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1 hour ago, Yesitisdakid said:

haha - very old picture - 

some great shots there @john luke

my wifes sister grows plants for all sorts and uses them in cooking if you have ailments.. one for heart, one for blood, one for stomach, one for headace...

not saying they work - but they do taste good!

lost ... would love to go back to S1 with a mind wipe - was excellent TV ruined by seriously bad writing in the later series.

hope he takes it easy and doesnt just jump back into work and worry and stress - listens to his body ..

Fauda looks good will have to give it a try.

I have started watching Black Summer on Netflix - but i find it a bit meh. Just another zombie series with people making stupid decisions which put them in jeopardy .

steal the bike, fix the puncture and ride the bike around... 
 

As an Everton fan i would say the best thing to come from Aus is Tim Cahill 🙂

its bad if your life and money revolves around bars and titties and getting whoors,

but if  you just live here and enjoy a good quality of life - its not too bad 🙂 - less noise, less traffic, less boomboomboomboom music 🙂 

16 hours ago, Freee!! said:

The result of the Thai schooling system, original thought is not rewarded, blindly copying (approved results) is.

bit more of a story to this one - the original guy who had smokin joes / steak and co sold it to another guy (and the other guy didnt get any sort of no-competition clause in the sale apparently). He then opened the hungry panda Chinese and grill next door to his old shop - been some shite on facebook about it ...

The guy who owns Hungry panda is actually a nice chap 🙂 

My opinion - I would just would not do business in Pattaya with any farang 🙂🙂 

15 hours ago, Jambo said:

Well there is the elephant in the room.

The most optimistic hope might be that sometime in December Thailand completely removes the quarantine requirement for all tourists who can demonstrate that they have had both covid vaccinations. So there will be maybe a month or so when "customers" for the Bar and Club scene are flooding back into Pattaya for their pussy fix.

The great unknown is what happens after that initial rush. It is so easy to forget that prior to Covid most entertainment venue owners were bemoaning the fact that it had never been quieter in Town. What has happened since to make anyone think we will EVER see the numbers of visitors return to anything like pre- 2019 numbers?

That does not mean to say those that do come will not enjoy themselves. I would imagine that the Soi Bukhou; L K Metro area will see the concentrations of visitors and expats having a good time whilst Walking Street turns itself into family China Town.

But what do I know! 🤣

completely agree - i want the families and the small tour groups back - as they are the people more likely to visit the wife's massage shop than the pussy hungry sexpat. Cant see this happening until next year though - maybe Songkran 2022 will be a start. Until then its just a get by and minimise spend on our shop.

4 hours ago, Jambo said:

A labour of love by a dedicated photographer and much appreciated.

Sadly the photo's chronicle Pattaya as the equivalent of a dead man walking.They kept reminding me of that film "I Legend" where all the human inhabitants were gone and just the decaying city remained.

Imagine what it is going to be like by the end of the year when all the small shopkeepers have given up.

i think its in sleep mode - most mothballed until customers come back. Im trying to find other places to rent - but the owners and landlords want stupid money / key money or unrealistic rents. 

I looked at the old Eden massage on Soi Diana - and they wanted 2 million key money and 67k rent DURING covid - i told them they were having a joke. I also was looking at the old wetherspoons - and they wanted 85k a month rent - and the agent said the floors above are 'derelict' and would require significant work (holes in roof on the top floor aparently) - needless to say i didnt bother going any further 🙂
 

the real winners are the landlords and the owner-tennants as they can afford to just sit on it. 
 

did it land like that or was it a nose gear collapse?

lots of work still happening down Soi Boomerang - the guy who owns Pleasure Lounge says he has nearly finished his refurb (been let down by Landlords and Builders) - new 'octopussy' replaces the old bacu lounge - will walk around tomorrow and take some photo's

Also Cloud 9 is up for sale.

very sad how all businesses are being destroyed by this covid-shit. but i do believe that things will come back and be different.

Those huukers get everywhere ...

on the new hotel in Soi Buakhao 15 they have after 15 months started taking down the dust sheeting - looks like they are finishing the sealing up of the rooms. Still be probably another 12-18 months before the hotel is finished

The Hotel will be called the Amethyst - the website has been reported as dodgy - so have linked to their facebook page 🙂

(5) Amethyst Hotel Pattaya | Facebook

i quite like this site of rth em3u's - never had any issues with downloads - some of the streams are geolocked which means using a VPN to access (i use Nord VPN)

Free IPTV Download ⋆ IPTV Links M3u Playlist 2020 (ethiopjobs.com)

you can also search m3u free streams on the internet and play them through VLC

 

quite interesting  - i wonder if it will be elevated above the road and if there will finally be a solution to the dangerous junctions with the railway road

google apple facebook et all have been harvesting our data for a very long time. 

they know who what where why and when 🙂

12 hours ago, Mr. Smooth said:

Looking at these pics of a lifeless city, the hundreds of millions in economic commerce that has ground to a halt, is just unimaginable to comprehend. It's like a blind man regaining his sight during the middle of a power outage at night.

As horrible as these scenes are at the present time, I honestly believe that once the go ahead is given to reopen the city with little to no restrictions, I think the town will come to life in a matter of weeks. There has been too much investment in shops, infrastructure, condos, etc....to let it all go by the wayside without there being some sort of economic recovery.

One thing is for sure.....that Misteregg is as determined to continue on in the face of such adversity as any business owner could possibly be, and his bar will be getting a quite sizable amount of bins from me whenever I'm able to get back. 

I can safely assume that regarding members of this board, I am not alone in that thought.

the only winners are the landlords - many of whom have reduced the rent a bit, have had constant rent from the businesses trying to hold on here with little to no income. 

On 5/21/2021 at 12:19 PM, forcebwithu said:

They've been working for a couple of years on trying to solve the flooding on the road parallel to the railroad. Last year was digging a deeper channel on the east side of the road and installing more pumps.

That hasn't worked, so now they're digging out the ground cover on the other side of the road.

And knocking holes in the crash barrier at the low spots to allow the flood water to drain on both sides of the road.

And over at the Soi 9 police station, the latest in car accessories on display.

I think the railway line work is for the high speed rail - not a fix for a fix for a fix of the fix for the clusterfuk work done in the first place ...

not found a really decent news site in Thailand - i want more details and more information, not just a 2 minute read.  i do listen to 103fm each morning for Tommy's brief.

Like if you look at the ST( Singapore Times) - their news is very detailed and give a good 5 mins read.

English Thai news is very shallow... 

council estate lunch 🙂

piracy plain and simple!