PeterRS

Do any cafes/restaurants have really crisp crumbly croissants? I love to finish breakfast with one or two with lashings of marmalade and a large espresso. Almost everywhere Ive tried that offers them have what feel and taste like thick cold lumps of dough. Nowhere near the taste of even a moderately decent croissant.

http://www.gaythailand.com/forums/topic/11152-when-did-gaybutton-stop-being-stop-being-a-gay-forum/ As Scooby's post on this thread makes obvious, there is now a problem with uploading photos using the photobucket site. For whatever reason the site has suddenly closed all 3rd party hosting of imaegs from its members libraries. To continue you need to pay $400US per year!! Unlike this site where photos can be uploaded directly to posts this new photobucket policy has seriously affected the gaybutton site which requires using sites like photobucket for adding pics. Seems GB is asking members to repost travel reports using different upload sites. This renders links to the old pages useless. For those interested the Bhutan and Nepal trip reports recently mentioned in the above thread are now replaced by http://gaybuttonthai.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8577 http://gaybuttonthai.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8579

The Priority Lanes are available to quite a number of people in addition to the over 70s. First and biz class passengers on most flights, APEC Biz Travel card holders and others. So it always amazes me that there are so few at those desks. After all a Qatar 777 will have around 40 in biz class and an Emirates A380 up to 90 in first and biz. Some will be transferring to other airlines, but it always seems whenever I arrive that most of these passengers really dont know about the Premium Lane. They certainly dont seem to go near it.

Quite agree. But some guys may not enjoy that option especially if they have an executive role in the company they work for. If your office is going to get in touch, lay down rules before you depart about when and how they can contact you on only urgent business. Then try to set aside a maximum of 30 minutes every 2 or 3 days to get the work done.

There is also a similarly well illustrated article on visiting Nepal http://gaybuttonthai.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8511 I heard there is a chance of Nepal following Taiwan in approving gay marriage. Did you hear that santosh108?

Not much discussion yet on the effects of stress on the body during a lifetime. A doctor once told me that she had come across so many cases of mild illness being caused as a result of stress in a job, at home or with a partner. Unless the patient took steps to relieve that stress it would build up over time and could have a serious long term effect in the ageing process. There are also the results of stress caused through living in stress-inducing cities. For most guys I reckon finding ways to relieve such on going stress is less easy than just giving up smoking or big Macs, if only because many are not really conscious of the stress. Things like regular exercise and yoga then become more important. And of course regular trips to Thailand!

Well thats not how it came out! I suggest you could have chosen your words more carefully to better effect.

Just checked - the company's name was Island Caprice. Boring vdos but cute guys. I may be wrong in suggesting they moved to the Philippines. I think that must be another company. Seems they just stopped making movies. They are still available for purchase on line or pay per view. I see from their website they are now also distributing tons of western vdos. But the Thai ones despite the boys being cute are slow. slow. slow! There was another company with much better vdos, Thai Twink Productions, now defunct I believe. I ordered a few from them but was concerned they might have a problem delivering to Bangkok. Island Caprice would not deliver to Asia because, the owner told me, they would be first pirated and then appear on the internet within 24 hours and he'd lose sales. I told the people at Thai Twink that I was a bit concerned about delivery. No problem, a nice young man replied. He himself was a recent Thai graduate working in California and happened to be coming to Bangkok the following week. He will hand deliver them! He was a very cute guy of 25. To thank him, I took him to dinner, something clicked and he then spent the night! Now that is what I call real Thai service!

Not sure if I picked wrong days or forgot vinapus rule but on the two occasions I have visited Senso I left very underwhelmed, Way overpriced and little enthusiasm during and after the massage. Only plus factor is its location. But I wont go back.

Nope. About 15 years ago I did have a correspondence with the guy in California who produced a lot of vdos under a label I have forgotten. I just wanted to know where he found the boys for the vdos which were all very definitely filmed here in Thailand. He told me they mostly came from 3 or 4 Pattaya bars. I think this particular company has given up filing here and moved over to the Philippines a few years ago. He did tell me a bit about all the boring parts of filming. He did it to make money, not to ogle the boys. I really have to laugh at the naivete! I am sure you are correct. The police will laugh long and loud. Not at the Thai. They will laugh because yet another farang has landed on their doorstep with lots of tea money being demanded before they let him off. And when the farang gets on his high horse shouting its all legal because I had his permission, the boy will have disappeared and the cops will insist he is underage. Pay up my friend or youll find yourself in jail for an undetermined time. Then there is the embarrassment of your photo being displayed in all the media behind photos of this boy. Without an ID card theyll claim he was underage. With an ID card theyll claim he was coerced. Thats the Thai way. Whichever, you will find yourself behind bars. And most likely you will also find yourself on an international sex offenders list. Think before you snap!

I think if you had ever gone as far as trying to fulfil that fantasy youd have found the whole business more than boring (pun intended!). With a story line, you need characters. You need somewhere to shoot (pun intended!). You need a camera, a light or two and some makeup. (Ever seen movies with guys with shiny faces?) Then you need different camera angles if you are not going to bore the pants off the viewers (oops!). So it will be a constant stop, start, stop, start, why cant the boy get erect again, perhaps a pause for some bodily function appearing unexpectedly., quick shower, cant get it up again ... Then you sneeze at the exact same time as the cum shot and the camera is out of focus! Try getting him to cum again without hanging around for half an hour or so. Glad you have dropped the idea. Leave it to the pros. Enjoy the boys.

I have never seen the need to take photos. Thats not to suggest that one off is like another. The great thing is that most are different in their own way and are enjoyable for different reasons. I dont have a particularly good memory but I do tend to recall those who were special even from many years ago. That memory is all I need.

I completely agree about hand luggage. Most airlines have regulations and maximum dimensions for hand baggage. In my experience, usually economy passengers are restricted to one wheely bag or backpack that can go into the overhead bins and one briefcase type bag for a laptop for under the seat. Regularly I see passengers with an overlarge wheely bag, a backpack, several large shopping bags and duty free. This seems worse in Asia than Europe and the USA. US airlines seem to stick much more to the rules. What pisses me off there are the passengers seated near the back of the plane regularly put their bags into the first free overhead bin space they find, even if it is 20 rows in front. That screws up the entire system and results in other passengers having ti check their bags. I still don't agree about backpacks. Flight attendants have to check your boarding pass on entry to the aircraft. It would be a simple matter for them to ask passengers to take backpacks off and hand carry them.

Thats a stupid allegation. You are telling me I am making all this up? BS! The fact that you are responsible in the way you walk along a plane aisle with your backpack on does not mean that another tourist with a very large backpack overpacked to the gills does not cause problems for other passengers with thoughtless turning around? You need to do some more research on some of the other Asian airlines especially those from China and the Indian subcontinent. Dont criticise when your experience is quite limited!

Not likely. Most of them are straight and working under cover!

Never mind local transport coming in to Bangkok. Worse are the airlines flying people into Bangkok - and everywhere else. I have tried completing the in-aircraft report forms, speaking to pursers, writing directly to airlines and their airport managers. Nothing works. It is crazy to permit people to wear backpacks as they board an aircraft. Aisles are so narrow I have been hit on the face several times when someone suddenly stops and turns because he realises hes past his seat or wants to chat to his friend. These people really have no idea they are a danger yet they are. What if a seated passenger is hit on the eye by one of the backpack straps? This issue should not be left to individual passengers. It should be a mandate from IATA or the relevant licensing authority.

Kokopelli is a respected member of this forum. Number of posts has zilch to do with quality of posts. You will be well advised to take note of the history of one Beachlover. He made thousands of mostly pointless posts over a very short time. He got banned - permanently.

That would be the case in most western countries and I agree. But how sure are you that Thai drivers, motocy owners or anyone else who could be in a position to cause you physical injury actually have insurance? Some will not. Are you prepared to take the risk of being run down by a drunken driver without insurance and you require brain surgery? I would rather have the comfort of travel insurance especially in any country where I might be particularly at risk of such a situation arising.

I have. The policy states this as an exclusion: Motor cycling, as either driver or passenger, unless the driver holds a a current licence permitting him/her to ride the motorcycle.

What do you know about his life to even suggest that last sentence? You know little or nothing about how he contributes to society. And how do you define a contribution to society? You and numazu belong to hugely different generations. You were married with kids. He has a partner and like many in gay relationships nowadays enjoys both a much greater degree of sexual freedom and the cash and much reduced costs nowadays to enjoy it. You say "I could have done exactly what he seems to be doing but I had reasons not to do so". Really? When you were his age HIV-AIDS was about to cut a swathe through gay men and gay sex tourism was far different and far less developed to what it is today. No doubt you were afraid of death and the possibility that if you caught HIV you might pas it on to your wife if you were still married by then (I dont want or need to know). You will also recall that prior to AIDS many gay men in the USA went almost crazy with all sorts of promiscuous sex and multiple partners to enjoy the freedoms they had gained since Stonewall. They gay world was terrified. I know because I felt that terror when I became sexually active. Then you add "I find myself fortunate and proud that I didn't." Good on you. You are you. I am me. Numazu is Numazu. We are all different. Accept it! You just will not understand that since Thailand started opening up to gay tourism, much of it gay sex tourism - ironically at around the same time in the early 1980s, many millions have visited the country, lived in the country and return regularly to the country. Some gay westerners work in other parts of Asia and along with a growing number of Asians probably come here several times a year. For most of their time sex is likely to be foremost in their minds. Back home they may be pillars of society. But I have no right to criticise anyone of having an "excessive" sex drive just because he is different from me? Same for you.

It is what it is. Like it or not. If you continue to call members here "sex addicts who react like rambunctious children" I cant see you having a very long future here.

Steveboy, most who post on any type of chat forums set themselves up for some sort of opposing comments. Thankfully we are all different and many hold differing opinions. Some comments are critical of others. But you take criticism too far. The Oxford online dictionary defines criticism as "the expression of disapproval of someone or something on the basis of perceived faults or mistakes." And above you define your posts as I recall you saying you are now 70 or thereabouts and that at numazu age you would have a different outlook on sex (something like that). You have also been married and have children. Numazu does not. Your perspective inevitably is very, very different and you disagree with it. Fine! But you overdo it and its clear that most others dont agree. To quote Shakespeare: "Methinks thou doest protest too much!" Even your use of "Witch Hunt" in the title of this thread is overblown. It is both emotive and flat wrong.

In many years here have never heard of the ticketing agency ticketmelon.com. I have no intention of going but I trust this is a kosher operation.

Misquote. I wrote "even with a full-time job". But that does not mean I worked 16 hours a day 7 days a week at that age. There was plenty of time to earn a living and plenty of time to enjoy other things in life wherever in the world I found myslef. You seem to have a thing against numazu writing about his sexual exploits? Why? Im sure hed be happy to write about his daily eating habits and drinking habits if he thought these would be of any interest here. This happens to be a Board about gay life in Thailand and that includes a lot about sex and sexual activities. So it is totally understandable that he concentrates on the sex element much to the delight and gratitude of other readers - apart from one it seems. So what if he writs about sex to the exclusion of much else? As a frequent traveller I am certain he has tons of time at airports, on planes, in taxis and so on where it is easy to jot down his exploits. Anyone with his sort of travel schedule can easily do that without its affecting his work and other parts of his life. Besides he reads like a natural writer who does not have to spend much time thinking first of what he wants to write. To suggest that he might not have a life apart from sex is just plain dumb! Sorry!

I reckon most people who believe they shuold ration their sexcapades until they reach Steve's venerable age are nuts! Life is short and I for one enjoyed a lot of sex at that age where and when I could find it even with a full-time job. Perhaps a straight marriage dulled your appetite, Steveboy. No offence intended.