PeterRS2

Totally agree. Over a good many years I have stayed there 5 times. It feels much more like being in a small country haven than in a city resort. Personally I prefer the upper rooms to those at ground level. The restaurant is also very good. Mrs. Rabbit is very gay friendly and goes out of her way to assist guests.

Hahaha! Utterly stupid and ludicrous response - hahahaha!

A shout out for the excellent tv series of Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of The Jackal. I had loved the book and the much earlier movie version but I thought this tv series was superb - a very different updated remake, beautifully acted and directed, with loads of suspense and thrills. And of course it has The Jackal (Eddie Redmayne) not only plonking several mouth on mouth kisses but spending a gay night with a young guy whose help he needs in one of his assassination attempts. photo: Carnaval Films Not having much success sleeping, I watched all 10 episodes on the 14 hour-long Hong Kong/London flight last weekend and was engrossed throughout.

Apologies for I think I posted this elsewhere. This nonsense literally makes no sense for those who actually live in Thailand. One other law stipulates that we must submit yet another online form no later than around 36 hours after every arrival with exactly the same details Immigration has had in some cases for well over a decade - exact address, date of arrival, full name, citizenship, date of birth and I can’t recall what else. At the same time we have to advise our departure day! It’s typical Thai bureaucracy gone mad!

Wat Hua Lamphong is a delightful temple and one of the easiest to reach from the Silom/Suriwong area. Round the corner there are still coffin making shops!

May I get back a little more on topic as I’d really appreciate some advice. Whenever the iPhone first appeared there was also an iPod Touch with all the features of the Phone but without the Phone. I got one, primarily for downloading a ton of music which somehow was easy then. Listening on my Shure in-ear speakers was excellent. First Apple changed the connectors - no problem as mine is in great condition. Then, admittedly some years later, I tried to purchase a new battery. Not possible as they are no longer made, I was informed. Although there is some battery power left - just! - I know I should be able to make it work using a power bank (even if no longer possible on flights). Does any member happen to know - 1. Of any way of transferring my music on to my iPad (I have been told it’s not possible for some copyright reasons); or 2. of any source where a battery for the original model of the iPad Touch can be located and how it can be installed? 3. Failing that, since I know nothing about power banks, any recommendation for a small sized power bank that would enable a minimum of 6-8 hours of listening. Many thanks in advance.

Hahaha! “Polygraphs? Hints? Much less than I believe it? Strong incentive to lie?” You really dig such a deep hole for yourself every time you make a post on this subject you know next to nothing about. That’s such a joke in itself! Did Disney turn you down? Hahaha!

Hahahaha! Cartoons are your thing, but you’re in the wrong thread! Ever auditioned for Disney, perhaps? Maybe a job for you there. Hahahaha!

Hahahaha! That is the most ridiculous, childish and totally false comment in this long thread. And it merely follows your earlier nonsense. Stick to cartoons!

I am surprised that the Thai same sex marriage law permits all gay men irrespective of nationality to marry within the Kingdom. Taiwan has been different ever since its law became effective. Originally one partner had to be Taiwanese and the partner had to be from a country where gay marriage was law. Now I understand that any foreign guys can marry in Taiwan but they must both be from countries where gay marriage is law. It seems Thailand could become the Las Vegas of Asia 🤪

Thanks to @fedssocr for posting that very interesting video. Middle class debt is clearly pretty much out of control with little financial planning and virtually no education on its importance. I believe it’s a problem that has been developing since the country started to grow again after the Asian Economic crisis in July 1997. I knew a young member of the emerging middle class for almost a decade from 2001. He had a good job in a reasonably well paid genuine antique business. Yet over lunch one day he shocked me by saying he was maxed out on credit and store cards - of which he had 20! He had had to move to a different address and I think was using a fake ID. I knew he was paid his salary in cash. I told him he had no alternative other than to go to the banks, tell them of his financial position and work out a repayment plan. At least this could stop the interest being increased every month. I even offered to go with him. I added he’d have a tough 2 or 3 years ahead of him, but he would then be free of much of his debt. His response on this and other occasions was that he’d manage. He would not accept my help. What eventually happened I do not know but I think he eventually committed suicide. Very sad!

I had always thought that only one of those in a firing squad killing anyone sentenced to death would have a real bullet in his rifle. The point being that no one in the squad would then know who actually killed the condemned man and therefore be burdened with that knowledge for all time. Then again I am totally against capital punishment, the more so when there have been so many relatively recent cases in the USA where men sentenced to death have been reprieved after new DNA evidence proved they were entirely innocent, or DAs and police had fabricated or tampered with evidence which would have proved innocence and not passed that evidence to defense attorneys prior to trial. With over 200 exonerated and escaping the death penalty in the US since 1973, I think it is clear whatever faults there are in any justice system, killing in too many cases is state sponsored murder.

I wish to thank the Moderator for posting my comments and for acting speedily to permit me to post under my new handle. It is much appreciated.

Thank you all for your kind comments. Just to clarify. Being out of Thailand and having lost my password as well as having an out of date hotmail password, I had to re register as PeterRS2. It is entirely my fault! As new members’ posts are subject to approval by a moderator, posting of my post here was understandably delayed. So the posts by @bkkmfj2648 and @Londoner were actually made before mine even though they appear after it.

This is the note I had hoped to send several days ago. Since I have no choice but to post under my new handle (as explained in another thread in response to a post by @kokopelli 2this will be double checked and may never be posted. But I feel very strongly on this issue and given that there has been a lot of name calling and bad mouthing of posters (one in particular), I will still post it and accept the consequences. Having left BKK on Saturday and am now in the UK, I had not intended either to read or comment on threads during my absence. However, I could not refrain from doing so a few days ago having heard from another member about the persistent, arrogant and frankly ridiculous comments of @unicorn. Why he continued to talk ad nauseam of a farmer in Japan when he knows at most 1% of the detail of Japanese culture and recent history, words fail me. His posts were pathetic in the extreme when his only concern was to force western views onto a very Japanese situation - and I make no excuse for writing these words - because in his near total ignorance all he did was insult other posters (one in particular) who know not merely the detailed history of the situation re the farmer and have a much more detailed intimate knowledge of both the country and its people. What he hoped to achieve other than gain some sort of cheap childish, cry baby thrill by insulting the intelligence of those posters who have vastly more experience of Japan and its society I totally fail to comprehend. At one time on this blog in its earlier GayThailand incarnation, there was a poster who went by the name of @Beachlover. He succeeded in making himself one of the most loathed posters of all time by continuously spouting lies and other childish nonsense. I cannot recall if he was permanently banned from this site. He certainly was from at least one other. It is clear that @unicorn’s continuing inane stupidity should have him near to that same fate, for pages ago he reached the limits of civility to other posters similar to those by Beachlover. My view is perfectly clear. Either he ceases the rubbish he passes off as undisputed facts on this thread and accepts that he is spouting for the most part drivel, or he should be banned. I fully accept that such a comment may make me subject to being banned. That’s perfectly fine by me. My view - which I fully accept may not be that of the Owner, Moderator and other posters - is that @unicorn should just shut up and continue posting on his cartoon thread. After all let’s face the fact that at least he appears to know something about them! And he can trash my contributions should be so wish. I will not be reading the site again for 10 days until I return to Thailand. So he will just be spouting more hot air about an audience of zero! Finally I have no control over the font or its size from my phone. If it is over-large, apologies - it is not meant to be. And do please bear in mind it was written a few days ago with only occasional tense corrections prior to posting today, and some of the content is not up to date. Furthermore editing of text in a moderated post is not easy - consequently there may be a word or two missing!

I am still around! I mentioned on one thread that I would be out of Thailand for 19 days in the UK and Hong Kong. I had not intended reading the site during that time. But I did so and got so incensed by the continuing idiocy of one member in the Narita farmer thread that I wrote a long response. Unfortunately I could not remember my password and when I became a member years ago I used a Hotmail account. So I could not submit the post. I tried endlessly clicking on the lost password box. After many, many attempts, I received to my new email a Verify Password box to click. I did - and for many days ever since then I have heard absolutely nothing. So there is nothing I can do. But there surely must be a much faster way of recovering a password for this site - the more so when Hotmail died last year. Anyway that is the reason for my absence! Thank you for asking. PeterRS