steveboy

That the Heavenly Powers intervene and give you their blessings !!!

There is a common perception that to argue is to fight. It is not. I argue often, and some take it as a fight... and fight back. It has nothing to do with loneliness. I have been living for 20 years with my bf, and he is the last one I would fight with, and we don't even argue. So I have to argue with someone, hahaha... and members of a forum offer good opportunities because many like to argue too.. Don't worry, there are worse karmas than argumentative people...

Your phrase made me think how well it applies to the US elections: "All TRUMP voters may not have been racists but you can be damn sure all racists were TRUMP voters."

Who still have their conscious? Every healthy human has his/her "conscious"... You probably wanted to write "conscience". Not to worry, the English taught in Singapore is not perfect, and Singlish comes in to help out. La vita e bella? Strange statement from you, who seems so bitter worrying about putting people on "ignore" and complaining about trolls, furthermore releasing some spite in "some whiners aka losers. These minions should be relegated out of this forum and banished forever for stirring up unpleasantness." Maybe a bella vita is your wishful thinking? I can truly claim La Vita e Bella, living without bitterness and anger, wishing happiness to everybody and the thick skin that preserves such happiness in forums.

It is always suspicious when someone brags about his "points" and what fantastic deals he gets with them. Points don't grow on trees. And membership privileges don't come without member's frequent expenditures. To accumulate points one has to shell out a lot of money, and the points motivate the receivers to spend even more money. A person with a lot of points is a person who generously subsidizes the points givers...

Ignoring someone is not an act of defeat, in any way. But putting someone on "ignore", so that the site hides the person for you, is defeat. Because you don't have the control to ignore the person in the first place. For example, I can ignore your posts that antagonize and spout some venom, like most people sometimes do, and they don't bother me in the least. So I can ignore you perfectly well if I want. And to see your posts with the avatar showing buns or flesh or whatever, no problema. What I need the site to hide you from me?

This feature allows one to make a list of "Users I'm Ignoring" and select to hide their posts, messages, etc. When we "ignore" a user, his posts are not shown to us. To ignore is an act of will, exercised on something that we perceive. How can we "ignore" something that gets hidden to us and thus we cannot perceive? Instead of "ignore", shouldn't it be "hide", or "mask", or "shield from", or "protect from" ?? This feature called my attention the other day when user "firecat69" wrote me an ugly post to tell me that he did put me on ignore. Apparently he got pissed off over something I wrote, and the best way he found to "ignore" me was to write me something shitty. Go figure! I got curious about this feature, but I will never use it. In the first place, I don't hate anybody here or feel disgust over anyone's posts. Secondly, when I find messages I don't like I ignore them... myself. No need to have the server do it for me, and by the way, I get to see WHAT I am ignoring. Also, putting someone on ignore is a recognition of DEFEAT, an inability to cope with someone in such an innocuous place as an online forum. We may be gay, but we also should have balls. I don't "ignore" firecat69. Sometimes he posts useful data and pictures of seductive boys. And his nonsense I ignore silently, if I don't reply it with even more nonsense... I participate in another forum where ignoring users does not exist, but one can vote up or down a post. If a post gets enough negative votes it becomes "hidden". For me, this brings the curiosity to see why it was hidden and I restore it to read with attention. While if the post would not have been "hidden" I may not have given it any attention. All this rumination is simply my opinion. I hope you agree, but if not... you can IGNORE IT

I saw the Nantra Silom on Priceline for 20 dollars (!) for the standard room at beginning of January. Free cancellation available, free internet... At that price, should one expect also free bed bugs ?

I have a compulsion to divulge my personal dental care experience. I have always been prone to cavities and I've a mouth full of crowns over prior root-canal work. About a year ago I had again a tooth ache sign of impending cavity. I followed the clandestine advice of a dental professional and started to do "oil pulling". This is a traditional way of "pulling out" bacteria from the teeth by taking a sip of coconut oil (liquid or solid) and swishing it between the teeth for 5 to 10 minutes. The idea is that germs like the oil more than he teeth, haha. The oil is thereafter spitted out in the trash. After a short time my tooth ache went away, and so the prospect of crown removal, tooth drilling, and what not. This was nearly a year ago and since then I do this every day. I hope to keep the dentist only in my memory...

SIM cards come in four different sizes: Full size SIM (the earliest one), mini-SIM, micro-SIM, and nano-SIM (the latest one). Your modern smartphone has either the micro or the nano size. There are adapters that allow a phone made for larger sizes to use the smaller sizes. The active chip is identical in the different size cards. When you buy a SIM they will give you the right size for your smartphone.

Thank you, Hutchison. There is benefit in being intellectual: strong intellect leads to strong fantasies about Asian boys, and when the fantasies materialize, strong performance And the rest becomes history...

Thanks for the tip. These days I welcome any forum where I can vent my disgust over the political disaster in my country...

This is why I wrote "when (a thread) naturally derives to other topics." This website is about gay Thailand. No need to specifically open threads unrelated to this, although some topics only marginally related can be interesting, and should be welcomed. This thread about Thailand gay forums naturally included some history of these forums. Then it digressed about languages, trusting of news, and how history is made. Nothing evil here. You can always return to the main topic.

Trip Advisor is my first choice for information about hotels, the same as travelgayasia is my first choice for information about gay scenes. I have been doing my contribution to these sites with my reviews after every trip. And tripadvisor is not only about hotels. I did recently a search of "gay hotels in Bangkok". The Babylon Bangkok was listed, with nearly 300 reviews, and most of them were... about the sauna! More reviews than in the gay sites... and LOL! I got a chance to see how subjective these reviews are, since I know the place in-and-out. Also interesting is the search "gay hotels in Singapore", which gives a wealth of information I don't find anywhere else. Just comparing the hotel prices between SIN and BKK one realizes what a good value BKK is

Where is the problem? Unless gaythailand.com is running out of space on its servers, what is the cost of extending the scope of a thread when it naturally derives to other topics? All the participants we can choose which threads to follow and which posts to read. What may not interest one person can interest another one. I for example enjoy the discussion about history. If not, I would not be posting here. We should not give consideration to negative people who complain about threads going out of topic (in their opinion), about "trolls" posting in ways they see as interference (in their opinion). The only opinions that are relevant here are that of the owners of the site, and they exercise their will regardless. Maybe this site is successful because it is not excessively moderated. I think that history has changed for the better in the last decades with the explosion of information exchange, thanks to the Internet and other modern media. Future generations may have a more factual base of the history of our times. But in particular this year's elections in the US have given us more reasons to be cynical and agnostic about the embellishments historians like to paint into their works.

Oh... I'm so relieved that there is no problem offing mr. Dee...

This has to do with teasing. Boys who provoke (dancing in bars for example) but are not "offable". I found an interesting old thread here "Non-offable boys" in http://www.gaythailand.com/forums/topic/8885-non-offable-boys/ Here I agree with ChristianPFC: if attractive boy working at gogo bar keeps enticingly smiling, he should be willing to go further.

Good move. Even a modest home you own shows stability. Homes are still cheap in some markets and mortgage rates are low. A class action suit? Against whom?

Cannot you return to the USA and settle here while your BF comes to visit you periodically on a tourist visa? A person of your experience may find a job that pays more than 125% of the poverty threshold, and your BF could visit and stay with you three or four times a year for a significant fraction of the time. If this takes him ten trips until you can petition him on a fiance visa, the cost of $10,000 should not be so steep. And two, three years pass quickly!

You must be right... There are thousands of soap operas based on this principle.

The truth is that we all have our own truth, that may be different from that of others. In a relationship, it is wise not to speak out our truths too much. Even more, not to speak reality (not the same as truth) too much. Realities, truths can hurt. Instead, we should filter what we want to say with the test: "will this be positive?". This is maybe one way a relationship between a young Thai and an old farang may work. Of course, the experienced farang will have to care for this, the young Thai may not have any inkling about.

More than cynicism what you wrote is realism. On the positive side, we can make our love unconditional if we make the effort to have it so; it does not come automatically. Like happiness also requires our conscious effort and does not come automatically.

It is not so different for us gays. I have a child, and my love as a father is not much different than the love I had for my parents when they were alive. The love between parent and child is of different kind than the love between partners, and the two should not mutually interfere. Me and my child's mother we were wise to not let this happen, and we divorced when our relationship deteriorated to the point of making it desirable. This move resulted in everyone's benefit. The love husband-wife was suspended but the love father-child persists.

For whom are you waiting to give you permission to go back to the topic of this thread? Don't waste your posts on complaining. POST that what you want to see posted.

Thank you, ct2005. You are a wise person, and you must sleep well at night.