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PFC means Private First Class (the equivalent of the rank I hand when I left the compulsory military service in Germany). But I like your idea! I found another joke about circumcision: (Can you believe it? The website I got this from does not allow copy paste! So I had to take a detour, therefore the formatting is left - to lazy to remove it.)

I read about lobotomy some time ago, and re-read now http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy, and I am shocked again. Surprisingly, it was not used a means to cure homosexuality (at least I didn't found "gay" or "homosexual" in the wikipedia article). There were a few Nobel Prices that now with hindsight seem unwarranted. Let me quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT In the following decades, DDT was banned worldwide. But this is science, so you have to see how things develop with time. But awarding the Nobel Price for Literature in 1953 to Winston Churchill who said something like he wants to fry the German fugitives in Dresden (Dresden bombing 1945, now generally considered as a war crime, I didn't search for the exact quotation) cannot be justified.

Unfortunately, the topic is no longer available on SGT, maybe it got out of had after I posted there some days ago on this subject. The reaction there was entirely negative. I too don't think this promotion is a good idea, there are a lot of technical problems (do you have documentation with you to prove that you are a veteran? Am I who served in compulsory military service in Germany a veteran?)

I was there in August (in the sauna). I went by tuk-tuk and after sauna walked back to the night market (about 30 minutes for a fast walker). I recently saw a picutre (I think on the gaychiangmai website) of the terrace on which I was standing in August half a meter deep under water. So you might want to call if the sauna is open or still flooded or closed for drying and cleaning. It's located in the south east of the city, with a terrace to the river, you can find adverts in gay mags.

Strangely, despite having an interest in technology and even visiting air shows (Berlin, Farnborough; Le Bourget this year), I hardly take notice of which plane I am flying with when I travel to Thailand. I consider passenger airplanes (as well as cars and trains) as just a means to get from A to B. As a German, I am in favour of Airbus because a succesful Airbus means jobs and technology in Europe.

As an atheist I see no reason why members of whichever relegion have the protection of the state. It makes me cringe when in Germany freedom of religion is weighed agains animal protection laws, when Muslims want to slaughter cattle in the traditional way. It seems there are as many sites on the internet promoting circumcision as there are against circumcision. And I have to admit that my aversion against circumcision has religious traits: I believe in reasons against circumcision, and I don't believe in reasons for circumcision (other then acute medical reasons). What surprises me is that while female circumcision (with far greater disadvantages for the girls/women than male circumcision for men) is now outlawed worldwide (but still practiced in some areas), there are open support groups for male circumcision in civilized countries. The Yakuza cut of pieces of their finger when they make a mistake in their organization as an adult, so you can't compare this to circumcision. But it could be worse. There are religious minorities who did or still do cut off even more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_%28South_Asia%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoptsy

You are right, the votes do not have equal weight, they should be weighted on how often the voter goes to bars. But we have a clear majority for "too loud" here and on gaybuttonthai, whereas on SGT half of those who voted think the music is not too loud (but does this mean the music is "ok" or "not loud enough"). Anyway, my decision to enter a bar or not is based on the boys, not on the music. And I am prepared against loud music in bars and discos: I use earplugs.

Let me quote what I wrote on gaybuttonthai on this subject: All this can be discussed on the existing boards. My opinion is that there are already too many boards about gay thailand (I read in no particular order: gaybuttonthai, sawatdee-gay-thailand, gaythailand, baht-stop, gaytingtong, if I missed any please let me know). Don't let me discourage you, but I see absolutely no point in opening a further board. Now that it has been mentioned here, of course GayThailandinfo, GayThailandguys can give rise to confusion with this board, so I advise against these names as well. The fact that a name that is not similar to one of the existing boards is difficult to find is an indication that there are enough boards.

I just found this video "Ten out of Ten babies say NO to circumcision" via this website http://www.circumcision.org/index.html

I went to the New Year's Eve 2010 foam party in Babylon without registration, just like on a normal day.

Do you think music in gogo bars is too loud? Music levels in gogo bars were discussed several times, and my impression always was that the vast majority of members think the music is too loud. But I'm biased because I think music is too loud in most gogo bars I visited. What do you think? This poll is not about a single bar, what's your opinion about the music level in gogo bars in general? (Copied from SGT and gaybuttonthai, where I started this poll some days ago, but the results are not conclusive: SGT 1:1 and gaybuttonthai 8:1 in favor for too loud)

I kind of have always and only been attracted to Far-East Asian guys (between Japan and Thailand). I once wrote a longer comment on a gay blog, that I will quote here with few edits and removing parts that are not relevant to the subject. So without internet, I would still be in the closet pretending to be asexual. When I think back to my time in Berlin, there was the Vietnamese cigarette mafia that hat men standing in metro stations with a pack of cigarettes on their side, but I found them as unattractive as Caucasians (or Thai men older than 40). The attractions of Far-East Asian men are absence of body hair, nice complexion (that's why blacks and latinos range next, with a big gap), faces, straight black hair (very attractive if bleached or dyed blonde, but not in orange or brown) and slim bodies. So I came first and still come as a sex tourist. Now I have prospects of finding work in Thailand (I study Thai language to facilitate this) and living with a Thai boyfriend.

Re Saran Rom / Royal Palace So probably I was unlucky when I was in the area. I shall go again if time permits on my next holiday. Now I know enough Thai to arrange deals without having a friend for translation (anyway, most of my friends are fuckbuddies as well, and those who are not fuckbuddies are not into the prostitution scene, so it would be awkward to asks any of my Thai friends to help me translating). I remember boys between the Royal Palace and Saran Rom park and between Royal Palace and the river. That's a few minutes walk, easily done by foot. Or is the area even more wide spread so you really have to go by taxi (for cruising around)?

Yes, the tone on SGT is a bit rougher! (I read and replied to your thread there.) I have been worrying about loud music in bars and discos sice I started travelling to Thailand, and came to a conclusion: I always take earplugs with me, and when I enter such a location, I use them. One might argue that they hinder communication (by shouting into each other's ear), but they don't. I can understay what my friends say/shout at me, the level of music and what they say are decreased in the same ratio.

I can support this statement with a practical example. In the late 1990, my father bought the first digital camera in our family (we still have it, but I don't remember which make) and it came with a 1GB Microdrive (a hard disk with 1GB in the shape of a memory card, about 30x30x5mm) which at that time alone came at a price of several hundred Euro. But there were no memory cards available with 1GB, so the only solution to store a usefull amount of 5 megapix photos in the camera was a harddrive. Now, in my laptop, apart from the fan the noisiest part is the harddrive (which has about 120GB).

blog about gay saunas in Hong Kong and gay life in general I recently found this blog: http://fuel-injected-male.blogspot.com/ This is comparable to shamelessmack (hope his blog goes public again), and I like it very much.

Thank you for sharing.

Germany was split into two countries and till about two year before the re-unification, nobody could imagine that they would become one country, let alone that quickly. Therefore, nobody can predict if China and Taiwan or North and South Corea will be unified. Maybe the China (Mainland), Taiwan, Hongkong, Macau issue can be solved by writing "countries where Chinese (Mandarin or Kantonese) is the main language". I remember there was an international student's day in my university in England, and the Taiwanese were not allowed to have their own booth as Taiwan is not recognized by the United Nations.

I did (long time ago), I don't remember what he wrote, but the reply didn't answer my question (his writing in English is often difficult to understand). So it's safe to assume he just liked the design and that he doesn't know what swastika and star of david symbolize in Europe. He is friends with some people from India, which had some similar pictures in their albums or even on their profiles.

Simply asking where he goes increases the price as well. I still don't know how to find out where a bus is going (without asking the driver and thereby hiring him and having to pay more). Baht busses in Pattaya have been the subject of many threads over the years. I found the attached document somewhere on the internet, the best documentation I know. I prefer to stay in Howard's guesthouse so much that I don't consider staying somewhere else unless it's full. The funny thing is that there are moneyboys hanging out in Howards, whereas Sansuk sauna has a no moneyboys policy, but both have the same owner. pattaya blue baht bus routes.pdf

My vote would be I am not from the US or Britain and I don't care about the accent (as long as it is easy to understand and correctly pronounced and there are no mistakes regarding choice of words and grammar). What worries me is how English spreads around the world (at least in educated circles). There will come a time when scientific journals and books are published only in English and not translated any more. Meetings in Germany or France? If one person doesn't speak German or French, the meeting will be held in English. In Germany, advertising contains a lot of English and normal people often don't understand it (or understand it wrong). I found this:

I am not interested in European men and very little in Latino men, so there is no choice where to go for a sex holiday.

Thank you for this nice report.

I recently read that "Swastika" and "Sawatdee" have the same root. But imagine my surprise when I saw this picture on a Thai friend's facebook page, and I found some more similar pictures on facebook.

For me, the limiting factor is holiday allotment. I go once in summer for about 20 days and once in winter for about 20 days (always trying to include as much weekends and public holidays as possible). I would like to go three times a year, but then with shorter stays airfares would have an unreasonable part of the total cost of the holiday. Airfares is the major single cost. I always fly economy, often with a stopover. I spend on average 1000 Baht per night for hotel. Since I first came in August 2009, nothing has changed.