JatujakShopper

How very sad, RIP. It's too bad people can't control their emotions and get so wrapped up thinking they need someone else more than they need themselves. My wife has a single friend in her 40's who has been pining ever since for a guy who dumped her twenty years ago! It's awful, she's a lovely woman and she has wasted her life wishing for the impossible. I have a young friend who in a fit of despair sliced up her arms with a knife over some stupid guy, when she got to our house my wife and I spent hours getting her straightened out (it's not like she could visit a psychologist here, we were all she had), in any case she is much better now and I'm pretty sure will never do something so foolish again.

LOS seems like it's come under a dark shroud the last few years, I guess I was naive but it used to be a pretty fun place to live. Maybe I shouldn't have started reading these forums, ignorance was bliss!

moo9, on 2010-12-08 08:15:57, said:

Funny, it seems like it's usually the non drinkers I see around the world that behave in the least civilized manner. It's obvious you and some others have absolutely zero sense of humor, lighten up a little! Come on, have a beer, you'll feel better!

w11guy, on 2010-12-07 18:03:40, said:

I can do whatever I want without alcohol, it's just more fun with. How about you get help for being so depressing? Maybe I will move to Pattaya since Bangkok has become the realm of self righteous bores.

Sorry, just the title made me laugh and laugh!!!!!

millwall_fan, on 2010-12-06 18:25:53, said:

They have enforced that idiotic 2-5 law pretty religiously here in Bangkok since its inception, which has ensured that I stayed home more and saved money. Now they have made Jatujak Market a no alcohol zone, which is simply retarded, and once again I stay home and save money. I have never seen anyone raving drunk anywhere in Bangkok between the hours of 2-5 (and I do get around, well I USED to until I couldn't drink in those hours any more) ) even once in ten years so I just don't get what the problem is-  its probably all the work of some hypocritical fossil of a politician who pushes through a backwards, meaningless law that inconveniences a lot of people and hurts a lot of businesses just so he can play the highly moral fellow to his wife's majhong club. It's just stupid, I used to go to Zen for sushi at 4 in the afternoon, my dinner time and have a cold beer, I just don't get it. I'm sure they miss me.

All I want to do is walk around quietly with a cold beer in my hand and enjoy my afternoon despite the godawful heat, but no can do. The last time I went to Jatujak (which sadly just may be the last time I went to Jatujak) the vendors who knew me all sold me beer hush hush and wrapped the cans in paper towels for me- I feel sorry for them.

Anyway, congrats to Pataya, guess I'll take some of that money I'm saving not going out in Bangkok any more and head down there! leave the light on!