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If you're looking for gay titillation, there's several gay only restaurants in China, been to one in Beijing and one in Shanghai. One senior Chinese staff member in my office in Shanghai has taken me to these restaurants for birthday celebrations for himself and his 2 vey close very very wealthy young fiends who always paid the very big bills. Had to have prior bookings, all guests had a private dining room with locked door. Similar 'activities' at both restaurants Beijing and Shanghai. Walk in, invited to sit in a semi circle then quickly a team of 5 or 6 very good looking, very hot body waiters in tiny G string tight bikinis appeared and stood very close. Captain then invited the invited the quests to fondle the bulge of each waiter then select a waiter to personally serve their first course. Selected waiters then went to the dinner guest who had selected them with a menu and dinner guest asked to tick their soup selection. Ten minutes later all waiters come back in full see through tight g string bikinis. Same process all over again for the second course... select a waiter (2 new boys joined the waiters team). This time when food delivered waiter rubbed his bulge all over the face of the dinner guest. Next course full nude... next course waiter delivers the food then stands right in front off the dinner guest and makes himself hard then puts his erection in the mouth of the dinner guest and <deleted> the mouth of the dinner guest. When all courses served and dishes cleared 2 new nude erect waiters appeared, climbed on the dinner able and did a full gay flip/flop penetration show. The bill came, over US$4,000-, all paid by one of the very young very wealthy Chinese boys. American consultants have told me about similar clubs in the US and even more raunchy clubs in Colombia with very good looking full nude Latino boys with very good very smooth bodies. It happens.

Massage therapists is listed. Many years back I taught several courses at a Thai university. Then in my main job I was asked to form a team of management consultants to conduct an organizational project for one of the major casinos. On day 2 or 3 of being there I ran into one of my old Thai uni students, who could speak good English. We chatted and eventually he asked 'why do you think I am here?' He then revealed he worked in a private club at the casino which had a go go boy show with full nude dancing and full gay sex acts. and they paid very big salaries plus patrons who took the go go boys to their rooms were told they the very high minimum tip. (And also a similar pvt club featuring girls.) My old student asked me 'when I was in your class at uni in Bkk did you suspect I was gay? My response: No. He continued that he had been working at the pvt casino club for several months and had made very big money., often had same casino customers take him to their rooms continuous nights and afternoons. And he planned to stay there another one year and would then have funds to pay cash for a condo in Bkk, and a new car. He invited me to come to the Casino pvt boys club. that evening. I was working with a consulting buddy (actually my boss) from SIngapore who was very macho and gay. Twice before he had asked me to join him to go to gay clubs in China. There was no show and no pressure whatever. At dinner (the evening of the day I had bumped into my old student from Bkk) my S'pore colleague said 'after dinner I'm going to one of the private clubs here in the casino, please join me and we can continue to discuss work progress'. We went to the Casino boys club The go go boys in small bikinis show had started, about 20 boys, 99% Thai or Cambodian. Then followed by full nude parades then asking patrons to select 1 boy to parade for 5 minutes very close to the patron with erection or select 2 boys to do a close up full gay sex show. About 100 customers present.

You mentioned health insurance. This point might be interesting / valuable for other members, can you please share further information. Thanks.

Should be both: - taken into a room at a jail where no beds and not enough floor space for everybody to lie down. And no bathing privacy. - look at 10 dead bodies, each one for 5 minutes, all killed in traffic accident and perhaps 6 or 7 marked to indicate killed by a drunk driver now in jail for 10 years.

But there's ongoing discussion whether gov't based pensions from abroad are 'income'.

From just above "...Thai has the worst business..." Example: Evening flight business class from Bkk to Jakarta, after dinner all finished my 18 yr old Thai son (flying on a fully paid most expensive category of ticket) politely asked the flying waitress for a glass of Coca Cola. Her response without stopping to take his request, she just kept walking "Go and ask in Economy." I and my son had flown several times before in business class on TG and SG and Lufthansa, I can't imagine such a comment from an SG hostess or from any other airline.

I don't disagree.

Agree with that, as always SG shines.

And keep the realities of life of older folks in perspective. Some folks are lucky enough to have a much bigger income at 70 / 80 years old, and some not. Many survive nicely on 40,000Baht every 4 weeks because they plan and don't spend beyond their means - that's the realities of life.

Thanks, I'm well aware of that, but I didn't want to go into all that details Ultimately, in most of these countries the charges paid by the citizen are very small.

Many such instances have been detailed in the media over many years.

Healthcare policies / subsidy levels / quality is country by country, EU is not a country. However it is true that many / most EU countries and GB have national healthcare systems which provide quality comprehensive health care at no charge / close to no charge. Same in China, Taiwan, Singapore, *Australia and New Zealand. (*the Australian National Health care system is 5 star)

Using Fanytel can I call any landline number in Australia without prior set up with that landline number?

Don't make statements on behalf of other people. I have no beef and no dislike of EU.

Yes, many people in Australians use it for free domestic audio calls / video calls. I used it many times or calls . video calls from / to Thailand but have to check in advance that the other party has Viber. Same comment for LINE. I was back in Oz a few years back for a while, I frequently used LINE for calls / video calls to / from Thailand.

So post something with real logic and real meaning.

The university I'm associated with in Australia has a number of Chinese students who have withdrawn from US uni's and transferred to an Australia uni to study. In all cases the standard process of transfer of grades already earned has happened (meaning transfer uni to uni, but this is not automatic, all uni's who are approached to accept grades from other uni's do a check first on the credibility of the initial uni).

I agree, China is amused by trump but not frightened of trump.

What a strange comment, doesn't connect to thread.

OK but don't assume an IT position would be accepted as suitable. There's hundreds of thousands of trained / experienced Thai IT workers. However 'IT' could mean a lot of things. I wonder if you're assuming that married with kids satisfies a primary requirement. It's not that simple.

There's a multi level (4 or 5 levels) Pizza restaurant in Ho Chi MInh city, every floor (circular tables, about 100 chairs per level), is devoted to a fruit: apple, watermelon, mango or to a vegetable. No meat. Very popular, need a booking to get in.

What a laugh, burgers have been made in dozens of countries for decades. Yep McDonalds started in the US, so what, many folks rate McD hamburgers very low. My personal preference is Burger King, but that's just my personal preference. I've eaten wonderful burgers at a restaurant behind Ram Uni in Bkk, the owner is Thai, never been outside Thailand.

Agree and I would add 'with mushy peas' if available. I recall the old pie carts in Aussie cities when I was a kid (in my case in Adelaide). Same meat pies sold today but with a big spoon of tasty mushy peas on the side. In those days people spoke of 'pie and peas' as an item. Personal choice of course.

What a sad meaningless comment.

And often forgotten nowadays are his earlier statements (just after he was elected first time, which involved massive vote buying and threats to up country folks they would be punished if they didn't vote for the paymaster); Thaksin: 'Democracy is not my goal'.