Sunee when it was Sunee

[Manforallseasons]

https://youtu.be/wBv7CAUJ220


https://youtu.be/wBv7CAUJ220

[frequent]

Or as we say here in Bavaria: "die Dinge von der angenehmen Seite nehmen". Mother Theresa May possibly said "Sunee means Sunee". The Life of Brian (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M) described it similarly in their well-known song

[Manforallseasons]

frequent you and scottish have much in common, you live for this board and everytime either of you post something it kills the thread, if your names are seen as the last to post most just pass and go on to another topic, obviously Moses has not woken up!

[pennyboy]

I thought I looked very handsome in that video!!!

Good Times!!!

[DoubleDutch]

Do you guys remember Crazy Pub at Sunee? That place is still the wackiest bar I ever been to, it was so much fun. Total anarchy inside, guys jerking off randomly, that place was like no other bar at Sunee, or anywhere else. A total zoo!
Does anybody know who owned it, and why it closed?

[scottish-guy]

Yes, I remember it - I stood at the bar once while the boys strutted and danced on top of it, wanking off.

I had ask for tissues to wipe boy juice off both arms before emerging into the Sunee night air.

Wonderful

[Oliver2]

Wasn't it Mark, who'd been Kevin's assistant at Throb? The bar closed at a time when the gay scene was beginning to fade away, particularly in Sunee....but, in fact, its closure was a bigger set-back to the area than Mark could have imagined. Its bright lights and sign had livened-up the whole soi.
To be honest, it was too much "in your face" for my taste but I recognised that it had been popular and well-run. It was also sui generis; I've never seen anything like it anywhere else in Thailand.

[lonelywombat]

Yes, I remember it - I stood at the bar once while the boys strutted and danced on top of it, wanking off.

I had ask for tissues to wipe boy juice off both arms before emerging into the Sunee night air.

Wonderful

That must have been 10 years ago. your last visit?

[arsenal]

Meeeow.

[scottish-guy]

That must have been 10 years ago. your last visit?

No, Crazy Pub has been closed far longer that 10 years - I was in it only once and the next time I made an attempt to visit it had closed, so it might be more like 15 years ago.

I find it highly amusing (some might say hypocritical) that just today on this Board you have moaned about people carrying on personal feuds within threads - yet here you are, a matter of minutes later and you've slipped into becoming a Pound Shop version of Mini Mee.

FYI - I was last in Pattaya in Sept 2016 (not 10yrs ago).

As to when I'll return - who knows (if ever) - my circumstances have changed and Thailand is no longer the attraction to me which it used to be.

[Manforallseasons]

Do you guys remember Crazy Pub at Sunee? That place is still the wackiest bar I ever been to, it was so much fun. Total anarchy inside, guys jerking off randomly, that place was like no other bar at Sunee, or anywhere else. A total zoo!
Does anybody know who owned it, and why it closed?

Actually the bar you are speaking of was Krazy Dragon the adjacent open air bar was Crazy Pub both originally owned by a german named Peter (RIP), Krazy Dragon was problematic with the authorites and Peter took on Mark and John who were the owners of Sammy's which is now Eros. When Mark and John come on board the club was toned down and became a table top gogo and was less than spectacular and coinsided with the large decline of Sunee hence it was no more.

[scottish-guy]

To my memory Crazy Pub was a completely different bar from Krazy Dragon - which came along years after Crazy Pub had closed

[DoubleDutch]

No, Crazy Pub has been closed far longer that 10 years - I was in it only once and the next time I made an attempt to visit it had closed, so it might be more like 15 years ago.



Yep, I first visited Crazy Pub in 2003, and it was gone within couple of years.
Like Oliver2 said, that was the time Sunee took a dive, slowly at first, but Crazy Pub gone, area was never the same again.
Maybe closest to other major attraction at Sunee was Crazy Dragon, not same thing at all, but still a stand out spot, people visited Sunee because of it.
Today, with no major attraction, there is little reason to go. Should Nice Boys and Winner fold, Sunee can put the lights out. Even Good Boys, with very attractive straight guys and very low prices, dead night after night.
Every area needs one major draw, or have a high number of bars that put the place on a map.
One thing you notice at Sunee, the only people sitting in bars are veterans, but no tourists. Boyztown always has younger Russians singing along to Alla Pugatcheva at high season, never at Sunee.
Just walking by Sunee last night bars have almost no customers, Sky had 3 people, 2 of them hosts, it seemed. How these bars manage to come with rent every month is puzzling,
owners must be paying out of their pocket, or landlord has lowered rents to near zero.
Pity, because Boyztown has become a disneyland, and needs competition badly, Jomtien Complex is not it.

[Manforallseasons]

https://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showthread.php?7504-Krazy-Dragon-Sunee-Plaza

[DoubleDutch]

Actually the bar you are speaking of was Krazy Dragon the adjacent open air bar was Crazy Pub both originally owned by a german named Peter (RIP), Krazy Dragon was problematic with the authorites and ...

no no, MFAS, I meant Crazy Pub.
Crazy Dragon was a different place, Crazy Dragon remained open long after Crazy Pub closed.
I did not know German guy from Crazy Dragon also ran Crazy Pub, but of course it makes sense, both places were very cool, unusual, nothing like that has been tried in Bangkok or Pattaya since.
Peter must have been a very smart, and brave man to get away with this quite insane concept successfully.
MFAS, did you know Peter the German guy personally? What was he like?

[DoubleDutch]

https://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showthread.php?7504-Krazy-Dragon-Sunee-Plaza

Thank you link to that thread, interesting read! There's a poster in this thread, Mark, was he the guy who ran Crazy Dragon after Peter had died?

[Manforallseasons]

I believe it was Mark and John......and yes I knew Peter as well as one could know him.
Krazy Dragon continued to change hands a couple of times after but to no avail.

[Josan]

Manforallseasons, Thanks for the video. Does bring up all kinds of feelings. One of the things about Sunee is that during this time of the video there were three or four nice small hotels nearby. That helped keep Sunee busy at nights!

[Doug]

You shouldn't confuse Crazy Gogo Bar with Crazy Dragon. Crazy was long before Dragon. The first time I went it was hard to find as I believe there were no other entertainment places on that soi. From Soi VC, you would peer down a very dark lane and hopefully see a small neon sign. I could be mistaken but I think it was located in what became Kaos Bar and now Sky Bar. It was always crowded and had many very attractive, active boys. They had great shows from body paint, soap show to full on fucking. And it wasn't some old queen being fucked but very attractive, young boys who, after performing on stage would wonder through the crowd joined at the hip and let the customers closely examine that all was true...hopefully for a 20 bhat tip. I remember a cute boy come on stage with a colorful piece of wool protruding from his cute bum. After a little dance he would have a patron hold the end of the string while he wandered around the stage poles and building posts marking the trail with an impossible length of wool. Then there was the boy who tied a length of string to a pole and as he slowly, gingerly walked across the stage, razor blades, tied to the string would pop from his ass. Always I wanted to look away but couldn't. A trip to the washroom was another experience that would require a whole new thread. Crazy would rate it my top 3 gay bars in Thailand.
Well, that little trip down memory lane brought up something that I must go and take care of.

[Manforallseasons]

I believe they are one and the same perhaps Crazy morphed into Krazy Dragon.....my first memory was no stage more like a ring of sorts circled by small tables customers would put money in a round bin and pound it on the table for boys to wank.....I also remember a hideous creature pulling razor blades out of his ass....I made a mistake my first visit because I wore sandals and it kept cumming in my direction.
Often I would visit with an old queen that lived to suck cock and get fucked, when the boys saw him they would line up by him to be sucked and tipped.

[DoubleDutch]

my first memory was no stage more like a ring of sorts circled by small tables customers would put money in a round bin and pound it on the table for boys to wank.....I also remember a hideous creature pulling razor blades out of his ass....

Often I would visit with an old queen that lived to suck cock and get fucked, when the boys saw him they would line up by him to be sucked and tipped.

I remember several small tables, and some guys standing by the table, whacking off furiously, guy who came first received the prize, bin with 100 baht bills.
I never saw the razor guy, lucky, I guess lol.
My first experience, it was 4 of us, all foreigners and good friends, one of us knew about the place and we walked in. Holy fuck! I had never seen anything even close to this, all that most of us had seen in Pattaya were regular gogo bars. We were not exactly sober, but everyone's first thought was to run lol, every one of us was stunned, excited but also scared.
But we stayed, and soon we all donated 100 to the bowl on of the tables, Thai guys jumped to the table, I vividly remember several semi hard dicks dangling and almost touching my face, I was too scared to even move. Thai guys were laughing and giggling, they must have picked up how awkward all our small group felt.
I was too shy to even touch any of dicks near my face, and Thais jumped off table, stood at the table and started jerking off. I had no idea about the rules, it just seemed weird why they were going about it with such furor, then realized they all tried to come. Soon one of the guys landed his load on the table, meanwhile our drinks, cigarettes etc were all on the same table, no one cared. The champion collected his winnings from tip jar, everybody cheering loudly.
All the while at least 2 foreigners were blowing Thai guys, few meters from us, in full view. The place was fairly well lit, not dark like Good Boys now, and everyone was easily able to observe exactly what was going on.
I must have drank several beers quickly, to build up courage, because a while later I sitting a bit further from my friends, and some guy was blowing me, not under the table, but in front of everybody who cared to watch. My friends were laughing their heads off, joking and yelling encouragements, I remember wishing to become invisible, yet I chose to go on with the whole circus, to this day can't believe I had the strenght, if it was strangers watching, who cares, but they were my best friends, not fuck buddies but real friends who I'd known for years, sitting in front of them with my pants lowered to ankle, and some guy sucking me off seemed so awkward then, I still remember the feeling, I was sweating from being super nervous, but tried to put up brave appearance. I believe my friends had a blast watching their friend suffer lol.
At the same time similar activities were happening near other table, it was basically a bizarre orgy. I was truly afraid to return next night, none of us went. I did eventually go back, but alone.

If Mel Gibson ever plans to make another bible theme movie, similar to his torture porn Passion Of The Christ, he should use concept of Crazy Pub as a stage for Sodom and Gomorrah.

[scottish-guy]

I suspect that there was an original Crazy Pub (which Doug, DD, and myself are referring to) which opened sometime in the late 90's and was defunct by 2004/2005 at the latest.

I further suspect that there later may have arisen a second Crazy/Krazy Pub related to Krazy Dragon and which lasted till around 2010.

The Crazy Pub which Double Dutch, Doug and myself are referring to was operating around the same time as Super Queen, White Knight, Country Pub. Krazy Dragon did not exist at that time - I'm 100% sure on that.

[DoubleDutch]

I suspect that there was an original Crazy Pub (which Doug, DD, and myself are referring to) which opened sometime in the late 90's and was defunct by 2004/2005 at the latest.

I further suspect that there later may have arisen a second Crazy/Krazy ...



Exactly! The Crazy Pub that I have in mind was closed by 2005.

No way that I confuse the year of the first visit to Crazy Pub, it was definitely 2003, November 2003. The reason I am 100 percent certain, this was the year of our first trip to Pattaya.

[gerefan2]

Scotty is quite right. There was aother Crazy Pub, next door to Krazy Dragon, and it was an open air bar.
That must have been the second bar with the same name.

Anyway, rather than another Youtube offering, how about these I took an another Sunee bar...

[Manforallseasons]

More pics of Sunee from Gaybutton:

http://www.gaybuttonthai.com/viewtopic.php?t=8357 ...

[gerefan2]

...and some from New Year Jan 2010. One includes a pic of the second Krazy Pub. Wow how busy Sunee was then!

The last pic is of the Freak in his Sunday best.

[latintopxxx]

Really have to wonder what killed it if only a decade ago it was pumping.

[scottish-guy]

Repeated raids and general decline in gogo scene? Even BT a shadow of a decade ago

[arsenal]

It must be great for you to join in the conversation on a normal level. Eh! Scottish Guy?

[latintopxxx]

general decline?? Is it a generational thing...do all the millenials not like gogos?? too much free hookups on grindr??

[Smiles]

What an interesting thread. And thanks to MFAS for the photos and video. Nostalgia personified.
I've been coming to Pattaya -- not living, for that we've chosen Hua Hin -- for nearly 20 years and my Sunee experience there are not that many ... perhaps 10 times. But I do remember it's charmingly raunchy-ness in the early 20's. That razor thing I never saw, thank Christ.

My last swish-by was about 3 years ago and Sunnee was certainly a different place. By the sound of it, the future holds not much. Lots of darkend-holes- in-the-walls.
A loss ...

[colmx]

That razor thing I never saw, thank Christ.


Luckily you never saw the show where he pours a bottle of Orange Fanta up his ass, and then proceeds to fill an empty Coke bottle with a black liquid that looks like coke!

Or the one where they shoot balloons with a blowpipe, naturally the blowpipe was not being blown be a mouth!... aka the "fart show" as my BF used to call it!

[colmx]

From Thaiguys magazine April June 2000
(all 44 issues painstakingly saved for posterity at: http://thairainbowarchive.anu.edu.au/commercial_2000s/thai_guys/contents.htm )

As others have said the original Crazy pub was a gogo bar (which eventually morphed into Krazy Dragon), it had a circular metal framework which the gogo boys would walk around, the metal framework also had rungs and vertical/horizontal bars that that the boys would swing out of and do chin ups on

The other Crazy pub was a beer bar which appeared years later next door to the KD location

[scottish-guy]

Thanks Colmx - but I think the "directory" is incomplete. Perhaps some bars did not pay to be included.

Missing from Sunee in 2000 is "Country Bar" and "Super Queen" (maybe other members will spot more) - I specifically remember Country Bar because I was feeling rather "under the weather" one evening (must have been something I ate :p) and had to be ferried back to the hotel on a motorcycle :D.

From memory the owner was a very kind young Thai called Deng or similar. His farang bf had opened the bar then popped his clogs, leaving it to Deng. Thereafter Deng often seemed to be absent as "sick" and a couple of years later he and the bar were both gone. Someone told me he succumbed to the big A.

Super Queen was definitely still going in 2000 - that's where I first saw the blow-dart show, the egg up the arse show, and the ribbon with needles pulled out the arse show - you don't easily forget that!

[colmx]

AFAIK the bars that didn't cough up or were known for underage (e.g. Amigo bar, as distinct to Amigo tailor, Butts bar)were left out of the maps

Was country bar a corner beer bar that was located outside Sunee on Soi VC (I think its now a Family Mart)

[scottish-guy]

No it was in among the Sunee bars - from memory, approx where 45 and 43 are indicated - it was a beer bar with wicker tables and chairs on the street.

[Nirish guy]

- it was a beer bar with wicker tables and chairs on the street.

yeah, cause for sure THAT detail really narrows it down when it comes to discussing bars in Thailand ! :-)

[gerefan2]

No it was in among the Sunee bars - from memory, approx where 45 and 43 are indicated - it was a beer bar with wicker tables and chairs on the street.

That puts it between 45 The Corner Bar (now Doubleshot) and 43, now the small bar near the Buddha shrine? Opposite Green Chairs bar. Can that be right?
I wasn’t around in those days.

[gerefan2]

Disregard the above post.
30 seconds googling reveals that the Country Club Beer Bar was located next to the Come In Bar.
See here...number 46
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunee_Plaza#/media/File%3AMap_of_Sunee_Plaza_May_2010.gif

[francois]

[QUOTE=colmx;251084!

Or the one where they shoot balloons with a blowpipe, naturally the blowpipe was not being blown be a mouth!... aka the "fart show" as my BF used to call it![/QUOTE]

Yes, a true classic act. Viewed it somewhere in Boyztown vicinity (?) many years ago and never forgot it.

[Oliver2]

Yes, at Sawatdee Boys. Unforgettable. It had a short-lived show about ten years ago. The principal boy (?) also placed a toy trumpet near her rectum and "played" it. She was no Dizzy Gillespie....but then who would be using that method?

[francois]

Yes, at Sawatdee Boys. Unforgettable. It had a short-lived show about ten years ago. The principal boy (?) also placed a toy trumpet near her rectum and "played" it. She was no Dizzy Gillespie....but then who would be using that method?

That would be Le Pétomane (fartomania) A French flatulist who had superb control of his abdominal muscles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYS4i-rsJFY

[scottish-guy]

I seem to remember that Le Petomane was portrayed on film by Harry H Corbett of Steptoe and Son fame.

In this image you can see Harry H Corbett on the left, with a certain SGT member who is in his mid-70’s, on the right

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[DoubleDutch]

Around 2004 there was a small beer bar/ host bar, on the same soi of famous Corner Bar. The bar that I'm asking about was right across the soi from Corner Bar, in front of it.
Bar was run by young French guy, around 30, very fit and handsome. He seemed to be owner, there every night.
This beer bar was very typical place with a bar and some seating inside, large outside terrace with maybe 6 tables, and the terrace was surrounded by low wood fence, looked very homey.
I I have very fond memories of that place, some very nice offs. One of the Thai guys working, hanging around there had this hip hop, thuggish look, usually he was sitting on a fence post, he always wore a bandana, he really looked like ghetto thug out of MTV video. He clothing and style made him look not Thai, he looked 100 percent Latino.

Maybe someone remembers who the French owner was, and is he still around? The bar is, of course, long gone, but maybe he opened other places?

[Oliver2]

Sundance Bar? was the owner the guy who also ran a notorious go go bar in Soi VC, about 30 m beyond the Sunee sois? and wasn't he prosecuted for "the usual"?
My abiding memory is of being in the area at about 2200 when word got round that the police were on their way. The door of Sundance was flung open and large numbers of the dancers rushed out, some of whom still putting on their trousers...and rushing up the soi, in some cases hopping with one leg in and one leg out.

It was like a scene from a French bedroom farce when the husband arrives unexpectedly while his wife and lover are in flagrente delicto.

As Falstaff says, "Ah, the times we have seen...."

[Doug]

DoubleDutch....I think the owners name was David but pronounced "Daveed". I can't remember the name of the bar but he and his staff were very friendly and welcoming. He had a large base of regulars. My Thai friends liked going there to play snooker at 20 baht a round compared to 10 baht at other bars. There as a rock waterfall wall and often you had to put one foot in the dranage trough to play a snooker shot. They had one very VIP customer who demanded one certain table with the fan placed just so. When he was seen walking down the soi, all the staff would jump to move any customer at the vip table and set everything perfectly. It was almost a show to watch.

[arsenal]

I watched a similar scene Oliver, from The Corner Bar. At one point the perpetually nervous and twitchy owner was standing outside the door looking and waiting for the return of his ArtfulDodgeresque charges.

Meanwhile one of his boys was actually hiding behind one of the pillars in CB. Ducking hysterical. Gary, the then owner of CB and I didn't dare look at each other in case we corpsed and have the game away.

[Manforallseasons]

Meanwhile one of his boys was actually hiding behind one of the pillars in CB. Ducking hysterical. Gary, the then owner of CB and I didn't dare look at each other in case we corpsed and have the game away.[/QUOTE]

A very notorious bar was the one that existed before Gary in the same spot called the Sports Bar, it was open 24hrs. I believe its owner was a Thai named Deng. The French Guy who owned the bar referenced directly across was Come In Bar he was a great host and remembered everyone"s name.

[colmx]

Seems that MFAS has a better memory than most on here and is correct on the notorious Dengs sports bar and not so infamous Come-in with its waterfall and incredibly clean toilets!

I think the owner of Sundance was called Colin and he was from UK or N.Ireland?
He previously owned Kaos which was across the street in the current location of Sky bar.
Kaos was 3 shop houses wide, so Sundance was a pretty large downsizing!

The majority of staff followed Beer from Kaos to K.Boys (and Beer renamed it to Nice boys at the same time)

There was also Nok Nok - which was owned by Em, the current Cupidol Mamasan (back then he was a hip hop guy!)

[scottish-guy]

Only if you overlook the fact that his “better memory than most” was completely wrong about Crazy Pub - but hey, let’s just gloss over that

:D

[frequent]

Only if you overlook the fact that his “better memory than most” was completely wrong about Crazy Pub - but hey, let’s just gloss over thatI wonder if he plays Trivial Pursuit

[DoubleDutch]

DoubleDutch....I think the owners name was David but pronounced "Daveed". I can't remember the name of the bar but he and his staff were very friendly and welcoming..
There as a rock waterfall wall and often you had to put one foot in the dranage trough to play a snooker shot.



Yes, that's exactly the place, thank you! David really was very nice guy, Colmx remembered name of bar, Come-In.

I, too, went there often, and one time witnessed the only serious, violent confrontation at Sunee, or any gay are in Thailand that I've ever seen.
I got to Come-In after midnight, by then the whole Soi was buzzing with angry Thai guys, for some reason 10-20 guys, some I recognized as Sunee working guys, it was very large group, were gathered mostly right outside Come-In terrace. I sat down, clearly something was going on, instead of walking away I asked staff and David what happened.

Turned out a group of Australians was having a party at David's bar, I saw them, they were still sitting on terrace, drunk. One of the waiters said Aussie guy needed cigarettes, he gave Come-In waiter 1000 b note, waiter came back from 711 with cigarettes, but handed the Aussie guy change only out of 100 b bill. No one saw if Aussie really gave the waiter 1000 note, or 100. Aussie said it was a 1000, and someone from group of Australia punched the waiter, apparently in the face.
That was the situation when I got there. It was scary, Thai guys were standing outside, more guys were joining, the soi was stunned, everything seemed to have stopped, and everyone was observing. Few Thai guys had iron bars in their hand, I saw guys lifting tshirts, to show large hunting type knives on their belts. Australians were quiet, they couldn't leave David's bar, it was clear that they will get beaten badly if the move to open soi. So this lasted about 20 minutes, David was extremely nervous, he was trying do some negotiating between Thais, he was telling Australians that they were in real danger. I moved and sat at Corner Bar, curious how this will end.
A baht bus turned out, drove right next to Come-In terrace, all Australians, about 8 of them jumped on a truck, and as the truck started moving, Thai guys attacked. Truck moved slowly at first, about 20 Thai guys chased the truck, using iron bars to kick people in the baht bus, they threw beer bottles towards Aussies in the truck, truck kept driving and at one point started speeding. Thais kept chasing the truck, and I could no longer see exactly how badly the Aussies were beaten and hurt. Later, when left Sunee and walked, the soi was covered with broken beer bottles.

The only thing that saved Aussies from serious injuries was the baht bus roof and metal side rails, it didn't seem the hits of iron bars really hit Aussies, had this been open truck, they would have been beaten severely, had someone not called for the baht bus, David, I assume. Had the Australians simply walk out, they would have been beaten to pulp, I've seen how large group of Thais beat a man, they can kill a man, easily, one hit with iron bar to the temple area, and man is dead. And guys at Sunee had knives, they just didn't have a chance to use them, car was moving fast enough.
It was terrifying experience.

[Manforallseasons]

Yes, that's exactly the place, thank you! David really was very nice guy, Colmx remembered name of bar, Come-In.

I, too, went there often, and one time witnessed the only serious, violent confrontation at Sunee, or any gay are in Thailand that I've ever seen.
I got to Come-In after midnight, by then the whole Soi was buzzing with angry Thai guys, for some reason 10-20 guys, some I recognized as Sunee working guys, it was very large group, were gathered mostly right outside Come-In terrace. I sat down, clearly something was going on, instead of walking away I asked staff and David what happened.

Turned out a group of Australians was having a party at David's bar, The only thing that saved Aussies from serious injuries was the baht bus

You gotta love those Aussies, aye mate!

[pennyboy]

I believe Colin of Sundance was from Edinburgh. I remember the favoured customer in Come In bar. He sat at the head of his reserved table and only those invited by him could sit there. He had his own dedicated waiter who also sat at the table and topped up the glass with beer when required. The sound level in the bar and the positioning of the fans were dictated by him. I think he was Swiss Italian and had a name like Orlando.

[scottish-guy]

I've seen the type - I bet he had his "own" glass as well!

You see, only an Edinburger would put up with that - a Glaswegian would tell him to fuck off and take his glass with him.

Which is why I could never have a bar - there are so many types of people which piss me off (lesbians, str8 women, drunks, people who talk too loudly, people who shout, screamers, screechers, people who force uproarious laughter when something isn't funny, people who sit with a single drink for a hour, people who sit with a single drink of water for an hour and expect it free from the tap, people who let their kids scream, shout and run about all over the place. Guys I see in the bog who don't wash their hands after pissing, and worse - guys who emerge from the toilet and sniff their fingers!

Also, can I say the list is not exhaustive!

:drink:

[arsenal]

Even at it's Viagra pumped best there was rarely any serious trouble in Sunee. One such time had Thomas of CB threatening a drunk and obnoxious Scottish guy who had wandered in at about 3.00am. Michael turned on the charm, Thomas put the billy club down and the drunk got a little more so.

[DoubleDutch]

I remember the favoured customer in Come In bar. He sat at the head of his reserved table and only those invited by him could sit there. He had his own dedicated waiter who also sat at the table and topped up the glass with beer when required. The sound level in the bar and the positioning of the fans were dictated by him. I think he was Swiss Italian and had a name like Orlando.

Just observing his visits must have been so much fun! I imagine he saw himself as Roman Emperor.

There is a VIP who spends time in Boyztown every winter for several weeks. He is around 80, and he always stays at Ambiance.
His evening routine is same every night, he arrives in a wheelchair with small entourage of 2-3 Thais. He has a dinner at Ambiance, by then he is surrounded by many more Thais, guys from Boyz Boyz Boyz would come and greet him with wai, unusually high wai for a foreigner. Some of the guys are allowed to join the VIP at the table.

He is then strolled to Boyz Boyz Boyz, door staff shows unusual respect towards him, his arrival is an event. He then disappears inside the bar.
Some nights I saw him leaving Boyz Boyz Boyz, by then entourage has grown to 4-5 guys, and all the guys escort the VIP to Ambiance. As the procession slowly, very slowly moves, 100 Baht tips are distributed by the VIP to lucky Thai guys. VIP almost never talks, one of the help seems to be in charge. Guys bow and wai to the man constantly, it's a bit like watching a movie, if the movie was about Jesus' coming.
I haven't seen him this fall.

[dinagam]

Jesus came and took him away...

[colmx]

The only thing that saved Aussies from serious injuries was the baht bus roof and metal side rails, it didn't seem the hits of iron bars really hit Aussies, had this been open truck, they would have been beaten severely

The proper way to have sorted this would be for the Aussie who punched the Thai guy to offer a profound apology and 3000 Baht in compensation
That way no face would have been lost and the onlookers would never have got that agitated.

The Aussies probably ended up paying a lot more than that in compo to the Songtaew driver when they got to their destination

Have seen this method of mediation happening countless in clubs or road traffic accidents over the years and everyone leaves satisfied (or at least uninjured!)

[sglad]

A very notorious bar was the one that existed before Gary in the same spot called the Sports Bar, it was open 24hrs.

So were the staff homeschooled on the premises in between customers?

[Dalewood]

That would be Le Pétomane (fartomania) A French flatulist who had superb control of his abdominal muscles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYS4i-rsJFY

Well, you learn something every day. In the movie, "Blazing Saddles", the addle-brained governor was William LePetomane, played by Mel Brooks. When his name was displayed in the movie, there was quite a bit of laughter in the audience and I could never figure out why.

[Oliver2]

There's a short movie starring the late Leonard Rossiter which tells his story. What was remarkable was the way in which he managed to maintain a Victorian decorousness in his performances. No one could take offence....which was funnier than the farting itself.

[scottish-guy]

You’re correct Oliver - I said it was Harry H Corbett who played the part but now you’ve cited Leonard Rossiter I realise I was wrong