steveboy

Agree! I get the videos of the games over-the-air and recorded. When I look at them, I am tired to see nothing but the Americans in gory detail, and very little of the athletes from other countries. I am tired of hearing about the five American gymnasts who won gold. So far I liked much, much more seeing the two cute Chinese guys winning gold in synchronized diving. I would leave behind the gold medal and take... them!

Yes, yours is a vile reprehensible comment. Grandmothers don't last forever. I have had such an experience. It is a thousand times better to have your 82 year old grandmother have her heart give out in an over excitement of joy than see her slowly languish amidst suffering from a terminal chronic disease. Not to mention the grandmothers who die of sorrow seeing their grandchildren being imprisoned as criminals, not as olympic winners. It seems that you bought into some over-sentimental news article.

Well... the grandmother was 82 and died during a joyful celebration. I can imagine worst ways to end her days, and at 82 she had a sufficiently long life. The olympic winner should feel satisfaction that he made his grandmother die of joy.

You mean that legality of prostitution does not correlate with brothel ownership and pimping? But the latter two are not necessarily "availability". In our times, retail business is moving to the internet, and so it makes sense that prostitution does so too. In reality, this is positive: why have intermediaries like massage places and gogo bars? Money should all go to the boys!, who all they need is some skills to fill their websites with nice pictures and make themselves available... This chart is recent (2016), yet it seems to ignore homosexuality! For example, it lists Singapore as having legal prostitution, but it fails to mention that this infamous article 377A prohibiting ALL gay sex is still in effect.

Here is some data about prostitution legality in 100 countries: http://prostitution.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000772 While it is ILLEGAL in Thailand, I was surprised to find that it is LEGAL in Argentina, a Catholic country where Pope Francis comes from and where same-sex marriage is legal. Sex workers there are unionized! I think it is perfectly fine to exclude minors from sex work, like they are excluded from drinking alcohol and hopefully from smoking too. But aside from minors, the commercialization of sex should be an acceptable practice free of criticism. The crux of the matter is for it to be VOLUNTARY. I VOLUNTAILY submitted myself for decades to be a professional under employment by a large enterprise who took away my intellectual property rights and my choice of professional activity in exchange for good MONEY. And many times I felt screwed by my bosses... So I think that men and women should have the freedom to VOLUNTARILY let themselves be screwed or otherwise sexually handled in exchange for monetary compensation. I don't see the evil of this. And like abang1961, "I have yet to be a paying client", although I am getting close to being one. Thailand, like any other country, should concentrate its efforts to eliminate underage prostitution and exploitation of any sex workers, making sure that prostitution is VOLUNTARY. With this, they will join a majority of progressive countries with high standards of true morality.

And he could die of self-pity: elections "rigged" against him, everybody "insulting" him, etc.

Would you still think the same when you realize how much water is there in the "pure" gin?

Again, one purpose of restraining everybody is not to be dictatorial but to protect society from the loss of control caused by drugs. This justifies why airplane pilots, train drivers, surgeons in their operating rooms, car drivers, cannot be drunk or under the influence of other drugs.

I have similar experiences, and I like to point out the transformation in California when I am discussing with a Republican. But... they brush it off. It seems that religious conservatives, Republicans, are too superior to be bound by the facts.

I like your definition of religion, very technical Even more incredible is that there are a group of Republican GAYS, the Log Cabin ones.

It is common to hear that disagreement with hateful policies is hate in itself. But this is just an excuse to justify such policies. Religious conservatives seem to gravitate towards discrimination and inequality, maybe because they find support for this in their religion. What is more discriminating than a religious doctrine separating the "good" from the "bad"? We homosexuals should not embrace a religion that holds homosexuality as "sin", nor should we support a political party that is against LGTB's rights. Not because we are smarter, but because we have first hand experience with homosexuality, and we know what the majority of straights don't know. But beyond that, there are moral values that draws us towards a more progressive society, and we see that conservatism hinders progress.

I also think that the convention had a positive outcome. I didn't like her very much and my choice was for Sanders. But thanks to the way "Bernie" held on up to the last and then negotiated with Hillary, the Democrat platform reflects much of his one. Any Sanders supporter with any brains will follow his example and support Clinton. In her speech she sounded very sincere, and people who watched it will be drawn to her. But not many people watch these conventions. However, she has plenty of time to repeat what she said and make the case in favor of so many groups. Hopefully the debates between the two candidates will bring out even further their differences, and allow her to win by a landslide. Then, if the Democrats regain the House and the Senate, we will have it made, and if not it won't be worse than it is now.

The ban on smoking on most public places has been a blessing for ex-smokers like me. Now I can go for months without getting one molecule of tobacco smoke through my nose. And it's not that it would tempt me, but gross me out. I don't think smokers have been victimized at all. Neither have the stores who had to prohibit smoking, because it happened to all of them. Maybe a few generations of prohibitions can reduce smoking to insignificant levels. It is such a dumb vice...

How can LGBTs "erode family values" when there have always been homosexual families and now in many parts in the world they are starting to marry and so their families become formal? Singaporeans always want to be more than their neighbors and the Christians try to be "more Catholic than the Pope". In the process, they become naive and swallow the nonsense predicated by slick religious professionals like the ones of City Harvest Church. Precisely these staunch Christians who are so full of themselves need more exposure to gay lifestyles to realize how wrong the preaching of their churches are, and how they became suckers to religious deception. Is there any staunch Christian still believing that Sun Ho represents "Asian Family Values" ?

Why are Singapore gay bars, gay saunas and PINK DOT event very harmful to most?

You have very wise eyes. The same can be said about so many conservative republicans with college degrees in the US...

There are some nice asses and cocks in Singapore...

And if the cost of living is still the Thai one.

Me instead would like to see a worldwide effort to regulate drugs. Medicinal drugs, that is. Nothing is so important as health, and some life saving drugs are more valuable than gold and diamonds. This prompts a legal market in medicinal drugs that is even more abominable than any illegal market of recreational drugs. Here in the US prescription drug suppliers can charge WHAT THEY WANT. And their business is better than meth, heroin, etc. because some drugs are unique and are protected by patents. THIS NEEDS TO CHANGE. Like there are restrictions on what drugs can be sold (approval by the FDA) and who can prescribe the drugs (the doctors), there should be important laws that restrict their maximum price, based on their manufacturing cost and cost of development.

I feel sorry for the Japanese civilians killed in WWII. They were not responsible for the decision of Isoroku Yamamoto to attack Pearl Harbor. However I think their death was much less painful than that of the Jews rejected, persecuted, slowly exterminated by the Nazis. What would have been the virtue of the Japanese (and the Germans) in their discipline and dedication resulted in a ferocity that made so much more abominable the way they defeated their enemies. Until their fortunes reversed. It makes me a little uneasy to think what we American civilians would deserve after all the bloody campaigns carried overseas if a reversal of fortunes would hit us, like in a Donald Trump winning the elections...

+2 For example, here in the US we are terrorized over terror attacks, while it seems impossible to pass any legislation that tightens control over firearms, that keeps assault weapons out of the hands of those on terrorist lists, and instead legislation increases the allowance of open carry-on weapons and stand-your-ground attitudes.

The Vietnamese are not very religious, and their acceptance of LGTBs is improving. Wouldn't it be a smart move by this country to to offer these returning boys good working opportunities and take some of the sex tourism away from Thailand? There is nothing better for consumers than some competition

In my seven trips to LOS, only in the first one I visited most of the tourist traps with a guide. In the other six, "beautiful culture" never crossed my mind, busy with "beautiful people". Isn't it ironic that the military post themselves as defenders of morality? The military are the only group in society allowed and encouraged to kill other people (the 'enemy'?) with impunity.

Well... a 20 year old may have 5 years experience as a top (assuming one starts at 15), while you can have 30 years (!) of experience. Six times more! This includes a better expertise in means to improve the topping, like pills, injections, and... if everything else fails already, a nice rock hard penile implant!

The picture you posted is just a piece of Degas' painting about young Spartans exercising: I would "exercise" with them too, after sending the girls to prepare some food and drinks for us.