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Back in the golden days of travel national airlines were a source of pride.

British Airways, Air France, and Thai Air rendered inter-continental voyages almost tolerable with pleasant service and unlimited alcohol. High gas prices, an aging air fleet, and an even older flight crew have relegated these long-distance carriers to the status of Aeroflot just after […]

This addition has nothing to do with sex.
As a child my moother tried to improve my speech by having me say ‘toy boat’ three times fast.

Impossible.
Thais utilize the same practice. I  guess all languages do. Here’s a sampling from www.2bankgok.com
1.) Kluai tanee plai wee hiaw, hew wee pai hew wee ma; lua wee diaw.
Bunches of (a kind […]

Most farangs steer away from spicy Thai foods.
Chili riot in their stomachs like a Indonesian mob amok on palm wine.
I was brought up on Mexican food, so Thai cuisine was almost mild, however the spicy mango salad som tam fiercely competes with any dish from South of the Border in the USA.
Thai women revel in […]

This NJ dog won the world’s ugliest dog contest in Petaluma, California. Elwood’s previous owner was going to put him down, however a woman came to the rescue of this Chinese Crested half-breed. After placing second last year, Elwood rode her gruesome mug to glory in 2007.
For once I hope that the owner doesn’t resemble their dog.
My […]

The Daily Sun in the UK posted these two photos of Kate Moss at the Glastonbury Festival. Her unadorned face resembled the portrait of Dorian Grey and her famously scrawny legs seemed beset by wrinklitis. Time has been cruel to the former modelling waif.

The ex-super-model looks more like Brigitte Bardot gaining on 40.
BB once rejected the  lurid advance […]

“You only look 35.” A bored bargirl told me the other night.
“Really.” It was low season, but my Sleeping Beauty’s mother-in-law’s mirror doesn’t reflect 35. Maybe 42 with the lights playing tricks with my eyes.

Flattery such as this is worrying and so are the spam comments arriving as emails.
“I dont even remember how I reached your site […]

This very well-written Bangkok Post article offers an insight into a world unseen by those haunting the usual nightlife areas.

By SUPOJ WANCHAROEN
Down the quiet alleys and small sois of Bangkok’s old town in the Rattanakosin area, Orn and Kae, both in their early 20s, hang around in the shade of the hot afternoon waiting for […]

Paris was my home from 1982-1986. Two of those years were spent on Impasse Dantzig. My 16 year-old girlfriend had an atelier in an old artist commune on Impasse Dantzig. Candida worked as a model. A few magazines liked the melange of her Puerto Rican, Jewish, and French roots. I thought she was beautiful.

We went […]

Ever-vigilant Pattaya Police executed a daring nocturnal round-up of Central Asian women suspected of breaking the Prevention and Suppression Act B.E. 2539 (1996). 50 officers and volunteers escorted 22 Uzbekistani females from Walking Street to the Immigration Office. During interrogation the suspects admitted to selling sexual favors at a price range of 2000-3000 baht, which is 4-6 times the […]

The Taliban ruled the majority of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Normal citizens welcomed the Islamic militants in hopes that peace could be restored, instead a strict Sharia law was imposed on their subjects.

The burqa was draped over every woman and education was banned for any females over the age of eight. The Koran was the only book […]