Genuine Fakes

Anyone who’s experienced Political Correctness will know the sanitizing effect it has on the nuance, force, richness and beauty of language.  An imposed style of expression that is not supposed to offend anyone, ends up pleasing no one.  Regular readers of our blog will know exactly what we think of Political Correctness.

But PC has gone further than mere words.  It extends to actions and concepts.  So a situation is called “challenging” rather than “shitty”, an employee’s performance is “sub-optimal” instead of "lazy" or "sloppy",  an out of work guy is “in between jobs”,  the routine sending of an e-mail or making a phone call is “reaching out”.  And on it goes.  

It's no secret to assert that much of this PC originates from 2 places in the West - God's Own Country and its bitch, The Nanny Kingdom.  And a lot of it is being fed by gay activists.


Going Politically Correct with "authentic"

The latest concept to be hit with PC is the word, “authentic” as it describes a person. Originally, the word described someone who behaved impeccably, genuinely and from an internal space of personal truth.  Now, courtesy of image consultants and spin doctors, it has morphed  into an engineered, crafted veneer of credibility calculated to exploit others.


Fags Being "authentic" Online 

Fags are masters at this one. The seemingly genuine online ads are nothing more than bait to massage the fag’s ego or his cock.  The degree of fakery is pervasive, but it looks and seems real.

Even former Pope Benny was concerned about online behaviour which:

“inevitably poses questions not only of how to act properly, but also about the authenticity of one’s own being…………There is the challenge to be authentic and faithful, and not give in to the illusion of constructing an artificial public profile for oneself.”

------Truth, Proclamation And Authenticity of Life in the Digital Age, quoted in “Authentic? Get Real”, New York Times, 9 September 2011

Heh…….tell that one to the Grindr fags, the Gaydar fags, the Craigslist fags the.....[insert online site or mobile hookup app of your choice....]. They’ll just snicker and say that’s how it’s done all the time.  

Then they’ll bitch and whine that they never get action online.  But they always come back to haunt the same sites, reading the newest ads, putting out and getting suckered into bait.  Benny has a good point.  The lack of authenticity is a lack of internal congruency, a fundamental hypocrisy that drives behaviour.


Online "authenticity" and Narcissism

Furthermore, the hypocrisy, fuelled by peer pressure and technology, seems to give rise to a rampant narcissism. Think of all those gay sites, or musclejock vanity sites where viewers aching for a connection or a private webcam show, or a hookup, get to award roses or hearts or dicks to the hottest guys........

Then check this out from an article we had been holding in reserve because we knew sooner or later, we would have to update this post:

 "On Facebook, young people can fool themselves into thinking they have hundreds or thousands of “friends.” They can delete unflattering comments. They can block anyone who disagrees with them or pokes holes in their inflated self-esteem. They can choose to show the world only flattering, sexy or funny photographs of themselves (dozens of albums full, by the way), “speak” in pithy short posts and publicly connect to movie stars and professional athletes and musicians they “like.”

Using Twitter, young people can pretend they are worth “following,” as though they have real-life fans, when all that is really happening is the mutual fanning of false love and false fame."

-----We are raising a generation of deluded narcissists, Dr Keith Albow, Fox News 8 January 2013.

Fags might argue that they’re just showing another side of themselves online and that they’re completely authentic.  We suspect that what they’re actually saying is that a chunk of themselves is a Natural Born Liar in dire need of validation.  Nothing wrong with that except:

• Many cross that line between Natural Born Liar and Pathological Lying and may not be consciously aware of it.  Online and Real Life behaviour blurs.
• How can a fag be genuinely showing his lying side while simultaneously claiming that as hard as he tries online, he just can’t get a hookup?  It doesn’t make any sense yet.......that's the reality of his online life.

Faggotry, Political Correctness and "Authenticity"

As an institution, Faggotry is real big on Political Correctness too – and has a ready-made squad of Gay Nazis to enforce it via activism, shrieks of outrage, consumer and media boycotts.

It makes all the right noises to be perceived as “authentic”.  So, “the community” to which every fag is deemed to belong and asked to “support” is described as “inclusive” and "diverse".  We don't recall being asked, or agreeing to, be included as part of "GLBT".

The teeth-whitened Mr Gay Whatever goes on a roving mission to promote "understanding and tolerance" of Faggotry.  The inconvenient truth that the Rainbow Flag doesn’t contain the colours Black or Brown and the rampant racism within Faggotry, is carefully smoothed over.  Same goes for outrageous drug use, the social and sexual marginalization of the ageing fag, or the large numbers of fags who are Right Wing Capitalists instead of the PC-mandated Socialists, or those fags who couldn’t give a shit about Pride or the latest charity benefit that will, (to quote Pope Benny) boost the "artificial public profile" of its sponsors.

Heck, even being publicly Outed, is now a potentially lucrative exercise in groomed authenticity.  We've written about that in our post, Is Out In ? (.......and yeah, we're gonna be updating that one too......).

Originally published 28 September 2011
Amended and Republished 27 October 2013

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ABC Sauna 17

6/F Cheong Hing Building, 

72 Nathan Road, 

Tsim Sha Tsui, 

Kowloon, Hong Kong
MTR: Tsim Sha Tsui Station, Exit A 2

Tel: 2301 - 4500
Note: NOT open 24 hours. 
Opening times 2pm to 1am.  Call to confirm. Staff speak good English.

Sent by a reader:

Hi FuelMix

Just letting u know that the front desk staff at ABC said the best times to show up on weekdays are between 4pm to 9pm.

Also you are completely right about the white guys from Central Escalator showing up here. They are OK I guess, not in such a great shape. The white tourists seem to be in better shape.

Thanks for a totally informative and awesome blog!

FuelMix says: Thanks for the update and the feedback.

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Death of a Gay Ghetto 13

Vancouver's (and God's Meth Lab's) Dirty Gay Secret -  
Poppers: the Asset Bubble (that just burst...)

“For us that represented a huge amount of sales and profit, so that’s what triggered it all........It’s not so much percentage of sales, but the gross profit it brought in, and proportionately it was very significant.”

-----Denis Leblanc, General Manager, Priape Inc., Priape closes all four Canadian stores, Daily Xtra 21 October 2013

Scanning the financial media for signs that the New-Normal, Grossly Inflated, Asset Bubble generated by endless rounds of overt and covert Quantitative Easing, was headed for a collapse........little did we realize that the harbinger of an Asset Bubble collapse would occur in God's Meth Lab in general, or that unflushed toilet on the West Coast that bills itself as World Class City, in particular.

We had previously alluded in this blog that the 4 classes of assets held by fags were:

1. chems
2. toys
3. porn
4. underwear

A reader in Vancouver informed us that Priape, a Canadian gay retailer, (its name, incidentally, is related to the medical term priapism which means an erection that just won't quit and needs medical attention) shut down its stores in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver.  Apparently they had rather a lot of debt which had been accruing well before the start of the Pride season in June 2013.

The publicly stated reason for the closure of the stores, is the warning against the sale and distribution of alkyl nitrites a.k.a. Poppers, issued by Health Canada in June 2013 just before the Pride season. It turns on the technical distinction between a narcotic and a drug. Whilst possession of alkyl nitrites is not illegal, Poppers are considered a drug whose sale is regulated by law. Unauthorized sales are punishable by jail and a fine.

Anyone who's studied business knows that it's not unusual for a company to have either roaring sales volume on one of its products, or a highly profitable product - just before it collapses. Apparently the latter was the case for Priape where, as can be seen from the quote above, the sales of Poppers were the most profitable item.

Read that last line again, fags.

Nationwide, across God's Meth Lab, Poppers kept this store afloat compared to its other product lines of toys, porn, clothes and leather. 

What does THAT tell you about the demographics and purchasing habits of fags in God's Meth Lab.......?

That's right......drug-fucked white trash.

And that's the scientific term.

We were absolutely right in identifying chems as one of the major "asset" classes for a fag's disposable income.

We're told from our source in Vancouver, that there's no shortage of online wailing and gnashing of teeth bemoaning yet another retail loss to "the community" (the-sort-of-2-blocks of it shared with the homeless, dollar stores, Starbucks and junk food franchises).  Typical. Gotta ramp up the drama.

We think it's not so much the "loss" to "the community" as it is the realization that, (unless one is in the pharmaceutical industry), chemically driven retail in a low-grade (c'mon dude, you've seen the pictures of Davie Street in this series), socially inept locale is not a sustainable business model.

Which got us thinking........all these "recreational drug users" (their PC term for what FuelMix alleges are part-time addicts) showing up to buy little bottles of Poppers that generated tremendous profitability and which by law are a drug........kinda makes a retailer look like a dealer.

Bottom Line: It was a drug bust AND a debt shutdown.



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Rainbow Connection 1

Performed by the (highly acclaimed) Gay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles.   We recommend clicking  on the video to view it in full screen.

We'll reserve our comments for Part 2.

Alexander Sauna 26

1st Floor, Wing Cheong Building
404 Reclamation Street
Mong Kok
Kowloon
Hong Kong  
MTR: Mong Kok Station, Exit E 1  
 Tel: 2148 0400

Open 24 hours
Staff speak good English

Received from a reader who showed up on Saturday 19 October 2013 in the evening:

Hey FuelMix

Went to Alexander on Saturday 19 October 2013 about 7pm.  Whoa.........it was PACKED  I'd never seen anything like it so early on a Saturday evening. According to the Reception staff, there were 110 people there.....!!! They were limiting fresh towel changes to no more than 3 per person. God knows when it started to fill up coz the guys had  been there for a while, so I'm guessing it must have started filling a few hours before then.

Seriously FuelMix, it was wall to wall packed. There wasn't space anywhere.  The hot tub at one point had 19 guys in it...!! They were sitting cross-legged or standing because it was so full. Same with the Steam Room.  U just couldn't move inside it.  There were people lining up to use the showers.

In the Dark Area, all the rooms were occupied, and there were crowds milling around.

The customers were mainly GAMs.  The majority were Mainland Chinese.  Not good looking and not good bodies and tons of attitude.  It was pissing off the local GAMs. It seems that these Mainlanders think they have some "superiority" idea.  There were also foreigners there, both white and other races. Some of the foreign guys were pretty hot and one of them had a really nice face and body and got a lot of attention.  I also chatted to a Japanese guy there and 2 Korean tourists and some white guys visiting from Bangkok.  I had some fun with a GWM and a local cute guy so not complaining.

It was really really busy although most of  the guys were not good looking and since they were mainly Mainland Chinese with a lot of attitude the local guys left them alone to play with each other or with the foreigners.

Oh yeah.....they had decorated the place for Halloween.

I stayed for about 3 hours. More guys were coming in as I left so I think the place was crowded all nite.

That is my report. You can publish it if you like. I hope you believe me when I say the place was really full.

FuelMix says:

Relax dude, we believe you.  We were there. We just won't say what time we were there. We came, we saw, we gasped, we scored (several times), we left.

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Marks Of Regret

Back in 2009, we alerted our readers to reports that a growing number of men and women were having their tatoos removed. See here.

It would appear that the body branding that was done in their 20s and 30s just doesn't look so good with the onset of middle age flab or post-child bearing body changes.

Heh......FuelMix has never hidden his derision of the tattooed demographic, especially fags who seem to have embraced it as compulsory body livery. Not only does FuelMix sexually shun the tattooed fag, but has noted with annoyance the near ubiquitous appearance of massively tattooed ugly dudes in gay porn. Now we know why they're called "blue movies".

(FuelMix only respects tattoos if they are an integral, historical part of the culture, for example in the Polynesians and Maoris of the South Pacific).

OK readers......we're gonna fulminate here........an urban fag with a tattoo is a fag who made a bad decision on the use of his (frequently debt-encumbered) income. And just how the hell is he supposed to stand out if every other fag has done the same thing? Typical of fags, much of what they do, is a zero sum game. Just how many crowns of thorns on the biceps are we supposed to ogle? If the intent was individuality, the result was utterly forgettable anonymity - and a distinct drop in male sexual charisma.

It will be interesting to see how many fags get their carnal artwork removed by laser, or stubbornly cling to it as they age, wilt and wither.

FuelMix has always suspected that the massive surge of tattoo parlours over the last few years, was actually an orchestrated experiment in social engineering. Why for example, are convicted felons in the West being taught to become tattoo artists, so that they will have a vocation upon their release? Historically, prisoners are the first line of attack in a campaign of social engineering (and are frequently used as guinea pigs).

Think about it. If the great unwashed public and fags can be enticed to believe that coloured dye and ugly patterns injected and carved into their skin are highly fashionable, they're less likely in the future, to resist having an RFID chip implanted under their skin for constant surveillance. There are governments out there just salivating at that prospect.  We suspect it has already been done.

And an RFID chip is smaller than a grain of rice - and getting smaller all the time. So small that it could easily be injected via a tattoo needle.

The question is..........will the fag know about it?  Will the fag even know or care that he's just a pawn in a massive social surveillance exercise?  Or will the fag be too busy squealing with delight at that crown of thorns on his other bicep?

Remember readers........we are living in the foretold times of the Apocalypse, the true meaning of which, is that which was hidden, is now revealed.

And there's a lot that's been hidden, that's being revealed these days...........

Originally published 11 September 2009.
Amended and Republished 21 October 2013.

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QQ Fitness 7

3/F King Dao Building

14 Burrows Street

Wanchai

Hong Kong 

MTR: Wanchai Station, Exit A3

Tel: 2834 0554 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              2834 0554      end_of_the_skype_highlighting or 2527 7073 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              2527 7073      end_of_the_skype_highlighting 

Web: www.geocities.com/qqsauna 

Note:  The only gay sauna on Hong Kong Island open 24 hours  

Received from a reader yesterday:

Hello FuelMix,

All horned up ... Was at a QQ on a Sat evening for 2 hrs ( 9pm - 11pm). 1st time there.  What was I thinking right?!

Spotted :

• Big tummy - 8 months pregnant (x1)
• 45+ (x3)
• Twink (x1) - creepy at darkroom  ... hindsight -appears to be using cell phone recording actions beneath
• Super duper ugly brown teeth (x1)
• Couple - 40+ (x1 pair)
• Swimmer with hot tan line (x1)
• Small bear (x1)

Grew from 2 people (including myself) to a 'crowd' from past-10:00pm ... The slim fit swimmer was my mate ... Not complaining.  

Basically, was as predictable and as expected.  Yet, seeing is believing !

FuelMix says:  Heh Heh Heh........thanks for the update. 

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Gay Sauna Etiquette 9

.......out of 18 actually published..........

As bright as he likes to think he is, FuelMix's mental incandescence can sometimes result in that "Eewps.... I just fucked up...." feeling.....

Trawling through our popular Gay Sauna Etiquette series, we realized that we had mis-numbered the posts, leaving Number 9 missing in the sequence.

So here it is.......

Hi

I'm a newbie early 20s gay guy getting used to the gay sauna thingy. Your writings about how to behave in the saunas have been very clear and helpful. Thanks for helping a kid find his way around.

I have a question........if I shoot my load in the Steam Room, what should I do?

FuelMix says:

Leave. You've had your fun.  OR

Have a shower and go find some other guy(s) to unload on or in.

Pretty clear huh....?

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Dragging It Out

An urban myth of Faggotry is that when a fag comes Out, it's a sort of one-time event, with the occasional sequel. There may be some tears and anguish but...... (gay or at least androgynous) angels will sing, trumpets will sound, gods in heaven will smile......everyone will be (or is supposed to be) supportive.

Wrong.

It's a continuing, never-ending, constantly refining, constantly redefining and a fuckin'-pain-in-the-ass process. And it ain't tinged with no Seasonal, "....behold I bring you tidings of great joy....." shit.

Best as FuelMix can tell, an independently thinking gay man, inclined towards a degree of self-realization, would contemplate the pros and cons of Coming Out on 6 different levels: 

1.  Coming Out To Yourself -

• nerve wracking; 
• angst-ridden; 
• sleepless nights; 
• guilt; 
• shame; 
• pain; 
• anger; 
• rage; 
• resolution; 
• acceptance; 
• relief; 
• resolve

2.  Coming Out To Family - all of the above PLUS

• threat of, or actual rejection or alienation (total or partial); 
• increased pressure and risk where wife and kids are involved; 
• threat of, or actual Outing forcing premature disclosure; 
• threat of, or actual violence forcing third party intervention;

3.  Coming Out To Friends - all of the above PLUS

• risk of change in the dynamics of social bonding; 
• str8 married men more guarded or uncomfortable in potentially sexual scenarios; 
• friends' kids told to stay away; 
• raging rumours; 
• unspoken rejection or just fading away from your circle;

4.  Coming Out To Colleagues  - all of the above PLUS

• risk of career sabotage (self-inflicted or executed via office politics); 
• latent paranoia; 
• emergency corporate adaptation of Politically Correct behaviour to accommodate "minorities"; 
• increased risk of intra-office resentment; 
• searching for office allies; 
• re-establishing credibility, authority and competency;

5.  Coming Out For Strategic or Political Reasons - all of the above PLUS 

• the need for Positioning for future advocacy, endorsement or action;
• may or may not be cynically motivated;

6.  Coming Out Of  Faggotry - the same emotions and attributes  as (1) above PLUS

• personal re-invention;
• increasing self-awareness;
• exquisite balance of tolerance AND defiance of Faggotry;
• dropping co-dependency (chemical or human);
• ditching political correctness for mutual honesty;
• articulation of personal values for living as an independently thinking gay man;
• mental, emotional, or physical (or all three) departure from the Faggot Tribe and the sub-standard behavioural franchise of urban faggotry;
• unaffected by the outraged, squealing fags and "activists" resentful of perceptually aware, personal re-invention;
• Out on your terms - if Out at all;
• Completely unconcerned with levels of acceptance or rumours of your alleged sexuality;
• authentic self-Pride;
• smug arrogance from an internal space of Freedom; 

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The Great Gay Sauna 8

Hollywood Vista
Back 114 - 116 Austin Road
Tsim Sha Tsui
Kowloon
Hong Kong
MTR: Jordan Station, Exit D

Tel: 2620 6844
Web: http://www.hongkonggay.info/archives/7336

Note: Open 24 hours ......???
We're hearing it's now open from 1pm to 1am

From a reader:

Hey FuelMix

So after dinner in the TST area on a Saturday nite I thought whether I should go to a sauna or to that Wally Matt Bar off Austin Road. Both were nearby but since I didn't feel like drinking,  I decided to go to The Great figuring a Saturday nite crowd might have some potential.  Got there about 11:30pm.

Big Mistake............

About 9 guys there all GAMs with lousy bodies and looks. Sort of in the 20 to 30 something range but really not attractive.

Around midnite some more GAM guys started coming in, all in that age range. One thing that I should point out is that many of the guys who were there before and after midnite had come with a buddy.  They'd hook up together then leave.

This place is really depressing.  Although I left less than an hour later, there were about 18 people there - and more coming in with a buddy - the guys there were not attractive.

I guess they have found their niche market i.e. ugly GAM goes in with another ugly GAM buddy.   I guess they use it like a Love Hotel and stay a couple of hours or more for about HK$140.00.

Cheers

FuelMix says: Thanks for the update.

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Ticket To Ride

With the economy in God’s Own Country in recession for 5 years and counting, the average citizen of that promised land is finding that being jobless, homeless, financially clueless, fucked by the banksters on Fraud Street, steeped in consumer debt, and having his personal liberties reduced, is no fun. Small wonder that there has been an increase in those seeking to renounce their citizenship.

To add to these qualifications, a study called Program For The Assessment of Adult Competencies recently released the results of a global survey.  It wasn't pretty for the citizens of God's Own Country.  A report in the New York Post dated 8 October 2013 entitled, US adults are dumber than the average human sets out the story.

That got FuelMix thinking. If the average hetero was so fukked, how would the ghetto fag in God’s Own Country be faring considering that (notwithstanding a college education), his job skills are usually lower, his drug costs (prescription and street) are higher, his rent is overdue, his roommate bailed on him and took his stereo, plus he’s living in a demographic of drug-fucked chronic underachievers and emotional cripples. 

So FuelMix visited Craigslist, one of whose functions is that of a social barometer for the desperate. Looking at the M2M pages of different cities around the world, a pattern emerged. 

Fags from God’s Own Country were advertising in large overseas cities in Europe, The Middle East and Asia. The ads fit a pattern:

• How much fag loved the local culture in that city;

• How fag would just love to relocate there;

• What fag looked like, sometimes with pic

• Fag was looking for an older, well established man;

• Euphemistic phrases about how fag intended to be totally financed;

• Fag was eager to learn and had a college education;

• No mention of fag’s intention to work;

• Zero mention of fag’s drug use;

• Vague notions of what fag would “contribute” to the arrangement;

• Assurances that fag was not an “escort” but that certain freedoms would be required;

Now, FuelMix has nothing against an individual’s attempt to better their lot in life. What is depressingly pathetic is the fag’s blithe importation of his ghetto standards from one (poorer) jurisdiction to another (richer) one and to think that nobody would notice. 

Listen up. There’s currently no shortage of (predominantly white) broke-ass fags clamouring for a foreigner (white or otherwise) to pull them out of the shit that many, by their own political choices (you get the government you deserve), financial choices (you thought low interest debt was cheap....???!!) apathy and ineptitude, created for themselves and for which they now seek to blame “the economy”, "the government", "the politicians", "the Asians" or whoever.

The corollary is that from the foreigner’s point of view, browsing for a (white) Toy Boy is a Buyer’s Market - and will be for sometime.

That’s right, fags. You think some rich Arab or megabucks chink or cosmopolitan European exec is gonna salivate when he sees ads from you with the bullet-point criteria set out above....?  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA …..!!!

You think FuelMix is making this up or being a bit harsh.....? Check out an actual example from Craigslist below where we would suggest the fag has completely mis-read his older, more sophisticated target audience.  FuelMix’s editorial comments are in bold red italics. 

Quote

I hate wasting time trying to meet someone, so very time and emotionally consuming. [the title in the ad stated he was looking for a relationship by the end of the month]

I'd like to meet someone and have a little arrangement. [uh huh……]

young guy, athletic, super sharp, very business minded [just what the hell does that mean? No idea of dude’s education, but put “little arrangement” and “very business minded” together and you get the picture] and hardworking.

Not an escort, and would never sleep with someone for money, [ umm…. OK, but keep reading] but you'd be the type of guy who likes the idea of an escort, [say what…?] because it is hassle free on time and delivered, but doesn't like the idea because of the slutty of it that and they probably have very little to say. [FuelMix is totally clueless as to what this means other than the fact that dude is coming across as pussy delivered like pizza]

I'd like to fast forward and basically jump into a relationship. [Why so desperate dude?] We know when we're going to hang out, go on weekend etc. We respect each other, and each other's privacy. [Oh, so basically you don’t wanna know fuck about the dude who’s gonna pay for you and you’re gonna lie to him most of the time while you hunt around for more donors] We could go out to social events or pick a weekend at a spa in a far away town. [Of course….how else would you avoid the other donors or creditors and still manage to look good, or at least well moisturized, to protect against that hot desert sun?]

Ideally you'd be super busy [in other words, don’t ask, don’t tell] and like to have someone who you knew was going to be there, show up on time, [well that’s a good sign…..dude will be keeping a diary in order to plan his alibis] and plan to have a good time. [courtesy of someone else's wallet]

Sometimes I find myself wanting to go out, simply because i don't want to go home to bed alone.
[ at least not without someone else paying for my entertainment] i want someone to know that i'll be there when they get home, they can come in lie up on me, [what….no sex?] or that ill be home when they get there. or if we say to meet in a certain city, on certain date that ill be there. [courtesy of someone else's wallet for apparently, no sex]

So if you're attracted to younger, sharp, ambitious, clever guys who love to be held. [ what....no sex?] we might be a good match.

I live a very nice lifestyle on my own, have a nice house and cars, so would like to keep it in the same ball game. [if you can afford all that, at your young age, why relocate and seek a donor?]

the cost of the relationship would be yours. the benefit would be ours. [LMAO......sounds like it was taken from the Client Agreement of a Hedge Fund......]

Unquote  

Originally published 15 May 2008.  
Republished 25 October 2011.
Amended and Republished 11 October 2013.

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Shop.On-Us.Net

M/F 47 Gough Street
Central
Hong Kong
MTR Station:  Central; or
MTR Station: Sheung Wan, Exit A2

Tel: (852) 8197 8065
Web: http://shop.on-us.net
Open from 1pm to 8pm daily.


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The easiest way of finding this shop is to walk along Gough Street and look UP.  There's a window display of mens T-shirts, shorts and sportswear. The entrance to the building is via an alley (there's an arrow under the shop window pointing to the alley).  Take the stairs to the Mezzanine Floor and enter the shop via the glass door.

It's a compact shop, well lit and with an easy layout.  The clothing stock is underwear, jocks, swimwear, shorts, T-shirts and tank tops -  for the in shape gay guy (or guys who want some body conscious street cred). It's not a shop for chubs or fatties or bears. Period.

Best as we can tell, they have three main brands on offer:

• New Urban Male - from Singapore;
• ES - from Barcelona;
• Andrew Christian - from Los Angeles;
• (Then there's also some stuff from Addicted, Marcuse, Modus Vivendi, C-IN2);

Prices are slightly higher than average - we've noticed that about gay clothing shops. Fortunately, the quality ain't bad. FuelMix particuarly liked - and **cough** looks good in **cough** ES and Andrew Christian.

The staff on duty when we dropped in (Friday afternoon) spoke passable English, and knew their product lines. They were helpful on sizing and allowed us to try on a range of stuff without hassling us to buy.

We're not sure why Andrew Christian exhorts its customers to change their underwear every 6 months. We hope it's not a reflection of their quality.  It reminded us of our post on how underwear sales in North America are a reflection of the state of the economy. See what we wrote in The State of My Pouch that was re-published on 29 August 2013. You'll love it.

To our international readers, the staff pointed out that they have a website and they ship worldwide. We had a look. The website is clear and uncomplicated. The photos are sharp and sizings appear easy to find. The currency converter is a useful tool.

We ended up buying a couple of things and will probably drop into this place from time to time.

Did FuelMix mention that he looks good in ES and Andrew Christian.......? Oh.....he did.


The Shopping Bag

A glossy, high resolution, black and white, double sided photograph of a naked hunk. Waaaaaaaaaaaayyyy hotter than the B&W torso shots of Abercrombie & Fitch or Hollister.  It totally attracts attention on the street and knowing glances from those who know..........strut baby, strut, you might make a new friend. We did..........

And the bag totally rocks on the MTR.......heh heh heh heh........women will ogle and pretend not to look, str8 guys will squirm, avert their eyes and then look again, gym jocks will stare, and we swear that one teenager got a boner.  We suspect a whole new generation of young guys going gay just by looking at the shopping bag.

This bag can convert someone faster than 2 Mormon missionaries in their 20s.

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Central Escalator 21

2nd Floor, Cheung Hing Commercial Building, 

37 Cochrane Street,

Central, 

Hong Kong

MTR: Central or Hong Kong Station
 

Tel: 2581 9951 (Staff speak very good English)

Easy way to find it: above 7 Eleven and opposite Park N Shop supermarket.

Note: NOT open 24 hours

Opening Hours: 2pm - 11pm. 

From a reader:

Hey FuelMix

A quick update on CE. Dropped in early Monday evening, Tuesday was a public holiday so thought maybe there would be an interesting crowd ........NOT.

A small group of average GWMs and some GAMS including one bragging that he has no trouble getting into Hutong and he prefers to go there. He was nothing to look at either.  Was surprised that even though the next day was a public holiday there wasn't much to choose from and few people there.

It's well known that CE empties  by about 7pm.  A black tourist came in at that time as the leftover customers were leaving.  The staff were fawning all over him, showing him where everything was - but not telling him that he'd pretty much have the whole place to himself.  I felt sorry for this guy since he'd already paid.

I just think it's so unethical that the staff won't tell the truth and say the place is dead after 7pm and suggesting he come back earlier - or suggest another sauna that is busier in the evenings like Alexander or whatever.

The simple act of giving him his cash back and directing him elsewhere, would build up a ton of goodwill for them. Instead they just took the cash and said nothing.


FuelMix says:

Yeah agreed.  The only time FuelMix was impressed by sauna staff ethics was in Action where the staff politely told him that it was dead at the moment (a weekday evening), declined to take his money and directed him to My Way or Alexander.

Thanks for the update.

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False Impressions About HIV

A reader here in Very Rich Megacity drew our attention to a Letter to the Editor that appeared in the South China Morning Post on 9 September 2013.

The letter is set out in full below, with underlining by FuelMix:

Creating false impressions about HIV

Peter Shek ("Critics of gays should be free to speak out", September 4) is right that we need honesty and openness about the health problems facing people in Hong Kong.

However, some of his comments on HIV could create false impressions.

It is correct that new HIV infections in homosexual men are the biggest issue on HIV infection right now. However, until 2005, heterosexual infection for HIV was the biggest problem here and right now people of all sexualities are still being infected. Since the first case of HIV in Hong Kong, 2,446 cases of HIV have come about through heterosexual contact, compared with 1,836 due to homosexual contact.

If heterosexuals falsely think this is only a problem facing gay people, this will be very dangerous and we will see the infection spread even faster.

This is why Aids Concern currently has television advertising targeting heterosexual men, encouraging them to get tested if they are concerned about their HIV risk.

It is also ignorant to say that HIV is about sexuality as it wrongly assumes that there are single groups of people who all behave the same.

Many homosexual men who adopt safer sex and avoid risky sexual behaviour are at no more real risk of contracting HIV than heterosexuals.

Let's put a stop to all sexually transmitted infections for all people.

Andrew Chidgey, chief executive, Aids Concern

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Gay Fiction Writer

A reader in San Francisco informed us that he had also created a blog. He is writing an online novel. It's a murder mystery of the homeless in San Francisco. The main character is an Eurasian gay guy, named Walker Lincoln, who speaks Cantonese. He works as a paralegal in a small Cantonese law firm in San Francisco and found himself sucked in to this murder mystery following the death of a young white guy who had picked him up in a gay bar.

We've been following the developing story for a few weeks and liked it. New chapters are uploaded regularly and Chapter 8 is currently up, with 9 and 10 following shortly.

Go check it out: http://euartramsay.wordpress.com/

If you like the story so far, leave a comment on his blog - AND FUCKIN' TELL HIM THAT FUELMIX SENT YOU..........

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