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Argument with one obese, "reader" who keeps posting rubbish links in the threads without comment drove PeterRS away the first time. That tide of rubbish links that that "reader" posts on here daily pushes threads with real, interesting, content to the back pages So I actually shared PeterRS's opinion on that. Ironically, when the bloated "reader" in question actually does add commentary it gets even worse as he seems to have a serious problem with comprehension and posts absolute nonsense. Inter alia, he has recently made the claim that Soi 4 is to close "imminently" and that Thai Airways has banned passengers from carrying spare batteries on board. The former he pinched from a C-grade blog and the latter he seems to have pulled out of his bloated bottom as it isn't in the article that he links to. What's worse? A tide of dumb links with no comments or links where the poster has added false headlines and comments that are full of absolutely nonsensical claims? p.s I am also amused at how the two posts immediately above this one talk of PeterRS as if he were still missing even after he has actually posted in this thread

You are as thick as your obese friend aren’t you? 😂 The ban on 32,000 mAh batteries is a long-standing one and is applied by almost all airlines. It has nothing to do with the article that your fat friend has posted. His claim that “Thai bans power banks on all flights” is absolute nonsense, like most things he posts. Apparently both of you have trouble with basic comprehension. But I notice that your bloated friend hurried to give a “Like” to your silly comment, thinking that you had vindicated him. Hilarious. A pair of geriatric jokers 🤣🤣 Still, it’s amusing to see the solidarity in stupidity that the pair of you share. Thai Airways should consider a ban on obese travellers though. They take-up too much space and often smell bad. Or perhaps they should start charging by weight.

So have I.

Once again, you are posting absolute nonsense on here. The Thai Airway FB page clearly says "Passengers are not allowed to use or charge Power Bank (Spare Batteries) during the entire flight". It does not say anything about banning power banks on any flights. Your topic title "Thai bans power banks on all flights" is absolute rubbish and may dissuade people from flying on Thai. The Pattaya News article that you quote states and explains this clearly: "Thai Airways announced a ban on charging power banks during flights" and " Effective March 15, 2025, the use of power banks will be prohibited while onboard the aircraft" For someone who calls himself "Reader" your inability to understand the basic English that you read is hilariously ironic. Your post, on the other hand, is just plain idiotic. That Moses, whose first language is not English can easily understand that the article and Thai Airways advert say while you cannot says a lot about your linguistic, or perhaps intellectual, challenges. Clown.

Kasai massage is part of the Chiang Mai massage tradition. Specifically it originates from Chiang Mai and the surrounding areas. It is very hard to find in other parts of Thailand and even in Chiang Mai, it is only a few places that offer the authentic thing. A lot of it has to do with massaging the area around the genitalia - the focus is on strengthening muscles, the nerves and improving blood flow for better erections; not on giving you a handjob and happy ending. Yes, there is also dick/yoni massage involved. There is, or was, one disgusting old farang in Bangkok who claimed to provide Kasai massage and claimed to be properly trained in it. Trained or not, I assume that he just wanted to grab dicks. There are a couple of straight massage places that offer "kasai" massage from the ladies, but generally you can't find it in real massage houses in Bangkok. I would also be extremely sceptical of any place that claimed that all its masseurs were trained on how to do it. Practically the only places in Bangkok where you will find the real thing is places like 365 that cater almost exclusively to Thais, who know what Kasai is and go for health and treatment, not happy endings. No, not really. There is a significant difference. The "urut batin" in Malaysia and Indonesia is only for men. Kasai has wider application and includes specific techniques for men and women - and what they actually do is quite different.

What a silly little post. The world didn’t begin when you signed-up on this site, Nor did leases on Soi 4 didn’t begin when you signed-up on this site If you had actually read what I posted before posting your “response”, you would see that have I have not suggested that one year leases are something new and that in fact, I have not suggested anything at all. That was a quote from Stickman from back in 2018 – before you signed-up on this site. So yes, the Soi 4 venues have “always” been on one year leases for as long as you have been on this site to share with us the remarkable knowledge and insight that you have gained while travelling to Thailand for discounted sodomy.

KMan is a knock shop and virtually no one from there hires for overnight; therefore they won't put an overnight price there on their regular bulletins. Overnights are possible though - if the particular boy is agreeable to it. Just message the shop on LINE and ask whether he is available to do overnight. You have a better chance of him agreeing to it if you message and arrange ahead of time rather than at the moment you want it. He may need to adjust his own plans to accommodate an overnight. Also, as overnights are not standard in these places, the price quoted may have no apparent relation to the hourly rate. Short-time prices on the Thai side of things are visibly lower than what you pay in foreign-focused places. That advantage often disappears when you book for an overnight.

That reminds me of the horror stories from boys who end-up in bed with customers who snore loudly and then complain when the boy tries to convert the overnight job into a short-time so that he can get out of there and actually get some sleep. In most cases it's not as if these boys who agree to overnights know what they are in for until they get into bed with - or try to fall asleep with - these customers. Even if they have actually been in bed with that snoring horror before, the snoring may have got a lot worse without the old fart realising it. Some of these stories are fairly recent and my sympathy is usually with the boy.

No, sugar puff. Your conclusion was that the closure of Soi 4 is imminent - which is complete and total rubbish that you pinched from a C-grade blog. That was your conclusion. Just one more example of the nonsense that you regularly post on here.

Bangkok Seven doesn't know his arse from his elbow. That fat clown showed-up in Bangkok a couple of years before Covid and started a blog trying to sound like a Patpong insider when, in fact, he barely knew the history of the area, the owners or the ownership. The fat clown had no idea even what Cosmos was all about while trying to blog like a pro - very much like a certain obese reader on this forum. If that is your source, I rest my case. With regards to the bars and "speculating where they will go", as I said There is no speculation about where they will go, or recommendations on where they should go. I have simply pointed-out that they won't be going far, regardless of where they end-up. The application of licensing laws mean that they will stay in that grid and there is no shortage of places for them to relocate. Therefore, the fears that led to comments such as Spoon's quote below are quite unfounded. The bars aren't going anywhere "imminently" and they aren't going to be going very far even in the future. Don't worry. There will be plenty of reasons to keep visiting Silom.

Before every queen starts clutching her pearls at the prospect of Soi 4 and Patpong being torn down, you should perhaps stop to consider the credibility of the claim of imminent destruction. Here we have a reader who is a habitual poster of all manner of nonsense telling us “Silom Soi 4 closing seen imminent”, supposedly “based on a tip" from another reader. We are further told that “however, a blogger claims that developers have their eyes set on Patpong”, without even being told which blogger it is so that we can evaluate the accuracy of the said blogger’s claims by looking at what other claims he has made on his/its blog. As far as that reader actually having any insight of his own into what goes on in the Silom/Patpong area, do bear in mind that this is the same joker who told us in September 2024 that “A reliable source reports that Good Boy bar (formerly Screw Boy) is giving serious consideration to relocating to the site last occupied by SOL bar (and its short-lived successor) opposite Hot Male's Midnight bar on Patpong 2.” Of course we all know how that turned out. Screw Boy didn’t move, while it is Atlas that now occupies that location. Also, bear in mind that the rumours of Soi 4 and Patpong being simultaneously taken-over and redeveloped have been going-on since at least the middle of the last decade. Here we have Stickman reporting in 2018: Something is going on at Patpong and some business owners in Bangkok’s oldest bar area are worried. And it’s not just in Patpong where business owners are concerned, but the wider area. What is going on in Patpong and its surrounds? The worry was magnified when word got out that bars were being offered just one-year leases… The first sign that something was up came a few years ago when word leaked from the Patpong Group about a so-called new development. That was all anyone knew – two words: new development. No details, not much of anything, everything pure conjecture, but worrying nonetheless. But it was not just Patpong. Across the wider area, other business owners reported that they too had only been offered one-year leases. The rumour mill went in to overdrive. The next soi up Silom Road from Patpong is Silom soi 4. It has long been known as a gay soi – though these days it is more a dining soi than a gay pickup area. All the bars and restaurants in Silom soi 4 are now on one-year leases too. And it is believed these are one-year leases with no extension clause. So what that means is that as it currently stands, businesses in Silom soi 4 have leases through until December 31st, 2019 with no guarantee that they will be able to run their business from their current location beyond then. One Silom soi 4 restaurant changed hands in the last month for just a million baht. Based on the numbers it was doing, you would have been expected it to go for several times that. Both the seller and the buyer are well aware of the short leases and the shadow hanging over the area – and that is attributed as the reason for the low price it changed hands for. See: https://www.stickmanbangkok.com/weekly-column/2018/11/whats-going-on-at-patpong/ None of this means that it won’t happen at some point. Just because this reader habitually posts nonsense doesn’t mean it won’t happen After all, even a broken clock tells the right time twice a day. It is inevitable that Patpong will be redeveloped at some point. That land is too valuable to be given over permanently to go go bars and, in any event, the pandemic and years of neglect have resulted in many of those properties now lying empty. Does that mean that the closure of Patpong, let alone of Soi 4, is imminent? No. Closure, after all, has been “imminent” for a decade now. The fact that the fat Australian queen who owns Pride has been flogging his bars on Soi 4 may be a sign that something is up, but as noted in that Stickman article, business owners on Soi 4 were flogging their bars and restaurants or relocating even nearly a decade ago in the belief that closure was imminent. When redevelopment eventually does happen, it will not mark the end of Silom/Patpomg as the main gay area for foreigners though – because the bars have nowhere else to go. The Patpong Entertainment Area - which goes beyond the narrow confines of Patpong 1 and 2 - is one of the three officially designated entertainment zones in Bangkok, along with RCA and Ratchada. These were designated during Thaksin’s time as PM. Take note that Nana Plaza and Soi Cowboy are not officially designated entertainment zones and it is not possible to open new bars there. All supposedly new bars there are simply trading on old bar licences that they have bought - i.e. bought and rebranded old bars. With RCA itself now set for redevelopment and Ratchada too out of the way for foreigners, the gay bars will have to stay in that section of Silom. While the Patpong entertainment area was designated, its boundaries are not formally defined. However, it is generally accepted by the police to begin at Rama IV Road and run to Decho Road from right to left and from Surawong Road to Silom Road from top to bottom. Obtaining a bar licence within that grid is easy and venues within have generally been allowed to operate to very late hours. That is why, for example, Screw Boy was, traditionally, able to stay open long after the Soi Twilight bars closed. The gay bars won’t be leaving that area. There is no shortage of space within that grid – there is space on Thaniya 2, on Soi Wall Street and in the Soi 6 area, particularly on Anumanrajadorn where the Golden Cock is located – including the former Golden Cock building itself and the venues on the lane where Super A is. In times past, you had bars like Super Lex, Mamasan and King Diamond there on that lane. The only problem with Soi 6 is its distance from Soi 2. Right now, the proximity works nicely, creating a rather nice buzz. Then again, maybe some distance between the off bars and the gay social venues may not be such a bad thing. However, worrying about where bars may eventually end-up in the event that redevelopment actually happens is pointless. They aren’t going to be going very far. You may have to walk or waddle a little further than you do now, but that is hardly going to be the end of the world – and, no, nothing seems imminent.

The nicest thing about the supposedly overly spread out, overly sedate Chiang Mai scene is how it deters the worst sort of sex pests from visiting and now the worst sort of sexpats from settling. Chiang Mai is charming and the absence of these people is part of its charm.

When Tawan first opened, which was either at the very end of 1986 or the beginning of 1987, it was located on Surawong Road, opposite the Tawana Hotel, which at that time was still the Tawana Sheraton. It was on the 1st floor, not the ground floor It wasn't a muscle bar in the beginning, That only started a few years later. In the beginning it was just regular guys of the type you found in Bangkok bars in those days, including a few guys who would not meet the current minimum age for working in a bar. It was a couple of years before the bodybuilders first started appearing and, even then, it was a mixed crew of muscle men and regularly guys. It was a gradual shift to becoming a muscle man bar. Tawan only moved to Soi Tarntawan at the beginning of the 90s - it was either in 1990 or 1991 - into that building in your picture , but it was quite a different place then - much smaller. Originally, it only occupied half of that building and it used to be very blue on the inside. It was some years before it expanded to take over the whole building.

Indeed there was - and they would certainly know a thing or two about "invading and occupying other nations and being proud about it." So much so, the oppressed and frustrated natives of Pai are now referring to their town as "Pai-les-tine". https://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/pai-les-tine-phenomenon-israeli-influx-causes-concern-in-mae-hong-sons-pai-district-491322 The Bangkok Post also adds that "there could be as many as 30,000 Israelis living in the area — easily outnumbering the town's 21,000 local residents." and that "a number of businesses in the town, including several motorcycle riding schools, are illegally operated by Israeli citizens." What finally got the media's attention was "One incident saw four Israelis break into and vandalise Pai Hospital's emergency room." Pai used to be great fun. So laid-back. It sounds like the Israeli invasion has turned it into a real crap hole, though.

Well, this is an amusing post. Here we have a former Sunee bar owner saying exactly what I said in my 2023 post and yet for actually daring to say it out loud, I was rewarded with 6 red arrows from the Sunee fans. Hilarious. As I said: Sunee Plaza began to die when the police finally began to get serious about cracking down on underaged boys in the bars and those who used to hang around that area, generally. No, not all the bars in Sunee offered underaged boys and not everyone who went there was into that sort of thing but Sunee was a hotbed of that kind of thing. Once the police started cracking down in earnest, the gaps started showing very quickly.