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Greetings Monkeywatchers, showaddy crap for taking a gander, and welcome to another sneaky peek at what’s transpired, inspired and expired in the last month. Chocks away. The Thai Navy are to create something they call an ‘underwater learning park’ by sinking some of their old ships. They should take some advice from the Koh Larn ferry as they’ve managed to sink more boats than just about anybody else. Experts have advised that the chances of another coup in Thailand are very slim, though if you had the gun barrel of a tank sticking through your front window you’d probably come to

The beach has taken quite a hammering over the last 48 - 72 hours. Teams were out working this morning.

From last night, a few snaps of the night time action around the mookata, food and market places next to Nirun. And around the corner the GC's Sign shop on 3rd Rd

Walking Street gate

The old gate had much more charm then the new one.

Finished the process of renewing my five year license today. Here's the steps I went through from booking an appointment to receiving my new licenses, car and motorbike. Appointment Booking It's strange the Bang Lamung DLT office, one of the busiest, still uses a spiral notebook and pen for booking appointments. But as they're not on the online DLT Smart Queue yet, you have to drive out to the office (map link) and make your appointment in person. From central Pattaya it's about 40 min RT to spend five minutes to book an appointment. In my case the appointment was for one week late

A new feature has recently appeared on Photoshop Beta called 'find distractions.' Essentially with one click of the mouse one can remove wires and cables from a photograph as I have done above. Similarly one is also able to remove people other than the subject of the photograph from the image with one click.

More chaos than usual this morning at Khaos Korners. Typical of Thai planning, after they had taken the no longer needed utility pole down, the traffic police showed up to clear the traffic backup the work caused.

While much appreciated at its time the map is way out of date and unhelpful except in a geographical sense. Perhaps not even that ,LK is tiny and Soi Boomerang isnt listed. Dont look for the couples bar "Secrets". BM forcebwithu updates an excellent GC map but perhaps not what you are looking for. Im sure you will get a lot of good response if you list what you would like as you did looking for certain music. Im a complete nutcase , meticulous planner but in my initial visits i quickly understood the still valid advice. "Dont make plans in Thailand".

Police Station Beach Road - Soi 9

Paid a visit to a secluded waterfall outside of Pattaya this morning. It's north of the intersection of Huai Yai Rd and Hwy 331 (map link with more photos of the waterfall). It's a great spot to escape the crowds of Pattaya and chill. Quite often you'll have the falls to yourself as it's only accessible via two wheels or two feet.

Family just booked out of Gatwick with China Eastern via Shanghai flights at a very reasonable £480 return next month. It’s not a bad connection only about 2 hours it’s a while since seem prices like that. They was planning on Spain but realised it’s cheaper to come here.

Thanks for the laughs. Looked this one up "Speaking of which, where else in the world would a construction company build a new road and leave an existing electricity pole standing slap bang in the middle of one of the carriageways. Well, it’s there to be seen in Najomtien, where this road is actually now in use. This one you really couldn’t make up." and sure enough, not that I doubted you... Construction cockup leaves utility pole in the middle of Najomtien road

The Walking Street "gate" in, maybe 2005 (or so). It was two wrought iron arches to which the electric lights were attached. Photographer unknown.

I agree with the title of this video. Unreal how good AI has gotten.

^^^ For those that don't have Photoshop, such as myself, Photoroom has an online free Magic Eraser. Probably not as easy to use as Photoshop's tool, but the price is right. https://www.photoroom.com/tools/remove-object-from-photo

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Same, same!

One click of a button to identify and remove people.

All I did was ask a question about a supposed joke so bite me.

how about you and sinbinjack stick to putting political pictures in the political section where they belong

Greetings Monkeywatchers, core coon crap for your valued patronage, and welcome to another stream of unconsciousness. Let’s go with the flow. Within the space of a few days, two South Korean tourists were found drowned off the coast of Koh Larn. No doubt the Chinese will be accusing them of cultural appropriation, having had something of a monopoly on drowning around this location, though in their case it’s usually by the ferry load. If you’re having a bit of trouble getting the old plonker to perform these days, you may be interested to know that a Thai clinic can now offer to fit y

The Sanctuary of Truth.

R.I.P. - it was my signpost when i was wandering down WS looking for FLB.

Not much left of the WS tree. No matter how sacred the tree is to the Thai's it will eventually crumble under the weight of time. Pics from 1 June.

It is sad to see the old Walking Street Tree today. When I look at my old pictures I can see it has not always been this way.