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Is Earth round or flat❓
I say this respectfully, but you need to study this more in depth. Start with the Antarctic Treaty. We are not allowed to go. -
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Drunken Foreign Couple Causes Chaos at Pattaya Hotel, Woman Detained After Fleeing
Getting to be an inaccurate comment of late...... -
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Remembering the 2004 tsunami in Phuket
20 years ago, I was sleeping off a hangover from Christmas Day. I should have been teaching a discover scuba diving course at Phi Phi that morning but luckily my customers had cancelled. The Mrs had left early that morning on a bus to visit her Dad. I went onto my laptop to check my email and saw many people on a Thai expat forum talking about an earthquake in Bangkok. As the morning went on, my neighbours started talking about a hotel collapsing and a big wave hitting Aonang. We jumped on our bikes and rode the few minutes to the beachfront to be greeted by the strangest sight - a few longtail boats on the road, lots of sand. As news of a Tsunami started to spread, we were thankful we lived a few mins drive back from the beach. Not knowing how far the Tsunami had gone inland, I was so worried for the Mrs, and contacting her was not easy as mobile signal was hard to get. Eventually, we connected and she came straight home. The following day, a group of us rented a speedboat and helped some injured friends off Phi Phi island and on our return to Aonang, heard that help was needed in Phang Nga, so we rented a pickup and drove there immediately. The hospital was a scene of chaos, we did our best asking injured patients if they needed anything, but there were already many volunteers there. Realising our help wasn't needed here, we asked one of the rescue workers where we would be more useful...they told us to go to a temple, Wat Yan Yao in Takuapa, near Khao Lak as they had little help there.... On arrival at dusk, the scene was like NOTHING you could ever imagine. Truck after truck coming up the dusty road, all of them indicating to turn into the temple. All of them loaded with dead bodies. We looked on in disbelief, and realising that this is where we needed to be. The smell was indescribable. A French guy came running out of the temple - through his basic English and our basic French, we understood that he had been co-ordinating things at the temple as there were no police or army assisting until that point. As the sun was already set and there was no electricity, we decided it would be best to return to Aonang, get some more volunteers, food and clothing and return the next morning. That is what we did for the following few days. Carried bodies of victims young and old between the various areas of the temple: arrival, holding, ID by DVI teams until finally into chilled containers. To be honest, we were lost, didn't really realise the enormity of what we were doing, but carried on as it just felt right. 20 years have passed but my heart still breaks for all of those whose lives came to an end that day, and half of my heart will always live in Thailand. We learnt so much during those few days....but most importantly, humans can be amazing when they pull together in the worst of situations x 26/12/2004 -
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Is Earth round or flat❓
My question is, what make you and everyone else so special, who understand everything we do not understand? It must make you feel special, and maybe superior to others, or compared to others. -
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Phetchabun family’s loss turns into gift of life for four
A gift of true charity... bless them. -
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Phuket duo swipes 600 euros from Belgian with a fake hug
Yeah, that's a pretty solid, no nonsense point. The right amount of tension in the arm, authoritative hand pose and wrist position. Business end close to and right on target - no mistaking who's meant. Powerful, aggressive, angry, not like the limp, off target wimpshots we get all too often these days where you can't even be sure they've even seen what they're supposed to be 'pointing' at. -
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Australian Man Files Police Report After Being Threatened by Pattaya Motorbike Taxi
Sadly this has been happening for many years now. My first comment on this thread, I was having a bit of fun but I received a hostile reply, I replied back with sarcasm, I explained that my comment was a joke, their names are spelt differently, told him to loosen up, so now he's offended and my comment was removed. it's a case of the squeaky wheel gets the oil. It's very sad that these miserable people bring their misery to this forum -
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THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Friday 27 December 2024
Bold Ambush: Bombing of Armoured Vehicle in Yala Kills Police Officer A shocking attack occurred on the afternoon of December 26, when insurgents planted a bomb and opened fire on an armoured vehicle carrying police officers in Ban Bannang Krachae, Village 5, Thanto Subdistrict, Thanto District, Yala Province. Full story:https://aseannow.com/topic/1347267-bold-ambush-bombing-of-armoured-vehicle-in-yala-kills-police-officer/
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