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Man are from Mars and women are from another freakin' universe.

Top Gun director Tony Scott (Ridley Scott's brother) dead at 68 - apparent suicide. I've said it before, but its not just the Pattaya skydiving team that elects to check out after a particularly nasty midlife crisis.

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TOP Gun director Tony Scott has jumped to his death in California.

The LA County coroner’s office confirmed that the 68-year-old scaled and jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro at around 12.30pm on Sunday.

His body was retrieved from the water by the police and coast guard.

Scott's death was being investigated as a suicide, Los Angeles County Coroner's Lt. Joe Bale said.

Police confirmed that several witness saw Scott jump, apparently without hesitation.

Several people called 911 around 12.35pm to report that someone had jumped from the bridge spanning San Pedro and Terminal Island in Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles police Lt Tim Nordquist.

A dive team with Los Angeles Port Police pulled the body from the murky water several hours later, Nordquist said.

Scott's body was taken to a dock in Wilmington and turned over to the county coroner's office.

One lane of the eastbound side of the bridge was closed to traffic during the investigation.

A suicide note was found in his office and another note in his black Toyota Prius, which was parked on one of the eastbound lanes of the bridge.

The survival rate for pancreatic cancer is like 5% or so. It's a terrible way to go...

Yep - I'd be looking to make that 4.99999999% the day I got the diagnosis. They reckon 'old age isnt for wimps' - I think that goes double for surviving cancer.

6 people dead and a Police officer critical after a gunfight and this doesnt deserve its own news item ??? WTF, Kamui ??

The crossing Mekong refers to near Soi 22 is particularly hairy - the traffic is often belting down Suk at that point, having just waited for 300 seconds at the dreadded Asok intersection. Dont even get me started on the kamikaze motorbike riders ......

I want to go further -

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All cities have underground tunnels and caves, but St. Paul has more than most. Underneath most of downtown St. Paul is a labyrinth of man-made tunnels dating back to the 1840s, in places five stories deep. An abundance of natural caves in the Mississippi River gorge have been used and added to for legal and illegal activities for centuries.

Bring that on. 35deg C outside, 20 deg in my underground 'pleasure palace'

(of course, it will have to be extremely well-drained down there ...)

No - you cannot cross Sukhumvit underneath the roads, you can only use the Skywalk to cross Sukhumvit.

FFS - I had this same 'discussion' with several here months ago and was told that I can cross from the Soi 22 side of Asok to the Cowboy side via a magical subway entrance.

Here's a wonderful story from Minnesota:

Vodka Mom and self-appointed executioner

Gotta love your media commentators.

Do you think the Holiday Inn will be guest-friendly when I touch down in 2014 ?

OK, but it IS the Holiday Inn on Suk Soi 22, isnt it ??

I think you both know I have some grasp on what a scale model is. My dick is a 2:1 scale model of Ron Jeremy's, but way more attractive !

Sorry about that image guys - I just linked to it and the thing seems to be a scale model (1:15 would be my guess ....) of the actual construction. Some real flapjacks out there,

Right - as HT pointed out, that monolith on the corner is a Holiday Inn (I wasnt there when it took shape), Queens Park can be seen from space and there is a 5-star on top of Emporium. Throw in the Regency and various boutique hotels in side Sois and its pretty clear that there is a huge accommodation shortage on Soi 22.

Thanks Munchy. Will be interesting to see whether rents/prices go up in Soi 22 once that garagantuan development is completed. They were still doing the foundations for that monster on the corner when I last saw it - directly across the road from what must surely be Thailand's smallest beer bar. 4 customers and the girls literally have nowhere to sit - not to mention that its in full view of every passing cop in need of tea money.

Gotta love this quote from Uncle Ted:

In a Romney stump speech at the 2012 NRA Convention in St. Louis, Nugent said, "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year." He also compared the Obama administration to coyotes who needed to be shot, and encouraged voters to "chop [Democrats'] heads off in November."[60] Nugent received a visit from the Secret Service for these remarks.

Ted, its just as well you can play a guitar, old mate, or you would have been in jail/dead long before this. Michiganiacs must be wondering if old Ted spent a little too long out in the woods - I know I am.

Barry will be wondering how long he's got left?

 

Andy died age 30

 

Maurice died age 53

 

Robin died age 62

 

Barry still alive at 65

I'd completely forgotten Andy !

On 5 March 1988, Andy Gibb celebrated his 30th birthday in London, England, while working on a new album. Soon after, he entered John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford complaining of chest pains and died five days later on 10 March 1988, as a result of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle caused by a recent viral infection

Wikipedia dont seem to have a problem reminding Barry that the clock is ticking - cant say Maurice's death sounds like much fun either - give me the cliched Horse OD in a short-time room any day over this lot :

Maurice Gibb died at a Miami Beach, Florida, hospital on 12 January 2003 of complications resulting from a twisted intestine (volvulus).[3] His brothers Barry and Robin retired the name Bee Gees for a time, declining to perform as a group.[4] However, as time passed, they decided to perform occasionally under the Bee Gees banner.[5] On Sunday 20 May, 2012 at 10:46pm, his fraternal twin Robin Gibb died, following his complications and battle with colo-rectal cancer. Older brother Barry is now the sole surviving member of the famed Bee Gee brothers.

Still cant quite believe he was younger than my sister, but the timelines sorta line up. She was only two years older, but had no interest in anything newer than Elvis .....

I loathed the disco era, particularly Saturday Night Fever, but the Bee Gees blazed a trail long before the current crop of Aussies set up shop in LA and environs. 62 is too young.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Peterson_(surfer)

Unquestionably one of the most naturally gifted surfers ever to paddle out, but whatever deity gave him that gift must have gotten out of the wrong side of the bed. Still, many who knew him in the 70s wouldnt have laid odds on him making it to 2012. I hope he has found the peace that eluded him for much of his life.

Excellent - thanks TH - I didnt venture down there in February, other than a cab to Cowboy and back. Too focused on Patts this trip. I miss the nights, but I absolutely dont miss the heat/humidity and the freakin' crowds.

Yep, and we both know what Bonobo do for 99% of each day

Sadly, we also know what chimps are capable of, but we seem to be the worst ape of the lot:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/13300899/ukrainian-girl-dies-after-horror-gang-rape/

A chimp rips someone's face off and the cops shoot it on the spot - we should be doing the same thing to the animals responsible for this.

Man, I hate that Asoke Intersection : whether I need to get to Cowboy, Nana or back to Soi 22, I always seem to find myself waiting for '300' seconds for the traffic to stop, only to be forced to deal with Kamikaze bike riders who dont give a rat's arse that pedestrians have about 3 seconds to cross that monster crossing before the *running* green man changes to a flashing red man. I know - take the Skytrain - but a pedestrian overpass that linked the Cowboy side of the intersection with Asoke BTS station would be a godsend. Dreams are free, I guess.

Technically, no. Chimp DNA differs from gorilla DNA more than human DNA differs from gorilla DNA. It means the common ancestor of humans and gorillas came before that of chimps and gorillas, in other words humans branched off before chimps did. And zoologically speaking, we are just one more species of ape. So it would probably be more true to say that chimps got their traits from us. But then again the 'us' we're talking about is a long extinct missing link who you definitely would not want to wake up next to in the morning.

If we are talking big, hairy and completely incapable of coherent thought, I suspect that I may have already woken up next to her, er, it. Still the only woman I've ever turned down when she suggested we keep seeing one another purely for the sex. Throw in the hangover from hell and thats a morning I'd prefer to forget. I'm pretty sure she did have opposable thumbs, given that her hand was wrapped tightly around my tallywhacker when I tried to get up and take a shower .... :doh:

Another epic necro - you have no idea how many times I have wished I could go back to mid-2007 and do it over, but there's nothing to say that it would have turned out any differently. I might not have walked into THAT bar, or talked to THAT girl, but there is always a bar and a girl lying in wait, isnt there ? She called me a couple of nights back - somehow, it still hasn't quite registered that I wont give her any money, for any reason. I particularly wont give her money to open a bar ........

Its amazing just how tough the human body is when you consider that its a conparatively frail creation alongside many other mammals. Early man might not have had our giant brains, but he must have been a tough mofo. I guess he had a pretty basic choice - tough or dead.

For all this talk of 'thin bones', I have never had a fracture worthy of medical attention (rarely even go near a doctor's surgery) - lets hope that sort of luck holds up.

I guess years of a sedentary lifestyle are catching up to me, cause I eat a mountain of dairy and tuna - supposedly the thing for calcium and vitamin D. Long story short, I had an x-ray on my lower back and it revealed a crushed vertebrae and 'thin bones'. If you want to avoid the crushed vertebrae, dont get hammered and fall over in the shower - the rest is down to pure laziness. Time to get off my butt and start putting these old bones to work.

Quickly walked through last week and the Square looked much the same as it had 6 months earlier - decrepit. I have waxed lyrical about the old tart in the past, but I walked away thinking that the wrecking ball would actually be a kindness - difficult to imagine how many rats and roaches will sprint from the upstairs apartments when the time comes. After Sticks recent description of roaches crawling up both legs post-flooding, I pity the poor devils who live and work in the vicinity. We arent just talking poor folk from Isaan, either .....