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So I went through the guide and was really really disappointed that it lacks some essential information. As a fellow punter, even though somewhat long in the tooth, it’s really really really important that I stand out and make my mark in open brothel settings. How can I be noticed and draw attention to myself in spite of the dry ice haze, ear-splitting loud music, alcoholic stupor of a subsection of other patrons, drag MCs, and half-naked trade strutting around? I have a very regular appearance, 6’ 180, and don’t take up much room. I am an interested observer of people in congested settings. But it’s vital that everybody like me, I mean that they really really really really like me. Every single person’s take of me is so very very very significant. I do so very much care, to the point of debilitating obsession. It’s simply not worth making the trip, living well as best revenge even, if I don’t consistently make a positive impression. How critical will this be in Thailand? Heck … even the sort of odd category type , depicted below, that might at times purport to observe you, albeit unbeknownst to you yet sizing you up with their finger pincer grasp, should be very very very important in terms of their perspective, no? Don’t those of senior age amongst you agree that strangers’ opinions of you should dictate how you view your self and worth? Should we not be as on guard in the domains in which we circulate, for malignant wannabe head-squashing soul-snatchers as we are for phone grabs out in public? It’s important to try harder with fringe audiences, however grandiose such members evidently are, right? Damaged people are people, after all, and one can never know entirely what’s behind it. Here’s hoping the next guide offers better overall and direction for ongoing travel. FullSizeRender.MOV

ÜberYa COP7,440 from Holiday Inn Chapi.

… not to be missed. Brit actor Aaron Pierre, stage and screen, what a heartthrob! Watch for a plot surprise, unrelated to the biological brothers’ connection, in this moving film. The second superb recent film set in Scarborough, Canada. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/brother_2022

Smombie Apocalypse survivor here, seeking exposure prophylaxis over power ports.

For years I have found these useful, and BKK’s is recently revised. Also online but I find it more difficult to navigate.

OMG, it happens everywhere and they should just settle down.

Seems a large proportion, and disproportionate rebound of 50% of pre-CoV comparator relative to composite of other nations 25%. This piece is detailed up to end of ‘22, allowing comparison to 1st quarter ‘23. The rebound metric improves when prorating the recent quarter against ‘22. Notable from ‘23 piece is the reference to burdened infrastructure yet tourist volume remains quite short of 20teens. https://m.thaiwebsites.com/tourists-nationalities-Thailand.asp

Got it. It’s now set up for text use like for WhatsApp. And my intended contacts are showing up. The difference is that one’s Line ID must be unique (available) and one’s Display Name can be different from Line ID. If I have this right, Display Name can be John Smith, but ID johnsmith likely scooped up ages ago. One of the contacts seems to have not entered a display name and shows up on Line as how I named them in my smartphone contacts. In contrast, another contact shows up with both a display name and an ID distinctive from how I typed that name in Contacts. Looks like a lot of bells and whistles but simple texting appears easy enough.

I’ve used WhatsApp for years. I thought the only signature was your phone number through the internet. If you change the SIM is your profile the same? How does the empty SIM slot transfer that data when a different chip is inserted? I thought it would be ground zero, unlike changing a social media handle on one’s account. Does the new SIM connect to your existing WhatsApp automatically? You don’t need to alert family/friends of the new number abroad in case they need to contact you on the platform?

I’ll be using my usual cellular with roaming features, not a local SIM, and likely not for sexcapades. There’s plenty of time left to grasp the nuances by then and I will have likely figured it out by others weighing in and by ensuring it’s clearly set up ahead with the folks meeting me on arrival. I prefer ‘when in Rome’ over requesting they set up WhatsApp.

Funny you should say that. I have the resources for both and should get off my ass more. I miss the terminated AMTRAK Adirondack run but other options obviously exist. Prior to retirement I occasionally piggy-backed a few West End productions onto a trip when a guest-lecture honorarium more than covered all travel expenses and a tacked-on leisure component. Similarly, once in a while academic conferences in or around NYC the impetus for taking in theatre and dance companies.

Broadway’s reach doesn’t realistically extend to much of the readership here. Are there related streaming platforms or remote cinema streaming options such as exist for Met Opera or UK National Theatre? Film & TV featuring Cranston? Sold. Interestingly, Bob Odenkirk has shed his Jimmy/Saul persona in the series premiere of Lucky Hank. He, Cranston, and the actor playing Gina’s father in Your Honor interconnected.

I’m a bit mystified by a feature of Line that contrasts with WhatsApp. For the latter you sync your contacts and when you chat you simply scroll to the same name as in Contacts. In contrast, Line asks for, and users apparently utilize, a registration name handle like one sees for Instagram, Twitter, etc. I wish to keep it simple. I only probably need to use Line minimally for the foreseeable future and for very few contacts, though they are likely less of a Luddite and perhaps will accommodate my WhatsApp preference. But Line users here can enlighten me? I was asked by a few Asian tourism facilitators via e-mail to set up Line but should I leave them out of my Contacts list and ask them what their handle names are and search on the application for these handles to initiate communication?

Welly welly welly well well … the expected ad hominem retort of a sad sack running out of steam. If that’s the level, now he’s an omniscient divine entity and can quantify everybody’s social connections. Sociopath, psychotically delusional, or simply Asshole Not Otherwise Specified, a category not yet delineated on a commonly used diagnostic manual axis? My sense is: distinctive pathology all on its own.

Ah, sigh … so a concerted retaliatory search for examples that parallel the indiscretion of today called out, but imputing to me grandstanding/ showcasing motives as opposed to my simply appreciating like most everybody else the serendipity and wonders of entertainment in Brazil, the latter an MO that you seem to proclaim you uniquely and exclusively possess. Get it guys? Anybody daring a toe-to-toe spicy exchange is somehow a socially inept and hypocritical braggart; watch your step. Move over, Judge Judy; there’s a new self-appointed magistrate in town. Well I’m clutching my purse as a Pantsonfire College alumnus with a first in Spin-doctoring grasps for straws. Someone who, ofc, alone possesses the skills for non-sexualized socializing outside of brothel contexts. Everybody else is evidently single-mindedly exploitive re: sexual gratification and importuning for likes. Let’s just simplify it. Gogos have stage names usually consistent with their true names, albeit truncated as the local birth record trend is multiple surnames. They are sexual entertainers and circulate transactionally among the audience in a patently erotic fashion for cash tips. Everybody knows this. Yet I cannot think of any single gogo that has been explicitly identified on this board in terms of their being “offed” (as is the commonly employed Thailand forum term), though I am certain that fantasies and unsubstantiated assumptions have been dropped here and there by various posters. Moreover, much to the chagrin of many readers our board is comparatively and rightfully oriented to playing one’s tourism cards extremely close in terms of the specific players in various exchanges. I have occasionally but extremely rarely back-channelled cryptic information about being catfished, but that contained no identifying information or contextual markers that impugned anybody, and that was strategically enacted with a forecasted outcome in mind. The Friendlies are easily identifiable. I have not shared provider names or contact information with anybody on this Board or elsewhere in spite of backchannel soliciting from others. Some garotos and some gogos explicitly advertise commercial sex work on various public platforms. Nevertheless, I cannot think of any single one of these advertising fellows having been specifically identified on our board by anyone, unless I have overlooked such data; I don’t read all posts. In fact, in contrast to the assertion that my bent is to subtly out providers for the sake of drawing attention to myself, there exists plentiful content on our board that represents my objection to such reveals and corroborates the notion that nothing good or purposeful comes from them. Today is no exception and one thing that I got for my efforts is the distorted claim that they are disingenuous.

I do follow people I know on social media. It’s not an admission, as if it were a culpable behaviour (your manipulative spin) and for many members here such activities provide an entry point for post hoc interaction or setting up prospective interaction. Moreover, whatever content referenced would not have been literally stated, as if a simple declaration of shared widespread behaviour were to have been figurative. You are clearly demonizing a collective trend and vying for an arbiter perspective related to a specific member whose motivational status you think is below yours. So arrogantly self-aggrandizing. Well now we have your number on your values, willing to risk giving somebody’s identity up all because somebody else at recess in the sandbox started it. You might figuratively go fuck yourself, if of age of course. It’s not lost on many readers that you ridicule a collective supportable behavioural trend when you single out one person’s alignment with it, as if the prerogative of surfing were exclusively yours. The above social media trend is distinctive from taking a post that includes a commercial beverage business site handle and, not once but now repeatedly, proclaiming knowledge of prostitution history specific to cross-national stakeholders represented within the business profile. This you did gratuitously as you now suggest that a success narrative coupling was an absurd cover, when in fact no written reference to sex trade was extant, while in fact your own posts contain said coupling with content that more extensively risks fallout for a few people. I had initially entertained the possibility that it was a simple misstep without underlying provocation. What I perceive here is somebody conflating a commonly discreetly practiced social media ‘follow’ship agenda, by members with reveal boundaries underpinned by principles of tact, sharing common interests in trade and concomitant social components, with today’s manipulative playing “Where-the-‘ho’?” in an identified site’s posted image montage, where ‘ho’ colloquially denotes commercial sex work provider history among whom some of us are acquainted, others not but now primed to make the association never intended by persons aiming to compartmentalize various aspects of personal history. I thought it couldn’t get worse but continuously and ridiculously finger-pointing, as if an OP is the devil that prompted you do it, is a puerile low even for you. Sadly, one person’s narcissism may override the exigencies of obscuring revelations when what’s of paramount importance is backpedaling content that risks fallout for innocent parties. I heartily recommend the entire thread be cut, for good and for good, not plunked into the Sandbox.

For reals? What a pill. At what thread juncture was prostitution history mentioned? Now claiming that a previous circumspect post, as if none of us but but one exception possess a social radius beyond brothel context, later legitimized an essentially concrete reveal wrapped up in the MO of a heartwarming rags-to-success narrative is nothing short of Machiavellian. To boot, tipping off the readership about the direct relation posed by an image. I hadn’t even assumed that level of manipulation and justification. Reminiscent of a thread here of some five years where a garoto was outed, by a person unrelated to the present topic, for the sake of embellishing a BFE travel narrative. OK, figure out respective roles behind the reindeer games’ cascade effect, if moved to do so. I’ve done my part. I’d recommend simply engaging with admin to remove content explicitly containing sex work references, protecting a young Brasileiro from the caprice of chatter that could be considered defamatory according to his country’s legal conceptualization of reputation integrity. If the topic remains it obviously probably makes sense, similarly, for me to eventually back-channel my posts out of it. I’d have considered DM back-channeling under the present circumstances but for the incontrovertible expectation of hostility.

Sometimes it’s easy for indiscretion, albeit likely no ill will intended, to inadvertently slip through the cracks, and a particular post is best unwritten. What online audience would be the most likely to have few degrees of separation from a particular entity category with which personal interaction historically occurred and social media following ensued? Not my call, member autonomy being what it is, but simple enough to protect all parties ex post facto from fallout according to the central guiding principle of beneficence.

Good representative description. I would add that the street is saturated with bars and people milling about on the sidewalk, a big contrast with Gigolo and its home lighting fixture stores and seemingly one barking dog nearby that might startle the shit out of you if you’re walking by it while looking up to find the venue sign. I went once and took one private dance and his phone number. He seemed a bit pleasantly surprised when I handed him 100K. You can get a sense of the ambience via TikTok where the venue has a periodic presence but not all of the clips stay up.

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Obviously the male couple? Very moving. I understand that in the game at some point Ellie ages up to 19, but that Bella Ramsey is old enough to straddle the 5-year span. On my TV service in Canada there’s also a half-hour feature on ‘the making of’, worth tuning into.

I would love another season. However, it seems that any loose ends plot-wise that connect to Michael have been resolved. Another catch-and-release iteration might seem contrived. There may be more to milk in terms of other character arcs and their interactive dynamics but I don’t think the series titleYour Honor would continue to make sense. With it possibly done and the stellarThe Last of Us on hiatus I hope Succession will fill in the gap for a while. There’s somewhat of an entertainment fix provided by the limited series Inside Man (Netflix) if one is interested in a fictional thriller plot connecting a high profile prisoner with the real world.

Yeah I went the first weekend night I was visiting Bogotá off and on in Jan-Feb, but did not bother for about 6 more nights it was operating when I was there and would have dropped in had I thought it’s worth the effort. Again, most of the dancers are cross-affiliated with St Moritz spa downstairs and a hook-up with a massage table is easier than an unlit tiny cubicle. I was expecting loud music based on experience but I found the strobe-lighting additionally offputting. One cute well-built dancer was worth arranging contact info. He has moved on to Theatron where I think the headliner gogos may get a house paycheque.

Right, I am not being naïve. I know what I am walking into. The 1-month stay isn’t entirely meaningless because it defines the threshold at which the unit is not considered temporary accommodation under the Hotel Act. It is not subject to hotel-specific regulations. Obviously, the majority of other guest stays are shorter, so a one-month stay by one guest doesn’t reverse the implication that the unit generally runs afoul of the Hotel Act. One can simply say, if pressed by an authority, that one is aware of the Hotel Act and that one’s stay does not violate it. As an aside, there is an ongoing grace period with a tentative defined fixed date that falls later than my visit, for all operations in Thailand that would meet the definitional criteria of a hotel under the Hotel Act to get up to speed, commonly termed “up to code”, but again that does not apply to exemptions based on the one-month threshold or to the architectural structure criteria that differentiate a hotel from the type of gig-economy lodgings that we are discussing. However, the regulatory infrastructure and enforcement appears to be in a shambles for both the hotel category and accommodations not subject to the Hotel Act. Like your example, the unit in question may represent an infraction of specific condo rules regarding let periods. However, as already discussed, a specific condo owner collective that objects to lets such as these seems to outline prohibitive specificity predicated on interpretation of the Hotel Act’s criteria for temporary accommodation. Of course, one must be aware of other impediments to a smooth stay, including a specific building’s bylaws for minimal let periods, and how to collude with a host’s playbook set up due to factors that may render it impossible to operate completely out of plain sight. Additionally, vet for clues from reviews about the hosts’ capacity for physical presence in the vicinity, in contrast to remote hosts in jurisdictions where home rental platforms are widely accepted and utilized. And openly discuss any concerns ahead of time regarding the possible risks, costs and benefits. Choose a wide berth cancellation option and periodically scan reviews leading up to arrival.

If it’s NHS coverage it appears to be limited to 3 months … https://www.formularymk.nhs.uk/docs/Local and National General Prescribing Information/05-Policy for Taking Medicines Abroad.pdf