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Romantic Weekend A husband and wife go on a romantic weekend to a hotel. Their double room reservation has been messed up and instead they are given an attic room with two single beds which has a raised beam on the floor between the beds which they have to step over to avoid stubbing their toes. When they go to bed the husband switches the light off and after a short silence amorously murmurs to his wife: “How about a bit of nookie then, sweetie?†She agrees and makes her way across the room in the dark but unfortunately stubs her toe on the raised beam. Her husband hears her cry out in pain and promptly comforts her by sweetly cooing: “Oh diddums, did you stub your little tootsie-wootsie? Come and lie in my bed and let me rub it better for you honeykinsâ€. She gets into bed with him and they spend the next hour having wonderful sex. The wife then gets out of bed and starts to cross the room to return to her bed but accidently stubs her toe on the raised beam again. On hearing her cry out in pain once more her husband snaps back at her: “Jesus! Can’t you watch where you're bloody going woman!"!!!

Actually, I think in the UK, drivers often get off with similarly lenient sentences for such 'accidents'. Anyway, RIP. Cross-posted with Mekong.

Thai truck driver who knocked down and killed British couple on 23rd country of their round-the-world cycling trip escapes with £18 fine (Daily Mail 27/05/14) Peter Root and Mary Thompson were knocked down by a truck in Thailand The couple, both 34, had cycled through Europe, the Middle East and China Truck driver, Vorawong Sangkawat pleaded guilty to driving with negligence Was fined just £18 and given a two year suspended prison sentence Inquest into their deaths gives an accidental death ruling A Thai truck driver who knocked down and killed a British couple who were on a round-the-world cycling trip was fined just £18. Peter Root and Mary Thompson, both 34, left Guernsey in July 2011 and had cycled through Europe, the Middle East and China before reaching Thailand, their 23rd country. But the couple were killed when they were run over by the driver of a pick-up truck while riding their bicycles on a road 70 miles east of Bangkok in Phanom Sarakham, Chachoengsao in February last year. The couple were travelling on the hard shoulder when a pick-up truck veered from its lane and struck them. The truck driver Vorawong Sangkawat lost control when he bent down to pick up a hat off the floor of his Toyota truck, according to Thai police. The lapse in concentration sent his vehicle swerving into the hard shoulder, where it knocked down and killed the couple. The 25-year-old was arrested and charged with killing them both through negligence. However, he was given a suspended two-year prison sentence and fined 1,000 Baht, the equivalent of just £18. A post-mortem examination in Guernsey confirmed that the couple had both suffered severe head injuries consistent with a road traffic accident. The examination was delayed because of difficulties in obtaining details of the driver's prosecution. Eventually officials discovered that when Sangkawat appeared in Chacheungsao Provisional Court last year, he pleaded guilty to an offence of causing death by negligence. The single offence violated several laws and carried a potential sentence of up to 10 years in jail. But he left court with a two-year suspended sentence because of his guilty plea, remorse and previous good character. He was also placed under probation service supervision for one year and made to attend a seminar relating to the country's Land Traffic Law. Mr Root, was an acclaimed artist and lecturer born in Jersey but grew up on the Channel Island of Guernsey. He met Bristol-born Ms Thompson when they both attended art college in Falmouth, Cornwall, 14 months earlier. In the wake of their deaths, Peter's father Jerry described them as a 'golden couple' who 'loved life'. Both of them were highly acclaimed artists who had put on exhibitions all over the UK and as far afield as Istanbul and Bolivia. Mr Root had work displayed in the Saatchi gallery, while Ms Thompson exhibited at the prestigious Waterman's Gallery in London. She was also a highly regarded jewellery designer, while Mr Root taught digital media and design at the Guernsey College of Further Education. An inquest in Guernsey heard they had cycled through the whole of Europe and a number of dangerous places including Iran and Afghanistan. Their online blog, 'Two on Four Wheels' described how they faced extreme weather conditions and even came under gunfire during the 19-month trip of a lifetime. Judge Philip Robey recorded a verdict of accidental death, saying the medical evidence was consistent with severe head injuries caused by a traffic collision. In the wake of their deaths, family members set up the Peter Root and Mary Thompson Charitable Trust for the future promotion of the arts and other charitable interests. Mary's brother Ben, from Bristol, said at the time of their deaths: 'Mary was a ray of sunshine - a hugely positive, gentle person who just loved people and making friends. 'Equally, Pete's dry wit, irreverent sense of humour, generosity and boundless enthusiasm won him friends everywhere he went. 'Many people just talk about their dreams - Mary and Pete actually went out there and lived them. 'The world is undoubtedly a much poorer place for their passing, and they leave behind two heartbroken families and countless friends.' Thailand is well known for its perilous roads, with more than 13,000 killed and almost 1million injured each year in accidents. http://www.dailymail...ed-just-18.html (27/05/14) http://www.dailynews.co.th/Content/regional/55319/%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A7%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%93%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A1%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A2%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B7%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%87%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%AB%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B4%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B8 (original Thai story from 18/02/13).

I seem to remember CHUH-EE CHUH-EE เฉยๆ - to have no feelings one way or the other, I don't care...etc can also be used here. Although maybe it's more for feelings than an opinion?

Apparently Gordon Ramsay has a recipe for this out in the ether somewhere. This recipe's on my to do list of the next to try and cook!

No women present lol

Third placed Sunannipar Kritsanasuwan’s crown decided it had enough of the whole affair and dropped to the ground during a recent interview. http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2014/05/22/nampetchs-words-wisdom-her-broken-crown

http://youtu.be/dTajQX4CVcY [Warning graphic images of assault]. Came across this story in the Thai Daily News today of a mob vigilante attack on a pickup truck by a group of about 30 Thai motorcyclists. The driver was dragged out from his car and violently assaulted. What sparked the attack was initially uncertain, but according to the Dailynews, the pickup truck had earlier accidently knocked over a child and fled the scene without stopping. However, the later article in Springnewstv went on to give more details and a slightly different and updated version. The attack took place on 20/05/14 in Charan Sanit Wong Road in Bangkok's Bangkok Noi district and the three passengers in the car were followers and disciples of the local 'Nok' temple in Bang Waek. The driver of the pickup, 35 year-old Sophon Chinthai, had earlier got into a fight with Suraphot Chantiyanan (sp?), a 55 year old monk at the temple. The fight was sparked by the monk, who had a drink problem and was regularly violent, swearing at Sophon. The monk ended up hurting his back in the fight. A meeting was arranged later in the day at the police station to clear things up between the two, but the aggrieved monk had rallied round his supporters who were waiting at the station. Sophon turned up at the station, and when he saw the waiting mob, he took flight, accidently knocking over some of their motorcycles, which further enraged them. They gave chase and took revenge. http://www.dailynews...)&videoId=24510 http://news.springne...ารุมยำเจ็บสาหัส

Apparently the winner, 22-year-old Weluree “Fai†Disayabut, is being criticised on line in Thai forums for being overweight. http://bangkok.cocon...ailand-universe Third place Sunannipar Kritsanasuwan’s (Ami Namphet) past sexy photos have also been condemned online. It was discovered she has a past history as a 'pretty' at some of the motor shows. http://www.thairath..../content/423965 There was also another contestant, 'Top' Fongphikun Thonglin, who was removed from the competition earlier on in the beginning of May after the beauty contest committee discovered she'd posted up a risqué picture of a diseased penis on her Twitter account with the caption 'Shall we eat some ice cream?' and felt it damaged the reputation of the competition. http://www.thairath..../content/420277 Seems it takes so much to be Miss Thailand nowadays!

Blade Runner - Tears in Rain

That verification process on Hotmail is a pain. Am caught up in the middle of it myself now.

Spywareblaster has a built-in flash killer in its Tools section. https://www.brightfo...areblaster.html

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.†- Charles Bukowski Some bring happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg6fQAW3vz8

We get foxes in our garden sometimes, keeping us awake. This is the noise they make, so don't really understand the premiss of the song.

Wow...sore heads in the morning, even if it was staged อิอิ

I had that once. Rice finally arrived 15 minutes after the main meal. Hur~

http://youtu.be/Cfez1LBfxWc Saw this video doing the rounds in the Thai press today. Apparently it's a venomous King Cobra. Rather than park up and let it crawl away, they continued driving and filming until it eventually fell off. Wonder if this week's lottery numbers matched the car registration plate? http://www.dailynews...ขื่องโผล่หน้ารถ

Took a quick look at the Thai press to see how they covered this story. News.mthai.com report that Nick Nostitz yesterday visited Tao Pun police station in Bang Sue and asked for police protection since he lives locally and was now frightened to go out due to fear of being assaulted. Police Colonel Phatphon Sanitsawong Na Ayuthaya, superintendent at the station, has responded to the request by allocating officers to protect him and also install a police red letter box at the front of his property. http://news.mthai.co...ews/327638.html In an earlier interview in Thairath from January of this year, Nostitz stated that since his previous November 2013 assault in front of the Metropolitan Police Bureau in Bangkok by anti-government protesters, his life had changed markedly. He felt in constant danger which made his work as a journalist more difficult. He denied being biased in favour of the red shirts or taking money from Thaksin and said he had in fact lost hundreds of thousands of Baht in work due to being unable to cover ongoing political events. http://www.thairath..../content/398639 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFCHITU8Qp0 Funnily enough, there were as yet no photos or video of the second assault, despite the fact it apparently happened in front of waiting journalists outside the court.

Videos showing staff and customers running out of hotel lobbies, shops and restaurants etc during yesterday's earthquake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPK8iO-YK98 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCu4-T7Njn0 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie_ih0qcnog www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPOopHEJccc www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7DOQR1cyes www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zDacqD8XBA www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xws0B31qm7U (customers fleeing internet cafe)

Me too. Maybe a stock photo and the wrong pic?

When our grannies created fantasies in our little girl heads that one day we'd win pageants and be handed ridiculously large checks on stage, they might have forgotten one detail. In the real world, the check might never arrive. The six winners of the “Miss Thai Lovely†pageant, who were handed such checks earlier this year, said they never got the money and filed a complaint yesterday at Lumpini police station. The third place winner, Anyada Rachatarom, told police they competed in the contest and were announced winners in March. The six winners said they were promised rewards ranging from THB100,000 to THB1 million, but so far the organizer has only paid them THB20,000 each. Anyada said she’s negotiated with the company who sponsored the event but was told they weren’t ready to pay. Anyada added the girls just want the reward they were promised and don't want the foreign organizer to dupe other Thai girls into an exploitative bikini show or use their photos to promote another misleading pageant contest, Daily News reported. We did the research and assume Anyada was referring to this creepy swimsuit show seen below, which looks more like some horny farang’s private pool party than a professional pageant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_nm6eUf8Zk http://bangkok.cocon...ling-pay-reward (07/05/14) http://www.dailynews...บี้ยวเงินรางวัล

BANGKOK — A German photojournalist has claimed he was attacked by a group of anti-government protest guards while on assignment at the Constitutional Court today. The incident reportedly happened while Constitutional Court judges were reading the verdict that ultimately found Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and some of her Cabinet members guilty of unlawfully removing the head of the National Security Council (NSC) in 2011. Nick Nostitz said he was smoking and talking to a friend, a senior BBC correspondent, near the entrance to the court when he was suddenly approached by a group of intimidating men wearing outfits worn by the guards of the anti-government protest group, the People's Committee for Absolute Democracy With the King As Head of State (PCAD). Speaking to Khaosod English on phone, Mr. Nostitz said the group asked him if he was "Nick" and said that they would take him to "Luang Phu," possibly referring to the Buddhist monk and PCAD leader, Luang Phu Buddha Issara, who was organising a PCAD rally nearby on Chaeng Wattana Road. Mr. Nostitz said when he refused and tried to leave, the men immediately attacked him and attempted to take him away, startling many soldiers, policemen, and reporters who were stationed in the area at the time. The German reporter said he called for help, and some policemen eventually intervened and escorted him into the building, away from the PCAD guards. Mr. Nostitz said he left the building through the backdoor soon afterwards. "They came straight at me," Mr. Nostitz told our correspondent. "Some of them must have remembered me. It looked planned." Mr. Nostitz was previously attacked by PCAD demonstrators at Ratchadamnoen Avenue on 25 November, after a PCAD activist and former Democrat Party MP urged the crowd to "expel" Mr. Nostitz from the protest site because he was a "Redshirt journalist," an allegation vehemently denied by the German reporter. Mr. Nostitz added that he fought hard not to be taken away today because he was well aware of what has happened to individuals who were detained by Buddha Issara's guards; media reports have indicated that several police officers have even been held and tortured by the militants. "I can't imagine what would happen to me. It was very frightening," Mr. Nostitz said. He said he has filed complaints with the police against the group of PCAD militants who attempted to abduct him today. Pol.Cpt. Witthaya Kongthong, a police officer at Thoong Song Hong Police Station, said the officers will study CCTV footage of the area to identify the perpetrators. Nevertheless, he admitted that the work will be difficult because it appears that the PCAD guards who were trying to abduct Mr. Nostitz had masked their faces at the time of the incident. http://en.khaosod.co...ate=06&section= (07/05/14)

Are you sure about that Mekong? The 'Si' สี in Silom Road ถนนสีลม has a different spelling to that for four สี่. Here's the Wiki entry for Silom Road following the windmill theme on the origin of the road's name : ...In the 19th century, daily life in Bangkok mostly took place on and around the canals. Silom was a rural farmland with rice fields, orchards and windmills criss-crossed by canals... ...Silom (windmills in Thai) has changed immensely with the coming of modern times... [the]...Bangkokian Museum (พิพิธภัณฑ์ชาวบางà¸à¸­à¸)...is devoted to maintaining the history of Bang Rak and Silom, showing the farms, canals and windmills that used to be characteristic for this area... and from http://th.wikipedia....rg/wiki/ถนนสีลม : ...Silom Road was built in the reign of Thai King Rama IV (King Mongkut; 1851–1868), along with Charoen Krung Road, Bamrung Mueang Road and Fueang Nakhon Road. It was originally called Khwang Road and started life as a dyke or embankment arising from the excavation and construction of the Bangrak and Thanontrong canals. The embankment became known as Khwang Road (lit. 'Obstruction' Road). Foreigners brought in windmills there to help drain out the water in the area. Because the area at the time consisted of open rice fields, the windmills became a prominent feature of the road and it eventually became known by its present day name, Silom Road (Windmill Road)...