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Now that's just ageist. 😠

Disco? I thought you'd cherish the idols of your youth like Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald...

@Olddaddy will appreciate this. 😉

Udders you mean?😏

The genocidal Israelis have lost their greatest bootlicker. Out of the closet and into the ground. Hava Nagila. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-officials-offer-their-condolences-after-death-us-senator-lindsey-graham-2026-07-12/

Dongtan Beach? It's still there, stretching from concessions 15 to 25 I believe. Pattaya gaynizens should be able to confirm.

There are rivers and streams where local youth go skinny dipping.

They put you in the cargo hold? 🤔

No, just telling it as it is that everything is relative hence we may have profound disagreements on Hotel X, Masseur Y and Restaurant Z. For example, I was in Pattaya last month and I thought the number of people around was just nice but many Pattaya regulars and veterans seem to think it was too quiet and the lowest of low seasons. I, on the other hand, don't go very often and took in everything as a treat. When asked about customer traffic, the boys I spoke to in Supertown and Boyztown said พอมีอยู่ or adequate, except when there was heavy rain.

Thank you for the warning. So do I. Yours are the only trip updates I bother to follow. 🤣😂😅

Glad to hear that Cam has made it home safe. All's well that ends well. I don't quite understand what you meant above. Weren't Cambodians allowed to return home when the war started? Secondly, why would they be allowed to do the border bounce during wartime, a grey practice the Thai government has been trying to discourage all nationalities from doing even during peacetime for purposes of staying in Thailand for extended periods and possibly working without the proper permits?

It depends on what one is accustomed to; if one's been living in dumps, then a jaunt at one of these Pattaya gay hotels could feel like having a suite in Mayfair.

Thank god for that. Having been to both Phuket and Pattaya recently and seen the physical state of many farang, I'm surprised the Thai authorities haven't made the wearing of the burqa mandatory at Thai beaches. As for the lumpy farang women getting away with being topless, I guess the authorities simply assumed no-one would want to look because, trust me, once seen it cannot be unseen! 🤒🤢

I know the guys and gals from Sunee Intimate Bar and M2M Bar (and I'm sure from the other venues too but I'm most familiar with these two from my recent visit) have been working very hard for their special shows next Saturday and I urge everyone in Pattaya and Bangkok to go support them if you can. They may not be world class but from the energy and creativity they put in, I could tell they took a lot of pride in their work and that's something I hadn't seen for a long time in gay-oriented performances in Thailand.

Why would it be "so alien to privileged western sensibility"? @jimmie50is American and I believe the issue of illegal migrants from Mexico and elsewhere has been one of the hot button issues plaguing American politics for as long as I can remember; unless @jimmie50 has been living under a rock or has a tin heart, he would have surely have heard and have feelings about it. Children have been cruelly separated from their parents and many have been incarcerated in cages at the Texas border while waiting their repatriation under the current administration. Even the mighty Obama had kicked out thousands including undocumented migrants who had paid into the system. Relatively speaking, the Thais have been quite kind to their neighbours who have snuck in to seek better economic opportunities and I don't see the Thai government planning to build a wall anywhere.

But plenty were willing to drop their pants? We were in Pattaya for four days recently; my partner had some work at Bangkok Hospital and he asked me to tag along. Pattaya keeps changing and I enjoyed myself this visit because I've accepted that the city is an aberration and not really "Thailand" in the cultural and communal sense that I've learned, understood and loved in the last twenty years. Even the languages I heard on the streets were alien and that's okay. I don't do trip reports as I feel that's more for tourists and Thailand is practically my second home. Moreover, I spend most of my time in Thailand away from the bars and fleshpots which seem to be of primary interest here. But at some point I will write about my visit to Supertown which I found very entertaining and also to Boyztown, which wasn't nearly as bad as some have made it out to be.

Save for insisting your partner wear a bodycam 24/7, I wonder how does one prove monogamy or fidelity. Sure, it is easy enough to say one is in a monogamous or faithful relationship but there is really no way of proving it, is there. I mean all it takes is twenty minutes for them to leave the house, fuck their lover around the corner and be back home for dinner. Okay, forty minutes if they share a beer and a somtam after. And sometimes they don't even have to leave the house! 😏

May I suggest very gently and with lots of lubricant. Remember to use a fresh condom each time and save that cattle prod only for special occasions. 😏😉

Yes, it would make him happy. Terrible analogy @mima_bk. Have you been following the scandals involving monks in Thailand in the last few years? They fuck around like rabbits and drink like fish! But we understand the point you're trying to make. Carry on. 🙏🏻

Whether he enjoyed the massage or not, I hope @ChristianPFC used a fresh condom. He has publically bragged that he washes his used condoms, puts them out to dry and re-uses them. 🤢🤮You read that right. This has been corroborated by the boys. It is a filthy and dangerous practice that puts an already high risk group even at higher risk but the boys can't say no because they need the money or they'll go hungry otherwise. His parsimony is one thing but the fact that he is proud and willing to put those already in a vulnerable position in harm's way shows the kind of person he truly is and is very, very disturbing. Agreed. In fact sociopaths like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy were seen as kind, charming and normal individuals by their communities. ...as if those vulnerable young men are cattle being slated for slaughter...no empathy whatsoever. And he takes his "method" further, by picking out the most vulnerable and the most desperate young men, the ones who would find it difficult to say no to his demeaning offers and dangerous practices.

That made me laugh out loud. 🤣 Glad to see there are still members of this forum who don't take themselves too seriously! You're alright, @kentguy2025. Are you from Kent? Sweet is the country, because full of riches; The people liberal, valiant, active, wealthy; Which makes me hope you are not void of pity. @Keithambrose Without googling, can you tell me where that quote is from? There's coffee and cake in it for you. 😏🤭

Oh that's right, there are no moneyboys on Grindr and he's unlikely to meet other farang working in a weed bar in a backwater like Krabi which, frankly, most international tourists haven't heard of. Damn those Silom hoes! Were you stoned at the time? Six nights is a lifetime! You're well within your rights to have all those expectations of him and to demand total and utter fidelity. I'd ask for it in writing - in blood!

In my humble opinion, the cultural difference is that foreigners, and westerners in particular, always look for the most complicated explanations whereas I have found that, in my more than twenty-year association with Thailand, the simplest and most obvious explanations are often the most accurate. Little fibs will lead to bigger lies in the future. Reticence in reciprocating your shows of affection means he's not really interested; oh he'll string you along if you're willing to put up with his behaviour and spend money on him but otherwise it's no loss to him. It's been five months since you met; he's probably met someone else, assuming he wasn't already with someone else when you started going steady. Yes. Somebody should pin this up somewhere.

Who do you think wrote it for me? 😉 Seriously, figuring out the signs and signification was easy based on my own general knowledge and having access to Thai friends and relatives from a wide variety of backgrounds. The writing took up a bit of time which I had while waiting for my father complete his annual physical. Seventy-eight and he passed it with flying colours. All we've been hearing since we left the hospital is how his doctor had said he had the blood pressure of a teenager: 118/78. 🙄 Field research? 😏

No, not all roads lead to Bali. My trainer, who's straight and a popular fitness model in Bangkok, was just complaining on his social media this morning that, based on reports from his many followers, his pics, all taken in Thailand, were being used without his permission on gay hook up apps and commercial sites and have been seen in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and places in Thailand he had never been to. His pics could be mis-used all over the globe for all he knows. Such is the nature of the technology and the disingeneous nature of man. Therefore it doesn't mean that, if somebody had seen my trainer's pics three or ten times on a Grindr profile in Singapore, the profile belongs to my trainer or that he's physically in Singapore. Common sense. When I first saw the pics posted in this thread, my first thought was that the first guy was either of south Indian or Timor Leste origin and the second was from one of the Tai tribes in northern Thailand and I will explain why I believe this to be true. Besides his features which I feel are typically south Indian if one takes away the bright flash filter, there is a poster on his wall which I've attached below by Vidya Sharma, a modestly known local writer, guru and mindfulness coach from Karnataka State in South India. It follows that a budding bodybuilder from the same region would be inspired by a quote from Vidya Sharma than one remotely in Bali. Secondly, the staircase design and barrier is quite common in more modest south Indian homes, as confirmed by my friend at lunch today. My friend is Malaysian of south Indian origin and has been all over South India to visit his relatives and Bengaluru for business numerous times. When he showed me the pic, he immediately teased me that I had gone Indian in my tastes (I have no racial or skin colour preference). Coincidentally, we were at a banana leaf restaurant where all the staff were from various parts of South India and the three we asked all said the guy in the pic is south Indian and one even claimed it was his friend from Cennai. 🤣 Now, I shall move on to the cute guy in the second pic. The bird/garuda/owl? chest tattoo wasn't very instructive as it is not unusual in cultures with Buddhist or Hindu influences and consequently elements flowing from the Ramayan. Next was the full choker tattoo and stretched earlobe. Stretched earlobes aren't common in Balinese culture. I thought he could possibly be Dayak from Kalimantan or East Malaysia but the Dayak do their neck tattoos and stretched earlobes differently. And he's just too cute to be Dayak (my bias). 😅 So I went back to my first instinct and sent his pics to two good friends in Thailand: one is a tattoo artist and the other a cultural anthropologist. They both came back with nearly identical replies: the overall tattoo design and style of dress would suggest the young man is from a northern Tai tribe but they couldn't pinpoint which because of cross-cultural influences. Even the stretched earlobe isn't confined to the Kayaw or Lahu tribes anymore and it has been adapted by other tribes/cultures to look "more cool" by having only one earlobe pierced or stretched these days instead of both. To say that my circumspect analysis and reasoning show that all roads lead to South India and northern Thailand would be too arrogant and simplistic, but I would leave them here as a plausibility worthy of consideration.