ChristianPFC

You are so quick! Bummer, now I can't use this line I had prepared as a hint in case nobody finds the solution: "It's LMTU's home turf." It's indeed a public pissoir (I think they call it urinoir), I took the picture a few days ago in Paris. And indeed, there is need for it, you can smell piss under bridges, on walls and in many other places and often even see the wet trace on the floor. They even filled corners with concrete to prevent people from pissing there (the piss would splash back onto your trousers and run to your shoes). But would you want to piss in public on one of these? Three people can piss at the same time, but I would be hesitant to use them. Picture from the internet:

Let me continue this thread: what is the following device? (Both pictures show the same device, from the third side it looks the same.) (Don't look up the website on the sticker, that's cheating!) Pictures taken in Paris, 19th arrondissement, there are a few more of these devices.

The vast majority of my taxi trips is without problems. I had only a few drivers who tried to overcharge me by quoting a fixed priced (about twice the amount it would cost to by the meter), and that happened only at the airport or in Silom (and there only right in front of Soi 2 or 4, if you walk a few meters no problem). I don't remember free taxis not stopping, but I often have this problem with empty baht-busses in Pattaya. Sometimes empty baht-buses drive past, I beckon them to stop, but they wave their hand to show that they will not stop. I can only assume that they are booked and are on the way to pick up their client.

A light year is only a unit of distance. To make your confusion complete, a parsec is the distance from which the distance between Sun and Earth appear under an angle of one second. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec

My comment above was of a general nature and not referring to the deleted/reinstalled posts by Bob and fountainhall. The limited number of my posts that were deleted on various gay Thailand boards, I had both cases: no message at all (which left me wondering if there was a technical problem when I submitted) or PM by the moderator with reason and quote of my deleted post.

I did not make it up, I heard or read it somewhere.

I know "Shove it up your ass", but it's too impolite in this connection. "Shove it where the sun doesn't shine" is better (the answer - where he can put this device - is supposed to be funny, not insulting). For the record: PFC means "Private First Class" (the English (language) equivalent of the rank I had when leaving the German army, at time (2001) we still had compulsory military service).

I think that posters should be informed that their post was deleted, given a reason why it was deleted and given a copy of their deleted post.

Read this thread only today. I had no idea what this device was for. I do NOT want to be associated with circumcision. I am again utterly puzzled about this new proposal to curtail the spread of HIV by circumcision. The only explanation I have that the catholic church is behind all these studies. Condoms prevent the spread not only of HIV, but of other venereal diseases, as well as unwanted pregnancy, much better. Well, in German we sometimes say: "you can shove it under your foreskin", but this saying is inappropriate in this context. So I have to resort to "you can nail it to your kneecap". (I'm not sure if these sayings translate well. If you know English equivalents, please let me know.)

Largest Thai community outside Thailand is about 80,000 in Los Angeles. http://en.wikipedia....wn,_Los_Angeles Khon Kaen 113,754 (sic!) Pattaya exceeding 100,000 (wikipedia)

I don't pay any attention to other's writings about "quality boys", "stunners", "man boys", "handsome boys" and so on, as my taste is probably totally different. For the same reason, I prefer to use "my type". Therefore I can't understand Gaybutton's outrage about HeyGay writing "quality boy". I don't understand the attraction of cottaging, but who am I to judge about it? I don't like raisins, other's love them!

But definitely not into checking grammar, spelling and punctuation.

I made a comment on the tantrum, which has yet to appear in the "comments". There is a slight chance that there was a technical error, and a bigger chance that the blog owner didn't like my comment (which was slightly negative, but in no way offensive or impolite).

I can only speak for Germany, but here we have a wide range of laws regulating the purchase, selling, use, disposal... of various dangerous chemicals. Medicine has to be prescribed by a doctor, there are laws that regulate and control the use of chemicals that can be used to make drugs or chemical weapons, and so on. Glycol contains a chemical that makes it taste bitter, sleeping pills are now safe regarding over-use for suicide, and so on.

I would ban (not drop, ban) all sports that involve animals or engines. (Not only for the Olympics, which I have no interest in, but in general.)

How do you jump from Moor (black African, as black as they can get) to Muslim countries? The only connction I can see that the Arabs/Muslim had slaves from Black Africa.

Before my first trip to Bangkok (August 2009) I bought "Utopia Guide to Thailand (2nd Edition) : the Gay & Lesbian Scene in 23 Cities Including Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Pattaya & Phuket" but found it of little use. Now I do all my research by internet. I bought a second hand copy of "The Men of Thailand" from the 1990s, it has a lot of addresses, but I bought it for other useful information. But I have to add, I found Soi Twilight by chance. I read about Soi 4 and Telephone bar and Balcony before (on the now defunct gayboythailand), but was not aware that a place like Soi Twilight exists and stumbled on it when walking around (and make a big cross with an exclamation mark in the map of Silom area I had printed out from the internet).

I am in support of war on drugs. Even if comparing results from countries that have death sentence and countries that don't shows that death sentence is not such an effective deterrent, one thing is sure: every dealer or trafficker you kill will never again traffic drugs!

I very rarely read travel site reviews. When travelling by plane, times and price are the most important factors, everything else is insignificant (although I am now aware to take a closer look at their prices and conditions should I ever fly with Air Asia). For hotels, I usually stay in the same place or look around for alternatives while I am in Bangkok or Pattaya. Finally, I am easy to satisfy when it comes to hotel rooms.

Koko, you are not alone. A few months ago I had my first physical contact with a friend's i-something, but I have read about them before. Nothing special, as far as I can judge. When they have an app than makes coffee, I might get one.

There is a niche for the old Baht-Stop (with some higly polarizing posters), but if moderation is increased, they can as well shut it down as the market is served by other boards. And I wonder, why do people need a gay Thailand forum to discuss US and Israel-Palestine politics?

What an irony: Ashke NAZI Jews. On one hand, some get older than average: http://nymag.com/news/features/ashkenazi-jews-2011-11/ on the other hand, there are more hereditary diseases than in other religious/ethnic groups: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Health/genetics.html

This part is important: Some people in the West consider HIV "manageable" or "not a death sentence any more", which is an euphemism. The lastest medicine against HIV is pretty expensive! Money that can not be use to find cure against cancer or malaria, illnesses that are not as easy to prevent as HIV. I think I read on fridae that many Singaporeans with HIV go to Thailand to get cheaper medicine there.

How is this possible: 126. North Korea 67.3 years I read pretty bad things about North Korea, whoever made the list must have used data provided by the North Korean government.

I read months ago that the life expectancy in Macao (or was it Hong Kong) is among the highest of the world. And I remember one of the smaller islands near Japan has the highest percentage of over 100 year olds in the world. So I guess the top four are Macao, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore. In the middle Malaysia and South Korea. The lowest probably Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, China?