TOG wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 6:41 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 6:17 pm pfft i spent a week in Phuket back in Jan 2013, spent most nights in the old Pink Lady 2002 (Phang nga soi 2) so think i know a little more than the both of you put together... i can understand how Trapper feels about all you clueless noobs!

Amazing how all the "tourists" always think that life only exists in the well advertised areas such as Patong or in town around the Pearl hotel.

True connoisseurs would frequent the seedy spots in Phoonpon area. Whatever your taste and whatever you can afford.

Stick that you clueless noob.....

pfft the Phoonpon area is tame...

Thought I would add this here instead of creating a new bit.


China shuts down thousands of websites
China keeps the internet under tight control and has been cracking down on a range of illegal activities including pornography and even "spreading rumours".

David Stanway
ReutersSEPTEMBER 22, 20183:48PM
China has shut down more than 4000 websites and online accounts in a three-month campaign against "harmful" online information, the official Xinhua news agency says.

China keeps the internet under tight control and has been cracking down on a range of illegal online activities including pornography, gambling, religious proselytising and even "spreading rumours".

In a campaign that started in May, the authorities tackled 120 violations and ordered 230 firms to rectify irregularities.

More than 147,000 pieces of harmful information were removed by the end of August, according to China's National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications.

Xinhua said the campaign targeted content in online fiction that spread improper values, vulgarity and obscenity, as well as content that infringed on copyright.

Authorities announced last week that they had busted a live-streaming pornography platform hosted in Cambodia and said to have more than 3.5 million registered users.

iirc, Google graded searches so that some were buried..seriously, both practices are bad, but what is the difference?

The west is less open about censoring/ propaganda

China calls a spade a spade

Both have disadvantages/advantages

Stick that you clueless noob.....

riding for a fall
quite full of yourself
pull in your horns mate

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 8:49 am It's funny isn't it....they don't want their citizens having access to gambling, pornography, google etc in China....yet, they allow them to travel to Macau, Cambodia et al where they can access all these things.

Talk about a double standards...reminds me of the womanising, heavy drinking arabs in Bangkok.. or, the Malaysians slipping over to Hat Yai for the brothels and boozing.

If they are really serious about it, why don't they just prevent their people from travelling outside their country? When there's prohibition, people will find a way..

Its not so much that they allow travel to participate, they (the bosses) facilitate the construction and use political contacts and money to con the local dickweeds to allow the building and running of these businesses in heir countries.
They know full well that the criminal element will swarm around these projects and are happy to allow it to happen OUTSIDE OF CHINA.
Stupid receiving countries hierarchy make money but lose their countries ability to control anything.

Apologies for sunday spit....

frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 8:41 am

Stick that you clueless noob.....

riding for a fall
quite full of yourself
pull in your horns mate

It's called humour between members Frank.

We were having a little banter and neither of us were serious. Look at the start of the clueless noob and you will see.


Jamie=Lambo wrote

pfft i spent a week in Phuket back in Jan 2013, spent most nights in the old Pink Lady 2002 (Phang nga soi 2) so think i know a little more than the both of you put together... i can understand how Trapper feels about all you clueless noobs!



Apology accepted.

what's wrong with chinese food?

that genius wrote:iirc, Google graded searches so that some were buried..seriously, both practices are bad, but what is the difference?

The west is less open about censoring/ propaganda

China calls a spade a spade

Both have disadvantages/advantages

That’s like saying there is no difference between the dictator in North Korea and the president of the US and that both leaders has advantages/disadvantages.

Kindly go to North Korea and disagree with Kim and see what happens. The Trump is openly criticized at home and abroad as a matter of political discourse.

One of the reasons the spotlight is on Google is exactly because its rules are not transparent. The fact that a private company is being publicly examined is a triumph of western ideas.

Mainland China has had genocide of the likes of the Khmer Rouge, and recently mass arrests and incarceration of minorities and political dissidents. Where is the open discussion in the country?

Oh, maybe that’s an advantage (to some).