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btw....reading the thread title, i thought we were going to discuss herein the *really* important issue: is it time to re-release the great barry maguire tune from 1965? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExH7h9Lk5HY yeah, 1965. 19fucking65. back when jerry lewis was funny to people who weren't french. most of you cats weren't even born then. that's how long we've been on 'the eve of destruction'. get a grip people. get a tight grip. and squeeze that thing til she shoots. if you can't figure out how, just ask farangbah. i think he's got the hang of it. oh, and here's a little note from the wiki for ya: "Barry McGuire became a born-again Christian, and as a result renounced the song for many years, refusing to perform it. Though he is now known primarily as a singer of contemporary Christian songs, McGuire has resumed singing "Eve of Destruction" in recent years, often updating the lyrics to refer to such events as the Columbine High School massacre. oh, double shits--. the born-agains got barry! fuck the 'eve' of destruction, we're full-tilt barreling down the center of it. only one thing to do now-- like it's 1999, bitches.

you do crack me up, my friend. hope to get in another round before pacman and the mayans convince the whole fucking world to end.

many thanks for the coverage, Stealth. sorry i'll be getting to cebu 2 weeks too late for the event action. i do have to say though, that as i look thru the photos, IMHO, i am meeting --through pinalove, dateinasia, etc -- ladyboys as sexy and beautiful as any in the pageant --with the possible and notable exception of the exquisite #16/"Miss Philippines"... fact is, if you're not a tit-man (are you listening BB and co.?) i think you'll find the hard-bodied, all-natural, smooth-skinned, erotically-jazzed femmeboys here in the PH are more amazingingly appealing -- and abundant -- than you can possibly imagine. and with 7000 islands to cover i might needs devote much of the remainder of my life to a more thorough journey of discovery. which should leave me available to attend queen of cebu 2013. see y'all there.

so i'm sitting in the desert between appointments which are delaying my return to paradise and decide to roll into town and check out a film--"7 psychopaths". quirkiest fucking film i've seen in years. awesome. and to put a cherry on it, these characters drive out into the same desert from whence i have only that very hour cometh. i shit thee not. now i think i'm hallucinating. after all i've been watching christopher walken play his own age. an old man. okay, yes, my age. and though i abhor bloody violence in movies (nothing moral here, i just don't like feeding my own weak psyche such disturbing dreamstuff) i am astoundingly unperturbed by images which would normally have me look around the audience for a facial cue as to when it's safe to return my eye to the screen. and, yes, sam rockwell (you probably don't recognize his name, but you've seen him in a half-dozen films, i promise you) does a star turn. right now i'd be tempted to tap him and walken for the big O's. just so UNexpected. and there's no (to quote Jon Lovitz)) "acting, thank you!" here. these guys are just -- psychopaths. and pass the salt. and, as though i need a second cherry, the script layers reality as neatly and surprisingly as chris nolan at his best. downright shakespearian--in a very quirky kind of way. now, i'll tell you right off, a lot of you will not like this movie. but a handful of you will love it. as for me... after the last of the credits, sitting in my car in the dizzying parking lot sun, i considered searching out that same joshua tree to make my own stand (ok, see the movie), but i can't tell one saguaro from another, so i headed over instead to the Indian casino for some no-limit. and every time i caught a jack of diamonds, i bet the house.

so, we've got ryan, palin, bachman, santorum, christy, bush, rubio, lassie, rice, cruise, travolta, or powell vs. clinton or biden....? i'm going with none of the above. maybe a gay latina female navy SEAL to be named later (from florida or ohio, of course) versus the mayor/governor of whichever city/state legalizes and taxes pot (but not prostitution), balances its budget, reduces unemployment to 6.2% and grants immunity to all illegal aliens who can find europe on a map .

maybe it's just me, but there appears to be a great deal of overbite, errrr, i mean, overlap, with regard to your ennumerated fetishes, my friend. any one else sense a theme here...?

the obvious (at first) answer appears to be : only one. you. for attempting math with a horde of mongers. but then as i see more squares chime in with their answers, i've decided to hold off until the thread closes to get a more accurate count--though that "final" number will, at best, be an approximation, because, i'm sure you all well know that "Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases". 'Nuff said.

Tammy baldwin, Tammy duckworth -- the year of the Tammy? maybe, but Tammy aint what she used to be...

i'll try BB, i swear i will...but i just don't think this damn 777 will go any faster. maybe next time.

nice choice of area, Anja. your standards of taste seem to match your beauty. any chance i could crash on your couch? i promise not to be in the way... j/k. enjoy ...

while i think that might be just a bit of hyperbole there, at least with regard to 9.95 of the 10 billion people on the planet, it *could* be the biggest change ever seen by poor and lower-middle class american women between the ages of 13 and 30 who never had to drive themselves across state lines and pay out of pocket to end a pregnancy they never wanted (be it the result of rape, incest, or the rythm method) and even after somehow coming up with the cash to pay for the abortion and the travel, they have to return home with insufficient funds to access the birth control or family planning that might have otherwise prevented this little tragedy. and the next one. and the next...

thanks for all the updates here. i'm trying to get to cebu by nov 9 but it's looking unlikely. meantime, i have to ask-- i tried to figure it out for myself but i couldn't-- can someone explain the international banners on the contestants? aren't all (most?) of the girls from the PH if not right there from Cebu? do they represent sponsorships? ancestry? an ersatz internationalism? what am i missing? sorry. and thanks.

i feel (and agree with) your frustration, but unfortunately it does make a difference. way back in 2000 when bush stole the election from gore, it came down to nader pulling away so many votes from gore that bush got close enough to have his buddies in the supreme court steal it entirely. hard to rewrite history but if the mealy-mouthed, extremely boring, dead-center gore had carried his own frigging home state and gotten elected, the usa would *never* have gone to war in iraq (whether it might have dodged 9/11 altogether by having a defense department read their own white papers we'll never know) and we wouldn't have a blatantly right-wing supreme court now that considers corporations people when it comes to buying votes but not when it comes to paying taxes, dodges any issue of torture, patriot act repression, or any case that might bring any of the status quo into doubt -- and is on the edge of turning over roe vs wade. and if prez romney gets to appoint a justice, that will happen almost to a certainty. and if it does, while it's true that women will be free to travel across state lines on their own dime to pay for their abortions, the millions who can't afford to drop one large for overnight, interstate travel and uninsured medical care will be de facto prevented from having abortions. and with the concurrent ending of governement support and subsidy for family planning or birth control--there are gonna be more young, poor, single women than ever before in the usa desperately desiring an abortion. and while women anxious to become pregnant will lose the right to attempt in vitro fertilization, they can sleep easy knowing that if they become pregnant by being brutally raped -- they not only can, but they must, have the rapist's baby -- and in that, they will have no say. and that *is* a difference.

welcome and thanks husky. ahhhhh manila tgirls....indeed and that last photo is a little hottie. well-done.

my 2cents re the OP's question: to answer where there are more ladyboys, you're gonna have to clearly define 'ladyboys' -- if femboys w/no surgeries and minimal hormones count, i'd be tempted to go w/Lefty, based upon the PH's 50% superiority in total population. however, this total populace superiority = ladyboy populace superiority falls frighteningly flat if one attempts to apply it to virtually any other country. (with the possible exception of brazil--if, again, you call those beautiful amazons "ladyboys") as to ladyboy visibility on the internet-- per my own admittedly limited and solely anecdotal experience in the PH, it's a *completely* different scene than in LOS. i'd estimate that there are more ladyboy bars in pattaya alone than in all the cities and towns in all of the PH--combine this relatively limited access (to men/foreigners/dates/money) through the bar scene with their clearly superior language skills (and probably thereby computer skills) and it's no surprise that the PH ladyboys seem to be all over the net-- from I'mLive-style cam shows to dateinasia-style dating sites. but if you're out at night with your buddies, walking in any tourist-type or bar-scene environ, hands down you will spot more ladyboys in the LOS than in the PH. and after all, if you can't find them, what does it matter how many there are?

just saw 'cloud atlas' tonight. gigantic epic impressive filmmaking. i confess i was lost much of the time, but it was the fastest 3hour film i've seen since lawrence of arabia. btw, here's another link to the impressive speech by the tg director (the one above didn't work for me): http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lana-wachowski-reveals-suicide-plan-382169

i just discovered Lana's speech as i consider seeing 'cloud atlas', which --despite an astute cinephile friend's describing it as a 'too-long piece of shit'-- i will now see asap. i just signed in to LBR to post a link to the speech when i found Randi was already all over it. for those w/no video access/interest/time, here's a link to the transcript. it's *definitely* worth a read: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lana-wachowskis-hrc-visibility-award-382177

i think sam has touched on the 'secret key' here. it's something the original guess had to some degree. if you've been to the non-lb place Tim's on 2nd rd in pattaya, you know you walk thru 3 distinct areas--ending up in a pool hall, which, to my mind would be an excellent triplex format for the 'perfect' lb bar: mr. duke can walk straight thru the go-go room with the blaring rock that draws in the passers-by off the street, wherein farangbah is being accosted by near-naked dancers leaning down from the stage, and move straight into the bar room where he is unobtrusively attended by hostesses who move more gently to this room's conversation-friendly blend of jazz/blues fusion and are (perhaps) dressed in black leather matching the deeply-cushioned, easy-on-the-ass special-for-dave bar stools (with footrails) and have a cold drink -- while in the 3rd room of our triplex, route67 teaches the lessers how to play pool while not being distracted by the schoolgirl-attired attendants who stand ready to rack your balls into whatever shape your game of choice requires. oh, and they never never never pad your bin. never. yeah, that's the bar i want.

two weeks after heading home from an 8-month-holiday -- spent mostly in patts--and by the end of which i was enjoying lying about reading a book almost as much as getting laid... i'm already anxious to return to holiday/monger mode. although i stayed long enough to piss off a few bar owners, and more than a few ladyboys, and a handful of hoteliers and at least two restaurants and... holy shit i don't think i *can* go back. well, there's always cebu.

i must admit that's about the finest little ass i've ever seen on a white girl... errr....whatever. .

get a room.

i see what he's going on about as an accidental-hero sort of activity. the punter means absolutely no harm, just sharing with his mates what's happening in the places his stuck-at-home in the cold mates wish they could be, but his casual, even anonymous, report about what mr. x was doing with ms. y contradicts what mr. x told ms z he was doing -- i.e., no way he was boffing ms y that night, no way--and others eyes on the ground can often discern who the anonymous x, y and z are -- which results in, at the least, some loss of face, when the active mr. x isn't checking the forum daily--because he's too busy fucking to be writing--and is blindsided when the news of his actual whereabouts last night contradicts the story he told the bar girl(s). personally, i see this risk/danger as considerably less of a concern than the well-known ladyboy-network whereby they all know everything we do anyway--and don't for a minute think that they don't. but that's another story. one that's badly crimped the last week of my own previously-wonderous 1/2 year excursion in ladyboyland. but...that's another story.

i understand it's all relative, but daaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmm... to hear that only a "dozen tourists murdered"...doesn't encourage me to risk making it a baker's dozen. i mean, you ever seen the ladyboys in cabo? just not a good risk-reward ratio for me. but as for the cost of living in the states...it's going to be culture shock going back there. literally three times the monthly nut to get by. and while i agree with jaidee about the beautiful autumns in new england, i live in fear of the black ice of winter. losing it into a skid on the turnpike, sliding sideways for the better part of a kilometer with no control whatsoever....i'll put up with 100 sweaty nights to avoid having that 100 sweaty seconds ever again.

finding a truly attractive lb bargirl in pattaya who hasn't tongued the ass of a large portion of this forum would be a more difficult task than that given the guy in the bible who was looking for an honest man in bangkok. or was it sodom? whatever. there's a reason there are 20 flavors of listerine in every 7/11 and two 7/11's on every block. buy the stock. use the product. enjoy your life.