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North Korea? 😁 They love autocrats there. Let's send JD to keep Viktor company. It's a nice little preview of how great it will feel when Orban wannabe Trump is gone, too. From Politico on the new Hungarian government: Happily, Trump never won 50 % of the vote, and never had the staying power of Orban. He hasn't degraded institutions nearly as much. Maybe there is hope for America yet. Despite that, Trump has managed to fuck up so much all over the world in the last year. His stench will last for a long time. It would be nice to think this is all about how much Hungary loves democracy. But they tolerated nationalist authoritarianism for a long time. It seems like it is more about a shitty economy. Which is what brought Trump barely to power again in 2024, anyway. So Democrats better be focused on the economy, not just Trump bashing.

Thanks for the advice... What would you say is be the best base in Egypt for 1 month in terms of ease of meeting guys?

One of solution is to use somebody who is already there as intermediary who will hand money over and will get reimbursed or be given money in advance as those things are easier in our countries. Of course degree of trust is required.

Drinks in Good Boy now 500 for Songkran, 450 in Freshboys. I took off a man from Good Boy who appears to speak at least 4 languages. My test for being over my jet lag is when I can still manage to count to ten in 5 languages but my abilities to do more are modest.

I might add here that if he does not have proper documents for working in Thailand, it can get pretty complicated for someone to receive money. If you go the bank route, you would need his account information for the bank in Laos. That would be a wire transfer which takes time for him to actually receive the money. Depending on his bank, he might not be able to access the money from Thailand. If he is in Bangkok and you send the money via Western Union, without proper documentation he will not be able to pick up the money from WU. If you send it via WU to Laos and he is in Bangkok, again...he won't be able to pick it up. Sending money to the guys working in the clubs in Thailand who are from Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, etc. and are considered illegals gets very, very complicated. Your heart is in the right place, but what you wish to do is not easy.

Lee Oswald came to her recue I guess

I'd say first bad for Germans themselves as saviour tuned total destructor in mere 12 years of 1000 Years Reich

Sorry, I do not believe that the old Fragata reopened and closed. There is a sauna that opens and closes and opens again, named 555. I wonder if that is the sauna you mean. That sauna is not anywhere near where the old Fragata was. It is in a very nice area. I went there several times in hopes that it might be as nice as the fold Fragata or some of the saunas that formerly were in Rio and Sao Paulo. If it is sauna 555 that you mean as the replacement for Fragata, then let me comment that my time, the Uber money and entrance money I spent were a waste. I can understand why they close but I remain puzzled why they reopen only to have just a few customers, then close again.

You sound like a great guy with a good heart but based on what my regular guy told me about his father’s passing last year, I personally would not send for these reasons: If he were truly in need he would have taken you up on the offer when you asked, or reached out again once the offer sunk in Since he is not respnsive to your offer, asking him again might make him feel pressured to accept out of courtesy. Then you would have to coordinate logistics of getting bank details or him to do cash pick up from Western Union or similar. You do not know if it’s possible to send money to Laos bank account or (if he is from a rural family) if he is anywhere in proximity to a cash pick up point. Your goodwill may instead become a hassle to him especially if you only plan to send a small amount. If you send to his Thai bank account (assuming he has one) I’m sure it would be gratefully received but may not have much impact as his mind is focused on his family and being with them in Laos. Of course if you plan to send a significant amount of money to make the hassle worthwhile, please ignore me but would advise against since you have only met him 3 times. When my guy’s father passed unexpectedly his life was completely upended. He felt a tremendous amount of guilt for not being by his deathbed, worry for his widowed mother and mental stress from suddenly becoming the only man in a rural farming household…and he was just a bar boy who had been away from the farm for years. I don’t know your boy’s situation but grief and worry can be complicated. My advice is to send him a message saying you’re thinking of him, would like to see him again, and to let you know when he’s back at work. This way he can feel reassured knowing he can make up loss in earnings when he’s ready to return, and his customers haven’t moved on. But this is just my two cents and no matter what you choose (even if you’ve already sent money) as vinapu says, a kind heart and good karma will find its way. No wrong choices here.

I doubt the cost of living has much to do with it. The much weaker ¥ accounts for the present difference in prices. Japan used to be considerably more expensive than Hong Kong.

A very good and pertinent point in this discussion. To add to it: the war in Laos was a covert CIA operation that never had congressional approval. It was a secret war. Almost unbelievably, for an average of 9 entire years the USA dropped one planeload of bombs over Laos every 8 minutes. Think about that for a moment and take it in. This tiny landlocked third world country had more bombs dropped on it than the entire number dropped on Germany AND Japan combined during WWII. And the USA still refuses to pay for the destruction of the roughly one third of these cluster bombs that failed to explode, ordinance that has already killed 20,000 Lao people since the end of the undeclared war - mostly children as @zoomomancs points out. At the present rate it will take 100 more years to clear the country of this horrendous debacle. https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/p0fjwcjy https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/p0fjwcjy

Powerful men often use their power for sexual purposes. JFK, Martin Luther King and probably Robert Kennedy all had multiple sexual relationships in the 1960s. I think there's an assumption the women were all willing participants. I'd be surprised if that was true in all the cases, I'm guessing a few felt they didn't have a choice. A close friend of JFK even told his fiance and then wife before their wedding that JFK would continue to have sex with other women after their wedding and if she couldn't accept that, she should end the engagement. Human nature doesn't really change.

Yet at the time he was awarded the top job both legally and constitutionally. I have written above how Iran has had no free and fair elections since the ouster of Mosaddegh in 1953 by the Americans and British. Since you have brought up Hitler, it is perhaps wise to recall that without the punishing reparations that totally crippled Germany at the Versailles Treaty, the groundswell which enabled AH to rise to power in the 1920s might well have shifted against him. Speculation, I agree. But when peoples had to take cash in wheelbarrows to pay for a loaf of bread, any lifeline out of such degradation can seem almost a miracle. And that holds good for Iran. We are told that having got rid of many of the leaders of the old regime, the Israelis and their allies the USA have ended up with an even more hard line lot. True or not, I do not know, but I believe that the more the USA tries to punish Iran, the more the people will hate that country. When will the USA realise that influencing the rest of the world with wars and interfering in other coutries' politics is just not in their best interests? Since 1945 the USA has lost almost every war it entered in a developing country. As former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates states frankly in his 2014 memoir Duty: "the US is good at overthrowing governments but has no idea what to do when it comes to their replacements". Sending J D Vance into Hungary to support the despised Victor Orban was probably the final nail in his coffin as his oppponent won an astonishing two thirds majority. Trump and his merry band of yes-men cohorts should first sort out the sometimes horrible problems in their own country before interfering with others.

A small town in British Columbia is holding their second annual invitation event welcoming Americans to Canada. ‘More than double:’ huge visitor influx expected for second Nanaimo Infusion | NanaimoNewsNOW | Nanaimo news, sports, weather, real estate, classifieds and more The first event resulted in numerous USA nurses and doctors moving to Canada.

From the outside looking in, Hungary's elections today, for all of the structural biases created to advantage Orban, looked freer and fairer than what I expect will happen with the mid-terms in the USA. The Incompetent-in-Chief will have federalized National Guards and ICE (stupidly because there is no issue with non-citizens voting in the USA) at polling stations to intimidate citizens. I expect the US Postal Service will be instructed to not prioritize mail-in ballots. And who knows what else to rig the election for the GOP> Anyways, off topic. Congratulations to the citizens of Hungary for voting enmass for the non-corrupt, non-Putin loving right-winger. Small victories are sometimes large.

How dramatic! (But for the record, I have no ill feelings towards you--just your stubbornness & hot-headedness at times 😉)

That pic seems "Sus"..... Afterall SHE is wearing an evening gown, but HE is wearing a denim shirt.... Doesnt seem they were at the SAME event ? 🤣

Thank you!

As is your post.

And bad news for Poland!(and others)

Trump "came back" from felonious CONVICTIONS..... Anything is possible.

Unnecessary.