Rickshaw

There are many requests on other fora for LB massage recommendations and there is already a thread on this one titled "Ladyboy massage in Pattaya" which, whether intended or not, is more a paean to Ice. She's great, lovely, sweet and reliable and well worth checking out (note: her "barfine" for leaving her massage parlour and coming to your hotel is 400 baht. Please add that to your payment - before now, I have given her 500 baht without realising that her take was only 100 baht - and she was too shy to tell me to give her more. A mistake that I have made up for since). Ice's link However, there are others available and these are a couple of my favourites with another couple who come with warnings!

A forum related question: What's an advanced member, are there any advantages to having such an epiphet attached to my name and if there are, how do I achieve such an exalted status? Actually, there appear to be so many advanced members, there might be a bit of inverted snobbery in being only a member (it's the feeling that I get when I park my 19 year old car with 0% depreciation next to a load of shiny, new beemers and such like....).

With what potential upside? So you find out that she is an active seeker after other men. Exactly what are you going to do with that information? Unless you know a lot more than is healthy about their relationship, my strong suggestion is to either keep away or if you feel the need to "protect" your friend, why not just tell her that you have seen her profile (either when you are next in Thailand or on line). Then she knows that she has been rumbled and can remove her profile if she wants to. For all you, and we, know, your friend has an impotence problem and she uses the site with his approval to satisfy her sexual needs whlist he supplies her emotional and intellectual needs. I'm sure that he would appreciate being told that their arrangement is common knowledge! Or any other scenario you care to consider. I believe that unless you are in the relationship, you can never know what the dynamics are and therefore judging one side or the other and then interferring (because that's what you are doing) is ill judged, arrogant and dangerous. As I say, if you must interfer, tell her, not him!

And the US threat levels? Could they be: "We have given the world democracy where large numbers of people can vote for governments which then allow them to work for large American corportations at very low wages. They may not like us very much for reasons that we do not understand so we have to be careful" rising to "No Americans are foreigners. Therefore all foreigners are bad, so regardless of where they come from, we will make them stand in line for 5 hours at immigration, fill in a green form where they declare that they are not now, nor ever have been, members of the Nazi party and do not suffer from moral turpitude, then get a fat immigration official to tell them to their faces that the US government thinks they are lying. This will prevent them from committing terrorist outrages in our peace loving nation which commits an average of 14000 murders a year" which then escalates to "No Americans are foreigners. Therefore we can kill foreigners with impunity regardless if they come from a nation which is a cauldron of seething anti-american sentiment or our closest ally. And if they complain, why, that merely confirms our suspicion that they are anti-american..." Just joking - but DT did open up a thread on national stereotypes. Glass houses and all that. Not that I would throw a stone at DT's glass house - the US government would proably brand me a terrorist And I do not fancy a holiday in a small enclave in Cuba!

At the same time, they have changed their self image to "we are all victims and nobody likes us". Well, the second part is true, anyway (and I speak as a mongrel mix* of half Scots and half English). * Or as I call it, hybrid vigour.

The lovely Lita is having a party tonight at Famous with the theme of cowboys. All pistols to be well holstered for the duration or at least until the alcohol is flowing. Starting at 8; food is being provided including the promise of hot dogs (the symbolism of Lita's girls in cowboys outfits eating hot dogs completely escapes me). Anyone coming as a horse will have to prove their credentials. See you there, chaps (chaps, chaps - geddit? Oh well, never mind).

I was not thinking today and opened up the sign on page and, instead of putting in my name and password, just clicked on the "take me to message board" shortcut - which it did. Somewhat surprised, I then clicked on one topic to which I am contributing and it opened up. This alarmed me since anybody who knows me, my style of writing and/or travel plans could make an educated guess as to who was writing under the name Rick Shaw. I then removed all cookies (just in case this allowed the access) and tried again and, sure enough, I could open up my thread. Now, you could argue that the chances of this being done by anyone who knows me are remote except: 1. Although I am reasonably good at deleting cookies, I don't do it every time; anyone could check my cookie list (and although this is my private computer, other family members do use it) and could follow the cookie trail. I could bluster my way out of having the cookie on the machine, but it would be infinitely more difficult to do if I was identified as one of the contributors and impossible to allay suspicion should my thread contain references to sexual activity with an LB! 2. My thread title is Diving in the Philippines. The diving world is not that big and again suspicion would be aroused if a diver that I knew and who knew my past travel patterns (and I talk about diving overseas a lot with other divers) happened across this thread 3. Could the title be picked up by a search engine? Diving in the Philippines is a common search question and if the thread is open to all, could this happen? I tried the same thing on LBP and it does not allow non-members access to the individual threads. My own view is that this is a huge hole in the security of this forum and, more importantly, in the security of individual members. Before I make a die in the ditch comment, what do other posters think - in other words, does my particular situation make me unique in my fears or are others concerned?

It's all very well investigating further, but it would have been helpful to let us know the result before the party, not merely report on it after the event! I had to go out and make my own amusement....

It was only today when composing a text message to Thaibound about the rude Russians on his bus that I realised that I had misspelt my nickname for the Russians. It is, of course, Ivan Buggarov with the plural being Ivan Buggarovs. I guess that it helps to have a sense of Russian history to understand why I find that funny!

Whilst I admire your sense of wa, I find myself unable to follow suit. An indication of how I feel about inconsiderate people is my generic name for a Russian man - Ivan Buggaroff.

In the Philippines, most Russians are from the East (places like Vladivostock)and the reason they are here are twofold: 1. It's a relatively short flight from the East coast of Russia to the Far East and 2. It's f...ing cold overthere during winter - where would you rather be, Pattaya at 32 degrees or Vladiostock at minus 32 degrees? As for not understanding lbs, I have told the story on another forum of an lb friend of mine who spent a whole day with a young Russian guy and when the time came to go to his room, had to break the news that she was not quite what he was expecting. He thought about this for a bit, came to the conclusion that he had would try the dark side but didn't enjoy it, so paid my friend 5000 baht (I seem to remember)and went on his way, a wiser man. The next evening when I was having a drink with O, her phone went and it was the Russian who said that since he was obviously crap at differentiating between ggs and lbs, could he hire her for one hour so that she could tell him which was which before he bar fined another lb...

Don't come, mate. They are all telling you lies. It's awful. It'll change your life forever (that bit is true, anyway *). On the other hand, you could just come over and, to use an apt English expression, just suck it and see.... One piece of advice I give to any prospective monger, be they gg or lb orientated, is not to plan anything around a hit list of particular girls - particular bars, yes, particular BMs to meet and go around to orientate yourself, yes, but not particular girls. They are never the same in real life, they all have off days and you might well be very disapppointed whereas if you go with your feelings at that moment, you could have the time of your life. Oh yes - wear a condom; you may be in your twenties, but you ain't immortal or invulnerable and you should have a long life to be looking forward to! * I took a 24 year old babe magnet around Pattaya last October and showed him a few lbs. He almost went for one, but she cold shouldered him and he only indulged in ggs. Two days ago, I get an e-mail from him - now working in Lanzerote and shacked up with a Spanish LB who is "seriously fit". That's another young life corrupted and in the dark side.....

Excellent - I know what happens in Sodom, but I have always been slightly hazy as to what activities go on in Gomorrah. Now I can research for myself (or at least I can when I get back from the Philippines). Happy days.

Can you guide a technophobe through finding LBs on tagged? I've looked at groups (500+ for dating and single) and I have tried searching on individual members (search categories: female (no lb category), City and then gay) but it has not been very productive. Do you have an easier way of pulling up the lbs in any particular area? All help gratefully received.