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Anyone for coffee? 😀

Air pollution in recent days has been a bit better, but today has taken a big step backwards - 

Second Road, Pattaya, a few moments ago:

12 minutes ago, Painter said:

So you buy enter the shed, find a seat in the communal area, and are served a beer from BDP1. Some loud lout starts puffing away and Swearing loudly, so you move to the other end of the shed, near to BDP5. What happens when you want to checkbin? Do you have to attract the attention of a worker from BDP1? Or can a worker from BDP5 take your money? Or can you just slip out un-noticed?

I'm imagining it being like a food court where you pay when you order. 

Soi Buakhao, a few seconds ago:

It looks to me like they are making good progress with the LV Beer Garden. (Pic taken a few minutes ago.)

A big traffic jam in Pattaya an hour or so ago (c17:45) along Beach Road from Klang to Thai Airways office, caused by a gathering of regular police, tourist police and immigration people. Their parked vehicles taking up a traffic lane caused the problem.

1 hour ago, Lemondropkid said:

My lunchtime EVA flight was already showing 30 minutes late, but think that's usual for EVA, guessing flight was late leaving London 

I think the flight originates in Taipei.

As you say, late departure seems to be the norm on that flight. Most often, though, it makes up the time en route, so I suspect the late departure has something to do with not arriving early at LHR.

6 hours ago, Lemondropkid said:

This is good news. Grab officially allowed into both BKK airports, Chiang Mai and Phuket.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2766949/grab-taxi-service-comes-to-suvarnabhumi

I think it is not particularly good news! 

In relation to Phuket, I understand that they have been allowed to have a stand, but are required to charge the taxi mafia rates. 

Pattaya, Second Road, 1:30pm:

2 hours ago, Glasseye said:

Talking loudly of course. 

Was his accent familiar?

😀

6 minutes ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

That looks effing delicious mate!!!

Must be Sands in Jomtien rather that Brean Sands in Somerset !!!

I guess the clue was the missing scrumpy! 

3 hours ago, Evil Penevil said:

Not really.  I didn't link to videos with Johnny Somali or Jino as the creators and they can't earn money unless they are the creators.  I linked to clips on X and YouTube that excerpted some of the worst parts of J and J's live streams.  These clips don't register as "views" for J or J.  The creators of those clips could potentially earn money,  but they are so small-scale they don't meet the criteria for money-earning status.  The poster of the Osaka video clip on YouTube is called Green Cyclist and has only 157 subscribers and 11 videos on his channel.

Aren't the people copying the original videos guilty of copyright infringement? 

7 hours ago, Evil Penevil said:

For anyone who's bothered by the Pattaya vloggers, get a load of these guys.

The idiot in the video is named Jino, the sidekick and cameraman  of the infamous livestreamer Johnny Somali (real name Ismael Ramsey Khalid). Jino was on Khao San Road in Bangkok and had been provoking the hell out of Thais, yelling that he wanted to fight and then kicked over something (unclear what) to emphasis his point.  

He changed his tune quickly when the door staff at a nightspot and a bunch of other Thais seemed more than ready to give him a fight.  Jino apologized profusely and offered to pay for any damage. That's the definition of a total loss of face, but it's not something Jino is smart enough to understand.  

He did post later on the Net that he couldn't "troll" in Thailand because the locals turned against him so quickly and overwhelmingly.

Johnny Somali caused a lot of uproar in Japan for provoking Japanese people in even a worse manner.  Do a search for "Johnny Somali Japan" for the details.  But Johnny not only got his ass kicked, he was arrested, fined, sentenced to six months in jail and deported from Japan.  He then went to Israel, where locals also, shall we say, confronted him physically.  

The knockout punch comes at about 1.30 in the clip below.

These guys make the Pattaya vloggers look like third graders.  

Evil

Unfortunately, posts like this give them more views, and therefore more money. 

1 hour ago, Freee!! said:

The pilot will have to do at least as much explaining, unless it is a power failure, which the captain may have to explain as the person responsible.

Maybe it was a terrorist cyber attack. No explanation by the captain required then. 

38 minutes ago, forcebwithu said:

Since there are sign boards advertising the 2 for 1 I see it as a marketing gimmick rather than a scam. But I do agree it pisses enough people off I wonder why the owners haven't caught on that it's a bad marketing gimmick. They also lose customers such as myself when I'm looking to have only one more drink before heading home or moving on to another venue.

I don't know if they still do it, but at least at Billabong you could tell the staff you only want one drink and that's all you would pay for, although at a slightly higher per drink price than if you ordered the two drink special.

I once tried to get them to give me a water as a second drink. They refused: it was another beer or nothing. 

Crazy! 

If you are thinking of using a "fast track" service at Don Muang or Swampy, be careful!
 

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The Immigration Bureau has warned tourists not to fall victim to online advertisements that offer fast-track immigration service for 2,900 baht per flight at Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang airports.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2766248/immigration-warns-of-fake-fast-track-service

59 minutes ago, coxyhog said:

Went to see my mum this afternoon,there's no way she can go home so now I have the task of raising the dosh for her £1500pw care home.

Sell her house & cash in her premium bonds & her investments....I'm gonna be busy.

A very sad stage to reach. Many of us will have been there, and will empathise with what you are going through.

I just hope you have the Powers of Attorney in place.

TT on Second Road, Pattaya, a few moments ago. 

2 hours ago, fforest said:

PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya City has unveiled plans to commemorate the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, also known as King Rama IX, through the construction of a monument at the site of the old royal sailing club on Pattaya beach

 

https://www.pattayamail.com/news/pattaya-to-erect-monument-honouring-king-bhumibol-adulyadej-the-legendary-royal-sailor-455117

 

 

This raised area on beach road is one of the few places to sit and this area attracts not the best crowd ...

So is this a good or bad idea? 

With Rama IX looking down, I suspect the vagrant types will not be allowed to hang around there in the way they do now, so probably a good idea. 

But not so good for the area they'll move on to! 

15 minutes ago, boydeste said:

Being in a bar and a smoking hot girl telling me the bar fine is only 300b and she will stay the night for 1400b.

Takes me back 10 years.

Must be quiet for customers in town right now!

.....  or she has just had her STI test results!

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The pollution is worse today than in any of the 13 days I have been here. 

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