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You raise an interesting point but could it be that all this filming is scaring potential customers away? My impression is that many of the sex tourists in the commercial gay venues are only gay in the commercial fleshpots of the world like Pattaya, Patpong, Rio, etc and go right back pretending to be straight when they hit Main Street back home (even though the entire town and its cockroaches know they're as gay as a picnic basket). On the other hand, others may be openly loud and proud but may not want to be known as sex tourists and tell people back home they go to Thailand to visit temples and collect first-day covers. Secondly, rightly or wrongly, Pattaya and Thailand in general have got a notorious reputation when it comes to certain forbidden sexual activity (and I'm not talking about stamp collecting - think Sunee Plaza of old) and a skinny, elfish and juvenile-looking ladyboy on the lap of a seventy-year-old could reinforce this image. In turn, this image caught on film could deter potential visitors out of fear of being tarred with the same brush. OR it could entice those of similar ilk to buy that first ticket to Thailand because rocking that young adult cradle appears normalised in Pattaya. So what is the net effect of all this publicity and do the positives outweigh the negatives? 🤷

Uh-huh. Thank goodness for digital cameras. In the old days, there won't be enough film to capture yourselves. 😏

I've learned to take what participants on an anonymous internet forum say with a bucketful of salt. In fact, I do the same when having a chat with the farang I run into in Thailand. In the margins of Thai society where the rules are different and where most farang are ensconced, they are free to re-invent and talk themselves up as they do. I just smile politely and think of it as a few minutes of harmless entertainment. I don't take them seriously and I never get offended. Who they are and what they say isn't a reflection of who I am.

Looking at the social media pages featuring Supertown, Jomtien Complex, it seems that everyone - staff, guests, passers by, content creators - is taking pictures and videos of their environs and zealously uploading them without care or concern for other people's privacy. I was amused by the number of bald spots I could see and count while watching a performance recorded at M2M bar. In all the media that I've seen, faces could clearly be identified if they happened to fall within the camera's gaze and not too many people seem to be bothered by it. Is this the new normal?

No need to understand. Just need to feel it. 😉

Meow! 😼

Stories of animals being treated kindly like this make me happy. 🥰 A gold star for Guido.🏅

Did you give his pussy a few gentle strokes while you were there? I'm sure he would have liked that even better. 😉

Suwannaphumi, pronounced as Suwannaphum is what happens when Sanskrit conflates with Thai. The word suwannaphumi is borrowed from Sanskrit (as many grand Thai names are) and in Sanskrit, the final i sound is pronounced. Suwar-na-bhu-mi. The r sound in the middle is also trilled. In other words, you say it as you see it. Easy right? When adopted into Thai, the Thai spelling follows the way it is pronounced in Sanskrit but the pronunciation follows Thai pronunciation rules and the final i sound becomes silent. Therefore the transliteration is not wrong. There's some interesting trivia surrounding the naming of the airport, bestowed by the late ร. 9, which you can look up for yourself. 😅 Thai to English transliteration isn't an exact science - there are supposed to be some guidelines/standard somewhere and even these have evolved and not necessarily followed to a T. The final product really depends on the person doing the transliteration! I've never really bothered with it as I learned the Thai script from the start.

Why? You don't like them squeezing your teats to the last drop? I thought you'd be thrilled.

บาวาน่า? Again quite a common place name in Thailand. Possibly after an angel's or woman's name, derived from Sanskrit.

It's ตะวันนา (ตะ-วัน-นา) in Thai so Tawanna is correct. โรงแรมตะวันนาสุรวงศ์ Tawanna Hotel Surawong. ตะวันนา (dtawanna) is derived from ตะวัน (dtawan) which means the sun and its usage is often literary or used as a proper noun. It is a very common person, place or brand name in Thailand signifying the glory of the sun. The common word for sun is ดวงอาทิตย์ (duang aathid). Sometimes Thai words aren't transliterated exactly because an exact match with the Thai isn't possible or because it may not be convenient for foreigners to pronounce. Tawana is easier to pronounce than Tawan-na, which sounds more Chinese to me. The reverse, ie transliteration from another language to Thai, is also true. In addition, slight adjustments are made if the exact Thai transliteration would sound inauspicious or vulgar.

That's great! Hopefully by then the dust from the immigration sandstorm would have settled too.

I guess there were too many "no" RSVPs.🤭

I hope he doesn't do an Air Asia on his guests; provide the room for free but make you pay for everything else. Pay for the towels, pay for the use of the bathroom, pay for the condoms, pay for the view or is that pay per view...🤷😅

One's sleepy and the other grinds. Think.

You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. 😊

They needed someone to host and splurge for the suite. 😏

Sweet. 🥰 Is he leaving because of the new visa rules? The latest I've heard is that there's no "reset" or fresh start of one's travel history to Thailand on January 1; the immigration officer will look at one's recent travel history and it's entirely at their discretion whether the visa exemption grace has been abused. We're going to have general elections in February and the rules may change yet again. 🤷 l hope everything works out for your guy.

Sorry, they wanted people who were discreet and kept a low profile; you and floridarob are overexposed. 😏

555. This has to be from a BOT. 😏 Olddaddy would have been far more creative than this. 😆

And clearly you've been around. 😏

Clearly you haven't been around. Plenty of pussies being eaten in Soi Cowboy and Nana Plaza.

She's not a young pussy, is she? Looks like she'd be comfortable ensconced in St Mary Mead, as would some of our forum members. I'd like you all to meet my new baby, Kopi. Picked her up in the middle of the road on Wednesday night. Two seconds later she would have been run over for sure (I happened to notice her because I was on foot). Vet says she's about two months old and has got a bad case of the flu. Eyes and nose were covered in discharge and she couldn't see and had lost her sense of smell. She's been at the vet three days now and my kind, handsome and very rugged East Malaysian vet called me this morning to tell me that he's had to feed her by hand as she couldn't see and smell the food. That she's eating is a good sign. Sadly, he's not very confident that she'll regain her eyesight. I'm sad for her but this means I'll just have to love her - and my vet - even more. Right now all I can do is pray and provide her with the best care possible. I had a lovely cat with degenerative ocular disease when I found her who went completely blind but lived to fifteen years old. She lived a long, good life and got along well with the others.

At least he's not pussy footing.