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Greetings Monkeywatchers, showaddy crap to yet another month, and welcome to another fertile crop of futile crap. Let’s dig in. A Thai family were injured after a pickup truck landed on top of their vehicle after falling from a bridge that was still under construction. A spokesman for the building company responsible said “With the benefit of hindsight, it might have been prudent to finish building the bridge before reopening the road.” Experts, you gotta love ‘em. Following the arrest of an Indian tourist for groping a woman on Beach Road, police have decided to charge him with the

The outside balcony at Royal Gardens Plaza is open with a bar and a couple of restaurants/cafes having access. There are also some public table tennis tables, if anyone is interested.

at least 6 extra things in the USA. What I can't work out is why anyone would want to eat McDonald's when there is so much amazing real food everywhere

A few selected stills from the drone video of Mabprachan.

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Saw Glitterman on British TV the other week. London live channel which is quite obscure and often has local stories. Remember reading here that he was from Wimbledon. He still cycles round those parts and is photographed often it seems. Found him on social media where he mentions his Thai fiance drowned back in 2006. That's why he cycles round in bright colours.

I came home yesterday , should not have drank at Swampy knowing I only have a 45 min flight. I make it home and the wife opens the security gate and I drop the CBR. Wife is gentle and suggests my motorcycle days are waning. I agree and tell her I still want to go to Pattaya so maybe I'll buy an airplane. The look on her face. "You know I was a Pilot when I was young?" The look on her face. Maybe a single engine Piston?

I caught the drone bug back in June and purchased my first drone, the Potensic ATOM during my trip back to the States. For those interested in an entry level drone, the ATOM is a great drone that sells for around $380 USD. A few C&P posts about my experience flying the ATOM. June 28 Had fun flying my new Potensic Atom drone today. I've never flown a drone before, so let my son give me a quick demo flight with him at the controls on how it works. Much faster and easier learning to pilot a drone having him doing a demo flight first. After that quick demo I did a couple of prac

Urinal in the just opened The Chapel on Soi Bongkoch 8.

l took this with a 300 ml lens from quite a distance. I thought very carefully about posting it: the group are so chaotic and disorganised that I thought it was worth posting.

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Met him in 2010

My daughter was coming over for my 70th just before Christmas but Jetstar wanted 1,200 and AirNZ wanted 1,500 for return flights each less than 4 hours. So instead she's shouting me a trip to Melbourne. So I said I'll go over early June for a few days then go to Thailand, then call in on the return trip. Out of curiosity I looked at airfares Melbourne to Bangkok return.. I found 4,200, then 3,500, then 2,700, then 2,100, then 1,900 the same as I paid in 2023. Then 1,371 but 30 hours travel time via China. Then I struck Gold on Jetstar. Direct flight of 9 hours. Retu

For all the coffin dodgers that call Nikom Court their local; the longtime daytime boss Patty is celebrating her 50th b'day today. A few of us will be shuffling our way to Nikom at 15:00 to help ease Patty into old age with copious amounts of beer and SangSom. To surprise her we hung a banner in her honor this morning. Apologies for the crap pic, but the rising sun was causing a lot of glare off the banner. hope we ordered enough ice for the celebration.

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Prep for the next concert and a selection from today's morning walk.

Bob walked into a sports bar around 5:58 PM. He sat down next to a very attractive blonde at the bar and stared up at the TV. The 6 PM news was coming on. The news crew was covering the story of a man on the ledge of a large building preparing to jump. The blonde looked at Bob and said, "Do you think he'll jump?" Bob said, "You know, I reckon he'll jump." The blonde replied, "Well, I bet he won't." Bob placed a $20 bill on the bar and said, "You're on!" The blonde placed her money on the bar, and kept watching the scene on the tell

A visit to Naklua Bay and Sea Food Market this morning.

Taken this afternoon, before the rain.

A selection from this morning's walk.

In the last five weeks I will admit that I slipped twice from my "No crap food" regime. Mixue opposite Soi Honey. The biggest tastiest ice creams that leave McCrap in the shade. Monster soft serve ice cream 15 baht! Then there is the donut lady outside JUJU. Two jam or custard for 20 baht. Served up in a poly carrier and plastic outer. Great taste and super value compared to the other rubbish. Sent from my CPH1941 using Tapatalk

Sensible humour Sent from my CPH2477 using Tapatalk

Wisest words yet on this troubling and important subject. Sent from my CPH2477 using Tapatalk

I think slow moving around central Pattaya is okay and quite safe... when I have to share a bigger road with coaches, trucks and cement mixers I get fearful. The Indian pedestrians seem to be completely without fear as they walk in the roads!

If you're on two wheels, keep an eye out on Soi 15 for the major cracks and holes in the concrete that was put down only a few months ago. I'm not so sure this guy's idea of a safety feature for his bike is a good idea. I understand he probably thinks its a good warning device for passing traffic to steer clear of him, but he's also increasing the chance a passing vehicle will hit him via the pole sticking out into their lane.

Yes I have done that with her and her nephew who stayed with us a bit. The youngest niece is too precious!

Huh, I never knew that. Thanks for digging that up. One of the first things I did with my Thai now-wife was to teach her and her children how to swim. I'm now doing that for her grandchildren.

I'll C&P a couple of other posts I made on another forum on the subject of drones. Thought I'd add to this topic with my own experience as a new drone pilot. Back in May I bought my first drone, the Potensic ATOM. At only $380 USD it's a great entry level drone with some cool subject tracking features. What it lacks though is any kind of collision avoidance system which I really could have used about a month ago when I backed the drone into a tree branch. Fortunately the drone survived the fall to earth largely unscathed. What did get damaged though is the underside sensor

I had my drone out this morning to train myself on some of its features. One is panorama mode. All I have to do is define the area of the shot by pointing the camera gimbal at the upper left and bottom right corners of the panorama, then touch Start. The drone will do the rest, taking the necessary shots that you can then stitch together in post processing. For that I used Microsoft Image Composite Editor. Super easy and I'm quite happy with the result. The image below is best viewed by clicking on the image to view in full screen mode.

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I don't know the answer to that. My guess is they'll be going the tank route as I don't remember them putting in water or sewage pipes when they built up Tree Town. The pic below is from April 2022 when they concreted over the back dirt road. I only ever saw them putting in storm water drains, even when they first started construction of TT back in 2016. I had pics from back then, but unfortunately I lost my local copy of the pics when a hard drive went tits up and the other copy that existed was lost when Ben at Secrets deleted numerous topics on their forum without notice, one of w

You have surpassed yourself this month. Bravo! Sent from my CPH1941 using Tapatalk

Good news. You only have to hold your pee for two more weeks until the new Tree Town bathrooms are open. I forgot to ask how much the entry fee will be. I wouldn't be surprised if they up the price from 5B to pay for the fancy new water closets.

Ironic too as in Nazi Germany they'd have all been exterminated

Word from a guy onsite this morning is Zab High will be opening in December.

Bad thing about this time of year, it becomes unhealthy to breathe the air here. Expect to be reading soon how the politicos will be doing something about the air pollution, real soon now. ^^^ That's what an AQI of 129 looks like.