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The Sam Sen Nai Philatelic Museum? Yes, I mentioned it in the Tighter Visa Exempt Rules thread. I hear the mayor of Bangkok is thinking of renaming it in vinapu's honour.

Quick vocab lesson: I'm a gay top. ผมเป็นเกย์รุก phom bpen gay ruuk Can you bottom? น้องรับได้ไหมครับ nong rab dai mai krab Rab here (pronounced as "rub") literally means to receive. Show him the above or you can do an even quicker "Me-Tarzan-You-Jane" version like this: Point to yourself and say, "phom ruuk". (I'm top.) and affectionately but firmly put your hand on his and ask, "rab dai mai?" (Can you receive?) Notice I didn't use the word "gay" when referring to him at all as it usually doesn't matter in these transactions. It's about what he is willing or not willing to do. Besides, a straight-acting genuinely gay guy would unlikely admit it in front of his friends more so if he's Burmese. And if you're a bottom, just put your hand on the guy's dick and say "You fuck me OK?" It has worked for 99% of the members here. Am I right, vinapu? 😏

They probably spoke Thai. He may be a Myanmar national but chances are he's from Shan state and speaks his ethnic Tai-Yai language which has a lot of similarities with Thai. Depending on how long he's been in Thailand, he might have had very little exposure to Burmese and may well be fluent in Thai. There's also a strong political and cultural resentment to the central Burmese and their language due the longstanding civil war and Shan struggle for autonomy/independence. Next time, try doing an English-Thai-English translation instead.

Didn't Glenda Jackson win two Oscars, before becoming an MP? Women in Love is one of my mum's favourite movies. Does Clint Eastwood as mayor of Carmel count? He did run for office and has won several Oscars, although none for acting.

Tuff Bar? So only butch lesbians are welcome?

I hope he wasn't drink driving. I know of two suicides (one worked at Adam's Apple), one attempted suicide and four fatal drink-driving related accidents this year alone, all involving nightlife workers. All were/are under twenty-five and three were parents. I worry there might me more accidents as the year comes to a close. The two suicide and attempted suicide cases I knew personally; they were/are lovely guys who succumbed to severe depression and excessive drinking. I'm still grieving one of them which might explain why I've been posting and making more cracks than usual lately. Some day, I will write about the darker side of the nightlife industry in Thailand which is far from the benign pony ride that some people would like to make it out to be.

Now you know that's not true. There'll still be plenty of temples for you to visit and the Sam Sen Nai Philatelic Museum will always roll out the red carpet for you. 😏

Have the guys offered any reasons as to why they've not attempted to get legal? I know of many nightlife workers from neighbouring countries who are residing and working in Thailand legally. Some had even come in without passports through Thailand's porous borders (or couldn't get one as they were stateless) but eventually went through a legalisation process and obtained a permission to stay and a work permit.

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Oops, sorry, I had Waiting for Godot in Theatre and Drama Studies, not English lit. For English lit I had a Shakespeare history play (easy), James Joyce (hard) and Larkin and Hughes. For some reason Chaucer or any of the more "popular" or "fun" texts wasn't offered at my school that year.

You probably had something more contemporaneous of your generation, like Chaucer. 🤣😂😅

A-level English lit.

Samuel Beckett.

Ohh...so it's a buffet. 😏

Yes, Thai logic says it's a "fine" for taking the boy off his work premises as a dancer or server but it doesn't say why you're taking him off. As we know, forum members are avid stamp collectors and only want to show the boys their extensive stamp collections. It's a dying hobby as fewer and fewer people are collecting stamps these days.

Is Guido's cat on the list?

Strictly speaking, that doesn't happen in the bar. 😅

That was the problem. They only have durian-scented deodorant in Luang Prabang and wanted to try something different.

Hey, Americans voted for Trump - twice - so anything's possible! Have a safe flight home. 🙏

Did you go on double dates together?

And you're giving it another Cher farewell tour, so to speak? 🤔😏

Smoking isn't permitted in the bar. I forgot to mention that they also have ladyboy cabaret, sexy boy shows and B-boys performing. B-boys breakdancing feels somewhat dated now and I've seen better cabaret and sexy boy shows elsewhere.

Vinapu is old school. Only charcoal tablets for him.

Boyz Boyz Boyz is now a host bar. This is not your host bar of Sapan Kwaai yore where the guys sit politely in one corner and can be summoned by a customer for a drink and be taken "off". No, this is a glitzy drinking tabernacle with rows and rows of handsome young men dressed in hip hop style standing on stage at appointed times who can be invited over for a drink (or ten) and help the customer whittle away a few hours and/or drink himself under the table. At BBB, a "boy drink" costs 350 Baht which will buy the customer 20 minutes of his time. So if you'd like a host to sit with you for an hour, you buy him three drinks for 1,050 Baht. By the way, the 350 Baht doesn't come with an actual drink - that is separate as you're expected to open a bottle for the table or buy whatever drink is your preference. The host's job is primarily to keep you company and entertained so that you'll open more bottles and buy him more "boy drinks". The hosts range from middling to hot, 20 to 30 years old, athletic and to my eye, on the taller side (by tall, I mean taller than 170 cm which is quite tall by Thai standards). And yes, they are Thai. Clearly they've been screened by management to suit Thai and other Asian tastes. No malnourished-looking waifs here. The guys don't have number tags yet (something to do with waiting for approval from the authorities) so you'll have to indicate to a mamasan who you'd like to sit with you. A majority of the customers are women but all are welcome. They open from 10 PM until 4 AM but doesn't usually get busy until after the clubs and lady bars have closed.