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A ladyboy food seller loses her trading license at a Chonburi market for not wearing a face mask properly during a Facebook live stream: www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=210498817913185&id=104796931816708 https://www.dailynews.co.th/news/569083/ https://aseannow.com/topic/1243005-foul-mouthed-ladyboy-with-mask-under-the-chin-gets-her-marching-orders-from-chonburi-market/

16 : 1 A man named Joke was attacked by 16 people in front of a Pattaya restaurant: The incident took place two days ago at around 3-4 a.m. in the Bali Hai area. What happened? Joke's side of the story is that he talked in a loud voice to a friend sitting in a (7-Eleven?) Pattaya restaurant. The owner then asked Joke to leave. When Joke decided to go home, 16 people, apparently restaurant staff including security guards, attacked Joke with knifes, pipes, and bottles. The man was brought to Pattaya City Police station to report the incident and to Pattaya City Hospital for treatment of the wounds. The owner however tells a different story. He told the Pattaya City Police station superintendent that the man ordered alcoholic drinks and that he refused to do so. Joke then threw a knife at the counter. The owner then tried to kick Joke out of the house but he refused to leave and only left when the place closed. 10 minutes later he came back with a steel, pipe-like weapon. During the ensuing fight Joke was injured: www.facebook.com/m.joke.jz35 https://www.amarintv.com/news/detail/112119 Translated from Thai into English using Google Translate.

Was there a fight between tourists this past weekend inside Tree Town? https://fb.watch/9SP2jMup2g/ https://www.brighttv.co.th/social-news/fight-in-pub-cholburi

Soi Nana and Nana Plaza at closing time December 2021:

There was a CCSA meeting today. If I get it right, restaurants are allowed to serve alcohol on New Year's Eve until 1 am on January the 1st. That's not exactly what we hoped for, but better than nothing I guess... (fuck you omicron!) NYE events with more than 1,000 people are only allowed if everyone is fully vaccinated and - in addition - organizers, musicians and everyone else working there must have a negative COVID test done 72 hours before entering the event. https://mgronline.com/politics/detail/9640000122924 https://www.posttoday.com/social/general/670490 https://www.ryt9.com/s/iq03/3280947 https://tpnnational.com/2021/12/13/thai-covid-center-announces-new-years-eve-alcohol-allowances-and-new-province-rezoning-chonburi-now-joins-the-blue-zones/ Visitors arriving through the sandbox and quarantine schemes from this Thursday on will have to stay in quarantine for seven days. Previously it was only five days. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2231175 No more dark red zones AND Chonburi will become a tourism pilot area from 16 December! https://www.posttoday.com/social/general/670492 But will this really make a big difference??? CCSA press conference in English:

More police raids in Chonburi province yesterday: A restaurant in South Pattaya apparently served booze beyond the 11 pm alcohol ban and there were tourists dancing and partying there as well. The BiB from the Pattaya City Police station accused the owners of operating like a bar and not like a restaurant: Pics from Radio Chonburi: https://www.facebook.com/radiochon/ A tourist police officer is also under investigation as he may have been involved in covering up that the restaurant operated illegally, writes: https://www.khaosod.co.th/around-thailand/news_6778710 and the https://thairath.co.th/news/crime/2263446 newspapers. Translated from Thai into English via Google Translate so please bear with me if it's not 100% correct. Video: Police step up raids in the Pattaya area:

Summary of police raids that took place recently in Pattaya:

New York Diner (part of the Insomnia Group) on Walking Street was open last night: https://www.facebook.com/clubinsomniapattaya/ A lot of bikes apparently were parked in front of the diner, but not many guests were seen eating there... But loud DJ music could be heared coming from the back of the house according to social media posts... And some ladyboys are posting pics from lbar (cool name, almost as in ladyboy bar...) https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ibar-Insomnia-Pattaya/325752367503087 What's open on LK Metro: https://youtube.com/shorts/jkEqe0YHVhM Meanwhile in a small Soi 6 bar last night: Pic source: Twitter

"All bars in Jomtien Complex closed down tonight following police raid from BK about 8.30pm! Also closed bars masquerading as restaurants! Back to square one!" Posted yesterday on FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/438849630140035/permalink/876925819665745/ "No bar owners, staff or customers were arrested during the initial raid, but warnings were issued in clear language." https://www.pattayamail.com/latestnews/news/police-ban-the-appetite-for-booze-in-jomtiens-gay-street-382600

Good choice, Rom! I agree with you: Check-in Bar Bangkok well deserves the title "Best Ladyboy Bar 2021." Why did you choose it over the other contenders, particularly Why Not? Bar Bangkok? Admittedly, there were not too many contenders this year. All (?) main ladyboy bars in Pattaya are still (officially at least) closed afaik and most ladyboy gogo bars in Bangkok are closed for good and won't be reopening anymore. We'll see in a few weeks which one's will survive... Will there be new ladyboy bar openings in the upcoming months? Sure. But it'll probably take a while before they become familiar names. The last 18 months have caused a lot of hardship on owners and staff of nightlife businesses alike. Especially for bars that are so dependend on tourists such as transgender bars. Living just from what the expats are willing to spend is unlikely to generate enough income for them to cover overhead costs plus a bit more... With Thailand only slowly awakening from an 18 month hiatus and with uncertainties surrounding the medium term future (omicron...) one must admire the stamina of June and her girls... Yes: I'm also getting tired of the live streams and the gazillions of Facebook posts and pictures, but how she was able to use social media and onlyfans to generate income for her angels impressed me - a lot!! I rarely watch these live streams anymore I must admit... I wanna see and experience the real deal, not just the virtual mirror image of the real deal... Congratulations to June and her girls! PS: I didn't know that Emmy's bar was the raison d'être for this forum... I thought this forum had been around for ages already...?

Around 04:30 am on Friday, December 10th 2021, the Royal Thai Police entered an illegal bar disguised as a private house in Pattaya, arresting 2 foreigners and 16 Thai men and women. Then, a few minutes after the BiB had left and the confiscated IDs were returned, the store reopened as if nothing had happened, and the owner muttered "shit police" many times... https://all-pattaya.com/thainewsbox/2021/12/10/12 Translated from Japanese

Thank you for the map, Mabulox! http://bangkokeyes.com/soi7plazamap02003.html It's a pity that Our Place Bar didn't make it through the last round of bar closings: Video of the current Bangkok nightlife scene: Sukhumvit (Penalty Spot), some Soi 11 bars are open, Soi Nana, KSR... Skip to 1:20 because the beginning is just advertising for a hotel: Last night in front of Drop In Bar Sukhumvit Soi 7: Sukhumvit Soi 7 December 11th: Pic source: Twitter

Did they move from Soi 6 to LK Metro and then to Buk? https://www.facebook.com/scootersbarsoibuakhao/ https://www.facebook.com/scootersbarlkmetro/ https://www.facebook.com/scootersbarsoi6/

I've also stayed in the area three or four years ago and visited Drinking Street a couple of times. The bars close to Second Road were busy but those in the back hardly had any customers... Walking Street bars so far haven't opened yet afaik. One exception apparently is Ice Bar (GG) where the lights were on last night and some farang customers were spotted: Pic source: Twitter Seems they are SHA certified: www.facebook.com/icebar.v2o Hopefully more bars reopening there soon. Edit: wasn't there once a ladyboy bar called "Blue Ice Bar"? Yep: Apple from Blue Ice: Edit: I initially copy-pasted the wrong link of Apple. Thank you for pointing this out Sith! The picture above shows Apple from the Blue Ice Bar Pattaya (I hope...). https://jjgirls.com/photo/lbgirlfriends/ladyboy-apple/blue-ice-bar/

I don't think that, in general, relationships with bar girls, LB or GG, will work out in the long run. But perhaps it's possible to find a diamond in the rough?

Steven Bronski, co-founder of British synthpop band Bronski Beat has passed away at the age of 61: R.I.P.

Machine Gun Kelly posts freakish video of leeches sucking on his chest:

I always thought the movie was based on Lights Out Janet and that Janet was the Beautiful Boxer... But obviously Nong Tum and Janet are two different transgender boxers. Nong Tum:

The Cool Sports Bar has reopened according to the December 21 edition of the "Midnite Hour:" http://bangkokeyes.com/ "The Cool" is a mixed bar, with ladyboys and GGs. They do have a Facebook page but seems it's not been updated in a while: www.facebook.com/The-Cool-Sports-Bar-209786556299862/ Yes, they do have a pool table. Sometimes they even host tournaments. The perhaps best known ladyboy who works / (worked there before the pandemic) is Enjoy, who also works for Check-in Bar on Sukhumvit Soi 10: Right next to The Cool Sports Bar on Sukhumvit Soi 7/1 there's a ladyboy massage: You can easily invite them for a drink to "The Cool" and later get a .... *coughing* ... foot massage next door...

Drinking Street on Second Road, close to Terminal 21 shopping mall, is now history: Around 3:00:

Sushi rolls now available at Check-in Bar: Can I have a dragon roll please... Live stream last night:

Some Sukhumvit Soi 11 bars in Bangkok are not really hiding anymore that they are open for business: Pic source: Twitter Video of Soi 11 bars 2:25 -> Sukhumvit Soi 7: I suspect the girls in front of No Bra Bar are ladyboys...

Yep, I'd say the ladyboy defeated her opponent and won 10 : 9 Video of the fight: https://www.facebook.com/100003205345546/posts/4451709548279179/ https://hilight.kapook.com/view/218697 Video of the fight: https://dai.ly/x85ul91 If I understand the Kapook story right, the guy who was beaten up by the LB first harassed and insulted the ladyboy on Facebook groups and in front of the girl. The ladyboy felt humiliated and started kicking his ass... Nong Tum, apparently a famous transgender boxer, posted the video on Facebook where it was quickly picked up by various Thai media outlets and went viral on social media.

On the corner of the main Sukhumvit Rd and Sukhumvit Soi 22 last night: Occasionally there are LB freelancers hanging out there in the small bars... Pic source: Twitter The deputy governor of Bangkok yesterday reiterated that bars, karaoke clubs and other nightlife and entertainment venues can indeed become restaurants but they must strictly follow the "golden rule" that is if they want to become restaurants selling alcoholic beverages, they must comply with strict hygiene safety standards - in other words they must implement SHA/SHA+ and/or TSC2+ standards. With respect to the appearence of the omicron variant in Thailand, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) asks all relevant agencies to monitor the situation closely and inspect establishments that have reopened to see if they comply with the current regulations. https://www.posttoday.com/social/general/670061 Translated from Thai into English using Google Translate so please bear with me if it's not 100% correct. In other news: Today is Lennon Day. John Lennon was killed 8 December 1980 in New York by Mark Chapman, a Beatles "fan"... Give peace a chance. R.I.P.

Lot's of ladyboys around Tree Town but I guess not so many within TT?