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Now if Dept of Agriculture would have the balls to do the same 🤷‍♂️ Wasn't planned, he was supposed to go to BKK today but stayed in Pattaya one more night, no doubt to meet me 😝 I was out the night before in BKK, didn't sleep until 7am, Mike Taxi to Pattaya at noon and was exhausted when I arrived.... by the time I got settled in and ate, I took a 3 hr nap. I had planned to stay in Boyztown for the night but saw he posted that he was at Cocka2 bar when I woke up and headed over there... I met one of his personalities and we talked about an hour, he's too nice a guy to become my replacement for @gayinpattaya 🤷‍♂️ We talked about Madagascar guys, and I went with one ultimately a while later.... I'd also 100% hang out with @Olddaddy and have drinks again. He says he's top only , Madagascar, not Old daddy , might be possible but I have a feeling he would bottom if asked.... He said it's ok to post his pics here, as he's looking for customers.... we did short time for 1200 thb, we were together over 3-4 hrs, went for drinks, chatted via translator mostly, but I'll go with him again. He's someone I'd expect to see at Bangu sauna outside of Rio, with a bit smaller cock....but was def fun and willing to do everything I asked 😁 His name is Bruno goes by Chocolate on Grindr +66-97-078-6470

Just got back from Santo Domingo and loved it! This was my first time going and I will be back! To start off, Manny Manny MANNY Is the freaking man! He made my trip excellent and I highly recommend his services. He will pick-up/dropoff at the airport, give tours and provide you a LARGE menu of sexy guys. I like to do threesomes/foursomes and he was able to get that set up for me with no issues. If your going to Santo Domingo then contacting Manny is a must. I was in Santos Domingo for 5 days and though Manny guys are great I didn’t want to pay the entire time. I visited Apollo Spa which is a gay sauna and found some pretty sexy guys. On sundays they have a foam party. By the way, I’m a 34 year old black male from the states, a top. The highlight of the trip has to be Esedeku Bar. It’s opened Thursday-Sunday and is the major gay spot in Santo Domingo.They also have a dark room upstairs. ALOT of hot guys. Here I was able meet several local guys, no charge for some hot sex. I would highly recommend this spot. I tried out Marlowes and did enjoy but the selection of guys wasn’t always my type. I would usually hit Marlowes for a pre game and then Esedeku bar. Ill be in Rio Starting May 24, lets have some fun

Our wonderful @spoon told me about this Kasaimassage Twitter (X) account to check out, as the masseur specializes in: - Cumcontrol - Edging Today, as I am in Bangkok for some days, I wrote to this guy on LINE, as was displayed in his Twitter (X) bio: lin.ee/dSHPVFQF and I chatted with him this morning to make an appointment, which I had today at 4pm. I booked a 90 minute session. The masseur's studio is in the chic and luxurios Noble Ploenchit condo complex at the BTS Ploenchit station ( exit central embassy gate ). He met me in the lobby and took me up to the studio. When the elevator door opened you are in his studio - I was like wow. He is a sexy 28 year old young Thai guy with a nice body. We made some small talk and then I took a shower in his studio before we started. The entire massage is sensual and erotic, where the sensualness slowly increases during the massage. He starts out with his gliding hands and then he eventually transitions to a very nice type of massage oil, that smelled like eucalyptus. He puts your leg in what the Thais refer to as the shape of the number 7, so that he has full access to your genitalia (in a non penetrative manner), to make sure that you are fully stimulated for when he eventually tells you to turn over. Then he starts the cumcontrol in an edging style - in that your now erect cock is stroked in sensual ways that are slowly increased in their timing to bring you to the edge of an orgasm. He is also erotically touching your nipples and balls and groin. Three times I had to make him stop so that I could prolong the pleasure. During our session he got naked during the cock edging part and he let me play with his nipples, stroke and suck his nice cock. Around the 85 minute mark, he edged me over the edge and gave me a very intense orgasm. He is definitely an edging and cumcontrol master. Out of a maximum rating of 10 - I give him a 9.5 rating. I paid 3.000 baht for my 90 minute meeting. He can also organize a 4 hands cumcontrol edging session if you would like. Below is a screen capture of his Twitter (X) account. I asked him if I could publish this in our forum and he said yes. You can see that he is followed by the Thai massage comnunity, that is organizing the first ever MIMA Party on 3 May 2025.

Thank you. Yes, that's what I've found elsewhere. Though, when I lived in Mexico City I'd get middle of the night calls after bars closed from former tricks looking for a place to crash for the night, or a day or two ... and how they would perform in bed! I turn my cell off at night now, wherever I travel (and at home). My situation is a bit different than most others here. In addition to being 75 y.o. (of which I'm only one of that group here), I've dealt with prostate cancer surgery - and the aftermath. I've gone from a sometimes-versatile anal top to engaging, primarily, giving oral (which I do enjoy). My field of play is narrower, though. My sex drive is less than before. Not to fret though. Some physical/body contact ... sucking some cock ... a bit of kissing ... I'm okay with it. Adapting to my environment. I'm also focused on exploring the culture of the countries I visit, not just the sex opportunities (perish the thought!). Therefore, a tryst before bedtime is satisfying. I enjoyed decades of a very active sex life, wonderful times; literally hundreds of sex partners ... all the while escaping HIV/AIDS during my most prolific years. 😁

I recently discovered ChatGPT's new image generation function which turns photographs into beautiful Japanese anime drawings. I used it to make anime drawings of my time with my guy. 🥰🥰🥰

Felt like Italian 🇮🇹🇮🇹 Anyway me and the bf meant to get off the baht bus further down but we ended up getting off early on the Jomtien main road ( next door to Jomtien medical clinic) to see a Italian restaurant in front of us ! Looked a bit "shabby " but we walked in and a Australian guy with Italian background is running it Turns out he lived in Sydney a long time and owns the Building of Candy Bar He told me had the restaurant in the Jomtien complex for 7 years before moving to the now Main road position , I said I didn't even see it in the JC A fantastic guy and delicious spaghetti Bolognese 🍝🍝delicious 😋 😋 all for 230 baht big plate and it was getting a crowd in there

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"you too big" is a complaint, but it's also a compliment, so there's less loss of face(for both parties) than naming the real reason for refusal, whatever it might be.

My typical holiday is 21 nights, occasionally longer and I try and have a succession of room visitors, mostly as singles, but often as threesomes; maybe a couple of afternoon/evening short-times and usually a long-time. I try and 'perform' for each, but consider myself lucky if I can manage to 'cum' once a day. But I am getting older (71) and my energy levels are not what they once were. If I try and squeez in two ST a day, then I try and ensure that with one I will top and the other I will bottom. With my long-times I either just cuddle and sleep, or arrange a threesome where I can play until I tire and then watch the other two go at it until they finish. Not everyone's style I suspect, but it works for me and makes up for the months of lonely celibacy back home between trips. So as to 'days off', well I try to have none, but tiredness/tummy troubles ususally conspire to enforce a 'day off' maybe once a week. For those days I revert to paying a boy 'cash for cuddles' or even just nurse/house boy for the day. I do plan 'short days' when I am back in my room when the bars close about 1am, but I try also to include some 'party nights' when I take a few friends clubbing or to karaoke. But I am finding that I can physically (and financially) manage less and less of those.

People tend to exaggerate how often they cum and how little they pay 😉

I sent my application already

Moses has made his Russian propaganda bonafides pretty obvious. Is he moonlighting now for Chinese interests? Enquiring minds want to know.

It is not exactly the same although negative sentiment is directed towards them as well. Consider this: Laotians speak a language and have a culture that is very close to Thai, it is easier for them to go under the radar and assimilate and they are considered close cousins of the Thais, whereas Myanmar is frequently featured in popular historical thai TV series as villains. Their language is from a different language family. The memory of the sacking of Ayutthaya in the 18th century by the Burmese remains alive among the Thais. This last point can be difficult for some westerners to comprehend as history is often dismissed and ignored, but Eastern Europeans can relate to these sentiments. Some of these sentiments are reciprocated on the Myanmar side. Some Burmese newspapers will dismissively refer to modern Thailand as Siam, alluding to the defeats that kingdom faced in the 18th century. Burmese immigration to Thailand has also been very significant compared to the other nationalities since the 1990s when Thai economy really took off. This is related to the long civil war of that country. All in all, Myanmar and Thai history is strongly tied together in a love hate relationship, which set them apart from the other nationalities. Thus when tensions rise over immigration it is often directed towards the Burmese, although it will affect other ASEAN nationalities too. When the police decide to raid and you don’t have a work permit you will get deported regardless of nationality, but arguably the consequences for young Burmese men are higher.

I like the comment, "I met one of his personalities"...

The issue is much bgger than tariffs, and no amount of tinkering with tariff rates will begin to address the real problem. Essentially what has happened is that the US has flipped ideologically, and wants to be: (a) an isolationist power that nevertheless wants to remain the leading military power in the world, yet without getting entangled with alliances ("fortress America"); (b) a self-sufficient economy - because it sees a self-sufficient economy as critical to maintaining its strength and freedom of action. The two aims are not achievable in combination, but the US does not realise that yet. But I shall stick to the economic side in this discussion, which will mostly be about trade flows, reserve currencies and exchange rates. It is not normal for the US Dollar and Western currencies to be so strong We take it for granted that developing countries' currencies should be weak vis-a-vis the USD and western countries' currencies, such that Americans and Europeans end up with huge purchasing power relative to Thais, Brazilians or Vietnamese. It's an abnormal state of affairs that came out of an abnormal period in human history. The West industrialised between 1850 and 1950, while (partly through colonialism) other parts of the world remained agrarian, with a few places becoming mainly diggers of minerals. The West didn't have much need or use for the agricultural or even many of the mineral products from the non-West. Or if it did, then through the power assymetry of colonial empires, it kept the output of the non-West cheap relative to the metropolitan countries like Britain and France. Even during the post-colonial 1950s to 2000, the non-West had healthy demand for products of the West - industrial goods, consumer goods, cultural goods (movies, music) status goods (wines and Porches) and also services from the West (banking, higher education, aviation) - whereas the non-West produced little that was of interest to the West (rice, anyone? coconut, anyone?). This imbalance of desire led to high demand for Western currencies (with which to buy western goods) and low demand for non-Western currencies among westerners. Westerners had no need to hold bahts, pesos, dinars, when they had little of interest to buy things from baht-cuntry, peso-country or dinar-country. As a result Western currencies became high-valued relative to non-West currencies. At the same time, since so much of trade was directed towards to the West (rather than a non-West country trading with another non-West country), holding on to a buffer of Western currency was useful, not only to facilitate the buying of Western goods, but also as a mutually acceptable medium of exchange between 2 non-West countries. The West's aversion to holding rupiahs, rupees, reals, rials and ringgits also meant that even when the West bought stuff from a non-West country, the trade was almost always denominated in a Western currrency. Because of political stability and independent Central Banks in western currencies, there developed trust in the stability of the value of Western currencies. And thus, these trade-accrued buffers of western money held by non-West countries (sometimes indirectly through commercial companies) came to represent a store of value, i.e. reserve holdings. Buffers are not in themselves bad. They lubricate trade, both with the country of the currency, but also with third countries. Of course, the most desired reserve currency (which used to be gold and the Pound Sterling) came to be the US Dollar in the 2nd half of the 20th century. Just about every country in the world holds a buffer reserve of USD. Oh shites, the agrarian countries industrialised The present crisis owes its origins to decades back when several agrarian countries industrialised. Japan led the way, even before 1950, but post-WW2, we can add South Korea, Taiwan, many Latin American countries and many Asean countries as well. India too, though India seems disinclined to participate in the global trading system as much as the others. And of course, there's China. Not only did they begin to produce industrial and consumer goods, many of these countries produced them at far better price-value points than factories in the West. Trade patterns changed. Today the West has a huge appetite for the industrial and consumer products of the non-West. Over decades, the US began to import huge volumes from countries like China, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, while these countries (as they developed their own domestic industries) had less and less demand for US and Western goods (in general). In certain sectors, US goods still had the competitive or technological edge, but in sector after sector, the US has lost it. These non-West countries were soon selling far more to the US than they were buying from it ---> the trade deficit. Yet, because of the trust in the USD, these non-West exporters were happy to receive payment in USD. But because of the chronic trade deficits year after year, the amounts of USD held by the non-West grew and grew. And for a long while, the US government was happy with that, because they could run a budget deficit and simply borrow China's dollar holdings, Japan's dollar holdings, Singapore's dollar holdings, to finance their budget deficit. Breaking point You guessed it. We're now at breaking point. Borrowings cannot grow indefinitely. Interest paid out to China, Japan, etc keep growing. Somebody somewhere sees the de-industrialisation of the US as a serious threat to its future as a world power. So we see this ideological change: WE MUST RE-INDUSTRIALISE! Trump's tariffs are meant to serve this purpose: to shut down imports into the US. To close the US market off from foreign producers/exporters so as to motivate re-industrialisation. I therefore do not think any tinkering with Vietnam's or Thailand's or Brazil's tariff regimes wil truly mollify the US now. But it won't work, at least not without other consequences Economists are nearly unaminous that the goal of re-industrialisation will not work the way Trump and MAGA imagine. I can think of three big reasons: 1. So long as Trump's and succeeding administrations flip and flop policy-wise (the most likely scenario), no investor will be confident enough to invest/build factories to the scale required for the US to get anywhere near self-sufficiency. 2. In many industries, the US does not have the knowhow to manufacture to the same quality at the same efficiency as producers in other countries, notably Japan, China, Taiwan and Korea. Or Germany for machine tools. In specific sectors, Brazil and Mexico too. Think EV cars, solar panels, robotics, any number of products you find on Walmart or Target stories. Now think about AI in which China just pulled an upset. 3. Even if American factories manage to produce these goods which the US hitherto has imported, they will be produced at a cost that is uncompetitive on the world stage (US wages being one of the reasons... more on this later). So, the US-factories will not be able to sell abroad, thus, not reap economics of scale that spring from serving a larger global market In short, either the aim of US self-sufficiency will not be attained, or it will be attained in a way with a closed market like India's: domestic manufactures for the domestic market, with American consumers paying much higher prices for their US-made equivalents than what people in the rest of the world pay for the best Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Czech, Chilean, Turkish, Brazilian, German, Canadian products. What are the other consequences? If the US becomes more like a closed market with imports strongly inhibited, then countries like China, Germany and Japan that have hitherto accummulated huge USD surpluses held in the US as reserves, will soon stop growing their reserves (since their trade surpluses will vanish). They may even wind them down because the unpredictability of US policy (e.g. after seizing Russian reserves) makes it risky to hold so many US dollars. There is also a real prospect of serious depreciation of the USD. Consider this: the value of a currency vis-a-vis other currencies (i.e. the exchange rate) is a matter of supply and demand. If countries, because of their reduced trade with the US, no longer see the need to hold so much in buffer (since there is less trade to lubricate), if countries fear their reserves being seized, then they will want to offload whatever USD they have down to a safe amount. The offloading (a.k.a. selling pressure) will have an effect on the price of the USD (i.e. the exchange rate versus other currencies). This then becomes a vicious cycle. Imports desired by Americans first have their prices raised because they now come with a 25% (insert percentage here) tax (also known as tariff) payable to the US government. Then as the USD falls in value versus other countries, imports become even more expensive to Americans. If the effect of expensive imports is to reduce trade into the US further, then countries like China, Japan, will want even less to keep holding US dollars. Which then cycles back to downward pressure on the USD. What about financing the US government's deficit? Well, as China's, Japan's and other countries' USD reserves shrink, the US government will have fewer lenders to help it bridge the deficit. Meanwhile the tariffs are going to be such that imports will likely shrink, thus not raising as much revenue as hoped for (at the same time, more Americans will find themselves buying less since they cannot afford imported goods as much as before). Economists have pointed out that even in the best scenario, revenues raised through new tariffs will not be anywhere enough to close the budget deficit. If the US government cannot fund its deficit, it will necessarily have to slash expenditure. Military expenditure. Social spending. Infrastructure maintenance. But won't there be a point when US-made products become competitive on the world market? Yes, in theory. But costs in the US will have to fall very far to get there. Labour cost has to match what factory workers earn sewing Nike shoes in Indonesia, packing corned beef in Brazil, assembling umbrellas in Vietnam and making knock-down furniture in China. Let's use an example that we're familiar with: paid sex. Today, the US has a trade deficit in paid sex. More Americans buy sex from the non-West than non-westerners buy from America (they can't afford it!). In order for a trade balance to be restored, the rentboy in the US has to cost roughly the same as the rentboy in Asia or Latin America since the rentboy in the US probably does not offer any qualitatively better service. I think currently, the price differential is $250 vs $60? i.e. roughly 4 to 1. Probably more. So, to restore trade balance, the USD has to fall to a quarter of its current value before US products/services become as attractive as non-west products/services. In other words, trade balance in paid sex will be restored when the USD is worth 8.50 baht, or 1.40 Brazilian Reals. At that point, we will buy Nike shoes sewn in Massachusetts, hang up Christmas lights made in Arkansas, and fly over to North Carolina for two weeks of debauchery. Mind you, we might stll be flying over in a Chinese-made airliner, watching made-in-Japan holographic movies en-route on our foldable phone made in Syria by a Vietnamese tech company.

I’ll be landing in Bangkok on April 6th after a quick two-night side trip from Tokyo! Not the biggest fan of Songkran, but my schedule worked out this way—so here we are. If anyone else is in Bangkok and up for a meetup, let me know! Hoping for an exciting and eventful trip so I’ll have plenty to share in my trip report. Fingers crossed!

I have a small group of 'regulars' that I try and see every trip. Lads that have given me great sex, and/or warm companionship and/or are fun to take out to the clubs etc. There are one or two key members of that group, others on the fringe that drop out or who are, for various reasons replaced. They are lads that I keep in loose contact with in the long months back home and who I am really looking forward to hooking-up with again on my next visit. Notwithstanding them, I also love visiting the bars and 'interviewing' new boys, looking for that spark that makes my tired old cock stir, getting them back to my room, and seeing how we get on together. Some prove passing ships, others I am keen to see again. Over many trips I have yet to find the one lad that can make me foresake all the others (old and new), although I get very close to, and get very fond of, one or two of my group. But I am only a holiday visitor and probably behave like one; perhaps if I was to spend longer living here, or even live here, then 'the one might' emerge?

Happened under Reagan.... I see a big flaw in all the arguments..... you all mention Trump's plans, decisions, etc.... You give him way too much credit.... he's just the Bully sending the message the real puppet masters are making.

I was checking out some of the hotels around silom on how safe they are. These are some of the response. Seems like croom is the most reassuring 🤭

So why do they make visa applications so complex, and threaten to tax overseas income?

From Pattaya Mail By Barry Kenyon Thai international law attorney Victor Wong doubts that the major concern of either Thai immigration or the Thai Revenue Department is the plight of retiree expats on fixed incomes. He told Pattaya Mail that TRD was aware of billions of baht imported dubiously into Thailand via off-shore accounts, cryptocurrency transactions and untaxed income from overseas corporations. Both Thai citizens and foreign speculators were involved. As regards Thai immigration authorities, their main concern is visa-related regulation and investigations into business fraud such as unauthorized working, use of nominees as shareholders and illegal short-term renting of condominium units. “In spite of rumors, I have seen no evidence of TRD seeking to identify expats through their visas except those who are accused of a criminal offence,” said Victor. He said that TRD had introduced the policy (a reinterpretation and not a change in the law) that “assessable” overseas income was subject to taxation from January 2024, but there were many exceptions. Thus foreigners living in Thailand for less than 180 days in the calendar year are exempt, as are those who transferred less than 120,000 baht (around US$3,500) or those living on historical savings (money transferred on or before December 31 2023). Double taxation treaties are also relevant according to Professor Suthasinee Piriyakijkomol, a tax auditor and associate judge of the Labor Court. “The agreements differ country by country, but my advice is to keep a detailed record of tax paid in the home country as this can be used, if need be, to offset any future TRD demands,” she said. She agreed that some agreements were more detailed than others on personal taxation. For example, the American treaty is more detailed on US pension or social security income, and where it should be paid, than the British one. Victor said that one of the biggest loopholes in tax collection is cryptocurrency which can lead to investment fraud, mule accounts and money laundering. For example, traders change currency to stablecoins, then quickly transfer that to a digital asset exchange outside the country and finally change it to cash again. “The point here is that these crimes are rarely, if ever, connected to retirees living out their later lives here. But they consume a great deal of Revenue and police time.” Continues at https://www.pattayamail.com/business/thai-lawyer-downplays-expat-visa-awards-versus-personal-taxation-worries-495793

checking stamp collection doesn't require erection although if definitely helps

@reader Fox News is simply conforming to an official US policy that has been in place for decades. That policy has been to not recognise the new name of Myanmar that was imposed by the military junta in 1989. There are several reasons why: Dispute Over Legitimacy – The country’s name was changed from Burma to Myanmar in 1989 by the military junta that took power in 1988. Many governments, including the U.S., did not recognize the military government as legitimate and refused to acknowledge the name change. Support for Democracy Movement – The U.S. maintained the name “Burma” in solidarity with the pro-democracy movement, including Aung San Suu Kyi and her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), which initially continued using “Burma” as well. Lingering Policy and Tradition – Even after Myanmar moved towards partial democratic reforms in the 2010s, the U.S. government continued using “Burma” in official contexts, though some officials and institutions have used “Myanmar” interchangeably. The US also refers to the former capitol Yangon as Rangoon, and the US embassy to Burma is located in Rangoon. So you can’t really blame this on Fox News or any change in policy from the new administration.

so, what was the out-cum of your tax filing ? 🤪🤪

You guys are SO right..... So, last night we returned to The Best Bar to see their 11pm show, of which one component includes the 2 sexy male dancers with erections in their speedos.... 1743306550416.mp4 yes - too many whiskey shots and whiskey and coke and soda last night.... As suggested by our sage @vinapu I stuffed his speedos with a 500 baht bank note (in other words, I performed an expensive version of the "Vinapu tuck" ) and he replied to me, are you sure mister - that is 500 baht? I replied, yes, and he put my hand on his hard cock so I could squeeze it some.... 1743306586456.mp4 Earlier this same evening, my Thai boyfriend organized my 4 hands massage in my condo with one of the waiters of The Best Bar, JJ, and JJ revealed that this sexy male dancer that I am smitten with, that his name is, it sounded phonetically like this: "May Day" - at least what my ear heard - but I think that his real Thai name is: เมธา (Metha) - which when translated is "wisdom" or "intelligence". May Day!! May Day!! - my threatening emergency.... Throughout the rest of the night - off in the distance - he would smile at me in a very encouraging way. But being with my Thai boyfriend (and we were in the company of 5 of his best friends) I needed to be a good boy - even though they all understood that I wanted this dancer and some of them were encouraging me to push it further - but I could see in the eyes of my boyfriend that he would not want to be subjected to this craziness....We even saw him sitting with a Thai customer for a little while caressing his leg....so, I believe that there is hope.... So, I will try to return to The Best Bar by myself on one of their sexy boy show nights, which are: Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday. Footnote - while waiting for the show to begin during our pre-drinks out on the main alleyway of Supertown - at The Best Bar - we were watching many many farangs entering and exiting the Gus Bar - which is directly in front of The Best Bar. You had to move a curtain to get into the innards of the Gus Bar - and each time the curtain was moved for an incoming or exiting farang you could get a quick glimpse of the dark underworld behind that curtain. Hmmm, what could be happening in that darkness with all of those guys behind that curtain ? The Gus Bar is co-owned by the nearby Sunee Bar - as Gus is one of the owners.

I think this is quite common. I wish I had a dollar for every guy who bottoms or sucks cock, but who asks me not to tell his friends in the bar. I once met a guy from Super A who had the most beautiful bubble -butt. I was dying to fuck him but he insisted he was top only. Oh well, I thought, I'll off him anyway and just spend time in bed, admiring and playing with his butt. Imagine my surprise when he asked me if I wanted to fuck him! "Sshh...don't tell anyone in the bar." Before I knew it he had his butt up in the air, doggy style, waiting for me to enter. At first I thought he was just gay for pay and was smart enough to realise he could double his chances of an off, and double his money, if he offered up his butt to customers. But he absolutely LOVED being fucked! When I stopped to take a breather he'd continue moving his butt on my cock, moaning with pleasure. Of course, I offed him every night during my trip and also on subsequent trips. He is now married and has 2 kids!

Thailand, which imposes a 72% tariff rate on goods imported from the US, today announced its strategy in response to Trump's imposition of a 36% rate on Thailand: cut tariffs on US goods and purchase more US imports. This begs the question: why didn't both parties choose to negotiate this well before instead of waiting for push to come to shove? Extracted from Pattaya News In response, Commerce Ministry Permanent Secretary Wutthikrai Leeveeraphan held an early morning press conference, outlining Thailand’s strategy to mitigate the impact. The government is preparing aggressive trade negotiations and considering measures such as reducing import taxes on U.S. goods and increasing purchases from the U.S. to balance trade. https://thepattayanews.com/2025/04/03/u-s-president-imposes-10-percent-base-tariff-thailand-hit-with-36-percent-rate-in-trade-crackdown/

NOTE -- I think Barry is giving Trump far too much credit. Pattaya will survive quite well and sea will remain blue--well, brown. From Pattaya Mail By Barry Kenyon The first reaction in Bangkok to Trump’s new international tariffs was to assume they were an April Fool’s joke delivered a day late. The United States is Thailand’s biggest export market and, if a deal can’t be reached, billions of cash income in any currency you care to mention is at potential risk. The 36 percent tariff on imports to the US was much bigger than the Federation of Thai Industries predicted, but China, India, Vietnam and Cambodia amongst other Asian countries were also singled out. One consequence, if the world chooses to retreat into 19th century trade wars, will be to send shocks to Asia’s international travel ecosystem which leaves tourist cities such as Pattaya exposed. If world trade shrinks, business travel declines as reflected in Thailand’s MICE conventions and exhibitions initiative which has to date been very successful in Pattaya. Then global mobility is suppressed as airlines reduce routes, the market for longterm visas becomes smaller and hotels see vacancies mushroom. The worldwide holiday market also shrinks as it depends on discretionary income, that is what people have to spend after paying their bills. Tariff wars are usually accompanied by both unemployment and inflation, both of which discourage vacations abroad. Travel and Tour World is already predicting a negative impact on Asian beach resorts in Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia as international numbers shrink. Cruises are another likely victim as cabins become harder to fill. Pattaya may not be an industrial hub, but it is adjacent to the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), the advanced manufacturing and export base with infrastructure designed to attract international investors from many countries. In the past, the United States and the EEC have been linked through US investment in areas such as renewable energy and other strategic industries. US vice-president JD Vance has already ruled out that kind of international cooperation in future. Continues at https://www.pattayamail.com/latestnews/news/donald-trump-could-determine-the-future-of-pattaya-496453

Unless you are staying 5*, I would imagine that its cheaper to book in to your downtown Silom hotel the night before you arrive and inform them of your late arrival, than it is to rent a short term room at the airport hotel There is also the option of a capsule hotel (aka coffin hotel!) near the train station in the basement of Suvanabhumi: https://www.tripadvisor.ie/Hotel_Review-g644049-d15189940-Reviews-Avagard_Capsule_Hotel_Suvarnabhumi_Airport-Bang_Phli_Samut_Prakan_Province.html

And please don't ask why the Pattaya sea has a coffee brown tinge to it. But, every day I see many tourists swimming in it. Note that there is a nearby alternative where you can experience true beautiful white sand beaches with transparent turquoise seawater. If you still insist on coffee brown water, they do serve hot or cold coffee at the Koh Larn beach - but it is served in a civilized cup.

Did you kiss him? I heard he just rimmed another white farang ass before meeting you.

Yes, I know! What has one of the most popular disco numbers of the 1980s to do with Gay Icons? I wonder how many are aware that this song comes from a Broadway musical? "Chess", with lyrics by the chess-loving Tim Rice who in the 1970s had made himself a nice fortune as the lyricist for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita" and then later for Disney with lyrics for Elton John’s “The Lion King” and other shows, was one of Tim Rice’s pet projects and very dear to his heart. I saw the musical in its first month in London in 1986. To write the music, Rice commuted to Sweden to discuss it with the ABBA boys, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. They liked the idea. In the view of many, including me, their music for “Chess” remains one of the greatest Broadway scores of all time. 18 months prior to opening, the producers issued a concept CD with the full cast and the London Symphony Orchestra. This raised expectations for “Chess” to a very high level. Murray Head’s “One Night in Bangkok” became a massive worldwide hit in terms of record sales and radio plays, as did the lovely duet sung by Elaine Page and Barbara Dickson, “I Know Him So Well.” Head was well-known to cinema audiences as having been part of the first mouth-to-mouth gay kiss in the John Schlesinger 1971 movie “Sunday Bloody Sunday” when his other party was none other than the almost aggressively heterosexual actor Peter Finch. Sadly for “Chess”, though, internal Broadway feuding and international rapprochement as Gorbachev's star was rising and the Soviet Union soon to collapse, rendered Tim Rice's book and lyrics about a Cold War love affair set alongside a chess match between a Russian and an American all but redundant. It struggled along in London for three years but then flopped spectacularly on Broadway with a loss of over US$6 million. Some years later Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Aspects of Love", his first post-"Phantom" musical, lost $8 million after it too died on Broadway, thus becoming Broadway's most expensive flop up to that time. This was massively eclipsed by the $60 million loss after “Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark” also collapsed in 2017. That sure-fire hit had become a legendary debacle. Broadway can be an unforgiving beast. “Chess” also faced a major problem when a much bigger disaster hit the world. Apart from groups of doctors in New York and Los Angeles, no one thought much about HIV and AIDS when it first started on its train of devastation. As more and more information came into the public domain, suddenly gay men in particular started to fear this new illness for which there was no cure. One who contracted it was Michael Bennett, the hugely successful producer/director who had pioneered a revival of the dance musical with “A Chorus Line”. Audiences on Broadway and in London adored "A Chorus Line". Unfortunately when the movie version was on the drawing board Michael Bennett turned down the role of director when the producers would not accept the changes he wanted from the stage version. So iconic was the stage musical that many established directors also turned it down. It was only when the producers reached Richard Attenborough whose “Gandhi” had recently won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director, that he accepted. Many felt this was an unwise choice. A very British director for a quintessentially American musical. The sceptics were proved right. The film version was neither a critical nor audience hit. Tim Rice had loved “A Chorus Line” and was certain that Bennett was the right director to get “Chess” on to the stage. Bennett agreed and started working on casting the show and having very expensive large and unusually tech-heavy scenery constructed. Bennett’s vision was essentially a multi-media show. Some found this odd given that Rice’s book is set in a small Swiss village in the Alps. Then disaster struck. Bennett’s illness had progressed and he was forced suddenly to resign from the production. To take over, Rice was able at short notice to sign the director of “Cats” and "Les Misérables", Trevor Nunn. It quickly became known that Nunn hated the high-tech design, but he had no choice. He had to work within it. The show’s first night had the critics divided. Some loved it; others panned it, mostly because they felt the book was a mess. The undoubted star of the show was the then relatively unknown Swedish singer Tommy Körberg who played the part of the Russian in the chess contest. Audiences seemed to like the show but there was no rush for tickets. Allegedly it was the large weekly advertising budget that kept the show running for three years. For its later Broadway run Nunn was retained, but he had the book and some songs rewritten, the show was recast and it had little in common with London. While the history of “Chess” illustrates the complexity and risk involved in getting a musical from original idea on to the stage, it also illustrates how much the world of entertainment needs musicals. For if Broadway IS New York, now it also belongs to the world. Musicals had always toured internationally, mostly in locally produced versions often quite far from the Broadway originals. When Andrew Lloyd Webber teamed up with the struggling gay London producer Cameron Macintosh, though, a new idea was born: cloning musicals. Macintosh realised that audiences in Sydney, Berlin and Tokyo not only wanted to see a hit show, they wanted to see exactly the same show as audiences in London and New York. Thus the musicals' franchise was born. The result: everyone involved in their shows - "CATS" and "Phantom of the Opera" (and let's not forget that Cameron had also produced on his own two other blockbusters, "Les Misérables" and "Miss Saigon") - started achieving profits earlier producers could not even dream about. Some years ago Forbes Magazine estimated Macintosh’s wealth at over US$1 billion – and this was a man who had started his career as a stage hand in one of London’s large theatres with just a dream to become a producer! Years earlier Lloyd Webber had hit the billion mark. Mackintosh was a visionary in more way than one. When he wanted to take “Cats” to Japan, no theatre owner would give him more than four weeks. This was the custom in Japan for Broadway shows and no owner considered a western show like “Cats” might play for longer. Mackintosh and his Japanese partner in the show decided to mount it in a large marquee on a vacant plot of land in Shinjuku. The first "Cats" tent in Tokyo: Photo by Masanobu Yamanoue So successful was it, it ran there for two years. When the landowner decided to develop it, Mackintosh just took the show to Osaka, brought it back to Tokyo and then to various other cities. Now it has not only been seen by well over ten million people in Japan, there is a specially built CATS theatre where it continues to run more than 40 years after its first performance. How those theatre owners must be kicking themselves! Worldwide, “Cats” has generated US$3.5 billion in ticket sales – and that number is still rising. As the relatively recent book "Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway" by Michael Riedel illustrates, the relationships between theatre owners, producers, directors, PR teams, performers and critics have usually contained far more drama offstage than on. Perhaps less so in its beginnings during the Great Depression when all audiences wanted were bright lights, glitz, glamour, chorus girls - and more chorus girls! Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II changed all that. When the curtain went up on their first collaboration "Oklahoma" in 1943, the audience literally gasped, for this show and four others that followed from the same team transformed the musicals' genre from musical comedy to serious musical theatre, with real story lines and real people living all but real lives. A string of great musicals followed, starting with "West Side Story" by the gay quartet of Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), the book by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein's gorgeous music and stunning choreography by Jerome Robbins. Others included "My Fair Lady" and "Fiddler on the Roof". Soon thereafter the Dance Musical came to the fore with the brilliant - and gay - Michael Bennett conceiving and directing "A Chorus Line" and David Merrick producing "42nd Street". But as if in a flash Broadway itself was threatened by one of the world’s mega-disasters. The sexuality of those on Broadway has always been the stuff of gossip. The distinguished British actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft once said, "Of course I knew Laurence Olivier and Danny Kaye were having a long-term affair. So did all of London. So did their wives. Why is America always the last to know?" Perhaps it's the Puritan streak in America that encourages people to look the other way. Those who faced up to reality knew full well that Broadway and the Broadway musical had always relied on gay men and women for its success, and the toll of those who died in the early years of AIDS was horrifically high. It was not just the male dancers and the dozens of boys in the chorus who were dying by the week. Directors like Michael Bennett, actor Tony Richardson, Joe Layton ("Barnum"), song writer Peter Allen, Larry Kert who played Tony in the original "West Side Story" and the lead in Stephen Sondheim’s “Company”, lyricist Howard Ashman, choreographer Michael Shawn, publicist Frank Nathan, set and costume designers - the obituaries just went on and on. As my little memorial to all those who died, here is the Anthem with its stunningly beautiful melody from the “Chess” concept album, fabulously sung by the Swedish singer Tommy Körberg whom I saw in the original London production. It was written specifically for his voice and Benny’s smile in the control room at the end says it all! Although this is not a typical Broadway song I believe the melody is a fitting tribute. After all the crying and all the funerals, the Broadway musical picked itself up. To this day it continues to present some of the finest entertainment in the world. More recent shows are the talk of the town – “The Lion King”, “Wicked”, “Hamilton” and others along with revivals like “Cabaret” at Studio 54 which I saw around 25 years ago with the androgynous Alan Cumming superb as the Master of Ceremonies. Before the pandemic, 70% of all New York visitors attended a Broadway show. That equates to more than forty million seats sold - many to tourists! So I salute Broadway and its musicals as my final Gay Icon. Of course there are dozens more. But I wanted to keep the list relatively small. I could have added icons like Bette Midler, Judy Garland, Elton John and even Dame Julie Andrews. As discussed in an earlier post the ‘Divine’ Ms. Midler owes much of her fame to gay audiences. But others can now take over this short series if they wish. Finally, since much of this post has been about “Chess”, rumours of yet another revision of the show and a return to Broadway have been around for years. Now, Sir Tim Rice has confirmed that it will open this autumn but no further details have yet been provided. Will it open? Once the curtain has risen, will it succeed? No one ever knows. When the curtain rose of the opening night of “Phantom of the Opera” in London, neither composer Andrew Lloyd Webber nor producer Cameron Mackintosh could bear to watch. They were terrified. They spent the evening walking the streets of London. When they returned for the final curtain, they knew they had not just a hit, but one of the greatest the world of musicals was ever to see. But the unforgiving beast that is Broadway did not escape Lloyd Webber. As he stated in an interview in London’s Daily Telegraph, after “Phantom” he wrote six more shows, including “Sunset Boulevard”. All flopped financially!

Great post there Macaroni21, I was about to say did you copy and paste that from somewhere - until I reached the last paragraph re the rent boys ( which explained the situation in the best way possible for me at least 🙂. The only point I'd add there is even if the American rent boy model drops their costs to a quarter of their current costs i STILL will be opting for the Asian model as we know it just operates SO much better and gives much better short and long term (time) service !

I'm not that desperate........

I stands for intersex, A stands for asexual, + is added to hold space for the ever expanding alphabet soup.

It's free world, not 'free world". When you will be able to say openly that your president is leading country in wrong direction or even is outright idiot , whether you are right or not, without fear of retribution then you will understand sweet taste of freedom.

I don't think any kind of facts interest the Donald, they just get in the way.

Yesterday was my turn to taste JJ. I spent most of the day at the amazing IconSiam (my first time), which is very easy to reach via BTS and then one stop on the fully automated (no driver) Gold line. Consequently, I was too tired later in the evening to march over to the 15M shop. So, I contacted them via WhatsApp, as shown on their contact page: https://www.mmassagebkk.com/contact/ After about 1 hour they were able to hunt down JJ (he is a very busy in demand guy) and send him to my hotel here near Sala Daeng. They alerted me when to go downstairs to let him into the hotel. At first I did not think that it was him, because he was wearing glasses. I brought him into my room and he took a shower with an already erect cock. Hmmm.. Viagra oral gel ? Nice cock he has. He massages me on my hotel bed - first without massage cream with a nice medium level strength. Then he applied my massage cream that I had brought from Pattaya. I turned over and he worked my legs and inner thighs with my third leg arising to attention. He asks me, are you top. I reply, yes - same you. Then he understood that it would be a chak wow finish but first I wanted his yummy Myanmar cock in my mouth. After a while of me blowing him, he stops me and says, sorry, no cum, I have more work after you. That was disappointing after waiting all of these months to finally have him. so, I taught him how to slowly edge me to completion and it was a very good edging session with my JJ fantasy man. I was satisfied with JJ, as he is super masculine and has been one of my fantasies after @CallMeLee excellent trip report from last year, which featured JJ. Would I meet JJ again? Only if he would guarantee me his orgasm - otherwise no. Note that I was quoted 3.000 baht by the 15M shop + taxi money for this outcall service.

I knew that downstairs bar across the soi from Xtreme as "Boys Bangkok", but the name varied a bit depending on which signboard one was looking at. The overhead signboard said "The Boys" pairing it with Dream Boy. This photo was from March 2010: In the above photo, if you look at the extreme left edge, you will see yet another version of its name on a white signboard: "The Boys Bangkok". Another photo, from December 2010: Below is a post I made about Boys Bangkok from a visit in September 2010. Notice the huge numbers of stage boys and customers mentioned in the post. And it wasn't even high season. Boys Bangkok surprisingly enjoyable Boys Bangkok is the overshadowed sibling of Dream Boy Gogo Bar. Its chief purpose seems to be to stop the patrons of Dream Boy from drifting to a competitor bar after Dream Boy’s main show is over. A voice, in thickly German-accented English, tells customers at around 23:30h as the show ends, that they are free to take their drinks with them and go down via the back stairs to Boys Bangkok on the ground floor. “We offer you two shows for the price of one,” the voice says. “And that is vhy ve are the best gogo bar in the vorld.” And so it was that for several years now, each time I stepped into Boys Bangkok, it was via the back stairs, only to stay in the lower bar for a few more minutes before leaving. This trip I decided to do it differently. I went directly to Boys Bangkok at around 23:15h while Dream Boy’s show was still in progress upstairs. And what I found was a bar that was really what gogo should be about. The bar was mostly empty when I entered. There were no more than three or four other patrons who could not have been there long. Boys Bangkok does not open its doors until around eleven o’clock. On stage were ten boys, slim, young and mostly fresh-faced, dancing energetically in their underwear. Doing this every night had resulted in lean athletic bodies that only added to their appeal. From time to time they looked at the few of us in the audience with broad smiles, like they were truly enjoying themselves, though I knew of course that they were mainly hoping for an off. Nevertheless, dancing away, they were far more interesting to watch than the one-knee shuffle more often seen in other gogo bars. At around 23:35h, a surge of people came down from Dream Boy. All the seats in Boys Bangkok were quickly filled (including extra chairs set out beforehand; the waiters had known it would be a big crowd) leaving the last 8 – 10 patrons with nowhere to sit. With so many people in the bar, and many moving about, it was difficult to estimate numbers, but it would have been something like 80 – 90. This implied that Dream Boy must have had a very good night, with perhaps as many as 100-120 people for their show if we assume that only 3 in 4 chose to proceed down to Boys Bangkok after the show. — The ten gogo dancers made way at 23:45h for the full complement of boys. There were about 35 – 40 of them packed onto the stage, and as is always the case with Dream Boy/Boys Bangkok, most of them were rather appealing. There was considerable variety, from twinks to muscle guys, but virtually all were in good shape, with masculine demeanour. In other words, those who prefer fem boys will need to look elsewhere. They shuffled around for about 25 minutes (a bit too long), during which time I counted at least 6 boys being called down to sit with clients, with perhaps more that I didn’t spot. At this late hour, one can assume that if a client asks for a boy to sit with him, an off would almost surely follow. I found the numbers interesting. I knew that at the start of an evening’s work, there would be 50 (perhaps even as many as 60) boys working. If they were down to 35 – 40 by 23:45h, with 6 to 8 more called out by 00:15h, this suggests that on a night like this, about 20 to 25 boys got an off, giving an offing rate of about 35 – 40 percent. It’s not bad at all, especially considering that the off fee for Dream Boy/Boys Bangkok is now at 500 baht. The short show began at 00:15h; it would reinforce my belief that 30 minutes is the ideal length of a show. Too many bars stretch a show to one hour which tends to make it dreary. There were only four acts: A big cock parade by eight boys; A choreographed fast dance item by six boys, with a mix of ballet and hiphop; The “Titanic fuck” – see more below; The Pepsi douche by two biggish guys, the same act I saw a year ago and which I have described in an earlier blogpost. The “Titanic fuck”, judging by audience reaction, was the most enjoyable one. The scene opened with two characters on a bow of a ship in the iconic pose from the movie. Wind and waves came crashing and the couple drowned. The body of the male character, played by a rather macho guy, was washed away. Some time passed. The body is later discovered by three mermaids, waddling onto the stage. These three were played by the bar’s team of resident ladyboy performers. Curious, they poked at the body, and stripped him naked. Aroused, the ladyboys flipped open their fish skins revealing hard cocks, to much nervous laughter from the audience. They then fought over who would get to fuck the macho corpse. It was necrophilia and gender reversal rolled into one; it was Leonardo di Caprio fucked hard by gatoeys. Perhaps it fulfilled a secret wish of many in the audience?

weren't you supposed to take day of rest today ?

From Pattaya Mail American retiree Bob Pelletier and Thai national “Oh” Dongmart have taken advantage of the new legislation to tie the nuptial knot after more than 20 years together. They met during Bob’s vacation in 2002 and have lived together ever since Bob’s permanent move to Jomtien two years later. They both told Pattaya Mail they wanted to confirm officially their long term relationship and to ensure Oh’s financial security. They are planning a US vacation to Bob’s family there. Oh was originally from Pak Chong, near Korat. Bob served in the US military as an artillery officer and later as a financial consultant to General Motors. He was briefly engaged to an American girl when he was 19 but never married until now. A celebration was held in Lucky’s bar in the Jomtien Complex which is the leading gay bars and international cabaret center in the Pattaya area. You can also play bingo on Wednesday evenings. https://www.pattayamail.com/socialscene/pattayans-celebrate-gay-marriage-495977

I think that we need to take a step back and look at recent events from a "the universe is trying to send us a message" point of view. Yes, put your tinfoil hats on. 1.) On 9 October 2024, the UN General Assembly elected Thailand as a new member of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) - to commence on 01 January 2025. https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/thai/elected-to-unhrc-amid-concerns-10102024151340.html 2.) PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra visits with China's President Xi Jinping during her visit 5-8 February 2025. https://www.mfa.go.th/en/content/post-pr-pm-to-prc-en 3.) 27 February 2025 Thailand forcibly deports 40 Uyghurs back to China in violation of international law and the fundamental principal of non-refoulement. https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160586 https://ishr.ch/latest-updates/thailand-slammed-by-un-bodies-for-uyghur-deportations-to-china-as-it-assumes-human-rights-council-membership/ 4.) Thailand suffers from political pushback and fallout from the above item #3, including negative economic consequences. https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/2991604/a-mutually-beneficial-pact https://www.reuters.com/world/us-sanction-thai-officials-over-deportation-uyghurs-china-2025-03-14/ 5.) Earthquake in Myanmar on Friday 28 March 2025 causes panic and damage in Bangkok, where 1 single building under construction by a Thai Chinese venture collapses. https://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2025/03/31/probe-focuses-thai-chinese-venture-in-bangkoks-fatal-building-collapse/ The irony is that this building was supposed to be for the Thai SOA = State Audit Office. Of all possible governmental entities to become a victim of potential fraud = amazing. 6.) Yesterday, 31 March 2025, at around 10am, there was a panic attack in many downtown governmental offices here in Bangkok, when supposedly new earthquake tremors and cracks were felt and seen, causing evacuations of many governmental buildngs. https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40048117 The Thai PM pleaded with her citizens to stay calm and to not panic so easily and to trust the government. So, what is the universe trying to tell us, in my opinion: a.) Bad karma caused by this government has caused harm to Thailand and its citizens, b.) Trust by the citizens in their government has eroded. I know that this current government survived last weeks no confidence vote by a large majority - but the universe has still spoken, and in my opinion, the universe cannot be ignored or controlled by the Thai government. https://apnews.com/article/thailand-no-confidence-vote-paetongtarn-fda1ba87ea3aaf920ee65c447e77a08f Anyone else here believe in the voice of the universe?

I think this board is proof positive that it's true, I'm speaking from my geriatric perspective lol

Possibly, but you seem to be assuming that the removed documents were identical to those submitted. If they were, why go to the trouble of removing them when other copies exist and you could so easily print another identical copy?

Fertility is declining on so many continents with the exception of Africa. The drivers of this varies by locale. In Asia one significant driver is the high cost of child care and good education coupled with the very high competition and stress in bringing up children in the educational arms race. Couples often prefer having pets instead of children. This driver alone outweighs any LGBT influence on the numbers.

I'm not answering for @reader, but this video from The Nation Thailand is about the new Lao museum.

they even had UN General Secretary U Thant

and waiting for floridarob to show up ?

neither using credit card during grace period was my case, I just took debt , pure , clean and simple , reasoning that it's now or never as January 2025 is unlikely to return in foreseeable future

Something changed about him from 1 year ago. Mr. May Day looks hotter now - in my opinion.