Toy Boy

I don't believe the server migration BS, nowadays you'd simply mirror the site and there'd be no need for any outage at all. Asean Now has been up for sale for months, and since the advert was still there just before it went down it doesn't look like they found a buyer. It might be as Larry said that they just ran out of money and closed it down. If so, it's a huge loss for us. Not so much the news reporting, which was always flaky and can be found in many other places, but the specialist forums were invaluable. I was a regular of the DIY housing, gardening, pets and medical forums, as well as the Thai language one on and off. And outside of the fluid Pattaya agency circus, it was actually a very good and reliable source of information for visas and so on. I'm just keeping my fingers and toes crossed that it's going to come back, but with each passing day I become less optimistic.

The locals aren't exactly overjoyed at the never-ending road and drain works. I found this on a Thai Pattaya FB group...

I watched this one last night. A great performance by Jim Broadbent, who's 74 years old now. It's based on a famous novel, and it's a well-made and enjoyable film, but at the end I was left feeling that I'd missed something, as in WTF was all that really about???

But the Thai team is quick to respond to the Russian challenge...

The Russian Olympic camel toe team arrives in Phuket....

From today's Sunday Times...

This is one of Sainsbury's range of Christmas cards which has apparently caused offence to a number of vegans, lol!

The rain yesterday afternoon finished just as the sun as setting, and it made for a pretty pink background for a nice rainbow, at least from my garden.

I noticed this 2005 movie on YIFY recently so I thought I'd have a gander, though I was Dickens-free, as in I didn't have any great expectations. Bloody Nora, that was something else, one of the most original films I've seen in a long time. Not only are the adults mostly f***d up, but the young kids are f***d up even worse, lol! I mean, there's plenty of films about f***d up adults, and more than a few about f***d up kids, but this is the only one I can think of where they're all f***d up and the kids even more so than the grown ups. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417385/

I almost didn't bother with this one due to the silly name, 'Love Beer'. It's OK though nothing special to my taste, but the beer reviewers give it 88/100, which is pretty good. I've drunk several of the Schneiderweiss beers, as well as the Kuchlbauer Weissbiers, and I find I much prefer the latter brewery. They're both famous breweries in Bavaria, so I guess it's just a matter of personal preference.