Boom Boom Boom Bophut Temple

[churchill]

We phoned the local police at about 1am to see if they could request the volume be reduced a bit ! but no use .... they had joined the party and very happy !

[Tropicalevo]

That is, without doubt, the most spiritual stage act I've seen for a while.

R

[marstons]

Bohput temple fair allows the sale of alcohol and they were even selling alcohol in there on a Bhudda day when bars were all closed. Friends bar had no girls next day as they all got drunk in Bohput temple the night before when his bar was closed due to a Bhudda day. Local temples have Khun Ja who most TV stations have banned her performance of Khun Hoo as being to raunchy but it fills the temples coffers, and pays for the goodies monks seem to desire now days, i pad i phones etc.

Good temple material

Agree 10-12 years ago that temple fair drove me nuts with the noise and the monks do not have to get up and work all days so accept it.

That is, without doubt, the most spiritual stage act I've seen for a while.

R

Only to be seen at your local temple, alas not on TV as its deemed to raunchy. She claims to do it for her baht less mother to get money for her. Not that I have much interest in the young lady and her recent visits to 3 local temples.

[churchill]

We phoned the local police at about 1am to see if they could request the volume be reduced a bit ! but no use .... they had joined the party and very happy !

BTW if anyone feels the need to contact this station the number is 077 246 108

[churchill]

Earplugs prepared !

[silver sea]

Surely the noise was manageable prior to the arrival of elec-trickery, which I assume was post 1945?

Well it wasn't manageable in Victorian England. The problem of street noise taxed some of the finest minds of the day, including the mathematician Charles Babbage, who had invented the mechanical computer.

Here is an interesting article on his campaign against noise. It also serves as warning to us here on Samui. Beware of upsetting too many locals with your complaints. In Babbage's case, they would not even let him die in peace: an organ grinder stood under his window making as much noise as possible, just to annoy him in his final hours.

Anyway, here is the link to the article:

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/28/discord-babbage-noise/

BTW, and off topic I know ... but I've started, so I'll finish: although Babbage had a brilliant mathematical mind, and enjoyed reading literature, he had no feel for poetry. For instance, Tennyson once wrote:

"Every moment dies a man,

Every moment one his born."

Babbage on reading this could not resist writing to Tennyson:

" ... If this were true, the population of the world would be at a standstill. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death. I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]:"

Every moment dies a man,

Every moment 1 1/16 is born.

"Strictly speaking," Babbage added, "the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry."

Edited for typos

Edited July 9, 2014 by jukebox