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Greetings Monkeywatchers, core coon crap for jumping aboard, and welcome to this month’s mad as a March hare ramblings. Chocks away. The post COVID outbreak of stinking pig in the Walking Street area is reportedly spreading and is now threatening to become a pandemic. Unfortunately no vaccine is available but face masks definitely help. There’s a new craze sweeping teens in Pattaya, namely riding motorbikes round the city and slapping Indians round the head. They don’t seem to bother with farangs, presumably because most of them are slapheads already. An Italian man who wa

https://tdac.immigration.go.th/arrival-card/#/home Has to be done 3 days before arrival. Not sure how long before that it can be completed.

Nothing felt in Pattaya by myself. Bringing down The Waterfront might have been beneficial. I see the building in Bangkok fell vertically, pretty much into it's own footprint.... I hope that fact does not get the 9-11 conspiracy theorists going! Airports were closed in Thailand....as was BTS etc. Relatives of my Mrs all on motorcycles to get home, and minibuses. Heaven knows what the situation is in Myanmar..... I will be putting the news on shortly.

I had an appointment at Bangkok Pattaya Hospital yesterday afternoon, knew nothing about any earthquake and was amazed to find Building B completely devoid of staff or patients, and lots of nurses etc. evacuating patients from the main building. Nothing for it but to go home, where the TV told me why. One has to ask how come one high-rise under construction in Bangkok collapsed owing to an earthquake with an epicenter 600 miles away, while other buildings were just damaged. Pity the poor buggers who were working in it, there can scarcely be any hope for them.

Less of a consideration for a pickup than an SUV or a car I should think. While I share your uncertainty about the overall quality, the Chinese seem to have cracked the code for making decent-looking cars anyway.

I remember reading somewhere that tremors from quakes are directional in nature. Google AI confirmed my memory.

When you see videos of high rise pools sloshing water back and forth during an earthquake, that's a good thing as long as a person doesn't get tossed over the side of a building along with the water.

Out 47 still missing, latest is there is signs of life of at least 15. I hope they get to those trapped in time. Signs of life detected at collapsed Bangkok building Vital signs of 15 people trapped in the collapsed under-construction State Audit Office building in Bangkok's Chatuchak district were detected on Saturday, raising hopes for rescuers to save them within 72 hours. The death toll from the building collapse stands at eight, while 47 people remain missing and their identities unconfirmed, Suriyan Rawiwan, director of the Bangkok Fire and Rescue Department, said on Satur

Yep, I was thinking about that last night.. During my 18 months working there I saw roadworks being cut into mountains in the Southeastern Provinces that would collapse if anyone sneezed, The Rakhine mountains were too dangerous to drive across in the rain, Bago was very susceptible to landslides and the houses out in the countryside were less safe than a cowshed in Isaan (In fact many families lived directly above the cows). Normal townhouses in Yangon were so old they probably just imploded in a pile of dust! However, I don't expect any meaningful news to come out other than the major towns

Hope she makes it homes safe

Minor Motor Show at Terminal 21.

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Nobody said it was - I was just explaining why we don't close threads on request, that's all.

RIP Big George, if you look at their lives Foreman and Ali were decent people both a credit to the sporting world.

Half a dozen from the Big Buddha site this morning.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4gex01m7n5t The effects are being felt across Thailand and buildings have collapsed in Bangkok.

There was a video posted elsewhere that showed the guy getting ejected from the cab shortly after the crane tore away from the building. RIP to the guy.

Video of the building collapse.