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A while back I posted a topic on the above title. There have been arrivals,however,multiple departures (From Thai360). Here we are today ,with passings of both board members and old friends. The passing of KS is a reminder of the fragility of life. For those members whom have been on the forum for over twenty years,will no doubt have memories of the sad departure of those old names which are no longer in use. So I say to those of you who remain on this forum - good cheer and good days lads,we just never know our day. Salut.

Gee takes a special kind of person to flame a dead man.

It was 27 F in 2009 for Obama it was 28 F Obama was outside Other cold ones Carter in 1977, 28 F JFK in 1961 22F Ronald Reagan in 1985 7F The only previous one inside There were two around the same temperature and one even colder held outside no problem, the only previous one to be held indoors was proper cold The cold weather, which wasn’t that cold, was just an excuse because no fuckers could be arsed to turn up, stop presenting “Alternative Facts” again It is you and your ilk which are the liars and you don’t like it when presented by facts Inauguration Weather

Visiting her local shopping district, a woman notices a brand new store has just opened that sells Husbands. So the women goes in to browse and they have to follow the instructions at the entrance: “You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are 6 floors and the value of the products increase as you ascend the flights. You may choose any item from a particular floor or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you CANNOT go back down except to exit the building!” So, the woman goes into the "Husband Store" to find a husband. The 1st floor sign reads: Floor 1 – These men have jobs. The 2nd floor sign reads: Floor 2 – These men Have Jobs and Love Kids. The 3rd floor sign reads: Floor 3 – These men Have Jobs, Love Kids and are extremely good looking. “Wow,” she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going. She goes to the 4th floor and The sign reads: Floor 4 – These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and Help with Housework. “Oh, yeah!” she exclaims, “I can hardly stand it!” Still, she goes to the 5th floor and The sign reads: Floor 5 – These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, help with Housework and Have A Strong Romantic Streak. She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the 6th floor and the sign reads: Floor 6 – You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the "Husband Store."

What a load of fucking crap ,don’t talk about things you don’t know about. conviction refers to the outcome of a criminal trial. It is the act of proving or declaring a person guilty of a crime. • A sentence, on the other hand, is the formal declaration by a court imposing a punishment on the person convicted of a crime. • A conviction is a result of the verdict of a judge and/or jury. In contrast, a Sentence is typically ordered by a judge. • The court cannot order a sentence unless the person has been found guilty or convicted. Therefore, a conviction must precede a sentence. Source

Social media have degenerated the human kind. This board is not that. It is nobody comes here, they go social media, get poisoned, raped, mistreated, killed, think it is all on the net. It is, but where? Had the backpackers came to here to ask for an advice, it would have been different.

I guess a lot of board members these days use other social media platforms however after a personal experience with one such platform I am completely off them and recently have realized just how socially destructive they are to the point I see them as being socially regressive and are creating catastrophic outcomes mentally and emotionally for younger generations with zero accountability.

Outdoor patios were built in front of every bar on Soi Cowboy many years ago which had the effect of making the soi feel narrower. Midnite was taken over by The Arab some years ago and he ruined it. It was a real fun bar back in the day, wasn't it! Nice memories from that bar.

I last lived here 20 years ago and just moved back. Cost of living and easy lifestyle were huge reasons (also the Russian asset currently sitting in the White House and shitting on America) We considered Jomtien and Hua Hin and decided on Hua Hin. The infrastructure is great here and you can still get all the Western things you want without the high prices that ate in other parts of the country. Bangkok and its traffic and relentless energy were never an option...although I do miss the gogos and crazy times we had there. Been here 4 months now and enjoying it...3 bedroom villa with pool (furnished with free pool service, gardening, and internet) for 23k baht a month 15 minutes from the beach is hard to beat. The bolt/grab system has made life so much easier as well. And...Bangkok is only 3 hours away...

The Trump government is the greatest attack on the US since Pearl Harbour. And since Pearl Harbour sounds somewhat logic because a hostile country tried to damage an enemy, it is now a bunch of idiots attacking their own country. These are wise words, aren´t they?

What an evil pair of c#nts

I concur with that line of treatment.

Denmark launches bid to ‘buy California’ in response to Trump’s Greenland plans... ...Danish toy company Lego would manage talks between the US and Denmark as “dealing with children throwing tantrums over missing bricks has made them experts in negotiation,” Politico reported. The campaign said it would “Make California Great Again,” referencing Trump’s presidential campaign slogan, and joked that their crowdfunding goal was “give or take” NZ$1.8 trillion... https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360576846/denmark-launches-bid-buy-california-response-trumps-greenland-plans

The real operatives behind Project2025 put the orangeman there to distract everyone, while they dig around behind closed doors...

Ditto, an essential, though now smaller, part of my life.

None of this is, or will ever be Trump's fault. The real responsibility lays with those who voted in him. As the saying goes...."When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus"

I understand not participating in social media, however the way SM affects those who use it and the way it shapes society as a whole does indeed affect those around them, participants in SM or not. Ever have to deal with some of these “nose in their phone” type of “kids” and their lack of respect and social skill? That is directly related to SM and poor parenting…

Was thinking the same thing. Reminds me of a genuine business operating north of Sydney

I know it’s no laughing matter but “Ember Hotel” is an ironic name for a Hotel that caught fire.

March of the graduates, March 11. 2009. Ramkhanhaeng University, Bangkok. My wife, first up on the left. She had to travel for the ceremony from Japan, something that she could not miss. Whole her village knew she was a Uni graduate. That is what I love to see in Thai, not Soi Cowboy or Nana (had seen them well before, participated, I must admit). Not a big thing for anywhere, but for this site, she told me, hardly any of the girls knew how to put on and wear the mandatory stockings. RIP Khun Sanuk and several other old members, Jigger too, had seen us at the Gulliver Fridays 6pm, way back, 2002.

Hard to educate the ignorant 🙄

New Zealand beat Ireland 23-13 Australia beat England at 43-37 And at Twickenham.....that's gotta hurt 😀

So, I was at the Barnes & Noble bookstore earlier today and I asked the clerk if they had Donald Trump's new book on how to deport illegal immigrants. She immediately said to me, "Get the fuck out of here, and don't come back!" I said, "Yes, that's the one. Do you have it in wetback?"

We will just say “world champion” and claim victory…

Coss, As a rather infrequent visitor to the board these days, I was quite touched to be included in your email. I felt that it was a well-meant, and thoughtful attempt to keep us all in touch, and personally was grateful for the concern for us all that motivated it. Thai360.com, and nanaplaza.com before it, have been a valued link to the Land of Smiles for over 20 years now, and I still visit most years, but with my wife these days. We always stay at the Nana Hotel on arrival for a night or two, and have a wander down Memory Lane ( OK, Soi 4 ) Take care, dvarpala

I am horrified and saddened. Khun Sanuk is dead. I cannot comprehend it. I knew him personally. We met a few times in the old ‘Woodstock’ (Nana Plaza; I think Rainbow 4 today). Once the New Zealander Stickmann (Paul) was there. That was an interesting round of talks. I would like to thank you in retrospect for founding and managing your Sanuk boards, which gave us the opportunity to exchange information and discuss. Lieber Marcel, ruhe in Frieden = Dear Marcel, rest in peace. A final greeting Nasiadai alias Bakwahn . Charly

I seem to recall Piggy being involved somehow… There was another bar owner or husband of a bar owner who called Bullshit on him…was it Gladfly? “….That’s my mate P’127 you are talking about ….” Ah yes…one of my favorites…he was a real case…being French aside, he was still off. I recall him becoming Outraged when people, spoke favorably of the book “Private Dancer.” To him, bar girls could and would do no wrong ever, it was all lies… Every person he was friends with here, he fell out with eventually. Last I saw, he was posting on some facebook forum looking for someone to clean 5 years of bird shit off a balcony in Pattaya “for a friend.” The picture posted was from his place. Still painting houses “under the table” in San Francisco and living over near the gay section…with “roommates” at age 69… There a Chinese proverb “…the arrogance of a fool is never appreciated and will be their downfall…” Still remember the wager he demanded from Mekong…then ran when he lost claiming “I donate enough to Thai charities…” He was cheap no way he’d donate to anyone but the local katoey…the post about it under the name “Diva Lover.” I’ll save the story of how he outed himself for another time…

I don't even consider them socially relevant and the followers enabling them to exist equally irrelevant.

I'd have killed them all, all their families, every friend, every acquaintance and given them the same reason the muslims would do to us. KS you deserved better but you gave us free speech. Thank you.

It was the death of someone else that caused me to come back here today. I've sadly been away more than too long. We were not close or even friends but in decades past, post the Nanapong board, here as Nanaplaza, I met more than a few when being "in love" with Bangkok. We shared a table, a laugh, never enough. I am now 55, I was early 30s back then, less than that in the earlier days. Perhaps because of the age, similar to mine and a discussion with my daughter about mortality this evening over dinner, I am more taken back by this than I can adequately compute right now. I shed a tear to another one gone too soon and I wish his family every condolence.

For me, I am less worried about them knowing the money I have, but more worried that they'll use any reason they see fit to deny me my money.

Reminds me of the legend of Alexander Solzinityn (hack writer according to my adopted mother and her collegues) who hated the USA, bad mouthed it yet lived here and took asylum here…went back to Russia and thankfully died…

Saw a funny reply to an American question online Q. I am only 20 years old, how do I get a bottle of wine? A. Buy a gun and hold up a liquor store

It’s quite funny, in other forums I am seeing comments like “Since the shooter once made a donation to the Democrats, shouldn’t Biden be prosecuted for calling for the assasination of an opponent only to see the poster shut down with Oh, come on. The Supreme Court just said that whatever a President does in office is perfectly legal.

Will no one spare a thought for Melania Trump? This isn't the first time, she has been disappointed by a couple of inches.

I see no reason to hide my activity here. When KS and I started this site on a lark sometime in the 1990's, he lived here and I was living in Hong Kong and visiting Thailand whenever I could. He enjoyed being the official voice of the site and I stayed in the background. Now both the site and I are US-based, so the privacy concerns are reduced. We started out an early social network called Delphi, then a free bulletin board system called IPBoard running on a server on Soi 23. IPBoard morphed somewhere along the line into a for-profit product called Invision Community. They charge $80 for support and maintenance, which isn't too bad. It costs about $25/mo for the current setup in AWS, but I have plans to move it to a cheaper and simpler hosting solution shortly. So the cost isn't a big issue. Ever the optimist, I feel like there is a viable niche for info sharing and camaraderie among farang visitors (and locals, and alumnae) to the Thai entertainment scene. I see a lot of "guest" users browsing, and a lot of search-engine queries looking for things we have online. But to convert any of those browsers into members will require, at the least, some updated content. For some time now, the centrally-controlled advertising-rich social networks like Facebook, Twitter, etc., have been stealing all the activity and eyeballs- but that industry has peaked. People are tired of being pawns in various billionaire's games. So this may leave a little room for grassroots efforts like ours going forward. Jigger