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Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 - well made, spectacular, target audience = 12yr olds - good escapist stuff.

yer makin me homesick

Some are saying that Turing should get posthumous honours, not just a mere pardon.

Two Men in Town 2014 - good - Forest Whitaker plays a reformed killer, released from prison. He should get a prize. Worth a watch.

Pornpimol Kanchanalak ~ 'Democracy in Thailand has been terminally ill for more than a decade, and one of its afflictions is corruption of epidemic proportions' I used to love Thailand, but after 30 years of observation and experience, I sit now, outside it's borders, watching as my adopted Glorious Peoples Republic, scrabble and fight, claw, lie, bully and excrete, their way to the top of the pile. Like so many ants, attacking a juicy piece of fat ,the poor Lao think that Thailand is the zenith of achievement, the nirvana of being, as if the conspicuous displays of consumerist wealth and never-ending lightening of skin tone, which are fuelled by wholesale corruption, and seen as a virtue by most Thais, are the holiest of Buddha's teachings.

:rotl: :rotl: :rotl: :rotl: I'd forgotten you were a Comediene

Interesting stuff " the US freezing a $4.7 million defense loan" a piffling amount, Yingy spends more on white foundation cream. "particularly against cooperation between Sino-Thai triad gangs, drug trafficking and racketeering, all of which are rife on the Mekong River." Shouldn't that read "...which are the life of the Mekong River." "Another point of contention is China’s demand, in exchange for its loan, to manage the trunk line." This is worth noting, in the Glorious People's Republic, China are demanding a 1 km wide corridor, 500m each side of the line for that leg. Thats a lot of land.

Tired of being poor, I've taken a patent out and I am building these devices. $575 - Orders taken by PM User-Operated Amusement Apparatus for Kicking the User's Buttocks

Which is how you can eat 7 tomatoes on a marathon.

Also posted over on 'that other board' BANGKOK — Thailand’s Department of Mineral Resources will dispatch officials to investigate what locals in Uttradit province claim is a fossil of the mythical Naga dragon. The two kilogram "fossil," currently on display at Wat Tha Mai Nuea temple in Uttaradit's Pichai district, has attracted scores of believers and fortune seekers in the region who believe the bone will bring them good luck. Kamol Jadrueng, a temple administrator, insists that the bone belongs to the Naga, a sacred snake-dragon featured in Buddhist cosmology. According to Kamol, the fossil was donated by a temple-goer who purchased it from an antique vendor in Vientiane for 200,000 baht. The vendor said he found the fossil in a cave near the Mekong River in Laos' Savannakhet province. "[The donor] believed that the Naga [fossil] would bring fame to the temple," Kamol said. Often described as the Thai equivalent to Scotland's Loch Ness Monster, the tale of the Naga is widely celebrated in northeastern Thailand. Every November, thousands of Thais gather on the banks of the Mekong river in Nong Khai province to watch the Naga shoot mysterious "fireballs" into the sky. The event also brings annual heated debates over the source of the fireballs, which skeptics says are incendiary bullets fired from rifles on the other side of the river. According to Supot Jermsawasdipong, director of the Department of Mineral Resources, the Naga "fossil" is likely an elephant molar. "The department will dispatch officials to determine what kind of animal it is. We will compare it to an elephant's tooth," said Supot, whose department is responsible for cataloguing fossils in Thailand. Jessada Denduangboripant, biology professor at Chulalongkorn University, told Khaosod he also believes the alleged Naga bone is a fossilized elephant molar. "I'd like to add that before you believe anything, you should find information about it first," said Jessada, a vocal skeptical of supernatural beliefs in Thailand. Link __________________________________________ well if he paid 200,000 bht for it he paid too much you could get one here for $66 in 2004

That was before refrigeration, higher success rates now.

MLG did most of her driver training in the back streets and alleys of Vientiane. With me as the 'instructor', in a Nissan Navara ute, she cheerfully lurched and slid through the mud and potholes, narrowly avoiding chickens and children, escaping collisions by way of me hauling on the hand brake every ten minutes or so. She eventually got her license through a state learner driving programme. Ever since, she won't drive, she is too frightened, but to have the license, now there's the thing!

"Why Are They Killing Chatuchak Market?" Unmitigated, slavering, Emelda Marcos Bouffant capped, greed.

They usually look for 'reason to return' so if she has a job, that she can show, she has taken 2 weeks leave from, that may help.

Well he was right about the seventh heaven falling on ocean or dry land.

Yes, just finished an afternoon of watching the other two, 'Page Eight' & 'Salting the Battlefield'. Very good, and whilst they string together well as a trilogy, they all stand alone as good movies, so much so that my watching the 2nd one first, then the 1st and lastly the third, did not detract from the experience.

I remember a number of years ago, many even, the local worthy women of Bangkok, the ones with Emelda Marcos hair, decided to enhance the tourist pedestrian experience in Bangkok, by installing little buckets of flags either side of pedestrian crossings. The idea was, that when one used the pedestrian crossing, one picked up a little flag and waved it, to make oneself visible to the traffic, thereby making the experience of crossing a Bangkok road, safer. On the first day, an elderly Swedish (I think) couple did as directed and were promptly and efficiently mowed down by a front end loader, yellow, and the Somchai who was driving it, equally promptly, did a runner.

Turks and Caicos 2014 - Best movie I've seen for a long while - apparently, the middle one of a trilogy - 'Page Eight' & 'Salting the Battlefield' are the other two, off to download them now. BBC ~ say no more.

I used to have a very poor opinion of NGO's, the situation in Laos and Cambodia seemed to consist of career driven individuals, more concerned about their monetary entitlements and the next post (hopefully somewhere nice like the Bahamas). I've modified my view slightly, to, it's better to have them, than not to have them. This is because: At least the money (considerable) they spend in the local economy, is a net benefit to the locals (elite or not). And if they actually do some good, however minimal, this is also good for the locals. That having been said - Most of the NGO folk I've met in the Glorious People's Republic are pretentious, self important, entitled, money grubbing f*cks. And if I were them, I'd hang my head in shame.

Nice and warm in middle earth, but no records.

That's telling them.

I went to a rocket festival in the Glorious People's Republic last year, it was fun, oodles of booze, lots of rockets, a judging panel and many, many, young things disporting themselves for the enjoyment of the male population. Most of the rockets were good'uns, some were so big, that I thought the distance between the launch platform and us (about 100 feet), too small, if one exploded. Happy to say, the only explosions encountered, were when I opened my eyes the next morning.

What do they mean first? I had that, Banglampoon 1987. Much happier since.

I think some of the main reasons to JB an Apple TV, is to run other software on the TV and to save movies/tv to a hard drive.