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In Internet Slang a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an our Forum with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion. In the last few days we have had to deal with one individual that we as a moderator team decided that we had to moderate. When we moderate someone that simply means that we make sure that the person's posts are read by one of the moderators before we allow them to be public. After we put the member on moderated status he registered a new name. We moderated that name (number2). Then, he did it again. Again, we moderated the negative post and put that member on Moderated Status (member3). At this point, I knew we were dealing with someone who had way too much time on his hands for us to deal with so we have initiated a new membership rule. The new policy is to require a certain number of posts that are approved by moderators before any person is able to post without moderation. This does not affect any current members who have posted in the past. It only affects new members who have never posted here before. In other words, a new member must post and those posts be approved by a moderator before we remove the moderated status from them. It only takes a few posts to determine a troll and we assure we will be on top of the new member posts. Also, we are asking for help with Moderating. It is a hard job and does not pay well (nothing other than the gratitude of our members). If you are interested in being part of the Moderating Team, please PM me and let me know. GB, TLP and I will discuss those interested. Unlike other boards, we don't require you to send us your passport or other personal information. We only ask that you have been a member here and contributed to the site. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I had a great dinner there tonight and loved the Fish and Chips. It tasted just like they do in England. They were 225 baht. They also had some deserts but they were not as good as the main course. The Pig and Whistle is on Soi 7 between Beach Road and Second Road. It is about 1/2 down the Soi. The service was fine and the atmosphere was nice. The temperature was good and there were no delays in getting our food or the service. I really enjoyed the Fish and Chips Plate. Great taste and reasonable priced.

The sign on the doors say 700,000 for the 2 shops with 2 upstairs rooms. That is less than half of the previous asking price. Anyone interested in a great location, this is one of the best buys in that area.

I kept getting requests from people for this site so I set up a profile. At the beginning of the process it asked for my gmail address to pull contacts. I thought it was OK and I did it. It pulled over 200 people from Thailand. I have never contacted the majority of those people with that e-mail and they had not sent me an e-mail. How does this process work? Where are all these contacts from? Several were from people I knew but at least 200 were not from any I knew. The next step asked me to invite others to HI5 on my e-mail list. Again, this was over 500 contacts. I did not know the majority of them either so I did not allow the second step. Anyone know how they use this app?

For those that use ITunes as your way to listen to music, movies and TV in LOS, I have just tested this new software out for ITunes and was amazed at how wonderful it made my sound sound. Let me say that I don't often buy things for my Mac that are not needed. It is normally perfect the way it is. But, this program really did impress me more than I ever thought and for the shows and programs that were hard to hear at times, the sound now booms out and with amazing clarity. It is a great piece of software! Bongiovi Acoustics

I went to dinner with friends last night and took the road to the Jomtien beach for the first time. They have made great headway on it since my last trip. I did not experience the usual potholes or the backed up traffic. I did notice they have a big lane for parking. Why build the road and then put a parking lane in? Was that the intent all along? Anyone know how long until this is finished?

I have a Thai friend who builds houses for people. He is good at it and I was looking over the last house he build in some photos he brought to show me. It looked lovely. I asked him about how much it cost and he said about 100,000 baht. I was a little surprised at how low this was and wondered for those of you that have build homes for the families of your loved ones how much did you spend?

I want to try some new places to eat in Pattaya while I am here with the BF. What are some places that you recommend? I am not looking for the most expensive or the most talked about but the places you actually enjoy going to on a regular basis. For me, my only regular place is Salt and Pepper in Day Night 2. I love the food and it is very inexpensive and the owners are super nice. For breakfast, I also like Papa David's in Jomtien and when I stay in that area I hit the place every morning. Any other suggestions on non chain type places?

A Buddhist monk and a 51-year-old man in Chiang Mai have been arrested and charged with sexually exploiting children, according to a Department of Special Investigation (DSI) source. The two suspects were identified as Surasak Keawman, a Chiang Mai resident, and Phra Vissanu Tejdhammo of Wat Pa Lan in Muang district. The two were charged with six counts each of child molestation and six counts of depriving a child of parental care. The DSI source said the men were partners in a business that catered to paedophiles. The source alleged that Phra Vissanu drove to hill tribe villages in Chiang Mai and neighbouring provinces dressed as a layman to lure boys. He then brought the boys to Mr Surasak, who sexually seduced them and then forced them to have sex with foreign paedophiles in exchange for money, the DSI source said. The monk kept photos of Mr Surasak having sex with the boys on his mobile phone, according to the source. Police arrested Mr Surasak in his house in Muang district and later nabbed the monk after Mr Surasak told them of his whereabouts. Police found six boys in Mr Surasak's house and other evidence, including lists with the names of male and female teenagers, a baseball bat, an electric prod and condoms. For the rest of the story: Monk, local man nabbed for child abuse It is articles like this that gives us all bad reputations. I am also surprised at the involvement of a monk.

There is a thread on the site that has ventured off subject into the area of Fair Use for posting newspaper articles. I have been reading the thread and stayed out of it until I spoke to my friends in NYC (where I just happen to know a lot of crooks and lawyers). I just finished my conversation with a lawyer in USA. He said that few cases ever appear of Copyright Infringement where someone posts from a newspaper, but that it is possible and more papers are starting to pursue this. His firm deals with this on a regular basis and he said he has never seen a suit from a nNewspaper that would sue a site like ours as we are very small potatoes. That said, he did say that if they choose to sue, while they would not win, it would be very costly to pursue on our side and thus make the outcome irrelevant. He said the appropriate way to make these posts are to take a segment (approximately half of an article or less) and post it with a link that says something like, For the remaining article see: This creates incentive for users to go to the original source. Lastly, he said that if the above is done and there are comments on the content of the article from the original poster, there is no court that would ever see this as infringing on their rights. Naturally, he is referring to the laws in the USA and not Thailand.

I was at Nice Boys again last night and had a great time. This bar has great looking guys on stage. I did not see one boy who looked underage when I was there. The guys are a variety of men and ladyboys. The guys tend to be on the more masculine side. There were more than a few that had nice show stoppers. One guy kept it hard from the time he got on stage till the time he left. That was about 9 songs. How on earth is that possible? I am lucky to get to the chorus. Nice Boys and Crazy Dragon are really doing a great job in Sunee. It does seem that both bars consistently have all over 18 and some very handsome guys!

I got an e-mail from the Sunee Plaza Info guys that they had a major scoop. The only person that ever titled e-mails and threads like that I know of like that is the famously fabulous LMTU. I wonder if he is now the new owner? If so, I wish him luck as he is the best scoop reporter in Thailand. I am just kidding BTW. The Sunee Plaza guys have invited a famous photographer to the area. I have seen his work many times and it is beautiful. That really is a coup more than a scoop. LMTU: Are you listening? They are scooping you! Sunee Plaza guys: Great job.

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We had eight years of Bush and Cheney, Now you get mad!? You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President. You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy. You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed. You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed. You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us. You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war. You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq. You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people. You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans. You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden. You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed. You didn't get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown. You didn't get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich. You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark. You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans...oh hell no. http://rosie.com

Ricky Martin just came out as gay. I just can't believe it. Who knew? http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/29/ricky.martin.gay/index.html?hpt=T2 Ricky Martin says he's 'a fortunate homosexual man'

Evernote is the most amazing program I have seen in a while. I love it. It is a subscription per year service but you get 500 MB per month of upload and unlimited download. What it does is allow you to upload PDF's, photos, notes, text, etc and once sent to Evernote, they dissect it and download it back to your computer. Then, you can search for words and the program finds every instance of that word. For example: I have an IPhone and I got the Evernote for IPhone software and I went to a bar and met someone and they wrote their name on my hand. I took a photo of the number on my hand with their name printed on my hand and uploaded to Evernote. When I got home, I could type in the guy's name and it was there. The software reads the name in handwriting and then categorizes it. The note stays there as long as I don't delete it and the amount of information can be increased by 500M every month. I have successfully upload thousands of pics in the past few months. IMHO this is an amazing program and worth the low fee paid per year! Check out their site and see a demonstration. Welcome to your notable world | Evernote Corporation

I have a Thai friend who wants to buy a car and finance it. I have heard horror stories about the Interest rates here. Anyone know how a Thai can get a car in his name, amount down, interests, etc? Thanks.

I got this today and thought it was cute as he didn't bother to read my profile at all: Hello charming dad, You are absolutely charming and have a very nice chubby body that seems to be smooth and sure your asshole must be sweet and smooth for me to lick, smell and fuck deep and hard too? I Love to eat all your body--kiss you, lick and smell your armpits, lick and suck your nipples, lick and suck your cock then lick, smell and fuck your tempting asshole deep and hard all day and night. Any chance to meet soon? Let me know please. I ensure you of a happy time together. Hope to hear from you and get to meet you in real soon. Horny boy in Pattaya.

Having written a fantastic review of this place last year, I went back today with my long term membership. Guess what? They had 3 floors before and amazing stuff. Now, they are down to one floor plus another room. Amazing when they get a lot of sign ups they downsize. Is this coincidence?

I enjoy Boyztown but I guess I don't know the way things work there as I went last night about 8 and none of the bars had dancers. I went to have a drink and returned at a little after nine and the place was still pretty dead. I went to Funny Boys first. Funny Boys was active and had at least 25 boys on stage. They were all very sexy guys and energy was nice. Funny Boys had my favorite mamasan in Pattaya, Rose. She always knows which boys are great and amazing and is upfront about what they can and cannot do. We stayed there for a bit and enjoyed the drink and the guys on stage. We went back to Copa and BoyzBoyzBoyz for a third time. Each place has some boys on stage but as that number was not over 5, we chose to give them a pass and move on. The same thing for Wild West. They had 4 boys on stage and we decided another night for that bar as well. We tried A Bomb and they had about 10 guys on stage. They have more room on stage than I remembered from before but it has been a while since I was there. The guys were mostly nice boys and masculine. Lucky 7 was the next stop and they had a nice stage full of guys. I would say they had at least 20 guys and a mix of guys, gays and ladyboys. All the bars we went to had few if any customers. Lucky was no exception but this was around 10 PM and I am sure pretty early for the area. Cupidol was the last gogo we went to and they had a great selection of guys. One guy that used to be doorman from Gentleman's Club that I liked. They has a nice mix of boys on stage and a nice atmosphere. I'll go back there soon to talk to a few guys. All in all, I was a bit surprised at the lack of boys on stage in the bars. Only Funny Boys on its Soi had boys on stage at 9-9:30 PM. Am I really that early? What is the time to go? I don't want to see the damm shows and just want to see the gogo boys. Any other recommendations in the boystown area? The BF and I agreed that there have been MANY more customers in Sunee than there were in Boyztown last night. This really surprised me. I wonder if we just caught things on a bad night or if this is a trend?

We were looking for a place that had all the new movies on it and were unable to find it. Do you have to go to the separate websites to find all the listings in Pattaya? Or is there one that has has them all?

The boyfriend and I went for a drink at several bars last night and had fun seeing all the eye candy. One think I noticed in each and every bar was there were few ladyboys on stage and I asked him about this and he didn't know. I had always seen a fair share of ladyboys on stage and it was not so tonight. That is until we went into Euro. They has an entire slew of ladyboys on stage and all very cute. I would call them gay boys but the BF said ladyboys. They were all gyrating and having a good time. There was more energy here than in all the other bars we visited combined. I also like the way the floor is set up and the boys are right in front of you and you feel part of the show. Euro has some amazing guys and very sexy guys. The one I liked had a beautiful smile and was 19. I asked the BF if he wanted to take her and he said no. So we moved on and went home alone. I asked him why he didn't want her and he said he wanted to play a new video game I bought him. LOL Euro is worth a trip when you get to Sunee.

The BF and I spent the afternoon at Central Festival's new mall next to VT6 on Second Road. We had wanted to see the movie How to Train your Dragon in 3D and went there for the show. A few notes about this place. If you have not been before, there are so many food choices that you may have a hard time deciding. There is something for everyone. There seem to be more than a few Japanese places there. The mall is 6 floors of shops and treats. We found some "original" shirts for 280 baht that we bought and since I had just seen them in LA for 120 US, I was amazed at how we would get them for so low a price. So, be careful and don't think everything there is original. The movie theater is great and they must have at least 10 theaters. They are clean and really easy to access. They do have a bowling place but it is not as big as Major. There are so many shops that you will not be able to see them all in one day. The mall cuts all the way from 2nd road to Beach road and has entrances on both sides. I was surprised when we arrived that the motorcycle lot was full. Not just a little but over packed. So was the car area. Once inside, all the restaurants were full and there were mobs of people. It was a Monday and not a weekend and I thought it would be empty. The opposite. It was a very crowded place.

Just curious as to how people like to get around in Pattaya.