What happened to @StickboyBangkok

[3NUMBAS]

and ageing jock with a raddled liver is possible he had to   go back for free treatment at glasgow infirmary            

[rott]

10 hours ago, clivebaxter said:

Stick tracked him down to some northern town and he fled the country to China

I remember that, I think it was Nakhon Phanom. 

Strange thing altogether, people sometimes make life difficult for themselves for no obvious reason. 

[Kaptain Asia]

On 1/17/2022 at 10:14 PM, rott said:

I remember that, I think it was Nakhon Phanom. 

Strange thing altogether, people sometimes make life difficult for themselves for no obvious reason. 

"Stickman" and "Not Stickman" are nothing to do with "Stickboy/Mike McKay" and totally irrelevant in the context of this thread.

 

[Kaptain Asia]

On 1/17/2022 at 3:24 PM, BritManToo said:

It's always ......

1. girl problem.

2. no money problem.

3. legal problem.

4. Health problem

 

Sometimes all four!

But as his twitter posts seem a bit angry, I'm thinking 1. girl problem.

Judging by this article it seems that Item #2 is the most likely reason for his departure

 

https://coconuts.co/bangkok/lifestyle/sexpat-blogger-stickboy-abruptly-pulls-out-of-bangkok/

 

"I rode through Covid with nightlife dead, but when the PM [Prayuth Chan-ocha] u-turned on the ‘180 days, everything [will] reopen,’ I’d had enough really then with each postponement, more stupid restrictions, hands tied not wanting to drop open venues in it,” McKay said in a message. “I just decided <deleted> it. 2022 is going to be another wasted year with no revenue worth talking about, so took the decision to call it a day.”

He added that the banishment of nightlife took most of his income with it.

 

 

 

[The Hammer2021]

On 1/17/2022 at 4:08 PM, In Full Agreement said:

 

Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

 

The Women's Association Temperance Society.

[The Hammer2021]

On 1/17/2022 at 4:36 AM, mstevens said:

All this <deleted> about hookers and prostitution talking it up as nightlife and sanuk and other warm, fuzzy terms are fooling themselves and putting lipstick on a pig. These websites are dinosaurs from a time passed highlighting the worst of Bangkok. Good riddance to their demise. Here's hoping they are not replaced by others. Time for Bangkok to put that piece of history behind it.

As the original reviewer, of the Denizens of the Demi Monde  Bernard  Trink used to to say 'I don't give a hoot'

 

[The Hammer2021]

On 1/16/2022 at 4:40 PM, MJCM said:

Oooh I had to look that up as I am not from the UK, and that is absolutely not in Scotland

SE LONDON KENT

[The Hammer2021]

On 1/16/2022 at 5:25 PM, roo860 said:

Well spotted, a Grapple Fan eh?

Steve logan was his partner

[The Hammer2021]

On 1/16/2022 at 6:19 PM, mrfill said:

I used to get dragged down the Fairfield Hall every Tuesday to watch it live as well.

Hilarious to see the old ladies having a go with umbrellas. Mick McManus was one of their favourite targets...

Croydon...Bell Vue for me..Kings Hall

[The Hammer2021]

On 1/16/2022 at 10:38 PM, simon43 said:

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Because he set himself up as the anti-Stickman...

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I'd say he set himself up as an alternative to Stickman, not as an anti-Stickman.

 

Now who remembers the notstickman website 'looney'?

I do...around  2008?

[The Hammer2021]

The Best Bangkok  Night life reviews were on Big Mango...Funny, well written, up to date..linked to a bar of the same name..Anybody remember  it?

[GrandPapillon]

2 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

The Best Bangkok  Night life reviews were on Big Mango...Funny, well written, up to date..linked to a bar of the same name..Anybody remember  it?

yeah, I do. A bit old and dated now.

 

Obviously the blogger was being paid to review those bars, in a funny way

[ChaiyaTH]

Up to him right but I'd still find it odd anytime someone says to ''leave forever'' if nothing crazy happened. To leave itself or stop some account and check other parts of the world, completely normal.

 

He kind of attract the question marks by leaving without announcing it from that deleted account.

Edited January 18, 2022 by ChaiyaTH

[OneMoreFarang]

It's obviously up to him what he wants to do.

What I find interesting is that he wiped everything from that successful Twitter account.

It's not that he wouldn't be able to use that account from somewhere else in the world. And he could easily open another account like BrazilBoy or whatever.

If he would have kept that account he could have continued in 6 or 12 month or whenever - if he wanted to. But that's not what he did. It looks to me like he deleted everything like it never happened. So he won't even be able to show some bar owners in Brazil his successful past in Thailand or something like this. That is the strange part for me.

That people decide to move on maybe to a different country, a new job or whatever is not unusual. But I think most people won't radically delete the last years of their life.

[ExpatOilWorker]

On 1/16/2022 at 10:38 PM, simon43 said:

Now who remembers the notstickman website 'looney'?

Was he really a looney?

His writing was very good and he did a good job of revealing the real person behind Stickman.

[rott]

5 hours ago, Kaptain Asia said:

"Stickman" and "Not Stickman" are nothing to do with "Stickboy/Mike McKay" and totally irrelevant in the context of this thread.

 

Quite right KA, wandered off topic, sorry about that it won't happen again. 

[scubascuba3]

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

It's obviously up to him what he wants to do.

What I find interesting is that he wiped everything from that successful Twitter account.

It's not that he wouldn't be able to use that account from somewhere else in the world. And he could easily open another account like BrazilBoy or whatever.

If he would have kept that account he could have continued in 6 or 12 month or whenever - if he wanted to. But that's not what he did. It looks to me like he deleted everything like it never happened. So he won't even be able to show some bar owners in Brazil his successful past in Thailand or something like this. That is the strange part for me.

That people decide to move on maybe to a different country, a new job or whatever is not unusual. But I think most people won't radically delete the last years of their life.

I think someone said he might have had the new paypal issue same many people which links to revenue and maybe tax

[Chelseafan]

On 1/16/2022 at 7:38 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

Why? 

 

Did he chicken out? 

 

There is really no excuse for ever leaving, once you are here. 

 

 

 

Word on the street is that he had some issues with certain "gentlemen" and decided to get out while he could.

 

 

[meechai]

4 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

It's obviously up to him what he wants to do.

What I find interesting is that he wiped everything from that successful Twitter account.

 

Actually ....He just set it to "Private" so you cannot see the tweets but they still exist

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, meechai said:

Actually ....He just set it to "Private" so you cannot see the tweets but they still exist

Ok, thanks for that info. I am not exactly an experienced Twitter user.

[JonnyF]

11 hours ago, Kaptain Asia said:

"Stickman" and "Not Stickman" are nothing to do with "Stickboy/Mike McKay" and totally irrelevant in the context of this thread.

 

Actually that's not correct. Stickboy bought the StickmanBangkok website and then paid the previous owner to continue writing the column for him (until Covid struck and removed all the ad revenue).

 

There was an interview about it between the 2 individuals on the Stickman Website but the last 3 years worth of columns have been deleted from there as well.

 

Anyway, good luck to him. He built something from nothing and had a good run of it. Not even hinting at his departure until he was safely back in the UK (and removing most of the content) does imply that he had some issues with someone but that wouldn't be unusual for someone who was effectively on the payroll of gogobar owners who are often more than a bit shady.

 

Edited for a typo.

Edited January 19, 2022 by JonnyF

[The Hammer2021]

9 hours ago, GrandPapillon said:

yeah, I do. A bit old and dated now.

 

Obviously the blogger was being paid to review those bars, in a funny way

There was no blogger. We all contributed. The site closed down years ago.

[GrandPapillon]

11 hours ago, Chelseafan said:

 

Word on the street is that he had some issues with certain "gentlemen" and decided to get out while he could.

 

 

he wouldn't be the first, a lot of journalists and bloggers have been harassed in Thailand by questionable individuals, and that usually ends with a runner ????

 

[The Hammer2021]

5 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Actually that's not correct. Stickboy bought the StickmanBangkok website and then paid the previous owner to continue writing the column for him (until Covid struck and removed all the ad revenue).

 

There was an interview about it between the 2 individuals on the Stickman Website but the last 3 years worth of columns have been deleted from there as well.

 

Anyway, good luck to him. He built something from nothing and had a good run of it. Not even hinting at his departure until he was safely back in the UK (and removing most of the content) does imply that he had some issues with someone but that wouldn't be unusual for someone who was effectively on the payroll of gogobar owners who are often more than a bit shady.

 

Edited for a typo.

First you write: "Stickboy bought the StickmanBangkok website and then paid the previous owner to continue writing the column for him"

Then you wrote:

"He built something from nothing and had a good run of it."

Contradictory nonesense!

[OneMoreFarang]

15 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

First you write: "Stickboy bought the StickmanBangkok website and then paid the previous owner to continue writing the column for him"

Then you wrote:

"He built something from nothing and had a good run of it."

Contradictory nonesense!

No

Stickboy bought the Stickman domain some time after he established Stickboy.

It's all documented somewhere in a long article from years ago.

[The Hammer2021]

5 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

No

Stickboy bought the Stickman domain some time after he established Stickboy.

It's all documented somewhere in a long article from years ago.

I dunno and don't care. I was merely quoting somebody else who wrote two opposite and mutually exclusive statements.

[OneMoreFarang]

6 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

I dunno and don't care. I was merely quoting somebody else who wrote two opposite and mutually exclusive statements.

That's why I wrote above. Because what @JonnyF wrote are not "two opposite and mutually exclusive statements".

[The Hammer2021]

7 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

That's why I wrote above. Because what @JonnyF wrote are not "two opposite and mutually exclusive statements".

Entirely contradictory.

First he wrote: "Stickboy bought the StickmanBangkok website and then paid the previous owner to continue writing the column for him"

Then he wrote:

"He built something from nothing and had a good run of it."

Two mutually exclusive statements that contradiction each other. "He built  something from nothing" and "He bought the StickmanBangkok website"  are contradictions..

 

"He built  something from nothing" BUT "paid the previous owner to continue writing the column for him"

are again contradictory statements.. lol

[GrandPapillon]

53 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Entirely contradictory.

First he wrote: "Stickboy bought the StickmanBangkok website and then paid the previous owner to continue writing the column for him"

Then he wrote:

"He built something from nothing and had a good run of it."

Two mutually exclusive statements that contradiction each other. "He built  something from nothing" and "He bought the StickmanBangkok website"  are contradictions..

 

"He built  something from nothing" BUT "paid the previous owner to continue writing the column for him"

are again contradictory statements.. lol

who cares for god sake, are you that bored in real life? ????

[The Hammer2021]

26 minutes ago, GrandPapillon said:

who cares for god sake, are you that bored in real life? ????

You are reading it. And you are commenting on it! So it's your real life now.