Looking for the Post or Nation around Prakanong BTS Station

**Deaner** · 28th January 2007 10:44

Noone seems to sell the Bangkok Post or Nation anywhere around this BTS station at PraKanong?

There is one coffee shop that has it next to the escalators but I don't feel like sitting in their everytime I want to read the paper just to have to wait for God knows how long until some other guy is finished reading the only copy they have.

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Visual Reenactment of me waiting for the paper at the coffee shop:

Him:

Me:

The Staff:

My GF:

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I moved here a last month thinking it would be easier to pick up a copy of the Bangkok Post than it was where I lived in Din Daeng but not so.

Where is the closest shop in that area that sells the Post or Nation?

Thanks,

**MeMock** · 28th January 2007 11:36

you moved house to be closer to a newspaper?

Cool

What about a subscription?

**Deaner** · 28th January 2007 12:46

you moved house to be closer to a newspaper?

Cool

Mental isn't it? I moved all the way to Thailand for a six pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
It was worth it too.

Don't want to subscribe to the paper as I'm only interested in a few select days of the week. I just can't believe that of all the places on Sukhumvit road I pick the one that doesn't sell any.

No big deal. Its just after 7 years here I still haven't gotten over the fact that I can pass by 30 working brothels before I pass by a store that sells a newspaper.

**aging one** · 28th January 2007 13:16

Why dont you read it online?

**pucky** · 28th January 2007 13:24

At Suk 71 Soi Pridi Banomyong 5 (Soi 5) you can find the Post at the Albino owned shop before the New York Bar.

**Deaner** · 28th January 2007 13:27

Nice one. I knew there had to be at least one in the area considering how many farangs I see milling around. See when I lived outside of Bangkok I accepted things like the nearest place that sells a loaf of bread is 7/11 and thats 5km away or I know for a fact I can't buy a steak or pizza that doesn't come with a side of ketchup.

Sometimes its nice to get wired on coffee and read the a proper newspaper, front to back... I'll go check that out. I know where it is.

Thanks pucky.

**re_fuse** · 28th January 2007 13:49

Yep
Save a tree and read it online.

**MeMock** · 28th January 2007 14:50

Originally Posted by Deaner

Sometimes its nice to get wired on coffee and read the a proper newspaper, front to back... I'll go check that out. I know where it is.

One of the finest things in life (although swap the coffee for a beer)
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Originally Posted by re_fuse

Yep
Save a tree and read it online.

not on ya nellie!

**reg the wedge** · 28th January 2007 14:53

Originally Posted by Deaner

No big deal. Its just after 7 years here I still haven't gotten over the fact that I can pass by 30 working brothels before I pass by a store that sells a newspaper.

I was always pissed off with how many newsagents I'd have to walk past before I found 30 working brothels in Aus.

**re_fuse** · 28th January 2007 14:58

Yeah but your a whoremonger Reg

**reg the wedge** · 28th January 2007 15:05

Originally Posted by re_fuse

Yeah but your a whoremonger Reg

I hope that was meant as an insult re_fuse.

Because I'm not insulted in the least.....well not till I get home and look it up in my "Big Words made easy" dictionary, anyway!

**Matthew** · 28th January 2007 18:44

Originally Posted by Deaner

Don't want to subscribe to the paper as I'm only interested in a few select days of the week.

Three words: Ken. May. Tuesday.

Originally Posted by pucky

the Albino owned shop

Ah, the memories. Those were some happy-happy albinos, too!

Deaner there's another coffee shop across the street right
at the foot of the south-western BTS staircase with the paper(s).

And smaller crowds...as for the comparative quality of the coffee...
still not sure...I think M Coffee is pretty decent actually.

Anyhoo...just another option if you're out and about down there.
Sometimes I felt silly being looked at in M Coffee by every person
on the BTS escalator going up...

I lived in VIP mansion on soi 21 and had a Bkk Post in the supercold
lobby with the hot counter girl so I never worried about where to get
a paper in Prakanong myself....

**aging one** · 28th January 2007 19:47

19 year subscriber here. Had the first in Samui. At that time it was first and formost for Trink. That is a fact.

Bernie used to have a full page, that was insightful.

AJ · 29th January 2007 14:36

Originally Posted by Deaner

Noone seems to sell the Bangkok Post or Nation anywhere around this BTS station at PraKanong?

I don't live in Bangkok, but when I'm in Bangkok I usually buy one (usually The Nation) upstairs in the BTS shop zone, if the BTS is open (don't know about early mornings).

You know probably better than I what time the BTS starts running in the morning. There's usually a news agent in every (?) station, so why not buy it there?