PeterRS

20 years ago when Trump had decided he would build a links golf course north of the Scottish city of Aberdeen, he was going to do it come hell or high water. He promised the authorities US$1 bilion in investment that would include not only the course but a 450 room hotel 850 holiday villa apartments, 36 golf villas and 500 hundred houses for sale. Many hundreds of new jobs would be created. Alhough the local council threw out the appication on the grounds of potential environmental damage, Trump persuaded many politicians to overturn that decision given the economic benefits the course would bring. Apart from the hotel, none of the other investments materialised. In the latest set of accounts, the book value of the investments is US$45 million and there are just 81 employees. The courses (a second one was later added) have never shown a profit. But to the stink of corruption around the acquisition is now added the stink of sewage emanating from the site. The site has its own treatment plant for sewage before it is released back into the ground. Documents released by the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency and an investigative journalist group show that contamination levels have breached regulations 14 times since 2019 including 4 times last year. "The agency categorised eight of the 14 incidents as “upper tier”, which it describes as “extreme events which have the potential to cause immediate and serious environmental harm” and can trigger enforcement action." Trump's comment? Well, who would have guessed? For a man who sues at every turn - Silence! https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-68069245 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/17/trump-golf-course-in-scotland-accused-of-breaching-sewage-limits

Probably too young anyway!

Just for interest I have noticed that in the last couple of months there has been a mini invasion of young Chinese groups on Stripchat.There are several featuring five young slim guys - too slim probably for most readers liking - who play childish little games and seem to chat with members of that site using microphones. Lots of asses to be seen but not much else unless I suppose you are a member and pay for private shows. Each guy has a number at the top of the page. There is also a duo who are slightly older, taller, equally slim but who have much more engaging personalities. It seems to me they have to be performers somewhere since they react very easily to each other and the camera, but no idea where. They certainly get hundreds of credits from members whenever I have seen them. I have the impression that the larger groups could come from the very few KTV bars dotted around Shanghai and perhaps other major cities where boys are frequently nude. On the other hand, I do not know if the visuals are from mainland China or Taiwan. I feel certain the performers are from the mainland, yet traditional Chinese is used in the captions.

I note among your wealth of trivia responding to others that you have not replied to my question. What forum rules?

He was one of the greats, part of a generation of American movie stars whom everyone knew and whose movies include some of the best-known. Can we ever forget Butch Cassiday and the Sundance Kid or The Sting? At a time when Trump is dragging US politics back into the gutter, we surely remember how Robert Redford inspired us along with Dustin Hoffman in the movie version of the classic Bernstein and Woodward's All The President's Men which showed how Nixon disgracefully also corrupted the system. Later in his career Redford spent more time as a director. His movies were perhaps less well known, although like All The President's Men, Quiz Show with the great British actor Paul Scofield illustarted how such popular American TV shows were rigged. Robert Redord: 1936 - 2025.

Many thanks

Since getting my first digital camera, I have taken many thousands of photos of all the places I have visited. I did not join any social media and so I just selected a few pics each time and sent them to family and a very few friends i knew would be interested. Emails though last a few weeks before being forgotten. So in 2018 I used one of the on-line pubishing sites and put together a hardback album of photographs from 35 cities, countries and continents along with a few descriptions and what I particularly liked about them. I had only 20 printed and sent these out as gifts. They seem to have proved of much greater interest to the recipients. About half the time I visit those who received them, the books are sitting on the coffee table!

@iendo - love to know where you found that ad. The advertiser should be outed.

What forum "rules"? It is your Board with its handful of posters that has banned political topics - but clearly you are too busy writing your own litany of lurid lies here on this Board that you forgot.

Yes, I realise that. I suppose much would depend on if his son returned home the after the shooting which i assume was the case. With the police and FBI officials clutching at endless straws, had he stayed away in hiding somewhere and before he was identified, I suppose he could perhaps have reached Mexico. That would assume he did not go home or phone his father. Why he did so beats me - unless he wanted to brag about it. He must have realised he was staring at the death penalty. It seems clearly to have been a pre-planned act of murder. It beats me why he did not also plan for a post-murder get-away scenario. Unless he wanted a martyr tag.

I agree. My reference to "silly" was the exchange of posts beween @unicorn and myself. Tit for tat exchanges on such a subject seem rather pointless.

Does any member know how to make a poll work? I assumed the moderator might have stepped in. As mentioned, I can get the poll going but when I try to load it I always get a message that it cannot be loaded!

Suggestion. This Hua Hin thread has been dead for almost 14 months. Since Hua Hin is not a popular gay destination, would it not be better to cancel this particular thread? Instead, have the four main cities listed which are then followed by the sort of open forum for discussions about other places in Thailand similar to that found in the Gay Asia forum? This might hopefully encourage occasional posts on Chiang Rai, Udon Thani, Uban Ratchathani, Korat etc.

So the gunman's father turned him in knowing that his son is liable to get the death penalty. I wonder why - and how many fathers would do the same rather then help their sons flee?