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Anyone one know where I can get a Tibetan Varoosh lunch?

Tibet?

Varoosh is the Tibetan God of feet. The lunch is a thanksgiving that all your varookas have cleared up!

Anyone one know where I can get a Tibetan Varoosh lunch?

Sugar shortage? You kidding. Everything from bread to spaghetti is saturated in sugar!

Victimless crime. What's all the fuss about? Yawn.........

China?

A tourist walks into a Mum and Dad store and asks for condoms.

The assistant says "No have, Try Boots".

The tourist says" I want to slip in, not march in!".

I say it's the boss of The Samui Electricity Company. The biggest muppet ever!

Much awaited picture

Latest Samui Gazette ( Nov-19- Dec 2 ) has a story & picture page 6 if anyone interested. One of them has been arrested & charged.

Had a ,look online but that edition isn't available yet!

i might buy this bar. it seems to be pretty interesting. haven't even herd the name yet and it has a 2 page forum on here. this bar promotes itself. just would like to know what is the bar and where it is so i cna pop open my breif case.

hope my jackin a box still works

It's already been bought by a Thai lady!!!!!!!

Get a Harley, Crusty!!!!!

I know the bar you're talking about, I think. On Chawang Beach Road. The rent is horrendous and certainly not worth the money. But, hey, if someone is stupid enough to pay the price, then ho hum...........

And how does this gentleman know this?

Honestly, if you haven't lived on Koh Phangan, and clearly you haven't or you would have grasped that my answer "there is no ring road on Koh Phangan" was a direct answer when considering the OP "However I see that in the Bangkok Post last Thursday there is an article announcing a major upgrade to the road network and that all the "major" points on the island will be interlinked by a network 73 Kms long" then perhaps it would be best if you learn a bit more about the island before making statements about it to those who do. Or, retreat to a Samui thread where you know what you are talking about.

We are in a bad mood today, aren't we?

Anyone know when this is gonna stop and we get back to normal?

After X-mas.

:angry:

Anyone know when this is gonna stop and we get back to normal?

Lamdin Market flooded and closed. Flooding extends past Thai Boxing stadium and into Reggae street.

My bar is right next to the Jewish center and we were open again 3 days after the flood. When the water started to rise in the road, we were there all night moving everything that could be damaged. Fridges and pool tables excepted. We took rooms in the hotel opposite and moved as much as we could there. I did not see one person at the Jewish center at all. No one did anything so I am not surprised their stuff is ruined....

Will we ever see the good old days like 4or5 years ago, back here.

And please don,t mention the high prices of bkk airline

Good old days 4- 5 years ago, were still the aftermath of the tsunami. They are not a benchmark to be used as some people have done, or base your calculations upon.

To really compare apples with apples, you have to go to the previous year & base your growth figures on that & not the extraordinary period.

Again look at the effects of that particular short boom, many more bars , restaurants & hotels, all thinking that boom will be maintained.

I think the market here in general is back to where it should be. Unfortunately many outside factors over the last couple of years, just to mention a couple , world economic crises, political unrest , last but not least the position of the Baht have contributed to a further slowdown.

Again watching that program on TAN network, they interviewed the president of The Samui Tourism Association. He basically stated that now, is the low season & operators & traders are aware of that.

But where at this time of year hotel occupancy is 40 to 50 %, it's down to 20%.

To sum up, Samui is not the only place in Thailand, suffering a downturn or slowdown.Is there going to be better times? Sure there will be, just have to tough it up I suppose & try to ride it out.People with innovative ideas,fairly well established & financially sound, tend to weather the storms a lot better .

There will be casualties & when the better times arrive, it will start all over again new this & that etc..... Tough business the tourism industry.

Good post Rooo! Succinct and accurate! I hope next month we get a reasonable start to the high season. My place has been closed and wet most of this month! I need some cash!!!!!

This is one of the most disgusting things I have ever heard of. This man is a criminal in the worst sense - death penalty as a minimum!!!

Er....... He's on trial. I thought that in New Zealand you are innocent until proved guilty..................

And raining hard in Chaweng right now. When will it all stop??????

RIP to the deceased. Thankfully not a daily occurence on Samui. No comfort to his family. Sad news.

How do we know it;s not a daily occurrence? Stuff like this is rarely reported and trying to get stats on crime on Samui is almost impossible. I wonder how many gun deaths there have been in the last 12 months?

Saw a motorized dingy outside my bar with 5 or 6 BIB with video cameras, smiling and making jokes as we were trying to clean up the mess!

For 2 days the water was a meter and a half high. Above my pool table! But it's gone down very quickly, much faster than 5 years ago. Yesterday we we were mopping up and today, if i can get my fridges repaired or replaced, we open.... Bloody expensive week!!!!!

We're all doomed. (Scottish accent: Dad's Army!)