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In other news, Pheu Thai thrashed People's Party candidates in three recent PAO elections. Pita was on the stumps for the People's Party up in Udon Thani for the recent PAO election. Despite being the Udon Thani winners in the general election less than 18 months earlier, they're popularity was easily eclipsed by Pheu Thai. The next round of PAO elections are in a little over one month away and Pheu Thai still has the momentum

I didn't know Thaksin had influenza. Hope he gets better soon.

From a safety point of view, it's all about reducing the risk to ALARP (as low as reasonably practical). Unfortunately, in my earlier example, which is doubtless repeated at tens of thousands of locations throughout Thailand, the uncoordinated actions of individual local government departments during a routine road widening exercise in a growing conurbation over the years, preclude a collective risk assessment, thus ALARP cannot exist. It would seem that relocating utility poles is seldom considered as a solution as it's probably the most expensive and disruptive option. What cost public safety? [rhetorical] But these local government entities aren't involved with mitigating for things like bad (or drunk) driving, a suicidal jaywalker or the likelihood of a wheel coming of a speeding lorry and taking out unlicensed yai on her uninsured salaeng. Other government entities are charged with mitigating that and therein lies another failure to reduce the risk.

They wouldn't go with you for free either. see Dummy's Guide to Prostitution, Chapter Two - Notes for punters

Booked with Nam, fast email response and quote. 1100 each way, tolls inclusive. Thanks @jacko45k!

I was responding to the OP who posted right here in the Pattaya forum. Soi Yensabai is in Pattaya. You say you arrived late at your hotel in Chiang Mai. How late? Was it a week day when most cookeries would have been shuttering earlier than a busier weekend? It's up to you to banish the thought of ever ordering food on an app when, on the single food delivery you have ever used, you didn't use an app and have no idea if the hotel did either. They could easily have called some place they knew and had someone else deliver. There's a reason the delivery apps have reviews and star-ratings. In my experience with Grab and Food Panda, these are accurate. Any restaurant selling substandard and overpriced food will disappear quickly.

Those drainage gullies are dangerous. A sober scooter rider, suddenly confronted with traffic from ahead on the wrong side of the road, or being cut-off by a passing vehicle that was suddenly confronted with traffic from ahead on the wrong side of the road, will find themselves in the gully and hitting the power pole. This IS an accident black spot. Why? Because of knee-jerk responses that are bereft of any semblance of road traffic safety engineering as the road has been progressively widened to facilitate heavier and wider traffic flows. Fifteen or twenty years ago, the power poles were probably a safe distance away on a grass verge on what was probably a narrow rural road that didn't see heavy traffic. The road gets resurfaced and widened to make increasing amount of two-way traffic safer, the poles remain in the same place. New businesses set up on the busier roadside, maximising their plot of land, right up to the utility poles. Then the road requires better drainage to make it safer in the rainy season, so the gully style drain is squeezed in between the widened road and the "immovable" utility poles. Street lighting may also be poor, so after some accidents, they paint red and white stripes on the poles at eye-level to scooter riders. There, all sorted as far as the various, non-interactive, local government departments are concerned but still having accidents, so it must be "pee". You don't need to be a pished scooter rider or an accredited ROSPA safety driver to see it has and always will be an accident waiting to happen.

There's no need to be so hard on yourself. Your pontifical abilities are right up there with the best of them.

And you aren't?

I agree, but Trump will have to hush his mouth and hope his collective rabble in the House agree to also cool their jets on ousting the Speaker.

No such luck, just telling the members what my mate told me.

Any recommendations for airport pickup at Suvarnabhumi, destination Pattaya? Will also make the return trip the following day. Thanks!

I have people do all that for me. Back to the OP, your location may be the issue. Maybe you're down the east end of Soi Yensabai and the Grab guys are scared of those burly ladymen that menace the locals and visitors alike down that way?

Meanwhile, over in the foot shooter's camp. MAGA Crisis Could Mean There Is No Trump Inauguration on Jan. 20 With Mike Johnson’s speakership in peril, lawmakers worry the House won’t be able to certify Donald Trump’s re-election victory. "If the election isn’t certified by Jan. 20, the Constitution is clear that Biden’s term has ended, taking him and Vice President Kamala Harris out of the line of presidential succession. The speaker of the House would be next in theory, but since that position would be empty too, it would pass to the Senate president pro tempore, the majority party’s most senior senator. That would be Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa. Speaking of whom, has anyone checked on Grassley lately? The lawmaker turned 91 in September." https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-crisis-could-mean-there-is-no-trump-inauguration-on-jan-20/

The operator of the bus that caught fire has been punished. There's safety videos and escape instructions, as well as special hammers to break windows and stickers on the windows to show where to use these hammers. All buses in Thailand have now been inspected and it's all safe again. Last week, mid afternoon, I saw some overnight double-deckers getting prepared for their night runs. At least a couple still had what appeared to be gas tanks located in the area called the "passenger cabin."

Extreme right of picture, at the 'golf course' entrance?

"raid traffic engineers" and "tge surmtuatiin"? Texting while driving of FTS (fat thumb syndrome)?

I also recall earlier this year, Thai Customs started levying 7% VAT on all imported packages valued at 1500 baht and above but based on CIF. I believe that means insurance and shipping charges will also be included in these calculations, not just the declared value of the goods.

Wasn't my recent experience at Lidl or Asda in Accrington where I was the only one fumbling for cash while everyone else did that 'touch and go' malarkey with their plastic or phones.

Cameron's decision to sit on his hands when Assad gassed and bombed his own people in Syria was predicated on how horribly wrong Blair was to follow Bush Jr's lies and go all-in on Iraq. When Cameron wilted, Obama had to bail on his 'red line' warnings to Assad and without any western resolve on intervention, the Russians stepped in.

I can see how your application to join the Foreign Office got rejected.

Aha! The myth of the "black-hole" of Torynomics sucks in another sucker.

Keir Starmer: Neighbours Say He Desperately Needs Friends

It's the best that the midget amputees can do.

Did you miss this? Drunk and horny isn't an excuse to shag on the lobby sofa. The broken glass table was collateral damage.