Comments on: Weekend Happy Hour at Duke Pub… http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/ Insiders take on Thailand - Take 2 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:08:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Pants Elk http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-81165 Pants Elk Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:42:48 +0000 http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-81165 To enable a more efficient handling of donations - already flooding in - to the Save The Nana Escalator! fund, I shall be at the Duke for a schooner of sherry on the evening of the 18th. A committee of well-wishers may be formed, and a plan of action drawn up (like, replacing that gold pedalo on a plinth they have at the park at the moment with a bronze-cast Esky, and installing those inflatable chute things they use in airplane crashes at the NEP to speed up the process of getting your short-time shag back to your hotel. That kind of thing.) To enable a more efficient handling of donations - already flooding in - to the Save The Nana Escalator! fund, I shall be at the Duke for a schooner of sherry on the evening of the 18th. A committee of well-wishers may be formed, and a plan of action drawn up (like, replacing that gold pedalo on a plinth they have at the park at the moment with a bronze-cast Esky, and installing those inflatable chute things they use in airplane crashes at the NEP to speed up the process of getting your short-time shag back to your hotel. That kind of thing.)
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]]> By: GoodLife http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80993 GoodLife Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:27:27 +0000 http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80993 I think the Duke should have Miller High Life on Tap.. then all you Englishwoman would know what a real beer is like... :P No wait ... let go with some colt 40's or Mikey Big Mouths.. ummm quality.. (ooh yea I dont drink beer, so i dont know Kee) Now Vodka... thats a topic i can get in to. GL I think the Duke should have Miller High Life on Tap.. then all you Englishwoman would know what a real beer is like… :P

No wait … let go with some colt 40’s or Mikey Big Mouths.. ummm quality..

(ooh yea I dont drink beer, so i dont know Kee)

Now Vodka… thats a topic i can get in to.

GL
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]]> By: khlongwater http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80897 khlongwater Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:48:30 +0000 http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80897 History Lesson for DB - Your 'colonials,' all threw you out - one way or another - via revolution or political pressure.. So ditch the pith helmet and linen suit... History Lesson for DB - Your ‘colonials,’ all threw you out - one way or another - via revolution or political pressure.. So ditch the pith helmet and linen suit…
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]]> By: smitty http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80895 smitty Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:42:39 +0000 http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80895 yesman - sorry the incident. THe duke bathrooms are public to the center we are in. We put paper in them at night but not during the day because it gets stolen by people of the street. So we put tissue in the back entrance to the bathrooms. Hope u make a trip back sometime. to all - I don't like beer so I won't comment. yesman - sorry the incident. THe duke bathrooms are public to the center we are in. We put paper in them at night but not during the day because it gets stolen by people of the street. So we put tissue in the back entrance to the bathrooms. Hope u make a trip back sometime.

to all - I don’t like beer so I won’t comment.
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]]> By: Pants Elk http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80688 Pants Elk Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:19:23 +0000 http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80688 Daywalker's idea of a "lower-class chav" is interesting. It's like an "upper-class king". Beerlao is in a class of its own. Daywalker’s idea of a “lower-class chav” is interesting. It’s like an “upper-class king”.

Beerlao is in a class of its own.
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]]> By: Daywalker http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80662 Daywalker Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:04:33 +0000 http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80662 So you had a shit time in the Duke then? So you had a shit time in the Duke then?
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]]> By: yesman http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80647 yesman Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:14:16 +0000 http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80647 You know. I was walking around Silom about a year ago and had the runs I always get my first couple of days in Thailand. Well There I am walking and it hits I know I only have a minute or two before its too late. I am looking for somewhere I know will have toilet paper. YES!! I see the Duke,I cross the street go in the doors, but As i hit the hallway thats leads to the bathroom I made a mess of myself. I cleaned up the best I could and got the taxi of shame back to my hotel. My one and only time in the duke. You know. I was walking around Silom about a year ago and had the runs I always get my first couple of days in Thailand. Well There I am walking and it hits I know I only have a minute or two before its too late. I am looking for somewhere I know will have toilet paper. YES!! I see the Duke,I cross the street go in the doors, but As i hit the hallway thats leads to the bathroom I made a mess of myself.
I cleaned up the best I could and got the taxi of shame back to my hotel.
My one and only time in the duke.
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]]> By: yesman http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80644 yesman Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:08:53 +0000 http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80644 Taking advice on beer from an English men. Bad idea. Taking advice on beer from an English men. Bad idea.
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]]> By: TAFKABBB http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80594 TAFKABBB Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:20:49 +0000 http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80594 Stella is indeed chav-fuel, and pretty much the opposite of "up-market". They don't call it <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wife+beater&defid=1159553" rel="nofollow">wife-beater</a> for nothing. Kronenbourg is little better - I had credited MSB with better taste! To be fair though, MSB is right in that you'd be hard pushed to find a pub of the Duke's size in the UK without Stella or Kronenbourg on tap, but I actually find their absence refreshing. Reminds me I'm not in the UK :) Cactus John has a bunch of decent imported bottled Belgian beers at Cactus on Cowboy, and draught Hoegaarden (complete with those awesome oversized glasses) is starting to appear in a few pubs (eg Soi 8), which makes me very happy indeed. That said though, would enough of the Duke's customers fancy paying the premium for these, when they can get a pint of Tiger for 80 baht at happy hour? Probably not. If Beerlao is available on draft (I've never seen it), then that's something I'd definitely encourage. Other than that, carry on. Stella is indeed chav-fuel, and pretty much the opposite of “up-market”. They don’t call it wife-beater for nothing. Kronenbourg is little better - I had credited MSB with better taste!

To be fair though, MSB is right in that you’d be hard pushed to find a pub of the Duke’s size in the UK without Stella or Kronenbourg on tap, but I actually find their absence refreshing. Reminds me I’m not in the UK :)

Cactus John has a bunch of decent imported bottled Belgian beers at Cactus on Cowboy, and draught Hoegaarden (complete with those awesome oversized glasses) is starting to appear in a few pubs (eg Soi 8), which makes me very happy indeed.

That said though, would enough of the Duke’s customers fancy paying the premium for these, when they can get a pint of Tiger for 80 baht at happy hour? Probably not.

If Beerlao is available on draft (I’ve never seen it), then that’s something I’d definitely encourage. Other than that, carry on.
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]]> By: Daywalker http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80575 Daywalker Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:39:30 +0000 http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/03/11/weekend-happy-hour-at-duke-pub/#comment-80575 msb: Stella? Isn't that what all the lower class Chavs drink? msb: Stella? Isn’t that what all the lower class Chavs drink?
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