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Agreed. As I said, it has utility for some.

Thank you for sharing that eclectic knowledge. Very valuable information. Must be hundreds of thousands of people not knowing where to find good breakfast in Bangkok.

There are probably still 4-5 small, 2-3 star hotels like that around in that area. I guess renovating rooms can be done by closing off a floor at a time and not disturbing customers. But renovating a lobby is much more costly and challenging. The Landmark Hotel lobby has been under renovation for 2-3 years it seems. It must be having a profound impact on hotel business.

They don't stay there because it's the Taj Mahal. It has utility for some. It wouldn't be my choice, but I can understand the attraction. Anyway, I started the thread to discuss the scene and the vibe of the lobby, coffee shop, and disco 30-40 years ago. It was a site and, for those who were around back then, they will remember the unique atmosphere and experience.

Amazing technique. I'm sure 99% of the people here never tried that. Thank you for sharing (and in such vivid detail) your bespoke skills.

Why would you? Some weird fetish of yours it seems. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Nothing to do with the new and the old. That Hooters place could be losing money. It's a large space, presumably high rent, and never has many customers. That space used to be partially used as an outdoor Nana Hotel bar, which was often quite busy. The other half of the Hooters space was part of the coffee shop which was thriving throughout much of the day and night. Many of the office workers from Pacific Place, Ploenchit Center and some of the other office buildings in the area ate lunch at the coffee shop. It was bustling on the weekdays.

They have renovated some things since the nineties it seems. Sadly the same can't be said for the lobby.

Is that a fact that they offer short time rooms? I was never aware of that. In the eighties and nineties the rates were something like 800 Baht for the whole night. It's now listed at about 1,300 Baht a night on Agoda. But back then the USD exchange rate was only 25 Baht to the dollar. Given the current price and the current exchange rate, the room cost is still about the same 30 years later.

Wow, nearly sixty years ago. The lobby probably looks nearly the same today as it did back then. I'll bet there are possibly a few staff working at the front desk who have been there since at least the eighties.

Back in the nineties, the coffee shop used to have pretty acceptable food serving many of the typical Thai dishes made to order. Believe it or not, lunch time on weekdays and the coffee shop was packed with office workers eating in groups or 2-4 from the surrounding office buildings.

Evidence of both needed.

You missed the intended meaning. Read my comment again slowly. 😉

Not true. Hundreds of thousands have come there many times.

I prefer presidential candidates who don't wear diapers, wear orange face paint, grab people by the pu**y, are convicted felons, have been impeached twice, or caused an insurrection. Oh wait...

Thank goodness. A shame you can't say the same about AN.

When was the last time you walked through the Nana Hotel lobby? Was it recently or was it 20+ years ago? For those of you who were here in the nineties you know the kind of scene it was at night. The disco. The coffee shop. All a good laugh. The lobby used to be a great place to grab a pew and just watch the comings and goings. Now it’s a zombie land. Most of the coffee shop area has been taken over by that useless Hooters bar. I went in the hotel the other day for the first time in ages just to see if any of those fun memories would come back, but sadly they didn’t. The only thing I can say about it is it does still look like one of the few places left in Bangkok that is still stuck in a 70’s time warp. There are even manual typewriters behind the front desk, although I doubt they are still used. And there are 2 or 3 Indian discos in and around there now too. All very strange. Anyway, Oliver Stone used to hang out in the Nana Disco ogling at all the little hotties back in the day when he was in town. That shows how notorious it was. Anyway, if you have anything interesting to share about it then go ahead. If you were never there back in the eighties or nineties then no need to add your rhetorical two satang.

Only my Fansly account login details, a kilo of KY and 500 Viagra.

Found the article. It was from Thai PBS Wold back in February: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/is-thailands-love-hate-relationship-with-legal-cannabis-coming-to-an-end/ It says the following below. So it went from about 1 million local users up to about 10 million. That's now about 15% of the Thai population. What do you do now with all these users? And the agro industry that relies upon them? Cannabis has soared in popularity among Thais since being removed from the narcotics list two years ago and launched into an almost unregulated market. Estimates suggest the number of cannabis users in Thailand has rocketed 10 times to about 10 million – around one in seven people – since it became the first country in Asia to decriminalize the herb.

There was a recent government statistic that 10 million locals use it now, which is 1 in 7. The article I linked above says 5 million users, but I think that number is too low. I think the number of users was 1 or 2 million only prior to legalization. Don't know how they're gonna get those 8 million new recreational users to quit. Good luck.

Agreed. Probably one of the best London gangster films of all time. Lock Stock was great too though as you mentioned. Layer Cake with Daniel Craig was really good too though. Sexy Beast with Ben Kingsley was another popular film in that genre, but it didn't hit me so hard. Legend with Tom Hardy was good too. RockNRolla too, also a Guy Ritchie film.

Try some blueberry schnapps and a spliff.

Sorry, wrong clip. Guy Ritchie film making brilliance. Also has Lennie James in the scene who had a small role in Blade Runner 2049.

Brick Top - Snatch.

Cheers, I just asked Bob about the photo and he sent me back the following text. Any idea what he's on about or is he just pissed out of his head again? Do you know what 'nemesis' means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible cuunt... me. If you don't shut up, you'll see a side of me you ain't seen before. Now, the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of 'em, 'cause it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now, is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed 'em to pigs. You gotta starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't wanna go sieveing through pig shiit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, 'as greedy as a pig'