Would have been lovely to hear comments from OTH, Rabbit, Nic Frenchy et al. It was good reading up good debates, harangues, etc in the past. Where have they vanished?
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Would have been lovely to hear comments from OTH, Rabbit, Nic Frenchy et al. It was good reading up good debates, harangues, etc in the past. Where have they vanished?
Tagged on rice boxes: "With Love and Care, Thaksin Shinawatra"
[url]http://yfrog.com/nxjwzylj[/url]
Phue Thai MP Wanchai's name in Japanese donations:
[url]http://lockerz.com/s/150630443[/url]
Red is good :) !
Giotto
PS: No doubt that Yellow would play the same dirty games, if they were running FROC.
[QUOTE=Giotto; 1211121]Sukhumvit Soi 50:
[url]http://twitter.com/#!/thethaireport/status/129759289588989953/photo /1[/url]
Flood risk map for Bangkok districts:
[url]http://www.thaitravelblogs.com/2011/10/map-of-flood-risk-areas-in-bangkok/[/url]
Giotto[/QUOTE]Hello, Giotto,
I will be in BKK 3-20 November for my 20th trip. How are the shortages on bottled drinking water?
Thanks,
[quote=juanjo767; 1210395]quality of women.
the beautiful thai woman is a scam, a myth, and an out and out lie. every continent, country, and race only has a small percentage of beautiful women. thailand is no different.
upon arriving in thailand, i couldn't figure out why all these punters were walking back to their hotels with women who were either not attractive, or just average at best. in fact, it became obvious that the majority of thai women aren't attractive. the myth of the attractive woman is kept alive with:
1. poor lighting.
2. alcohol.
3. loud music.
4. skimpy clothing.
i never drank in any of the bars, but with the poor lighting, there were several times that i took a chick back to the hotel room, and was like wtf is that? i literally thought this one chick was a ladyboy until she got naked. however, with the poor lighting, skimpy clothing, and loud music in the bar, she looked incredible.
it is imperative that the thai woman has a beautiful face. most men are a breast, butt, or leg man. the majority of thai women do not have large (natural) breasts, and they certainly have no butt. at barely 4ft, they certainly don't have any legs. in the lighting of the bars, it just is not possible to realize that they're not much to look at. your time would be better had sitting outside of a gf friendly hotel, which has good ambient lighting (or sunlight during the day) , and waiting for an attractive wg to walk by.
i wouldn't bang any of the freelancers found on the street with your dead great granddaddy's dusty the*ck, 'nuff said on that subject.
attitude of the women.
for brothels, the thai women behave the worst attitude of any brothel i've ever been too. i was in a bar one night, and some young asian guy was looking at a thai wg. she looked over at the guy, bugged her eyes out, and then stuck her neck out as if to say "what the f*ck are you looking at?" she doesn't represent the exception, she represents the rule. i don't know how many times i've seen a girl roll her eyes at a customer after he smiled at her. once, while looking at a thai wg, she became so pissed off at me, that she walked over to another side of the stage and traded places with someone else. did i really fly this far east for that? another time, i walked into a gogo bar, and literally all the women on stage had their backs to the customers.
i concentrated most of my time at the dollhouse, where the majority of women were friendly. however, the selection is small. i stopped going to the other clubs, because the women at most of the other clubs were so rude (or unatrractive) that i lost interest.
i don't really understand what the purpose of the mamasan is. in any other establishment around the world, the women would be kept in check. not subservient, but they would be taught that you treat the customer well, or we'll show you the door. immediately.
service.
don't take my word for it, rtff. if you do so, you will find that the best providers are the least attractive women? why would you fly this far east, to be serviced by a woman that you would lie to your mates and say that you absolutely were never even naked in the same room as her, let alone had sex with her. most men want women whose pictures they can show everyone and say,"i banged the f*ck out of that, now envy me!"
on the topic of service, make sure you don't have even have a moderate size the*ck. certainly don't have a big the*ck. if so, plan to spend an entire session of the woman making it seem like you're killing her. if you look like you have a big the*ck, the most attractive women flat out won't go with you.
in bangkok, you can get either a bj or fs, but not both. if you want a bj, you go to gonorrhea's, i mean [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord901][CodeWord901][/url]'s, lolipops, or dr. bj's salon. the women there (i haven't tried out dr bj's) provide suction. the women of the gogo bars / massage parlors don't. outside of the bj bars, the bj is just for show, something that they have to mark off the list of obligatory actions. it is however impossible to really get into [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord901][CodeWord901][/url]'s, lollipop's, or dr bj's. for one, the women are just flat out not attractive. the women of [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord901][CodeWord901][/url]'s are fugly, and look like they've lived a hard life. the women of lollipop don't look that much better, however it is a cleaner establishment. on that note, [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord901][CodeWord901][/url]'s (aka gonorrhea's) is flat out nasty. considering the fact that the wg's of these establishments swallow every drop, and they don't even ask if you want a condom, it's hard to concentrate when you can only think about catching a std or aids.
summary.
everything is relative. my opinion is based upon mongering locals i've visited in the caribbean and south / central america. expecting something similar, i was extremely disappointed in bangkok. unattractive, rude women were definitely a waste of my time.
outside of mongering, bangkok is phenomenal! even with the floods, there is just so much to see and do. this place is a photographers paradise. i could spend months here seeing the sights.[/quote]i have a very well traveled friend who is older, happily married for some 35-40 years, whom in all the years i have known him, has never even made a comment in passing about a woman or her physique, be she real or on a billboard, tv, or magazine. just not what he is about. this same guy does not drink, does not frequent establishments that play loud music, and the world of nana and cowboy would probably shock him a bit if he did ever venture forth. yet on all three of his visits with his wife to bangkok he has commented to me,"there really are an amazing number of beautiful young women in this city." i on the other hand, drink, frequent establishments that play loud music, am happily not married, and make comments every day about the women i have, am, and want to monger with. and yet even having lived in this fair city for the past 6 years, i catch myself saying day after day after day,"there really are an amazing number of beautiful young women in this city." you are right, bangkok is a phenomenal city outside of mongering. and an even more phenomenal one because of it.
[QUOTE=Drogue;1211346]Hello, Giotto, I will be in BKK 3-20 November for my 20th trip. How are the shortages on bottled drinking water? Thanks,[/QUOTE]Dr. G has an entire pool to drink! Bring some water for me, OK?
[QUOTE=Drogue; 1211346]Hello, Giotto,
I will be in BKK 3-20 November for my 20th trip. How are the shortages on bottled drinking water?
Thanks, [/QUOTE]Drogue,
If you do not find any bottled water in Bangkok come over here to Livingstone's. We have stocked up in time :) .
No, I think the situation gets better in the shops, bottled water and Mama (who eats that?) noodles were imported from Malaysia / other countries. Yesterday we could buy bottled water in the Villa market around the corner.
Nevertheless. Watch this weekend, if things work out well the problems will ease next week. If major parts of Bangkok will get flooded (West side, Thonburi has the biggest likelihood to get hit massively) the panic buying will go on, and the situation will be unpredictable.
Giotto
'Intellectuals fill the sandbags, while buffaloes make the plans. '
[url]http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/262717/why-we-lose/page-5/[/url]
"Public should also have a say in flood"
[url]http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Public-should-also-have-a-say-in-flood-30168792.html[/url]
Takeya Kimio, visiting senior advisor from the Japan International Cooperation Agency:
"Even the Japanese government cannot do better than this because the situation this year is very serious. [b]Releasing the floods through the east and west of Bangkok is the correct way to solve the problem[/b]."
With best regards to Mr."Know-It-All",
Giotto
PS: Sitting here since 6 am, beautiful day, blue sky, not too hot, coffee machine is running already - what a good life this is :) ! High Tide at 9 am. Lets wait and see!
[QUOTE=D Cups; 1211272]Hi Giotto, thank you for your numerous contributions to the forum.
I will be in BKK 3. 7 Nov staying on Soi 3 at a place called Unico Express. Ya I know, it's cheap. I wrote the hotel and they said Sukhumvit near there is fine and the hotel is fine. Can you please verify this? I don't want want to divert this plan to bang Bangkok's biggest boobs. If you see any, BTW, could you kindly give them a squeeze from me? . Cheers, mate.[/QUOTE]I have said all along its very unlikely Sukhumvit area where tourists go will get more than a quick little drainage flood, if anything at all. Sukhumvit main area's are not at danger from overland water flood, they are at danger from drainage related flooding.
With no rain and the drains empty at the moment even when a canal spills its banks its quickly gone (like yesterday when a canal leaked a little near Suk 50, within a hour or two it was all gone and cleared up) /
So my advice is not to panic and carry on as normal, Sukhumvit is fine. Do not beleive all the panic and scare stories people are coming up with.
[QUOTE=Giotto; 1211286]Ok, ok, take it easy.
[b]Reds are good, Yellows are bad. And you know it all. [/b]
What really surprises me is that there are still some people out there who believe this nonsense.
Giotto[/QUOTE]Well said G
high tide 9.11 am today: no major problems. it came in 10 cm lower than expected.
in the north of the city the situation is worsening a bit, the water now slightly closer to the center of the city than yesterday (ram intra soi 5).
the west (other side of the river) is not completely inundated right now (froc expected that to happen today). still there are areas with high flood levels (50 cm - 1 m).
no news from the east.
chinatown / grand palace partially flooded, maximum knee-deep, but the water is receding already after the high tide is over.
the city center, sathon, lumpini, sukhumvit, silom, petchaburi etc. is completely dry. seams to me that we will not have problems here in the mongering areas at all.
no problems at suvarnabhumi aiport, no problems on the roads from the airport to the city center.
all major klongs (canals) and rivers show quite high water levels. in my opinion positive. that means (as i understand it) , that the froc, bma and rid have things under control (at this moment) , and a lot of water can run-off to the gulf of thailand. though the control about river levels might be limited the water amount in canals can be adjusted by human interference. still - due to the high tide of the gulf of thailand the run-off speed is quite low.
hopefully i got all that right, too many blogs and tweets to follow, and too much nonsense, panic bs and false information that has to be filtered.
giotto
ps: ram intra area seams to have problems now, flood water is coming up from the drains (numerous reports).
Has anyone been to the shores of the Chao Phaya River? How's the water situation? I plan to stay at the Shangri-La and I would like to know about the height of the water and if the shoreline near the Shang will flood.
Thank you,
Canyon
Felt quite sorry for Yingluck, watching her on TV last night. She looked like a frightened rabbit caught in fast approaching headlights and seemed about to burst into tears. Iron maiden, she 'aint.
Will the last person to leave Bangkok kindly remember to turn off the lights.
[QUOTE=Canyon; 1211441]Has anyone been to the shores of the Chao Phaya River? How's the water situation? I plan to stay at the Shangri-La and I would like to know about the height of the water and if the shoreline near the Shang will flood.
Thank you,
Canyon[/QUOTE]Watch Al Jazeera today, you will see pictures from the shores.
Seams to me that there will be no problem in that area.
Picture from today, 8:29 am (Richard Barrow), Saphan Taxin:
[URL]http://twitter.com/#!/RichardBarrow/status/130094232697454592/photo/1[/URL]
Giotto
[QUOTE=Cunning Stunt; 1211442]Felt quite sorry for Yingluck, watching her on TV last night. She looked like a frightened rabbit caught in fast approaching headlights and seemed about to burst into tears. Iron maiden, she 'aint.
Will the last person to leave Bangkok kindly remember to turn off the lights.[/QUOTE]Might not be her government fault as it might not be' induce by the opposition. Natural disasters sometime are caused by human, just as sometime can't be controlled by human.
Having said that, still I can't feel sorry for the political leaders.
They voluntarily entered into their game, sometime promising too much, surely always praising themselves when things turn out well, even if not because of them.
When entering this game they should know life is not easy, so they should be very well prepared to this.
If not and if the situation makes them burst into emotional tears (and not for pity of the others) means they are psychologically weak. Not the ideal status for somebody who has to run a country. Especially in emergencies.
Especially when they did not show this human emotions in fighting their opponents before the elections, often playing every trick to beat them.
Mind you, this is a very generic comment, nit strictly referred to this young lady only.
thanks for all updates mate! giotto better than sky, cnn, al jazeera, rai, bbc etc.
[quote=giotto; 1211439]high tide 9. 11 am today: no major problems. it came in 10 cm lower than expected.
in the north of the city the situation is worsening a bit, the water now slightly closer to the center of the city than yesterday (ram intra soi 5).
the west (other side of the river) is not completely inundated right now (froc expected that to happen today). still there are areas with high flood levels (50 cm. 1 m).
no news from the east.
chinatown / grand palace partially flooded, maximum knee-deep, but the water is receding already after the high tide is over.
the city center, sathon, lumpini, sukhumvit, silom, petchaburi etc. is completely dry. seams to me that we will not have problems here in the mongering areas at all.
no problems at suvarnabhumi aiport, no problems on the roads from the airport to the city center.
all major klongs (canals) and rivers show quite high water levels. in my opinion positive. that means (as i understand it) , that the froc, bma and rid have things under control (at this moment) , and a lot of water can run-off to the gulf of thailand. though the control about river levels might be limited the water amount in canals can be adjusted by human interference. still. due to the high tide of the gulf of thailand the run-off speed is quite low.
hopefully i got all that right, too many blogs and tweets to follow, and too much nonsense, panic bs and false information that has to be filtered.
giotto.
ps: ram intra area seams to have problems now, flood water is coming up from the drains (numerous reports).[/quote]