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I wanted to say that nature helped you to dispose things you did not really need but decided not to as it would sound to cruel. Lady above case is bit different as she seemed to lose her means of living , at least for a while. My grandparents lost their farm to floods twice in spam of 10 years ( 1960 and 1970) while I was vacationing there and I remember my wise Grandmother reflection surveying the looses after 2nd flood - "that's the price of living next to country's biggest river "

And this time with chocolate. 😏

hope not in your basement

you never fail to cheer us up

Hasn't this always been their story? "No customers, no offs, no money, many bills to pay..." What would you rather hear? "Hey Mister, you're my third customer of the day. I'm all spermed out but for 2,000 Baht I'll put up with your fat arse for the next hour or so and dream of my girlfriend or the bar girl opposite while going at it?" They are not only there to sell their bodies but also the illusion that you're their one and only John who's come to "save" them, a tactic that works well with white men who come to Asia with a modicum of guilt and a saviour mentality. The sun may have set on the empire but the burden never ceases.

When I moved out out Houston to Mexico, I had many of my belongings in a storage facility, Houston flooded and that's pretty much what all the storage places looked like. I know the feeling of losing so much and the only insurance I had was a small policy provided by the storage facility, so a pretty big loss.....🥺

Bet it'll give you pause before hiring one.... I made it part of the general "interview" questions, do you know this guy 😝

See how it feels 😝

Some pictures of my friend's cosmetics shop in central Hatyai after the flood. It's completely destroyed, including stocks stored in the shop. She and her family have worked very hard to establish the business. Her home several kilometres away is also badly damaged and inhabitable at the moment. They've got insurance and the capital to rebuild - which will take months - but many others don't. Small to medium enterprises like theirs have been among the hardest hit. November and December have traditionally been the busiest months in Hatyai being the Malaysian and Singaporean school holidays and now they've lost all potential business. Hopefully they'll be able to get something going by Chinese New Year in mid February next year. The first pic was taken before the flood.

So, you think British Standard about fire safety has "Absolutely nothing" with fire in the building constructed in accordance with that standard?

And what on earth has that to do with the discussion. Absolutely nothing! My first home for 11 years was on the 25th floor of a complex of 44 skyscrapers named Baguio Villa on the Island's west coast all completed by 1981. For your information the governor at that time was the excellent and much admired Sir Murray MacLehose. I suspect the building codes were much the same as in the early 1980s.

It was a joke!

You're truly disgusting 🤢

I would suggest 1000 if you off them from the bar to go drinking. 500 if they tag along most of the nigh, are not working somewhere or freelance. 1-200 if they just show up out of the blue on an invite after work and need a few baht for bolt home and some pre-sleep alcohol soakage Of course as peak high season approaches some BT boys would be hoping for a few offs a night, so may not be willing to leave work for 1000 and prefer to "make Hay when the sun as shining" it all depends on whether the rent is due and they are boys that like to party or those that like to accumulate wealth!

In 40 years old buildings the largest group 65+ is not a wonder with parachute you will be killed in 100% due rising air flow around hot walls... 0% chance to escape with parachute Evacuation stairs and safety floors once per 20-30 floors are most common and not that expensive options... elevators with fireproof systems exists, but they cost up to 25% of the cost of building By the way, buildings were constructed under British construction regulation laws (BS 476 - fireproof) and sold in 1983 under British governor Edward Youde, appointed to position by Margaret Thatcher

Sorry. My bad. You're quite right that I should have posted this in the Malaysia forum. Sorry about that

I read about it this morning and was mildly curious. According to speculation in the Malay language media it is the Otot-otot sauna. Otot-otot opens at 5 PM on weekdays and at 3 PM on weekends. It may have gone through renovations and re-opened recently. What foreign visitors may not be aware of or noticed, is that the sauna is situated in a row of shop-lots where several evangelical churces or prayer meeting places are located, led by virulent African pastors. Friends and activists have reported being harrassed by them previously on the way to or upon leaving the sauna. I don't know whether this still happens or whether the churches are still active. The doctor who was caught is a surgeon. His risable excuse was that he was there to relax and get a reprieve from the traffic jam on his way home! 🤣 I bet his wife knows all about it too and turns the other cheek. Hey, he's a surgeon, isn't he? Not unusual as the most powerful man in our country right now (but not for long) is a Roy Cohn clone and his wife, an opthalmologist, has always turned the other cheek. I suppose she sees only what she wants to see. 🤷 The Muslim men who were caught, if charged, may be charged under the relevant Shari'ah provisions (as officers of the religious authority were in the raid team which itself is very interesting) but I have a feeling this was more of a shakedown or a distraction from larger events happening in the country right now. According to one of the reports, more than twenty civil servants were caught... and the KL police chief was there to oversee things? Really? That's a mighty powerful post and my guess is they're looking for certain fish to fry. Incidentally, the laws governing homosexual practices in Malaysia fall under the Penal Code - a colonial relic from the Victorian era - not the Shari'ah. Singapore, Pakistan and India have (or used to have) similar laws. Interestingly, Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country, do not have such laws. I guess the Dutch who ruled for two hundred years weren't as curious or as uptight as the Brits about what two consulting adults did in the privacy of the bedroom - or the bushes. 🤷 Next...🥱

I have seen, and used, a couple of Nepali escorts, here in London, a few years ago. Pretty good. Now disappeared.

Which is easy to do with multiple personalities!

In the midst of this horrific tragedy it is heartwarmng to see so many people turning up to help in some way. A large community effort has been mobilised to help firefighters and other first responders as well as those with no homes. Separate supply stations for food, clothes and household goods have been set up in a square not far from the tower blocks. So much has been donated that calls have been put out on social media for no more donations for the time being. As one city councillor said, such communiy efforts have become a well oiled machine, ironically as a result of the weeks and months of protests in 2014 and 2019.

If they made a sequel to that movie Sybil, Olddaddy would be perfect for the part of the (much) older Sybil although Sally Field would probably kill him for it.

I am one of the original members of Otot Otot sauna from the time in the early to mid 1990s when I would often fly to KL for long week-ends with friends. I have never heard of its being raided before. From the Straits Times I see that 201 people were detained. Frankly I can not believe Otot Otot can accommodate such a large number unless it has been very substantially expanded since I last visited about 7 years ago. Another reason for thinking it must have been another place is that the raided venue opened from 5:00 pm until late. I always thought Otot Otot opened earlier in the afternoon. Further, the article states that the venue had been under surveillance for two weeks following public complaints. Personally I cannot believe that Otot Otot had suddently had complaints after being in business for 30 years! In any case, the article adds it had only been open for "the past eight months". Lastly, the report states the venue had a swimming pool. There has never been one at Otot Otot to my knowledge. So it must have been somewhere else. Yes, technically they are illegal as Malaysia is a Muslim country. But it has a lot of laws that are only for Muslim citizens and roughly 23% of citizens are Chinese. I have never had any issue on the apps, for example, finding Chinese gay guys. Also in Penang I have been in massage spas where the masseurs were all from mainland China and extra services were available. I have always found KL cruisy. https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/caught-with-their-pants-down-prosecutor-surgeon-among-201-detained-at-men-only-vice-raid-in-kl

I was going to comment on that, but just wrote it off as him talking to himself 🤷‍♂️

Not quite the same. Decades ago I once met a young man at a party. He was cute and said he was a singer. I checked and found that he was on the 2nd or 3rd rung of success. I invited him for dinner one evening, he came and then we repaired to my apartment. He came round a few times after that but the chemistry was not great. Many years later after he had become one of Hong Kong's top stars, I bumped into him near the city centre. I was surprised he recognised me, but we chatted and then went to a coffee shop. I knew by that stage that he had come 'out' as gay but still had a very lage following. But that was the last time I saw him in Hong Kong. I did once, though, see him when he was part of the entertainment at the end of the Taipei Gay Pride Parade.

I've been following this model, turned comedian, for years. He lives nearby, and I've long had the hots for him (he identifies as straight, by the way). Once on Facebook (I think it was about 6 years ago), he even made a post saying he'd be open to marrying a gay man, even though he's not gay, so he could get permanent residence in the US. I sent him a private message, encouraging him to take down that post, since if Immigration Services (BCIS) ever found it out, he could be arrested and deported for immigration fraud. In fact, he's recently married an American woman. A few years ago, I went to these tiny theaters with 20 seats, in which he did comedy performances to small audiences. At the time, it was mostly viewed by gay men such as myself (and my husband). A year ago, we saw him a couple of times as one of the comedians in the lineup of The Comey Store, a comedy club about 2 km from our place. Then, about a week ago, we saw him a solo performance from a world tour, which he did at the Pasadena Ice House. What absolutely floored me is that he asked the audience who the gay men were in the audience, and my husband and I were the only ones to respond! What a trajectory! I still can't wrap my head around the fact that he did a show in front of over 100 people, and we were the only gay audience. Interestingly, he's open about being mostly asexual. https://www.marioadrion.com/