khaolakguy

BRICS was created in 2010, four years before your forecast!

Talk about over reaction to an even that happened, probably, currently! All the way from the first response back to World War Two, but why stop there? I am sure we can all find terrible actions by our countries in WW1, 19th century, 18th century, and I'm sure there were some shitty cavemen somewhere. But what does it have to with the current state of the world.............

At the rates he'll be able to achieve the best he could afford would be the Surawong Hotel. At least it will be convenient for business.

With whoever the Syrians elected. Basic concept of democracy.

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I couldn't agree more. Absolutely disgraceful. I can criticise Israel, I can criticise the US, I can criticise "the west". I can acknowledge their mistakes and on occasion their disgraceful behaviour. However you can never acknowledge your own country's abuses or fuckups. That is what makes your comments especially provocative and why it's impossible to have a reasonable dialogue with you. I don't know why I am wasting my ink on this, except that I don't like to see ridiculous untruths go unchallenged. All that nonsense about it being the fault of democracy, when had Russia and it's client Assad allowed a process for a democratic sharing of power to move forward there would have been no need for the all the strife over the last ten years, and the revolution and possible fragmentation of Syria that is now taking place might not have been necessary. But Russia wanted to keep its client in control so couldn't let that happen.

I think that this pot is calling the kettle black. You shouldn't judge everyone's media by your own! Did your media report UN Security Council Resolution 2254 in 2015 which called on Assad to engage with a democratic transition, with which he refused to engage? Or did they report that subsequently Russia vetoed 17 UN Security Resolutions aiming to effect a peaceful transition of power in Syria? Lavrov was calling yesterday for Resolution 2254 to be be implemented. What irony when the country that he represents has employed it's veto on 17 occasions in the last ten years to prevent exactly that happening. Too late mate, and it's the people of Syria who have, and will, suffer as a consequence of Russia's previous intransigence.

If obsessed enough with a particular masseur(I agree Earth looks great), why waste time trying to find him in another venue, go straight to where you know he is available. Let us know how it goes!

The wars between technical colleges, which is what it sounds like, are appalling and have been going on for so long. So many lives, both victims and perpetrators, have been ruined. It's almost mediaeval.

Thanks for the reports, sounds an interesting addition to the scene and a fun night out.

We need to know more! Is this the place that was previously describes as popular with the massage boys from the area to relax at night? Sorry I am not yet there to conduct the research.

Agree completely. I haven't come across this before, and I have been buying bottles regularly over the years. I like the ritual and the sociability around it.

Apologies for multiple posts(especially to Keithambrose) whose name I can't delete! Mea Culpa. I didn't seem to be getting an acknowledgement of posting but instead was told that my post was "saved" so I thought there was a glitch, but the glitch was me!

Agreed. Preferably a story too. However I would still rather watch an old Cadinot than most modern porn, even though it's not full screen and a bit aged. Fantasy and atmosphere(and music!) help a lot.

Just like Corporal Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI2mCG8trhc

I suspect you may be right, but it's not what is written. The source is the Bangkok Post who are more likely to report accurately than the Pattaya Mail, for example. Although if the officers were in an adjoining room they might not have heard the safe word, unless the wrestler was wired! However hard to find a space to hide a transmitter in a wrestler's outfit.

Not allowing the display of rainbow flags in Laos is the most surprising and disappointing statement in this article.

Indeed. Actually hard to take the whole operation seriously at all, I feel like it's April Fools day. An undercover officer dressed as a wrestler, six policemen concealed in the room, who all popped out when "the "wrestler" said hehehe. What kind of a hotel room allows for the concealment of six police officers!

I don’t think the early days being happily remembered here were particularly free wheeling. The early bars on soi two, Garden, Harries, Ciro were models of decorum compared to the gogo bars of today. In those venues everyone was fully clothed, mostly gay, and no one was paid to be there nor did any venue expect a fee if you made a new friend. Almost romantic in comparison to the transactional nature of most gay bars nowadays! Sounds to me like most of these shared memories are from the 70’s/80’s, at least mine are, when Robinsons had yet to be built. So I think your horrible memory comes from a later era. Here is a link to an interesting history of Bangkok gay bars, focussing especially on Soi Two. It was created by the gogo bar, New Top Man, that eventually replaced the Garden Bar in the early 2000’s, and the article appeared in Thai Guys magazine. https://chaidee.fortunecity.ws/topman.html

I was also struggling to remember the name of the bar next to Harries, but you are right that it was Ciros. Harries was upmarket and full of gay thai guys interested in meeting foreigners, who were very much in the minority there. Some of the Thai were freelancers and some were just looking for fun. There were all shapes and sizes including bodybuilders, as the Thai owner was a bodybuilder. The bar upstairs was called the Garden Bar which opened in the early 70's and was the first gay establishment, probably the first entertainment venue, to open in that Soi, which became initially known as Soi Garden Bar. It had been a speculative investment by Vichai the gay owner of a hairdressers in Silom Road, which became a huge success. It was really a disco marketed at young local gay guys, and some girls, with a DJ, good western disco and soul music and lighting. Some of the crowd were interesting in meeting foreigners and making some pocket money(often spent on clothes), and some were just there to party and dance. But every one loved to dance and the speciality was formation dancing, especially Cha Cha Cha.(The O'Jays/Backstabbers was popular).