khaolakguy

'Twas ever thus! Isn't life unfair. If 80% of the population were female, how much fun straight men would have. Can't they see they should cross over and become gay tops. Actually quite a lot do, particularly if a face saving "present" is involved. Good report, informative and entertaining, thank you!

I don't think he did, and neither did the Guardian. Soldomites, people who have sex with soldering irons, are protected under the constitution.

The heritage of the French! I remember when I was doing visa runs from Bangkok to Vientiane in the 70's that was something that I really looked forward to, the heritage of the French, especially the bread which I couldn't get in Bangkok at that time. Although there was a "French bakery" on Silom, it wasn't a patch on what was available in Vientiane. Even the Pathet Lao appreciated it. I remember quietly having lunch in an excellent(and cheap)French Restaurant after the Pathet Lao had entered Vientiane, when a group of eight or nine of them, fully armed, entered the restaurant. Initially I was a little alarmed but then realised that they had a large table booked for them in the middle of the restaurant, where they slung their weaponry over the backs of their chairs, sat down and tucked in! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathet_Lao

I share the frustration with these kinds of payment issues where clearly as you say no one has This does also happen in our native countries even without the complication of different languages, as I found this morning. However over all, even without any massages, this sounds like one of your best days recently with tickets successfully bought, opportunity to practise Italian, and finding a good new cafe/restaurant. All topped off by the encouraging news from your bf and his business.

Don't apologise! Your personal experience has been illuminating and thank you for sharing.

Bangkok Nursing Home has a Colonoscopy rate of 25,000 Baht. They have a promotion rate of Colonoscopy and Gastroscopy for 39,000 Baht. https://www.bnhhospital.com/colonoscopy-price/

Only rarely can you get a guy into a tourist class hotel. Generally finding a suitable guy is easier than finding a venue. Sometimes al fresco is the easiest option.

Forgive the cynic in me, and it is nothing personal, however reduced to it’s bare bones and in abstract……. A Farang newly retired to Pattaya meets a Rent Boy, who becomes his Fuck Buddy, who becomes his Pimp, who becomes his Boy Friend. Sounds like Boy Friend, not in the first bloom of youth, starts to become financially dependent on his Farang. Farang decides to break up with Boyfriend but as a breakup gift provides Boyfriend with wherewithal to set up his own business. The business is selling fruit salad which requires the boyfriend, who likes to party until dawn on Jomtien beach, to get up early to purchase fruit in the market and then be in attendance to run the business. After a few weeks of the business(which is not going well) being set up Boyfriend persuades Farang that perhaps their relationship may still have a future after all so is ready to walk away from the business for a few weeks to be with Farang. Farang meanwhile is putting time, and probably more money sooner or later, into correcting the Boyfriends mismanagement of the business. This reads like quite a lot of similar stories, and the chances of this working out well, in any of the relevant areas, are small. But I wish you luck. My early relationship with my Thai partner also had a poor prognosis, but amazingly we are still together and happy after thirty years! Thank you for sharing your journey with us. And Kudos to those who have helped with the QR codes. But honestly what person who was motivated to/able to run their own business wouldn’t check the message to which their customers are linking.

Having worked for months at a time in both Morocco and Tunisia I would say that lots of middle class locals(mostly males) enjoy a drink on occasion, while the lower class(males principally) may not normally do so(cost?), but will if the opportunity arises, but may not hold their drink very well.

As an aperitif before you serve dinner....

I didn't quote the bible. I provided a link to a chapter and verse that demonstrates, as the bible significantly predates the creation of Russia, that your homely "He sees a speck in someone else's eye, but does not see a log in his own" is not an original saying from your own culture at all but is simply regurgitating the bible's "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" We could say that it is Moses is quoting from the bible that he helped create. Whether the bible is true or not is irrelevant. Although as you don't think it is true it's strange that you should choose a Nom de Plume from it. Although perhaps it played to your vanity to take the role of the precursor of god(Putin?!). You could have called yourself Bilbo Baggins after all!

He enjoys the shoving.

Not true! You even parrot back to us the Kremlin PR that you have read.

Now you are claiming that the bible is based on Russian sayings!! I have heard it all now. Try Matthew 7:3-5.........

As it is now three threads started over a short space of time to advertise his business, and all a bit deceptive in their approach, I would call it spam. Since the OP, despite advertising on this forum, doesn't have the nous or interest in actual customers to respond to queries(not mine) on the threads he originates he wouldn't appear to paying much attention to the details of his business. Not really a recommendation for anyone to become a customer.

Anthrax update from Bangkok Post https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3018207/anthrax-death-toll-stays-at-1-but-98-others-still-at-risk-in-thailands-northeast

Thanks Alexch. Interesting report. Where did you stay in Monastir so that you could accommodate these guys?

With apologies to bkkmfj2648 for the diversion to Cambodian History. The confusion over the welcome that the Khmer Rouge received on entry to Phnom Penh was created by: Some residents thought this group were the Khmer Rouge and that they were more benevolent than expected. This whole period is covered in an excellent film, The Killing Fields, that was shot in Thailand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Phnom_Penh

Even better profit. 3.5 x 8 = 28. (Not 24)

Hope your trip goes better going forward........ Very good sound proofing in those Meridien rooms.

Haha! +1

Don't we all!

That may be so, but there is no reason that "a truth" can't come out of the dialogue. I did apologise for being pedantic!

The fact that it was home made doesn't necessarily mean that the robber made it nor that if he did he was especially skillful. Sorry to be pedantic but "Home Made" guns are not that complicated and are in quite wide circulation in Thailand. I think I read that Thailand has the highest rate of gun possession in South East Asia.

Keith was referring to the "Thai version" as opposed to the Cambodian or Malaysian versions.