John Drake

At the beginning of the heat wave, I saw some days with the humidity in the 30s. That can make even a 40 degree day bearable. But it's shifting into the 50s now, and that is dangerous. And when I wake up to run the stairs in the morning, it's always 80 or 90ish. I'd rather run in the heat of the day at 39 than 34 and 80 percent humidity. The good thing is that this year seems to have at least gone back on schedule. Last year was uncommonly cool for my area into the first week of April. And then the heat blower came on and lasted throughout June. I'm hoping for a cool down this June.

It's undeniable. And it's the trend wherever they go in sufficient numbers. How I miss the Cold War when they were locked up behind their Iron Curtain.

Started here in Bangkok during the last week of March, and my ten day extended forecast is actually showing an increase in the daily high to 41 going on into May.

Humidity can be okay. If you get cloud cover and some rain. Especially in the afternoon, when even a brief rain shower will cool off the roof of the house and thus make it less like an oven going into the night.

Fallout. Medium to slightly interesting, only because Goggins is so good.

I've decided. There is a particularly dangerous pedestrian x-ing at the top of Phutthamonthon Sai 3 and Borom. Almost impossible to get across during the day going south. There's also a police station there. I'm going to start going into the police station and asking for an escort to get me across the road. Otherwise, impassable.

Why is it when I see a headline with "Clinton" in it, it's always Hillary yacking about something and never Bill? Where's Bill?

Maybe eliminate Form 7162 and free up resources there to go elsewhere.

It's not the high during the day that is now the problem, it is the high of the low that is dangerous in Bangkok. Last night, the low in western Bangkok was 30, along with the sky high humidity. In fact, it was 31 at 2am last night. Then, by 8am it was already back to 33. There is simply no opportunity to cool down. This is what kills people, not daily highs but the inability of the body to cool down at night.

Every protestor evoking and or endorsing Hamas should go on the No Fly List. That includes protesting faculty as well. The arrests and suspensions are meaningless. A lifetime listing on the No Fly List will fix them once and for all.

Aseannow is more and more resembling the comment section in The Bangkok Post.

How about an option for dark mode on AN?

Not my fault. I didn't turn the a/c on until 10:30pm.

I'd check that gold of yours for tungsten, especially if it's in bars.

Okay. All of the above posters who were claiming that other Western nationalities, especially English speaking ones, behave just like this, got any examples? Outright criminal thugs, threatening a beat down on hospital staff over 8000 baht. Russian mobsters it sounds like are running Phuket.

All these rich Russians. Right. Sounds like Diamond Jim, doesn't he?!?!

MFP's first and only meaningful act when coming into office was to do a self purge of all its sex harassers. They did nothing else. Not serious people.

Until they hit 30 or so. Very short shelf life.

This passage describes colonization.

This is definitely worse than the Swiss doctor-kicker.

You're just asking for a power outage.

Too many Euros come here without any experience with how to deal with high temperatures. Not to mention that none of them are acclimatized to it.

So the business practices that put it in its current crisis will continue?

The majority of Americans will crawl across broken glass to vote against him. Only his core acolytes will vote for him. And they aren't numerous enough. They appear larger than reality because they follow him around the country appearing at his rallies like Deadheads for the Grateful Dead.

That was his policy last time, too.