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The map has north pointing to the bottom (which caused me some confusion).

Part of what I write is tongue-in-cheek, and part of the fun is for you to find out what and what not! I got some people into serious thinking with "Bars in Pattaya change owner more frequently than I change my underwear". But this one was serious. Teeth not in a row meaning in a line, or better semi circle. I prefer teeth arranged like this: I would never kiss this man: because he has bad teeth!

Klong Toei market near the MRT station of the same name. I went there a few times. It is a very interesting place that is full of life 24 hours per day. I first noticed when I returned from Ramkhamhaeng are by taxi and wondered why there are so many people that late (3 or 4 am), but it was not late, it was early, they were shopping for the following day! You can observe how poultry goes from live in cages to ready to eat within 5 meters distance. I went there one afternoon to buy fruits, and there were labels with prices.

One has to keep in mind that some of the comments are generated by automatic translation or by people with limited knowledge of English. The Thai word for butterfly (the animal) is ผีเสื้อ which literally means "a ghost with clothes". I thought longtime that this is used for a promiscuous person as well (seems kind of logic to me, the animal flies from flower to flower and the person flies from boy to boy), but then I learned that butterfly (promiscuous person) is เจ้าชู้ (literally: person who often changes his sexual partner).

I had a look at the site and can't find any fault. It shows life as it really is and it is bare of the usual political correctness. (joke start) Did you never ask yourself what you look like after getting sucked into a jet engine? It's here: http://www.bestgore.com/bloody-injuries/boeing-737-shanghai-airlines-mechanic-sucked-into-jet-engine/ (joke end) Clicking the puppy is for leaving the site, it leads to www.imbecile.me which has some interesting entries, like this: (Get it? The guy is too lazy to bend down to pick the CD up. It took me a few seconds.)

reminds me of a poster on the gay Thailand forums whose name starts with beach and ends with lover

As the name suggests, it is for Mac (I use a PC). This sounds like defragmentation and deletion of old files (temporary, dustbin), a feature is which is already installed with windows, so you don't need an extra program for it. I saw several adverts about speeding up your computer by cleaning the registry. The free diagnosis showed a lot of problems, and my computer is indeed slow. Does anyone have experience with programs for PC to clean the registry (or generally speed up the computer by removing unnecessary data and processes)?

Absolutely! There are websited entirely devoted to how to completely and finally close your facebook account. I have an account and I log in once per week, but I know people who are online on facebook most of their time. Just keep in mind that everything you write (I don't write much anymore) can be read by anyone else. The same applies for pictures. I use facebook mainly as a way of contacting Thai friends (after phone number and gayromeo profile), and gay Thai boys usually have other gay Thai boys as friends, and most of them have pictures on facebook. (Kind of online-stalking!) Apart from that, those of you who don't use facebook don't miss much. It was recently in the news that Bangkok is the city with the most facebook users on earth.

What's funny about that sentence?

The closest do an answer was an article by shamelessmack (gone offline a while ago) about HIS top picks for massage. My current favorite is Semra Massage in Silom Soi 1 (near Sala Daeng BTS, blind alley, on the side towards Sathorn), which is technically a mixed massage shop. Considerably cheaper than other massages in this area and cuter boys (according to my taste, based on two visits).

I'm not sure if there are second hand clothes at Jatujak, I never saw any (or I didn't notice, I have not been looking for second hand clothes there). However, I saw second hand (or second foot?) shoes on sale near Ramkhamhaeng University (there is a market along the road). Gay areas near Jatujak are El Ninyo, Or tor kor market and others, see in gay maps for Bangkok. But they are bars/discos and probably not open during day.

• Young boys who begin sex changes before puberty become more natural-looking women than do those who start after they are men. I don't like this. How can a boy before his puberty be sure he wants to become a woman?

This number is difficult to believe, but I read the same number (1%) elsewhere. I just wonder who is buying and watching all this porn. I recently sampled a bit (free from the internet) to confirm that it is true: they really pixelate genitals! Who on earth buys porn where the genitals are pixelated? The plots are strange: a fully clothed guy with sunglasses undresses, touches and sucks the main actor, who has a facial expression like being at the dentist's and getting a root canal. This seems to be a common plot that appears weird to me. (Just some generalisations from a small sample.) But they have gorgeous twinks!

The only problem I had was bad breath (of my Thai friends) from smoking, but the number is small. But I wish orthodontics (medical, not fashion) were more wide-spread, as I find it a turn-off when teeth are not in a row. Oh yeah, they go through a lot of mouthwash! Unfortunately, neither mouthwash nor chewing gum can hide the smell of a cigarette, and I am very sensitive to it! In Germany, health insurance requires you see a dentist once per year (otherwise, they don't refund dental treatment), which I do, even when abroad (England, France).

I have to confess, I am a bit curious about grindr. If given the chance, I would take a look on someone else's phone to see how it works. My current phone is about 7 years old and will last at least another 7 years (unless it breaks earlier). I am well served with gayromeo and camfrog.

There is some irony in the situation: people in poor countries live in poverty, but are dept-free. We live in wealth, but national dept per person is in the range of ten thousands of Euro / Dollar / Pound. Technically, we are the poor! (Assuming that the average European or US-American would have to sell all his possessions and work hard for years to pay his part of national dept.) Even stranger: I don't feel responsible at all for Germany's national dept. It has nothing to do with me. I never took any credit and my bank balance has always been positive. So count me out of paying Germany's national dept.

I just read last week's "Der Spiegel" (most popular German weekly magazine), and they don't ask if Greece has to leave the Euro zone, neithern when they have to leave the Euro zone, they have an article why Greece will have to leave the Euro zone! http://www.spiegel.d...ex-2012-20.html

I was aware of the two colors (silver and copper) and noticed markings on some coins, now I know the reason. I have to problem to distinguish 1, 2 and 5 baht coins. The only occasion where I got in contact with 25 and 50 Satang coins are a few bus lines that cost 6.75 Baht. There are too few 50 Baht notes around. I keep mine mainly for tipping boys and paying taxi from Sathorn to Silom, where the meter shows about 45 Baht.

For flights in Europe (England-Berlin in the past, Paris-Berlin now) I mostly use low-cost airlines and they are cheaper than standard airlines. Of course, you have to know what you are doing. I don't have check-in baggage and I check size and weight of my cabin baggage. I got away a few times with oversized and overweight cabin bagge, but recently I saw them checking size and weight and collecting money and issuing receipts. I don't add any insurance, no priority check in, and finally I try to find a website where I can pay by direct debit or other methods of payment other than credit card for free. Combining all this, I really get the price that is quoted at the very beginning, but it involves some experience and work!

Should I ever go to Burma, I will read your report carefully. Fountainhall mentioned a few points I thougth about before, but never expressed my thoughts. I have full page Thai tourist (from UK), Lao and Thai tourist (from Vientiane) visa, which are nice souvenirs, but cost a full page in my passport! There are six stamps per page (visa-exemption entry and departure) in my passport, eight would fit. In my passport, page 8 is still empty, whereas 9-13 have stamps or full-page visa. And one last thought: you are required to have your passport with you all the time in Thailand (ask two people and you get three opinions about that), and keeping it in your room might be ok, but can you tell a Thai police officer that your passport is in the Burma embassy and you will get it back in three days? What will they do with you? I was in a remotely similar situation in Lao, my passport was at the Thai embassy overnight and hotel required my passport, I didn't even have a copy, fortunately I checked in with a Farang aquaintance into a double room and shared the cost of the room, so he signed for the room with his name for both of us.

"(30 member(s) have cast votes)" but only 23 ticked the vote counter? I would classify the Korean pop star as twink, the first boy is rather femme. There were two similar polls on gaybuttonthai a while ago: http://gaybuttonthai....php?f=7&t=3997 http://gaybuttonthai....php?f=7&t=3470 but due to different options it's difficult to compare.

Not at all! In fact, I come to Thailand for holiday because it has a gay scene. But I do not really enjoy bars (gogo or host) and discos (music too loud, lighting is bad), I go there to hook up, so once I found someone, I leave these areas as quickly as possible. When I meet friends, I don't take them to gay areas, we go elsewhere (cinema, shopping, dining, sightseeing). I come for holiday, so I have to make the most of my time. I roughly manage (in Bangkok as well as Pattaya) an equilibrium between spending one night in gay bars/discos and meeting old friends the other night.

I don't like any tattoo. The kind in fountainhall's post is called "Arschgeweih" in German, "arse-antlers" in English.

Rhodochrosite managed to blow life into dying gaytingtong (I'm not sure if this is good or bad). I get headache after reading too many of his posts, but nobody is forced to do so. I like some of his pictures and the links to youtube he posts. I think he holds the record (by far) for the longes series of posts by one member.

I was quite surprised when I was in Laos in February 2011, I found out that trees (teak trees more precisely) shed their leaves during the dry season to reduce evaporation. The dry leaves are left on the ground and finally burned by the natives to give ashes used as fertilizer. For more information about flowers in Thailand, with botanical background, look here: http://www.orchids-flowers.com/ (As far as I know, they are based in Chiang Mai.)