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Not aware of Mandel. Where is it located? Might be worth checking out for the experience even if only an S place.

I suspect - and this is merely a guess - it was one of Anutin's henchmen. His personal ambition has long been very obvious. Creating a massive fuss over that call played perfectly into his hands and handed him the premiership.

Same here. Not interested in it, and don't want to be around others who do it.

He must have forgotten his auxiliary verbs. SWIDT 😈 ?

Who knows where we can see results as they happen? The Bangkok Post is more of a 'history' paper than a 'news' paper. Thai news, like the earthquake were both on BBC News and Al Jazeera long before BP online heard of it. (sorry, mini rant there). Sure it will be live in the bars and I guess most of the staff will be rooting for P.P.

Almost everybody who is interested in Thailand, apart from you.

Looks like a big area to fill. I hope it works out.

I was always high class!

Uphill too . F . .k that , I will get a Grab 🚘🚗

Honestly who really gives a fuck ?🤨

Same again tonight. Voting tomorrow. Voting closes at 17:00, results start to come out at about 18:30.

Cracking news. And just a 10 minute walk away.

must OF?

I still wonder occasionally who leaked that phone call, was it a disgruntled subordinate as “Uncle” claimed or the man himself

Oh what a welcome to G 's Absolutely beautiful news 😊 I love it , welcome to Pattaya 💙💚💜

Did you all see the below Facebook post? Was already mentioned before that there would be a 2nd G's restaurant and that it would be in Pattaya. Guido was a bit mysterious about it himself: "in Jomtien but not in the complex". News is out now.

My view is there will be a coalition of sorts formed after the election as no single party will win a clear majority and after what happened last time, any party thinking of forming a coalition with a certain party (of a particular clan) had better watch their backs. I truly hate dynasty politics (where families want to keep power through their generations) and just wish people in the Asia region would wake up to it and vote accordingly.

I strongly agree with this and it could be due to any multitude of reasons. But the guys that you meet that you do get along with more than make up for it. Once you find these gems, hold onto them dearly!

Mandel spa has a milk bath program, this is an S place however.

Haha I can understand this. To me, the risks of offing straight guys are well known. So, while I was pissed, I didn't really think much of it afterwards because you're bound to encounter 1 or 2 bad experiences but also get really good encounters with the other. For comparison, 2 of my good sessions in this trip were with a guy who - get this - is from Vietnam, a Freshboy model, and also straight 🤣🤣🤣. So yeah, win some and lose some. Not worth spoiling my vacation over just 1 or 2 bad encounters.

I am rather surprised there has been no thread dedicated to the General Election currently in progress - apart from bars not serving alcohol. Judging by the result of the last election three years ago won by the new Move Forward Party with massive support largely from younger generations, this one could go the same way. The trouble with Thai politics is that the elite and those in oower never want to give it up. The modernist progressive Move Forward party which won the last election was disallowed largely on the basis of trumped up charges. The elitist Consitutional Court banned the party and its populist leader Pita Limjaroenrat from politics for ten years. The reason for Khun Pita being banned would have meant nothing in most other countries. But he and his team failed to do their utmost in due diligence to ensure there was no reason for banning them. On this flimsy technicality the elite acted. Sadly this is not uncommon in Thailand and the Constitutional Court cearly is made up mostly of the elite. This year there is a subtle difference in the election. Electors have three botes to make. The first for an MP to serve their constituency. The second for a list of party's hopeful MPs nationwide. Of the 500 MPs, 400 will be elected on the basis of the winner takes all. The 100 party-ist seats are allocated proportionately around the country. The third vote this time is in effect a referendum: do electors want a new Constitution for the country? How this Constitution will be drafted and what it will include is in the lap of the Gods - presumably the elite Gods! Of the five major parties contesting the election, all but one have played a role in the last government. Following the disbandment of Move Forward, Pheu Thai gained the next most votes. This was the Shinawatra Clan party set up after its earlier party had been banned more than a decade ago. That was led by Thaksin's daughter, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the youngest in his clan to rule the government. Her idiotic leaked phone call with former PM of Cambodia Hun Sen led to her resignation. And we thought that's it! The end of Shinawatra influence. But it seems we were too hasty. For the coming election, Pheu Thai has nominated Yodchanan Wongsawat, a nephew of Thaksin, as its leader! The minority BJP has put forward its recent Prime Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, a highy ambitious snake-like figure who dissolved parliament presumably in an attempt to seek a majority. The big question mark around this election is how the new party, the People's Party, formed from the rump of the banned Move Forward, will fare. Factually it won the last election with 151 seats against Pheu Thai's 141. But it won a whacking majority of the votes with 14.4 million votes against Pheu Thai's 10.9 million. More to the point, Move Forward gained a much larger slice of the city and younger electors' votes. Pheu Thai may hold a majority of votes in Northeast which has 133 votes up for grabs. How many of these may go to the new party is anyone's guess. The new party's basic platform is that Thailand is trapped in outdated systems that must be changed before the country can really move forward. Anutin and other parties are gambling on national security and sovereignty. There is a far better argued article in the Bangkok Post (see below). https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/3192080/democracy-calls-so-whats-new-this-time

What @Travelingguy said is partly the reason. It saves me from the hassle of possibly going back and forth for a sum that I don't consider worth wasting time and energy on. The other part is that, while the service was not fully delivered, I did get to enjoy his body so yeah. There have been instances in the past (once in Thailand and the other elsewhere) where I just paid a nominal sum and got the guy out because the experience was bad all the way.

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I visited several times in 2001 and 2002 (and before) - although if @sydneyboy1 is absoutely certain he was there in 2001, I will defer to his memory. Some of the masseurs were indeed present as we sat waiting to make a choice. But we were also presented with quite a large photo book with all the boys' photos, including those who were professional models (generally models who appeared in print advertising for products). V Club had its own entrance on the right side of Soi Ari in its own smallish building. Reception was on the left as you entered. I seem to recall it was the first massage spa of many I had visited where minimum tips were listed on a board on the desk. We then waited in a lounge-type area on the right which also served coffee and drinks (not sure if they included alcohol, though!). I recall the location well because one of my company's clients owned a large house decorated in a Chinese-style on the soi to the right immediately after V Club (she still lives there). I was always slightly concerned that she or her husband might see me in the area and wonder what I was doing! I wonder if anyone can remember when V Club closed down. I recall it was quite a few months before it relocated and became part of Chakran sauna. I believe they had the same owner.