pattayadude

2 minutes ago, aussienam said:

If you live there the acoustics are awful with sounds bouncing off buildings, rev-heads screeching up and down with massively loud exhausts that just reverberate and bounce off buildings as there is no place for sound waves to dissipate freely. 

Loud exotic cars and superbikes are the worse..I experience this in my Manila condo all day

6 minutes ago, Oldie said:

They could demolish it on New Years Eve as special tourist event. Many explosions and fireworks in the building and then it collapses at midnight. And now you can see the hill without the building and a big firework starts from there. 

life must be very boring  in Pattaya lately ????

People obviously don't expect some utopic  honesty and purity from politicians but they do expect a modest form of protection from  massive corruption such as in this project.  I can even understand late turnover because of mistakes in the build, strict enforcement of inspections and adhering to building codes religiously, causing long delays... but losing it all?? just because developer allegedly built the entire 50 floors  "different than the plans" and the City inspectors did not do any inspection of this massive skyscraper during the entire rough construction for the entire 2 years and therefor didn't catch it(!) or were not required to do an inspection(!) i.e. every 5-10 floors, so mistakes were only discovered until it reached the 50th floor??  Tell that to a 10 year old and watch him roll on the floor laughing for an hour!

Criminality and misconduct stinks to high heavens in this project!

One wonders if this project had already been planned "not to be finished" from the beginning given the height and the location, and everybody involved just acted as if it would, meanwhile pocketing millions of dollars as planned, and eventually was halted at some point just like planned.

34 minutes ago, Guderian said:

there's more money to be made for the powers-that-be in demolishing it than there would be in completing it.

I personally think these crooks know very well that in the long haul, more dough can be made with a "vertical" building  than a "horizontal" one..well, you know the drill. Brown envelopes for the construction and more in property taxes later.

On 11/24/2020 at 10:36 AM, MadMuhammad said:

It’s looking likely that airlines may demand proof of vaccination. Qantas has already stated such 

 

https://www.ft.com/content/8a59043d-df0d-45c1-b870-2780f06c5d1e

 

and most if not all will follow suit

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand targets lonely singles in latest bid to attract foreign tourists

wasn't this the model they came up with in the 70s?

On 11/23/2020 at 12:26 PM, webfact said:

She had got drunk and left the bar where she met a man who took her home. After that she could't find her way back and couldn't even remember who her mother was. 

swell...

buy another pick up truck

43 minutes ago, Jimbo2014 said:

Not sure how the government thinks its going to attract "Premium Tourists" if they have to strap on a respirator to simply survive?

Premium tourists coming from Premium air quality cities such as New Delhi, Lahore and Dhaka will greet Pattaya's dangerous pm2.5 level of 150s as "a breath of fresh air "

21 hours ago, fredob43 said:

The Smog is just another nail in the coffin

 covid was the last nail. the smog was the funeral

the food, the ho's..actually nothing else

22 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

And where are farmers burning near Pattaya?

even the stubble burning is as far as Indonesia or China, the winds carry the smoke thousands of km out to far lands

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Pattaya: Tourists put off going because of fears of dangerous air quality

dammit! they'd be pouring in by the thousands otherwise!????

51 minutes ago, Tagged said:

The same beer, the same stories, and the same girls, just different clothes and shapes. 

The same beer, the same stories, same clothes, just different girls in different shapes. 

49 minutes ago, Tagged said:

Some live and learn early in life, and know the chasing is just a repeat of everything you have done before

I rather repeat same act on different ones than repeat it on same one forever

20 minutes ago, fordguy61mi said:

When I met my wife she told me if I ever cheated on her she’d cut my d*ck off. She wasn’t smiling when she said it. I’m not calling her bluff.

normally you meet a girl/woman who later becomes wife.If my girl had plans to circumcise me against my will and she shared this with me, she'd be my ex-girl, not future wife

6 minutes ago, pattayadude said:

population in an average country  jumped to i.e. 60-80million  from 20-30million in 70s..from a few cars to 50million cars on the road, more food means more crops needed therefore more crop-burning more trucks on the roads, more pork and beef needed therefore more cows and pigs create more farts, more electricity needed therefore more coal burning and this goes on and on and on!. Result is the photos above! it will get worse in 20 years with populations above 100million in majority of the countries..Good planning homo-sapiens! No other animal self-extinct but humankind WILL. by choking itself to death and extinction...

1 hour ago, Don Chance said:

 

I wonder in the future will this ever change? The way things are going in 20 years there will be no clean air spots in Asia left.

2 hours ago, 2long said:

Many of us are fellas, living and married in Thailand. And I would say nearly all of those 'played the field' before settling down. I'm sure many still do. But I don't, although I'm tempted almost every day. My reasons for not doing so (in addition to the main one which goes without saying) are as follows...

 

- if the other girl is single, and pretty. Why is she single? Is she a nutjob? 

- if the other girl is not single, do you really want her husband or boyfriend coming round?

- if the other girl is just out for casual sex and fun for free? Why would she choose an old fart like me? Maybe she's a nutjob or she's riddled with diseases and has skeletons in her closet.

- if the other girl wants financial support for a relationship, when and how will this end, and what are her real motives?

- if the other girl wants money up front per time, then she's just a hooker and (until PornHub was blocked) there are plenty cheaper and more hassle-free options.

 

Maybe I'm just a boring old fart, or scared of screwing my life up for a quick jump.... but I don't play offside... although the temptation is always there in this fine land!

you forgot the most important one

-if YOUR  girl finds out you screwed a fresh 20 year old, will it hurt to fall off the 8th floor(assuming you live on a low rise)

2 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

I sincerely hope they can feel the pinch very hard now

the owners of these establishments are pretty wealthy..I doubt if they can feel anything  in their 6 bedroom mansions in a gated community