1 hour ago, n00dle said:

why are you publishing 10 year old articles? 

The children are adults and the power couple has been in the midst of an acrimonious divorce with all sorts of allegations flying around of abuse and other delights.

Don't exaggerate!

It's only nine years: December 2015

Or we've entered the multiverse?

On 4/8/2024 at 2:41 PM, Photoguy21 said:

It is closed as it is a public holiday

As is Friday 12 April a 'special' public holiday to extend the Songkran weekend 

Whenever I read of these captures and 'released back into the wild' I'm interested in just how far 'the wild' is away from where they found it.

I'd pay the bus fare for it to go a long way away please.

Fishing from the seawall at Paknam Prasae, Rayong, 8 April 2024

Eastern Thailand: Chachoengsao, Chanthaburi, Chonburi, Prachin Buri, Rayong, Sa Kaeo, Trat

Biked to Prasae in Rayong province yesterday, the park area is currently a large construction site with new walkways, lawns and gardens underway, HTMS Prasae is still accessible across the earthworks

46 minutes ago, JensenZ said:

First of all, I commend your exceptional ability to train in these conditions... quite remarkable actually. What is your size and body weight?

 

Having exercised for many years in NZ, that would be my choice of places to do it, of course, the climate does vary quite a bit throughout the country. It's a lot easier to stay warm than cool down. You mistake being able to exercise (adaptation) from optimum conditions to exercise. I'm a muscular 100kg, so I do hard cardio sessions in my air-conditioned gym (27 - 28C with fans). Running is out of the question. I can work up a sweat with night walking (6km/h pace) when the temperature is still around 30C. I don't even need to exercise to sweat in this climate. I miss the NZ weather. I haven't experienced a winter for 25 years; the last one was in Australia

187cm, 84kg. Here I'm mainly a cyclist, aim for 1000km/mth on a street -tyred mtb.

Once a full-time triathlete and ocean swimmer in NZ/Aust, I was 95-100kg; only recreational swimming now.

I had 6yrs going to NZ on fixed-term contracts, mostly in Wellington a fantastic location for real hill running, highlight four trips to Queenstown/ Arrowtown mountain trails, longest run was Arrowtown - Macetown return (Motatapu Track) 31km with 22 river crossings in 2022. Ran the cleverly named Big Hill both directions I'd rate as the hardest terrain, one at night, one in May with ice and light snow. Beautiful area with challenging trails.

No trails here, all road. Local club trains evenings at the naval airstrip, unexciting doing lengths of the 1050m runway. The cycling is more enjoyable, the running here is sociable, some have had prize money, others lucky prize draws.

But always another tshirt!

On 4/3/2024 at 7:40 AM, Old Croc said:

It's common to drive on beaches in Australia, albeit not on swimming beaches in cities. I've driven hundreds of kms on beaches and launched boats from the sand scores of times. We use 4wds not Camerys!

 

New Zealand has some beaches where driving is permitted, and each year there's fatalities as a result, often roll-overs at speed.

This from Oreti Beach, Invercargill, where police were called due to 'disorderly behaviour' on the beach. NZ Police car was  bogged in the incoming tide, abandoned, a write-off 

17 hours ago, JensenZ said:

Perhaps you don't understand that the official temperature readings recorded are taken above ground, in the shade and that humidity makes a huge difference, especially when exercising. 

 

How Hot Is Too Hot to Hold a Marathon?

 

"It was also unseasonably warm at the Brooklyn Half Marathon—the largest half marathon in the U.S.—in May 2022, where one person died and 15 were hospitalized when temperatures reached the high 80s and the relative humidity reached 97 percent during the city’s first May heat advisory in 16 years.

 

"high 80s" is about 31C; It's all about physics, a core temperature of 37C must be maintained or you'll experience the dangers of heat exhaustion.

 

 

 

 

We're the happy running couple;  our seventh recent running event last Saturday night, traveled to Trat for a night run.

Start 8.30pm 29C and 91% humidity. Still a lot of heat up off the asphalt at night I'd say we were definitely in the 'realfeel' of 34C. Iced drink stops along the course.

And an armed Tourist Police man on a mountainbike, in case of heat-treated collapse he could issue a mercy killing.

That was our second night run, others have been 4-6am starts.

I do my cycling between hours of 10am-3pm, less traffic, dogs asleep.

Yesterday 12-2pm 37C and realfeel 43C. Think I've successfully adapted, but not quite ready to wear 100% body cover just yet as our friends do.

Water-electrolyte mix at around one litre per hour, and the occasional ice-cream at 7-11 though have to rush that before it melts away.

If I ever have thoughts about being too hot, remind myself of too many miserable cold years in New Zealand.

10 hours ago, swerve said:

Many farangs behaving badly of recent in Phuket  Will be interesting to see what the authorities do with them all.  I read two Kiwis were deported for their escapade with the traffic cop in Chalong.

Understood the (NZ) Day brothers remained in custody, having pleaded not guilty, police opposed bail, and they are waiting on a court date which could be months away according to the interview held with one of their wives.

Varies by province / immigration office.

December 2023 (I required for driver licences and new vehicle purchase) Chanthaburi Immigration stated they no longer issued them (I had one years ago at no charge) and suggested I go to my embassy to complete a declaration.

Called DLT and fortunately they accepted my yellow house book and that lovely pink ID card for address verification.

A classic 'experiences may vary' situation.

Guess it's nationwide policy for Lotus? - recently they were selling their range of display TVs, sign said they'd been used for up to 3 months, full warranty and priced at around 60% full retail.

TVs. Wife won a LG 50" in a 100 baht raffle fundraiser for school sports trip, it was installed Monday this week. The hand-me-down effect - it replaced a 43" Samsung purchased in December which has now replaced a 32" Samsung that we have now given away. The electronic version of musical chairs (TVs).

19 minutes ago, 1sickpuppy said:

Not where i came from never heard buk naked before im in mid 60s, what planet you from

Merriam Webster dictionary:.

'Buck Naked' or 'Butt Naked'?
It's a natural question

While both buck naked and butt naked are used to describe someone who is fully nude, buck naked is the older of the pair. Butt naked is much newer and likely sees use because of butt having a long history of referring to a person's buttocks.

Buck Naked was George Costanza's 'porno name' in a 1993 Seinfeld episode.

12 hours ago, Thechook said:

Dowry for a 47 yr old grandmother?  I don't think so 

How many times ... this has been noted numerous times she was not a grandmother it was an error in translation in the first post,  and the original story has been provided on this thread, she had two nieces and one nephew.

Not a grandmother.

But apart from that, it was a fictitious / hoax Reddit post ... hardly a credible new source.

The poster's account was deleted and Reddit closed the thread two weeks ago.

Yet here it lives on.

And on 

^ a lot of that section of coast is more mudflats than white sandy beaches, looks more attractive at high tide.

No, I don't know that one, and google map doesn't show individual beach names unless there's a village or town attached to them.

Edit: Thairath states location as: Hua Hin bay, Phang Rad Subdistrict, Klaeng District, Rayong Province.

Noted there are more than 20 'Nong Prong / Phrong' in Thailand so perhaps they are allowed to have a piece of coast named Hua Hin?

Locally we have two Nong Bua 20km apart, two Koh Kwang similarly spaced (and only one is an island, just to confuse!)

This potential ambergris find is a change - since early March the more common item is 20kg packages of ice methamphetamine being found along Trat Chanthaburi Rayong coast from a shipment of over 1000kg reported dumped at sea 25 February.

I've seen news of ambergris finds before but never seen any outcome of whether it's real or not. Maybe this one?

1 hour ago, eisfeld said:

 

Looking at google maps I can't see any beach whatsoever in Phang Rat district or Phang Rard as they spelled it. The reporting is so bad...

View from the campground at Phang Rat, there's beach here, we regularly ride there.

The river is the border between Chanthaburi and Rayong provinces.

The seawall shown here, immediately past that is coast/beach to Prasae which is mostly inaccessible due to the mangroves forest towards Paknam Prasae, and continues to the better-known Laem Mae Pim beach with all its resorts.

Local signposts have English as Phang Rad, Phang Rat, or either of those as one word.

Having read recently of the navy conscript in trouble for releasing a video showing he was assigned to effectively be housemaid to a senior officer's wife including having to handwash her lingerie, surely there's opportunity for a specialist squad of not-exactly-men who could take such roles in the military?

When we lived in Phuket a neighbour slipped and fell in his bathroom, hit his head on the handbasin, knocked out.

He was found semi-conscious by the housekeeper who had come to collect his laundry.

He recovered ok, but I expect she may still be suffering nightmares from seeing a naked 72 year old Welshman.

We built in 2018 and have non-slip tiles in bathroom/ shower areas but when wet, not entirely non-slip though to date I'm the only one to have taken a small fall there. And no glass doors in there.

51 minutes ago, Middle Aged Grouch said:

What is it with all these farangs who need to pay just for company ?

Don't upset the 80% of posters here whose sole relationship ability involves a paid encounter on Soi 6!

33 minutes ago, MangoKorat said:

230,000 baht for a 47 year old grandma?  The man needs a check up from the neck up.

Or a reading lesson.

As has been pointed out many times, error in first post corrected several times, she has two nieces and one nephew.

She is not a mother or grandmother.

There's one in Chanthaburi city: House of Dogs.

No entry fee, they sell small containers of dog treats @ 40 baht.

Cafe area is separated from the canine area, customers to use the provided handwash going either way between rooms.

I can sit with my drink and watch from the cafe while daughter and friends play with around 15 dogs, from corgi (only time I've seen one here) up to German shepherd with various sizes in between. There's always at least one staff member in the dog area.

Dogs have the indoor area plus outside exercise area.

Not overly fond of dogs however they're well behaved and appear well groomed and cared for.

Note: they also have dog-shaped cookies and cakes. We always eat the ears first.

44 minutes ago, jcmj said:

Wonder how much really floated to shore. I’ll bet it wasn’t all turned over with all the sticky fingers around when it was found. 

Yes, as a Chanthaburi local I've been following these findings as each one is reported on local Facebook pages, here's the actual photo of the one yesterday from Thairath  (not the photo from Bangkok Post 16 March as the Thaiger have used)

As far as I know, all but three 'finds' have been sacks of 20 one kilo packages, as this latest one is. Two have been loose packages and one (I think possibly dodgy) had 19 one kilo packages handed to police.

An earlier police report stated they believed approx 1000kg had been thrown overboard by smugglers in the Gulf 25 February 2024 which explains the small shells/barnacles attached- so far they've been found along the Trat (incl Koh Chang last week), Chanthaburi and Rayong coastlines.

Here's the 19, Rayong 17 March 2024

after 104 posts, time for the actual Reddit thread, which may have been fictional / hoax / wind-up as so many are on Reddit - the poster daleted their account and the thread was closed 12 days ago. Yet now it's 'news'.

What is obvious is that she was not a grandmother but had been married before - an error in the first post of this thread that's got so many in a state of outrage . . . 

Loosen your Depends and have a read:

Was I stupid to agree to the dowry?

Tha Mai (Chanthaburi) walking street fair 3-12 April, about 800m from home the road will be closed 3-10pm daily

The usual food, clothing and wooden furniture stalls, local fun

Eastern Thailand: Chachoengsao, Chanthaburi, Chonburi, Prachin Buri, Rayong, Sa Kaeo, Trat