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Politics aren't really discussed on most threads ( a little -- but, not much IMHO ) .. we ALL tend to give each other a break .. which I think is good .. because if so -- believe me, it would get nasty ! Anyway, I think politics and religion is a personal thing ... just try to keep quiet and try to go with the flow

sure some places are going to be doing alright but you can believe for everyone bar that says they are doing Ok there are 5 others closed or doing very poorly i

Could be a return to the good old days of 'take care'. With girls desperate to hang on to customers. Not the mercenaries they have become.

Another day by the ocean. I think I might stay here for one more month. Still gotta work from home come this autumn, but I can work from here just as well if I decide to come back again. I think my father and brother decided to stay out and do a bit of night fishing.

A big thank you to everyone who came to the bar in July. The numbers are in. I’m not planning on early retirement just yet, but not bad at all. A combination of prudence, smart business and hard work meant I made a half decent profit, even after dropping my prices and only being open till midnight. This month may be harder. Many regulars are returning home and most of the decent sport (Champions League) is at a bad time for customers. We are open till 2:00am every night now. I had to let three girls go so I could get some new ladies in. That’s not an easy thing to do, but the lineup is a lot fresher and I’m happy with things, even though we have lost familiar faces. I made sure the staff were properly compensated. I’ve always said it’s not a popularity contest. I’m no David Brent. So many people asking me when the borders will be open and the answer is a straight “I don’t know”! My heart is with all the bar regulars who can’t make it at the moment. The bar is doing ok but it’s shit without all your faces. Yes, I miss the money, but I like talking to people, hearing your stories, it seems so unfair. I remember seeing a Leeds meetup on here last year with so many regulars and I wasn’t there. That’s how it feels. Anyway, baggies in the Premier League, Arsenal FA cup winners, that will please a former boss. Here’s to August. Phil

I was hardly gasping for breath on Friday and last night when I had the two busiest nights since I opened. Many bars I know are doing well. Every bar owner I have talked to is making a profit.

Skaw Beach ''Tree Town''.......

I watched a program on TV where they showed the Heinz factory somewhere in the UK where the baked beans are canned. Judging by the amount of baked beans I see in this thread being consumed, I think that I better buy shares in Heinz ☺️

The car took a wheel (knee)

Would you turn over if Watford were 6-0 up against Luton 😉

Out on the boat just cruising around. Clocked a sailboat and watched it manuever a bit. Don't feel like fishing today. Another day by the sea.

You have the strength of this forum, a loyal expat following and me doing my 300 baht a night from friday if not before. ☺ Other bars are not so lucky

Nah, I thought I would add a bit of humour in to an otherwise depressing thread which is dominated by people who are pushing the boundaries of their beliefs from the basements of their dwellings.

Friday was busy in mine.

I know a bar in Tree town doing 20K every night. Not just cheap Charlie’s here.

Has fforest hacked your login?. 😀

Sportsman Carvery food was excellent but the company was questionable [ Terry Lee] but hell somebody had to pay for it

Yea .. I think Beach gal would have me killed ... but, danger I love to flirt with .. lol .. lol Maybe not though ... she may just write it off as me being me .. and say never mind ... I don' really know .. but, I know I would truly " let her down " if I was ever caught .. not cool on my part for partaking occasionally ....

Into the back of ''Tree Town'' next.....

I grew up loving the NBA ... I grew up and played on just about every basketball court all over Brooklyn and Harlem .... No, I cannot stomach to watch a game any more .. all of this kneeling, snowflake and social justice warrior bull shit ... black lives matter , etc. F**k me .. can't they just leave all of this bullshit political crap out of the game ? Who f**king cares what these millionaire idiots think ... I want to see them play some ball without all of the bullshit Never thought I would ever think this ... f**k the NBA ... I will never watch again ... And yes, I can still dunk a basketball with either hand ...

Spot on. With what is happening in vietnam, along with the jitters the UK are getting about a second wave, Thailand will remain closed to visitors at least until next year at an estimate.

Now let's not get silly....I'd be too busy wankng....

Went there on a longboat tripfrom Phuket in 1981,on the way went through caves with loads of stalactites,it was all very impressive.

F**k Me ... All of this black lives matter is bullshit ... More blacks kill each other annually than any cops kill black people Yes, the fuckers shoot babies, young girls in their own house with random bullets zipping around .. Just take a look at Chicago and New York now .. fucking out of control Jeezuz . hard core criminals.. the Mob ( Mafia ) ... have more morals I fucking hate coppers .. but, I will stand behind them with this bull shit occurring It fucking needs to stop .. all or this random black on black killing .. ALL lives matter You give most people an opportunity to work .. make some dosh .. live their lives in peace .. then a lot of this bull shit stops

I was watching the boxing last night, and at the end Johnny Nelson, a black guy, ex World Champ, whom was brought up in an era where racism was ubiquitous was talking asked about this. He made a good point in talking about this IMO, what he said was two words could or could've made a big difference. Instead of 'Black Lives Matter', if it had said 'Black Lives Matter As Well', it would have been, and received better. Sure for some, wouldn't matter what it was called, they would still deny there's racism or would just disagree with it anyway. But i thought fair play to him to acknowledge that.

You've got Ploy in that pic twice 😉

I am really missing not being out there right now and but great to see you back up and running with the local regulars. Long may it continue to keeping going and other bars too. It just means there’s more to go around for those out there right now.

All the portacabins gone now.... And as for this ....

We get it before every soccer & cricket match.Wankers the lot of them.

Sounds like the Chinese sent out superspreaders to the majority of the western world, the superpowers and bothersome Europeans. At the same time they sent out uninfected Chinese to countries friendly or not seen as a threat so as to mask their ingenious plan for world domination. Those countries inexplicably have low rates of infection. Of course the world, even though not happy with China, would need their products and help. For years China has been buying up swathes of land for livestock, they have been buying up Africa, they have invested in all continents and have ownership of 95 percent of all the world's rare earth metals. Sounds like a good plan for world denomination and moving the world order at a faster pace than would otherwise been possible. Of course this is just another conspiracy theory lol.

Was reading yesterday that the UK infection rate had increased 50% last week over the week before, and it was mainly young people who are more likely to ignore social distancing.

Yesterday's breakfast.

An elderly man went into the confession box and said to the priest, “Father I’m 80 years old, married, with four kids and last night I had a wild threesome with two hot 18-year-olds.” “My son, when was the last time you were in confession?” asked the priest. “Never, father, I’m Jewish,” came the reply. “Why are you telling me, then?” asked the priest. “I’m telling everybody!” said the old bloke.

somoen wise once said that if you are paying for it, its all about you anyway 🙂

No Tommy, your reputation as the " SAS man" precedes you. Your in and out so fast none of them notice you were there. 🤣

Khun J. what the eyes don't see,what the ears don't hear, the heart will not bleed over. regards grayray

Opening night at MiT looks like a financial disaster for the bars, with the exception of the popular Danny sports bar. Did MiT bars really expect to attract the few residents still in town? It's a zero-sum game, a limited amount of customers and an ever expanding number of competing bars so it's clearly survival of the fittest, and the fittest aren't the ones in the photos above. Treetown dead, New Plaza dead, Made in Thailand dead, the Thirteens dead, Soi 7 dead, Soi 8 dead, Walking Street asleep or gasping for breath, Soi 6 floundering. How long will these bars keep the lights on when nobody is dropping in? Got to be wholesale closures soon.

If I tried to (plow) any other woman than my wife, I’d be 6ft under that feckin field. 😢

What about older slim guys with a mop of hair, where are we in your pecking order.......

Well older fat bald men are a treasured commodity in the bars now...... Any guy with a pulse is now a sexy man..... Farangs under 50 are a drop in the already small expat bucket....

Yep, it's really sad to see. Can't see how the vast majority will survive without the tourists, let alone how they've survived for the last 4 months . .

I had a visit to the Dentist yesterday morning so skipped breakfast. I got the all clear so treated myself to a KFC. Real nice it was. Also todays ham and cheese omelette.

Now this is interesting. I think somebody posted a link earlier to an NYT article pondering why SE Asia has escaped so lightly. Apart from the usual suggestions that it was culturally-normal behaviour to social distance, and the face mask wearing culture that already existed here, the article also wondered whether there might be something genetic at work that gave SE Asians a degree of protection against the virus? This theme was taken up a few days later by a spokesman for the CCSA when he noted that SE Asians are significantly more prone to getting dengue fever than foreigners, so it's possible that they're less prone to getting C19, but he didn't know why. Then I stumbled across this in last week's Economist. It's basically some interesting stuff about bat populations in SE Asia, but the really good bit that begins to answer the "why" starts in the paragraph beginning with "Jeremy Farrar" between the two pictures. Maybe the NYT writer and the CCSA guy had heard about this, but it does indeed seem possible that the people in SE Asia (or at least parts of it) do possess a natural resistance to coronaviruses like SARS-COV-2, and thus to Covid-19.

What's wrong with this choice? - Their authoritarian governments are able to quickly impose draconian restrictions on people, which liberal democracies find themselves unable to do. The original SARS epidemic instilled a deep fear of unknown illnesses in people in east and south-east Asia and they quickly adopted a mask-wearing culture, even in normal times as air pollution is so bad in many cities. Thus the order to wear masks in public didn't cause the "give-me-freedom-or-give-me-death" nonsense that is still going on in the West (while the virus enjoys itself to the full). Your three choices above just look like sour grapes (quite appropriate for a Frenchman, lol), and you sound jealous or resentful that a country where you evidently had a miserable time living, at least to judge by how much you seem to hate it from all your comments on this board, has done so well in dealing with the virus, certainly compared with your home country in Europe or the one in which you currently reside.