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Report Disgust and Outrage as Tourist Urinates on Moving Tuk-Tuk in Patong
Katatonica replied to webfact's topic in Phuket News
Taxi and minibus drivers generally. -
Report Disgust and Outrage as Tourist Urinates on Moving Tuk-Tuk in Patong
Katatonica replied to webfact's topic in Phuket News
You find the terms he used offensive? Why is that? Poop and pee are words for infants as he said, whom are unlikely to be on this forum. -
Report Disgust and Outrage as Tourist Urinates on Moving Tuk-Tuk in Patong
Katatonica replied to webfact's topic in Phuket News
Pattaya and Patong in this case, bad behaviour being in either one often. equating the whole of Phuket with Patong isn't exactly rational. On the other hand, general news about Pattaya and Phuket is because of the sheer volume of tourism and foreign residents. So now you know. -
Rubbish. He just made up the deficit numbers anyway, pure fabrication.. There is no such thing as a trade deficit between a small country and one as large as the USA. It is a big market, they are not, simple fact. USA cannot sell a lot of goods to a small country because it doesn't have the population, but t he reverse is true. To try to equalise that situation is ludicrous.
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The only thing Trump craves is to feed his need for attention, nothing else matters, worldwide slump or American recession, he doesn't care. He didn't get enough attention as a child so now it's 'look at what I can do.' Let's face it, everyone's talking about Trumpanomics.
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Speedboat Explosion Near Phuket Leaves Six Injured, Sparks Panic
Katatonica replied to snoop1130's topic in Phuket News
Right. To which marine classification society standards? -
Speedboat Explosion Near Phuket Leaves Six Injured, Sparks Panic
Katatonica replied to snoop1130's topic in Phuket News
How likely is it they allow smoking? On a petrol powered wooden hulled craft carrying several hundred litres of petrol/gasoline. How leakproof were the fuel tanks, fittings, hoses, too? And the tank fume vent locations..? -
Thailand Cracks Down on Shady Massage Parlours
Katatonica replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
I had crippling sciatica, that I'd had for years, almost fixed with one massage at a place in Bang Tao, Phuket. Prior to that an ex-England Rugby team physiotherapist had completely failed to help at all by massage nor acupuncture in a lot of expensive sessions. A few more Thai massage sessions and it's absolutely cured. Not a twinge in well over a decade. It certainly can work if done by someone who knows what they're doing. -
Thailand Cracks Down on Shady Massage Parlours
Katatonica replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
There is an existing certification system for properly anatomically, pressure point etc trained massage practitioners. -
Tourist Bus Overturns in Phuket: 20 Injured
Katatonica replied to Georgealbert's topic in Phuket News
Or he was just determined to overtake the motorbike he starts to pass on the corner, in the video. It probably passed him earlier which annoyed him. I do not see any brake lights on the bus going into the corner, or at all. The bikers were lucky to stop in time. -
British Man Sparks Outrage in Thai Restaurant Incident
Katatonica replied to webfact's topic in Isaan News
I think that's only when the word 'bar' is in their job description though. The other 99.9% are not at all. -
Welcome to Thailand! Tourist's First Visit to Pattaya Ends in Theft
Katatonica replied to webfact's topic in Pattaya News
That would have been the army. I witnessed a shootout on the streets by some bank robbers, from the army, in the early 90's in Manila: scary place. We were locked in the guest house when I got there, steel cage round it, never seen anything like that before. It's nowhere near like that now though. -
Former Minister Reveals Alleged Phuket Police Extortion Racket
Katatonica replied to webfact's topic in Phuket News
You can buy a Grab outfit online.. just sayin -
Knew a guy once back in the 90's who was in a Northern border town, Mai Hong Son or Pai maybe and a friendly Thai with a 4x4 asked if he wanted to join for a trip into the hills. Next thing he knows there's Burmese loading kilos of smack onto the jeep and he realises he's the fall guy for a cross-border smuggling trip. Terrified. Last I heard he was run over and killed by a minibus in Bangkok..
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Easily done with a telescope though.
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That's a little ridiculous isn't it? We can see the whole planet from anything in space and there's of lot of stuff with cameras up there nowadays. Not to mention aircraft and those 'rare expeditions'. Antarctica was mapped hundreds of years ago, long before we even had aircraft, never mind spacecraft. The Piri Reis map which shows Antarctica was made from many much earlier maps and the Arctic is just ice, you can pretty much sail through it nowadays. And no, I didn't infer it was a disc at all, it's plainly an imperfect sphere and anyone who tries to argue otherwise is plainly daft. Explain the completely standard nature of nautical miles and area and their relationship to compass direction. If the earth is flat then North is a long straight line thousands of miles long, as are the other cardinal points. There are only two poles and they are plainly just discrete points. there is no East or west pole but on a flat earth they would be the end of the world. I've sailed over most of the ocean bits and can assure you there is no end in any direction.
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From the bridge of a ship you can see about 12 miles, depending how high it is. If the earth was flat you could see everything in every direction provided there wasn't something in the way of your line of sight. Why can't you see the Himalayas for instance, from everywhere on earth? Because they're over the horizon unless you're close to them. You can also travel in any direction for roughly 24k miles, i.e. the CIRCUMFERENCE of the earth and end up in the same place you started from, which is hardly possible on a disc. Why don't we head about people and things disappearing of the edge all the time? What would happen to them? And how come cats haven't pushed everything off the edge by now?
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Russian Captain Identified in Cargo Ship Collision with US Tanker
Katatonica replied to Social Media's topic in World News
The Solong did not make a single course correction for hundreds of miles, just auto-following another route so if they did intend to hit the tanker it was a magical bit of navigation especially as there were at least half a dozen other vessels at the same anchorage. More than likely the watch keepers fell asleep, although they would have had a compulsory alarm system to regularly wake them up, if not deactivated. The captain could well have been off-watch and elsewhere in the accommodation although the responsibility is ultimately his. Any other theory such as deliberate sabotage is extremely unlikely. -
Thai Airways Ban Power Bank Charging on Flights from March 1
Katatonica replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
I flew on AirAsia and Scoot (Singapore Air's budget line) in the last week and power bank charging was banned during take-off and landing only.