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Tarnishing the reputation of Pattaya or burnishing it to a bright shine.

Approximately 1 per year the last two decades. A couple of years was death free, but survived falls still happened. 16-17 deaths. A double death happened if memory serves. The slips are caused by a gray lichen, fed by the constant mist, that mostly looks just like the rock, not a green slime, and people think it’s just wet rock. Step on it and your feet go out from under you and the only hand holds are just as slippery. There are many warning signs, I was up there last January and saw them. I also believed them and did Not fall. It’s mostly people mid twenties early thirties.

I’d fail heel-toe and one leg stand after not drinking since September. Pre-Gouty ankles, knee replacement placement, other knee with metal plate, and regular inner-ear vertigo balance issues. I can do the fingertip nose ok. 1 out of 3 won’t cut it…

Back in the day, before burial at sea they would sow the sailors body into a sail cloth sack. But always the last stitch went through the dead man’s nose to make sure he was dead. That might have been useful this time. At least they did check her before cremation….

Obviously they transferred company funds to the new account first. Then transferred them to some other account. They must look at the bank and bank officers/tellers involved very precisely. No chance this amount of transfer didn't have huge documentation and extensive wire trail. A bent bank employee is likely, check their safe boxes and accounts too.

Might have played a big part of why Makro, nationwide, stopped bank app scanning yesterday. Cash only the systems not working. AWS crash and burn. If you call IT they’ll say; ‘Try turning it off and on again.’

Kissing and hugging while night swimming is verbohtten? Get a life, do some real work and ignore these peeper faux-scadal shots

They may consider SMS as parcels.

This is PARCEL service not letters. Its because of the tariffs situation. There’s no way to calculate or prepare for import charges, certainly not prepaid, and unlike DHL or FedEx you can’t over prep-pay and get a refund to your ‘account the difference’. So postal package service was just stopped cold. But letters ‘without import value’ are fine and were not included in storage.

No. Actually have been in the business in the past. And eaten at a dozen or more Michelin 1-3 starred places on 3 continents. This is how the high end gourmet restaurant business works on all continents . And I am anything but an YouTuber influencer scrounging for deals. What a joke!

I’ve paid 22,000 baht for dinner for two, with wine, in Bangkok at a high end establishment. It was a special occasion meal, and worth the cost because all dishes were awe inspiring. If you can taste the difference the price is up to you. As mentioned above; market seafood at 1,500 baht for 100 grams sounds about right for high end specialties.

Many restaurants serve fresh seafood at a set price, but can also state based on market price which fluctuates. And within a range. Sometimes greatly. Pseudo mock-Crab meat is made to resemble crab and taste in the ballpark, often as “Crab-sticks”, but for a fraction of the cost, this is what is common in most budget priced “crab” dishes. But actual imported King Crab or Snow Crab, etc, flown in live and fresh from Alaska and elsewhere, will be far, far above in cost. Local crab will be much less, but just not taste the same. So before freaking out about a 4,000 baht / $122 crab meal, you must ask; is this local crab, which is ok, or Alaskan or other premium imported specialty crab, price based on market value? A Michelin starred restaurant could be expected to source the best ingredients available regardless of cost, because their customers expect something special, usually at a premium price, specialty dishes that can’t be found typically. Typically based on “market cost” that morning. Putting a fixed price on a menus means they can only buy produce that fits in budget, not best available at market. Often there is a huge difference in taste. This witch-hunt is obviously set in motion by someone with no clue about how high end restaurants work, nor about market pricing of specialty foods… or by a disgruntled competitor that got hosed for customers last month...

A vacillating social construct. Some think it’s trendy and cool, others think it’s regrettable self-mutilation by the insecure. Some get obsessed and get dozens, not necessarily with any context or artistic overview. That seems warped. My Mrs has a small one covering a scar. Cultutally appropriate and aesthetic. But I never had one, never saw anything I knew I wanted 50 years later. Now it is 50 years later from when I could have started and I still agree I’m glad I never got one.

“…The Thai government has alerted the international community, asserting that Cambodia has flagrantly ignored a ceasefire agreement, initiating attacks on Thai territory just as it was about to come into force. …” If it was not yet in effect, but just about to be, is that actually a violation? Particularly if all firing stopped by the time it actually took affect?