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There was supposedly an episode of the BBC schools radio series "Music and Movement" (1930s to 1960s, target audience 5-6 year olds) where the innocent lady presenter asked some very personal questions "are your balls high up or low down" ect ect.

Five minutes after taking off from Suwannaphum, you were not flying above Hat Yai for sure. What you saw was the Central plains where the situation on the ground is now much less critical than it seems when looking from above.

I prefer reasonably modest sized frontal toilet parts that don't humiliate me.

Putting the “fun” back in Fun Bar

I took off from Suvarnabhumi on Monday, and after about 5 mins, all you could see was flooding everywhere, it went on for many miles, roads disappeared, isolated patches of high ground. Odd houses, otherwise just water.

Daydreamer by name, Daydreamer by nature!

Sansuk Sauna with 60+ yr old Asian men 😏

I happened to search for Bangkok on rent.men/rentmen.eu and was surprised to find 210 guys advertising there. A few of them listed rates which were in the typical range charged in the U.S. That seems absurd for Bangkok. Any idea what's going on here? Are these guys for real? Are they delusional to think they can get US-level rates in Bangkok, or is there a hidden market for these guys that the typical Thai boys aren't filling? Does anyone actually use rentmen to find boys in Bangkok? I presume that these guys are paying monthly fees to appear on rentmen, so they must be getting something out of it, but mostly I'm just scratching my head.

Have you been shopping on Beach Road?

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The question is , is Pattaya the cheapest for short time moneyboy sex in the whole 🌎 world with a guy for short time Average 1000 baht Convert that to another currency Bangkok - expect double average Cambodia? Vietnam? Bali ? Brazil ? Egypt ?? Does pattaya prices beat all these ?

I also have very much a 🧁 sweet tooth I love chocolate mousse,but hard to find a good one , I did like the one at the Chocolate factory restaurant in Pattaya Another I like is ...FRIED ice 🍦 cream ...love it ...hard now to find in restaurants

Reports indicate that the south of the country has been hit by its worst rainfall in 300 years. Ten Provinces have been hit with the city of Hat Yai being the worst. It experienced 335 mm in a single day. Desperate residents are perched on rooftops. More than 2 million peope have been affected. Military ships including an aircraft carrier with supplies, a flotilla of boats and rescue helicopters have been mobiised to help residents. 33 have aleady died. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg97wx144jo Hat Yai: photo Weerapong Narongkul Bangkok Post

My Thai friend that works for United did the inaugural flight.

Last month United opened up a new route - daily flights from BKK to HKG. Outward flight departs at 4:05pm and the return from Hong Kong at 09:10am. Being a new and just once a day service, there are special cheap fares on offer. The problem for Hong Kong bound passengers is that the aircraft flies on to Los Angeles. So like it or not you will have extra security checks at BKK!

As I said 'it was to get a mortgage'. I asked my doctor "what if it is positive?". His reply, "We'll try another mortgage company then!".

Okay in that case, getting a local +57 Colombian telephone number, you will need to go in person to Tigo, Claro or Movistar. You will require a passport to activate the plan. There are plenty of different plans to choose from.

They're convicted?

We have in another thread a lot of information about the scam centres located mostly in Myanmar. These trafficked up to 250,000 mostly from around Asia to work in mostly dreadful conditions persuading generally those from older generations around the world to part with their hard earned cash. Thankfully China has started to do something about this. With the help of the Thai authorities, one of the biggest scam chiefs, a Chinese national named She Zhijiang, has finally been sent back to Beijing. Today's Guardian newspaper highlights another form of scam, one operating in Amerca's heartland. Northwestern Mutual is one of America's most admired companies. Founded 168 years ago it sits at #109 in the Fortune 500 list. It also tops Forbes list of the best employers for university graduates. Internships which might lead to full time jobs are coveted by students. Posters at recruitment seninars tourinely tout the company as "The Career You Want at a Company You’ll Love." Although given the revelations in The Guardian article, I totally fail to understand why. Jeremy Barr, a senior at Texas A&M University, was attracted by the company's PR. He was chosen for an internship. Jeremy was offered a job in the company's Texas office. He was sent away with “market information surveys” to complete. The worksheets, seen by the Guardian, required Jeremy to interview 10 friends or family members about their finances – listing their names, occupations, phone numbers, and asking each of them to refer him to 10 more people he could contact about their financial planning . . . He was chosen for an internship. Jeremy was offered a job in the company's Texas office. In spite of its questionable practices, the insurance industry is doing all it can to prevent government interference. SInce 1998 it has spent $4 billion in lobbying fees. The training began immediately, but there were no crash courses in mutual funds or market trends. Instead, the new recruits were told to take out their phones, open their contacts, and upload at least 200 names into company software. Then start calling. The goal: 40 dials a day, documents seen by the Guardian show. Friends, cousins, ex-roommates, teammates, anyone who might answer. Jeremy was told to leave 20 missed calls at a time so it looked “urgent”. When someone finally picked up, there was a script to follow: a cheerful announcement of his new role, followed by an invitation to meet and discuss their financial future. If the person on the phone agrees to meet, their financials are input into Northwestern’s software, which spits out a financial plan. Invariably, it will recommend the most expensive life insurance product, known as “whole life”, according to internal documents and interviews with workers. A more senior adviser typically joins the call and gets half the commission. Reps have quotas for these meetings, according to 14 sources, and an internal document from the New York office, that requests five new bookings per week. According to the author, 21 current and former Northwestern workers all had the same stories. Recruitment, they said, is a decoy for harvesting contacts. Reps are not being groomed as future financial advisers, they claim, but pushed to sell life insurance to friends and family. After one month 80% of interns dropped out. Jeremy stayed on and became top of his group. But despite being the product Northwestern encourages all its employees to concentrate on, whole life policies make tons of profit. Many cash out within a few years when they realise they cannot afford the premiums. Those lost premiums are basically profit. Basically, though they are just a lousy investment. An investment in the S&P 500 in 1990 will have grown about 3,700% while a Northwestern policy would have yielded just 44% over the same period (based on its current dividend rate of 5.5%). So, a stock market investment will have grown about 85 times more than the cash value in a whole life policy. Inflation since 1990 is around 146% so the Northwestern investment would have lost value in real terms . . . [Like so many others] Jeremy, once the last intern standing, eventually broke too. He had sold more than 50 policies to clients which he knew often did not serve their best interest. Guilt caught up with him. Just over a year after that hopeful spring morning, he quit. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/24/northwestern-mutual-insurance-jobs-hiring

They don't, but to @floridarob point, all have protocols in place. Many will ask to see your room key when entering the lobby --no key, see ya! The larger hotels use cards to access the elevator which is easier to bypass. You likely will have better luck in Bogotá where the vigilance is slightly less. In Medellín, particularly in El Poblado and surrounding zonas (Manila, Castropol, Provenza, Las Lomas, etc) they are looking for any hint of sex tourism. So the first visit might be okay, the second and the third? The front desk staff will be in your business. Chisme is the national sport, it won't take long for the staff to all know what you are up to. As noted, they have seen it all, and just want to avoid any drama.

A little curiosity. First, I am the world's lousiest cook. I can do eggs and a few other things, but I just have no interest in cooking whatever. Second I am an unashamed chocoholic. Friends of mine are going to Muscat next week where there is a much praised original chocolate shop run by two sisters. My friends have promised to bring me back some! So a dessert that always has my juices flowing is a chocolate mousse. Yet in all my years of travelling it is rare that I have found one that really had that gorgeous mixture of taste, texture and consistency, even in a top restaurant. Too many are just too thick. Few have the right texture, a sign that insufficient egg white has been folded into the mixture. The best I ever tasted was served as a buffet lunch item in the La Ronda revolving restaurant on the 33rd floor of Hong Kong's Furama Hotel, just along the waterfront from the iconic Mandarin Hotel. It was perfect in every respect, even to having just the merest dash of cognac to add to the flavour. I took guests and clients to that restaurant many, many times. It was a huge buffet. As common nowadays it had different sections, including unusually for those days an Indian section. After a couple of visits when I realised there was no chocolate mousse, I was told that only two smallish bowls were available for each lunch serving. From that day on, I advised all my colleagues that the first thing they had to get from the buffet table was a generous portion of chocolate mousse which would then wait on our table ready for dessert time. Worked a treat! Never in my travels have I found one to better this from the Furama Hotel. Sadly the great views and its chocolate mousse ended when the hotel closed in 2001. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/nov/25/whats-the-secret-to-great-chocolate-mousse-kitchen-aide

I'm gonna puke.

I’ve long been a fan of the no-nonsense Red Planet Hotel on Surawong, particularly the fact that you don’t need to pass the receptionist when bringing guests to the room, and the convenience of the Cloud Nine shop next door in case of medical emergencies! I’m returning to Bangkok in July and have booked the hotel again, though it has since been renamed Easy Planet and, unfortunately, the rates have gone up. Has anyone stayed there since the rebranding? Has there been any change in policy regarding overnight guests or anything along those lines?

Security at the door or elevators.... they're not new at this, they've seen it all, more with straight clients.... the stories the security at the hotels, reception and Airbnb have told me, I'm glad I'm gay. Apart from not knowing about the VZA guy not having a Colombian ID, which I was unaware of at the time was a law to stay in a hotel.... I'm glad they do ID checks.