Thread: A walk down memory lane or Soi 33

gee, going to RCA would be embarrassing

Not as shameful as walking out of an all male blow job bar imho

Originally Posted by Norton

In a nut shell Hugh. It was ours and has been replaced with a homogeneous characterless collection of condos, shopping centers and pretentious bars and restaurants.

The last time I was in the area nothing had been done with the former Washington, apart from Dinosaur world or whatever it is/was called, lost count of how many times it has burnt down!
The developers who bought the land must have enormous sums of money to burn, to have just left it for so long!

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Ive been to RCA twice but just for the go karting, the good old days when i could fit in one

Originally Posted by Airportwo

The last time I was in the area nothing had been done with the former Washington, apart from Dinosaur world

That Dinosaur place is closed now and is gonna be another lovely airconned shopping mall for some more respite from the heat and pollution, which should cheer up Norton

193,000 square metres

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Not as shameful as walking out of an all male blow job bar

...one good thing about bkk is that walking out of such a bar isn't shameful at all...if you've got the money, the whole city has the time...

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

institution

There's a word that gets bandied around a lot about many of the old shitholes in Bangkok

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

It's criminal. Hence my expression 'Blandcock'...it's a bigger shithole now.

The DJ population in those days was so small everyone knew eachother. Only 4 farang Djs in those days. Now it's all dog eat dog and wankers on laptops who don't know what a vinyl record or cd is

Who wants to hear all that hissing and popping anyway


They dont make em like they used to eh?

Your problem Pat, like those Dinosaurs you stopped evolving...


I bet you still have that shirt too

The truth about 'the good old days'

Scientists may have discovered why granddad thinks life was so much better in 'his day' - research shows that as people get older they
tend to focus on positive memories.The bias in favour of happy emotions may explain why older generations tend to view the past with rose-tinted spectacles.

If you think life was better in the good old days, you could be suffering from declinism. Fortunately, a cure is at hand.

Which of us hasn’t shaken our heads and muttered the words: ‘In my day, it was so much better…’, or, ‘Things ain’t what they used to be’.
In fact, we’re so obsessed with how much better things were ‘back in the day’, that even 90s fashion has been allowed a resurgence.
But were things really that much rosier? Or is it just our fuddled and present-hating memories distorting just how wonderful things used to be - and indeed, just how uncomfortable and unflattering crop tops will always be.
Take a recent poll of UK citizens conducted by YouGov for BBC Radio 4 series The Human Zoo, which found that while 70% of people feel the world is getting worse, fewer than 10% believe it is getting better. Equally, 55% feel their own lives are getting worse, with only 11% thinking the opposite.
“But can this really be right?” questions Professor Nick Chater of Warwick Business School's Behavioural Science Group and an adviser to the government's Behavioural Insights Team, also known as the Nudge Unit.
“After all, if we really think that things were better then we should imagine that if we can ‘roll back time’ we should see life as getting steadily better.
“But going back in time would lead us through, among other things, 9/11, global nuclear confrontation, two world wars, increases in infant mortality, shortened life expectancy and the loss of all the technological inventions that have made our lives easier like washing machines, ovens, electricity and so on.”



He has a very good point – so why do we do it? Why do we insist that the past is better than the present, or even the future?
“The idea that everything is getting worse – declinism - is an old one,” Chater explains.
“Even ancient Athens saw itself as having declined from a former, mythical golden age. So perhaps our minds are tricking us into thinking things are getting worse.

“In particular our memory tends to forget about the bad events in our past and we have a tendency to rehearse and dwell on the good things that have happened. We retell them a lot more often, so we reinforce the good memories.
“We also tend to remember the great songs or cars or football players from the ‘old days’ and forget all the bad ones.”
And is this process getting worse with the advent of social media?

“Social media will just tend to amplify our underlying biases - because those biases will determine what we focus on, and hence what we write and read about so there is a potential 'herding effect' here - we reinforce each other's points of view.”
It’s a theory fully supported by science - in an experiment that recorded people's anticipation of, actual experiences in, and subsequent recollection of meaningful life events, scientists discovered people’s recollection of the event was far more positive than their experience of it while actually doing it.
“The key point is that people rate past holidays - and other experiences - as much more positive in retrospect than they do at the time,” adds Chater.
“This is an illustration of the general idea that my life now doesn’t seem as good as it will look in retrospect.”
There’s more too; and it’s all about things called loss aversion and the status quo bias.
“Loss aversion is when we tend to focus much more on losses instead of gains. So losing £10 is much more negative than gaining £10 is positive. As our lives progress, while some things change for the better and some change for the worse, loss aversion means that we pay much more attention to the bad things. So overall, we think life is getting worse.”
Throw in the status quo bias and you get a recipe for glorious nostalgia.
“The status quo bias asserts that whatever the situation is now, things in the future will get worse. This plus loss aversion, combined with our memory’s tendency to filter out bad experiences from the past, can leave us seeing the world, and our lives, as getting worse.”

http://home.bt.com/lifestyle/why-we-...11363954633923

..... I remember when browsing the Emporium could be seen as more hiso that the common rabble who hung around Siam. Nowadays that & Emquarter's got thrifty indian tourists and chinks doing selfies outnumbering those who are genuinely shopping. Emquarter hasn't even filled every rentable unit and can feel deserted at times.

If l wanna buy a new ipad l will soon have at least 3 Apple outlets to choose from within a sq km. How will Thais decide which one to buy from? It depends on which mall's food court is the most 'aroi'

Bring back Carrefour and Tower Records l'd say....

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Some of your best work the Dillinger.

Subtle.

DJPat ... related to Thaksin?

Chubby faced, was drinking too many cocktails back then

Anyone ever a member of Blockbuster video?

I remember Johnny English the lndian bloke doing his take on Beatles' drive my car at the Bulls head. DJ Paul Jackson moaning about ....well just moaning. Jimmy White stumbling in

Originally Posted by David48atTD

Some of your best work the Dillinger.

That was shamelessly stolen from The Fresh Prince and back in the day

^ Ahh the good ol' days.


Wonder if it's because you were knocked out with one punch in one of his bars that you hold the past in such disdain.




And by a little Thai no less.

Always thought soi 33 was full of pretentious coonts in polyester suits. many years ago went down there to see what all the fuss was about. even wore shoes and changed out of the chang wife beater. was in a skinny little bar called rembrant or some such wanky name. Had a couple of them purple persuaders in my wallet and was all set to take the elegant noi back to mine to do things that you wouldnt do to a farm animal when i decided to have a quick wizz before setting off. Fuck me. it certainly was a tiny bar? ( or was it?) next thing i know i had knocked a painting of the wall and broke the frame. Fookers were carrying on as if rembrandt himself had painted it . Lost a few of the purples after negotiations and gave noi a peck on the cheek and a tequila shooter and got the fuck out pronto. havent been since. No sense of humour those fookers. I mean come on. who hangs allegedly expensive paintings in there bar where fat drunks can easily bump into them?

A man after my own heart

^^ sigh

saw s landreth there

I remember walking into a bar in Pattaya about 8 years ago a bit worse for wear and getting accused of breaking the mirror that was behind one of the sofas by the gobby Brit owner who was about the size of Luigi wearing his Tom Cruise shoes

After pointing out to him that i didnt break it, the mirror shouldnt be there anyway and to step this side of the bar if he wants some recompense the gobby little shite;his wife started getting even louder and started waving a fuckin gun around
Oh well, free drinks again

I used to be a magnet to those fuckin nutters

Originally Posted by beerlaodrinker

saw s landreth there

I wonder if he barfined Noi

Things were a lot more stressful in pattaya in them days. now they tell me you can even get a pie and a curry there

Originally Posted by Dillinger

I wonder if he barfined Noi

i was out of persuaders after the bar goons exttracted my purples for recompense of the masterpiece. had enough for a taxi to lolitas via an ATM and met another bird called noi.

Noi means small dont it?

Is that the size of the bloke that knocked you out?

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Noi means small dont it?

something like that. could of been lek? dunno. can only be romantic up to a point

Originally Posted by beerlaodrinker

can only be romantic up to a point

...so, about 5" then...