Rogie

I see no reason not to be I see you're coming on your first visit in two months time. As this message board in general, and Gaybutton in particular, is a great resource for gay men, you've come to the right place to start getting a feel for what Thailand has to offer and ways to (hopefully) avoid all those pitfalls that can stalk the unwary. How true!

Whilst I quite agree late edits are almost always not a good idea for the reasons you mention, I was glad to make use if it in the case I referred to - to put it politely, with the benefit of hindsight, the other poster involved was a time waster. Erection i cant get fully - GayThailand Forum - Page 2 As a matter of courtesy I made sure my original post was clearly labelled as having been edited.

Things must have changed: Last year I decided to edit one of my posts, if memory serves a day or so afterwards, and had no problem doing so, and in fact was grateful for that option. This was in response to some negative feedback from another poster (who I'd been trying to help!, so in a fit of pique I deleted my 'unwanted' advice!). I assume this facility remains available, upon request, to a mod.

What's a factoid? The use of that word makes me very suspicious, and in any case some of them are clearly the figment of a fertile imagination. The last couple in particular are just outrageous! Here is my contribution: Does the use of the word 'pop' in these two well-known expressions have the same meaning? Pop goes the weasel Pop your clogs The answer is probably. Pop means to pawn so popping your clogs would be pawning them, something you would never do (in the old days) to such an important item yourself, so logicaly it would be your surviving relatives who would do that. Hence popping your clogs = to die In pop goes the weasel, the pawn meaning for 'pop' seems to fit, but 'weasel' is altogether more unclear, as per this quote taken from Wikipedia . . .

Now the World Cup is over, attention has turned (at least in England) to what kit the players will be wearing next season. You might never before have associated Chang beer with bubblegum, but take a look at the shirt below, unveiled recently as the away strip for Everton FC.

After a pretty poor world cup final yesterday, I was much more interested to find out about future plans for Paul - I don't know how long octopuses live, but I for one hope, in the fullness of time, he will return! World Cup 2010 - Octopus Paul retires - Yahoo! Eurosport

Many years ago every time I walked into a bookstore there he was, his books that is, best-selling author. That is presumably why this other character with the same moniker is referred to with the prefix 'mobster'. Even though the subject of this article was an actor and playwright, and his father died as long ago as 1977, he is referred to as 'son of NYC mobster....'. Such is the media's fascination with the underworld. Having just had to spell playwright, it's an interesting word, could be playright, or playwrite . . . maybe in future it'll be respelled by nanny as playrite

I agree they aren't the most comfortable, but they score in terms of practicality. There is also, which appeals to the sort of person I am, a strong element of tradition! Here is an article from the UK written 6 years ago bewailing the possible demise of the deck chair on a famous British beach.

Spain v Germany tonight at 7.30pm UK time ( 1.30am Thai time) for a place in the final to face Holland. I will be neutral in tonight's game. Normally I would be desperately hoping Spain will beat Germany, as England and Germany have a great rivalry. However, after England's awful football in their 4-1 defeat by Germany in an earlier round, I accept Germany are far superior and deserve to have got this far. (see Fountainhall's earlier post re Germany's demolition of Argentina). Last night Holland beat Uruguay 3-2. It looked like Holland were coasting to an easy win, but then Uruguay scored in the final few minutes and just needed one more goal to take the match into extra time. The Dutch held out however and deserved their victory. I feel there is some doubt about their chances of beating Spain or Germany. Certainly if Germany win against Spain, they must be clear favourites to win the World Cup.

As a supporter of Manchester City football club since my schooldays, I was less than thrilled to see that the Brazilian player Robinho was deemed to have been man of the match in his team's defeat of Chile. (By the way, I was quite impressed with Chile - they would have beaten England IMO - but then which of the teams left in the tournament wouldn't!) This is the same Robinho who signed for Man City and after a few decent games became such a liability for the team that in his last game the manager, who had sent him on as a substitute, then substituted him in turn! My opinion is that this guy is a shyster: Taken from the Merriam Webster's on line dictionary: Etymology: probably from German Scheisser, literally, defecator Date: 1844 : a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : I haven't paid to go and watch a football match for 20 years. I am very disillusioned by the direction the game has taken in England. The Robinho fiasco well summarises my disenchantment.

Heavenly? Yummy more like! or even scrumptious. Here's an unparalleled gluttony opportunity in the UK which I posted on another message board last year. Mario's Cafe in Westhoughton do a big breakfast for

Maybe I am alone in thinking this but as I was christened with two names I've always had a fascination with the second one - what's it for? Seems pretty redundant almost all the time apart from when you have to fill in some snotty bureaucratic form, apply for a passport or dog licence or whatever. I decided to drag it out of the shadows, give it a bit of a twist, and use it as my board name. Thus Rogie was spawned from Roger. My avatar will be obvious to those of you of a certain age - none other than Roger the Dodger from the British comic The Beano. I suppose back in the sixties as a swotty four-eyed schoolboy with zero charisma he represented some kind of alter ego. . .

Unregistered surgeons or not, it is surely, in this day and age, absolutely unbelievable that what should be a routine circumcision, can kill. Wilfred Thesiger was completely self-taught, having mastered the operation by happenstance. In the biography by Michael Asher, Thesiger records: Back to the BBC article, I can only surmise that the so-called traditional surgeons in this part of Africa doing this procedure are no better, and probably a good deal worse, than witch doctors.

With the permission of its ownership, I can confirm Pattaya Passion has permanently ceased all operations. This was a decision made by the ownership alone. Their reasons for making this decision are personal. I have been asked on their behalf to thank members and readers of its Message Forum for their support over the years.

Taking the heat out of the kitchen for a mo, presumably a play on words - cup cake / 7up cake so just an ordinary cup cake with some fizzy lemonade.

Dick Turpin - named after an infamous highwayman Dickie Doodle - I think the American-sounding name is because they use American Cascade hops. Amusing that this thread started off by mentioning Sharia Law, where nasty things can happen to you if you are caught in possession of alcohol!

Can't say I've come across that one, but unless that name for a wine is unique, maybe wine producers in Britain are starting to copy our micro-brewers who for a few years now have taken great delight in naming their beers in idiosyncratic fashion. In particular the strong ones! Names such as Skull Splitter, Wobbly Bob, Oblivion, Solstice Blinder, Mad Monk, Moonraker, and (my favourite) Last Rites an 11% alcohol barley wine as strong as some wines. Seems a most appropriate discussion here in the Beer Bar.

Pong means the thread in this Asia Forum where atri1666 gives plenty of advice. Okay, OP is a newbie, but didn't take the trouble to check the listings. Things don't change very quickly in Bali so even if there wasn't a recent thread all that's needed is to use the search function. Takes a few seconds to type in 'Bali' and see what comes up.

Agreed I notice quite a few young men, dressed in briefs upon the stage, completely smooth of face and torso, yet hairy of leg. Some very hairy indeed. That is enough to deter me, there are usually plenty with nice smooth pins.

Will you be in it? I hope no offence taken, Fountainhall, couldn't resist. I enjoyed reading what you had to say. Could you post again when the memoirs come out? Thanks

Sorry to hear about your phone firecat. Maybe I am a technodolt too (nice word Rich - did you make that up or is it in the dictionary?) but I am still not seeing why, if these replicas are junk, why anybody would pay anything, even 500 baht, for one. The only two explantations I can think of are: (i) like firecat's thief he gets one with the intention of doing a swap (ii) the lookalike phone is bought purely for show Is there any danger that a farang technodolt like me can be sold one of these, at the full price,(when he thinks he's getting the real McCoy)in Thailand or anywhere else?

I suspect z was keen to get ten items and maybe was running a bit short on ideas by the time he got to No.10 - but I liked his list, and provided the depilation / waxing service was discrete and done in a curtained-off area it may appeal although you'd have to be a bit careful about customers drinking and depilating. . . and is epilating where you enter without so much as a hair on your chest and exit looking like Burt Reynolds? What on earth is a frosted bush?

Saying 'no' comes easy to some and not-so-easy for others. If you are in the it's not easy saying NO category you either give in every time or you make the effort to build yourself a bit of backbone. As for saying 'later' that might work if you are only in town for a few days but if you are an ex-pat or longterm visitor surely you are adding fuel to the fire by torturing them with the prospect of (non-existent) money 'tomorrow'.

From what people are saying it looks to me this is just opportunism, pure and simple, rather than a meticulously-planned operation (that's assuming these children could organise a regular protection racket, which is pretty unlikely - if it were systematic that would imply beings of a higher power at play). They weren't to know Rich was going to be leaving on his m/c just then, unless his movements were being monitored, which seems most unlikley. No wonder they are so brazen - it doesn't take many farang to give in to their demands for 100 baht... Another thing to think about: People give them money, what do they spend it on?

I recall discussion about the problems parking your car or motorbike on the street perfectly legally and getting nasty looks (or worse) from the owner of the premises or gangs of m/c taxi riders - that's one thing but to have to pay (no doubt a small amount)is quite another. Is this common practise? I've never being approached in Sunee for payment of this sort when parking my m/c, hence my surprise.