I hope the fire didn't spread to the neighbouring 4 storey bar.......

...... Four Floors of Whores...........

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Pity the whole soi doesn't catch fire and all the appalling degenerate losers that frequent it to boot!

I almost share your sentiment, but it used to be quite pleasant, laid back, and unpretentious many years ago, compared to the loud, obnoxious scene it is today.

This one's right up there with, "Songkran's a nightmare. It used to be a respectful pouring of scented water over the hands" and that bullshit myth trotted out by the grumpy old men of TV was spectacularly debunked by one of the moderators the other day with a series of photographs dating back to the 1950s which depicted full-on water fights.

Soi Cowboy is a street full of bars that have near-naked young women dancing on elevated platforms and, given the profile of 80% of the men that visit these establishments, I doubt it was ever "pleasant or laid back".

You way you describe it, you make it sound like it was the bloody Rotary Club in Pall Mall.

Not the first and not the last fire in SC.

Imagine a fire in the Nana Plaza trap.

True, Nana would be a fire trap. But, I have always thought that Pat Pong would be a conflagration, should any building or vendor tent go up.

Pity the whole soi doesn't catch fire and all the appalling degenerate losers that frequent it to boot!

Is that bigoted spleen or jealousy?

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Pity the whole soi doesn't catch fire and all the appalling degenerate losers that frequent it to boot!

I almost share your sentiment, but it used to be quite pleasant, laid back, and unpretentious many years ago, compared to the loud, obnoxious scene it is today.

This one's right up there with, "Songkran's a nightmare. It used to be a respectful pouring of scented water over the hands" and that bullshit myth trotted out by the grumpy old men of TV was spectacularly debunked by one of the moderators the other day with a series of photographs dating back to the 1950s which depicted full-on water fights.

Soi Cowboy is a street full of bars that have near-naked young women dancing on elevated platforms and, given the profile of 80% of the men that visit these establishments, I doubt it was ever "pleasant or laid back".

You way you describe it, you make it sound like it was the bloody Rotary Club in Pall Mall.

To be fair, when I first started coming to Bangkok, I thought Nana Plaza was raunchier than Soi Cowboy

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Pity the whole soi doesn't catch fire and all the appalling degenerate losers that frequent it to boot!

I almost share your sentiment, but it used to be quite pleasant, laid back, and unpretentious many years ago, compared to the loud, obnoxious scene it is today.

This one's right up there with, "Songkran's a nightmare. It used to be a respectful pouring of scented water over the hands" and that bullshit myth trotted out by the grumpy old men of TV was spectacularly debunked by one of the moderators the other day with a series of photographs dating back to the 1950s which depicted full-on water fights.

Soi Cowboy is a street full of bars that have near-naked young women dancing on elevated platforms and, given the profile of 80% of the men that visit these establishments, I doubt it was ever "pleasant or laid back".

You way you describe it, you make it sound like it was the bloody Rotary Club in Pall Mall.

The hands free restaurant was quite laid back...

Showbags

Are you going to tell us unworties where the other exits are or did you say that just to be smug? Please share your wisdom! Help I'm on fire!

help

Showbags

Are you going to tell us unworties where the other exits are or did you say that just to be smug? Please share your wisdom! Help I'm on fire!

If I tell everyone, then those exits will be blocked up with every other smug bastard......not on your nelly, its save my arse first...then I'll send you an sms.

the real question is what are you doing at soi cowboy at 842 am?

Going to work like nearly everyone else who passes that area.

Soi Cowboy is a street full of bars that have near-naked young women dancing on elevated platforms and, given the profile of 80% of the men that visit these establishments, I doubt it was ever "pleasant or laid back".

You way you describe it, you make it sound like it was the bloody Rotary Club in Pall Mall.

No doubt we tend to romanticise the past, but there was a time when you could wander through the soi without a continual feeling of being ripped off, and preserve an illusion that the 'hostesses' actually wanted to talk with you. Over time the money side of things has come more to the fore. When the 'man from Iran' snapped up around half of the bigger bars and upped prices dramatically, the old Cowboy all but disappeared. I visited for the first time this year recently, and had had enough after a couple of hours.

Soi Cowboy is a street full of bars that have near-naked young women dancing on elevated platforms and, given the profile of 80% of the men that visit these establishments, I doubt it was ever "pleasant or laid back".

You way you describe it, you make it sound like it was the bloody Rotary Club in Pall Mall.

No doubt we tend to romanticise the past, but there was a time when you could wander through the soi without a continual feeling of being ripped off, and preserve an illusion that the 'hostesses' actually wanted to talk with you. Over time the money side of things has come more to the fore. When the 'man from Iran' snapped up around half of the bigger bars and upped prices dramatically, the old Cowboy all but disappeared. I visited for the first time this year recently, and had had enough after a couple of hours.

I would assume that the hostesses do still actually want to talk to customers. They just have different motivations for doing so.

I guess, over the years, the women have just become a lot more aware of the opportunities outside of the industry

Obviously, most of those opportunities won't pay as much as "hostessing" but they're are a lot more of them and the difference in remuneration is noticeably smaller than it was even 5 years ago.You can't blame them for barely being able to conceal their indifference to the typical punter.