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I went to that website to see this for myself. Wow! It's pretty outrageous to single out the guy leading the argument against your point and tell him to give it a rest. Why? What was "Guy" worried about- that he is losing the argument. Speaking of arguments, there is an old saying in the courtroom. "When the facts are on your side, argue the facts. When the law is on your side, argue the law. When neither is on your side, pound the table." Nowhere is insulting your opponent considered a good argument.

How on earth could anything said in an online forum scare anyone? You are reifying the virtual. A dangerous society-wide mental/emotional pathology today.

That's because I'm an unforgettable gay guy.

That's why, in reality and where possible, it is best to go to a place where you can meet and interact with the guy first. A sauna or strip club usually did the job.

That is not quite true. I was intentionally disrespectful a few times, I felt like I had to be. I agree with @Lucky, when the reason is with you, there is no need for insults. I do confess that despite being questionable, I enjoyed it. Anyway, that is all I am going to say about it here in BT. I will be back over there on after June 12.

Thats what im thinking too, just let us travel already haha.

Southern political wisdom: "Never get caught in bed with a dead hooker or a live boy."

I remembered a friend of mine had this before, and i was reading about it and dont recall it was a sexually transmitted disease. A quick google supported this. So while it is contagious, the infected person will get chickenpox instead of shingles. Shingles itself cames from the same virus that caused chicken pox and anyone who has had chicken pox before can develop shingles years later when the virus lays dormant got activated mainly due to weakened immune system. Below is the excerpt from mayo clinic. So, im not sure why the doctor makes that remark about std to you dear and potentially faithful friend when he got shingles. Are you contagious? A person with shingles can pass the varicella-zoster virus to anyone who isn't immune to chickenpox. This usually occurs through direct contact with the open sores of the shingles rash. Once infected, the person will develop chickenpox, however, not shingles. Chickenpox can be dangerous for some people. Until your shingles blisters scab over, you are contagious and should avoid physical contact with anyone who hasn't yet had chickenpox or the chickenpox vaccine, especially people with weakened immune systems, pregnant women and newborns. Risk factors Anyone who has ever had chickenpox can develop shingles. Most adults in the United States had chickenpox when they were children, before the advent of the routine childhood vaccination that now protects against chickenpox. Factors that may increase your risk of developing shingles include: Being older than 50. Shingles is most common in people older than 50. The risk increases with age. Some experts estimate that half the people age 80 and older will have shingles. Having certain diseases. Diseases that weaken your immune system, such as HIV/AIDS and cancer, can increase your risk of shingles. Undergoing cancer treatments. Radiation or chemotherapy can lower your resistance to diseases and may trigger shingles. Taking certain medications. Drugs designed to prevent rejection of transplanted organs can increase your risk of shingles — as can prolonged use of steroids, such as prednisone.

Around the time most South Carolinians were sitting down to their evening meals on Thursday night, a gay porn star by the name of Sean Harding fired off a tweet that set tongues-a-wagging across the Palmetto State (and in the nation’s capital). “There is a homophobic republican senator who is no better than (Donald Trump) who keeps passing legislation that is damaging to the LGBT and minority communities,” Harding tweeted. “Every sex worker I know has been hired by this man. Wondering if enough of us spoke out if that could get him out of office?” Wait … what? “I cannot do this alone,” Harding added in a follow-up tweet. “If you’d be willing to stand with me against LG please let me know.” Hold up … LG? https://www.fitsnews.com/2020/06/05/is-lindsey-graham-about-to-have-a-problem

Think today’s kids will save us.

Poor RockHard. He couldn't win me over as an ally, and he cannot support his argument that I am unpopular. Let's face it.In over 20 years of posting one is bound to ruffle feathers, and I have. Yet most of those folks continue to either like me or tolerate me. Some don't. There is no continuing animosity among board veterans still posting except for RockHard. He doesn't seem to like anyone whom he cannot dominate. RockHard is a smart guy. He can make some great arguments and I often agree with him. But he loves to insult and loves to tell others what to do. Years ago, he and I were on friendly terms. I visit New York often and offered more than once to get together with him. He hemmed and hawed, and once even said his son didn't think it was a good idea. I suggested maybe I should meet his son to show him how harmless I am. There was no sexual connotation to it. I don't know if he even has a son. I don't even know if he lives in New York. I don't know if he actually has any connection to Hollywood, even on the fringes. He has built a character here without any real proof that he is telling the truth. I do believe that he masturbates a lot on Newtumbl.com, and I believe that he takes vacations to Sardinia or wherever in Italy he says. He has actually posted pix of that. Because I have met almost 100 men who post on the boards, people do know me for better or worse. I started the Palm Springs Weekend and people came. Oliver later helped turn it into an even bigger event. So knowing who I am as Lucky is easy. Like me or not, I am here to entertain myself, not you or RockHard. Finally, in a time of pandemic and systemic oppression of people of color, a time when whites are finally beginning to cope with the idea of white privilege and how it is used to prevent change, it seems odd to have a petty squabble with a poster here. I offer a truce to RockHard, in the spirit of the times and because there are just so many more important things to talk about.

Call it political posturing. Call it opportunism. Call it a photo-op. I don't give a shit what anyone calls it. I call it brilliant. Joe Biden has secured this gift now. He has the opportunity to show real leadership. Real heart. Real sorrow. Real compassion. Real courage. And this is one public relations effort that will make Donald Trump look VERY small. And there's not a damn thing Donald Trump can do about it. Sometimes I love politics. Biden to Meet With George Floyd’s Family in Houston Ahead of Funeral

I think they will be watching close if partial re-opening creates increase in new cases and if not , actions to reopen will be swift and brave . And then many countries will discover that bringing back normal economic activity will actually INCREASE death rate compare to Covid closure period due to jump in pollution. I still have high hopes to attend that Grand re-opening of Senso on Aug 1, LOL

yeah, here in TH they seem more afraid of a second wave than they need to. They STILL keep the stupid curfew, no idea what that's supposed to be for now. We had ZERO local transmissions for 2 weeks already. Like that is going to shoot up when they were to lift the 11pm-3am curfew now. Most everyone is at home in bed then anyway, and partying won;t be an issue as bars are closed, so people can and do party at home, curfew or not. It's getting annoying by now.... [end of rant]

fingers, legs and everything else crossed!

I have read about that, but I wonder how they actually do that in practice. Flight arrivals, ok, easy. But road traffic? Do they have road blocks on ALL roads into the province, basically arresting (well sending them into quarantine) people there? Can't really imagine that.... The weekend before last, domestic travel restrictions were ostensibly still in place, i.e. no are extremely limited inter-provincial buses etc. However, road travel was completely normal. I had rented a car and went to Kanchanaburi with a friend. Completely normal trip. The only thing was indeed a check point upon entering Kanchanaburi (but not any of the intervening provinces, go figure) where they simply checked all passengers' temperatures and that was it. If there were a mandatory quarantine like in Chiang Mai, they would have to stop ALL traffic at such check points and deal with the people accordingly. Hard to imagine.... I will ask ask a guy living in my building who just went off to CM on a road trip with his motorbike when he returns what the deal was.

Astonished you were banned at all. But I agree, it is short so that's good. I will greatly miss on the site.

Think of it as joining an honor society - I was following your postings closely and you wrote nothing that was even a little disrespectful. It just once again proves what everyone already knows about that site.

Malaysia gov has opened up domestic travel. Within an hour, 1000 hotels bookings made to one island destination, langkawi. 5 stars hotel slashing prices up to 70%.

Feelings are nice to have, but facts are more important in epidemiology. COVID cases and deaths are, in all likelihood, underreported. The conspiracy theory that you refer to (pushed by right wing media) has been debunked by nonpartisan fact check organizations. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/social-media-posts-make-baseless-claim-on-covid-19-death-toll/

Btw, malaysia gov just announced there will be no 14 days quarantined for returning malaysian citizens starting 10th June. All returnee will be required to be tested though, and can go back home once a negative test result is obtained. Things are looking good on one end now.

If I were to hole up in a resort on Phuket, I will definitely invite a boy to stay with me!

I remember that one of the most well liked person there was @Lucky

Again, Daddy’s urge to purge his best contributors is perhaps the best clue to the nature of his mental illness. If one could even dignify the phenomenon by that term.

Was there a time when one could call an agency, tell them what kind of guy you liked, and he would appear shortly after at your door? Wow!

RockHardNYC, I still post on the other site and have since around 2000, with a couple of years off by my own choice. Something you can not match. Why have I done ok there. Because I don't constantly brag about myself, my "circle," my vacations. While you have attacked Daddy lately I have supported @Latbear4blk

The basic reason is Daddy was a "program" person who lucked out in getting a job he was only vaguely qualified for. He will never be HooBoy, who was inventive, often hilarious (example: changing hotels in London to post reviews), loved by escorts, and quite talented.

If I have to catch covid19, that would definitely be my preferred way!

Leave Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski alone. Mitt's dad was a good guy too. As we're Earl Warren, Margaret Chase Smith, Dwight Eisenhower, Ed Brooke, Everett Dirkson and George Jessel.

You bore other members with your constant harping on Daddy. One would think he is worse than Tokyo Rose, Charles Lindbergh, & Roy Cohn. He isn't.

I guess I missed a few words. LOL. By all means, get out your calculator and add up my contributions to the hundreds of threads you start. Everyone knows you crave attention. All you care about is View Counts, and you've said so many times, which is why many members have mocked you. Pretend to ignore you? I don't think so. I can't stomach two-faced hypocrites. If your supposed "SHAME" caused you to leave the board tomorrow, I wouldn't miss you. Hypocrites starving for attention bore the daylights out of me. ZERO CREDIBILITY!

In fact I have enjoyed some great sex with fat boys & girls. What is the Yiddish word — zaftig. They often very much know how to enjoy life, and how to give and receive pleasure. ’Milord Falstaff!’

From South China Morning Post How Cambodia’s floating hospitals are saving the lives of its poorest communities The Lake Clinic takes medical care offshore to 10,000 of those who make a meagre living on Tonlé Sap, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia Tonlé Sap, in northern Cambodia, is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. During the May to October rainy season, it swells to six times its dry-season size, extending over 16,000 sq km – an area 200 times that of Hong Kong Island. Tonlé Sap has also long been one of the planet’s most produc­tive inland fisheries. More than a million people depend on the lake for their livelihood, and about 100,000 live in its vicinity. While many dwell in stilted villages on the lake’s flood­plain, the poorest huddle in floating communities on Tonlé Sap itself, sometimes hours from dry land. Their homes are often fragile, rain-leaking shacks cobbled together from woven reeds, scraps of plywood, tin sheets and tarpaulins, all lashed to wooden or bamboo rafts kept afloat on air-filled oil drums. They are among the most isolated communities in Cambodia, the vast majority relying on subsistence fishing for their survival. According to the World Health Organisation, Cambodia has just 1.7 doctors for every 10,000 people (Hong Kong has close to 20, according to government figures released last year). Floating communities on the lake have long had access to zero. American Jon Morgan first became troubled by the lack of health care on Tonlé Sap in the 1990s, after completing his master’s in public health at the University of Hawaii. Morgan, who went on to co-found the Angkor Hospital for Children, in nearby Siem Reap, noted the lake dwellers’ poverty, lack of education, poor nutrition and hygiene. Add to that the high fees for treatment, available only far from home, and it was a perfect storm of preventable diseases and treatable injuries that could ruin or end lives. “I thought, my God, this is a nightmare,” says Morgan, now 67. “Somebody has to do something.” His solution was The Lake Clinic – Cambodia (going, aptly, by the acronym TLC), which became a reality in 2007 and has grown in scope and ambition ever since. Through the years, TLC has provided more than 240,000 individual medical services to people living on Tonlé Sap, and today operates five “floating clinics” – four on the lake and one on the adjoining Stung Sen River – catering to more than 10,000 inhabitants in nine of the most underserved floating communities. With five doctors, two nurses, four midwives, a dental nurse and support staff, funded purely by private donations, TLC’s two home-grown medical teams each make a three-day trip into the field every week. They live and work on offshore facilities, providing free medical care and health education to the most forgotten people in one of Asia’s poorest countries. Continues with photos https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3087394/how-cambodias-floating-hospitals-are-saving

Practically every disease more adversely affects the elderly and the immunocompromised. First and only post, and it’s both an epidemiological fail and a loony conspiracy theory all in one.

Square in front of White House today.

I really liked Scott. I think Rick still posts at Daddy's under another name.

cooked up stats to force vaccines and nano particle tracing which are unsafe toxic and untested . yes the virus is real but it affects the elderly and ones with compromised immune systems.

We are having a battle in the other site. I invite those who still participate over there to join and choose a side. There are more but the most important threads are these two: https://www.message-forum.net/threads/blm-is-racist.157897/ https://www.message-forum.net/threads/denouncing-usa-state-terrorism.157828/ The second one is the thread I opened mirroring this BoyToy thread. They are similar only at the beginning. I am joining the protests in a couple of hours, and I am planning on reporting on it with pics, mostly posted mostly in my Twitter. I cannot stay longer at home watching TV and quarreling in the screens.

? I am not telling anyone what to do, beyond sharing mu opinion like anyone else.

With all the work stress falling off at retirement you could as well expect a rehornization process to start

....that I just needed something to make me smile. This video about a Filipino and his dog did it for me. At least they have each other. It also made me more aware that when I say I miss Thailand, what I'm really missing are moments of intimacy. And the older I get, that matters more than all the other reasons for wanting to return.

Trump did not create racism, but he has used it and exploited it for his political benefit. He has ignored it, belittled its consequences, and courted the support of racists. He has made plain his contempt for his predecessor, our nation’s first black president. When Obama was elected president, many commentators declared that America was finally a post-racial society. With a man of African descent in the presidency, with a racially integrated Cabinet, with a black man leading the Justice Department, the stain of racism would at last be abolished. The commentators were wrong. Racism is thriving. It will destroy our nation until we assure equal justice to every citizen, until we guarantee that everyone has the same rights and privileges, until we provide every man, woman, and child with decent health care, housing, education, and a decent standard of living. We can’t eliminate racism entirely, but we can remove its adherents from the seats of power, we can stigmatize it. We can choose leaders who fight for freedom, justice, and a decent standard of living for all people. Unless we do so, our tattered democracy will not survive. We can’t let that happen. We must be willing and able to pursue genuine change, a social democracy in which every one of us is protected equally by the law and has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

White people don't get to decide what is racist and what is not.... and don't get to tell people of color what to do about it. That's all.

The rage coursing through the streets of Minneapolis and other cities is born from hundreds of years of oppression, exploitation and violence boiling over. When we see this violence, but we must be clear-eyed about where core responsibility lies. Millions have seen clear video of a police officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck while others stood calmly by. When peaceful protestors took to the streets, state actions escalated the situation rather than calming it by responding with violence: assaulting, gassing and arresting protestors. Police even arrested a CNN news crew during a live broadcast, further undermining our first amendment rights. The state escalated the situation rather than calming it.

From NYTimes John Singer Sargent’s Drawings Bring His Model Out of the Shadows The best exhibitions tell strong human stories, ones that we might not otherwise know. Such is the case with “Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, a small show that’s built around a sensational painting, and that has an unreadable relationship at its heart. The Gardner is, of course, in lockdown these days, and there’s no telling when that will end. But its show is compelling enough to make an impact even at a distance, through online images, a stirring short video, and an excellent book, all of which I recommend. The lead characters of the tale are named in the title, though in an order of importance that might baffle some historians. Surely, they would think, Sargent (1856-1925) should have been listed first. The European-born American was one of the art luminaries of his day, a power-portraitist to the elite on both sides of the Atlantic (Isabella Stewart Gardner was a repeat sitter) who commanded top prices for his attentions. Thomas Eugene McKeller (1890-1962) was a bellhop and elevator attendant at Boston’s deluxe Hotel Vendome, where Sargent often stayed, and one of the many beautiful men he hired as studio models. Among them, McKeller may have been the only African-American. And he was possibly one of the few models of whom Sargent would come to say, in a letter to a friend,“ I don’t know what I shall do without him.” The two men met in 1916, most likely at the Vendome, when Sargent was visiting from his home in London. At 60, the cosmopolitan bachelor — born in Florence, art-trained in Paris — was in the process of making a career transition from portraiture to the more prestigious genre of architectural decoration. Boston had become the staging place for that change. In 1890, the Boston Public Library invited Sargent to contribute allegorical murals to its interior. Next came an important commission from the Museum of Fine Arts (the M.F.A.) for mural cycles for the rotunda and grand staircase of its new building. Finally, Harvard University asked him to contribute monumental paintings to its Widener Memorial Library, commemorating student lives lost in World War I. Sargent’s response was yes, yes, and yes. It was for the M.F.A. project that Sargent first hired McKeller, whom he likely spotted at the Vendome. Then 26, McKeller had been born in Wilmington, N.C., when the city had had a thriving majority African-American population. And he was there, still a child, in 1898 when an explosion of anti-black violence changed all that. There was every reason for him to leave town and he eventually did, making his way to Boston where, after hotel work and a stint in the Army, he took a long-term post-office position, married at 44, and permanently settled down. (There may have been an additional reason for his departure from home. In the exhibition video, McKeller’s great-niece, Deidre O’Bryant suggests that McKeller was suspected of being gay. “To be gay was taboo,” she says, “even within your own family.”) Continues with additional drawings and a video https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/arts/design/john-singer-sargent-drawings-gardner-museum.html