kwilco

When I lived n Samui, this was my favourite restaurant. I can't begin to describe how good it was. It was 4169 just before Greenacre School.

FX6J+7P7, Tambon Na Mueang, Ko Samui District, Surat Thani 84140, Thailand

However since Covid it has closed down.

I think they had plans to move or open another place before Covid.

What I'd like to know is if the owners have in fact set up somewhere else on the island.

So any information to their whereabouts would be most helpful

18 hours ago, Dan747 said:

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Thailand has one of the highest rates of road traffic deaths in the world, with the majority of fatalities involving motorbikes. The Thai Health Promotion Foundation reports that, on average, about 70 people die each day as a result of road accidents in Thailand. Of these fatalities, 74% are motorbike riders and passengers. According to the Department of Land Transport, there were 22,134 motorbike accidents in Thailand in 2020, resulting in 19,226 injuries and 6,142 deaths.

THe statistics for Thailand don't read well - but unfortunately it is the compilation analysis of those stats that is preventing any progress on road safety in Thailand.

The stats you refer to are deaths per 100k, but there are many equally important stats regarding other aspects - e.g. per number of vehicles, miled drive, number of collisions, and most important te number of injuries categorized as minor, serious and fatal as is internationally recognised.

On 7/7/2023 at 1:09 AM, hotchilli said:

Permission to live in a wildlife reserve comes with inherent animal problems.

Fence them out as the post above states. 

Open fields with crops encourage grazing

No one has permission to live in a wildlife preserve.

THe problem is at least in part human encroachment.

elephants need food - if the park isn't managed properly, elephants run out of food and go looking for more. 

Drought and fires don't help but management should ensure that the elephants have enough food near where they normally live then they won't feel the need to enter human habitation.

Electric fences don't seem to work very well - apparently elephants don't like bees and people have made "bee fences" that are effective at keeepiganimals out.

4 hours ago, bokningar said:

6 hours ago, kwilco said:

So the implication is you consider yours are. 

At least I posted 2 links to real scientific studies that should make anyone think again.

you're a joke - "real scientific studies - you really don't understand do you?

23 minutes ago, bokningar said:

Very good scientific argument  

So the implication is you consider yours are. 

5 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

 

A British Muay Thai boxer was left with one leg 3cm shorter than the other after undergoing surgery following a horror motorbike accident last year.

 

Connor ‘Carnage’ McBride is now resorting to fundraising in the hope of going under the knife once more to correct the botched operation.

 

A former British Junior Champion, Connor had been competing on the Thai island of Koh Samui when he was hospitalised by a motorbike accident.

 

Metal rods and pins were used to treat his badly fractured femur, but Connor has been left in constant pain by hip problems, spinal misalignment and disrupted bone growth.

In order to stand a chance of competing in the ring again, Connor will have to replace the rod with a plate.

 

By Sam Montgomery

Caption: Connor ‘Carnage’ McBride is now resorting to fundraising. INSTAGRAM/CONNORMCBRIDE100

 

Full Story: https://www.gbnews.com/news/brit-muay-thai-surgery-thailand

 

-- © Copyright GB News 2023-08-09

 

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much more common than people realise. Even "successful" ops fall short of proper medical standards

3 minutes ago, bokningar said:

There is many ,mostly professor emeritus, since active scientists get their grants revoked if they say anything that doesn't fit the "right" narrative. Here is an other one using official data from many different public sources. Just look at it with open eyes.

 

You have no idea

5 hours ago, bignok said:

Humans have never had it easier than now in terms of food, medicine, tech.

 

All this doomsday stuff is just a money grab. Which politicians have stopped flying? None.

QED a fool who hides ignorance behind a veil of cynicism.

11 hours ago, bokningar said:

Here is some science for you. Temperature change over 8 000 years. Jørgen Peder Steffensen is a professor in ice core related research at the Niels Bohr Institute. Is that good enough for you?

 

Someone who thinks one video makes the accumulated science of climate change fall down is a complete fool.

11 hours ago, Willy Wombat said:

Politicians think they can alter the climate.

LOL 

RElly? How? Humans can but politicians on their own seem y=to be unable to stop the process.

If you don't understand MMCC then you are a fool

6 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

I can remember a certain infamous tiger sanctuary close to Kanchanaburi coming under intense scrutiny not that long ago and it did not come out of it looking very good at all. Was that a case of public ignorance ?  No it wasn't. The only struggle those "conservationists" faced was staying out of prison

Yes the only reason it existed was because of public ignorance- people flocked to the place unaware of the animal abuse. But they are also unaware that ANY captive tiger place is exploitative and abusive - they can't make money if the public don't cme.

THe place was closed by the DNP -after 10 years of bad publicity from animal campaigners embarrassed the authorities into action.

the fact is that the laws in Thailand are useless to prevent these sort of places operating so there were very few ways to close it down.

THe abbott had friends in high places and several attempts to close it fell foul of the courts.

the closing of the place was also a complete mess.

47 minutes ago, bignok said:

More humans = more crops = less forests + poaching = less wild animals.

 

Pretty easy to see the problem.

 

How do you cull the humans to save the animals? That's the main issue.

 

Except this is an inaccurate view.

Encroachment and poaching are 2 of the most serious problems facing tigers and wildlife in Thailand 

However the simplistic view of "more Humans" is misleading - in reality there is potentially space for a population of 2000 tigers in Thailand (as opposed to the current 200) this is not simply down to people numbers, it is down to management of the available wildlife space - something that successive Thai governments have failed to address.

There is a general malaise in Thailand that affects both government and public understanding of all issues to do with wildlife animals welffare and conservation.

26 minutes ago, stoner said:

i would like to know about the rumor/myth/truth behind this. do tigers get drugged up to have tourists take pics with them ? 

 

 

You are barking up the wrong tree - the drugging of tigers is a side issue - it was never proven. However on that particular issue, it has been common practice for decades for owners of animals in the public gaze to be drugged to make them easier to handle. one could argue "so what" they shouldn't have been there in the first place.

THere were far more important issues involved in the tiger temple than whether they were drugged or not - the establishment shouldn't have been there under any circumstances.

It was eventually shut down.

Those involved now run tiger attractions in places like Pattaya.

THe holding of tigers in captivity and their mistreatment is just the tip of the iceberg of animal welfare and conservation in Thailand - there are very few laws concerning animal welfare and those are sparsely enforced.

Tigers are apex predators and their existence in the wild is an indication of how eco-systems are functioning - keeping in captivity does nothing for this, in fact it actually deters from real solutions to Thailand's ecological problems

7 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Do they still have the drugged up temple tigers?

Shows how poorly informed much of the general public are about the issues around all aspects of tiger conservation.

Conservationists don't just have to struggle with front line issues but also have to contend with public ignorance on a gigantic scale...which hinders their work even further.

1 hour ago, scorecard said:

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It seemed to me over the past 20 years teaching in universities that it was quite common for people to be employed by a university as a lecturer on the basis they were writing a PhD.

This was usually just a compilation of plagiarised material and Google."

 

1.  Please share some evidence of this.

2. 99% of doctors of medicine don't have a Ph.D. , they have an MBBS degree and to get that degree they don't do research near the level required to gain a Ph.D.

 

Of itself an MBBS degree is the study of known / proven facts in regard to the health of the human body. There is no requirement for MBBS students to make earth shattering discoveries or new never seen before theories. 

I'm referring to ALL training received at Universities - and the corruption involved

As for you sealioning that kind of shows the paucity of your approach to this issue.

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It seemed to me over the past 20 years teaching in universities that it was quite common for people to be employed by a university as a lecturer on the basis they were writing a PhD.

This was usually just a compilation of plagiarised material and Google.

I've proof read - or tried to - a few theses and most seemed to fall way short of what I'd  consider to be PhD material. 

The problem is so ingrained in Thai academic life it leaves me wondering how it could ever be resolved.

As a foot note, I think it's worth mentioning that it isn't just those producing the PhDs that are at fault, it is those who are accepting or accrediting  them.

The damage may not be apparent initially, but when you consider that these oeople may become medical practitioners , scientists or architects etc etc there is a potential danger to human life through this apparent lack of any real meticulous academic integrity.

Just now, kwilco said:

THailand has 338 officers per 100 k and the USA has 242 per 100k.

TH US has a very poor road safety record overall with a death rate in 4-wheeled vehicles that is higher than Thailand's.

Both police forces are paramilitary and neither has much interest in road safety, but Thailand simply doesn't have a trained up and equipped highway patrol.

However, enforcement is only one factor in bringing about safer roads in Thailand. In fact the police aren't even all of that - to enforce you need courts and legal system that works ans=d roads that are properly demarcated and defined.

 

Then there are all the other equally important factors in road safety.

On 7/28/2023 at 3:34 PM, lordgrinz said:

Thailand has the same percentage of police officers per 100,000 people as the USA, yet for some reason we never see them enforcing any rules/laws, unless in one of these publicity stunts. If they were out patrolling the roads daily and enforcing the existing laws (again Thai laws/rules almost exactly the same as other countries) they could make a big difference in safety here in Thailand, which would attract way more "quality tourist". 

THailand has 338 officers per 100 k and the USA has 242.

Both police forces are paramilitary and neither has much interest in road safety, but Thailand simply doesn't have a trained up and equiped highway patrol.

However, enforcement is only one factor in bringing about safer roads in Thailand. In fact the police aren't even all of that - to enforce you need coursts and legal system that works ans=d roads that are properly demarcated and defined.

Then there are all the other equally important factors in road safety.

16 minutes ago, heybruce said:

a large number of climate change deniers who are keen on electing climate change deniers to government office and punishing businesses that try to do something about climate change.

there is no argument for climate denial - whether they vote or not is a different matter - you are entitled to vote that the world is flat - but it isn't.

THere may be a discussion of how to change the mind of a denier but that too is impossible - like Brexiteers, they aren't interested in evidence or reasoning.

As such there is no [point in discussing that. THey are beyond any form of =discussion.

The title of the topic is "Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory - scientists" - nothing to do with is there or isn't there climate change - deniers need tp be removed from the thread as they are off topic.

1 minute ago, ozimoron said:

What can you say about those charts other than global atmospheric and sea temperatures are rising at an alarming level? That was the intention. So that uninformed people who think it's just another spurious record hot day can crawl back under their respective rocks.

nobody is that uninformed - we all have known that since the 1980s

14 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

There's really nothing to debate here.

so why bother posting it.... it's a bit like discussing transport and posting a picture of a bus

1 hour ago, ozimoron said:

The videos offer irrefutable evidence o

you do realise what a huge faux-pas it is to say that?

THe problem with this thread is like that comment it is unbelievably low-brow.

We all the basic evidence and theory behind climate change.

So really the that is a moot point - deniers now can be justifiably dismissed out of hand.

The title is "in unchartered territory"

So why isn't that being discussed here?

Going over the previous evidence is a waste of time even childish.

8 hours ago, heybruce said:

Only someone who is blind will not see the obvious trend in the graph.

So what? We all know about global warming, what does that bring to the discussion without a comment?