PeterRS

Of course not. It takes two to end a controversy - as you might wish to remind Trump.

You may well be right! 🤪 Mea culpa! Sadly I never made it to Colombia. Fabulous sing fabulously sung.

But I do hope this stupid controversy will now fade after going on for about a year.

Britain has had not just a signature but a photo of a man who admitted to being gay even though it was against the law at the time on the back of its £50 notes for quite a few years.

That's kind. But sorry to say @Enchanted_Elixir is still on some sort of silly crusade, so I have been forced to respond by opening a new thread in the hope that the whole matter is very soon at an end.

SInce @Enchanted_Elixir is determined to continue this argument and since so few readers based in Thailand had obviously read the original posts, let's recall precisely what was written - using what he calls the "shocking" Search Engine, which is anything but. The relevant thread is The Dangers of Columbia which was started on May 25 2025 by @neygar. The basis of the thread was Dangers and related specifically to sexual adventures. On 5/27/2025 at 4:53 AM, @vinapu wrote: where I'm even thinking if I should be concerned about security I consider compromised. On 5/27/25 @bkkmfj2648 wrote this response - Hallelujah!! I thank you for saying this, as this is also my exact philosophy, and is the primary reason as to why I have not yet ventured to some of these South American countries. I truly do not enjoy any experience where the hairs on my neck or arms feel the need to stand up - it is just not worth it, if I cannot relax and enjoy the environment that I am in, - especially as an elderly retiree, with who knows how many years are remaining in my life - why accelerate the eventual end by venturing into a perhaps dangerous situation?? Life is already too short. I responded on the same date - Merely out of curiosity, is sex an essential part of your travelling? I spent a fabulous month travelling around four South American countries and sex was rarely on my mind. It was a fabulous trip and I saw so many natural wonders.The only time sex came into view was on arrival in Cuzco in Peru. With the short 45 minute flight taking you from sea level to almost 3,500 meters up, everyone told me to do virtually nothing for the first 5 hours while the body acclimatized. For a while I lay on the bed reading, then got bored and hit a couple of apps. Ended up chatting to a delighful student who worked in a bar in the centre of the city in the evenings. He was keen to meet, so the next evening I went for a drink. He was lovely, was obviously well known to the other bar staff and so he came back to my room for a short time. Lovely little interlude! In response to a question from @floridarob about my age when I travelled around South America, I replied on 5/27/25 60. I do go on other trips where sexual adventures are part of the agenda. For South America, the only reason was sightseeing. I had never been before, knew no-one and spoke hardly any Portuguese or Spanish. 9 cities/locations and 16 flights over a month (including 4 getting there and back) and each day was packed with activity. No time for anything else - except in Cuzco which was a complete although very pleasant surprise! This was the response made by @bkkmfj2648 a day later on 5/28/2025 - Dear @PeterRS, Your condescending question, framed as a mere curiosity, carries an unmistakable whiff of superiority, as if the pursuit of physical intimacy while traveling is somehow beneath the refined appreciation of culture you so clearly pride yourself on. It’s a tired trope, implying that those who acknowledge sex as part of their human experience are somehow less enlightened or incapable of savoring the world’s deeper offerings. This condescension, cloaked in intellectualism, betrays a rather narrow view—one that dismisses the complexity of human connection in favor of a self-congratulatory asceticism . . . It was your choice when you went on your South American tour to not have sex. For myself, I don't like these types of limitations - as it is often sex with the locals of a country that you are visiting that allow you to have genuine connections and experiences with the local community. I close by asking you to STOP making condescending remarks towards my person in this forum!!! Readers can easily go to the thread in question to check the acuracy of what I have written. I then question readers - 1. How my question condescending? 2. Where is the "whiff of superiority", the more so as I stated I had had sex in Cuzco? 3. Given 2. above, where is the "beneath the refined appreciation of culture"? 4. As i stated, I did have sex in South America. @bkkmfj2648 was wrong in his statement. 4. Where is the "self-congratulatory asceticism"? 5. In my response to @floridarob in this thread as written above, I had very clearly made the point as many readers are aware that "I do go on other trips where sexual adventures are part of the agenda." So what on earth prompted these "condescending remarks" about me from @bkkmfj2648 ? And what reason did @bkkmfj2648 have for posting what was a diatribe against me?

You fail to read posts and then call me pompous? More siliness. Actually if you had been reading as carefully as you claim, you would know I havebeen on this board around 20 years. But clearly members are getting fed up of such arguments which started when you made claims about @ChristianPFC. I have made my points and you have yours. As you suggested some days ago, let's finally agree on this one to disagree.

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.