January 2014
Singapore Bar to Charge S$120 a pint – W@nker Only
In the city of crippling bar prices – well for those of us who are not financial advisers – a local dog friendly bar is now offering beer at S$120 a pint or 3,086 Thai baht, or £56.50 Fortunately for mere mortals the price remains at $12 or 309 Thai baht or £5,65. The S$120 is for […]
PHUKET GUEST HOUSE AWARDED FIFTH BEST IN THE WORLD… BUT-
BOTTOM GETS TOP! A guest house in Phuket has been named the fifth best in the world by Trip-Advisor. Baan Malinee, near the Laguna resort area received the award assessed I believe by the comments made by posters on the Trip-Adviser website. But Bindon Bottom, by Lulworth Cove I am glad to say received the […]
FINANCIAL ADVISER GOES INTO HIDING AFTER GETTING VERBAL KICKING
‘BE ANGRY AT YOUR MUM AND DAD FOR RAISING YOU A WUSS!’- SAID ANTON A British wealth fund manager is facing a barrage of abuse in Singapore after displaying the family Porsche online and referring to the ‘poor people’ who had to use public transport. In a Facebook post Anton Casey, who has now gone […]
VIDEO: TALKING CULTURE AT A NOT VERY SECRET SECRET PARTY
‘Maybe we could get some financial support?’ Here’s our favourite American entrepreneur and, it seems, culture vulture on the trawl for cash, but he had a secret that he does not even want his cameraman to film. He is seen here talking to the then Minister of Culture, Sukamol Khunpleum, who later handed over the […]
CCTV SURVEILLANCE VIDEO OF THE GRENADE THROWER AT VICTORY MONUMENT PLUS SLOW MOTION
PUBLISHED WITHOUT COMMENT This is the CCTV recording of the grenade thrower who tossed a ping pong bomb into the crowd of anti-government protesters at Victory Monument, Bangkok, Sunday. He seems a little distracted by the comings and goings to the door on his right. But when the coast is clear he throws and makes […]
BIG MOUTHS, THE LUCK OF THE IRISH, AND OH SO SMALL BALLS.
LEGAL ADVICE ON STEROIDS News in this week from the resort of Pattaya on Thailand’s eastern seaboard is that Thailand’s most famous American, Drew Noyes, has secured deals with the local steroid King of Steroids. Now, short of selling crack cocaine, the steroid market is one of the most lucrative in the world because in […]
BOILER ROOM SECURITY WHERE ARE YOU?
THE MIGHTY FALLEN? FROM A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR SCAM TO A CONDO RIP-OFF. A reader wishes to know the whereabouts of a former ‘boiler room’ security manager who disappeared with millions of baht from a condo in Pattaya, was arrested, released and does not appear to have been seen again. Jalit telling the author ‘Don’t mess […]
FOREIGN NEWS: A FORMER DAILY MAIL HACK AND VLAD THE IMPALA
FLYING SPORRAN’S WEEKEND DIARY Well I have had a surfeit of Bangkok demos and correspondents’ various versions of it, so in this week’s Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary I present a tongue in cheek piece by Allan Hall a former colleague on the Daily Mail many moons ago when newspapers hunted in packs. Working on these […]
Elites Versus The Working Class? The Truth is…………..
I COULD NOT GIVE A MONKEY’S UNCLE* As the world’s press continues to portray the current demonstrations in Bangkok as anti-democratic and one between the rich and middle class elites of Bangkok and salt of the earth working people in North East Thailand there are of course other considerations. Well, one of course is the […]
THAI GOVERNMENT IS ACCUSED OF IMPOVERISHING FARMERS
CABINET MINISTER, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ACCUSED BY COUNTER CORRUPTION COMMISSION CROOKS OPERATING AS POLITICIANS (Pic: Boonsong) Anti-corruption officials in Thailand dropped a political time bomb today announcing that they would be charging fifteen people mainly government officials with corruption over Thailand’s rice trade. As thousands of anti-government demonstrators continued to blockade the capital Bangkok complaining of […]
