Justfine

Cheaper than Bangkok for hotels. Food much the same. Tours are expensive though. Krabi much cheaper for day tours 

USA

Found another good restaurant to eat at. Trying kayaking tomorrow.

Might try the Goodview or Riverside Bar if I can stay awake past 9pm.

2 hours ago, heybruce said:

It's quite normal for a university city to have a nightlife that is not oriented towards western sex tourists or geared towards sedate retirees.  Chiang Mai still has these kind of places, they're just no longer at Nimmanhamin.

Geared towards 20yos.

Hobbies are good.

Just now, Just1Voice said:

The good news is that they found the boys and their coach, alive & well.  The bad new is: How the hell do we get them out? 

The experts will be doing that. "We" won't be doing it.

5 hours ago, Get Real said:

Seems like the cave is getting longer day by day. If my memory don´t fail me, it started with around 7 km. Thats like 40% longer in only 12 days.

In my opinion they have to get them out very quick. If they wait 4 months with these numbers, they will have to walk or dive about 1,6 miles extra for every month that passes.

 

Only one hour walking. I can not consider that especially long time or far, when exploring an interesting cave.
I guess you have to ask them when they come out.

 

 

However, they where not in Pattaya Beach area and they found them 400 meter deeper in the cave. I don´t se the big problem here. Drill a hole down to Pattaya Beach area and get them out quicker. If something cave in, the seal team is already there to have that fixed and removed quickly.

Oh dear.

1 hour ago, ZeVonderBearz said:

Like lots of cool or hip area the big boys with all the money always take over and rip away at everything that made it great. 

The area last night was 80% Chinese. Generally blocking the footpaths whilst yapping away.

32 minutes ago, maximillian said:

 

You are a real sadist, Mr. Justfine !

No she is though.

18 minutes ago, Chris Lawrence said:

But he did keep them going for 10 days? Complex decision. Dangerous cave system by the sounds of what has been said. Maybe authorities should take responsibility to leave it open?

After making a terrible decision he had to try hard to keep them alive. No other good options.

17 minutes ago, jossthaifarang said:

It's a cave there are underground waterways, that's how the cave got there in the first place. 

And they are trying to prevent additional flooding.

5 minutes ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

Well, at least they don't share your presumptuous nature and do have a sign to warn those who may not assume that the cave floods, its not like you only know that it does from this incident, is it, oh no, it was surely obvious to you before hand, get a grip.

Apologist

Innit is slang.

1 minute ago, faraday said:

Yes, it is:

 

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/innit

 

No, they weren't fools - as we don't know the full story.

Walking deep into a cave that floods in rainy season to celebrate a birthday is stupid.

8 hours ago, heybruce said:

Some of us recall five years ago when Nimmanhamin had more nightlife options than could be counted and Zoe stayed open and packed all night.

You clearly don't know how the Thai people socialize--with lots of food and lots of drink, all served by pretties. 

You are a farang.

8 hours ago, heybruce said:

Perhaps for you.

You one of those sad 65yos sitting in bars?

7 minutes ago, bannork said:

He's only winding sensitive pommies like you and me up. Be generous of spirit and give him a like. The poor man is from a land that can't fully pronounce English words.

afternoon becomes arvo

biscuit becomes biccy

You can work out how they say chocolate biscuit- choccy biccy !

Sad innit? The language of children.

 

 

Innit is an adult word?

Brave poms found these 13 Thai fools. 

4 minutes ago, jossthaifarang said:

Agreed It's a good contingency, my point is "unbelievably heavy and continuous rains" are coming not if but when. You can see how little space they have in there, and they have reached the far end of the cave. When the rain really comes down and floods will inundate them. 

 

Again, I'm no specialist cave diver, and I'm surtain the situation in there is really difficult, but surly we have the technology to get them out now they have found them..

They have set up a system to turn water away from the cave.

4 minutes ago, bannork said:

But they entered the cave in June, not July.

Apparently the coach is at present the weakest of all of the group due to giving his rations to the kids.

Thai logic. July 1 dangerous. Last week of June safe.

"No cave has been going down, it became heavily flooded due to heavy rain and flash flood.

However, that is not relevant here."

It's the most relevant thing. Some caves flood, some don't.

Learn something about caves before embarrassing yourself.

11 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

This sign is right at the entrance to the cave.

Tell that to "Get Real". His comments are not real 

"No cave has been going down"

Obviously you have never been in a cave. 

2 hours ago, Get Real said:

His duty is to be an inspiration to the children and his team. That is what he has tried to do all the time. What is very stupid in this case, is comments like you are leaving.

 

No cave has been going down, it became heavily flooded due to heavy rain and flash flood.

However, that is not relevant here. What is relevant is why you didn´t go out and tell everybody that the reason why they not come out for the first 2 days, was that the cave was flooded or broke before the team went in or you heard any news of it. I mean, well, it was so obvious to you, right?

 

I will make you a riddle on this one: I just guess we do not have to explain who is the fool here, and it´s not the coach?

The cave goes down under ground. Utter stupidity.

Your comments are nonsense. He caused the problem.

39 minutes ago, Jimdandy said:

In the US it was after a bridge collapsed that the government ordered 'inspections of all old bridges. Now in Thailand it's inspection of  'adventure sites' after the incident at the cave in Chiang Rai. What does all of this really say about how much governments around the world really know or care about our safety?

Anyone over the age of 15yo understands rain and slopes.