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Thanks for the demo :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by ENT
You're the cat smoocher, not me pal. :)
My guess is that it has to do with jurisdiction and ownership/maintenance of the roads. The smaller side roads may be the responsibility of the local government, whereas the main roads are the responsibility of another government body.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pragmatic
The local government may only be willing to pay for the pavement up to the edge of where the main road property demarcation is.
Seems quite silly to leave so many roads in that state. There are many of them in the area where I live as well.
The joys of an un-coordinated contract/sub-contract system,...lotsa little bits of work demanding back-handers.
I was taken back by this (?) in the grounds of a temple out in the countryside of Isaan. No houses within the vicinity so fcuk knows why they had this temple there. The temple wasn't anything to write home about but I thought this (?) was.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...al_001%7E6.JPG
Hmmmmm....I know!!!
The stairs are there to stop the horses! (Or are they cows?)
Bouncy castle for a school's Children Day party today, held at park area on Chanthaburi coast
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2015/01/553.jpg
You're a nutter Dilly.
My youngest daughter and me off the coast of Sapi island in the Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park two weeks ago
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2015/01/572.jpg
I wouldnt take my daughter up on one of those. I know of 2 people who died in Penang paragliding and a woman who was caught in the top of a tree near the Rasa Sayang hotel, screaming... for half an hour.Quote:
Originally Posted by OckerRocker
if you go to the outside bar there, the bartender will point at the tree where it happened:)
Think I found the photo
http://www.thestar.com.my/~/media/Im...iling%201.ashx
Here's a few more I've dug up...
The perils of parasailing - Nation | The Star OnlineQuote:
Water-sport mishaps in recent years:
Langkawi
- In July 2012, a heavy-set Arab tourist died in a freak parasailing accident in Langkawi. The parachute failed to lift him on the final attempt to get airborne and he fell to the beach before having breathing difficulties.
Batu Ferringhi
- On Oct 9, 2013, Saudi Arabian tourist Aldakhilallah Eman Mohamed, 35, died after plunging 10m into the sea while parasailing.
- In February 2013, an American tourist suffered a severe injury to her foot and another fractured her pelvic bone after a parasailing mishap.
- In January 2012, a local college student and his uncle got stuck in a tree after their parachutes got entangled in knots. They sustained minor scratches and bruises after falling on cushions placed by the watersports operators.
- In January 2012, Ehab Abunawas, a tourist from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia claimed that parasailing rope and hooks kept hitting him and his nine-year-old son while they were up in the air and no proper safety briefing was given prior to the ride.
- On Jan 24, 2012, a parasailing Chinese national hit a Singaporean when he landed on the latter.
- In June 2012, seven people in a team-building activity were injured and one hospitalised when a parasailing tourist fell on them while attempting to land.
- In June 2012, a female tourist was snagged on a cheek by a parasail's ropes.
- On Aug 27, 2012, an Arab tourist broke her right leg when she and her husband fell on each other just before taking flight.
- On Dec 24, 2010, seven-year-old Rina Aizawa from Japan was playing on the beach when a parasailing rope hooked her neck, lifted her off the ground and dragged her for a short distance. She sustained lacerations on her neck.
- In May 2010, a Jordanian woman had her parachute entangled in a coconut tree near a hotel.
- In June 2010, a drummer with the British samba band Inner Sense, Richard Sliva, fractured his left leg after plunging about 20m to the ground when his parasail failed to open properly.
- On Aug 31, 2011, a 40-year-old woman from Ipoh suffered lacerations on her neck and arm after she got entangled in the rope of a parasail while her teenage son sustained minor cuts while trying to ward off the rope. Two parasailers had landed near them when they were walking on the beach.
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So far I'm safe . . . it is simply dangerous being an Arab, it seems.Quote:
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Having said that, thanks Dillinger . . . I'll not be doing this again - once was enough
^ They love it those Arabs and the Japs. i thought paragliding was pretty safe too, until I heard about the woman in the tree:)
There's a kayaking place in Penang too, it's just as you turn right to go up the hill to ferringhi, I went with a mate. the woman there was really safety conscious and mentioned to stay near the beach, put the life jacket on. It's a good 45 minutes of 2 of you paddling to get to this little island. You go past Miami Beach to get to it.
Anyway, as she was mentioning the undercurrents, I jokingly asked if anyone had ever died kayaking there. She said 'yes last year' :)
Hmmm . . . nice. https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2013/07/4098.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Dillinger
As I said, won't be doing it again.
We also did a level two white-water rafting (our eight-year old precluded a higher stage which we'd done a few years ago). That was fun and the guides were quite good, especially in terms of safety.
Still . . . Malaysia is better than Thailand in this regard but far behind places like Singapore, NZ etc...
Haven't see Monty the carpet python for about a year. He used to hang around the house sometimes. I hope this belongs to him as it is 2 metres long.
It has no patterning though. I am not sure if shed snakeskins retain species patterning or not.
If it is not a python then there is a monster eastern brown somewhere on my property.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...07_resized.JPG
Monster brown.
And a nice new pair of shiny shoes, if you can catch the fokker with that chainsaw
It's one of those plastic toy chainsaws for legomen, only about an inch long...
Should have left one of his stilettos there for scale
Looper, you are getting a bit slack, your chain is a bit loose.
Those waters look pristine Pseudo. Think I've peed in there.:) Is it chicken Island or one of the 5 Island tour from Ao Nang?
Monkey island and general pissing about on the water. Good fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dillinger
Nice one mate, do a thread. Wanna see more of that posh boat:)
Here is one for ya!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dillinger
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...50_resized.JPG
KGBGF came round and surprised me tonight me after her pole dancing class.
These are the stilettos she uses.
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I cannot model them as they are a bit small :(
New chain today. They stretch a bit on the first run.Quote:
Originally Posted by reddog
JonCutter?...Never heard of him in logging land...
If you hadn't mentioned it, I was just going to ask...Quote:
Originally Posted by Looper
driving here can be a little bit challenging
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...110_095939.jpg
Brixton ? ^
TamataveQuote:
Originally Posted by nigelandjan
little shop just outside the city - though they are everywhere in town also
at one of the tables outside were a couple of one version of local gendarms with their sk's having a drink - I did not stay for long - pissed up retards are just as annoying here as in rural thailand - you , you , you varza
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College green, Dublin.
Over 100 years old so I'm told, and still in use today. Rural farming in Buriram Province.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...al_004%7E0.JPG
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...al_003%7E5.JPG
Fcuking Thais and their ability to ruin beautiful countryside. In the villages at either end of this road, 11km in length, they have refuse collection bins outside every house. Along with community bins on the main road. But some cnut deliberately drives here to dump his rubbish. All in the same place and all tied up in the same manner. Welcome to Thailand, this is not an isolated case.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...al_001%7E7.JPG
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They name and shame fly tippers on road signs in the UK now and highlight the 4 figure fineQuote:
Originally Posted by Pragmatic
They couldn't do that in Thailand. The road signs wouldn't be fcuking big enough, the dirty bastards.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dillinger
Took this an hour ago..
https://teakdoor.com/images/smilies1/You_Rock_Emoticon.gif
Very pretty, but . . . brrrrrrr
(No, no sheep comments)
Wow. Great pic. Where is that?
^Not Thailand:rolleyes:
People actually do live outside of Thailand..... and do actually live in horrible snowy shity places-
Today where i live - lossa snow blowing everywhere and minus 5 wind factor 10. Try sitting at a bus stop with that and trying to light a cigarette. Buggered. plus i had me gloves on-
But, next week shall be nicer, and we just glow in the Summer...... 34 degrees in July.
All the "arabian" people come here to get away from the heat and pinch bottoms,