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I actually thought it was Stickboy who had bought the Stickman site. Anyway i used to follow the column but it went slightly odd when he moved back to NZ. I recall a couple of articles he wrote on a noise he was having in a new car he had bought - I questioned myself for wasting my time reading that i must admit. Then there was some on his holidays to the south island. I zoned out after that to be honest.

Whats the deal with the novelty bath tub seats? Looks the daftest set up ive ever seen to sit at the beach. Is that really a thing?

Honestly most of the units in our building are like this. Their bathrooms back onto the common corridor - and the walls are just like in your picture. In my own unit (as its a corner one) the bathroom is between the 2 bedrooms. Therefore we had the issue on our bedroom wall. In my case i tracked it down to the built in shower - where the pipes are all buried in the wall with just the shower head sticking out. I ripped it out one day as the head was dripping and they had buried the little flow control valves with the rubber grommets into the wall. The valve was leaking and soaking the blockwork. Its much better now but the walls are still damp as i suspect some of the joints on the blue pipe they use are weaping. Even your aircon photo ive had similar. The condensate pipe was buried in the wall and was leaking into the plasterboard- as yours look like it is. When they serviced it first time they pull the head unit out slightly from the wall. That was enough to dislodge the rubber pipe coming from the head unit out of the blue water pipe they use to send it outside or to the bathroom etc. I eventually moved the head unit to an outside facing wall - which is where it should have been anyway. Then i was able to just run a drain pipe straight outside.

RIP Sir. U turns are insanely dangerous here. Not related but I travel the Bang Na Trat fairly regularly. Having slow moving (u turning traffic) entering an overtaking lane on a highway is madness. I'm either in or see near misses every day.

I liked attending the Malaysian Grand prix. KL is a great little city and the Sepang circuit is one of the best of the modern tracks. If they couldn't make it work financially there with the backing of Petronas - no hope here. Hosting fee's are insane and the gate receipts don't come close to covering it. For the locals the ticket prices were out of reach. MotoGP was a bigger hit as the ticket prices were much much lower. 100MYR for a weekend pass.

High security.

When i worked in the US in 2013 it was the companies policy that everyone did a first aid course. When the teacher arrived (retired paramedic) the first words out of his mouth were - 'Even though I'm about to teach you how to save someone's life, my advise would be don't - just call an ambulance ' Its quite common to break the persons ribs while performing CPR and he explained that in the 50 or so occasions that he'd successfully performed it -about 10 of them later tried to sue him. One young lady tried to sue him for ripping her shirt open and touching her - performing the CPR. At the time she had actually thanked him for saving here life. I guess some snake of a lawyer got in touch afterwards.

Was on Chalerm Maha Nakorn heading north the other morning. Seen the exact same thing happen one of them grossly overloaded pickups. Back wheel came of and bounced down the road in front of me. Hub was still attached so it had sheared off the axle. Pickup was nearly tipping over with its 15 foot high load.

Go for a walk and fill a single bucket of dirt from somewhere everyday. Tip it into the hole and in about a year hole will be filled.

The Post Office will. As soon as the Mrs thinks ive forgotten we have something - she ships it off to Isaan. Been all sorts over the years from fridges to sofas. Last casualty was my 49" tv from the bedroom. Says we never use it - off it went before i could say but....

I was there last saturday as the Mrs was getting vaccinated at Bang Sue. Most of the stores that border or face onto the ring road that's within the market are open. Go inside the bowels of the place though and they are all closed. It was generally very quiet. There is quite a few home decor items in the neighbouring JJ mall on the basement floor.

I cant say much for the Sukhumvit malls, as i don't visit them, but Mega Bang Na has been packed any time i have went over the past year. Ikea seems to be permanently busy - at least on a weekend. In fact places that used to be quieter before such as Thai Watsadu (beside Mega) is busier than i have ever seen it. Previously was mostly just tradespeople frequented it but when i went last Saturday to pickup some of those fiber cement planks - it was jammed - with mostly families. Even the Mrs. noted it and she hates it there.

The real problem is that the majority of people still use the cash booths. When its peak times and traffic gets backed up i find i cant even get through to the easy pass lanes - even though their empty.