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I think it's great to have and cherish all the good memories, as long as that doesn't keep us from enjoying how things are now. I expect we'll be hearing about new places being opened by familiar names/faces from soi twilight, so by all means stay tuned. Certainly over the past six months Soi Twilight has been busy some times and has been slow some times. It's unfortunate that some people have stopped by when it seemed lifeless. Time it right and you can still have to run the gauntlet of young guys from Banana and Hot Male bars and the barkers from the gogo bars - at least for a a few more weeks. Last month -- or possibly January -- there was a very busy period and the manager of one Soi Twilight establishment told me that they had two of their best nights ever. Soi Twilight is a state of mind.

I doubt if those of us who visited Bangkok all those years ago are stuck moping around with our memories. We are all a lot older now. Some have settled down with long term partners. We have all changed and our interests re nighttime entertainment have changed/evolved over time. We may also have discovered other countries. The scene may not be as vibrant as Thailand but its there in many countries. I for one take life as it comes. I change. The entertainment scene changes. There is still a great deal to enjoy. Theres no doubt that the rise of the apps is one reason for recent changes in the nighttime scene. But internet hook-ups did not start just with smart phones, grindr, hornet and their like. In the second half of the 1990s there were several internet sites where Thai guys put up the same sort of information found on the apps now. There were also gay dating sites like gay.com. I met many guys from those sites. Chatting took a lot longer but the hook ups when they finally happened seemed at least to me a bit more meaningful. I reckon the decline in the bar and nighttime scene actually started around 2000. Blame the first Thaksin government's Social Order campaigns. I think for the first time the existence of male gogo bars, saunas and massage spas was brought home to the average man in the street, especially in the countryside. This was the first time government Ministers were pictured holding up used condoms and hints given about gay farangs coming for sex tourism. Of course Thais had been enjoying their own much larger underground sex scene for many decades. Farangs filling girlie bars were different. That was OK. But in a very conservative society the thought of their country having a reputation as a sex haven for gays was not welcome. The countrywide popularity ratings of that homophobic Minister rocketed. Interesting I think that in the 80s and 90s Thais always seemed to outnumber farang in the bars. Yet from 2000 the Thais began to disappear. Where they went to and why I never thought about till now. Also that bars rarely seemed to bother changing their business model. Owners failed to realise that the general farang customer was ageing and not being replaced by enough younger ones. The only one making radical change was Twilight which completely changed and became Hotmale. Probably the most popular bar Barbiery moved from its ideal Suriwong location opposite Soi Twilight into larger premises close to Mango Tree. The atmosphere was dead, the mostly twink boys became more manly and customers stayed away in their droves. It quickly died. Even though the gay world has got much bigger over the decades there is still nowhere like Thailand. Long may it continue . And long may we continue to cherish memories of so many wonderful times whenever we experienced them.

Every day I like Beto less and less.

Hope all is well guys. Last week was my birthday so my husband decided to surprise me with an unexpected trip to santo domingo. Like all my vacations to Santo Domingo, this one would be full on twists, turns and a lot of Dominican and surprisingly Haitian dick. So I wake up Tuesday morning to prepare for work. My husband says to me, “You’re off for the rest of the week. Get back into bed.” I’m glanced at him and said, “WTF are you talking about?” He repeats what he says and proceeds to tell me that part of my birthday gift is a surprise trip to santo domingo. I looked at him and told him he was lying, but I knew he was dead ass serious and I was so fucking ecstatic. I then asked him, “What time did our flight leave.” My husband never plans these trips. I’m the only one who ever plans these international trips for us. All he does is packs and boards the plane. This trip was an even bigger surprise because I monitor or credit cards like a hawk and asked how he booked the accomondations without me knowing. He told me he used my sisters credit cards because he knows I monitor ours closely. After the 1 hour 50 minute flight from FLL to SDQ arrive and make our way through customs. For some strange reason my phone isn’t working and I cant send or receive text messages. After we check into our 2 Airbnb apartments (we needed 2 apartments because we couldn’t get our usual 2 bedroom apartment), both in the same building, we went to grab a bite to eat HERE IS WHERE OUR TRIP TAKES ITS FIRST TURN FOR THE BEST! As were walking through EL Conde, I’m still trying to resolve the issue with my phone. My head is down, im walking slowly and trying to figure out whats going on with the damn phone. All of a sudden a guy bumps into me really hard. i said, “This motherfucker,” and turn around to look at the guy. my husband says, “what,” and turns around also. Fellas, the guy who had bumped me was 6’4, 225 and full of muscles. My husband and I were like, “Holy Shit!” The guy, with a serious look on his face nods his head for us to come over to him. I have to admit guys, I was afraid and I told my husband, “This guy wants to fight.” We didn’t move towards the guy because in my mind there was no way this big brawn sexy MF was gay. My husband and I proceeded to walk for food, but continued to look back to check the guy out. He stood in the same spot and nodded for us to come to him. I told my husband to lets go and introduce ourselves to him and apologize. Turns out he didn’t want an apology. The guy was looking to make money and fuck. We shook hands and to our surprise he spoke English. This guy has a sculpted body and a dick that was big and thick. How did I know this just from talking to him, well during our conversation he pulled out his phone to show us what he was working with. he further went on to say to us, “If you are looking for a big dick, you wont find any bigger than mine in santo domingo. I was so turned on by him after he said that, he could have fucked me right in the middle of the colonial zone. We agree on a price and head back to the apartment. We get in the apartment, disrobe and begin to play with each other. I left the room for a second to go get my fuck supplies (poppers (ENGLISH BRAND and magnum bareskin condoms). His dick would get hard then soft and continued to do that for about 10 mins until we just told him maybe he should come back when his dick would stay hard. not wanting to disappoint us, he told us to get dressed and lets go the pharmacy to buy some cialysis. He told us if we bought the cialysis, he would stay hard for 2 days and give us the best fucks of our lives. We walk to the pharmacy to buy ONE CIALYSIS PILL because in the united states, one pill is like $80. To our surprise, when we get to the pharmacy in the colonial zone Its just much, much, cheaper. $70 for a 4 pack and it’s the exact same pill that can be purchased in the United States. We purchase the cialysis for him to take and head to a nice restaurant, Duo, in the colonial zone. He orders a glass of water then takes the pill. After spending 45 minutes at the restaurant, he tells me to look under the table. He had pulled his massive dick out under the table. It was the most beautiful dick you ever laid eyes on. The slut in me wanted to take him to the bathroom and let him fuck me there. It took everything in me not to go under the table and suck his dick. His dick was rock hard and he said it will stay that way for the next 48 hours. I was in gay boy heaven and couldn’t wait to feel his dick in me. Once we got back to the apartment we disrobe a second time, but this time he was ready to fuck some ass and I was ready to fuck his thick meet. It took about 5 minutes for me to comfortably take his manhood while I sniffed my ENGLISH POPPERS! THOSE POPPERS ARE THE ABSOLUTE BEST. About 10 minutes into him fucking me, he asked me for a hit of the poppers. He took a whiff and turned into a fucking beast. My husband was in the background saying, “Omg his body is like poetry in motion. You have to see how hes winding his body while hes fucking you. Its amazin.” The session went on for about 1 hour, we napped for about 20 minutes and started over. He would not allow us to take pictures or video, my husband tried to but he has tattoos and a family. He mentioned he was going to the gym and asked if we’d like to go. We decided to go with him and hop in an uber to an upscale gym with rooftop equipment. His workout was far more advanced than ours so my husband decided to branch off, explore and do a workout that was more familiar to us. After our workout he told my husband and I that he had to go home, check on his family and wanted to come back to our place around 11 p.m. we agreed, swapped whatsapp numbers and parted ways. My husband and I were hungry and decided to get pizza from pizza hut in the colonial zone. after we ordered, we sat outside to people watch. A sexy, muscular, dark skin Dominican walked by while we were eating, made eye contact with us and smiled. I nodded and walked onto the paved walkway in the colonial zone to introduce myself. In speaking with this sexy guy I discover he is not Dominican, but Haitian. We chat briefly and decide to take his sexy ass back to the loft. As we walk, he was very personable. Asking lots of questions and telling us about himself. Even showing us pictures of his son, his girlfriend and his beautiful dick. This guy speaks creole, English and Spanish and he spoke all three languages while we were fucking. I had no idea the word, “coco,” means ass or pussy. He kept mumbling things in creole while we fucked, but the only word that stood out to me was COCO because there is a song called, “Im in love with the COCO.” In the apartment, he takes off his clothes and displays his ripped body and very nice dick. We begin to caress and play and within 30 seconds his dick is ROCK HARD. he and my husband double penetrate me. My husband is in me raw and the guy is wearing a condom. When my husband released his load in me, this guy got extremely turned on, flipped me over and pounded the shit out of me until he came in the condom. We all laid around talking for about 30 mins afterwards. The first guy from the gym stayed in contact with us from his home and the vibe with him was good as well. I was really into the guy from pizza hut and told my husband that I would prefer to just play with him for tonight and he could have the first guy we met from the colonial zone earlier in the day. my husband agreed and when the first guy came back, he took him to the second studio apartment we rented in the same building. My husband laid around and played with his guy and I did the same with the guy from pizza hut. Because they both spoke English, my husband felt like we had made a solid connection with both of them. Both guys left around midnight and my husband came back to loft and we spoke about our experiences with each guy. He felt comfortable with his guy and I felt very comfortable with my guy. Manny knew we were there and tried to set my husband up with a few of his guys, but because we had hit the jackpot twice in the colonial zone, we decided to stay with the guys we met. HERE IS WHERE ITS GETS CRAZY AGAIN! My husband says, “do you want to take them with us.” I said, “take them where with us?” He explained that us coming to santo domingo was only part of my birthday trip. The second part of my birthday surprise was that he hired a driver to take us from santo domingo to punta CANA for 2 days and that we would stay at the hard rock, punta cana. We discussed this for about 5 minutes thought it would be fun if one or both guys would join us. We sent both guys a text and asked could they join us on Thursday and Friday in punta cana.. they both said yes. My husband had to book a second room because we decided that he would stay in the room with the first guy and I would have my room with the Haitian guy I met. When we met the guys on Wednesday they provided their identification so that they could be added to the room reservation. We leave for the resort Thursday morning. It was a nice ride with my husband sitting in the back of the Hyundai h-1 mini van and my guy sat next to me in the front row. Weve never done anything like this before, but decided to live a little and have some different kind of fun. Our plan was for my husband to spend the 2 days with his guy and for me to spend the two days with my guy. we would meet up to eat and see the shows and do excursions, but for the most part the new guys would be our part time boyfriends while in punta cana. Fellas, if you’ve never tried this, I HIGHLY ADVISE you to. It was absolutely amazing. I love my husband with all my heart, but there was something that just felt amazing about being with this other guy. We arrived at the sprawling hard rock property and it was amazing. At check in I mentioned that my birthday is tomorrow. The reservationist stepped away from the desk to go speak with a guy who I later found out was the manager. The manager came over to introduce himself and welcome us to the resort. I had no idea the manager was at the desk to upgrade our room to the presidential suite. He told me this after he finished pecking at the keyboard. While walking out to the room, I told my husband that the room he upgraded us to was probably just a studio suite and nothing would be PRESIDENTIAL about the room! Well to my surprise, when we walked in, this room was ABSOLUTLEY AMAZING. My husband and I couldn’t believe our eyes and he didn’t think it was fair for me to have my guy in this room while he and his guy stayed in a standard room. We decided that I would have the room for on night and he and his guy would get it the other night. The shower area in this room looked like a closet complete with a bench inside. My Haitian companion and I fucked all over the bench in that shower with steamy hot water streaming through the pipes. We fucked everywhere in that room, the hot tub, which by the way, I didn’t know you could fuck in a hot tub until the Haitian guy showed me how. We had so much fun at this resort. We went to the shows, dined together, worked out together and did one excursion together that my husband and I paid for. We didn’t give a shit because we were with two of the most sexy, passionate men in the Dominican republic. We had so much fun this trip and plan on going back again VERY SOON. we fucked so much this trip and I was very concerned because we leave for rio on the 20th of march. The last thing I wanted was for my ass to be sore before our trip to rio and I wouldn’t be able to enjoy the sexy guys there. Guys, if you are looking for the ULTIMATE BOYFRIEND experience, find a guy in santo domingo and take him to the hard rock in punta cana. Omg! We had a MAGICAL TIME and will surely do the same thing again.

To be working full-time in your 80's, and be of value, not only do you need good health, you need healthy family genes that age well. For a small group, 80 is the new 60. More power to them if they can make that work. But the numbers aren't quite in their favor. I will want to know Beto's private position on gay rights before I donate further. That goes for Kamala as well. I donated money to Hillary, Bill, and Obama, knowing they were once publicly against gay marriage, but hearing a different thought privately. I attended many fundraisers. I'm not naive or Pollyanna when it comes to politics. I know life is not perfect for most people, but gay marriage seems like a milestone accomplishment for gay men and women. Almost a true miracle in our lifetime. What glaring gay right today is more important than same-sex marriage? If ultra-liberal Dems want to elevate the toilets-for-trans issue and make that a top priority in 2020, I can assure our gay readers that Trump will be your next president.

In a way, i feel blessed not knowing how soi twilight or bangkok used to be. I dont have to mopped around thinking of what it was and what itll never be again and just enjoying the current scene. Ive read few articles that the main culprit of the downfall of gay gogobars was the advancement of apps, and the increasing popularity of live cam website and of course, free porn are so easy to get nowadays. It will not replace what gogobars can offer but there are other benefits that also gogobars cant offer. Its cheaper, u can chat with boys without middle man, and nothing beats free, porn or sex.One of the more significant advantage of apps is its 24/7. I still prefer bars, seeing and touching the boys are definitely better than online assessment, but the cost adds up pretty quick as ive experienced during my last trip. Gogobars will still be a unique experiences for the tourist but less so for the local, and i believe local support to a business are more important for a business to keep running compared to the seasonal tourists. Thus explained why some bars like jupiter and bbb are enjoying a rather great stream of locals and tourists alike, with more of the hot guys sticking around the bars. As a tourist, i dont have time to wade through bunch of profiles in multiple apps to find the one boy who might not look the same in person. Massage places are almost similar with what i have back home, so that leaves gogobars and overnight, the two main reason id still go to thailand. All i need is one bars full of hot guys and for one night, i just need 1 boy, and thats all it takes to keep me happy

I never read The Men of Thailand but I have read lots of posts on various chat rooms about what Bangkok was like in the 'old days'. I also have my own memories of the era. Difficult to know how much views have changed as people have grown older and the spectacles pinker. One thing does seem certain though. The gay bar scene was much more active 20 even 25 years ago. My memories differ a bit from BiggusDikkus. The original Twilight bar was quite dark on entry. It was lorded over by a couple of older trans women who fluttered around behind the long bar. There was also a small guy who always seemed to be rushing around adding extra seats on the large floor area at the weekends when the bar was packed more with Thais than farang or pushing boys to get dressed when they were offed. These are only a small part of my memory. The lasting one is of a large number of amazing boys. Until about 9 pm they would do s rather bored soft shoe shuffle 4 at a time on the tiny stage behind the bar. But one of the mamasans would then bark an order when the short pants would then come off and the boys would dance naked. Many were a bit shy and covered their assets. After each group of four came offstage still naked they would walk round through the customers and stand around one of the mirrored pillars. The best place to sit was at the left side of the bar. Once the order had been given, the 4 boys due onstage would sit crouched behind the bar desperately trying to get themselves even slightly erect. They didn't care that a group of Thais and farang were sitting watching them. Later in the evening there would often be a show (maybe only at weekends - not sure). Two pairs of boys would start on the stage, With a degree of athleticism they would then clamber over on to the top of the bar. Theyd then manoeuvre themselves slowly along the bar and back again. Im sorry BiggusDikkus did not enjoy Twilight then. I loved it same as I loved the better run and more fun Barbiery across the road. Also the various bars like Super Lek and the original Super A near where Mango Tree is located. They were in full swing then. There was a lot of fun there, just as there was in the still young Soi 4 and in the small DJ Station soi. Babylon had opened and offered a myriad of delights . The only problem was having to queue to get in at the weekends. Several other saunas had sprung up along with quite a few gay massage spas. The choice was quite amazing. I agree. I also consider myself so lucky to have enjoyed that era. Bangkok was heaven.

The former boy bar, Good Boys, has closed and moved just across the darkened Sunee Plaza soi to the former Allofmetoo. Dragon is on two floors, with the action on the second floor. It’s been open a few weeks now. Another new boy bar in Sunee Plaza is opening soon and it adjoins Diamond Bar and has same owner. More on this one later.

New here. Just signed up today. I see some familiar names here from other places.

Hey @TotallyOz! This is just to keep you posted of some issues for your developers. My signing in issue is much improved, but still happens now and then. I do know other members who do complain about it though. I do have two new issues. Last week I started to have a warning after signing out. Instead of the regular home page I would get the page telling me that something went wrong. I cannot tell what, I wanted to sign out and I am signed out, so I do not see what the problem is. However, your website does tell me that something went wrong. The other issue just happened. I had an alert telling me that somebody quoted one of my messages. I went to the thread and, while I was responding, I would get new alerts, but actually it was always the same quote. I kept checking the alert and despite how many times I did it, the alert will always return after a few seconds. I signed out, signed in again and the alert was still there. I clicked on it, I verified that there is no new incident being reported but just the old alert. I started to compose this email and since then the alert has not returned. So I guess it is finally gone. I navigate the website using the last version of Safari in a MacBook Air. I am attaching a screenshot of the message I get every time I sign out.

Just imagine that your boss is Oud, and your officemates are Babe, Nicky, Mekhin & Fluke as inspiration for work, lol

“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough – until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.” Donald J. Trump,alleged president.

Too much Agent Orange?

Freshboys in Twilight is moving straight after Songkran to Silom Soi4 above (and maybe associated with) Banana on 4. Freshboys (2) is in Patpong 2 above Screw Boys. No news oabout Maxis. Twighlight Banana is closing on 29th March (see their website for details). Banana Bar Soi Twilight (Suriwong Rd) must vacate the Soi by 31 March 2019 . . . . we invite all our friends and customers for the BANANA BAR SOI TWILIGHT: END OF AN ERA PARTY on Friday 29 March 2019 @ 8pm. Come to farewell your favorite Soi that has been part of our lives for…

I'm excited about the change. I'll be in bkk early April after being in Pattaya. I can't wait to see the seeds of change taking root. No need to walk through the old soi kicking cans and looking sad. The soi lost my money a while ago with their expensive drinks and this is a chance for them to try and reinvent their bars.

The last visible remains of Dick's cafe before partition went up....

Lucky, in my experience, politics doesn't work that way. Just a guess based on no evidence, but I would say that Beto has no particular commitment to Gay rights one way or the other. His party favors gays, so he favors gays. Yea us! To him, it's just another one of those things where you have to say the right things. On the other hand, I can't see him splitting his party and base just to toss a bone to some evangelicals whose leaders ain't buying his shit no matter what he does. As president he will nominate a candidate acceptable to his base on gay rights precisely because he doesn't much care and it's a cheap way to keep folks happy. YEA US! Remember the old time Temperance folks who vowed to support a drunk who voted 'right' over a teetotaler who was soft on prohibition? Politically speaking, they had a point.

I don't have the stats to prove it, but I would be willing to bet that a "quite fit" 80 year old middle class white male (even one with access to the most expensive medical services on offer) has a non-trivial probability of death or disability in the next 6 years. Again, no stats at hand, but my guess his odds would be around 50%, give or take, maybe worse. Besides, why should Justice Breyer have to die in the saddle so to speak. With Beto as president he could retire w/o fear of contributing to the destruction of the Republic and spend some quality time with his great-grand kids.

It was January 1996 when I first made way way to Soi Twilight, pointed there by an old-fashioned guidebook, “The Men of Thailand.” The book referred to Bangkok as “Groong Tep.” My memory is fuzzy, but I recall the soi having only one bar, the namesake bar, Twighlight. Inside an old trans woman lorded over the cash box as though she was sure her workers and customers were about to steal it out from under her nose. I left after one quick drink, and all these years later the sight of the mama-san counting her money is my only lasting memory of the place. One reason Soi Twighlight had yet to become the red-hot tourist draw it would become was all the gay go-go bars were across Surawong, along Patpong, mixed in with the straight bars. A year hasn't gone by since when I haven't returned to Bangkok but many years passed before I returned to Soi Twilight. In the 1990s, there were so many great gay nightclubs, a couple in Soi 4, and that den of freedom in Soi 2, DJ Station. That's where I would spend my vacations. When I made my way back to Soi Twighlight, not only had several other go-go bars joined Twighlight (which may have been replaced) but restaurants, beer bars, a pool hall, even a hair salon had taken up residence on the sideline. The soi was packed with handsome young Thai men, drag queens, gay tourists even straight tourists with their little kids snickering about the wrong turn they had made and not wanting to answer their childrens' questions. I was there last just a few months ago, the weekend after New Year's. And the place was dead. A few of the bars remained open, but there were no customers. Even the touts who used to grab me by the upper arm and tow me into one bar or the other, often up staircases, were docile. I could feel it. It was the end of an era. And I continue to wonder why? Are today's tourists sickened by the go-go bar scene? Is it true what news reports say and young people are losing interest or are even disgusted by sex? Is it too difficult to hire staff for these bars? Or is it the effect of the internet and hookup apps? I don't know, but I consider myself lucky to have witnessed the era, to have enjoyed the scene. I already miss it.

Breyer is reportedly quite fit.

I think Indonesia has more Tops than bottoms...I might be wrong, but since I bottom...I'm only looking for tops , lol I stayed at an Ibis type hotel within walking distance to the bars...I paid 30usd per night

GWMinUS, No. This is real. I saw the boy sitting with a customer last Sunday and Monday. This customer is a well known generous regular and I witnessed also gifted 30 garlands , 1000 baht each, total 30,000 baht, handing out to all seven mamasans, singers, some boys earlier this month. Its quite understandable to gift 50,000 baht garland to your favourite boy but give away 30 garlands of total cash 30,000 baht 1,000 each (100B X 10 ) to mamasans and other guys? Unbelievable! No wonder all the mamasans like this customer. I guess this 50,000 baht garlands is farewell gift to the boy for taking care until next time, probably next month. Haha

Did I mention that Ginsburg and Breyer are 85 and 80 yo respectively, and Gorusch and Kavanaugh are 51 and 54.

At some point, one of the candidates for the democratic nomination will secure/win that nomination, and he/she will likely run against Donald Trump. If part of the democratic base stays home like the Bernie Bros did last year, there's a good chance we have 4 more years of the same. I am not sure much could be worse than that. It's why though I have my reasons for wanting Beto to be that candidate, I say nothing about the flaws of Harris, Warren, Biden, Booker, Sanders, Kloubacher, etc etc... because ONE of them will ultimately be MY candidate. If the Dems lose this election, we deserve what we get. Fool me once, shame on you (Republicans), fool me twice, shame on me (Democrats).

The Guardian, Arwah Mahdawi: Lord give me the confidence of a mediocre white man! Specifically, I wouldn’t mind the confidence of Beto O’Rourke. A dude so assured of his inner greatness that, after losing a Senate bid, he decided the next logical step would be to run for president. Not only did he lose, by the way, he lost to Ted Cruz: a man so unlikable there’s even a conspiracy theory floating around that he’s the Zodiac killer. Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t think losing one election disqualifies someone from jumping into the presidential nominations. Stacey Abrams has said “2020 is definitely on the table”, and I’d be 100% behind her running. (Then again, Abrams didn’t really lose the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial contest; she had the election stolen from her because of voter suppression tactics.) No, it’s not Beto’s loss last year that bothers me, it’s his entitlement. His certainty that he’s qualified for the most powerful job in the world despite his lack of experience. His belief that he is qualified for the role despite the fact that he himself has absolutely no idea what he stands for. “I don’t know where I am on a [political] spectrum and I almost could care less,” Beto recently boasted during a stop in Wisconsin. I’ll tell you where Beto is on the political spectrum: he’s wherever it’s most convenient for him to be. He announced his presidential bid by talking about the environment but his six-year record in Congress shows him to be a friend of the fossil fuel industry. His voting record is characterized by flip-flopping and he is vague about his position on healthcare and raising taxes. The only strong conviction he really seems to have is that he deserves to be president. “Man, I’m just born to be in it,” he recently enthused to Vanity Fair. In many senses Beto is right: he was born to be successful. He is, after all, a rich kid from a well-connected family. His dad, Pat O’Rourke was a county judge and got 19-year-old Beto (who had no interest in politics at the time) an internship with the West Texas congressman Ron Coleman. Like many privileged people, Beto seems to have confused his luck for God-given talent; a talent so spectacular that he doesn’t need to do the hard work mere mortals do. “I don’t ever prepare a speech,” he boasted to Vanity Fair. Can you imagine a woman boasting about how she never prepares? No, because women know they need to be overprepared just to get a foot in the door. Ultimately, what might be most frustrating about Beto is that we all know someone like him. He’s the guy in the meeting who hasn’t done any of the work but who repeats a woman’s points and immediately gets a round of applause and a promotion. He’s the guy who pays eloquent lip service to the importance of diversity, but would never go so far as conceding a woman might be better qualified for a job than him. He’s the epitome of mediocre white male confidence. And if there is one thing America does not need at the moment, it’s more mediocre white guys running things.

From CNN (14 Mar.) The world's longest passenger plane is here -- the Boeing 777X The longest passenger jetliner in the world just made its debut. On March 13, the very first Boeing 777X was presented to company employees, inside the airframer's main wide-body manufacturing facility in Everett, Washington. Boeing had planned to unveil the jetliner on Wednesday, but delayed the debut following the crash of its aircraft in Ethiopia. The event was simplified to respect the recent loss of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX 8. At 252 feet, the 777X is longer than its predecessor, the 777-300ER, and the super-stretched Airbus A340-600. It'll even be longer by a nose than the current record-holder, the 747-8, the latest version of Boeing's own "Queen of the Skies" whose aviation-changing ancestor flew 50 years ago. With its maiden test flight expected later this spring, the 777-9 is the larger of the two 777X models that make up Boeing's jetliner program. continues with photos http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/boeing-777x-what-you-need-to-know/index.html

Womp. Womp. I don't get into pissing contests online. It's not worth my time. Enjoy Rio. Don't enjoy Rio. Up to you. I will continue to

I had to pay a little fortune to a private eye, but he found this picture from @Lucky seminary time. I have more, but do not want this thread moved to the porn folder.

Mamie wasn' t having another Kay Summersby around or was she? A male seems a lot safer. Best regards, RA1

And now Banana Bar has just confirmed their earlier than planned Soi Twilight bar closure too - very sad, so many happy memories there with their end of an Era party on the 29th March :-(