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Look Dude, when you are as big as I am and can walk quietly without jarring anyone's seat, you begin to understand that ANYONE can do the same. But, true, I much prefer that my powder room be only for those of us that hit the toilet when we try. The rest of you filthy pilgrims, can just piss off (literally). Signed, Your friend Mary

You are quite right sir. But, I have a friend who cruises at least 15 times a year and has always met a few Thais on the trip for fun and sex. If I could find just one on a cargo ship, I think I'd be OK but how does one plan that in advance? I have long wanted to do a cruise by Cargo Ship but these days the prices are much higher than before it became trendy.

Yes, I totally agree FH. I always loved the upper deck until now. Now, it was busy all night. They really do have the seats built so you don't really notice too much traffic but there is always those guest who don't know how to walk quietly into the good night.

I have been looking at health insurance again and it is really crazy how expensive it is. But, on Jan. 1, this will be required for all American citizens. What I now wonder is if this will also be required for expats living abroad? Or, will there be a certain amount of time you must be in USA in order to require the purchase. I have looked into overseas policies and they all suck. Benefits are often not good and the paperwork required of you is intensive. I mentioned a few weeks back about Geo Blue Travel Insurance. I finally decided to take the plunge and get it. It was an insane 888.00 a month but that was the perfect coverage for me. It asked all the medications, etc and I gave them. I currently only take Armor Thyroid and Metaformin. I explained this in the application as required. It asked for payment and I put in my CC number. I was instantly denied based on those drugs. I called them and basically they said anyone with any prior history will be denied. On Jan 1, it is my understanding that pre-existing conditions are prohibited. Would that also include a plan that covers American's overseas? Would this policy have been able to deny coverage? I currently have good USA Blue Cross / Blue Shield but it does suck overseas as you must have a written waiver before any care. Do others think this will change Jan 1?

I am looking for something new. When I first started coming to LOS many years ago, I just could not wait to get into one gogo bar on Soi Twilight: Future Boys. The bar is long since closed but I still look for that one special place to dip my toes in for subsequent trips. I would love some suggestions. Or, do you have that one bar that makes your week when you are here and has been consistent for you for many years?

It is my first time in LOS and LMTU is not here as well. While I did not see him on many trips, the fact that he was here was really good to know. I have thought about him much over the past few months and while I think his abrasive personality was a bit much for many, it was also adored by so many. Posters are so much more than just someone to put keyboard to paper. They all have stories and they all have things to share that we can learn from. From LMTU, I had many disagreements about his posting on message boards and even a few when we were out together and he said some things that really just shocked the living hell out of me. But, in the end, he is someone that I am so glad I got to know in Thailand and he did help me out with some things on more than one occasion. While Thailand and the gay community will carry on, it is just not the same without him. I do miss the man and I do hope I get to meet someone that surprises and shocks me as much as he did. RIP my friend.

I am getting to the point I hate traveling to Thailand by plane. I am just so tired and exhausting. However, I love cruise ships but have not found any that leaves from Cali and puts me in Bangkok rarely fast. Any suggesting cruise lines to look at? I love boat travel and if not for the expense of the Internet on board, I'd probably live on board.

Thank you all for the suggestions! I'll keep you posted.

The seats in these airplanes are great but there is only one bathroom that is shared by 2 cabins for Business Class. I find this odd. I asked a friend who has worked for Delta for many years and has been a flight attendant since 1969, and she said that they decided it was more important to have lay flat seats for all their Business class passengers. Now, the upstairs has 2 more bathrooms and are available for use for Business Class seats. But, who the hell wants to walk up the stairs to go to the restroom when you are paying out the ass for high quality service.

I have a friend of mine in Rome that checks my writing and makes changes to it as I am dyslexic and can't see when I make spelling mistakes. I have been working on Berlin, Germany city guides. I had over 40 of them and I sent them to her from my Gmail account. She checked things and went back and edited for spelling, etc and she also added the German addresses. She sends me my documents back to 3 different email addresses. One of them is me.com and one is gmail.com I noticed she had sent me the edited version to my gmail account but not to my Mobile Me account. I assumed she had forgotten and I forwarded it to my Me account but again, it was not there. I did this about 5 times before I assumed that my server for the Mobile Me was down. I called them and told them what I was experiencing and that I was attaching a .doc called Berlin_Listings.doc The man was very kind and he walked me though several things and all the sudden I had sent a test from my gmail and it worked but it was not the forwarded document. This means that my Mobile Me was working but not for forwards. I attempted to forward another message. It worked fine. I was on the line with the Apple guy for over an hour and we finally decided that the document must have some characters that were not acceptable. Now, this was not inside my email in a copy and paste job but it was attached in a document. Together the Apple Support Tech and I tested this with .doc .docx .txt .pages and a few others. Guess what? Not once would it go through to Mobile Me. So, I started testing it page by page. It was 6 pages long and I copied each page and pasted into a document and sent from gmail to Mobile Me. All the pages worked but Page 4. He had to get off the phone and talk to a supervisor and when he did, I tested Page 4 paragraph by paragraph and all worked except for one. It was one listing for a gay club in Berlin. I was never able to send it to my Mobile Me account. When he returned, he asked that I send him page 4 and I did. He got his at apple.com and said, "see, it works here." I said, OK, how about I sent to your @me.com account and he said he could not give that to me as it was his personal account. I said, "OK. so forward it to yourself." He did but guess what? It didn't work. He was shocked but I wasn't. I had already determined what the issue was. He went to another supervisor and he was gone for a long time and when he returned he said it must be some odd character from German in the page. I told him yes, but I tested that and the other pages had all the same characters. He was the supervisor of the first guy I talked to. I spent 2 hours with them. My issue was not resolved. So, in other words, Apple has a filter that not only reads emails but reads INSIDE attached documents. It does this so fast that one second (from gmail to Mobile Me) it reads it and determines that a document was not acceptable to be sent. Now, I didn't say it went to my junk folder. I said it was never received. In other words, to this day, 4 days ago, I have yet to receive any of the 20 emails I tested this with. The main supervisor came on and said there must be a glitch somehow. When I asked if Apple read my document, he said that it did not. But, he said that some thing in the document set off a trigger. In other words, does this not mean that Apple had the technology to read inside my document? Also, what happens, as I tested this, is that Apple not only reads the documents but it does so and decides to block it within one sec. Can you imagine the power behind this? I go to bed that night a bit worried that someone had the power to read inside my mail in less than one sec and I was a bit pissed that the technology was there and being used against me for a gay listing of sex clubs in Berlin. I woke up the next morning and went to check my mail. Guess what? There was a sign in Red Letters from Gmail that a suspicious attempt to read my email at Gmail was blocked. I have had this account at gmail for 10 years and not once did this ever occur. I do not to this day know why this happened to my Gmail account but I do know that someone from some group tried to read the mail in that account. As I keep passwords different, for every account, I wasn't too worried. But, I cannot imagine why anyone would care about a bar/club in Berlin so much that all this happened to me. I am also at a point where I have about decided to remove all my email accounts that are in the "cloud" and use my own email that is a pop account that no one can access without my computer. Yes, this did scare me. Yes, I know something fishy went on. Yes, I lost a lot of trust and faith in Apple that night.

From Texas to Kentucky I have been a bit absent for the last 2 weeks and I apologize for this. I helped my family move from Texas to Kentucky. Between the packing, the movers, the driving and 2 kids and 4 dogs, it was a hell of a 2 weeks. LOL We had many little issues along the way including hotel problems, driving issues, allergic reactions, all night driving, dropping furniture on my feet, and a few other scrapes and bruises. While I did enjoy my time in Texas when I was there with family, I am now excited to spend some time in Kentucky. It is a beautiful state and while I won't be here long on this trip, I will be returning in the coming months and years. Goodbye Texas. I enjoyed you while I was there but now my heart is in Kentucky! (actually, it is in Thailand but my family is now in Kentucky so part of my heart is there)

Also, please remember that many people come to the site through search engines and they often find the site through them. I remember a few years back that I did a thread on Ping Pong Pussy Shows in Bangkok and after about a week or two, I saw there were over a few hundred people reading the thread at one time and then I did a good search for Ping Pong Pussy and it was number 1 in Google for a few weeks. That brought in tons of traffic. I agree with FH that the front page listings get a lot of views and I have been told by more than one person that if they want to find a gay place in Thailand, they first look at the front of this site. That is great for the site and for the community. IMHO

I think I would enjoy eating fake meat about as much as I do sucking a dick that has silicone inserted in it. (NOT at all) Show me the Beef! and, let it be real and large.

Willie: I am not so sure that the reason he was turned down is because he is big. I am a large man myself and can't think of the last time I was turned down. But, if your friend was an asshole or had a bad reputation or was known to be cheap, I have seen many boys turn guys down. For all: I think so much of this has to do with personality and perception. I know that many boys often perceive I am a big tipper. I guess I am and thus why most vie for my attention. I do remember a wise man once told me that during slow season the boys go with the expat farangs more as they get little work but when the big money guys come into town they are often ignored. Christian, I can't wait to get to Bangkok and find this guy that everyone is in awe of. Enchanter, merchandise is merchandise. Some are more precious than others but we must remember that it is a transaction for financial gain. For all: I had a very very dear friend who once ran the largest escort service in the USA for gay men. He told me that his boys were pros and went with anyone that hired them. But, there was one man who was so obese and smelly that even the finest and most professional of his boys could not be with him. Finally, my friend had to tell the man that he was sorry but that the service he was offering was not for him. When the client questioned this, over and over, my friend finally had to tell the man that the boys didn't mind the size but they could not stand the smell and the personality. You see, one must find something attractive in order to get aroused.

KOKO, I have some of the best pizza in Brazil. But, they all have desert pizza's as well.

I love air travel but for me, there is no place on earth like landing at LaGuardia in NYC.

Yeah, I think when I was 5 or so, it was a bit of fooling around but mostly silly stuff. The older we got, the more things progressed. It is funny, that we both grew up in Alabama (bastion of hatred) and yet we are both gay and living with BF's. Of course, I am out to my family but he is just "living with" his business partner for 20 years. LOL

Me too. But, hitoallusa, are you polyamorous? You seem to want a lot of husbands. (me too)

Sorry guys, but this dickwad may run for POTUS in 2016 and the battle lines are drawn. He hates gays and we need to be sure he stays in Florida where he belongs.

ThinkProgress spoke with the Florida Senator at the opening luncheon of the annual Faith and Freedom Forum on Thursday and asked him about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill to make discrimination against LGBT individuals illegal across the country. Though Rubio bristles at the notion of being called a “bigot,” he showed no willingness to help protect LGBT workers from discrimination. “I’m not for any special protections based on orientation,” Rubio told ThinkProgress. KEYES: The Senate this summer is going to be taking up the Employment Non-Discrimination Act which makes it illegal to fire someone for being gay. Do you know if you’ll be supporting that? RUBIO: I haven’t read the legislation. By and large I think all Americans should be protected but I’m not for any special protections based on orientation. KEYES: What about on race or gender? RUBIO: Well that’s established law. KEYES: But not for sexual orientation?

It is obvious that Marco Rubio does not like gays. Here is what he said about the Immigration bill that Leahy has filed an amendment that would give gays and lesbians immigration rights. "If this bill has in it something that gives gay couples immigration rights and so forth, it kills the bill. I'm gone. I'm off it," he said. "I've said that repeatedly. I don't think that's going to happen, and it shouldn't happen. This is already a difficult enough issue as it is." Now, may I ask why on earth he is such a douchebag?

I would say Brazil and other Latin American Countries. It is where I always get the best coffee and I always take a bag back on the plane with me when I return.

I had my first "boyfriend" when I was 5 and he was 7. It lasted over 10 years. I did know at an early age I was not attracted to women. BTW: I do love Darren Criss too and want him to be my boyfriend.

I will be returning to Bangkok soon and spending several months there. I talked to the boys that stay with me in LOS and we have decided this time we want to know which restaurant has the best pizza. We will head to at last 10 or 15 places while I am there to test them. Any suggestions you have for us to include in our Pizza roundup?

Such a sweet story. Read this when you have time. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Amelia/when-my-son-met-his-boyfriend-darren-criss_b_3413346.html?utm_hp_ref=celebrity&ir=Celebrity