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    Proper Chipper on Phuket Island ?

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    42 minutes ago, Excel said:

    There is another thread running in other media  about air fryers and the poor quality food that results contributed to by very many experts in their field. Good if you like such tasteless and and badly prepared food, perhaps you do. Frankly my culinary standards are far higher than that and clearly yours to but guess each too his own. 

    You're TTP right?

    Proper Chipper on Phuket Island ?

    in Phuket

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    The above looks crumbed.

    The one opposite the stoned crab stopped a while ago unfortunately.

    There's a small bar(Tropical sands bar?) near the Palm Breeze resort a bit further down the road, on the rhs heading towards naiharn that advertises f&C and Aussie pies, haven't tried yet but will do.

     

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    "Chillin'! Tourist sitting down at a shrine: Thai press investigate "inappropriate behavior"

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    17 hours ago, billd766 said:

    As would my wife.

     

    It seems as though only the ultras are offended but the ultras of any group will always be offended by something.

     

    Instead of being offended perhaps one or 2 people could have explained to the tourist quietly and politely what the problem was.

     

    It has nothing to do with the press, the MSM or the social media other than as a witch hunt.

    "Instead of being offended perhaps one or 2 people could have explained to the tourist quietly and politely what the problem was"...

     

    They did.

    Correct Buddhism, face's being hacked off... seriously?

    Pretty sure the articles been added for a bit of a giggle, Some need to perhaps take a leaf out of her book and chill.

    So how real is the threat of sharks in Phuket beaches now ?

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    23 hours ago, Tropposurfer said:

    I aint' no zoologist but as a surfer who's been in most of the waters of the globe for 50+ years ... maybe I have some experience of sharks, their proximity to humans, and their connection to human morbidity.

    I've seen my fair share of sharks while in the water and some very large and know to be extremely dangerous ones, including some of the well-known high statistic man eater's e.g. Whites, Tigers.

    We were driven out of the water in northern WA by a 15 -18' monster Tiger (they are truly huge there) ... that was scary as we were hundreds of metres from shore surfing a reef. Also white pointers in southern WA.

     

    Surfed and swum with mass schools of hammer-heads in Galapagos as well as white tipped and black tipped sharks on the outer edges of the Great Barrier Reef in Oz and other Pacific Ocean sites.

    These smaller species weren't at all threatening to us at the time. The black and white tipped sharks are akin to very excitable very curious large toothed dogs, and can and will bite out of frenzy and also to 'taste' whatever is in the water.

    By far the most prevalent species of shark in the Andaman is the White tipped shark.

    This species of shark is considered almost harmless to humans although if in a feeding frenzy have been know to bite humans e.g. during underwater feeding tourist activity.

    If water is murky like the surf-line or around river mouths sharks can bite without knowing what they're biting as a means of 'testing/tasting' possible food sources.

    Bull or Bronze Whaler sharks (Tigers are a member of this family of sharks) are a perfect example of murky water inshore dangerous sharks. Small by comparison yet very dangerous!

     

    The Black tipped shark is however more likely to attack humans and were attributed as being the bulk of attacks when in WWII e.g. the horrific mass feeding frenzy in the North Pacific after the sinking of the cruiser (secret mission) that carried atomic bombs to the island of Tinian (Marianas Group) where many many hundreds of sailors were taken over the space of a few days and nights while floating in large groups post-sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945.

     

    Large pelagic sharks e.g. Tiger, Mako, do preside in the Indian Ocean and Andaman Sea but are far less likely to move close to shore in places like Phuket. This doesn't mean they won't come inshore and predate opportunistically on splashing swimmers.

    Going into the ocean has always a danger element to it, so you take a risk with all sorts of creatures if you do. 

     

    I would advise never to swim with dogs in the sea (anywhere!). Never swim off boats in deep ocean waters, never pee in the water (get out and pee then go back into the sea), if bleeding don't go into the water or get out asap if you get cut, never swim alone unless you are an excellent swimmer, always scan the beach and conditions before considering entering the sea. 

    If the kid was bitten by a shark a zoologist would be able to identify the teeth marks easily the wounds are most distinctly identifiable. 

     

    Agree with most of it, but not peeing in my wetty on a cold winters morning at my local break in SW WA as a kid is unthinkable, one of the truely great pleasures in life!

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    Good tv series

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    On 3/8/2022 at 3:38 PM, Old Croc said:

    Probably plenty of members here are ancient enough to remember "The Ipcress File"  with Harry Palmer playing spy games in the sixties cold war.

     

    A new mini-series has just been made and is available now.  He's no Michael Caine, but Joe Cole, in the main role, grows on you.

     

     The Ipcress File (TV Mini Series 2022– ) - IMDb

     

    Just watched the series, big ????, really enjoyed it.

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