RIP Trink aka The Night Owl

[4reaL]

He's gone to the big mango in the sky.

[simon43]

Perhaps you could give a few more details?  Where did you hear this news?  Link??

[ThailandRyan]

From the BP, but can't post the link. 

 

Post legend Bernard Trink dies at 89

Edited October 10, 2020 by ThailandRyan

[Orton Rd]

Saw him just once in Angel witch NEP, pants up to his armpits with the owl thing round his neck TIT, Burma shave ????

[sanuk711]

11 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

From the BP, but can't post the link. 

They didn't treat him so good did they..........he was the reason a lot of farangs brought their newspaper...just to see what was happening where.

I supose the internet , sites like stickMan etc also done the death knell .

 

Oh well 89....... hope I make it ... RIP

 

https://www.theartsofentertainment.com/bernard-trink-death-dead-bernard-trink-obituary-cause-of-death/

 

and right to the end in true Trink fashion..... Funeral Service & GoFundme

 

 

Edited October 10, 2020 by sanuk711

[Hamus Yaigh]

I used to get the Friday afternoon publication of the Bangkok World to read his column before hitting the town. He was given a three page spread in that tabloid.

[george]

Rest In Peace Bernard!

[Nout]

Great writer and philosopher. And great fun

[OneMoreFarang]

I also read him 20 years ago. Different time...

RIP

[PatOngo]

Sorry to hear!................................ One of his great puns......huMAN natURE!

[samsensam]

4 hours ago, sanuk711 said:

They didn't treat him so good did they..........he was the reason a lot of farangs brought their newspaper...just to see what was happening where.

I supose the internet , sites like stickMan etc also done the death knell .

 

Oh well 89....... hope I make it ... RIP

 

https://www.theartsofentertainment.com/bernard-trink-death-dead-bernard-trink-obituary-cause-of-death/

 

and right to the end in true Trink fashion..... Funeral Service & GoFundme

 

 

 

all due respect he was allowed to continue his column well past its sell by date, he basically reproduced emails he'd been sent and went on and on about nigerian scammer emails. oh yea he also commented on sex tourism. yawn.

[Old Dissenter]

Trink the Freethinker who once met Bertrand Russell. I liked his column in the Bangkok World. It was very entertaining.

[Crossy]

A post with a link to the Bangkok Post has been removed per forum rules. A couple of other off-topic posts have also gone walkabout.

[dbrenn]

What's that all about, I wonder?

[ezzra]

I remember him well walking around to his nightly shuffle sometimes accompanied by a young thai male bobbing his head into bars and places of gathering having a small talk with the owners or the imbibers and soon walk away to another area, he was the remnant of bygone days a happier days where everything was fresh and original, the drinks were cheap and the lasses were young, pretty and genuinely in need of work, those were the days my friend... and as Trink use to say: Nuff said...

[WorriedNoodle]

>A post with a link to the Bangkok Post has been removed per forum rules.

 

A legend passes on, I think he gets cremated today, but rules is rules eh?

[bartender100]

The Trink weekly column was eagerly read in a different era, part of expat Bangkok history, happy he lived to such a grand age and thanks for the memories.

[4reaL]

1 hour ago, WorriedNoodle said:

>A post with a link to the Bangkok Post has been removed per forum rules.

 

A legend passes on, I think he gets cremated today, but rules is rules eh?

Yeah, it's become a bad unfunny joke.

[Orton Rd]

Amusing to read the comments on the fb page of so called journalist Andrew Marshall, almost competing to say how disgusting Trink was, but they all seemed to have read his material! Now they are all pious and sanctimonious about his Night Owl output. TIT

[VillageIdiot]

10 hours ago, Nout said:

Great writer and philosopher. And great fun

Maybe so.

   "But I don't give a hoot".

[Hamus Yaigh]

39 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

so called journalist Andrew Marshall

Sour grapes. The Night Owl gets laid to rest in his country of choice having worked for a Thai paper most his life. Andrew will end his days whinging as usual from the safe confines north of Hadrian's Wall.

[Old Dissenter]

6 hours ago, Crossy said:

A post with a link to the Bangkok Post has been removed per forum rules. A couple of other off-topic posts have also gone walkabout.

I shall sin no more.

[3NUMBAS]

22 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Sorry to hear!................................ One of his great puns......huMAN natURE!

ate a caravansarie

[3NUMBAS]

tasty viands at the caravansarie

[nahkit]

Fond memories of his Friday column.

[Bangkok Barry]

On 10/10/2020 at 8:54 PM, simon43 said:

Perhaps you could give a few more details?  Where did you hear this news?  Link??

Stickmanbangkokdotcom leads on it in his Sunday column. I spotted the legend when I was in the BP offices many years ago, visiting the sports editor.

 

He eventually fell victim to political correctness and was reduced to writing book reviews. Also, the internet and bloggers came along and made it easier to find info that had previously only been available via his column.

Edited October 12, 2020 by Bangkok Barry

[BigStar]

He certainly outlasted Mr. Pattaya, Alois Xavier “Louis” Fassbind, with whom he'd foolishly argued about the direction of Pattaya's development. Trink of course promoted what he called "the boits," his own bread and butter. Fassbind had the last laugh though doubtless not exactly as he'd envisioned.

[dddave]

I had the pleasure of sitting next to Trink on a bus to Pattaya onetime about 15 years ago.  He was reading a full sized, hardcover copy of Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses", trying in vain to hold it steady about two inches from his nose.  

We had a nice, brief conversation after which he just dozed off.  Nice person.  I enjoyed his book reviews in the newspaper that shall not be mentioned.  He would focus mostly on light reading: mysteries, especially those set in Bangkok and espionage novels.  He was not particularity kind to the many writers of the self-published Thailand  genre though if he found one he liked, he'd give it a mention.

As others have said, the emergence of the internet, it's forums and blogs as well as the rise of YouTube made his style of reporting outdated but he was always fun to read. He chronicled Bangkok in an era now gone and missed by many. 

Edited October 12, 2020 by dddave

[Caldera]

RIP to a Bangkok expat who was a real character.

 

Must have been great to arrive in Bangkok in the 1960s. Far less comfortable than when I arrived some 40 years later, but also far more exciting I'd imagine.

[Zyxel]

I also enjoyed reading his short column every Friday, but I did not like that he was adamant that Aids was not caused by HIV virus, writing this nonsense many times. But to his credit he recommended safe sex. He also wrote one time that MG stand for Morgan Garages, I emailed him that it stand for Morris Garages but he never answered.