Harsh Jones

It is worse than that in a way. Some of us have been to wavy ocean beaches like in Mexico, that just don't have rip currents. So we have a false sense of experience even with the waves.

Because some ppl are completely ignorant of rip currents. They think that the flags are out because the waves are big. But maybe the beach they've swam at locally at their home country is wavy and never has rip currents, they think "oh, i can handle these waves". The warnings are just a precaution because of the waves. When they are really a warning for deadly rip currents that they don't know even exist. I have been to beaches in the med , western Canada and Mexico, and I never really heard of rip currents until I went to Phuket. And read about these drownings on forums like this.

https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2019.00033 Rip currents can be a little tricky to spot unless you know what to look for. Rip currents tend to look different from the surrounding water. Remember earlier we said that rip currents occur in deep channels where there are no waves breaking? That is the first clue as to how we can spot these currents. Look for areas of water where waves are not breaking—particularly narrow gaps of darker, calmer-looking water extending offshore. That could be a rip current, and good examples are shown in Figure 3. Because rip currents look calm, many people think they look like the safest place to swim and often choose to enter the water right in the middle of the rip current. Hmmm wonder what happened here.....

Sigh.... Just swim in the calm looking part eh ? Yeah. https://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/the-differences-between-rip-currents-undertows-and-rip-tides Rip tides also occur in constricted areas in bays and lagoons where there are no waves.

But aren't the calmer looking parts more dangerous during heavy waves ?

What a joke these threads are. All the xenophobic expats go off on Thai males and make it seem like nothing like this ever happens anywhere else. https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2019/08/04/georgia-teen-gets-life-for-killing-sister-over-wi-fi-password/4541801007/ https://dailyhive.com/canada/canadian-calls-911-mom-turn-off-wifi

Condo flippers and speculators and ppl dumb enough to put up money to shyster developers deserve to lose money. I hope they get nothing.

The Chinese, the Russian and the Indian. But those Anglo chaps never did anything wrong ever. yeah

They were probably completely ignorant about rip currents. Like all of us were at one point. The water probably looked calm enough and they just assumed someone didnt remove the flags yet.

Yeah. Word on the street is that the Thai's are happy that the Anglo era is over for that reason. Chinese and Russians mind their own business and are hesitant to escalate. Where as the Anglos make a sport out of escalations about minor issues

https://www.ewdn.com/2019/03/12/russian-founded-global-web-server-leader-acquired-by-us-company-for-670-million/ Nginx is one of the most successful Russian Internet technologies of the past twenty years. Its solution is currently used by more than 374 million websites across the world, including two thirds of the highest‑traffic sites. “Whether you know it or not, you use Nginx every day of your life when you post a photo, watch streaming video, purchase goods online, or log into your applications at work,” the company justly claims.

Really. Is that all you have to say ? I educated myself on what Russia really is and not what CNN , BBC or Fox claims it is, through investing.

Umm sometimes balls bounce off course and hit people adjacent to the field. It is just pure chance and not the negligence of anyone. Pretty soon we will have to sign waivers just to enter public parks. Because of complete and utter nonsense like this.

Russia has a tech industry that nobody knows about and a flat 13% personal income tax. It isn't just this corruption narrative that we hear in the west. Yandex is the Russian Google. It is the 5th biggest search engine in the world. It is the biggest tech start-up in all of Europe by market cap. Kaspersky was the biggest anti virus in Europe. Telegram is a top 10 social media app in the world. There's plenty of Russian crypto bros too

Obviously you don't have a clue what you're talking about because Moscow is one of the most well ordered metropolises in the world. Lol at someone expecting me to believe that.

Yeah. I just try and avoid all the topics to do with Russia. The level that some ppl understand the world is so shallow it is just cringe.

Rivers have hidden dangers. Maybe this rider had a cardiac event and fell into the water and drowned sadly. It happens a lot these days it seems

I am not the one misunderstood at all. It was public space understood to be used for a specific activity at the time. If people were playing cricket at the field, and she got belted in the hand with an errant cricket ball, should she get compensation too ?

She doesn't deserve anything. Read the article again. The incident occurred at a field near Bang Bua Thong School in Nonthaburi, a popular spot where people play with RC planes. Pornphat, the woman who sustained the serious injuries, said that she had finished her company job and stopped by the field,

The western way. See how much fun you can ruin with bureaucratic nonsense. And even with all the rules and bs, there is still incidents. If you think you can bring your hobby drone to the outside of an airport in Thailand, you'd be mistaken. It is obvious from the article that the woman was in an area understood to be used by hobby drone flyers. It was an accident. Nobody is obligated to give her compensation.

Soon we will need 3rd party insurance to step outside.

Ah. So the family car was an open playground for boomers. But the road deaths per capita was lower so it was fine. I have just heard stories from boomers who have told me that seat belts weren't a thing and weren't used

So like the US when Boomers were kids

Some Chinese poser just had to have his Bentley in Thailand. He just couldn't stomach the taxes so he tried fixing that. The guy is just 34. He's the type of person that makes it big in his 30's, spends it up, and will end up being average to poor by the time he hits 55. There is a documentary on Youtube about guys like this from Japan in the 90's. They were highrollers, but the high times didn't last

Watch the same posters grind the poor old lady for not wearing her seatbelt!!!! These same posters are typically the age where overloading cars and not wearing belts was commonplace when they grew up.