* Dreaded, embraced, daring to be happy, banned programs, tight government control, the sad wrecks dancing around the poles, the cheeky girls from Isaan beaming at him with the shortest look through the open doors of a go go bar, because there were almost no tourists about and the girls were desperate, and everything went swaying everywhere, all for nothing, all for everything, all for short time or long time or any time you liked, treat them well pay them well she is happy you are happy goes the motto and equally the inverse, treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen, doesn't work here, perhaps doesn't work this century.