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Another raid. This time it's in Penang. https://www.chinapress.com.my/?p=4690775

If there are any other forum members around Jomtien Supertown over the Christmas period and would like to meet for a Christmas/New Year drink, drop me a message and I’ll arrange something. Ho ho ho…

Just a thought. Since I do quite a lot of research, this has meant looking at photos of gravestones to double check dates of birth and death. I remember my father telling me of once seeing a gravestone with the comment after the lady's name "Lord, she was Thin." Thinking this odd, he looked further round and noticed that the stonemason had run out of space for one letter was on the side. He had tried and failed to fit in "Lord, she was Thine." I plan to be cremated and will probably just try to have my name and dates added to my parents' gravestone. Not that I particularly want that, but perhaps some future generations will seek out the family history. But I do not want any description. If I did, it would probably be something innocuous like "He Did His Best" which of course covers a multitude of good deeds as well as an even greater multitude of sins. If you wish to have a gravestone and have a maximum of six words, I wonder what you would write. I'm particularly interested in @Olddaddy's thoughts LOL

It is definitely Otot and it hasn't been expanded. I have seen video of the actual raid - quite confronting. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9uoy62 I am not aware of Otot being raided before but given it has operated for more than 20yrs it is possible. There was a raid in Johor Bahru recently of massage parlour. https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2025/10/16/johor-immigration-raids-massage-centres-detains-15-foreign-nationals The raids conducted in recent times have been more about illegal immigrants and drug use. This one is different 🙁

Remember Shakespeare in Love, a movie full of wonderfully dazzling wit and charm? Its writer, Sir Tom Stoppard sadly died yesterday aged 88. I can recall seeing his very first play Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an amazingly brilliant concept of what goes on offstage during a performance of Hamlet. It has one near iconic line, "Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else." He had first tried his hand at journalism and then theatre criticism before turning to writing. His body of work for film, TV and radio was hugely impressive. He won an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love, as well as five Tony Awards in the USA and three Olivier Award in the UK. Other screenplays included John Le Carre's The Russia House and Terry Gilliam's Brazil. He also assisted other writers of screenplays by adding sparkle to their scripts, often without acknowledgement. These included Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and the Star Wars episode Revenge of the Sith. Steven Spielberg even consulted him on Schindler's List. His writing was witty and playful, he took ideas seriously and delighted in philsophical and political argument. Among those who mourn his passing is Sir Mick Jagger who wrote on X hat he was "a giant of the theatre. He leaves us with a majestic body of intellectual and amusing work. I will always miss him." Lyricist Sir Tim Rice wrote he "is in awe of nearly everything" Sir Tom did, adding "He's written at least half a dozen, probably twice that, plays that will live for a long, long time – however brilliant plays are, a lot of them don't last long beyond their era, but I think Tom Stoppard's will, no question." The National Theatre called his contribution to British Theatre "simply immense". Born in Czechosolvakia, he was Jewish and fled to the uK after the Nazi invasion. All four of his grandparents died in the holocaust. London's West End Theatres will dim their lights for two minutes at 7:00pm on December 2 as a mark of respect. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74xe49q7vlo

Kau Cobra lives in Sao Paulo. He wasn't super easy to arrange a meeting with, but certainly not impossible. He's straight, nice guy. I barely remember the sex with him other than he did get it hard without much effort, so it wasnt particularly great or bad. In Brazil, the client calls (and hence pays) the Uber. It can be frustrating (and time-wasting) when the guy has trouble finding the Uber, but it does have some advantages (you know exactly to what extent he's "on his way"). It can be an "confidence building" idea in lieu of a partial prepayment?

If you are flying on an Airbus A319, A320, A321 you may need to be prepared for a slight delay in departure. On October 30 a JetBlue A320 from Cancun to Newark experienced a sudden uncontrolled dive. The pilots made a safe landing in Florida. The cause of the dive was discovered to be intense solar flares which may corrupt data critical to the functioning of the flight controls. Although it is believed to be the first time this problem has been discovered in the long history of the Airbus fleet, immediately a notice went out that 6,000 aircraft have to be quickly modified. For over 5,000 of the aircraft, the fix is simple and takes only two hours maintenance time. For roughly 900 older aircraft, new hardware is required and the fix will take longer. An EU Air Worthiness Directive mandated that all affected Airbus planes must be fixed before they can carry passengers again. So far, most airlines have already fixed most of their aircraft which are already flying again. American completed all but 4 of its 209 Airbus planes by Saturday morning. Delta also expected all its Airbus planes to have been fixed by yesterday. In the Asia-Pacific region, it seems only Jetstar has been experiencing major delays with the airline having cancelled 90 flights. The airline expects the required fix to be completed on its aircraft by today. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/28/us/a320-series-fixes

The average elevation of Hat Yai is 47 meters. But that no doubt means some parts are closer to sea level. On the other hand, few cities anywhere can withstand 335 mms of rain in a single day, the more so when it comes on top of continuous rain over several previous days when the ground was already saturated. Total rainfall over the three days culminating in the worst rainfall amounted to 630mm (25 inches). Water flowing down from nearby saturated hills made everything worse. Even in Bangkok drainage in certain parts of the city cannot handle anything that amount of rainfall. It would result in major flooding. 33,000 homes, 5 hospitals, 58 schools and 700 kms of road have been damaged according to Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/weve-lost-everything-how-floods-devastated-one-thailands-largest-cities-2025-11-28/#:~:text="It was all caused by,years%2C resulting in catastrophic floods.

As all reports have indicated, with Hong Kong having so many skyscrapers mostly in very densely populated areas, Hong Kong has some of the toughest building codes in the world. Your post should have been directed at contractors who deliberately (I assume) decided to cut corners by not following the codes. Why do you think 11 senior staff from the contractors and their consultants have now been arrested and some likely to be charged with manslaughter? Since you know so much about building codes and Hong Kong, have they changed since the Chinese assumed control of Hong Kong in 1997?

Always difficult to believe what one picks up from the media, but the facebook comments addressed in @mauRICE's post about the raided venue having been open "for the past eight months" certainly do not fit with Otot Otot which has been open in that same location at the end of the row of shop fronts for 30 years. I wonder if those African biggot preachers have only recently appeared in KL and made life difficult for those visiting Otot Otot, if indeed it was that sauna. But I still believe it must have undergone considerable expansion as even with 100 in the space I last visited it would have been almost packed. And not only the sauna's own website but visitor reviews mention nothing about its having a swmming pool, for the simple reason it doesn't have one. Facebook has an entry 21 hours ago from someone who says the raided sauna has been raided several times before and always reopens. I have never heard of previous raids at Otot Otot. I wonder if @mauRICE has as he is closer to the 'action' there.

This is why I use Airbnb’s from my second visit moving forward depending on where I am visiting. Cause every time I had a bootycall from grindr or from random walking around and striking up random conversations. The hotel that I was staying at my 1st trip. Made it virtually impossible. To bring anyone up. I even had booked the room as two guest. So that I wouldn’t have to register hookups. But they registered every last one of them. Gave me the stink eye every time. So I went with an Airbnb. Which allowed me to bring guys from pointe, 212, and other random guys I met back with no problem. The lobby guards never said a word didn’t have a problem either. I also tipped the guys every once in a while. They were cool looking out for me. But if you don’t feel safe doing that then hotel it is. I’m doing another Airbnb next year in the month of may for my Brazil trip.

Transportation Secty Sean Duffy wants us to bring back the golden Age of Flying, by dressing up to fly and being civil on planes... FUCK YOU Duffy.......Tell that to your fellow cabinet members.... the most UNCIVIL people on this earth ! RFK Jr walking around BAREFOOT on a recent flight.... If YOUR administration wants to be DISGUSTING, regular Americans can be disgusting too. Like I said, FUCK YOU Sean Duffy.... Go back to reality TV.

Really brings home the personal losses and total destruction.

Luckily, I don't have a basement!

Since Trump’s Return, Bets on His Brand Have Soured Stocks and cryptocurrencies tied to the president and his family have tumbled amid a broader rout of riskier assets ~~WSJ Headline~~ I can hear tRump now: This is FAKE NEWS. The people at the Wall Street Journal are bad people. They are very bad people. The worst. All the Businesses operated by Members of my Family are doing great. They are doing great. The American Economy is better than ever in History thanks to me. Nobody else could do what I have done. The Wall Street Journal is lying as the Media always does. I have ordered the Federal Communications Commission to REVOKE the paper's License. You cannot tell LIES like this to the American People

True, although I didn't see other male-male couples. When he was playing in that tiny place on Melrose Ave., which didn't even have a bar (and only one toilet), the crowd was almost all men, mostly older. At the time, I'm sure he didn't get money from the ticket sales (I seem to recall the ticket prices were a paltry $15/person). Now tickets are going for $25-$35/person, plus a 2-drink minimum (I'm guessing the profit from the drinks goes to the venue, and the ticket sales to the performer).

Interesting, kind of alludes to differences between Colombia and Brazil. I don’t think Brazilian hoteliers, at least anywhere I’ve been, are looking for hints of sex tourism (so long as it doesn’t involve children). And of dozens (ok, probably hundreds by now🙈) of guys I’ve met in Brazil, with few exceptions, drama doesn’t really come to mind. Haha. Incidentally on Tuesday I sent this to the Tribe Hotel Medellin but they never responded. I just resent in Spanish:

Awww you got it. 👏🏅 (The joke that is, not the chocolate. 🤣)

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Correct, Dwarf Indian, They work for tailor shops owned by Indian. Had met a few in Pattaya, Bangkok, Phuket and mostly bottom boys. Many of them were born in Thailand.

just stay home then

it's all very sad. I didn't realize that Hat Yai is below sea level. Large parts of Sri Lanka under water at the moment too and Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines with major floods too

no, you were only gays in audience who decided to disclose the fact