phuketsub

Decades of living here have taught me to avoid "amateur night' at all costs...especially where Patong is involved. I am totally down with Belgian brew in a keg, though. Send me a PM if you please...

Quite the same graffiti. What's the meaning of this meme?

This was on the Central Festival overpass where they are digging the hole.

Google deadmau5

After googling I don't think it is directly related to deadmau5..the only thing the images have in common are the MM ears...

Hit images, not web.

Many different variations

I did visit Google Images, but none of the images there had much resemblance to the images I see around town apart from the mouse ears; certainly no skull-like features below the nose. I think I might go out with my own can of spraypaint some night soon and draw Groucho Marx glasses and mustaches on a few of them then gauge the reaction...or would that make me as bad as the people I have complaining about?

Quite the same graffiti. What's the meaning of this meme?

This was on the Central Festival overpass where they are digging the hole.

Google deadmau5

After googling I don't think it is directly related to deadmau5..the only thing the images have in common are the MM ears...

Quite the same graffiti. What's the meaning of this meme?

This was on the Central Festival overpass where they are digging the hole.

Looks a little like Mickey Mouse with a bad hangover

I think they are trying to combine the scariest of images (skull) with the cutest (Mickey Mouse)...Who knows what the point is really. Anyway, they are all over the place now...If they put one up on Khao Toh Seh or on a building on Thalang Road ( etc.) I'll be baying for blood. With all the video cameras up everywhere the cops could probably put a stop to it...if they were so inclined.

I think there are some way at the back of the OTOP Plaza, opp Hard Rock Cafe...at least they were there last time I was there, but that was a few years back.

Not a lot of action at the site today, nor a lot of traffic in that area around 2pm-3pm. Maybe it has something to do with Christmas. This is the view to the north from the pedestrian overpass.

I think the removal of the footbridge could be a turning point in the project and its affect on traffic flow. Central said they are going to launch a shuttle bus to get people from the main complex to HomeWorks after it comes down. We'll see how that turns out.

A few Burmese workers seemed quite happy to break up the monotony by having their picture taken..

Reading the reviews it says this is actually a horror movie...so is this appropriate for a 7-year-old>

Here is a Christmas movie to watch: Rare exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1401143/

Wow, a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes...thanks for the tip

Now I am reading the reviews and they describe it as a horror film...is it appropriate for a little girl, age 7?

Here is a Christmas movie to watch: Rare exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1401143/

Wow, a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes...thanks for the tip

For me a basic value of life is not vandalizing or destroying public property. Graffiti is a slippery slope: do we want this place to look like LA?

I don't know how LA looks nowdays. Phuket is not as ugly city as for example Bangkok is.

Still here is lot's of gray wall, which would be nicer if there would be some color and maybe painting with ideas.

They even 'tag' (put graffiti on) rocks and trees in LA now...listen to the Adam Carolla podcast when he rants about it...classic

I'm happy to see well done graffitis which remind us for basic values of life. Not so happy to see idiotic 'Look mama, I just made everybody to see how I can destroy what other people build' paintings.

For me a basic value of life is not vandalizing or destroying public property. Graffiti is a slippery slope: do we want this place to look like LA?

I guess it was inevitable the way the island is going..this one is all over Phuket Town.

Probably just high-school kids, but I hate to see graffiti anywhere in Phuket.

Does anyone have a clue/idea who might be behind this one?

Hi phuketsub,

Dara Hotel, seems popular as near Central, iPavillion Phuket Town and Katina Hotel would be off the top of my head. Cheers, GOM

actually my wife found them something in Rassada but thanks for the tip!

Some friends (Thai family) from the Deep South and need two rooms in Phuket January 30 and 31. Nothing too expensive; a serviced apartment in Phuket Town would be ideal, but they are not fussy about the exact locale. Thus far no luck finding anything, so if any TV friends in the accommodation business know of anything please send me a PM. Many thanks.

One thing you can get that is well worth 20 baht is a pen with a laser pointer at the back end. I got one several months ago and it still works, both the laser and the pen part.

I remember my dad's construction company was one of the first to use lasers for drain pipe construction (it helps keep the flow gradient exact) back in the 1970s and the laser came in a huge, heavy box and took an hour to set up.

Now you can get one for 20 baht and they are fun to use at night by tricking jingjoks into running in circles, chasing the light because they think it is an insect.

Fun for the feeble minded perhaps, but give it a try when you have had a few and you wont be disappointed.

So you are going to tell us, the drain ploblems in Thailand are because of 20 Baht lasers?

But you said, it works fine!

Er, no...these drains were built in New England and to the best of my knowledge they still work fine. I don't think laser technology is in use in drain construction here yet...

One thing you can get that is well worth 20 baht is a pen with a laser pointer at the back end. I got one several months ago and it still works, both the laser and the pen part.

I remember my dad's construction company was one of the first to use lasers for drain pipe construction (it helps keep the flow gradient exact) back in the 1970s and the laser came in a huge, heavy box and took an hour to set up.

Now you can get one for 20 baht and they are fun to use at night by tricking jingjoks into running in circles, chasing the light because they think it is an insect.

Fun for the feeble minded perhaps, but give it a try when you have had a few and you wont be disappointed.

I don't really understand the point of this thread. You bought some crappy lighters? Don't do it again. The Toto brand that I have bought for years for 5 Baht work fine. Make sure you adjust the valve on the front to - not + and then burn off a bit of the extra gas pressure and they work fine. I even have a sterling silver case they fit in that I've had for at least 15 years. Looks like a silver Bic lighter.

I guess the point was to raise a few smiles and get a fun thread started. I guess I didn't do a very good job of it though...

Oh, I had a different 20 Baht 'shop' in mind.

that's a 50 Baht shop, now, so I was curious, about the new one

That's inflation for you!

I would like to start a thread called "tales from the 20 baht shop" and include, for a start, some items purchased at the small one next to the Bangneaw School (off Phuket Rd, Phuket Town).

I bought four very attractive cigarette lighters in a pack for 20 baht, well less than the 10baht they charge for run-of-the-mill lighters at Supercheap. Good deal? Wrong.

When I went to light my cig for the first time a flame about six inches long came out, almost singeing my hair off. I also bought an ice cube tray there that cracked in half the first time I used it.

I have got some good deals at these places, but now I wonder it something is gonna blow up in my face every time I make a purchase...

The best one I know of is on Soi Keha in Rassada (Phuket's biggest public housing project)...

If anyone knows of a better one pls let me know...

There might be also another meteor shower at the same time.

http://earthsky.org/...h-2012-geminids

Debris left behind by Comet Wirtanen might produce 30 meteors per hour, added to 100 meteors per hour from the Geminids. That would be an awesome meteor show!

On top of this we have an asteroid passing by our little rock at this moment.

http://phys.org/news...o-asteroid.html

Thanks...not sure I want to venture to such a remote destination as Radar Hill; let's not forget I couldn't even get to the TV party sober without putting my car in a drainage ditch!

anyway, I am gonna monitor the weather before doing anything first...I am thinking Monkey Beach out at Sireh might be the right spot for us

My wife has informed me that there will be the Geminids Meteor Shower tomorrow night and that the whole family should all get up in the middle of the night to view it.

This begs the question: where in or around Phuket Town (I live in Rassada) is the best place to do so? I like the idea of Khao Toh Seh Point 7, but fear too much light from Phuket Town below. Are there any dark patches left out on Koh Sireh?

Any advise appreciated...

Most of the chains here cannot help you unless you have a fairly standard vision problem...My best advice is to go to Dr Kanokwan's Clinic in Samkong, Phuket Town, just south or the Samkong bridge on Yaowarat Road northbound (just north of Bangkok Hospital, near the CP minimart)...Very popular with the locals; not so much with tourists...so be prepared to wait...I don't remember the exact hours but believe it is open most weeknights

I had a chance to go on a multi-day tour to the Surin Islands last year as the only English-speaking family on a tour with many Russians. I didn't think they were any more rude or demanding than my own countrymen (Americans)...my daughter puked in the van on the way back and they weren't nearly as understanding as Thais would be, but that's about it.

Many Thai tour guides I have spoken to have told me they don't like dealing with Russians in groups, though.

I must be 'losing it'...I am sure I saw signs up saying the Otop of the Year started on December 6, but there was nothing at the Central Staging Area at Saphan Hin yesterday.

However, they were setting up for the Krom Luang Chumphon (founder of Thai Navy) memorial event that starts along the road just south of it today....fyi fellow readers

I remember seeing a sign reading that this event was supposed to start yesterday...no references to it in any of the English-language media. Has anyone been yet? What's the beer situation?

The construction company seems to have the expertise to lay out the concrete barriers even though nearly two weeks & not complete yet, but they seem to lack expertise in digging holes. I would have thought as soon as the barriers were in place excavation would start & dirt trucks rolling in & out. BTW I have been on construction sites where people pay the builder to take dirt away as they can sell it for landfill. Perhaps this is still under negotiation.

If one of the forum members visit the area regularly, it might be worth of make an habit to take a photo from the same location. This could be daily or weekly. Then after 2 (or more) years combine these photos together to make an time-lapse film of the progress.

Good idea; you should be in the media...I will of course be avoiding the area as much as possible, but I'll try to get some pix and post them...too bad the pedestrian overpass has to go as that was always the best spot to take pix from...

I had to go to Central on Sunday to take the family to see "The Impossible" (better than I expected), and the Sunday traffic in the area was not that bad...Perhaps ironically, what was truly 'impossible' was finding a place to park in the underground parking garage there...I let my family out and by the time I 'found' a place to park (parking was actually forbidden there but I moved some Jersey barriers to make space) I missed the first 40 minutes of the film and the part I wanted to see most: how well the CGI people recreated the deluge.

It seems strange to me ( or perhaps I have not been monitoring this forum closely enough) that there isn't more comment about the horrible conditions and useless staff that work in these parking garages...