Memo to Iranian government, re: 300

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@Siam Sam

You’re not in Uruguay? Which part of Bangkok are you in?

Well, the best live lesbian shows at the moment are in Soi Cowboy. The best one is in Suzie Wong Bar at about 10:30pm. Get there a little early. Running a close second is the show in Five Star Bar at midnight, also in Soi Cowboy. This is super convenient, because you can watch Suzie Wong’s show, then walk down to Five Star. Suzie Wong might start a little late – I think they have to keep a close eye out for the cops – but the show in Five Star is always right on time, sometimes a few minutes early. Five Star also has a good house band – the only bar there with one – and is the cheapest in the soi for beer. Here’s a map that shows the bars and gives a brief description of each one. It does not mention the lesbian shows, but I guarantee they are there, and I guarantee you won’t be disappointed.

It´s been two months since I arrived to Bangkok, I´m currently living in Udomsuk road close to Central Bagna, and working on Rama IX road, Soi 17…
I wouldn´t like to highjack this fine thread (to the Iranian leadership: Nuts!), I´ll send you a PM later.

[Sailboat]

@Miller

You joke, but I seem to recall reading reports of actual English grumbling over the way the Brits were portrayed in The Patriot.

I think that had to do with the slyly reversed historical inaccuracies. Specifically

1. A scene in which American colonists were boarded up in a church to which the British then set fire. Although I am without a citation for this one, I recall rading that the Americans did this (perhaps to Tories?) and the British did not – therefore they were somewhat put out to see the descendants of the perpetrators reversing the crime in a feel-good movie.

2. The Americans are depicted as offering freedom to black slaves who fight against the British. See Wikipedia for a citation. Again, in that pesky real life, the British made such an offer to slaves who fought for their side; the Americans wouldn’t get around to it ever, really, although (already) free blacks were formed into untis in the American Civil War, as depicted in the movie Glory.

So the Brit grumbling wasn’t because they were the bad guys – it was because we took credit for their good deed and foisted off our own atrocity as their work.

Sailboat

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@Knorf

My English ancestors were negatively portrayed in the movie Braveheart!!!111one

Outrage.

Seething resentment.

Public ejaculations of hostility.

Morose grumbling.

Mine were portrayed sympathetically, but for no apparent reason. I’m still looking for the office I complain to about that.