Asking for a friend

1 minute ago, SiSePuede419 said:

Driving to an island.

 

Hmmm.  I'm skeptical on whether their cars will float. ????

It’s Xeno’s paradox. For each halfway point if they hit a body and surrender a vehicle to the authorities and are let go they eventually run out of vehicles.

Perhaps the real vacation is the people you run over along the way.

Thoughts and prayers to the victim(s).

What is the clearance on the truck in question? Many cases of people hitching a ride under a truck unbeknownst to the driver.

12 hours ago, Bundooman said:

How could anyone continue their happy holiday with the death of a human being being so closely linked to their vehicle, whether that unfortunate person was dead or alive prior to being glued to the underside of this guy's car?

To be fair, it’s the third of the Four Sights of Theravada Buddhism. Who are you to judge what their future insights into the incident will be? You project your own assumptions let alone their guilt, perhaps? (I don’t say so scoldingly).

Admittedly, one has to wonder how things would have been had the dead body Prince Siddartha saw had been intertwined in the wheel works of his chariot as opposed to by the side of the road. 

Dear Thailand,

I have the Thai wife, I have the recipes, I have the memories. I shall not be returning. Enjoy your little Orwellian cargo cult.

Please, Thailand, like the song goes, Don't go changing to try and please me, You never let me down before, Don't imagine you're too familiar, And I don't see you anymore, I would not leave you in times of trouble, We never could have come this far, I took the good times,, I'll take the bad times, I take you just the way you are

apologies to billy Joel 

15 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Where will this come from and why here. Who would invest here with this government in power as corrupt as they are.

CIA loves running black sites in Thailand. Biden is in the CIAs back pocket. Should be good business next 4 years. Black hood manufacturing will be gangbusters.

My condolences. Tragedy is tragedy no matter the cause or location. Hope something is learned and good can come from it.

10 hours ago, twocatsmac said:

A monument to corruption.

There is a Ferris wheel and rollercoaster near Fashion Island BKK that demoralizes me every time we go by it, it was all a scam, never completed, never opened, (afaik), now it sits rusting and sinking since the late 2000s, back into the jungle from which it briefly sprung. Now part of my Zombie Apocalypse landscapes of Thailand of which there are too many.

On 8/28/2020 at 7:16 AM, ThailandRyan said:

You just never know what to expect.  Order a Hamburger and get a Chicken Sandwich.......French fries and instead you get  onion rings.

I ordered a lady, and guess what I got—well, ah forget I even brought it up, mate.

Start with the disease of alcoholism.

Doesn’t he know? Say good things in the blogposts with your name on it, say the horrible truths in the comments from sock puppet accounts! ????

I don’t lament the trying to change things, I lament the inevitable infiltration and manipulation of young minds that happens. A whole new world of horrors awaits us this decade. I need my morning coffee.

Sadly, the global Marxist agenda pushes on, once America falls to it, countries such as Thailand will have the fight of their lives. “Democracy” is Marxist dog-whistling meaning mob rules, unpersoning, socialism, purges of the unbelievers, then the pure communism that never seems to be established, almost as if it is a lie.

8 hours ago, scorecard said:

I got the reaction wrong, it should be the 'sad' face. Sad because someone had to write such a nasty comment.

How was that a nasty comment? He is lamenting the fact that individuals need to resort to using their pensions to feed people when it is the government that is responsible for people not getting their checks. Then he is lamenting and hoping the farang’s own government doesn’t do the same to him which would make matters even worse. How was that nasty? How? 

I kept up to date on the initial outbreak back when (not bragging) everyone was largely asleep about the issue. Thankfully I had just finished read the old novel The Hot Zone about the original Ebola outbreaks.

i started to see things go downhill fast in China, ordered a reasonable amount of N95 back when they were a few dollars each, figuring I’d be required to wear them for my job -silly me not realizing in the West we suicidally resistes wearing masks (guilting people as hoarders or selfish/doctors need them etc) when in fact *now* they are saying we should all be covering our faces (a bit late thanks!).

So now my Thai Wife thinks I’m Nostradamus because we’ve been wearing masks the whole time to hell with what others think. We never hoarded anything but our usual purchasing process is to buy extra in case of a blizzard (North East USA) or job loss etc. The real hoarders are the ones that buy stuff and never use it. Our stuff is in constant use and rotation. We just have enough to help avoid adding to the cross contamination of going out every day to buy stuff like 90% of people do especially in BKK. 
 

she’s been great and learned to cut my hair (I bought electric clippers before the lockdowns for seeing it being an issue) and she did great. I in turn cut off chunks of her hair with her instructions. I must say I did poorly but we have a few months for my mistakes to grow back ???? 

Toilet Paper was never an issue (didn’t install the bidet hose here but this will prompt me to do it when this blows over).

3 hours ago, MamaSan said:

secured with undoable rubber bands

Haha thisssss^^^^

Let the world end, God, just show me the secret of unwrapping a Thai rubber band. (Yes I’ve YouTubed it, I need God Himself to show me how).

With regards to the Thai Wife (pfft to “captain anti-racist” up there) she doesn’t so much as hoard eggs due to coronavirus, however it seems normal for her to have no less than 6-8 cartons on hand in full rotation. She is an accountant and an extreme couponer and I’m a prepper gun-nut/survivalist anyway, on any normal year—she buys eggs I buy 5.56x45mm, we both do our gloriously cis-gender roles, (leftists can go lick a doorknob if so inclined ????).

Stay healthy you old farts.

Disappointing coming from a country whose highest level police official was called Big Joke. Curious, would they extradite me from the US? I could use the free airfare.

“Underlying conditions” “Prior health complications” and “comorbidities” is code for “you will die from this and we will downplay it by blaming something else”.

Mark my <deleted>’ing words.

4 hours ago, pgrahmm said:

No happy ending for this story....

I can use a few dozen hired hands for my tug boat. No one said there weren’t kathoey among them. Then I could very easily dock or dig for clams, best of both worlds. 

I guess it’s never too late to learn to swim!

1 minute ago, Asking for a friend said:

Assuming not a gangbanger since I’m not a racist.

I mean, not on Thursdays, anyway.

Two things come to mind:

Does the lady mean they spent 20,000THB and not understand the exchange rate? ???? 

and 

Never, in my life, have I seen BKK care a whit about what “leaves” BKK vs. what is brought in. My understanding was that BKK dumps the responsibility for checking that on the USA or other destinations (to save money).

That would be a nightmare for me as I hit the range frequently however I keep a meticulous range bag just for that use and always check for loose rounds. I suspect if not a pure scam this could have been an innocent round he left in there from a range day trip? Assuming not a gangbanger since I’m not a racist.