Nostalgia's not what it used to be

if yer wonts nostalgia the wot about us older ones who travelled befor you lot woz a twinkle in our eyes Thailand werrnt Kaosan rd it was Thai song greet near the station woz where we parked our rucksacks them days, nun of you loada hand held, wannabees wiv yer lonely plonkers,around then we wrote it as we went:
ammir Kabir tehran, puddin shop Istanbul, camp otel Katmandu. Flog a few whiskeys and wive the money grab a few star sapphires Rangoon Burma load whooses
did it dun it got the T shirt

^That you Forfookssake?

Anyone remember Loverat? Or pissedoffloverat as he renamed himself here (better read from bottom up):

http://web.archive.org/web/20011207202222/http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/thorn/topics.pl?Cat=&Start=seamain</a>

I doubt it was Mr T Evans?????

Here's a better link to the older 2001 era stuff:

http://web.archive.org/web/</strong>/http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/thorn/topics.pl?Cat=&Start=seamain</a>

It is amazing that people has mostly been asking the same questions for 10 years. What weather? Which beach? KSR blah blah? SUK11 blah blah. Is Thailand safe to travel to? What to pack? 'I was scammed' warnings, 'I'm not a sleaze but ...'. What's the exchange rate? Even - where's the roller-skating restaurant in Bangkok?

Respect to everyone who keeps on answering the questions. You ever wonder why though?

Its all that tezzas fault that Koh Chang and Koh Lippe are Backpacker cess pitts now! oh for the good old days when no roads on Koh Chang and each day we moved towards the sea from the rear bungalows at 100baht a night (Now all are aircon with sat TV and fridge +bar) I had the last one white sands beach resort 150 bhat 2years ago.
P.S. Wheres the roller skating restaurant in Bangkok I missed that one lol

I remember 'Major Loverat' commanding operations on Nana Plaza during a big South East Asia Mainland Bangkok piss up a few days before TT had its Christmas/New Year shutdown.

The 'Major' was also involved in an ongoing scrap with a gimp at the same time under his regular handle and would keep on vanishing every 20 minutes to Nana Internet to post on TT!

Ah the good old days when it was and average of 70B for a beer on Nana and Woodstock still provided an Oasis of peace on a sea of Chaos.....

It's all so very different now and I, like Montyman, blame Tezza.

What was your handle back then Webme?

What did happen to the roller skating restaurant? They were only supposed to close for a short time while they relocated but never resurfaced.

I'm taking the Bart Simpson on these hurtful accusations:
I didn't do it; nobody saw me; you can't prove a thing!

sorry tezza but your sig line finds you guilty and we now pronounce sentence on you to a month on Koh Lippe with U know who!! sshhh

What has 'U know whom' done to deserve such a punishment?

opethbleak - I was just a lurker back then. Couldn't afford the flight so it was all vicarious distraction. I used to drop in from time to time and occasionally show people at work the wonders of internet technology and how it could bring (dis)like minded people together. What a beautiful world.

tezza, guess you were still working in those server farms back then?

Aw, Tezza, I'm disapointed now. I thought I'd unmasked you.

What's the weather forecast BTW?