Thread: Post a photo you took yourself

Air raid siren. All ground crew to battle stations. Tiny Thai Lady incoming...

Tried to tempt her with my best bubbly but she was a confirmed cider drinker like Mendip - she has an eye-wateringly firm grip on that glass.

Tending the campfire like a little trooper

I see a bad moon rising...

Originally Posted by Looper

she has an eye-wateringly firm grip on that glass.

that might be a warning sign for later on...

Originally Posted by DrWilly

that might be a warning sign for later on...

Or a fast-track onto the Xmas card list.

^^^ She looka cute.

Do yuo want me to come on over with some scrumpy to loosen her up a bit? No problem. If you're busy just leave the keys mate, I don't mind.

No shape to it... no calf definition, huge plates of fucking meat, the body of a Western male and blacker than Mendip's gardener.


In fact, is that not Mendy's handyman off on his Xmas hols

Originally Posted by Looper

I see a bad moon rising...

Bad moon?
Is that what they call a 2 and a half inch penis in Oz?

She also appears to have been affected by thalidomide judging by her left hand

^^

Yeah, it's the 'calf definition' that's usually a deal breaker!

If me gardener looked like that I wouldn't be spending 5 months away every year... in fact I very much doubt Das Kommandant would allow me a gardener in the erste platze cos I'd be helping to 'mow the lawn' and 'plant the seeds' at every opportunity I got!

I'd even be happy to help 'pick the mangoes' if you know what I mean.

Anyway, why aren't you busy? Not on strike with all your rail komrades?

Merry Christmas to your wife and lovely young daughter, by the way!


Edit: MM, So 3 fingers is a deal breaker as well?

A hard audience indeed.

Originally Posted by Mendip

So 3 fingers is a deal breaker as well?

The size 11 feet, lack of hips and ass and almighty shoulders on show would send out red flags to the most observant of your normal red blooded male who hadn't spent the lat 5 months bobbin up and down on Roger the cabin boy

Merry Xmas Mendy and you Loopy, you couple of fuckin wronguns

No 3 finger deal breaker at all she can still hold a bowling ball

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

The size 11 feet, lack of hips and ass and almighty shoulders on show would send out red flags to the most observant of your normal red blooded male who hadn't spent the lat 5 months bobbin up and down on Roger the cabin boy

Merry Xmas Mendy and you Loopy, you couple of fuckin wronguns

We've seen your picture threads dill. You'd crawl over broken glass for that.

Yes who can forget the phnom penh menage a trois

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

No shape to it... no calf definition, huge plates of fucking meat, the body of a Western male and blacker than Mendip's gardener.

Bah and Humbug be upon the Cringle Dingle...

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

The size 11 feet, lack of hips and ass and almighty shoulders

Lol, she was actually mortified when she jumped in my car we had gone 1km and she realised with a wrenched woman's anguished howl that she had forgotten to slip on her high heels, that she had pain-stakingly selected and lined up by her front door then forgotten in her haste, and was instead going to have to pad round with me slumming in her flip flops at a towering 149cm

It was nice chatting with a Thai woman again. There is something beguiling about the particular way they mangle their English, that no other female ethnicity can quite match.

Originally Posted by Looper

There is something beguiling about the particular way they mangle their English,

Not that I can speak Thai, but i find it cute. "I want seck"

On Christmas Day, the new concrete road passed my gate. It is interesting to watch their progress. They are doing one side of the carriageway first, whilst we residents continue to use the dirt road. When finished, the contractor will build the other side of the road and we'll get to use the concrete.



The concrete is reinforced by a spindly steel mesh. Probably the spec has the steel as being halfway up the 15cm thickness of the concrete. That would require making chairs and flattening the rolled mesh and make all sorts of work for people. They don't even use the tried and trusted technique of laying the steel on the ground, then pouring the concrete, then using manpower to lift the steel inside the wet concrete. No, the quicker way is to pour the concrete, then lay the somewhat unrolled steel on top, then have the workers jump around on it in their wellies, thus pushing it down by a uniformly precise 750mm.



This being a carefully worded government contract the spec requires an expansion joint every 10m. This is achieved by using a polystyrene spacer which will later be tarred over.



BUT ... expansion joints are extra effort so what they are doing is putting a real expansion joint every 50m. At each 10m interval between the joints they press a length of rebar across the surface. This creates an indentation and the rebar is later removed. When the final tarring happens each of these indentations will be filled with tar so that the road appears to have an expansion joint every 10m, as the contract requires.



It will all be fine. Probably. For a while.

This being Thailand, no concreting project is complete until it has dog pawprints across it.



So there it is, the complete guide to How to Build a Road.

^ You are becoming very cynical Shutree!

So how long do you reckon this technique has lasted in the past ?

Originally Posted by Looper

Bah and Humbug be upon the Cringle Dingle...



Lol, she was actually mortified when she jumped in my car we had gone 1km and she realised with a wrenched woman's anguished howl that she had forgotten to slip on her high heels, that she had pain-stakingly selected and lined up by her front door then forgotten in her haste, and was instead going to have to pad round with me slumming in her flip flops at a towering 149cm

It was nice chatting with a Thai woman again. There is something beguiling about the particular way they mangle their English, that no other female ethnicity can quite match.

It's beguiling and kinda cute for a while but becomes a bit irritating after several years of it. Fair enough. It's not there first language

Originally Posted by Shutree

BUT ... expansion joints are extra effort so what they are doing is putting a real expansion joint every 50m. At each 10m interval between the joints they press a length of rebar across the surface. This creates an indentation and the rebar is later removed. When the final tarring happens each of these indentations will be filled with tar so that the road appears to have an expansion joint every 10m, as the contract requires.

Of course they are!

I was lucky enough to take this snap tonight.

I'm still wondering on a title... how about "the mangy Thai street dog who's never hurt a fly in her life and the entitled Etonian twat who's negligence has cost tens of thousands of lives and is still too stupid to wear a mask properly"?

Sunset tonight Phutthamonthon Park

^ Losing an ear does nothing for his looks!

Originally Posted by Mendip

^ Losing an ear does nothing for his looks!

*Her

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TD new year's gathering?