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Greetings Monkeywatchers, as we light the blue touch paper of our damp squib and remember Guy Fawkes, the only bloke in history who knew how to deal with politicians. Right, off we go. There was a story reported from South Pattaya about three weeks ago entitled "Canadian loses 500,000 baht's worth of valuables following room theft". So how do you smuggle a room out of a hotel without anyone noticing? Two monks were arrested for begging a couple of Saturdays ago after being caught doing the rounds of Third Road bars asking punters for money. They were both taken to the t

Greetings Monkeywatchers, and welcome to this month's hot off the press stories that you'll be able to read about in Pattaya People in six months' time. There was a minor disturbance in one of the fast food joints last week when an Arab starting mouthing off about his food not being hot enough. Fortunately, the establishment's customer service manager was on hand to smoothe over the situation by hitting him in the face with a chair. I must say it's most gratifying to see that so many businesses in Pattaya are taking the trouble to equip their staff with the necessary interpersonal sk

It's nice but I wouldn't say it was worth the extra. On the other hand, if you're going to do it, do it now as it'll probably never be this cheap again.

Guess you've never been to GB then.

Hearses might be more appropriate.

Yes, this seems to be the most likely cause. I've had this happen as well.

Liverpool? I was thinking more Birmingham - claretnblue being Aston Villa.

For good IFE you can't beat EVA. State of the art system in all classes.

Everyone I ask says I'm very good looking. But then I'm very careful who I ask.

No, that was Cherry Bar Too. The original Cherry Bar is on Soi 8 on the right hand side if you're coming from the Beach Road end.

Greetings Monkeywatchers, and welcome as the shutters come down on this month’s early closing edition of Monkeywatch. Time gentlemen please. Well, the glorious August 12 saw the start of the British grouse shooting season, closely followed two days later by the start of the Thai foot shooting season when somebody decided that it would be a wizard wheeze to have a crackdown on bar closing times just when the Tourist Authority of Thailand is trying to regenerate the country’s ailing tourism industry. So there they were at 3am, hordes of police and military types swarming over the streets of

Not sure about the older rooms in Sabai Lodge but Sabai Wing has wifi for sure.

Must be. Even New York only managed twice.

I was wondering about that too.

Closer than he would have wished for, presumably.

They like boredom and humiliation. That's why they enjoy our company so much.

Well I sure as hell ain't travelling 12000 miles and back just to buy her a fuckin' drink.

Yes. Just spotted that.

Greetings Monkeywatchers, and welcome to this month’s toe into the pool that’s Patts. Hold on to your hats. There was a bit of excitement in Jomtien last Monday when it was reported that there had been a 100,000 baht fire in View Talay 1. Sounds like the residents there really do have money to burn. The weekend before last saw the streets of Pattaya being graced by none other than a former Prime Minister who visited Walking Street for a short time, though if that’s what he was after he’d have been better off visiting Soi 6. There was a police raid on an address in South Pattay

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I know it's a crap beer but there's no need to ban it.

Greetings Monkeywatchers, and welcome to this belated edition of Monkeywatch after a lightning strike frazzled most of our electronic jiggery-pokery. Thankfully, things are pretty well back up and running now so, without further ado, here’s this month’s offering. Well, the topic of the moment has got to be the good old swine flu epidemic. Pattaya has obviously done its bit to deal with the problem as there wasn’t a pig to be seen on the streets last night. Some guy has been asking what it would take to open a top class four-star restaurant in Pattaya. Well, more money than sense i

The pissed up old slapper should have her passport confiscated.

Greetings Monkeywatchers, and welcome to this month’s poke at Pattaya’s peccadilloes. Let us begin. The other Friday, an event strangely titled “5 Region Thai Travel Fest @ Season of the East” was opened on Pattaya Beach. It was apparently some kind of celebration of Thai culture, which would explain why local businesses had stocked up with chrome poles and bananas. A couple of weekends ago, the Pattaya police conducted an undercover operation which resulted in the arrest of three people and the seizure of a quantity of Class 1 drugs. This was rumoured to have caused great upset to