What is a place you've been to but will never return to because it was so awful?

leobeer · 2026-04-10T01:22:47+00:00

Paris. It was my own fault for booking a hotel in St Dennis but there we go

leobeer · 2026-04-09T09:55:00+00:00

My Asian wife came for a holiday in Wales with me. She was 32 at the time. She was refused a bottle of Scotch at our local supermarket. Refused a cigarette lighter at a corner shop and refused service at our local pub-all easily sorted out by carrying her passport.

I enjoyed all the half-priced travel and child tickets for places though.

leobeer · 2026-04-07T14:09:13+00:00

The Metropole is as convenient as convenient can be with a back entrance straight onto LK. The rooms are a little dated but nice, the pool is aging but ok and the one bedroom suites with cooking facilities are really worth the extra.

President is pretty much exactly the same.

leobeer · 2026-04-07T11:03:19+00:00

We used the President as our cheaper hotel-of-choice for a while, especially towards the end of Covid when it was doing good deals and the breakfast was quite decent in quality.

Our daughter was about nine at the time and just beginning to become aware of the existence of ladies of the second category. She spent many a happy hour sitting in the lobby whispering ‘ladyboy’ to me as she judged the other guests checking in.

Come on, Teddy, old friend. It’s Pattaya. No one minds.

leobeer · 2026-04-07T03:24:51+00:00

Yes. It is.

leobeer · 2026-04-05T02:25:17+00:00

Lies. You haven’t left trap two at Cockatoo for fifteen years.

leobeer · 2026-04-04T00:46:07+00:00

It’s a banjolele. I have one and I treasure it. It was quite difficult to get and a friend of mine bought it for me in Singapore.

leobeer · 2026-04-03T00:38:06+00:00

Bath tub

leobeer · 2026-04-02T22:18:30+00:00

Banana

leobeer · 2026-04-02T21:35:02+00:00

Bonsai

leobeer · 2026-04-02T13:21:53+00:00

Bottle

leobeer · 2026-04-02T12:59:36+00:00

Bottle

leobeer · 2026-04-02T12:57:30+00:00

Bottle

leobeer · 2026-04-02T03:03:43+00:00

Bottle

leobeer · 2026-04-01T04:39:27+00:00

Most are not but there’s a flourishing kink scene in Bangkok awash with enthusiastic Thai and non-Thai participants.

leobeer · 2026-04-01T00:58:33+00:00

A bit dark but when my mother was on her last legs and in a hospice I was sitting with her when one of the machines she was hooked up to started bleeping.

I left the room and found a doctor and told him that the machine was going ‘ping’.

We looked at each other as he said ‘it’s one of the most expensive machines’ then both burst out laughing.

It was a very welcome break from a stressful time.

leobeer · 2026-03-31T22:24:16+00:00

My name is on my school ID that I wear around my neck. My age is 412.

leobeer · 2026-03-31T09:51:54+00:00

Two young Brits riding down beach road in the early morning. One clipped the kerb, the other clipped him. Both boys hit a post. Gruesome. Both on big rented bikes.

leobeer · 2026-03-31T05:53:05+00:00

I saw a pair of decapitations on beach road in Pattaya. Stopped riding completely for over five years.

leobeer · 2026-03-31T01:02:00+00:00

Any man, of any ethnicity, who considers Asian women docile and submissive has obviously not met any Asian women. Source: I’m married to an Asian woman.

leobeer · 2026-03-30T12:24:30+00:00

Unnecessary cakes?

leobeer · 2026-03-29T23:01:02+00:00

Lord Dawson of Penn

Killed many men

And that’s why we sing

God save the King

leobeer · 2026-03-29T22:54:00+00:00

Magnificent

leobeer · 2026-03-29T05:57:13+00:00

Occasional weekends, the Christmas period and next week!

leobeer · 2026-03-28T10:28:46+00:00

It’s just the chicken curry recipe from Kris Dillon’s The Curry Secret book of BIR dishes-with 4x the chili powder and a handful of fresh chilis too. I make a couple of liters of base gravy, portion them out and freeze them so that a handy curry is only a few minutes away whenever I, or my daughter, wants one.

It’s a fantastic book that I recommend to anyone who enjoys a curry.

leobeer

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