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For those of you who will be in town be sure to stop by and celebrate Lita's birthday at Lita's Bar on August 21st. This will be one party that you do not want to miss. The girls will be in rarer than rare form on this night, no doubt!

Fucking rant time!!!!. What is it they say about sod's law, well it well and truly happened to me today, although thankfully in a humorous way!! Was playing a golf competition this afternoon on a course I can only describe as the worst golf course I have ever played in my life. Non golfers on the forum will not understand, but if you are a golfer it can only be described as one of those places that after a few holes you wish there would be a lightning storm, or possibly your spleen would burst, any legitimate excuse to retire to the bar. Not just was it a horrible place, but one would have needed to be a mountain goat to appreciate the terrain. I shit you not, one of the holes is appropriately called "Heart Attack Hill" so steep is the incline. Anyway, I played pretty shit, wasn't too worried, but got to the 14th and knew there was a prize for longest drive. Hit a beauty and won the prize. Terrific, I thought as I collected my prize. What was the prize??? A fucking fee round of golf at said course!!!!! It is now on sale for 25 pence on ebay.

I saw this when I was recently checking out airfares. Only on the first 10 Economy rows on a 777. The foot rest comes up level with the seat to make a bigger bed. " Either at the time of ticketing or during airport check-in, a family of three with one child under the age of 12 can purchase the Family Couch product for US$200 in addition to airfare; the cost is an additional US$500 for a group of two and an additional US$1,000 for a solo traveler."

Kasikorn has been at this for a while. When you go to their web page you get a big warning screen. K-Bank used to let you have a second pin that would allow transactions to be made without getting a code via SMS. But they discontinued that practice some time ago because of security problems. So one now must have a way to receive a SMS to do most any transaction. I have a quad band unlocked phone and 12Call allows me to receive unlimited free international text messages. So I can still bank from the US if necessary.

Typically if you do an ATM pull with a foreign VISA debt card you get slightly better than the TT rate. Which likely will be at least another 1/10+ over TC. So if you do a US$500 ATM pull, and your card has no transaction/foreign fees, paying the 180 baht ATM fee is probably better than paying the TC fee. If your card will let you pull more than US$500 or up to 30k baht (~US$850 currently) from an ATM better still. Yes I know many countries outside the US don't seem to have cards with the no foreign transaction fee option. But if you are from the US the Schwab debt card is still the best deal. You usually will get a slightly better rate than the TT rate and they pay the ATM fees. You can get money in Thailand at the best rate I know about and have zero fees.

Here's a pic of Long Mint sucking her girl tool!

Things are warming up on Soi BJ according to the FB page.

Cheers, gents. And thanks again pdogg, premier, and KenW for the intelligence. Arrived just a few hours ago after 16 hours of flying and a 3.5 hour layover in Taipei. Oy vey; I am wrecked. Not sure if I will make it out tonight.

Update - the ATM fee has increased to 180 Baht - now all the Thai banks are charging that amount - and I would not be surprised if it increased in the future. Also a further update to the Traveler's cheque fees, they have also increased almost 500%. From 33 Baht per cheque to 153 Baht. This now rules them out as a good option to bring funds over to LOS. The best option now, if you can keep it secure is to bring hard cash. In addition there are a few exchanges that give better rates for hard cash than the banks. Vasu Exchange on Sukhumvit Soi 7 is one in Bangkok.

i dare say there isn't a country on this planet that doesn't have it's share of shame, deep pockets of poverty and unforgivable neglect. to single out the philippines--and to deny yourself the opportunity to visit such a (mostly) beautiful and (mostly) friendly place would be cutting off your nose to spite your face -- and it would do those who are suffering no good at all. the fact is-- imho -- about the best we very fortunate travelers can do in the face of such grotesque sadness is the same thing we were asked to do after the tsunami destroyed phuket--go, visit, spend our money. and, as a wise old man taught me years ago -- whenever possible, over-tip.

Good trip Syl. Hope to meet up in November.

In business parlance my introduction to LBs was more of a soft launch. (No, not in THAT sense! Insert massive eye roll here.) In fact, I can’t even remember when and where. It was in the very early 2000s, though, and somehow I recall it being in Patpong but I could be mistaken. Yes, I know, shameful to not have a better recollection of such a life altering event. Hmmm, maybe not so life altering after all, but rather an added pleasure in life’s journey. In 1995 I took advantage of an offer from my company to begin working in India. I had done a lot of traveling up to that point for work and pleasure, but had never been to that part of the world before. And, it was a good career move. During that first trip the sights and sounds of Bangkok while in transit to New Delhi (not to mention the sights and sounds there) practically made me dizzy. Exotic! Heaven! On the way back to the US I managed to have a few days in Bangkok. My marriage then was unraveling, and although I knew it was coming to an end I still refrained from imbibing in the pleasures of the flesh at that time. Infidelity by either party had not been a part of that break-up, nor that of my earlier marriage, and I simply felt better about keeping it that way. And, after all, I knew there would be plenty of time for that starting in the not too distant future. For a few years my deeply spiritually meaningful and loving relationships while in Thailand consisted of STs with GGs. At first I was especially addicted to soapy massages. It somehow made the debauchery seem, I don’t know, cleaner! Then the dark passage took me to the red light areas and ST rooms. And then finally the street. I had transformed into a monster! What was next, the gutter? OK, maybe just a bit of hyperbole. I had always noticed LBs, of course. I wasn’t repulsed by them by any means. I enjoyed their animated antics, husky voices, and sheer boldness. Striking curious creatures. Fun to play pool with too. But it was the petite GGs that had my interest at the time. I think it was the novelty of them, since in the US women barely five feet tall and weighing 90 pounds are a rarity. But, as I’ve mentioned before, it had always been the taller and more athletic women back home that had aroused my attention since my youth. So it was perhaps inevitable that LBs would win out in the end. I had by that time found myself more and more attracted to them, and less attracted to the petite GGs which I came to increasingly view as simply short and dumpy. So, the decision to go with a LB the first time wasn’t so much a major “I’m going to do it!” sort of thing as a resigned “Screw it, I’m tired of concerning myself if they are a LB or not.” I do admit that my first LBs were of the very “passable” type, or at least so it seemed to me at the time. Over the years that has given way to a broader acceptance of LB types. I still don’t care for the too obviously masculine ones, nor the ones that are too loud, but I don’t look for ultra-feminine GG replicas. So, taller ones, even ones with a bit of a beer belly, they’re all in play now. Needless to say, sex with a LB takes on new acts and dimensions. So with regard literally to the “taste” part of the title of this thread, I most definitely can’t get enough! Besides that, I increasingly find myself attracted to the person inside. “Brave”, “loving”, and “fragile” are not words that might immediately come to mind when talking of brash P4P LBs, but I have come to see them more and more over the years. The crass, low-brow mongers who leave their alcoholic world back home to come to an alcoholic vacation in LOS once a year don’t see any of that, of course. Then again, I didn’t at first see any of that either. As for moving to Thailand? No. LBs are part of the joys of now; a unique part of a unique world that can’t be keep grasp of forever. In the end, we all need to go home. Just ask Dorothy and ET.

The last photo from View's birthday - the amazing Miss Nancy. #labambalovelies

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Your adventure begins Sylvester! Hope you a sweet well hung Tweety!

Enjoy your trip Syl.

The breathtaking Miss Nancy. #labambalovelies