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  1. 5 hours ago, Washedup said:

    This winter in the the uk is going to be a bastard.

    I'm dreading it too.

    The young 'uns don't give a damn and won't take precautions, and then there's the huge chunks of UK society who think the rules (any rules) don't apply to them.

    Word is the virus loves cold weather, so when temperatures drop, schools are compulsory again and the furlough is over we could be in the deep stuff and the last few months was just a rehearsal of what is to come.

    Dangerous days ahead.

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  2. On 8/2/2020 at 1:32 PM, misteregg said:


    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.

    Well done, of course there are success stories but many businesses also refuse to open and others are limping along in hope of an eventual upturn in visitor numbers. Staff no longer on salaries and even managers working without pay is what's happening in the wider picture. While what you have written is true, it's obviously not representative of the city or nightlife industry as a whole.

    Plenty of go-gos and bars around Walking Street haven't opened their doors and a few had a go but packed it in soon after. They can't be spoken of as doing well or making a profit.

     

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  3. 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.

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  4. 44 minutes ago, Horizondave said:

    Nice pic of Hickey

    Steve Hickmott was the supplier of the Dogs Bollocks array of t-shirts and regularly popped over from the Philippines to replenish the stock ( I think the best seller was the "Lager Louts Welcome" one). He stays at the Ritz just down the road and becomes the centre of attention within seconds as he regales everyone with his tales of Headhunting back in the day, having a few pints for his breakfast as is his wont. He's probably mellowed now he's knocking on for 60 but still has that aura of menace about him. Now the Dogs has folded he has lost his main reason for visiting Pattaya so might not be seen around town anymore but he was certainly recognised and greeted by many the last time I saw him which was sometime last autumn.

  5. I've been a frequent visitor to the Dogs Bollocks for the last ten years. Loads of soccer hooligan memorabilia on the walls, but that was diminishing with every passing year and being replaced with boozy party-style photos of patrons. Roger, the owner, was/is a pussycat, the UK nationalist/UVF stuff was a theme he continued with, the place wasn't a meeting point for white nationalists or sectarian football fans, (all that was in the distant past when Chris Henderson and Steve Hickmott set up shop there), in the last few years it was just a soi boozer with a colourful historic reputation.

    Rogers wife,seen in the Pattaya Mail article, is properly connected to the police and so very well protected. A police uniform used to hang behind the bar as a warning not to play up. A couple of years ago Roger bought a rottweiler and chained it up in the bar, it was ok with farang customers but lost the plot if a Thai male ever set foot in the bar.The dog was like that when he bought it, it wasn't trained by him to respond to locals as some suggested. He brought his geriatric father over from London a couple of years ago, and recently put the bar up for sale. Covid obviously put the mockers on that, hence the transformation to a restaurant. 

    The Dogs Bollocks hasn't been edgy for more than a decade, it was a time capsule for another age, all the stuff on the walls was a reminder of how it used to be, a theme- no more,no less. A black bloke from London had the laundry next door until he sold it and it became a massage parlour..if it was a racist den, there wouldn't have been a coloured bloke boozing in there every day. 

     

     

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  6. 10 hours ago, Homor said:

    What a lot of bars and restaurants are doing here is asking people to pay now and get their food or drink later when they reopen . 
    they just need money to keep the business going while it’s closed .

    Where is that happening, and on what scale?

     

  7. Yes, it's very noticeable! Maybe it gives them a moment to gather their thoughts and sequence what they will say next. I find it mildly irritating too.

    Another new habit is when a question is asked of an "expert" on tv, the person replies with "That is a great question!" when it's a bog standard obvious one. 

  8. 9 minutes ago, dcfc2007 said:

    Australia's tourism industry has been dealt another crushing blow with Treasurer Josh Frydenberg warning non-residents could be banned from the country for six months - 'maybe longer'.

    That article, with all the "coulds" and "maybes" and "perhaps" is 6 WEEKS OLD.

    Doesn't sound very official to me.

  9. Roobob is of course Ausmagoo on other forums....great personal friend of Scott Griffiths who is the Baku spokesperson on this and RB/AM is a moderator on the Pattaya Ladyboy forum where Scott (posting on there as Solice) discusses this project in some detail. Scott also posts as Bachelor AGoGo on PA.

    Roobob is a shill for his friends in Baku and is pumping his mates scheme.

     

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  10. 1 hour ago, DeadAndAlive said:

    Doesn't stickman do his homework before writing he's articles? He's article is incorrect and therefore not credible 

    That quote was from Stickmans inbox......reader submitted comments and identified as such. Not the thoughts of the man himself.

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  11. 2 hours ago, Painter said:

    Agreed.but, as I understand it, the reader, has misunderstood plans.... that is, if I have understood plans correctly.  The big names he mentions are staying. The buildings wont be knocked down.... knocked about a bit maybe, but the structure will be staying. 

    That is the main point.....the infrastructure is already built....it's refitting and then rebranding that will be needed. The buildings are already there.

    It will absolutely open, but whether it will succeed is another matter entirely!

    The money man behind this ("Smitty" or "Sean Archer" on Pattaya forums) hasn't got any big Thai projects under his belt and the emerging Baku group only have a recent and mainly untested history. The little group of bars and lounges with few staff haven't been around for long or stood the test of time. He only took over the one go-go they have, Batchelor, a few months ago.

    Apparently Smitty is doing all the heavy lifting on this, but there's another backer in India. Smitty has lived or worked in Dubai for a couple of decades so should be financially aware. Scott seems to be the PR guy and will have management responsibilities rather than be a financial backer.

    His name and image (assume it is him?) was attached to a poster on the gogo advertising his birthday back in September.

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  12. 7 hours ago, KWA said:

    Verbal agreements only was stated by Sean yesterday(?).  Not on paper yet.

    That's still a significant number though, even though no-one is legally bound to follow through at this time. Getting so many to express an interest moves the needle up the dial.

    Sensations Scott saying he speaks to Nightwish fatcat Bryan Flowers every day but that so far there's no NWG involvement in this project. That is absolutely bound to change as time rolls on. 

    There's also to be a giant sail roof over the plaza, same same Nana in Bangkok.

     

  13. More details now becoming available via postings on Pattaya Ladyboy forum....the poster "Batchelor A Go Go" on Pattaya Addicts is the guy Scott who opened Sensations ladyboy bar in Action Street six or seven years ago and allowed Sky TV to document his progress in that project. He teamed up with an Indian guy who posts as Sean Archer on the forums and  SA recently took over the running of Batchelor in LK, using the name Smitty. I think Scott from Sensations is the manager there now. Others may be involved too, but these guys are the foundation players.

    Scott and Smitty acquired an almost fully kitted out venue in The Avenue known as the Roof as its then Russian owner failed to follow through to opening due to unpublished circumstances and so they landed a big salubrious venue for minimal investment, and the first Avenue project was hatched. With so much empty space around, it seems like questions were asked and answered and some very ambitious plans then started to germinate.

    If you want to get more details of whats planned, log in to Pattaya Ladyboy forum....you are all probably members there already!

     

    Latest : 17 of the 39 first phase Go Go bars already signed up or signing up...been "allocated" was the phrase used!  

    Specialist Bangkok builders on the way down  and things to happen from April.

     

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  14. 14 hours ago, JDM said:

    I have a friend who has purchased 18 apartments there he is mega pissed off and I think it was him that started the legal action.

    JDM

    But "only" 10% downpayment/deposit was asked by the developers so losses aren't nearly as dramatic as they could have been had the building continued  onto the next phase. Still a substantial loss for all involved as the sell prices were high.

     

     

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