We obviously went to different parts of Bangkok in 1989. It sounds like you went to the - ahem - insalubrious bits, which I strenuously avoided, as I was mainly there to look at << checks notes… (View Post)

Turns out Phnom Penh has a groovy bar culture with networks of tiny alleys full of brilliant little gin-pubs and whisky-joints This is Bangkok in about 1989. The optimism is effervescent (and the Pho… (View Post)

Yes, America just doesn’t do pubs the way Britain does. That’s why I always found Cheers the sitcom a bit ironic. Bars in America are not like Cheers. It would make much more sense in a UK context. A… (View Post)

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I just know a billion times more about this than you. This is mainly because I have so much spare time I can arse about online researching, it’s not a boast, it’s simply a fact. You have to run a mar… (View Post)