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5 hours ago, moe666 said:

I guess what you would call old bars are all gone, Cheap Charlies, Check-In, And the old favorite Golden Beer Bar at Nana Hotel. Hilaries is still around but new and not improved. The string of Bars under the express way have been gone for a while and the Saxophone Bar Victory Monument. O well the beat goes on.

 Cheap Charlies moved to On Nut a few years ago, similar set up, but not the same. Good call though, classic bar....

Getting (unasked for) 'lessons' in Thai history/culture/language in a bar, from some nylon shirted TEFLer who is in their second week in the country.....

8 minutes ago, donnacha said:

There is no Thai law that expressly allows or forbids remote working. It simply does not exist in Thai law.

The laws that the bitter guys bring up in every thread about working apply only to the classes of work mentioned in those laws.

No one has ever been prosecuted for remote working in Thailand and there is no practical way that any country could enforce such a law.

 

Well put, the cheap-nylon shirt TEFL brigade, plus the dwindling pension gang, love to troll out these 'laws' regularly, 

Lek Bar Was a cracking no hassle' bar, run by lovely people, even better when they  moved to a 'closed' bar further down the soi. Real 'blasts from the 'Golden Years'

I managed to get there around 2009(ish) before they moved up to Uthai Thani, where sadly Lek passed away a few years ago. 

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I stayed in that place for a few nights I think on my first visit to Thailand in the early 199x.

At that time I though it's a fifthly place - but at least cheap.

I guess if I would have stayed long enough I would have discovered that that filth was part of the theme similar to the old Thermae. ???? 

I wonder how many people will miss that place after it will be gone. Many many years ago it was pretty interesting with lots of freelancers. But in the last years (decade?) it seems all the women in there are the leftover from the last decades. Maybe interesting for a nostalgia trip but definitely no place anymore to look for fresh freelance entertainment.

The Golden Palace was cheap and cheerful, at around 450-500B for a room with AC, fridge, Hot water, TV, as well as a belting pool, made it  great deal for that area - if not the entire city. Agreed, it was threadbare and a little shabby,  It was a real throwback/time capsule to the VietNam R'n'R days even down to the authentic 1960s jukebox in the coffee shop. Sadly, the hotels from that era are slipping away one by one, with only the Miami remaining. 

I think the Biergarten is one of the last of the 'Old School' Bangkok/Asia drinking dives, many an 'Old Asia Hand' wipes away a tear at the mention of these places.

(I wonder how a 'Best Bar in Asia' thread would read in this day an age? with so many of the standard 'classics' which used to be found in the many versions on this theme now long gone. 

The quality of the women there (The BierGarten) has fluctuated over the years, from the downright ghastly to the surprisingly hot on my last visit but maybe that is more my getting on in years....

Some nice posts here, yearning for a time when BKK/Thailand was a simpler, friendlier place. Sure, some of the impromptu bars which would spring up from time to time, made for decent meeting spots, especially in weird places like 'Blade Runner Alley' (the small alley between Suk soi 5-7) or Buckskin Joe Village.

The sad fact for me is that I grew weary of making pals a while ago (having been fortunate enough to have been a 'long term' expat in BKK most of my adult life, friends were thick on the ground in the aforementioned times; my own personal 'Golden years' being the late 1990s, to the mid 2000s).

Though most went home in the end, only a few from those days remain in Thailand (I myself am on sabbatical leave until this darned plague is passed).

Of those few who remain most are scattered around the Kingdom, some have sadly passed away, but the truth was that it just got too depressing, saying farewell to good people, seemingly week-in, week out, especially in the time of the strong baht so in my last few years there. Even though most, having laid down roots in BKK would return for visits, our time had passed, and try as we might to recapture that time, it remained out of our reach. though, superficially, the stage remained the same, in appearance, the cast had changed, not always to the benefit of the bigger play. 

I became pretty much of an anti-social misanthrope who found walking the familiar pavements of Lower Suk, where I had enjoyed so many great times in the past, just too difficult. Every now and again I would bump into a face from the Golden Years either a Thai or a Westerner, but the ensuing nostalgia trip recalling those happier times, was always depressing in the end, realising those times are gone, with our youths like whispers on the wind. i recall one night walking up Soi 1 where we would stay religiously in the old Golden Palace Hotel, passing the site of that institution, I felt I could almost hear the echoes of some of our wild late night pool parties still hanging in the air, but they were too far distant to truly hear. On my last visit, I found it almost painful to sit in some of those places from the 'Golden Years' such as Chequers,  Big Dog's and Lucky Luke's (or Tiki as it is now named). Luckily I got to have a last spin around Blade Runner Alley, and Check Inn 99 before that area was razed. It fills me with Joy to see the BierGarten hanging on in there while all around gets smashed no doubt for more pointless malls, which will remain empty, more over priced condos no one will buy, or another posh hotel which will run on 10% occupancy. I hope some of the old places fight on, as when attending the funeral of Sam - one of the old gang - in Wales last summer, the minister said 'while they remain in our memories, they are never truly departed' and in those places they are remembered, in fact pictures of Sam and others of the mob, are still on some of the 'rogue's galleries' in a few of our old haunts, long may they remain so.

6 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

LOL. No one on an anonymous forum is going to admit to shagging a less than DDG burd.

 

Reminds me of the time a mate of mine was in LOS for his holidays. When he came back he raved about the beautiful girls he'd had. He had his snaps developed in the UK and asked me to deliver copies to the beloveds on my next trip. Being curious I had a look and my goodness they were so ugly that I felt sorry for him. Not that I let him know that though. Poor guy.

Why not? It is anonymous after all, I'm sure most will admit to a few munters on the CV....though this place does attract more than its share of fantasists all with Hi-so Thai Chinese wives with generals for fathers..... 

15 hours ago, PaulieAUS said:

Don't know why you are butt hurt I got a free root out of an above average looking Thai girl and didn't pay a bar fine. It's not as if I am the only hansum man in Thailand this has happened to. I am just documenting my experiences on here post-divorce.

 

I was seeing four other girls besides her in BKK at the same time but have yet to post on those. Stay tuned. 

 

 

Yeah, that 'hot' she was offering her debt-ridden clout on dating sites....for all comers in the hope of landing a sap....I'm sure you weren't the first. nor the only one, as she works her way through her inbox hoping for the fool, though you were obviously the only idiot who has embarrassed himself by posting his embarrassing ignorance on a public forum, 

Four other girls??? Well ain't you the stud of Bangkok then? or more likely another fantasist who has never had a woman in their home country before then suddenly blows his meagre savings on a few bar girls and thinks he's Brad Pitt....

Nice to see Thailand isn't the only country which suffers from 'Super Buddhist' politicians.....

The 'New Normal' in Thailand = the same old 'Normal'- We 3/4% are in control, have all the money, will lie to you about everything, you will believe, listen and obey...

The future looks bleak for Thailand 

If it gives these vainglorious idiots a chance to puff their chests out on TV, impose their power on the people, they'll keep on extending it indefinitely, as they are too lazy to actually do any enforcing of the guidelines, they'll be regretting it once this is over, no one will trust these fools with anything more than a school crossing....

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Pattaya will die as a mongers' destination, never to return

Not as a resort though

 

Reasons for death

 

#1  Younger generations of men are NOT into  mongering

 

#2   Thailand is facing a demographic implosion

Notice the age (and fugliness) of the pros in Pattaya

 

#3 Increased prosperity

 

#4 The few that will be flogging it, will be doing it thru phone apps ,no  need to have intermediaries (bar owners etc)

This post was nonsense. 
#1  Younger generations of men are NOT into  mongering.

Young guys age, you know, it's an odd thing but it happens to all of us...as long as Westen women continue to treat sex as a tool of control over men, the annual exodus of blokes heading to Pattaya to 'monger' will continue, if not increase, 

#2   Thailand is facing a demographic implosion

Notice the age (and fugliness) of the pros in Pattaya

New, 'pros' are born each year, another odd quirk of nature. they also come in a range of looks and levels of attractiveness. 
#3 Increased prosperity
Absolutely, with all that cash floating around, economics dictate the needy ''pros' weill still flood to where they can get their mitts on a bundles of the stuff...

 #4 The few that will be flogging it, will be doing it thru phone apps ,no  need to have intermediaries (bar owners etc) Where do you think most of this interaction will occur? let me tell you, in places, where a few drinks can be had possibly? 

The envelope collector Supreme has spoken, Quake in Fear!!!!! Really how is such a clueless buffoon, in such a post? My word! I suppose the first thing he did when he took power was , rather imaginatively, close all the bars at 10pm with his goons swarming all over town like monkeys.

Happily though, Thailand and the Thais are starting to suffer fools like this less and less thanks to social media, improved communications.  

When all this is over, and the Thais look closely at who made things tough for them during the crisis. Finished careers will lie strewn in tatters, like broken bodies, across the Kingdom, including this idiot's and one hopes that of 76 provincial Governors,their staff too, as well as those of many, many hapless public officials who have handled the crisis abysmally, one hopes 'Inactive posts' are a consigned to the dustbin of history, and these leeches on society are forced to actually do some work, instead of living off the fat of the land for once.