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OK. I admit when Expat started this post I had every intention to watch the show but for some reason never did. 2 month ago Firecat has asked me to download an episode for him as his Internet was slow and so I did. As Firecat keeps telling me I need to watch it and everyone says such good things about it, I went ahead and got Season 1 and 2. I have had them for a month or so and not watched them until last week. I have to say that I am so glad I watched Season 1. I am now in Season 2 and I think the show is brilliant. I love the storyline and the characters. It is such a gem of a show.

When I ran the board, I know I had at least 2 moderators resign directly because of him. One because I would not ban him from the site and the other, well, for the same reason. One moderator returned when his previous handle LMTU was removed and the other not only never return but has rarely posted since. IMHO that pretty much says all that is needed to know about history. That tells you how much drama surrounds one poster. That is why I understand this decision. It was a real pain the ass back then and it seems things haven't changed much since then. My suggestion is that when someone is banned they can't return under any other names. Once a decision is made, be done with it. That said, you can't just ban someone based on the "assumption" they are a previous poster on this board or another poster on another board. You need some evidence.

I wish that were true. I think they prefer the size of my wallet.

I love them! I have always been jealous that women get all the good shoes. Of course, I am a size 14 and I don't think they make these in my size or I'll be all over them!

Two points here my dear: 1. The sweet was much better than the trailer I lived in as a kid. But, to call it Palatial is a bit much. 2. I didn't steal him from you. I just borrowed him. You were late and he was just waiting outside your door. I thought it would be rude not to invite him into my room for a drink. LOL

I have seen way too many younger lads in the bars and clubs that were working. But, I do see this is changing a great deal and now there are very few bars that carry underage. Pattaya is the city known for this but that has changed in the last 5 years. There are 2 areas of Pattaya and one area is it very rare if ever to find someone under 18 in the bar. The other area, Sunee Plaza, you must be careful and check ID as there are several 17 year olds. Many Thai's start their age with birth so 18 to us is 17 to them as it is their 18th year. Hard to explain but I always find best to check ID's.

On this I totally disagree. I needed to see him in order to visualize things at the end better. Without giving away too much detail on the movie, I am really glad this character was presented in the way he was.

I have never seen this in Thailand but I do like the idea. Was it given to you or just shown to you? I love Hero Massage in Bangkok and it tells you right up front the minimum tip for the boys. I wish all places with "offing" did this as it makes sure the boys are taken care of.

KT, I do not like the decision at all but I do understand it. He was not removed only for his lack of conduct on other sites but for his constant time drain here. My suggestion to Scooby early on was to try to edit his posts for grammar so that others would not complain. (yes, I know silly that some called for his banishment due to lack of proper English posting) Editing his posts is sometimes easy to do and sometimes not so easy to do. Some of his posts are just unreadable and take a great deal of work or impossible to change to make sense. Personally, I like the poster and think he posts some great content and I am OK with the mangled English. I have never understood why those that don't like his posting just ignore him and his posts. But, when the admins have to spend the vast majority of their time with issues with one posters, it is understandable they wish no to do this. I am sure this was not a one time issue but hundreds of smaller issues. If they had over 40 posts that were reported for rule violations, that in itself takes a great deal of time to discuss and deal with in the mod forum. To my knowledge in 7 or 8 years this site has banned a total of 2 posters. That tells me that this site goes to enormous lengths to avoid this. FH: "Egregious member conduct in external forums may give cause for Gay Thailand Message Center post-access privileges to be reviewed and revoked at Gay Thailand Management discretion." This was written by me many years back and the word I thought people would concentrate on was MAY. Then, at the Management's discretion. It gives the admin the ability in ALL cases to make decisions. It puts the decision totally in the hands of the admin and not a group consensuses. It was also intended for those members who were posting things that would put other boards in legal proceedings. This has not happened with any posters that I am aware of on any board related to Gay Thailand. There is no easy way to run or moderate a message board. It is a hard task but when decisions are made, even if we don't agree with them, we should give a bit of leeway to the admins as they know about the issue then we do.

Sorry, there is no stage per se!

My first trip to Thailand was with a boy from New York and together we learned about Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Phuket. We had a blast in each city. Firecat then showed us around Pattaya and it was a huge help as like Lucky, I would not have figured out many of the bars without someone to show me around. Time has changed over the years and now there are so many good maps that you can find it better but it is great to have a guide.

I took my 2 elderly aunts to Thailand about 8 years ago and they loved it. The BF showed them the country and was wonderful to them. The funniest thing I remember from their trip was the Thai toilets and as they were both in their late 60's at the time and slightly overweight, it was something that was so difficult for them and they came out one day just laughing up a storm and I didn't want to ask but finally I had to and they said, "well, lets just say I knew the aim wasn't too good when I saw the floor filling up with liquid."

"A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor ... a fearsome Bengal tiger. Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zoo keeper. Dwellers in Pondicherry, India, the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival." Having taken my two guys tonight to see this, I was in love with the beauty of the movie. It was magical and I just adored the movie. The cinematography is amazing. The characters are easy to fall into their story. I was happy to see Gérard Depardieu in the movie as I have not seen him in too much recently and I have great memories of him in earlier films. I am a big fan of Ang Lee and have been waiting for this movie to come to Thailand. My sister saw it a few weeks back and told me to be sure to see it. I am so glad I did. There is also large chunks of the movie where dialogue is not needed and thus the boys were very interested in the movie as well. They both said they liked it but they did ask lots of questions afterwards. I thought the lead character, Suraj Sharma did a great job. I also loved seeing some familiar scenes from India and Montreal. The movie is just great. Go and see it if you have a chance.

"A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor ... a fearsome Bengal tiger. Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zoo keeper. Dwellers in Pondicherry, India, the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival." Having taken my two guys tonight to see this, I was in love with the beauty of the movie. It was magical and I just adored the movie. The cinematography is amazing. The characters are easy to fall into their story. I was happy to see Gérard Depardieu in the movie as I have not seen him in too much recently and I have great memories of him in earlier films. I am a big fan of Ang Lee and have been waiting for this movie to come to Thailand. My sister saw it a few weeks back and told me to be sure to see it. I am so glad I did. There is also large chunks of the movie where dialogue is not needed and thus the boys were very interested in the movie as well. They both said they liked it but they did ask lots of questions afterwards. I thought the lead character, Suraj Sharma did a great job. I also loved seeing some familiar scenes from India and Montreal. The movie is just great. Go and see it if you have a chance.

Toy Boys has been amazing lately. Every time I have been in there, it is packed to the rafters with boys and many very cute ones as well. Funny Boys in that area also does not disappoint. I went to Eros last night and enjoyed it but many more fem boys that I would like but I still had a nice time. Also we went to Nice Boys and they had some cute guys on stage and a nice atmosphere. My last trip to Crazy Dragon was much like yours Z. It was pretty slow and not many guys.

Last night a friend and I had a chance to go to Eros Bar in Sunee Plaza. I was pleasantly surprised at just how many boys were on stage dancing. Most of the boys were fem boys but there were a few more masculine type guy. The place was also pretty packed with customers. There is not stage per say. They have little stands that are spread around the place that the boys rotate around. It was nice to see a flurry of so many guys. The drink prices were very reasonable. I think a Diet Coke was 115 baht and a Heineken was 125 baht. I saw no one that looked underage in the bar and we were there for about 30-40 minutes. All in all, I thought this was a very nice place to sit and drink and relax with no pushy mamasan and low music at decent prices.

No one bothered me or the car after that day. But, I always wondered what would have happened if I had been confronted. I was so angry and also so very embarrassed that a "secret" that I thought no one knew was exposed.

When I was 16 years old my mother bought me an "almost" new Firebird. We were poor but this was money she had saved from my dad's death benefits. I was thrilled beyond belief and I felt like king of the world. My mother wanted me to get a license plate for it and I picked out a unicorn with my name on it. It was beautiful but looking back, I know more than just a bit gay. A guy in my school scratched the word "fag" beneath it. I was told who did this as friends saw him. I was horrified that perhaps my mother would see this. When I got home from school, I took some plyers to it and ripped off the plate as I didn't know how to unscrew it. I was in tears all night. Mostly for fear I would be "found out" by her or by others. The next morning, I drove to school, I found this guys car and I went to it, opened up a switch blade and proceeded. to flatten all 4 of his tires in full view of everyone in the school that was in that parking lot. Everyone just looked at me. I put the switch blade back in my pants and walked into school. No one spoke to me that day as they perhaps thought I was insane. I had put the tires out on a very popular kid whose daddy was friends with my family (small town). The father came to school and got the car for his son but not once did anyone ever say anything to me. I honestly do not know what would have happened if he confronted me. But, I guess he understood fair was fair. However, that changed my entire perspective on allowing someone to bully me. I just refused to take it from him or from anyone.

There comes a point when an admin has to make decisions to allow the board to move forward. Of our last 50 reports on threads, 42 have been about one poster. The moderators and I have read each one of them and discussed them and found few of them had any real issues other than anger and hatred for one poster. The vast majority of these "reports" were without merit and from a few posters with an agenda to get rid of a poster. While we do not feel that that the poster has egregiously violated our rules, we do feel his presence here causes irreparable harm to the site and have thus banned him from the site. We have a great group of posters on this site and hope that you will enjoy this site as we put a great deal of effort into making it a site for everyone to enjoy. Please try to welcome all members of the site and make them feel a part of "our family."

Thank you Lucky. Much appreciated. As you know, I love this site and it has been my baby for many many years. Love the guy in the photo. But, no phone number or email for him?

I chose that guy for the tats for that site. He is handsome isn't he?

g. we did that for you only. I was considering putting a little link there when you actually logged in that would take you immediately to girly sites with big tits and even bigger asses but I thought a bit too much so we just did the "Not that password moron!"

I love PENULTIMATE. I have not heard of the recording one but I had one similar but hate it so I'll give yours a try. Many on your list I don't know so I'll take a look at them. Thanks.

One thread has been moved to the Moderator Forum. It will be returned when and if the mods make that decision.

I agree with Rogie. I'd pay it and make sure he "knew" it was a one time thing. However, if that money is not going to kill you, it may help him a great deal.