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Complaining the endlessly broken and unprepared sidewalks of Bangkok and hoping for a change? Like a Monty Python sketch: " Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh." Add to that no trash cans to be found on the streets.. Although just of late someone has been, accidentally I'm sure, leaving a few here and there.

Lost you on 'I think...' because obviously you don't. Completely h-u-y-a

That is some GOOD news!

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing.

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing.

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing.

Putin is Hitler.

Disgusting and shameful !!!

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. “Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.” John Stuart Mill 1867

Unfortunately now in Bangkok the little book shop on Sukhumvit has gone and the bar that was a small haven for writers and relics also gone. So hard to know but doing a google search and his biography his last novel was in 2007. Bangkok Haunts, Alfred A. Knopf (New York, NY), 2007.

Having lived here before, during and after the Coup and witnessing the many magical and mysterious wrinkles that went down along the way to making Prayuth lord and master of the realm - well, nothing could surprise. This one is made to order for the next John Burdett novel. Bangkok (insert name here) and it ain't over yet.

After the Yellow Line was activated and running above and over Lad Phrao, looking up I started wondering about this, as that BTS/MRT line has no shields. Main line of BTS running down Sukhumvit, for example does have them. And as a pedestrian more concerned about watching for the broken everywhere sidewalks and falling down or in.. Like the escalator catastrophe at Don Meung you never think about these things - they always seem to work, until one doesn't! One of the reasons I refrain from smoking weed and going out and about Bangkok thinking everything irie mon !

Just turned 77 and, playing off of that fave tv series 77 Sunset Strip, it is looking a bit like now heading down sunset strip. Perish the thought, after so many years of questioning whether I might be immortal after all said and done. Fortune to of inherited good and long good health, life has been a rich gambit for me beyond any dreams or expectations, fortunate to appreciate much that it has to offer, and I suspect I'll continue to find life's little pleasures in the day to day and the various ways one has to entertain oneself even in limited situations. Keep a good attitude, forgo self pity, look for the silver linings and do not go silently into that dark night. Take the good with the bad going forward and knock on wood.

Crikey!! Just now following the Messenger notice that there are replies to this thread and had to fight my way through at least 6 pop up ads, two of them were full page blocking this thread, then a whack of smaller ones in the corner. Click to delete and you lose you position viewing the thread and have scroll around to find it again. ASEANEWS I hope you're reading this!! This is on you!!! STOP THESE POP UP ADS or I'm pulling the plug on ASEANEWS.

I can't view a page without an endless array of annoying ads or view comments or replies to my comments in the forums without a giant AD popping up that when you finally get rid of it you're flipped away to some irrelevant somewhere else. Aseannow get a grip and end the constant barrage of ads, please!!

Ahh well, it's not just me not smelling or seeing anyone smoking pot anywhere but especially up and down, in and out the sois of Sukhumvit. Just the gaudy cannabis shops outnumbering massage shops. Not that I'm bothered on it, but it is ironic and confounding. Where's the whiff of a spliff from miles away 55 ?

Soi 11 ? hah hah Well there's no accounting for taste. Nightmare carnival more like it with taxi drivers demanding 200 thb, no meter to go to Terminal 21. Lines of folding chairs for working girls on the sidewalk. Side by side Bars with music blasting! into the soi, into the night. Avoid.

Ahh yes, a personal wet dream come true. Guess whose... Agent business for as long as necessary vs the crackpot measures know as 'legal'.

Painfully!! reminiscent of collusion or subjugation, pick your poison, that took place between the judiciary and the military junta around the time of the coup, for anyone with an eye to see.

LIES, and more lies. Joe Biden turns out to be a great man and the President the United States needed and needs.

Bravo! Certainly wine has been in Thailand for some time. The comment 'wine arrived in Thailand' was about the period when wine became popular here among Thais and a culture of wine drinking, appreciation, pairing with food in restaurants took hold. In the same way that it did in other parts of the world. Starting as it did in California, the US, Hong Kong, China for example.

I was living here in Bangkok several years ago when wine 'arrived' and became available generally. Restaurants began selling wine by the glass and promoting it with their food. Prices were reasonable. It wasn't the Hi-So filling those restaurant seats but common Thais, a lot of them women. Just as was occurring in other parts of the world. At the time, as elsewhere, people were encouraged to drink wine with food. Then came the Thai BS about wine as a hi-so product, for foreigners with deep pockets and then the outrageous duties which put it out of reach of most Thais - who were really going for it. Stupid, corrupt, and served only the 2 big domestic, connected Thai wine companies. Time passed and it ever got corrected and we suffer to this day paying outrageous prices for a bottle of wine or a glass of wine at a restaurant.

Well said!! It's obscene what they do to the price of a bottle of wine. In Argentina I enjoyed a Malbec under the Portillo brand for equivalent of about U$2.00. Found it on the shelf here in Bangkok for over the equivalent of U$20. All the imported from source wine prices are insane.

Ahh yes, the usual twaddle and slander from right wing opportunists turning a piece of information about the president's schedules into an opportunity to undermine him. President Biden, a great man, a great American president leading the country with wisdom and dignity. Carrying the burden and responsibility daily of his country, in an unstable world, the likes of which would put you snarky, feeble minded punters into an early grave. Thanks every day that it's President Joe Biden and not any of the clown car pretenders grasping for the reins.