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555, if it was on the internet it must have been true ... my Buddha, no wonder so many still think the Moon landings were faked and 9/11 was an inside job.

There sure was a lot of cardboard floating the first few days.

Yep; a couple of months ago an Amazon chartered 767 nose-dived into a Bay just south of Houston. There were so many parts scattered, the debris field looked less like an airplane and more like random scrap. It took them weeks just to find the black box and longer to find remains of the 3-man crew.

Hard Rock higher end rooms are good and the pool is one of the largest and arguably best in town. For a smaller vibe there's Wave but I don't like the pool there ... to close and exposed to Beach Road riff raff.

Just a thought ... for the new skin, perhaps an old picture of MM, one in his younger days, either overlaid or popped into a frame. There's at least one here somewhere. Sort of a silent but lasting reminder/memorial

It was indeed. MQ's 'twins' were popular a few years afterwards as a young DB would attest.

Yeah, that has to be a typo and was likely intended to be top UK food items. Yanks might be after masa harina or cornmeal for fresh tortillas, Zatrain crab boil, good peanut butter, etc., but orange squash and jaffa cakes ... no way.

If you don't like plot spoilers, be careful surfing the net. The outcome of GoT season 8 is already out there as well as summaries of each of the final 6 episodes.

You do not need a Passport to change money. As noted above, a TDL will suffice.

Vegas?

For the next buffet-lover ... Lek Hotel 250 Baht.

Phew ... close call ... saved me time shopping on Amazon for that type of vise.

Recently watched 'Baby Driver' while confined to United's 12-hour slog in economy from Narita to Houston (at least it wasn't the overhead bin). It was much different than I assumed from the title and one of the best movies I have seen recently.

In Texas, a patty melt is sort of an embellishment of a cheeseburger and is served on toast rather than a bun, more like how hamburgers were in the US Southern states back in the days when complimenting a woman on her outfit wasn't a sexual assault.

I'm not in the know either but I have worked on similar sewage/drainage projects world-wide and it would be unusual to undertake a large infrastructure project like that just to move untreated raw sewage a little differently. Just my experience, but it is more likely the pipe part you are referring to which a well-connected know-it-all has surmised is to do just that is rather an initial part of a project that will take the feed to a treatment facility or new aggregation point to then head to treatment and that the treatment facilities are 'further down the road.'

The rumours are nonsense. Sewage is treated in Pattaya city but the plants can be overwhelmed with flood waters just like anywhere else. The drainage in Pattaya is so poor the treatment plants get overwhelmed often. The drainage runoff is likely more toxic because folks/businesses often just dump crap in the streets/ditches, many/most which are not connected to treatment plants. Take your hints from locals, just like anywhere else. Most Thais avoid swimming in Pattaya beaches ... chinese not so much.

I was upgraded one time on BA ... it was pleasant sitting inside the plane.

I drive a 2012 Wildtrac in Thailand that has the 2.2L Diesel. It has 203,000 Kms and the only thing we've replaced other than normal wear/tear at the regular 15,000 kms checkups has been an O2 sensor that Ford replaced under warranty. I've had similar experience in Texas with a 2005 F-350 Diesel which has 200,000 miles on it. I'm hoping Ford offers a Diesel option in the upcoming Bronco. I'm guessing Ford will offer a Diesel in the new US Ranger if only to match Chevy and Dodge/Ram.

Could have been worse, i.e., Kloster or Amstel.

One of the best stock investments I have made in the past few years. Bought for about $5/share in 2009, now above $25/share. WAC wouldn't like it ... BBBBUUUUUST and evil Banksters and all of that.

You can't take it with you ... oops ...

When I got my first KSA driver's license in the early 80s part of the process was to donate a pint of blood ... for the accidents you would be causing. There was no formal Driver's education requirements but the company who I worked for required we sit for 30 minutes lecture after blood letting and listen to a local talk about driving conditions in KSA. He told us the painted lanes were for ... general guidance.

555, here's where I'm headed ... Arthur is 90 years old. He's played golf for 70 years and every day since his retirement 25 years ago. One day he arrives home looking downcast. "That's it," he tells his wife. "I'm giving up golf. My eyesight has gotten so bad that once I've hit the ball I can't see where it went." His wife sympathizes and makes him a cup of tea. As they sit down she says, "Why don't you take my brother, Henry, with you and give it one more try..." "That's no good,” sighs Arthur, your brother's a hundred and three. He can't help." "He may be a hundred and three", says the wife, "but his eyesight is perfect" So the next day Arthur heads off to the golf course with his brother-in-law, Henry. He tees up, takes an almighty swing and squints down the fairway. He turns to the brother-in-law. "Did you see my ball, Henry?" "Of course I did!" replied Henry. "I have perfect eyesight, I saw exactly where it went". "Where did it go?" says Arthur. "I don't remember."

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