Buffy Frobisher

Check this USGS map. Click on the box top-right above the key, and turn on the MMI Contours, Stations, and Intesity under Shakemap options. Then zoom in on Bangkok. Each dot represents a measuring device, and if you click on a dot and it will show you the magnitude it measured. It varied quite a lot across the city. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000pn9s/map

Do we have any qualified engineers here who might be able to tell me if I'm right or wrong? Looking at all the exposed rebar at the Chatuchak site, and there's a lot of it exposed. most rebar I see is clean, almost shiny in the sun. In my experience, this rebar should have lumps of hardened concrete hanging off it, and the rebar itself is usually darker with rough rings around to help it reinforce the cement. And a lot of the broken cement looks very powdery, not rock solid as you'd expect on a 30-storey building. Is it possible that to meet what was left of the budget after "expenses", poor quality cement and/or rebar was used by "China Railway No 10 Engineering Company" and it's subs? There would have been no thought of it being exposed by an earthquake, of all things. 🤫

G'day lads and ladies. I've discovered that a mango tree has grown its roots through cement drainage pipes on one side of my property, effectively blocking half my stormwater drainage, and I'm trying to find a plumber who either (a) has a roto-rooter to run through the pipe and cut through the roots, or (b) someone who can slide PVC pipe through the wide diameter cement pipes and replace the drainage system without too much earth upheaval. Has anyone had any experience with this and can recommend someone in Bangkok? Cheers.

If you haven't seen it yet, this is Elon Musk's worst nightmare, and the reason you should dump Tesla stock as quick as you can. The specs on the "Max" version are astonishing.

Screw the taxpayers. Oh, that's right, that's what they've been doing during their entire time in the Senate. They're just pigs with their snouts in the trough. Nothing more than that.

My wife, the chief cook and bottle washer and all-round handyman, and instructor of the chang of course, tells me that we use either TOA or Beyer brands, premium Weathershield in all cases, depending on what deals Home Pro have. She says that glossy is best because it's easier to keep clean. I can't complain - we paint every 3 years and the place looks brand new after 18 years.

Helpful to us, certainly, but not so for you it seems. It was a nightmare out there this morning. The IO at Counter 29 (the front desk - is that 29? - the boss) is retiring this year, and things have slowed down dramatically. She told me years ago to get off the married-to-a-thai visa and said she'd give me the "sabai sabai" visa - retirement. Worth getting if you're over 50. Much less paperwork.

Couple this censorship demand with Sretta suggesting that he bring Chinese police in to "help" police Thailand streets at night, and you've got the Solomon Islands sellout Part 2. In no time you'll have the Chinese "donating" football stadiums and other facilities to win Thai hearts and minds, and before you know it Mandarin will be compulsory in schools. It only ends in tears. Sretta and his kowtowing to Xi may well be worse for this country than TS and his cronies ever were.

Which side of Bangkok are you on now? If you're anywhere near Crystal Park (Lad Prao area - NE Bangkok) I can recommend possibly the best hairdresser in Bangkok - certainly the best I've found in 20 years.

@tontong7 This is by far the best advice, from @ChrisP24. These girls usually have a few marks that they go after - you're not the only one she's doing this to - and the stupid ones send money and stay on the hook to Hell forever. Just block her on everything, and change your number if she calls. Fade away, have no contact, and she'll go after someone else when the effort exceeds the reward. In answer to your original question, no, there is no blacklist for bargirls to report tourists who didn't fold with blackmail, and if everything else about you is above the law then you have nothing to worry about. That said, if you have broken any law here then you have a LOT to worry about and you shouldn't come back. If you have any further problems with Immigration next time you come back, DM me. I have someone who fixes these things quite effectively. Just keep a copy of everything she's ever written to you.