More reflections on Boyztown's future

[sglad]

Don't waste your time playing the liberal here Latin.

What has being a liberal or conservative got to do with being a racist? You can be politically conservative and not a racist or a liberal with latent racist views whicch tend to rear their ugly heads on anonymous boards like this. Plenty of that going on now on the gaythailand.com forum viz a viz Arabs, Indians and Chinese. I'm sure most of the posters expressing racist views see themselves as liberal in the sense that they support marriage equality, abortion, social welfare, big government, etc.

[latintopxxx]

sglad has a brain

[arsenal]

As Sglad has pointed out albeit in a roundabout way, there is no definitive meaning of the word 'liberal'. Therefore my use of it was entirely correct. Political terms such as conservative, democratic etc. have no single agreed meaning.

[latintopxxx]

oh fuck....its a bad day...again im nodding in agreement with arsenal...what is this??? am i being trolled!!?!

[DoubleDutch]

sglad has a brain

No, not really. Using "vis a vis" in a sentence is unnecessary, it is pretensious, it is used to impress dumb audience, because to dumb people it sounds foreign, thus sophisticated.

Besides, our brilliant 25 year old world traveller from Singapore typed viz a viz, it is vis a vis lol.

One should use French, or foreign language when there is no English word for it, but there is - via a vis is French for in regard to" or "compared to,". Sglad wanted to impress you, latintopxxx, I'm not sure if you should be flattered, or offended.


https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/vis-a-vis:

"Technically that "a" in vis-a-vis is an "à" as the phrase translates literally from the French for "face to face." There's a slightly pedantic ring to the term vis-a-vis so use it with caution. It's more a term that might be used in a newspaper article or academic treatise, and something best avoided in speech altogether, unless you're deliberately aiming for comic effect."

[goji]

They have actually Goji. A couple of years back many areas were full of those 'pop up' bars that would blare out impossibly loud music all night. They've all gone now. The police got rid of them.

Well, that's a start. There are still places which have the occasional event with outdoor music at loud volume. Going on until some obscene hour.
It would be better still if anyone living nearby can call the noise control department, or the police and have music shut down within 30 minutes, then add large fines for any repeat of the offence.

Priorities seem a bit twisted if anyone can play loud music in the street, even all night, yet they can regulate harmless indoor activity which doesn't harm anyone else, such as stage dancing, AKA gogo bars.

[francois]

No, not really. Using "vis a vis" in a sentence is unnecessary, it is pretensious, it is used to impress dumb audience, because to dumb people it sounds foreign, thus sophisticated.

While on the subject of spelling errors, you do mean, pretentious?

[Oliver2]

I agree with goji but there's one aspect that seems particularly true of Boyztown's recent history. The Copa all night parties of a few years ago were for the benefit of a handful at the expense of the many, whose evenings and nights were disrupted. LCR's karaoke nights (and mornings) of a couple of years back featured an even smaller group of drunken guys bellowing into their microphones while the rest of us were denied sleep. And now BBB's outdoor parties for their staff now dominate the Panorama corner and make conversation nigh- on impossible.
What's wrong with doors? twenty years ago, there was loud music in many more venues but it was not disruptive because the doors were kept shut.

[latintopxxx]

funny...every now and then we get a whole lot of propaganda about thailand and Buddhism and karma and how peaceful and welcoming and nice and looking after the poor and accommodating and considerate the whole society is...unlike the nasty christian western world they come from...so whats gone wrong here??/

[Manforallseasons]

Boyztown like Soi Twilight is all but gone as is Sunee and Chiang Mai....only Jomtien Complex thrieves with farangs 60+ and fem boys with the exception of 3 bars with Cambodian boys....this too shall change as immigration is only offering the Cambodians at this moment 2 week visas.