US Embassy in Bangkok advises citizens to stock a two week supply of cash, food and medicine

[Pib]

Just go to Isaan for a few weeks. Plenty of food, nice people and no lunatics.

Yea, they just got Redshirts....the Land of Redshirt Villages....that is, the protest lunatics from a few years ago. What goes around, comes around.

[IAMSOBAD]

Thank you very much to all morons bashing America for warning their citizens of POTENTIAL DANGER.

I would rather listen to the Embassy and have extra water than listen to a low self esteem keyboard moron.

[Patanawet]

Geez enough American bashing? Tell you what if you are European please don't do anything or you might be a hypocrite. To the idiots talking about no need to stock up sounds like they do not know <deleted> they are talking about. I went through the civil unrest and the floods. Let me clue you in 7-11 will not have sh*t Tops will not have sh*t Tesco lotus won't have sh*t. When people start panicking those shelves get emptied quickly(Except for pasta for some reason and expensive western brands) every Thai woman will purchase at least 20 boxes of tampons then what are you Europeans going to put in your pie holes? I am glad MY embassy at least has the courtesy to warns its citizens of an impending problem. The funniest thing if any of these so called brave ass big mouths calling America pussies remember you would be speaking Japanese or German if it was not for our p*ssy asses.

Wonderful post!!!! I love irony cleverly done like this. Pity it couldn't have been written without the thinly disguised expletives (bit low class that).

PS it was woosies not pussies.

PPS Reminder to myself --- do not feed the trolls.

[pantareiyingluck]

Big Rick is very right. Apart from the fact without American investments in Thailand this country would look like a Bangkokian Tesco next week. From automotive till heavy equipment, oil and gas, gearment, + + +. My Dutch Embassy didn't issue a warning yet. They are busy copy / pasting the US message. Lovely officials/diplomats.....

[IAMSOBAD]

All the American bashers are actually bashing Thai Visa Forum since they posted the warning. Maybe they need a holiday to America to see it is made up of people from all over the world.

Grow up people bashers.

[Neeeko]

Don't worry lads

[JLCrab]

Thanks for the suggestions US Embassy -- sounds just like I do every year before SongKran

[plachon]

Just go to Isaan for a few weeks. Plenty of food, nice people and no lunatics.

And where do you think Isaan gets its stock from?

Advising people to come and deplete your stock is very civil, but not too clever..........

When I used to live there, most of the food we ate came out of the fields, forests and rivers/lakes. Nowadays I suppose it comes from 7-11, Big C and Tescos. How times have changed!

[pantareiyingluck]

Scaring. Just did a due diligence check on the webpage of the Royal Dutch Embasy in BKK. "On top of the world. Dutch chemical sector" . They talk about chemicals. Not stockpiling food nor preparing for the worst. if you see fumes next week, think Dutch.

[pumpuiman]

It's good to know there are so many tough guys here, growing up with bombs falling around them running fearlessly into the fray.

And not giving a reminder to families and elderly tourists makes you tough too.

One of you tough guys should walk up to an American (hopefully me) and call him a pussy to his face.

[stoneyboy]

It's ok here in Lom Sak then.

[beautifulthailand99]

The first rule of a crisis is don't panic second rule is if you do panic first.

[slipperylobster]

Ridiculous. Once again, America shows itself to be the premiere scaredy-cat nation on earth.

Your statement is ridiculous. America is """Always""" in harms way, while the rest of the Euro/Aussie military sits safe and cozy...

Suggest you read more.

[BigRick]

It's good to know there are so many tough guys here, growing up with bombs falling around them running fearlessly into the fray.

And not giving a reminder to families and elderly tourists makes you tough too.

One of you tough guys should walk up to an American (hopefully me) and call him a pussy to his face.

Exactly my guess is most of these guys are the same poor old sots I see drinking themselves to death everyday I pass the bars. Most of the time they are European especially the English(Nothing against the English some of my friends are from England and they will tell you its national pride to be able to throw up,pass out and drink some more 4 days strait!)

[mushroomdave]

Ridiculous. Once again, America shows itself to be the premiere scaredy-cat nation on earth.

Well, my Canadian embassy has been sending me 3-4 warnings / week for a month or more now and I am SURE there are many other countries that have been doing the same. Telling / warning your citizens shouldn't be frowned upon as far as I am concerned. Thank you Canadian embassy.

[slipperylobster]

By the way, there is a big hoorah going on at an assembly area at the municipal hall down the street from where I live. Looks like the Red Shirts are mobilizing to counter the Bangkok Shutdown. My gal says they will be loading up the busses.

Good luck....stock up on necessities...like beer. Stay out of the hot zones.

U.S. Embassy is right to play it up on the safe side.

I dont see anybody running away..

wake up.

[slipperylobster]

It's good to know there are so many tough guys here, growing up with bombs falling around them running fearlessly into the fray.

And not giving a reminder to families and elderly tourists makes you tough too.

One of you tough guys should walk up to an American (hopefully me) and call him a pussy to his face.

Exactly my guess is most of these guys are the same poor old sots I see drinking themselves to death everyday I pass the bars. Most of the time they are European especially the English(Nothing against the English some of my friends are from England and they will tell you its national pride to be able to throw up,pass out and drink some more 4 days strait!)

This guy pumpuiman really thinks its important to challenge Americans by calling them pussy.

That is pretty gay.

[Sunderland]

By the way, there is a big hoorah going on at an assembly area at the municipal hall down the street from where I live. Looks like the Red Shirts are mobilizing to counter the Bangkok Shutdown. My gal says they will be loading up the busses.

Good luck....stock up on necessities...like beer. Stay out of the hot zones.

U.S. Embassy is right to play it up on the safe side.

I dont see anybody running away..

wake up.

Which province are you in?

Hopefully the reds and funny colours won't clash in Bangkok. However, I am not sure how protesting upcountry will influence anything when people in the N and NE have already decided who will get their money at the next election. The country is polarized.

[zydeco]

I always keep 10 to 14 days supply of food and water in the house. What is it with the Euros, here? Do they all live hand to mouth?

[slipperylobster]

By the way, there is a big hoorah going on at an assembly area at the municipal hall down the street from where I live. Looks like the Red Shirts are mobilizing to counter the Bangkok Shutdown. My gal says they will be loading up the busses.

Good luck....stock up on necessities...like beer. Stay out of the hot zones.

U.S. Embassy is right to play it up on the safe side.

I dont see anybody running away..

wake up.

Which province are you in?

Hopefully the reds and funny colours won't clash in Bangkok. However, I am not sure how protesting upcountry will influence anything when people in the N and NE have already decided who will get their money at the next election. The country is polarized.

I am in Udon...2 blocks from the assembly area. My girl can hear the banter on the speakers. They are going to try to stop the shutdown.... looks like they are pretty serious...

[Patanawet]

It's good to know there are so many tough guys here, growing up with bombs falling around them running fearlessly into the fray.

And not giving a reminder to families and elderly tourists makes you tough too.

One of you tough guys should walk up to an American (hopefully me) and call him a pussy to his face.

Well, there's an intelligent reply.

18:47 --- the Chang beginning to take effect is it?

This thread was about the warning from the U.S. Embassy and whether it was fearmongering or not.

[delh]

I always keep 10 to 14 days supply of food and water in the house. What is it with the Euros, here? Do they all live hand to mouth?

Each to their own. I prefer to eat fresh produce rather than frozen, tinned etc.

Edited January 10, 2014 by delh

[nidieunimaitre]

Scaring. Just did a due diligence check on the webpage of the Royal Dutch Embasy in BKK. "On top of the world. Dutch chemical sector" . They talk about chemicals. Not stockpiling food nor preparing for the worst. if you see fumes next week, think Dutch.

Do us all a favour, and buy up all the Heineken stocks, good riddance!

[Scott]

Off-topic posts and replies deleted.

[thesetat2013]

Only 56??? You must plan on sleeping a lot! Either that or you wont have enough money set aside for the bar girl you bought for this event.

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[NancyL]

Just as the Europeans are amazed that we Americans use "compass directions, i.e. River Market restaurant is on the WEST side of the Ping River, Riverside is on the EAST side", I guess they're also amazed that we usually keep 7 - 10 days supply of food around. I guess we come from hardy pioneer stock -- people who had to get off ships, stock up on supplies and figure out how to get themselves to new homesteads in the west.

During decades of marriage I've managed to feed a household thru days of being snowed-in, flooded and multi-day power outages during all times of the year. By comparison, our little 90 minute power outages in Chiang Mai are child's play, although the flood did get tiresome, especially since the after-effects lasted for months.

During the supply interruptions of the flood, neighbors were asking to "borrow" TP and bottled water from us. Hubby did have to do some major hiking around CM to located cat food and kitty litter. I was about 20 minutes away from giving the cat canned tuna (for people), which we'd probably still be feeding even today when fortunately Hubby called with the news he'd found cat food a few miles from condo.

[fifthcolumn]

Thanks for the warning yawning

Might be good precaution for tourists and noobs in bkk. Everyone else, another overreaction even if the roof does blow.

A real test for their Intelligence efforts. I read this as far more than a travel advisory. So if nothing happens, a real boy cried wolf story there.

Wife has not a care in the world. We will muddle on, bfd.

I'll be sure to pick up a liter of Scotch tomorrow.

Water comes out of a tap. I could lose two kg as my wife. No one farang in.bkk.is going to die ofbstarvation 555.

We are headed to Cambodia for CNY.

To all new arrivals, this is Thailand. Thisvstuff has been brewing fir over a decade. Dry your panties and suck it up or get on the plane.

Edited January 10, 2014 by fifthcolumn

[Felt 35]

How quickly everyone forgets. Wasn't it just a couple years ago that the floods interrupted the supply lines in this country and you couldn't get toilet paper and bottled water here in Chiang Mai for weeks?

I remember what it was like trying to find essential items like kitty litter and brown rice. I see nothing wrong with stocking up on essential items, knowing the way the centralized distribution channels for manufactured goods work in this country. The management of our local Tops, Tesco-Lotus,7-11, etc don't seem to have any independent purchasing authority. Like so much in so many sectors in this country, all the decision-making comes from Bangkok and if everyone stays away from work in Bangkok, no decisions get made.

Is there any harm in having a couple weeks supply of cat food around .... just in case?

Exactly Nancyl. We are located down South but that not helps on supplies when more or less everything comes from Bangkok.

[Ulic]

No big deal, I have this stuff set aside for emergencies anyway.

[simon43]

Don't panic!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR6wok7g7do