PeterRS

I have just booked a biz class return to Rome on Royal Jordanian for September. I have fllown it before and it is a very good airline, although seat layout is not great. Better still, the price was a third cheaper than than all the other carriers I checked. I would have been happy with Finnair which I have flown many times and which is also inexpensive, but while London has easy connections, Rome requires overnights in Helsinki both ways.

You still have not clarified the untruth you stated. You have merely copped out. "A long history" What utter rubbish! Well I did send you several PMs and you wrote one one-line reply that failed to answer the points I raised. Yet again you lied! The member you quoted has not been "driven away from this forum". He has been reading this Board almost daily as can be seen from the list of on-line members at the foot of each page. You failed to read the background and you came to an assumption - an incorrect assumption which is obvious if you had actually bothered to read posts in some detail (which you did not). Further, you quote "various altercations"! This, since you seem not to realise, is a chat room and members have different views. Differences of opinion are often the norm. Or did you not realise that? As you have noted above, you have been a member of this Board for about six months and made less than 170 posts. When did you start reading it and paying attention to the posts? I have been a member for more than 15 years and made 7,048 posts. In my earlier incarnation on this Board i probably made at least another 1,000. When did you start reading and paying attention to the posts on this forum? "Real experience on the ground"? That is also laughable. I first visited Thailand regularly after being posted to Hong Kong in 1979. I had visitd at least 50 times before moving to Bangkok to live in 2002. "Real experience" Ha! True, I have criticised other posters from time to time as they have criticised me. If you can't stand up to criticism, there is no point joining any chat room because it will always be there in one form or another. This is not a spinsters' tea party! On the other hand, I have written a huge volume of posts that have been particularly well received. I did make one total error by repeating you tube clickbait that has nothing to do with the issue at hand in this series of posts. But in your postings you have chosen to make erroneous statements without any form of apology because they were and continue to be wrong. I have no issue with criticism, but when it is wrong some form of acknowledgement of that fact is a courtesy to other members - unless you wish to be known as someone who merely lies.

The websites you posted state that the guy played professional tennis before he became an actor. Why cannot he make some money coaching the sons and daughters of the rich as they learn tennis? I'll bet that would pay him more than $100 a lesson.

Again you make an allegation that is not backed up by facts, The forum member you mention reads this site almost every day as can easily be seen by the list at the bottom of the pages. So no one has been "driven away" as you wrongly claim. He has also commented through emojis on a number of posts. I do not know why he has decided to cease posting. You better ask him that. And also ask him why he wrongly dragged my name into the mud in a totally separate forum dealing with South America on May 28 last year - no doubt a post you failed to read despite my asking members first to read it. If you wish to cease posting, that is a matter for you not other members. If you wish me to stop posting, just say the word since clearly you do not like my posts in spite of all the valid coments I have made over around 20 years. Remind me: you have been a member for all of 6 months, I believe? At least that is what the Search engine that you describe as "shoddy"states. I should also add the vast number of photo postings of places in Asia and elsewhere I have posted which members might like to visit. But if ignorant posters like you do not want me here, I will leave the Board. You would do well to read @vinapu's post made four hours ago. It is as reasoned as I believe mine was and not based on personal bias or guesswork as in your post. But you stated that @ChristianPFC - a fellow member - "gets a dominance boost out of pressing prices/tips as low as he can." Untrue!

And you are a sex worker to make that determination?

And that is obvious because you make an allegation against a fellow member and then failed to back it up!

And bad for you!

I can attest that the search function works exremely well as i have discovered on quite a number of occasions. And you should recall that you made the allegation - not me! Proof is up to you, not me - but you have copped out.

Why do I think this story, with certain alterations, reminds me of masses of missives received and posted from Thai boys to the foreigners they met once, perhaps twice, and who told the boys they loved them? I do not know the situation in the USA but in the UK 90% of actors are out of work at any one time. It is a very precarious profession - uness I suppose he is a porn star. Is he? Why ask questions here when you already know what you plan to do? Otherwise you would not have made the post!

And can you kindly inform us which other member/s have made that comment - particularly the use of the words "dominance boost"? I do not recall seeing that before.

I have met @ChristianPFC occasionally here in Bangkok and twice in Taipei where he had gone to learn Chinese. He is considerably younger than most posting here. Speaking near fluent Thai and being well accustomed to Thailand - has anyone travelled around this country as much as he, I wonder? - he can clearly attract guys for sex more cheaply than most. While I totally disagree with his comment about third world countries and the price of a sexual encounter being similar to a daily wage, if guys are prepared to spend time with him for less than for most posters here, as long as he respects them as individuals - and I am certain he does - he is as entitled to tip as he wishes and his boy du jour accepts. That is an unfair comment.

I have never been barred from entry to any sauna in Japan - and my Japanese is dreadful. But banning foreigners was particularly true during the years when HIV and AIDS were sadly too prevalent. As usual the Japanese owners did not consider this a Japanese problem until they realised that foreigners were stilll visiting their establishments. Too late they banned foreigners. But they only banned those they assumed were foreigners. Chinese friends of mine from Hong Kong always gained entry as they looked rather like Japanese! As @macaroni21 has pointed out, they are - much more so than most other countries. But you cannot expect a massage spa to conform to these rules. Most of the boys, as has been stated above, are basically freelancers and they are not in possession of fixed schedules like a normal salaryman. Often they can only offer free time about a week ahead.

I agree tipping may have - stress "may" - little to do with your financial wealth. But it is for some people. But to compare it with going to a hairdresser is frankly nonsense. Similarly you cannot compare a tip for prostitution the equivalent of a daily wage. Most people on a daily wage get precisely that - the same amount each day guaranteed for at least a decent peiod of time. Someone seeking sex may go for days without any customer - and we know from what has been written here in the past that there are boys who get no customers for a week or more. We all know that you tip at the lower end of the scale. That's perfectly fine if the boy you are with is happy with it. But you live here, you speak Thai and you know all about negotiation. Most customers are very different.

I really do not follow that argument. Bangkok properties are generally not ghost properties with one exception I know about. When the Chinese were floooding Thalland, they were permitted by their government to take up to US$50,000 out of the country. Many wished to buy in Bangkok but apartments were generally above that figure, So property developers soon put up large apartment blocks with units of between around 25 and 30 sq. m. usually near the end of MRT and BTS lines. Initially these proved popular, even with couples from Singapore and Hong Kong where housing is so incredibly expensive. The Chinese from the mainland basically wanted to park their cash outside the country. The thinking of South East Asians was they could sell the apartments after ten years and make enough of a profit to finally get on the property ladder in their own cities. I suspect with Thailand now much less popular with Chinese, quite a number of these small units are empty - but that's merely a guess. I have no idea about the situation in Pattaya.

A member of the Finland Parliament, Paivi Rasanen, has several times over the last two decdes claimed that homosexuality is a "developmental disorder". Finally taken to court, the Supreme Court ruled that she was incorrect and fined her. Ms. Rasanen was aided in her defence, should we be surprised, by an American organisation - the US-based conservative legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom, which has tried to use her case as an example of censorship in Europe. The group has ramped up its global spending on litigation and other campaigns after successfully overturning Roe v Wade, which protected the right to abortion, in the US. Having made a shambles of much of the USA, these right wing groups should be banned from becoming involved in non-American issues. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/26/finnish-mp-paivi-rasanen-convicted-homosexuality-developmental-disorder