Fiery Jack

http://www.scmp.com/...-are-still-down jack

Just reading about EQ Late Nite Club (i. e. what Nana Hotel Disco was calling itself a few months ago and maybe still is) and its ongoing identity crisis on Stickman's site. He, I think very correctly, observes that: 'When Nana Plaza closes for the night, girls don't head across to EQ looking for another customer where they did exactly that back in the venue's heyday [when it was plain old Nana Disco...' Which begs the question (in my house at least), where DO they go, then? :hubba: Thermal? Nana Car Park? Home? Just wondering. jack

When were those photos taken, Flashermac, and what time of day/night was it? And where's the second one? jack

We all were, mate. jack

http://www.dailymail...rk-respect.html jack

Thanks lads. Yeah, I hear you. I'd known of the Windsor Suites' reputation as a notorious shithole from some time back. But I was scouring all the usual sites (Expedia, Agoda, Trip Advisor...) last week, and it's been getting very good reviews of late. Maybe renovated? And there was a very good one-day deal on a 'superior' room (two single beds, which I like as you can spend your clobber out on one and kip/short-time-shag in the other), including breakfast and no tax/service charge that actually worked out cheaper per night than a superior at Nana Hotel. Anyway, I've booked Windsor just for a couple of nights, and Nana for a couple of other nights: cover all bases. As I've recently hinted on here, I'm rather at the end of my tether with Nana Hotel. It's gone too far downhill even for an old pissed-up mongering tinker like me. Last couple of times I've stayed there have been a drag: brown water belching from the shower attachment, smelly room with TV and Wi-Fi on the blink, and one particular bloke on reception (probably about 60 years old, stocky, neat side-parting, dyed black barnet) that's always drunk after midday (nothing wrong with that, like: so am I ) refused to give me my room key one time as I didn't have the wee bit of card on me that they give you when you check in: christ I've been staying there for over 20 years and most of the staff know me by name, soft lad... Okay, I should've had it on me. Was awkward and embarrassing though (I was polite and calm: he wasn't). I showed him ID and got my key eventually, but he was aggressive and needlessly rude, never mind obviously inebriated. And none of the other two or three staff on duty (all sober, all know me well) waded in to vouch for me, while several other residents gawped on disapprovingly, unfairly marking my card as a troublemaker, I imagine. One fat twat queueing behind me to check in was tut-tutting under his breath. Fuck that. Plus the daylight walk of shame out of the Nana Hotel past the Soi Nana bars onto Sukhumvit (Morning Night & Stumble Inn) is nowadays too much of a white-knuckle ride for me if even marginally sober: all that shrieking and hollering from horror-film gals I've presumably shagged at some drunken point in the past. Not the best way to start the day. (Not a bad way to end it sometimes, if sufficient drink has been taken, like... ). We'll see. I'll be there in November and will file a report as per usual. (If anybody's about mid Novermberish, holler. ) jack Edited to change it.

I mean the Windsor Suites on Sukhumvit Soi 20, BKK, in case there's another somewhere else. jack

Was just about to book a greatly discounted room here for my next business trip when I noticed some online reviews claiming it's decidedly 'guest unfriendly'. Whispers of a 1000 baht charge for bringing back a takeaway tart? Said reviews were from years back. Can anyone confirm or refute based on recent experience or information, and/or appraise me of whether it's a dump or not. Thanks, lads. jack

Still haven't found one. jack

Oh to be that young again... jack

They say, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you', but I wouldn't have a cock up my arse, no sir. jack

My kid of gal. Gotta take what you can get. jack

Back on? Full on? Business as usual? Here's hoping. jack

Thank you, fellers. I love and tip my trilby to you all. jack

Oooh. That's good news. jack

Bought this at BACC last time I was there. I think the bird on duty told me what it says, but I'd had a long day and was a bit tired and have forgotten. Purleeze! Thanks lads. Hopefully it doesn't say: 'This bloke's a hopeless drunk. Everything he touches turns to shit.' People know that already. jack

Thanks lads. This is great stuff. So it's a properly-observed modicum of genuinely mournful, subdued activity. But nothing to make a man such as me change his mind about boarding a Thai-bound flight later this month? Great news. God bless the Thai people. You gotta keep moving forward. No disrespect in that, no sir. Actually (seeing as my dancing days are done, and all I crave now is a few afternoon/early evening jars in peace while I watch the world go by), midnight shutdown and lack of thumping muzak sounds perfect to me. jack Edited to add pointless annoying signature.

For this will be my barometer as my trigger finger hovers over the 'Cancel My Trip' button: was planning late-October arrival in BKK but if it's a ghost town ale and tart-wise, I'll hold my horses and just have another hand shandy. Wondering. Morning/Night and the Hillary bars: open? While we're at it, what about Soi 7 Beergarden? 18th October today. But don't be shy. If places are closed now, please, anyone in situ, post an update if and when they open again. Thanks. Fully realise it's a time for mourning and quiet respectful reflection. And quite rightly so. But life goes on, as it should and as it must. Just want to know how the land lies before I pack my saddle bags. Cheers, lads. jack Edited to alter it.

She looks lovely. Not classically beautiful by any stretch of the imagination, but her face has character. She looks a powerful and attractive woman. Keeper material. I like that. Could well be bonkers, of course, and almost certainly is. Most women are. And I wish they wouldn't shave their pubes off. That broad would look much sexier with a nice dark bush (which she'd clearly have, being an obvious bottle-blonde). Neatly shaped and regularly trimmed, fine — we don't want to find an exploding Brillo pad down there, lads — but don't shave it all off, sweetheart. Looks f*cking brutal. jack Edited to change it a bit.

I hear you brother. Suddenly all bets are off. Unchartered waters, as Bust said above. Better just sit tight and wait and see. jack

Sorry to be thick, but what do you mean? You mean gogos and entertainment complexes will close but regular bars can open? And what about shops, MBK etc.? jack

And for how long? And, as well as bars, will shops etc. be closed for a period of mourning? An extended period? Seems churlish to ask at such a traumatic juncture for the nation and its people, but I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering these things. I was planning a November trip, but may rethink if the country is to go into shutdown. jack

I'm sure we all send our love and sympathy to the people of Thailand on this sad occasion. jack

Great stuff. ðŸ‘🽠jack

As I just wrote elsewhere, I never met Chris, but we communicated privately a few times. As sibling pilgrims journeying through our separate but similar maelstroms of alcohol-related disappointments and disasters, we had much to discuss, but our posts, certainly his, were always positive and never dark or despairing. I've managed somehow to get to a territory of control again; Chris, perhaps it now seems, didn't make it back into the saddle completely? I dunno. He was a good man. I thought of him as a friend I'd yet to meet. I hoped I would meet him one day, but now it seems I won't. I'm truly shocked and saddened to hear he is taken far too soon. jack