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LOL! Me a celibate priest pontificating how dirty sex is.... I have never been in Tawan bar. And I doubt that I will ever step inside. But I am thankful for all the first hand information I get about it.

To think that the big size of the guys in Tawan is not normal, is this obsession too?

abang1961, Yes, I have good experience with Asians, enough to realize that the idea of Asians having it small is a myth. You should not be concerned, you are well endowed from behind, and being slim, you must be from the front too. In preparation for a slow progress to middle-age, a good way to preserve and enhance your investment in buns can be some good exercising with weights. Walking long lunges is one of the best exercises for the butt, if possible while holding heavy dumbbells in each hand. And a good butt looks the best below a muscular lower back, which can be achieved with sets of stiff leg deadlifts.

Well, I am not shocked to read rappa999 nor do I mind being called "sordid". Having being raised a Catholic since childhood I understand perfectly well such opinion. And I think rappa999 is entitled to his opinion. If he does the same as what he criticizes, it is not hypocrisy but self condemnation. If we really have collective intelligence and progressive nature, we have to take his opinion graciously and respond in kind. rappa999 is wrong in his view that coming to LOS purely for the purpose of having sex with young prostitutes is sordid. The very term "prostitute" is incorrectly associated with "sordid". I spent my professional life selling my time for money, which is not different from selling myself for money. Prostitution does not need to be any more sordid than that, as long as the work of prostitution is given some respect. Practically all the posters here treat their sex workers with respect. The boys are not victimized, they get paid for their services, which they do voluntarily. The same my employer did with me at work. Here the true VICTIM is rappa999, who is retaining in his mind a sanctimonious indoctrination that may not reflect reality. Let's wish him that with more experience, maturity, and a lot of reading of these threads he may free himself of negative prejudices.

Don't worry, I get plenty of laughter in this forum, only surpassed in a forum I participate in that is about religion. The problems you mentioned: "The number of gun deaths, its low wages,its dealings in the Middle East,racial tension,tension with Russia,China,and its multi trillion dollar debt." The effect of these problems have not been escalating. They surely pale in comparison with the problems this nation went through last century. And these problems don't keep people from wanting to immigrate here. And you have to evaluate problems in a global context. How else can you place them in a scale that is completely relative? Do you live in a country without problems? That would be... laughable.

Yes. The successor prince Vajiralongkorn may have to work hard to earn the respect of his people, although this "lesse majeste" law may help. By the way, this reminds me of the King of Heaven of the Christian religion. Here there is even a more draconian lesse majeste law, for example in the Catechism, with penalties that are not a short 15 years, but all eternity in hell. So I wish the lovely Thai people, besides an adorable relationship with their new King, a liberation from their forced adoration. Let the man EARN their love.

You must have a wide-angle camera...

It should not be so relevant in the back. But in the front, smaller stuff could mean that there is less to cover.

Her report card is still light-years better than that of GW Bush.

You are right. As far as I can remember, it has never been so much a "choice of the least evil".

You may expect much criticism, but in reality your post is more a source of laughter. Your litany of problems in the USA pales in comparison with problems elsewhere in the world.

We all look forwards to the final debate and of course the outcome of the election. It is all an entertainment of the first class. The thinking about Trump comes with a reflection on karma. After he smeared so many people with the most abominable bashing and falsities, here came the revelation of the tape with his sex talk, and now a bunch of women come out of the woodwork to accuse him. How will he react after he loses? Something interesting to see and ponder.

I am surprised how little attention the death of the King has had in the US. Maybe we are all embroiled in the Donald Trump phenomenon, but I read about the King yesterday in the paper... on page eight! Also I saw nothing of him on the main page of news websites. I feel of course sadness for the King and sympathy with the Thai people, but I see nothing wrong in being concerned mainly about the Thai sex industry. If it comes down to sympathy, I think the people in Syria deserve some more, but we don't need to tell this to the Thai.

What is "triumphant" about being a MAN? Aren't we all either man or woman, most probably a man if we are in this forum? As a voter, I don't vote for a gender but for the qualifications to be a president.

You obviously did not read the comments at the end of your article. Here readers questioned the accuracy of the data, that does not agree with other sources. Reliable sources put the participation of the 18-24 at 64%, much higher than the 36% in your article. And then there is this nonsense that the young had "the most to lose" because they will live the longest, and they propose to weight the vote by age, giving the youngest the most weight because they will live the longest! This is totally asinine, because it assumes that we care less the older we get. BIG MISTAKE! When we have children and grandchildren we care the most for the future of society. You cannot expect to get ahead in any discussion by choosing such poor references.

All this is unbelievable and stupid to you because you have no understanding, no intelligence. Your blaming of non voters is a dumb attempt to find fault. I have a long experience with such dumbness. Old people like you complain even more than young people. The young have all the right to complain about the ignorance of the old ones who voted against their interests. Even primitive societies trust the elders and not the youngsters with making the important decisions. It took some experience about the role of UK in the EU and the consequences of leaving it. This area of expertise belongs to the more mature citizens, not the young ones. The young did nothing wrong by not voting, which was their right. I have lived in places where voting is mandatory, and I have seen that it makes little difference. Young or old, many people don't get involved in politics and voting until something very serious affects them, and by then it is usually too late.

I don't need to answer you, you answer yourself with more idiotic comments. Bernie Sanders has served as USA CONGRESSMAN in his last 25 years in office. Therefore, HE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LAWS IN THE STATE OF VERMONT. (I hope that writing in capital letters will allow you to see this) Both in the House (16 years) and then the Senate (nearly 8 years) he was and is part of the FEDERAL government, and therefore has no involvement nor authority at the STATE level. Another of your comments, which makes one wonder what education comes with some "Masters Degree", is your blaming of brexit on the young people who didn't vote !! SINCE WHEN ARE THOSE WHO DON'T VOTE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RESULTS OF AN ELECTION?? Why don't you blame the older folks who DID VOTE for brexit? I have no interest in continuing this discussion. I may only answer if you come for more.

WHAT? You accuse me of attacking you personally in the same sentence you call me a MORON? I never called you names, but I now see that I don't need to. You reveal yourself to be a MORON, not only in your attitude but in your essence. Already I mentioned that you copied some of Trump's abominable lies, like calling a person with 30+ years in government a ZERO, and making him responsible for not fixing everything. Only a MORON would do that, and you should join the Trump campaign.

Yes, I like to be comical. But not because of ignorance. That would make me ridiculous. You seem to have a ridiculous fixation on the issue of starting bills. What is so great about that? There are thousands of bills who were introduced by someone and never went anywhere. As KhorTose correctly mentioned, the fact that Bernie was not a member of a major party kept him from his name being assigned to a bill even if he co-sponsored some. It is much more important to intelligently amend and fight for a bill than having his name on it. Why you think that students are particularly stupid? Have you never been a student? You keep criticizing people for doing ZERO, yet you have no standing, no reference from any accomplishments YOU have reached in your long life. Criticizing is cheap.

Yes, your post is a joke. It sounds eerily close to the bashing of Trump who said that Hillary had accomplished ZERO in her 30 years in government. Are you now stealing his lines? You two guys need to go back to elementary school to learn the meaning, the value of ZERO. Can you please list the accomplishments you had in 30+ years in the workforce?

So now Bernie Sanders is responsible for the tuition paid in Vermont universities? What else is he responsible for? The cost of milk? Here you are copying nearly verbatim Trump's words when he admonished Hillary for not having taken out of the tax code the breaks he abused. And it was also about a "senator who spent countless years in the senate and didn't make the changes! You must have the idea that US senators come from the Hogward School of Wizardry and Witchcraft where Harry Potter graduated and learned the use of a MAGIC WAND. So both Hillary and Bernie should have waved their wands and made magically all these changes you think they should have made. How comical!

Please name a law of nature that prevents a single payer system to exist in the US. It is not "almost impossible", but there is a simple path to it. It is to implement nationwide a government health insurance, like Medicare, in competition with the private insurers, which was initially in the plans for Obamacare. In successive years such plan is increasingly subsidized to drive the private companies out of business. Finally, this plan and Medicare and Medicaid are integrated to achieve the single payer system. Everyone had failed to implement a plan like Obamacare. Until there was a favorable constellation with presidency and both chamber's majority in the hands of democrats. This favorable situation could be repeated if the GOP and trump continue their suicidal dance.

Oh, don't wait too long. If you are unable to find them by yourself, here are some sites which list them: http://addictinginfo.org/2016/02/19/heres-a-long-list-of-bernie-sanders-accomplishments-with-citations/ http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-gets-it-done-sanders-record-pushing-through-major-reforms-will-surprise-you https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357

I am not an isolated case and it is not a matter of luck. How much more does the average voter need to know about the two parties and their candidates that he should not know today? I cannot understand today's "undecided" voters. I think that they are either insincere and snobbish, or they don't have the capacity to make decisions. Some people are too lazy or are afraid to make a decision, and end up not voting.

If you think Sanders has accomplished ZERO in his years in office you are speaking from ignorance. You also must have been absent in the primaries, where he got nearly as many votes as Hillary even coming from far behind. And had you listened to his speeches, you would not be confused about him. But you are, since you think that he promised "all the free stuff". The single-payer medical care system (maybe one of your "free") is recognized as a far superior system than what we have here. Free tuition for those who qualify for entry to universities is an investment in qualified workforce. Most of his proposals, his platform, is not "free stuff" but transcendental improvements in the way the American society should function. Many young students are smart, which cannot be said for many retired seniors. Their opinions should not be trashed because they are young and have ideals.