Nightmarch

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Post-Songkran Party: The management of the Dollhouse ogling den (Walking Street) are busy making a few changes to their internal decor with the aim of making it a more interesting and customer friendly environment. As part of the low-key celebrations a Pattaya By Night magazine party will be held inside Dollhouse on Tuesday night 24 April. The den will play host to some of the best dancers from Club Boesche (Soi 16) and the nearby Living Dolls Showcase as well as their own collection of chrome pole huggers, and copies of the third issue of Pattaya By Night magazine, which, among other things, features dancing damsels from these three dens, will be on sale. There will also be a number of copies of the best-selling humorous book Porn Unplugged to be given away as prizes to customers.

 

Got a Black Magic Woman? First it was regular in-house dance contests, then a tattoo show/contest and now it’s a Black Magic Woman contest. On Monday night 30 April, starting at around 9:30PM, the Diamond ogling den (Soi Diamond) will be hosting yet another innovative idea in the form of a contest featuring young ladies with dark skin. The average Thai girl from Issan happens to think she’s as black as a moonless night, but there are definitely shades of this dusky hue with many damsels hoping to lighten their colour by avoiding daylight hours and staying up until dawn carousing in karaokes and discos. Even so, there are some ladies who revel in the deep tan of their skin and it is these whom owner Khun Tee is hoping to gather together in competition. The in-house dance contest held on 6 April proved to be one of the most successful ever with a standing-room only crowd from about 11:00PM onwards.

 

Towards the end of the contest there was a slight variation in the standard procedure of past events when three dancers from the Super Models ogling den strutted their stuff on stage. The eventual winner of the contest, Khun Oh, pocketed 5,000 baht, part of an overall 15,000 baht that went off in prize money.

 

Now That’s an Oil Slick: The Living Dolls Showcase chrome pole palace (Walking Street) is renowned for its shows, starting from 9:30PM onwards. The physical quality of the damsels engaged in these shows is always top-shelf but there’s one piece that really highlights their prowess. Anyone who’s seen body-builders in competition would probably have seen how the liberal use of baby oil highlights the pecs and lats and other walnut-like lumps and bumps. In Showcase, the Captain Picard-directed dancers also employ liberal doses of baby oil in one routine, making them shimmer like the Exxon Valdez slick under the UV lighting.

 

Considering how much of the stuff is splashed about I’m hoping to find out which company makes the oil and buy some shares in it.

 

The End is Nigh: Those with a crystal ball might like to make a solid prediction, but those of us with a snout designed for sniffing out the news and listening to rumours think the night entertainment places of Soi 7 and Soi 8 may only have a very few years left, not much past 2009-2010. I’m told by a reasonable source no new contracts for beer boozers or dens of the chrome pole are being issued for Soi 8 and its surrounds.

 

Strong rumours suggest the boffins at City Hall are determined to gut whatever nightlife exists between the north end of Beach Road and Walking Street and force it to be relocated to the area between Second and Third Roads. Anyone who has wandered along the beachfront in recent times can’t help but notice the change to the skyline. The demise of such places as the Noble House and Steak Bao nosheries (both near Soi 10) and their replacement with shops and upmarket accommodation are just two examples of this change.

 

The rapid expansion of nightlife entertainment down Soi Buakhow over the last couple of years is also having a knock-on effect for the boozers on Sois 7 and 8 as more and more punters choose to spend their nights carousing in dens like Club Oasis (Soi Buakow), Champagne and Memories (Soi LK Metro), as well as Papagayo (Soi Diana).

 

Two More to Add to the Score: It’s hard to believe, but yet another two chrome pole palaces have opened their doors, both on the ever-expanding Soi 15, off Walking Street. Called Rock Girls and Fun Room, both are operated by the same team who have Nui’s 2, Hot Girls and Pinky Girls on Walking Street. If you’ve spent time in any of the three aforementioned places then you know what to expect with this new pair. These new additions take the number of ogling dens to 76 in Fun Town, yet another record. Of these, Walking Street now boasts an incredible 51. Just how many will survive or really struggle through the looming low season is anyone’s guess.

 

According to a recent news story, there are now 100 7-11 convenience stores in Pattaya. I think I can guarantee in a couple of years the 7-11 franchises will well and truly outstrip the number of chrome pole dens.

 

Get Excited on the Web: The new-look Club Boesche ogling den (Soi 16) website is up and running with some interesting streaming video to whet the appetite. You can find it at: www.clubboesche.com

 

Is that a Python in Your Pocket or are you just happy to see me? You have to hand it to the management at the Angelwitch shows-r-us den (Soi 15, off Walking Street). They seem to be always thinking up new styles of shows to attract punters through the doors and one of the latest and best involves a most unusual prop: a legless, slithery reptile. The very long python spends its time being manipulated like a length of Plasticine by dancers who clearly have no fear of the scaly creatures and so far the snake has maintained its decorum amidst all the hustle, bustle and noise one would associate with a show den. Not quite sure what monthly salary the python commands, though I expect field mice and other delectable rodents are part of the package.

 

Angelwitch is one of the largest and deservedly one of the busiest in Fun Town with a large selection of friendly dancers and great show girls engaged in extremely well-choreographed performances.

 

Happy in the Hour: Phil Bull, the editor of the well-known British racing form book Timeform, talking to the 1978 British Royal Commission on Gambling noted, ‘Gambling is clearly enjoyed as an entertainment and a relaxation, and one is entitled to take one’s entertainment in whatever form it pleases one, provided no one else suffers in the process. It is an arrogant impertinence for the socially fortunate, better educated, wealthier, more cultured members of society to look down on those less well endowed, think them unworthy on that account, and presume to tell them what they should or should not enjoy.’

 

I make note of the above because as Fun Town grows larger by the day and as the prices of property continue to curve ever upwards, I’ve noticed a trend as some of those who are ‘socially fortunate, better educated, wealthier’ start to make disparaging comments about those who are not in such positions, particularly with regards to money. There’s an insidious attitude creeping in that if you can’t afford, or refuse to pay, stupid prices for drinks in some chrome pole palaces and late night boogie barns and do your trawling for horizontal companionship among those damsels willing to still accept a single purple or grey note, then you ‘shouldn’t be here’.

 

The egalitarian nature of Fun Town was, apart from the obvious charms of its all-too-willing females, a key element in its attractiveness. Of course bar owners want to make as much money from as many people as possible in as short a time as possible. That’s why they’re in business: to make a profit. A few go beyond the pale and start to gouge their customers, treating any complaints in this regard with an arrogance born of disdain. Some use that completely spurious and untenable refrain, ‘oh, in [insert name of expensive First World nation] you’d be paying [insert silly amount of money] for what you get here’, conveniently forgetting of course they don’t have to cough up for worker’s compensation insurance, superannuati on, overtime rates and the like.

 

When their establishment starts to attract fewer customers and some former regulars look elsewhere for their pleasures these same owners look for any excuse to mask the fact their customers have woken up to their gouging game. Most seem to reserve their harshest comments for those places with happy hours, ridiculing the owners and claiming the customers for these dens are not the ‘type’ they want through their doors. In many cases the boot’s on the other foot: it’s the customers who aren’t interested in spending their hard-earned in a joint where the owner maintains higher-than-average prices for less-than-average entertainment.

 

Piece of Pith: A foreign pessimist is a man who thinks all Pattaya beer-bar girls are inherently bad. A foreign optimist is a man who hopes they are. (Rae Lambert, artist and cartoonist)

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There’s an insidious attitude creeping in that if you can’t afford, or refuse to pay, stupid prices for drinks in some chrome pole palaces and late night boogie barns and do your trawling for horizontal companionship among those damsels willing to still accept a single purple or grey note, then you ‘shouldn’t be here’.

 

The egalitarian nature of Fun Town was, apart from the obvious charms of its all-too-willing females, a key element in its attractiveness. Of course bar owners want to make as much money from as many people as possible in as short a time as possible. That’s why they’re in business: to make a profit. A few go beyond the pale and start to gouge their customers, treating any complaints in this regard with an arrogance born of disdain. Some use that completely spurious and untenable refrain, ‘oh, in [insert name of expensive First World nation] you’d be paying [insert silly amount of money] for what you get here’, conveniently forgetting of course they don’t have to cough up for worker’s compensation insurance, superannuati on, overtime rates and the like.

 

When their establishment starts to attract fewer customers and some former regulars look elsewhere for their pleasures these same owners look for any excuse to mask the fact their customers have woken up to their gouging game. Most seem to reserve their harshest comments for those places with happy hours, ridiculing the owners and claiming the customers for these dens are not the ‘type’ they want through their doors. In many cases the boot’s on the other foot: it’s the customers who aren’t interested in spending their hard-earned in a joint where the owner maintains higher-than-average prices for less-than-average entertainment.

Who and what is he talking about, anybody know? Gouging in bars in Pattaya?