JustSumGai

I do miss the old timers banter even if they've settled down or stopped mongering or gone GG. Their input would still be interesting. Like where is Deep Throat? Perhaps Pigdog could start a gone but not forgotten thread ? Is the Game still out there? Snick? I don't much look at other forums as not many of the old nicks post there either or have changed nick and I don't know who they are. I have a bit of a disconnect with the younger crowd who approach mongering in a different way and I don't speak kidspeak.

mostly it's all about copy AND now you have AI which slightly changes the song...essentially a copy with filters. Gonna be interesting. They basically steal it, tweak it and claim they "created" it.

check out Rick Beato's youtube site. Pretty much sums it all up. "you can't copy write a cord progression"

very common waiting on death pastime at least for the older gen, maybe boomers and on will have a coronary zip lining?

lol, dealing only in the cheaper stogies and pipe tobacco. Anyone here smoke a pipe but me? Might be a bit of a loser biz. Doubtful 20 yrs, I'm heading at 69.

I just meant that capitalism deals sole with numbers giving them an easy OUT on the question of morality, etc. LOS is playing a theoretical game, which if we are unlucky, may take them 10 or 20 years to amend. Many of us will be past traveling age or dead by then. I will continue to avoid touristy locations like the plague, and do what I always do, hit the outlying areas staying with Thai friends on occasion. I'm there for the whole package...got too old to do any real mongering. Heat, food, wacky sights, etc. Oh and lots of hammock time. I just wish the bastards would pull their head out of their ass concerning cigars and pipe tobacco as the only available are few and FAR between and I am not setting fire to a $40 cigar. The two places I found that have pipe tobacco sell it for roughly $15 per pouch, and have VERY few selections. They should let long stayers bring their own stash if Thai's cannot supply it. You ain't gonna find any Gawith and Hogarth Balkan blend in LOS. Half pound is gone in 6 weeks or so. But I digress.

I pretty much gave up on idealism after the early 70s. Give peace a chance chanting? bed in's? Flower power hippie types made me hurl by that time too. frankly I think Lennon was 80% image and fluff...kind of like a cake window in Bkk...great lookin stuff...all tastes the same cloying sweetness. I do agree with Pig that Whatever gets you... is a great tune. As an aside I used to hit Mill's Tavern regularly post Lennon and Elephants Memory. Sleazy dive where they let a few regular bums sleep to keep an eye on the place. A CLASSIC dive bar. Urinals and sinks filled with ice haha

considering their huge output over the year the Stones put out a LOT of CRAP songs. I never bought a Stones album because they carefully put TWO maybe 3 good songs on each with varying degrees of crap filler. Now Cream it was the other way around. Frank Zappa also put out a ton of crap over the year. Anyone with a long career has, you just can't make hit after hit, which is what made the Beatles SO amazing (I was convinced for YEARS that they used ghost writers). But then we're talking 5 yrs or so germination time til they hit then another 5 on top before the break up (which was a good thing, MOST bands just don't know when to quit). The Police are notable in that they just STOPPED...almost on top. Dire Straits did that too it seems. Know when to fold em folks, quit milking an empty cow.

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridge.org%2Fcore%2Fjournals%2Fpsychological-medicine%2Farticle%2Fabs%2Fwho-are-gynandromorphophilic-men-characterizing-men-with-sexual-interest-in-transgender-women%2FC53A4234C8AD66052EEB4701E78A82BE%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2p5_gTPx-r-vCXYmtVVemrEPovACFV7Lt6e51OTlRYQe7baSft6EZ92TE&h=AT0huoPVHe1Rhc9tPIBWnfrnyU1RR-ej6qDSDiC6XNWsi-rZqzt83ITH_JD_q63YDk9PZp2d1V9xV2juYQ0c4xsb4HwUzhJuM_1zaUOv5H188aqPl0zBEJc4cUo Gynandromorphophilia (GAMP) is sexual interest in gynandromorphs (GAMs; colloquially, shemales). Results provide clear evidence that GAMP men are not homosexual. They also indicate that GAMP men are especially likely to eroticize the idea of being a woman. Not sure about that second part. No one seems to take into account that some guys just like BEING penetrated more than the typical male role of penetrator. Obviously this is more widespread than previously believed judging by recent years online references to "pegging" becoming almost a normal thing. an interesting chat about trans attracted men is on Shannyn Martin's youTube channel as "The Truth About Trans-Attracted Men".

and in this post CV era they are ALL trying to make BACK what they consider they should have been making during that time which is just STUPID, but typical capitalist crap. Seems to ME that if they relaxed things to the pre CV era and LOWERED prices they'd have a MUCH FASTER rebound. Using tourists as some sort of financial insurance to cover losses is, dare I say it again? STUPID. If they had a third foot they'd be shooting IT too. Underlying all this is the fact that they want to upscale tourism in LOS in a big way, so they will charge ahead with this idea I am sure. I find this to be in direct opposition to their airport expansion claim that they'll be able to hande 60 million or is it 80 million visitors a YEAR. IF you manage to cut tourist numbers down by half with the SAME income as the 40 million year, ecology and other things would benefit but NO WAY are they going to cut out the average tourist groups and budget travellers which, let's face it, MADE LOS the premium destination it was.

I know it's not the same but this reminds me of my first girlfriend's Mom, who when I last saw her eons after high school was a thin almost unrecognizable woman who sat around in her comfy living room with newspapers spread around, going thru the Obits to see who she knew that just passed.

can you imagine if they made hiring a prostitute illegal, the John ban. Or if vaping gets added to the list as the fine for it is huge considering it's legal most places. The list of things that are illegal but get overlooked daily is long. I suppose only farang are expected to live by Thai law.

days before I flew in it was 38. I got here with 700 in US dollars and only exchanged 200 of it. Got 7,446 baht at 37.2 to the dollar. Like a DOPE I thought it would stay up there as I'd read someone saying it should rise thru Jan. HOW WRONG he was. Last time I hit the ATM I think I got just over 32. Oh well...the difference would have only paid for one or 2 sessions I spose. And it's been an average of 32 per dollar since I started coming in 2007. I find this NO coincidence. Always seems to nose dive near or IN high season.

hope the last two posts indicate a growing trend in ladyboys not going for HUGE bolt on's

not surprising but I found this one more interesting :) https://www.foxnews.com/health/covid-19-impact-less-attractive-people-wear-masks-more-others-study I know one Khmer young man wore a mask only when his acne flared up :)