Tahitian Queen closed down.

[BigStar]

18 hours ago, sungod said:

You could have saved yourself 20 minutes on that post and just said you like fat old chicks.........

Well, no, though some obviously do. I found them worth putting up with even back when TQ had an excessive number of them, however. My friends and I also joked about the stage collapsing. After all, I only paid 60 baht for beer and all the rest. Some old waitresses are great characters, BTW. I remember K. Noot keeping that huge bag of earrings, in all shapes & sizes, just under the bar near the cashier and then changing to a new pair once every few hours. "One mo'?"

Suddenly I’m reminded of the sign outside the old Dollhouse, which TQ outlasted: and a few ugly ones. ???? But petal, now we gotta wonder: how’s your T, man? Maybe it’s been a while since you could reach the ol’ dipstick, but you may want to go in for a topup and then head over to the TQ afterwards. Not unusual in the least among our aged to be runnin’ a quart low, to judge by all the posts in the Health forum. It happens.

And you’ve missed the point. I had 10 mins of enjoying a laugh at all the trollish floundering around in your post trying to come up with a cogent point. Now I fear the fun’s alas! over, as you’re reduced merely to echoing yourself. Unlike English, Norwegian (@balo, check in) I think has a nice formal term for this: "å spille på slurve." I guess we’d translate that as “strumming your lips.”

I suspect most of our little TQ trolls aren’t really voicing their real objection to this historic and unique dive. I mean, if they’ve ever been there.???? Maybe some Jester muscled you outta your barstool or stole the hottie you’d bought a drink for. Maybe your stool was too hard for your delicate bottom and the sofas were too crowded. Maybe you bumped your bald head on a faux Tahitian carving. Maybe it’s the lack of a dart board and blather about "footie." Whatever.???? Rock on!

 

 

Edited February 7, 2021 by BigStar

[BigStar]

Update from Gofundme with note from Woody himself. TQ reopening confirmed!

 

($16,110 raised of $16,000 goal)

 

Today by Chuliporn Underwood, Organizer:

Wow!! We made our goal! Thank you so much for your kindness and support ☺️ I’m grateful to know that there is an entire community standing with us, especially during these uncertain times. My father has also written a thank you note for everybody:

 

Dear loyal customers, close friends, faithful staffers, Gofundme and my daughter, the love my life;  we thank all of you very much for helping us reach our goal! We needed funds for our rent to get back on our feet again and we couldn’t do it without you. This means that the Tahitian Queen Rock’n’Roll Bar, the first and oldest in Pattaya , will be re-opening on Friday February 12th to celebrate! It’s time to switch on the neon and turn up the music like we have been doing for the last 40 years.

 

All of our love,

Mae and Woody

 

Rock 'n' roll! This ain't gon' be easy. Now I hope, after wasting so much hot air in earlier posts, our TVF cynics, naysayers, Proctologists, and ace Economists won't all be jumping out of balconies now as so many of our ace Engineers did after the devastating No Tunnel Flooding disaster. I mean, for days you could hardly walk around Soi Buakhao without hearing the thud of a body falling nearby. And it was a bleak, humorless year before the TVF cognoscenti could rebuild and regain full strength. We had a large number in residence back in those halcyon pre-COVID years, however.

 

[Darksidedude]

On 2/3/2021 at 3:30 PM, BigStar said:

And not bothering to do the slightest reality check before jumping to spread a false rumor. You didn't even know if the Gofundme was still up or not, having not bothered to look. 

 

Get new sources, try to be less gullible and not duly repeat everything you hear w/o thinking. Thank you.  

 

chill mate i can say what i like

[kevinsan]

Get by with a little help from my friends...

[TaaSaparot]

2 hours ago, BigStar said:

It’s time to switch on the neon and turn up the music like we have been doing for the last 40 years.

 

If they were serious about closing, all the neon and signage  would have been ripped out.

 

Got to hand it to them though, it worked a treat.

[NanLaew]

8 hours ago, BigStar said:

... Maybe some Jester muscled you outta your barstool or stole the hottie you’d bought a drink for. ...

 That wasn't in the TQ. That was at Beavers in Ban Chang on one of their 'away days'.

[Leaver]

The TQ GoFundMe similar to GameShop shares.  ????

 

I hope they continue to lock the Thai landlord in for the duration of their lease.  

[Yellowtail]

7 hours ago, TaaSaparot said:

 

If they were serious about closing, all the neon and signage  would have been ripped out.

 

Got to hand it to them though, it worked a treat.

 

What would be the benefit of paying someone to take the sign down?

[TaaSaparot]

24 minutes ago, Leaver said:

 

How long do you think $16k USD will float them for?

 

Who? (QUESTION)

[ricequeen]

TQ will open on friday, 2/12

[rott]

What time.? 

[NanLaew]

11 hours ago, TaaSaparot said:

11 hours ago, Leaver said:

 

How long do you think $16k USD will float them for?

 

Who? (QUESTION)

 

Long enough for Matt M. to get his arris in there and start ringing the bloody bell.

[BigStar]

56 minutes ago, rott said:

What time.? 

Yeah. I was assuming an opening time of 4 PM, with dancing to start at 5, same as post-lockdown #1. However, now the bar closing time has been moved up to 11. That implies 3 PM. Maybe there'll be word on this in the next few days. If anyone happens to ride by, see if a sign's up. 

 

Not expecting much here. Maybe some ramp up in a month or so when more of the lockdown's lifted (one hopes), then possibly survival until tourism's realistic again. Last survival mode wasn't so bad, actually, from the consumer standpoint.

[peeglen]

On 2/7/2021 at 1:18 AM, TaaSaparot said:

 

If they were serious about closing, all the neon and signage  would have been ripped out.

 

Got to hand it to them though, it worked a treat.

 

Amateurs!  Oral Roberts is rolling in his grave, laughing at the TQ owners' puny efforts 555

 

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-21-me-4582-story.html

 

On a more serious note, how long does 16 grand (480 k thb) last when running an operation like the TQ?  Rent, salaries, electric bill (you could hang meat in there) would chew through that money pretty quickly. The economic conditions that have caused bars to fail haven't improved, so how long until the next plea for money? Something strange is afoot.  

 

I'm also surprised that Gofundme held a fundraiser for an establishment that profits from the avails.... you get the idea. Something tells me that that aspect of the business was omitted when the fundraiser application was submitted.  I laughed out loud when I read the blurb from whoever started the campaign (.... Rock n roll bar... 555).

 

Best of luck to the TQ. I love the place but haven't set foot in there for quite a while. Hopefully the offshore guys will return and the 10k + bins will start to flow again.

 

 

 

 

 

[Catkiwi]

11 minutes ago, peeglen said:

 

Amateurs!  Oral Roberts is rolling in his grave, laughing at the TQ owners' puny efforts 555

 

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-21-me-4582-story.html

 

On a more serious note, how long does 16 grand (480 k thb) last when running an operation like the TQ?  Rent, salaries, electric bill (you could hang meat in there) would chew through that money pretty quickly. The economic conditions that have caused bars to fail haven't improved, so how long until the next plea for money? Something strange is afoot.  

 

I'm also surprised that Gofundme held a fundraiser for an establishment that profits from the avails.... you get the idea. Something tells me that that aspect of the business was omitted when the fundraiser application was submitted.  I laughed out loud when I read the blurb from whoever started the campaign (.... Rock n roll bar... 555).

 

Best of luck to the TQ. I love the place but haven't set foot in there for quite a while. Hopefully the offshore guys will return and the 10k + bins will start to flow again.

 

 

 

 

 

There was a lot of meat hung in there. I contributed my fair share over the last nearly 25 years btw ????....Classic venue, awesome meories, long time friends and I sincererly hope that the legend lives on.

[BigStar]

15 hours ago, peeglen said:

On a more serious note, how long does 16 grand (480 k thb) last when running an operation like the TQ?  Rent, salaries, electric bill (you could hang meat in there) would chew through that money pretty quickly. The economic conditions that have caused bars to fail haven't improved, so how long until the next plea for money? Something strange is afoot.  

How long remains to be seen, as noted several times. As with other businesses hurt by COVID and trying to reopen, that can't really be predicted right now. No one ever thought, suggested, or in any way implied that it can be.

 

Now unlike our current most distinguished TVF Economist, to your credit you've managed to identify more expenses than just The Landlord. You'll need to make a further leap to consider that the revenue coming in may well be enough to offset those expenses. That's so because if the same economic conditions prevail as post-lockdown #1, TQ should be able to at least break even just as it did then. I hear that for this first preliminary opening, the number of staff will be reduced further. A few months from now, when the "zones" are dropped, conditions should improve.

 

Hence no reason whatsoever to assume anything strange afoot.???? That's already been assumed to death in this thread by our Proctologists as usual anyway.

 

BTW, during the last lockdown TQ incurred considerable unanticipated cost by supporting the entire staff through it all. That's behind them and the rent's paid.

 

15 hours ago, peeglen said:

I'm also surprised that Gofundme held a fundraiser for an establishment that profits from the avails.... you get the idea. Something tells me that that aspect of the business was omitted when the fundraiser application was submitted.  I laughed out loud when I read the blurb from whoever started the campaign (.... Rock n roll bar... 555).

Gofundme wasn't holding a fundraiser for anyone. Not surprising anyway unless you (hee hee!) personally just need it to be. That's 'cause you evidently don't have a clue of the various sorts of causes supported by campaigns on Gofundme.

 

As pointed out earlier, TQ's never been described in authorized signage or descriptions as other than a rock 'n' roll bar--even on its own website, which was up for maybe 20 years. Oh--yes, it was a "Disco Bar" in its earliest days.

 

And it's one of many such licensed bars in Thailand. Though a number of characteristics separate TQ from the herd (heh), the rock music--played at reasonable volume through an exceptional sound system, with a live DJ taking requests--is properly underlined as perhaps its most distinguishing for many patrons.

 

 

Edited February 10, 2021 by BigStar

[NanLaew]

8 hours ago, BigStar said:

BTW, during the last lockdown TQ incurred considerable unanticipated cost by supporting the entire staff through it all. That's behind them and the rent's paid.

 

Maybe next time, they'll be smarter, declare themselves shuttered like the Pattaya hotels recently did, so that the government picks up the tab on their unemployed staff.

[scammed]

i always get sentimental when i see half naked woman

[NanLaew]

12 hours ago, scammed said:

i always get sentimental when i see half naked woman

 

In these circumstances, I have found baggy shorts very handy for covering my over sentimentality.

[scammed]

Just now, NanLaew said:

 

In these circumstances, I have found baggy shorts very handy for covering my over sentimentality.

no worries at my age, thats why i get sentimental about it,

i think back how life used to be when i was a young man

[BigStar]

13 hours ago, NanLaew said:

 

Maybe next time, they'll be smarter, declare themselves shuttered like the Pattaya hotels recently did, so that the government picks up the tab on their unemployed staff.

Next time????? That's what they did this last time--the 2nd lockdown--as is obvious from the news articles reporting on the closure. It mostly accounts for all the false rumors of TQ's being permanently closed. Mostly, as the rest was simply owing to shoddy journalism and rumor mongering. In fact no such decision had been made by management at the time.

 

But apart from TQ's due consideration for its loyal staff members, nobody expected the first lockdown to last as long as it did--including here, despite the urgent massing of the mighty TVF Doomster Chorus to chant the canonical Final Nail In The Coffin chant. Such a crowd pleaser, that one.????

 

Now, of course, we simply must pretend that we knew all along. Not only would we have managed the lockdown differently but indeed the last 40 years of business operation as well. Which--to judge by the track records, barstool autodidacticism, and Prescient Eyeballs of our ace Economists here--would have meant TQ might have lasted a few months or a year at most past its proto Disco Bar stage.

 

 

Edited February 11, 2021 by BigStar

[bkk6060]

Tomorrow 3 pm open.

 

[NanLaew]

2 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Tomorrow 3 pm open.

 

 

That's ridiculous!

 

How on earth am I going to be able to select my coconut bar girl through that plastic sheeting?

[NanLaew]

6 hours ago, BigStar said:

20 hours ago, NanLaew said:

 

Maybe next time, they'll be smarter, declare themselves shuttered like the Pattaya hotels recently did, so that the government picks up the tab on their unemployed staff.

Next time????? That's what they did this last time--the 2nd lockdown--as is obvious from the news articles reporting on the closure. It mostly accounts for all the false rumors of TQ's being permanently closed.

 

But earlier you said the second lockdown or last lockdown was made more difficult because they supported the staff. Which is it? Did they (the TQ staff) ever claim or get government money for any lock down because the TQ management registered as shuttered?

[BigStar]

18 hours ago, NanLaew said:

 

But earlier you said the second lockdown or last lockdown was made more difficult because they supported the staff. Which is it? Did they (the TQ staff) ever claim or get government money for any lock down because the TQ management registered as shuttered?

No, I was referring to the first lockdown, hence less money to open after the 2nd lockdown, which still continues to an extent.

 

No, if employees are still technically employed by a business, even if they're not working because it's (temporarily) closed, they OBVIOUSLY don't then get SS benefit payments for being unemployed. When they are formally terminated, whether a business is still open or closed, they then get the benefits. In some cases, for long-term employees, that can be substantial by Thai standards.

 

Countless businesses were forced to close indefinitely during the two lockdowns. They were not required to "register as shuttered" and of course did not do so. At no time did TQ file notice of cancelling its business license, company registration, blah blah. It was never "permanently shutdown" despite the fake news and rumor mongering.

 

 

Edited February 12, 2021 by BigStar

[Rimmer]

Off topic post and replies removed

[carlyai]

On 1/6/2021 at 9:17 AM, elgenon said:

I remember when they yearly closed the front door and only let select guys in the rear door for a wild fundraiser for the girls. In case they needed medical assistance or whatever.

 

Wildest time in any bar!!! Dang! I'm glad to have experienced that. That's back when it was a hot bar.

Nice T shirts too..still got one. ????

 

 

[TaaSaparot]

1 hour ago, carlyai said:

Nice T shirts too..still got one. ????

 

 

And it fits?

[Darksidedude]

17 hours ago, TaaSaparot said:

 

And it fits?

wet tshirt comps back in the day were awesome

[rott]

So did anyone go yesterday.? 

 

Usually an opening day (or reopening in this case) is a good session. I meant to go but then couldn't be bothered, out tonight and I need a break between sessions these days.