richard_smith237

Correct, however the article also says that. It’s just the headline that’s somewhat alarmist.

The expertise in this warning is paramount. The headline is completely misleading & alarmists. The article itself, accurate & factual and paints a very different picture than the headline implies. Facts: Minor aftershocks & tremors will occur & typically decrease in strength. Other faults exist but are not major on plate boundaries & present low intensity ‘seismic risk’.

it’s not nonsense - it’s quite the norm. Two hours at Bowling or at Top Golf, 3 or 4 lanes, food, a couple of beer towers for the Dads etc…. All normal… Unless someone takes the pish & stats ordering cocktails & topshelf etc… B’day boy usually gets some decent presents !! Not as I’ve seen at all - but thus seems to be the op’s experience from a single person.

He's probably trying to type on his phone and drink drive at the same time.....

All of it perfectly exemplifies what a wombat you are. ... and then you shoehorn in the 'pro/anti Thai-farang' accusation when this is about someone being an odious cretin... something you again exemplify with outstanding consistency and perfection.

Erm... look at that 'magic link' again...

It never ceases to amaze me how some people can condense their entire essence of being a hopeless, brainless waste of oxygen into just one pathetic comment and so consistently out themselves as complete and utter......

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Rest in peace, Val Kilmer – the ultimate "Iceman" who flew higher and cooler than the rest; he's someone else's wingman now !!...

I must have missed them. Was it concluded if there was any foul play? https://aseannow.com/topic/1353967-update-horrific-details-emerge-on-gene-hackmans-death/ https://aseannow.com/topic/1353119-death-of-gene-hackman-and-wife-now-investigated-as-suspicious/ https://aseannow.com/topic/1353068-gene-hackman-wife-and-their-dog-found-dead-in-their-new-mexico-home-authorities-say/

True - Thai's like all people can see the reality of something like this... Those who were there certainly saw this womans behavior and understood - others outside of the circle may not and only have that womans 'gossip' to go on... they may believe it, but they'll be gossiping about the next thing in a few days.

You mean... Apart from the three separate Gene Hackman threads that ran at the time ?

Was literally 10x quicker to google for the answer than to ask on here !!!...

'tight', 'stingy', 'not good'... You're surprised about that? Probably perpetuated by the woman herself... most people (Thai's) will ignore stuff like that and it will quickly pass.... No one really cares - they're too busy getting on with their own lives.

Nope... If this lady is as described, the other Thai's will see it too... Thai's are very astute. Op did well not to cave to any pressure because it was his son's B'day. He didn't lose any face from the perspective of the other Thai's... but the loudmouth won't like him, but most every will have already had the measure of her character by now. ------------ We were just on holiday with a group of Thai's.... similar experiences, one busy-body leaving a trail of chaos and disorganisation behind her and leaving others to pick up the pieces. Others saw how firm I was and responded well to my decisions. Wife is excellent, always supporting. Interesting part is - since this surfaced, lots of people (other parents at the school) have gone up to my wife and mentioned they feel the same !!!... ... The woman in question, is in fact lovely, friendly and I like her - but she just has no comprehension of the wake she leaves behind - she's super-smart, but utterly chaotic. ... It seems the other Thai parents who know us have a very good comprehension of why I am firm - no loss of face, quite the opposite in fact.

Good luck to her.... But lets see how many comments we can get from a bunch of oh so handsome boomers... "not my cup of tea", "how could she afford those tatts", "looked better covered up" etc etc.. If nothing else, this thread seems perfectly poised to draw out the curmudgeons, much like tapping the ground brings the worms to the surface..

I don't think he drinks or consumes... The Op is WWACFC (writing while a complete fruit cake)..

The same all over Thailand... Luckily the lads didn't kill themselves... next time may be a different story... will they have learned anything from this ? unlikely. And of course, no mention of a 14 year old riding without a license.... which really, bigger picture, matters little because its not a 'license' that matters... Its effective training thats is can be proven with a license - and of course, there is no effective training here.... and thats the underlying major issue.

I never experienced such a thing. You're a fool... You have complained about Thailand's power grid... you draw parallels of comparison with "the great USA".... I've provided factual proof of studies carried out by a reputable establishment - Cornell University... that the USA suffers over 50,000 (county level) outages per day - which immediately distinguishes the rubbish you are attempting to flame Thailand with... You dismissed factual information with a passive comment "I never experienced such a thing" because it disproves your agenda... ... and to think in other threads you've bleated on about your intelligence, when I've yet to see anything other that mediocrity and this thread proves just that. Another perfect example of why I usually skip over your threads.

The quake in Bangkok was significantly amplified by the subsurface geology. The geology of Chiang Mai and most other area's of Thailand is significantly different, older, harder, the energy dissipated - the localised magnitude of the quake in Chiang Mai was significantly less than Bangkok.

When you build a house of cards, any vibration will make it collapse. My comments - pasted from another thread. Bangkok sits on a different Geological setting than much of Thailand - it young soft sedimentary basin of softer rock... when a quake passes through the earths hard core, it is amplified in this basin setting - much like shaking a bowl of jelly, whereas the energy in other geological settings has been dissipated. Seismologists sometimes call this problem the "Mexico City Effect" and Bangkok is often used as another example in modern textbooks because the physics are almost the same . As a comparison this what the substrata of major Thai cities is made up of: Bangkok: Age of Sediment: Holocene (up to 10,000 years old) Characteristics: Soft clay, young alluvial deposits, thick layers (over 100 meters) Stability: Low (high seismic amplification) Pattaya: Age of Rocks: Mesozoic (65–250 million years old) Characteristics: Sandstone, siltstone, shale, crystalline basement rocks, igneous intrusions Stability: Moderate (more stable than Bangkok) Kanchanaburi: Age of Rocks: Paleozoic to Mesozoic (250–540 million years old) Characteristics: Limestone, sandstone, shale, igneous and metamorphic rocks Stability: High (geologically stable) Hua Hin: Age of Rocks: Paleozoic to Mesozoic (65–540 million years old) Characteristics: Sandstone, limestone, granite intrusions Stability: High (less risk of seismic amplification) Khon Kaen: Age of Rocks: Mesozoic (65–250 million years old) Characteristics: Sandstone, shale, siltstone (Khorat Plateau) Stability: Moderate (stable foundation compared to Bangkok) Chiang Mai: Age of Rocks: Paleozoic to Mesozoic (65–540 million years old) Characteristics: Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks, including granite, schist, and limestone Stability: High (rugged, mountainous terrain with hard rock base) To avoid any comments that there is blame against Thailand that its capital was 'built' on a poor geological setting' consider ancient settlement theory, access to shipping, lowest bridging points etc... and the fact that at the time little was known of quakes or the area's geological setting. There are plenty of other major cities around the world are that at similar or greater 'amplification risk' from an earthquake due to their geological settings. Los Angeles, USA: Located on the Los Angeles Basin (soft alluvial sediments); ~50 km from the Pacific-North American Plate boundary (San Andreas Fault). Salt Lake City, USA: Situated on soft lake bed sediments from ancient Lake Bonneville; ~400 km from the Intermountain Seismic Belt (within the North American Plate). Seattle, USA: Built on the Seattle Basin (soft alluvial and sedimentary layers); ~100 km from the Juan de Fuca-North American Plate boundary (Cascadia Subduction Zone). Santiago, Chile: Located in the Santiago Basin (soft sedimentary deposits); ~100 km from the Nazca-South American Plate boundary. Quito, Ecuador: Built on soft volcanic ash deposits and sedimentary basins; ~200 km from the Nazca-South American Plate boundary. Athens, Greece: Built on soft alluvial deposits in some areas; ~100 km from the Hellenic Arc (African-Eurasian Plate) boundary. Istanbul, Turkey: Partly located on soft, young sediments near the Sea of Marmara; ~20 km from the North Anatolian Fault (Eurasian-Anatolian Plate boundary). Kathmandu, Nepal: Situated in the Kathmandu Valley (soft ancient lake sediments); ~50 km from the Indian-Eurasian Plate boundary (Himalayan Frontal Thrust). Tehran, Iran: Built on alluvial deposits and loose sediments from nearby mountains; ~100 km from the Arabian-Eurasian Plate boundary (Zagros Fold and Thrust Belt). Tokyo, Japan: Located in the Kanto Basin (soft sedimentary layers); ~100 km from the Pacific-Eurasian-Philippine Sea Plate junction. Taipei, Taiwan: Built on the Taipei Basin (thick sedimentary deposits); ~50 km from the Eurasian-Philippine Sea Plate boundary. Shanghai, China: Located on soft deltaic sediments from the Yangtze River; ~1,200 km from the Pacific-Eurasian Plate boundary (Japan Trench). Wellington, New Zealand: Built on soft alluvial sediments and reclaimed land; ~30 km from the Pacific-Australian Plate boundary (Wellington Fault). Cairo, Egypt: Partly built on Nile Delta sediments (soft, unconsolidated deposits); ~1,000 km from the African-Arabian Plate boundary (Red Sea Rift).

Doubtful - with a user name like his, he likely works as a safety guy on a rig... where you work not matter how sick you are !!... its unlikely he ever had a sick day in his life... But... his hypocritical fragility, collossal chip on his shoulder comes from spending half his life in a position no one respects and everyone laughs at behind his back...

Lots of good info from good people on these threads... And yes, it seems there are some juvenile twits who leave a laughing emoji - most of it is personal from idiots who carry a vendetta after being called out for being utter idiots and morons in other threads... ... Its a shame we don't go back to seeing who left the emoji - the same guys trolling with them would perhaps think twice about between halfwitted cowards...

You are impossibly dim While you have managed to remove any doubt !!!... Yours posts have been bigoted and in light of regular accusations you make towards others, hypocritical in the extreme.

Your great USA... 179,053,397 county-level power outage records with a 15-minute interval across 3,022 US counties between 2014-2023 Thats approximately 54,000 power outages each day of 15mins or more on 'county-level' across the USA. https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15882