PeterRS

I actually find progressive lenses great for daytime wear but quite quite difficult if I am looking at a fixed object, like a movie. Then it really depends where I am seated as I found that when I started wearing them sometimes I'd have to keep my head raised or lowered to see properly. Same with working on a computer screen for more than a few minutes. Good for a quick scan but not longer term working. When I had all my lenses changed some years ago I had an extra pair made that is effectively the distance between my eyes and the computer screen. If you work on a laptop, I thoroughly recommend that small extra expense.

Totally agree, but the devil with travel insurance is often in the small print. If a flight is cancelled primarily due to fuel shortages, will that be covered since the reason for the shortage could be regarded as an act of war?

He was called the greatest male ballet dancer, although this is hotly disputed in the ballet world as many believe his countryman Nijinsky tops that list. The fact is, though, that while no one now alive saw the great Nijinsky dance, many of us had the joy of seeing Rudof Nureyev dance, often with his long-time dance partner Margot Fonteyn who was 19 years his elder. When on stage he commanded it with his extraordinary almost animalistic presence, his amazing leaps and stunning virtuosity. Yet he was at heart always the peasant lad he had been born into in Siberia. Uneducated, uncouth, boastful of his talent and according to many not much fun to be with. Yet he could be incredibly generous. When Fonteyn was diagnosed with cancer, he paid for all her treatment till her death. Graduating to Leningrad's Kirov Ballet aged 20 he quickly became its star. He was silky, mercurial but also gay - very gay. He visited gay bars as regularly as he was seen at gay bathhouses. He did not really care with whom he had sex. It was the sex itself he craved. On a tour to Denmark he met a fellow dancer working for the Royal Danish Ballet. Eric Bruhn was to became the love of his life, one constant in his incedibly hectic career after he defected from the Soviet Union and caused a sensation in 1961. Although the relationship only continued for five years, they remained close friends until Bruhn's death in 1986. There were other lovers and with all Nureyev continued his extra-partnership gay lifestye during their times together. For years Nureyev denied that in 1984 he had been diagnosed with HIV. Even so he continued dancing, continued his gay lifestyle. It was around early 1991 that the effect of AIDS was taking its toll. Yet he continued with a World Tour. He died in January 1993 and is buried in Paris. Rudolf Nureyev, incredible dancer, rebel, gay icon would have celebrated his 88th birthday last week.

In my view there is no way any K-Pop girl band looks like any K-Pop boy band. But it is not unusual for us to see things differently.

I find it odd that of all members you write about hypocrisy. Because you have shown yourself to be be a hypocrite. This is @khaolak's modus operandi. He doesn't like a poster? Trash him. This is what he wrote about @Olddaddy on January 6 this year - "This is just Olddaddy's method of operation as a troll since he first started posting here, under this name, three years ago." Funny how an alleged troll still posts and still gets like and dislike emojis. And @Olddaddy is one of the most regular contributors, posting vastly more than @khaolakguy And this is what he wrote about me when I made a comment about nude photos being posted in an open thread - something that is not permitted under the Board's Code of Conduct - if only because they can been seen by anyone, including children, and could come to the notice of the Thai licensing authorities which could possibly result in closing this Board. On August 19 2025 he questioned poster @rd2077 - Over the years you have posted this question several times and received answers. I don't think you ever shared your experiences. Have you ever made a trip? Reading his earlier posts, he had indeed made trips which @khaolakguy clearly never bothered to check. There had also been a gap of 8 years from 2017 to 2025 between his trips. @khaolakguy's post as rude and uncalled for. But more than once he has accused me of forcing posters off the Board, yet he can never name one! And there is a reason for that. I have never forced or sought out the Moderator to force anyone off the Board. End of discussion. He did not llike my comments when one poster posted something like 12 new posts all under the same heading. Usually such posts would be a continuation of a post with the original heading. He wrote this on June 23 2025 - @alexch Please continue sharing your information and expertise, either in this thread or a new one, and don't be discouraged by one troubled poster. Me troubled? Ha! Perhaps he will finally advise members - did I ever ask that poster to cease posting or say the posts were in any way anything other than interesting? No! But he later accused me of forcing @alexch off the board! Yet i'm delighted to say @alexch is still contributing! He then accused me of forcing another member who had told lies about me in one sub-forum which I then corrected in another of forcing that poster off the Board. Well, odd that it is very simple to see that that member continues to read this Board almost every day! Lastly I will without naming names state that he mentions my name in connection with one member who freely admitted in an earlier post that he had issues with anger manageent and had been to five anger management courses. Anger is an issue we all face from time. We all have to deal woth it in our own ways. i sympathise with that member. But I suggest that anger - at least in the form of a major disagreement - in some form or another will always appear on a chat room. And then on June 7 2025 he queried why I posted photos from a photo spread I had made ten years earlier, a re-spread that received many 'like' emojis. Clearly he considers he has a proprietary issue on this Board and does not accept that there must be thousands of new members since then (given the expansion of the original Gay Thailand into Gay Guides) who would not have seen that and other original photo posts. Well, all members are different, and some have likes and some have disllikes. i know that a very few members like @khaolakguy and @Keithambrose will always seek to deride some of my posts for their own reasons. Fine! Such is posting life!

There were three movies made about Thatcher. If some misunderstand your comments, it is because they are usually so short and cryptic and it can be difficult to understand what you are trying to write.

Sorry but I canot agree. The movements may be quite similar but just looking at faces and dress and listening to the sound makes it obvious which is which. Interestingly Korea's most famous pop band BTS reunited last night after each member had done his mandatory military service. As CNN reports, an audience of up to 260,000 assembled in Seoul for the concert in front of the 14th century Gyeongbokgung Palace, many having flown in from all parts of the world. They are as big as Taylor Swift, if not bigger. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/21/style/bts-arirang-comeback-concert-korea-intl-hnk

And that is another piece of @Keithambrose nonsense. Proof is the currency of a lawyer's business! Whom have I driven OFF the Board? And when, as you have done with my PM, have I betrayed a confidence by publicising anothers PM? Pot calling something . . .? Sorry, I was wrong in an earlier post. I have been the Asian CEO of two major international franchises. An apology would be in order, but coming from you? Little chance.

Sorry I have never been. The area has several hotels each with hotsprings, most of which are open to the public. The shuttle bus takes you to this hot spring resort and probably others- https://www.volandospringpark.com/en/about-wulai This is a very upmarket resort but has a public hot spring. The Singapore gay chat site from which I took the information has been free to read for about 15 years but I see it has now gone private and I have no wish at present to join.

You cannot be so totally dumb. Extending a business and franchising a business are both well-known means of increasing income from a business - if that is the objective. Ask the executors of Ray Kroc of McDonalds, 7-11, Walt Disney, Hello Kitty and a vast number of others, large and small. And you are wrong. I did work for the franchise of a major international company. Do not pontificate by making incorrect assumptions! Childish, again!

But let's remember that Korean girls are as quick to go under the plastic surgeon's knife as the boys.

When Churchill uttered his famous phrase about democracy, he is usually misquoted as the first and final parts of that quote are usually left out. What he actually said was - No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. There seems little argument that democracy in 2026 is well and truly fucked and definitely not working. We have an elected criminal from a tiny country in the Midde East (elected?) sucking up at every turn to the elected criminal of the world's largest military (elected?) with the result that illegally this known idiot from the second country joins in a war against a third without consulting the rest of the world. And several of the key countries spread around that third which has a culture and history dating back millennia have mostly borders determined solely during the British colonial era by a British woman, Gertrude Bell, and which were acually created little more than a century ago. Putting militant theocracy to one side, does not Iran/Persia deserve its place in that part of the world? And had it not been for the USA backing the Shah to the hilt and beyond despite being fully aware of his megalomania and his reign of terror, the militant theocratic state which emerged after the Iranians took maters into their own hands and themselves threw out the Shah might have earlier emerged as a form of democracy with which its neighbours - all of them - might otherwise not have been displeased? The democratic system in the USA which often sees one rigid set of views replaced by a very different set of rigid views is, frankly, nuts in this day and age. Naturally it was not always so, but times change and if people and systems do not change with them, chaos frequently results. The Middle East cannot be compared to Asia many of whose own countries were also founded milennia ago. Importantly, Asia's 20th century wars have largely been dictated by the external circumstances of nucear reality and the Cold War. But back to the subject. If democracy is nearing disaster, with what do we replace it? We talk ad nauseam about democracy requring democratic institutions, free and fair elections, a free press, a legal system beyond reproach and so on and so on. If these are indeed the requirements, democracy already has one foot in the grave in most of the world. It is surely the nuclear issue which now makes an answer to that question almost impossible. History has always been shaped by wars and the weapons of war that have been devised over time to give one side an edge until the next lethal instrument is devised. When an instrumewnt now exists that technically could wipe out humanity, what comes next? Nothing! We are fucked!

Plastic surgery is the name of the game for most young Korean entertainers - and for many others in Korean society in general. South Korea is known as the "Plastic Surgery Capital of the World!" https://www.kayatexas.org/blog/plastic-surgery-south-korea

What a ridiculous childish response!

Funny question since you brought up that particular Streep performance.