steveboy

Merry Christmas to you too, even if your questions don't get much friendlier on Christmas... I don't know what "remotely athletic" is but athletics has been a part of all my adult life. As a kid I was a twink full of complexes and maybe that has kept my interest for competitive team sports at zero. Sports like baseball and American football bore me to death, while soccer is an exception. But all these professional players are judged by their effectiveness, not at all by their grace. I respect your likeness for baseball and I wish you take full possession of this Japanese player you like so much and make him your own. As older I get, as more I value grace, and for the last years I have been practicing a martial art that is unique for its practicality and grace. I will be content with the dancer performing in the video I posted. And I have some experience: 30 years ago I frequented a rather cruisy gym in downtown Houston. One time a guy with a very nice body made contact with me in the sauna, and we went to some hidden place in the large gym and did our thing. He gave me his name, told me he was a dancer, but I didn't think much about it. Only later I found out that he was the principal dancer of the Houston Ballet at the time. I will always have the pride that in my 40s I was still attractive to principal classical dancers, that is, consummated athletes of the finest kind. Maybe I'm still attractive 30 years later? I would not rule it out

As much as a Japanese baseball player has to do with Gay Thailand, one can also find examples of graceful movements of males form Asia or elsewhere in the Performing Arts. The goal in baseball is not to be graceful but to score points. I gave a good example some time ago with the young Asian ballet dancer from Mumbai, and here is another one, this from Houston: The baseball player may be a dual threat, but the principal dancer in this video is a zero treat while his excellence is at par with the baseball player, although for much less money.

Merry Christmas to you too. I don't hold tightly anyone for 30 minutes because... I love myself! My arms would hurt in much less than 30 minutes.

Hug him tightly for 30 minutes ?? Can he be resuscitated after that?

Don't worry. If prices go up 100% all you need to do is cut your number of offs in half. That can help memory too.

Here is an advantage of having more body mass and higher body temperature.

Still trolling me in attack mode? I would also say that by doing right for us, Thailand does right for members of its population who can make a reasonable income without utmost sacrifice (I like to think that to be a sex worker is not the most demanding and undesirable kind, if one has the attributes to be a successful one)

But everyone here wishes that drink prices and off fees don't go up.

70 is too young to be "a boring old fart", but it's the right age to have a 35 y.o. partner. I am a nearly 75 with a 52 y.o. partner of 20 years, but I'm far from being "a boring old fart", (although some people here find me boring, but that is their issue) Keep up that good life!

Indeed, no protection for your hardening arteries! 800 bht, 500 bht for the doings of some hot cheap oil on human food, resulting in promotions of the medical industry that are worth millions.

I am with him too. Even after winning the lottery I would go for value, Not one buck more than the best bang. When a 3 star hotel gives me all I need, 5 stars are two wasted ones. Same with food.

It seems that we both agree that luxury, even affordable, is a very devalued commodity in a vacation.

In your three week vacation i would recommend you spend a couple of days at the Babylon barracks, although I see that they are fully booked on the days of their big events, but they have openings in the barrack rooms in January. You can go to the sauna on December 31 for the foam party, if you arrive early to get in.

Sorry I can't help you, in many trips to BKK I have enjoyed not needing laundry and ironing services...

Writer "reader" is simply launching his typical criticism of others. He is one who frequently opens threads with Thai topics that are not flattering to the locals.

Isn't it nice to have nothing to lose?

You have the freedom to do so. Others act differently. Take for example Vinapu, who has oodles of strangers come to his hotel room where they moon their asses and everything else, and he doesn't kick them in the groin... i suppose.

I have never invited a guest to jump from my balcony. I don't have a balcony, because my house is all in the ground floor (I'll be happy about this in the next 20 years...) We should exercise freedom of opinion, but wiseness of speech should supersede freedom of speech.

I feel the same way. I may not be a fan, but I think he deserves the praise some people give him.

It did not remind you of the images of German, Russian, Japanese soldiers in foreign lands in he days of WWII? They were not female soldiers kicking and giving some sexual humiliation to their prisoners. They were male soldiers shooting them and then throwing them in mass graves, or killing civilians in gas chambers. And... were they punished by their commanders for that? Of course not! It says a lot about the higher moral standards of the American society that the Americans involved in the acts you mention were prosecuted and punished for their acts by their own American Military. And how you compare the reaction to two dumb guys who merely exposed their butts in some public place, to the reaction of soldiers towards captured enemy soldiers whose task was to kill them? Why shouldn't tourists be entitled to their opinions and so praise or criticize what they observe in the lands they visit? By the criticism in your comment and by the way you don't want people to have opinions, you seem to have quite a totalitarian mentality. Criticism is insulting and negative only when it is told to the wrong people at the wrong time and circumstances.

Don't say that! White could be racist.

I don't ignore the violations of human rights in my country, and I have always voted for a government that corrects the violations and protects human rights. I reject your notion that the laws in my country have to be perfect before I can judge the laws in other countries.

No, I didn't neglect. Cultural standards are part of the human Standards that should apply to all members of our species, regardless of nationality, race. I'm not religious, but I think that the philosophy of Christ is a valuable part of these Standards. While cultural details may vary, the Standards should not.

a447, I also let you have the last word in your discussion, which is a waste of time since you make a distinction of "western" standards while I believe in human standards.

Forky, I let you have the last word, and hope Scooby won't ban you for starting an unwise discussion.