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I don't remember kangaroo or crocodile, but I'll take your word for it. Personally I don't want to eat kangaroo - ever. As for crocodile, people who have eaten it tell me it tastes just like chicken. In that case, give me a piece of chicken . . .

Yes, that's right. I too am not sure I correctly remember the name, but it was there. I even tried their ostrich steak and it was quite good. That restaurant, whatever its name was, is long gone.

I never do. First, "gay" can mean different things to different people. Second, speaking only for myself, I've been doing this long enough that I don't need to ask to know. As for the answer you'll get if you ask, for years I've seen people on the boards absolutely insist the boy is going to tell you whatever he thinks you want to hear. That has not been my experience. With very rare exceptions, when I've asked questions, the boys give me honest answers, even when they know the answer will mean I won't take them off or agree to meet from the apps. It is also just as important that when the boy wants to know anything about you, make sure you are giving honest answers too. If you don't want the boy to lie to you, then don't lie to him. And don't make any promises you know you cannot or will not keep. I find that if answers are going to be dishonest, they're more likely to come from the farang rather than the boys.

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If anyone really wants to go to Thailand under current and foreseeable circumstances, you might be interested in the following article: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Guidelines for people planning to visit Thailand by The Nation August 30, 2021 The Public Health Ministry has come up with a guide for travellers planning to visit Thailand under the pilot reopening schemes like Phuket Sandbox, Samui Plus and Phuket Sandbox 7+7 Extension. To be eligible to travel under the programme, Thai returnees or foreigners must be: • 18 years old and above • Should have received two doses of Covid-19 vaccines that have been approved by Thailand or the World Health Organisation at least 14 days before arrival Covid-19 vaccines approved in Thailand: • CoronaVac by Sinovac Biotech: 2 doses / 2-to-4-week interval • AstraZeneca or Covishield by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, SK Bioscience (South Korea), Siam Bioscience, and Serum Institute of India (Covishield): 2 doses / 4-to-12-week interval • Comirnaty by Pfizer and BioNTech: 2 doses / 3-week interval • Janssen or Janssen/Ad26.COV2.S by Johnson & Johnson: 1 dose • Moderna by Moderna: 2 doses / 4-week interval • Covilo by Sinopharm: 2 doses / 3-4-week interval • Sputnik V by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology: 2 doses/3-week interval Have you been fully vaccinated? According to the Public Health Ministry, travellers are considered fully vaccinated if they have received: • Second dose of two-dose vaccines like AstraZeneca or Pfizer no less than 14 days before travelling to Thailand. • Single-dose vaccines like Janssen no less than 14 days before travelling to Thailand • Second dose of mix-and-match vaccines like CoronaVac from Sinovac and AstraZeneca, no less than 14 days before travelling to Thailand. Apart from being fully vaccinated, travellers to Thailand should have all their advance arrangements in good order. These include a Certificate of Entry (COE) issued by a Thai embassy or consulate, a Covid-19 health insurance policy with a minimum coverage of US$100,000; confirmation of a SHA Plus hotel booking, and a medical certificate with a negative RT-PCR test result issued no more than 72 hours before departure. https://www.nationthailand.com/thai-destination/40005465

Bangkok Hospital Pattaya in association with the Department of Disease Control and the Thai Ministry of Public Health are offering COVID-19 vaccination services (first dose) to foreign residents in Thailand. https://www.thailandintervac.com/ https://www.bangkokpattayahospital.com/en/hospital-news-en/press-release-en/item/3045-covid-vaccine-foreign-residents-en.html ______________________________________________________________________________ Bangkok Hospital Pattaya now offering Covid-19 vaccination services for eligible foreigners By Adam Judd 13 August 2021 The following is a release from Bangkok Hospital Pattaya from their social media channels. Bangkok Hospital Pattaya in association with the Department of Disease Control and the Thai Ministry of Public Health are offering COVID-19 vaccination services (first dose) to foreign residents in Thailand. These services are free of charge, with the following criteria: • Non-Thai national • Foreign residents aged 60 years and above OR • Foreign residents (aged over 18): Pregnant women with gestational age at least 12 weeks or over OR • Foreign residents (aged over 18) who have at least one of the following 7 underlying medical conditions: Severe chronic respiratory diseases (CRDS) Coronary artery diseases (CAD) Chronic kidney disease (CKD, 5th stage) Cerebrovascular diseases Cancer patients receiving chemotherapy Diabetes Obesity (weight > 100 kg. or BMI > 35 kg/m²) • And have not received any COVID-19 vaccine Foreign residents vaccination program is set for Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays only as per details below: Program 1 every Tuesday 1st dose: AstraZeneca 2nd dose: AstraZeneca Program 2 every Wednesday 1st dose: SINOVAC 2nd dose: SINOVAC Program 3 every Thursday 1st dose: SINOVAC 2nd dose: AstraZeneca Foreign residents who are interested in the program can Register via https://www.thailandintervac.com/ and choose Bangkok Hospital Pattaya from 16 until 20 August 2021 To specify preferred type of vaccine and select the date [b]The service location is at Central Festival Pattaya Beach, 6th floor[/b] Registration period: 16 – 20 August 2021 Vaccination period: 1 – 9 September 2021 https://thepattayanews.com/2021/08/13/bangkok-hospital-pattaya-now-offering-covid-19-vaccination-services-for-eligible-foreigners/

One thing many hotels don't have to worry about is closing or going out of business. And the reason for that is unfortunate. Because the Covid problem has become so rampant in Thailand, many hospitals and even field hospitals are full - no available beds. At the time of this post, tens of thousands of new cases are still occurring every day. To cope with this, many hotels are being used as "hospitels". And if the numbers of patients in need don't start decreasing soon, it is likely many more "hospitels" will have to open. I don't know the criteria for determining whether individual hotels meet the standards to be "hospitels", but the results so far seem promising. Whether medical insurance would cover "hospitel" stays is another question. It might be a good idea to find out - just in case. I'll agree that bars in certain areas were charging, in my opinion, outrageously - and were getting away with it as long as customers tolerated it. For that reason I stopped going to Pattaya's Boyztown bars long ago. Maybe it's different when you are in Pattaya for a holiday, but for me as a resident there was no way I would be willing to pay those kinds of prices for drinks. The off fees were no bargain either. I remember the days when most bars, even the Boyztown bars, charged a standard fee of 250 baht for off fees and it was rare to pay more than 100 baht for a drink. Those prices have long since vanished. I realize operating costs became more expensive over the years, but not enough to justify, at least to me, the kinds of prices being charged over the past several years. If those bars end up going out of business never to return, please forgive me - I won't be shedding any tears. I hope the bar owners that do intend to reopen are smart enough to be using the down time to be planning how they are going to re-attract an influx of gay farang and whether they're going to charge reasonable prices or go right back to rip-off prices again. Knowing what they were doing before, guess which I think it will be . . .

I don't know. What I do know is airbnb was banned and at least at first in Pattaya it was strictly enforced. If it were me, I would want to make sure whether it is still banned and if it is, whether the ban is enforced or ignored. What I would not want to do is find out the hard way. That is what I would do. What you would do is your own affair.

Unfortunately Thailand banned airbnb. As far as I know it is still banned. Thailand also banned guesthouses and the like from renting less than 30 days. If you ask me why they did any of this, I know only two likely answers. The first is "I don't know" and it is on my "I Don't Get It list." The second would be somehow somebody's brother-in-law is substantially profiting by this.

I think so too, but if it were me, I wouldn't be booking any flights until I know my vaccine certificate will be accepted.

Even without these requirements I doubt you'll be seeing Thailand any time soon . . .

Military efficiency in Myanmar. Anyone who dares to oppose, just imprison them, torture them, and kill them. Have they opened the concentration camps yet? They're currently building them in Belarus. Maybe that's giving the Burmese military an idea. Why is it that the wrong people always seem to make it into positions of power? And how do they convince the soldiers to do these things to their own people?

What? Do something that actually makes sense? Surely you jest . . . Unfortunately many of the decisions, rules, and schemes they come up with to deal with this crisis are knee-jerk reactions made by people incompetent to deal with this in the first place. I'm no more competent than they are. I admit it. The problem is they won't admit it. I have no idea who would be competent. Nobody has ever had to deal with a crisis like this before, especially in a modern mobile society. Nobody has the magic solution. But I wish they would be more proactive and fully think through their ideas before they impose them.

I doubt it. Look at past history. What do the bars almost always do when they fall upon hard times? Do they reduce or even maintain their current prices? No. They raise them. I'm just guessing, but if and when the bars reopen, don't be surprised if that is exactly what they do.

I don't know, but it would come as no surprise to me if it is true. Corruption and greed seems to be behind just about everything else. Why should vaccines be any different? I can only hope the vaccines people are getting really do work. Personally, I prefer to wait for Moderna, Pfizer, or perhaps something new - if it won't be forever before those vaccines become available in Thailand.

Sooooo, you were spying on me, eh . . . ? Were you spying on me the first time I ever went to Bangkok's Saranrom Park, where in those days there were dozens of boys, none asking for more than 500 baht for short time - and plenty of local short time rooms available? That was overwhelming too. That is another place I have not been in quite some time, but I have a feeling those days are also long gone.

I haven't been to any of the Bangkok go-go bars in years, but my understanding, based on what friends tell me, as long as they don't expect a police raid (they often get tipped off) and don't suspect any plain clothes police are in the audience, pretty much anything goes. It would be great if things eventually return to the way they were many years ago. Some of you who have been around long enough may remember the Utopia Guest House in Bangkok and the owner, John Goss. During my very first trip to Thailand I stayed at the Utopia and John personally took me around to show me the ropes and took me to a couple of the go-go bars. There is nothing like the first time. I can't remember the name of the bar, but I will never forget my first experience. There were at least 30 go-go boys and both on and off stage they were completely naked. And I mean completely. I was absolutely overwhelmed. I did not expect anything like that and had never seen anything like that. And in those days, the go-go bars had short time rooms. Do I need to tell you where I was every night while I was in Bangkok? Bring back the way it was in those days! Please!

"I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nada! Nothing! Zero! Works very well for me." - George Carlin

For some strange reason, why am I thinking of "The best laid plans of mice and men" ?

Also, If they can't get out of the charges within Thailand, these people somehow manage to flee to other countries. The countries these people flee to apparently have no qualms about harboring fugitives - as long as the fugitives are wealthy, have access to money, and place enough money in the right hands.

Obviously it is pointless to try to guess what may have happened. Unless they tell their story, we'll probably never know what happened. I hope they do tell their story, not because I think it's any of my business, but because if whatever happened to them is something that can happen to others, it is important to know so that we can all take whatever precautions are necessary to try to make sure nothing similar happens to anyone else.

Why am I not surprised . . . ?

Something similar actually happened quite recently.

That's right. It did go down and there was never an explanation as to what happened or why it took so long to get it up and running again. But it is working perfectly now. Meanwhile, I have seen nothing further about doing away with this absurd requirement, but at least doing the report online is simple.

The 90-day address report is not exactly anything new. As a matter of fact only a short time ago they were talking about finally doing away with it entirely - but so far that's all it was - talk. Nothing new about that either. But you do not have to do any of the reporting procedures shown in the graphic above. Maybe they forgot to mention that you can do the report online. If you do it online it must be done no more than 15 days before the due date for the report and no less than 7 days. If you are not within that window, you won't be able to do the report online. https://extranet.immigration.go.th/fn90online/online/tm47/TM47Action.do When you open that link, first scroll all the way to the bottom of the legalese and put a check mark in the box that says " I have read and fully understand the above terms and conditions and agree to accept them." The rest is self explanatory. When you submit the report a reference number will be given. Make sure to keep that reference number. You will need it to check to see if your submission was approved. If it was, all you have to do is print out the receipt and put it into your passport. If you don't have a printer, any photo shop can print it out for you. If you have a previous receipt in your passport, you can remove and replace it with the new approval. That is how I do mine. I did my most recent report on May 9. My approval was instant. Between filling out the forms, submitting the report, getting the approval, and printing it out, the whole thing took less than 3 minutes.