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Bangkok Bad Boy, I agree with you, I was impressed how good the layout was and I warmly welcome the concept of table top dancing. Silver Dragon has tremendous potential and I wish them the best of luck. The toughest challenge facing the go-go bars is recruiting hot babes. Perhaps the Bad Boy can be in charge of the “casting couch.” Are you up for it???
View all comments by Dave the Rave
All I want to know is why is Dave The Rave posting here if he has removed the BBB link from his site. Is he actually an im-”poster”? I thought he referred to nubile waifs as “dolly birds”, not “hot babes”. That sounds more like an American talking.
View all comments by kwai mai sabai
Well Kwai, I will state that Bangkok Bad Boy posted on my website and I thought that I would return the compliment. I thought my post was positive, so what was wrong with my comments? I think it’s better for BBB to state what he thinks - so it’s time to see if we should exchange links or not. In all fairness Kwai, please allow BBB to decide whether I can post on his blog or not. With these negative attitudes we have to ask a serious question - do we need this hassle? Up to you guys I’m just tryingto be the gent here.
View all comments by Dave the Rave
Dave the Rave?
There was nothing wrong with your comments; I just thought it was a bit redundant redundant because “you” make the same comments on your night life page this week under the heading Rising Star.
The only thing I’ve seen posted here about your web-site wasn’t exactly a compliment.
Anyway I thought you were best buds with Stickman and Dean Barrett.
View all comments by kwai mai sabai
Information is information. Its all good.
The more people contributing the better it is.
The more the opinions the better the overall representation is.
View all comments by ArtTv
Hi ArtTV, I agree. Sometimes you just can’t win no matter what you do. Furthermore, so what if I’m friends with Stickman and Dean Barrett, what has that got to do with anything?
Kwai, I just linked to BBB in the last piece that I wrote, so don’t jump the gun! Again, let BBB be the judge of whether he wants me to post on “his” blog or not.
View all comments by Dave the Rave
Reminds me of what a colleague once said about foreign correspondents:
“They act as if the most important angle to this shit is that THEY are here to cover it.”
Who really gives a flying f*ck ;-?
View all comments by Prufrock
I always liked the perspective that Hunter S. Thompson had on things.
Sometimes, his drug induced angle was the story.
View all comments by ArtTv
Yikes. Okay, ArtTv hit it on the head. I’ve had a few playful digs at my fellow Bangkok bloggers, but the more people there are covering this city, the more information there is for the readers.
I’m not interested in starting feuds, and while some correspondents (if we can call ourselves that) are a little more taxing on my patience than others (check out Dean Barrett’s idiotic muslim-bashing in every bloody column), they’ve all written a lot about this great city. Live and let live.
View all comments by Bangkok Bad Boy
Now more than ever we need Mango Sauce to keep going, if for no other reason than to keep all the mean-spirited pathological malcontents focused there and away from BBB’s site and others.
David’s comment in his latest column stating, “I can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed moderating four years of (mostly) convivial banter about my favourite country,” is perhaps a bit of a stretch. Much of the banter at MS seems to have been devolving into hateful diatribes, ego-fueled hatchet-job attacks, and a lot of uncalled for unpleasantries.
Sure there has been a lot of hillarious, great stuff written in those comment pages, but please; all of these pissing contests between posters and/or bloggers are a huge bore, and have a lot more to do with our inability to heed the great Rodney King’s words (”Can’t we all just get along?”) than with life in the LOS. Isn’t getting the 411 the ostensible reason we log onto BBB or Stick or MS or Dean or the others, and not to smash one’s boot, metaphorically speaking, into the face of some poor soul who made an inane post or simply a post you disagree with?
Here’s hoping the malice stays at MS and elsewhere and that BBB can keep the nice, witty tone he has set for his site intact as the readership continues to grow.
Also, so what if Dave the Rave posts here? Wouldn’t it be nice if all the boys posted on each other’s sites without rancor?
View all comments by soi4rulz
@soi4: Amen.
David @ Mango Sauce is/was a tremendously talented writer, but his “anything goes” attitude towards the commenters made for some tough reading on occasion. I totally understand his decision: more bitching equals more pageviews, which equals more advertiser revenue.
This site was, is and always will be a hobby - so I will either mock or delete abusive comments in an effort to keep things vaguely on-topic. Some people appreciate it, others find it stifling. It’s my website, so let’s all be nice eh?
View all comments by Bangkok Bad Boy
@soi4rulz: Mango Sauce is currently flotsam in the Gulf of Thailand. Not because he didn’t have the best web-site about Bangkok but because of lack of advertising revenue. I came here because Triple-B posted his link there so I thought I’d check it out.
If I want to read Dave the Rave or Dean Barrett (shudder) or Stick Mark II, I can go visit their site.
If everybody could just get along then Rodney King wouldn’t have been arrested again in 1999 for spousal abuse and in 2001 for PCP use and indecent exposure and in 2003 for the same offenses that sparked the LA riots in 1992.
View all comments by kwai mai sabai
I have a theory on why it seems the world has become such a fussy place, but I’ll leave that for another time.
Last time I checked (30 seconds ago), MS was still available online. It might be in the Gulf as a going financial concern, but sites like that are CHEAP to keep hosted online. I know, I have one, though it has nothing to do with Krung Thep. Glad to hear BBB views his site as a hobby, so we are not subject to the vagaries of financial chance here as regards its longevity.
kwai mai sabai: I agree with you if you are saying that Rodney King is a dirtbag. My tongue was firmly in my cheek when I wrote “the great Rodney King.” He’s a troubled soul but I think his words at the the time were genuine and astute.
I lived with my Asian wife in LA’s Koreatown during the RK riots. The only reason my 4-unit apartment building didn’t burn down was because I stopped a mob by waving a .45 in our driveway. My exact words were. “I can’t kill you all, but who wants to die first?” They burned down an apartment building one block away. They looted and burned down our favorite Thai restaurnat one-half block away on Beverly Blvd. We had smoke INSIDE our apartment so thick for three days, you saw a haze when you looked across the room. Ahh, the memories…
Clearly, we can’t all get along. Never have and never will.
Chok dee to us all. We need it.
View all comments by soi4rulz
Clearly, we can’t all get along. Never have and never will. - soi sii
I agree. For more than 2 milleniums people of different races have been killing each other for one reason or another. Every year on my birthday I wish for “world peace” but I don’t see it happening anytime soon (and don’t even know if it’s possible).
Glad to hear BBB views his site as a hobby, so we are not subject to the vagaries of financial chance here as regards its longevity. - soi sii
Khrup! BBB has a day job thankfully so this isn’t his main bread and butter and not subject to blackmailers that threaten to out him for working without a visa. And I think he has been doing an excellent job of moderating which I consider to be maybe the hardest task - with so many different personalities to deal with.
View all comments by kwai mai sabai
A great man - I think it was the Isley Brothers - once said “moderation in all things”, and 3B certainly seems to get the balance right. My only criticism of this fine blog is that there’s not enough Thai Totty on display. I’d like to see more gratuitous use of generic TT pirated from a Google image search. then we’d have world peace.
View all comments by Pants Elk
“This site was, is and always will be a hobby - so I will either mock or delete abusive comments in an effort to keep things vaguely on-topic. Some people appreciate it, others find it stifling. It’s my website, so let’s all be nice eh?”
Wow are these posts at all on topic? I agree with Pants Elk, and I think for the first time, bring on the pics of the Thai Tush!!!
Cute BBB, ‘it’s my ball, play fair, or I’ll take it and go home’…..LMFAO
View all comments by Ma
@Ma: The “on-topic” thing isn’t too strict. Just keep it vaguely related to the post or the previous comments.
On topic = Bangkok, bars, girls, etc.
Off topic = Iraq, Iran, US Foreign Policy, all the other totally unrelated stuff that popped up regularly on Mango Sauce…
View all comments by Bangkok Bad Boy
Kwai, Pants, Ma: Exactamundo! 3B is doing a great job and yes we need more pix of Thai booty.
View all comments by soi4rulz
So, what's Mandarin like?
View all comments by SmartyAnimal
@ SmartyAnimal: the main floor of Mandarin is basically a standard go go.
Upstairs (look through the glass ceiling) they have girls dancing topless (on the odd occasion naked) who have a bit more life and enthusiasm.
Six or eight weeks ago the upstairs team was really high-energy, but the novelty seems to be wearing off a bit and they seem to be falling into a more normal pattern of low-energy dancing.
Not the stunning lineup of a Rainbow 4, but generally more than just a fair share of cuties.
View all comments by werewolf
Hint: Mandarin bar (the main one) has its own page, and has had for some time:
http://guide.2thebigmango.com/thailand/bangkok/bars/gogo_bars/sukhumvit/nana_entertainment_plaza/mandarin-gogo/
View all comments by Bangkok Bad Boy