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3 minutes ago, carlyai said:

Up here (gateway to Isaan ) they don't use cheese on the pizzas but that horrible creamy white stuff. Horrible. Admitted not tried it but I guess horrible but the local mob like it.

The cheese in Thailand is not much better.  Unless they use imported cheese it usually tastes like cardboard.  Most Thai run places use the local stuff because Thai's don't know what good cheese is.  You usually have to go to an italian restaurant to get good cheese.  Pizza company cheese is ok.  Some western run pizza restaurants use ok cheese but I'm almost always disappointed with Thai run pizza restaurants cheese.

If a certain kettle trips things in almost any socket you put it, but nothing else does, then obviously it's a problem with that kettle. Why would you think this has anything to do with the house wiring?   Or am I missing something?

18 minutes ago, thequietman said:

Oh for goodness sake! These are stock pictures.

Maybe they are just using stock photos of actual furniture.  If not, what sort of scam are you suggesting this is?

43 minutes ago, BobinBKK said:

They are jealous because we (farangs) always pickup the prettiest Thai women in the bar. I have lived in Thailand for 2 years and it never ceases to amaze me how many beautiful Thai women are so curious about having sex with foreigners. Who am I to say no to a beautiful Thai smile and free sex?

Maybe you have not been in Thailand very long.  You seem to have large gaps in understanding of overall Thai culture which is not unusual for farangs.  The most beautiful ones are the Chinese Thai and they usually don't want to have anything to do with Farangs.  Middle/Upper class Thais usually don't want anything to do with Issan Thais so those are the ones that typically are interested in Farangs.

This must happen a lot.  Surely there must be some sort of way to get rid of stuff.  Like a place you can donate it or something.

This air marshall probably now has a brand new pickup.  Probably living in a much nicer house as well. 

This is not as bad as that former Thaskin ministers son who killed a policeman in cold blood in a night club and got away with it.  He hid out in Cambodia/Malaysia long enough for witneses to magically change their stories.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1005076016194004800

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/305526/duang-police-transfer-evokes-memories-of-chequered-past

19 hours ago, kinyara said:

That's not your photo!!!  Why are you pretending to be in Thailand? 

 

Which part of Pattaya were you in when it rained?  

That's not really flooding.  That's maybe only a few inches of water.  Not even as high as the curb.  That would probably drain away in minutes as soon as the rain stops.  Flooding is when you see sandbags around doors to prevent it from going into the shops. 

This looks like the 3rd road intersection.  I think it typically floods more further down around Buakao.

11 hours ago, Pilotman said:

haha, it's never looked like that.  Photo shopped to death. 

Maybe because that's not Pattaya.

15 hours ago, Wullie Mercer said:

I can only vouch back to 1985, when soi baukau was a natural swamp, now man made klong!!!!

And how is that relevant to now?

25 minutes ago, tomauasia said:

You are missing the memo. ARMY don't want tourists anymore. They are sick very old men that hate whites. THIS is not Thaksin it's a mad man at the helm.

I spent a lot of time in Thailand during Toxsin's reign and it was pretty bad.  For all the things to complain about with the Army running things, and their refusal to let tourists back in is certainly one of them,  Thailand is running a lot better now than it did with all the corruption and favoritism under Toxsin

It's designed this way.  If you notice, the sidewalk is shaped like a dam spillway in these spots.  No, that's not just done to allow vehicles to drive up on the sidewalk although they use it for that too, on the spillways that don't have obstacles in the way like a tree. 

The new drainage they just put in along beach road is supposed to help clear it out from the upper sois faster but I don't think that was mean't to prevent the overflow and sand washing away during heavy downpours.  You can't make the pipes big enough to handle that amount of rain in a short period of time.  It's just a fact of life with monsoons.  So they just let it overflow and wash away the sand and just fill the sand back in within a day or two.  No big deal.

My question is does it still flood higher up on Pattaya Klang?  I think the main goal is to get the water drained away from the Sois as quick as possible to try prevent them from flooding.  The tradeoff is that the overflow on beach road during heavy downpours will wash away the sand, which is by design.  I'm guessing it still floods on the upper sois because there is just too much water sometimes, but it should at least drain away faster now.

To anyone who hasn't figured it out yet.  This is yet another distraction.  The goal is to blame China in order to distract Americans from things they don't want Americans hearing about.  You can pretty much guess what that is.  In fact Trump praised China for rounding up the Uighurs.

I sure hope Americans are not sucked into believing any of these political distractions again.

1 hour ago, BigStar said:

Though you may consider only Soi Buakhao and Walking Street as Pattaya, in fact both Naklua and Jomtien are also in Pattaya.

 

The article quotes only one senior executive of the group that happens to own those particular hotels.

 

If you close almost all your hotels and then concentrate reservations on just one, you could theoretically claim nearly full bookings that way.

Funny that with all the loss of revenue from tourism there has been no easing of visa restrictions to compensate.  I think that is very telling that they would rather watch their country suffer economic hardship rather than making it a little easier for foreigners to live here.

They have temporarily extended some deadlines out of practical considerations but that's not the same thing.

8 minutes ago, Caldera said:

Before speculating how many tourists might come, actually letting tourists back in would be a prerequisite for any recovery.

 

They can't lose face though.  One of the reasons this country may never get their sheit together.  Thailand could be an economic powerhouse if they didn't have such stupid thought processes when it comes to business.

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If they are found to have carried Covid-19 patients, they will be immediately blacklisted.

Which is pretty much impossible to guarantee.  Point, shoot, aim. 

They are still saying next year for a widely available vaccine.  I don't think those early doses will be available to peasants like us.  Only 'important' people with connections and money.

Most people probably won't feel that comfortable getting a vaccine that is not as well tested in the early days anyways.

Why are they not shutting down highways?  They shut down an entire country over a few Covid deaths.  Caused a huge political storm when they let in some Egyptian military people with Covid.  But daily road carnage far exceeding Covid deaths is ok?