Cartman

Oh yes....Nana district of Sukhumvit in Bangkok...open air bars that look like the bizarre scenes from movies Blade Runner & Total Recall. Frequented nightly by a core of "regulars" who are often American expats (quite often military enlisted pensioners) who buy more than ***** beer....clad in their jean shorts and tank tops and chain smoking endlessly. Not judging, but instead pointing out that it is so remarkably pitiful that the "brave" tourists walking by (who often wander into Nana from Wireless) take pictures and these expats mug it up for the camera (...very sadly treating the local workers in these bars as human "props"). Again -- there are no mirrors in these places and no souvenir photos because seeing yourself would want you to be sober. Similar to one of the opening scenes in the movie Officer and a Gentleman with Robert Loggia and Richard Gere. The stark sober reality of these scenes help remind us why we should not miss the pub (UK) or the Airline Lounge (worldwide) or the VFW post (US) or any other place that defaults to consumption of alcohol as the pre-text and where it is abundant, cheap and socially acceptable to be inebriated.