre and risks antimicrobial resistance.

Agree. I draw from Metro subway, Über and taxi options, or my feet. There are certain people that wouldn’t and shouldn’t walk to a subway. I think others here catch my drift.

That choice of transportation mode tracks for somebody making themselves a human living target …