Coss

‘Bored Apes’ investors sue Sotheby’s, Paris Hilton and others as NFT prices collapse

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/bored-apes-sothebys-lawsuit/index.html

Friday week US time (Sat week my time) will be interesting, all 19 defendants are to voluntarily surrender by then.

Else the police will go and arrest them.

The Prosecutor says everyone will be treated like any other indicted citizen.

I'm hoping for a Police vs Secret Service showdown, on account of Trump viewing his secret service detail, as tax payer funded henchmen.

note to self: get more popcorn and beer.

1 hour ago, My Penis is hungry said:

What happened to Cav?

M.I.A.

just seeing if you're awake

Here y'go Cav:

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No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability...

Baude, William and Paulsen, Michael Stokes, The Sweep and Force of Section Three (August 9, 2023). University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 172, Forthcoming , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4532751

Kong, as cautious as I am, to beg to differ, the log woulda floated down the river and then sunk 150 yrs ago, then be salvaged recently - good money.

In NZ there is a Swamp Kauri industry that digs up trees from 45,000 yrs ago. 

Some of the big Kauri take 2,000 yrs to grow and as they got so big, they got very heavy, eventually tipping over and sinking into a swamp, where they remained until farmers and the like, digging ditches and such, came across them in the modern era. https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/swamp-kauri/

Heroic Losers 2019

In times of the infamous Argentinian Corralito, the neighbors of a little town trace a plan to recover the money they lost after learning that their bank manager and a corrupt lawyer have stolen it.

Argentinan/Spanish - English subtitles.

Well made,  I really enjoyed this - 

NTN NEWSROOM – A plastic bottle containing a message from the municipal government of Roi Et was discovered floating near the eastern flood wall in Minburi yesterday. 

The bottle was opened by NTN staff and found to contain a single-page handwritten note with the city’s official stamp on it. 

The message read: “Help us. We are experiencing terrible floods. No one is answering our calls.”

The letter was dated August 21, 2011. Phone calls to Roi Et City Hall were unable to get through.

Notorious Arab motorbike riders were forced to cancel their road-racing plans after some 200 policemen and Interior Ministry officials were deployed to keep law and order on Pattaya roads late on Saturday night.

Officers from Pattaya Police Station and officials from Chonburi provincial administration were deployed to check the roads and sois where local residents have complained about road racing and the blocking of traffic by Arab youngsters, mostly tourists from Kuwait. Interior Ministry officials also joined the operation.

Most of the riders parked their motorbikes on the roadside as soon as they saw the officials approaching.

Some, however, were defiant and continued riding their bikes, only to be stopped and fined for violating traffic laws.

The officials did not arrest those who had parked their bikes, but they were interrogated and found to be mostly Kuwaiti teenagers.

Police said the interrogation of some 200 youngsters continued into the early hours of Sunday.

Last week, Pattaya police held a meeting with other agencies concerned to discuss measures to prevent road racing, which has become popular among Arab tourists but is making life difficult for local people.

Motorbike rental companies have been warned to strictly check the identification particulars of tourists and their driving licences before renting out bikes.

https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40030179

A new species of beautifully colored crab has been discovered in Thong Pha Phum in Kanchanaburi province by a 48-year-old local farmer Jirapan Khankaew

He was delighted when he found these stunning crabs in his rubber plantation. The new crab species is to be officially registered through academic channels.

Jirapan, resident of Ban Khanun Kli 1, Tha Khanun sub district, Thong Pha Phum district, Kanchanaburi province, shared the beauty of this new crab species on social media platforms such as Facebook and TikTok.

He expressed his excitement and happiness after being informed by the district fisheries department on August 10 that the four crabs he had sent to the Kanchanaburi Freshwater Fisheries Research and Development Center for inspection since June 21 were indeed a new species of freshwater crab.

The newly discovered crab species is characterized by its purple coloration of the carapace, with orange-yellow legs and pincers.

The crabs that Jirapan sent belong to the genus Thaiphusa. The District Fisheries Department is in the process of preparing academic documentation for publication in a scientific journal. Once this is published, the research center will be notified and further action will be taken. More...  

Can Eat?

I guess one could opine that Laos is really Upper Isaan .

Certainly the rocket festivals I've attended, are at a small village about 30 minutes from Vientiane and just over the river from Isaan proper. I wonder if either side of the river has ever got it into their heads to angle the rockets, towards the other side...

And Laos, a yearly event for me when there, beer, explosives, what could wrong?

I remember when Ben Affleck saved the world in "Pearl Harbour" the movie

has it been that long?

Bar Staff, Sex Tourists Wait Patiently For White Woman To Get Off Go-Go Stage

PATPONG – The staff and patrons of Super Pussy go-go bar had their usual evening’s proceedings interrupted by the sudden decision of a caucasian woman, who no one wanted in the bar in the first place, to climb on stage and briefly pretend to be a go-go dancer, sources report.

As of press time, everyone was waiting patiently and politely averting their eyes as Meredith Walsh, a 34-year-old American tourist who had reportedly drank three gin and tonics, tried to shake her large, unwieldy mid-section to the beat of the song “Mambo Number 5” while holding the brass pole in one hand for stability.

Meredith’s companion, 36-year-old Bradford Planck, initially cheered Meredith’s show of spontaneity but then settled into a steely gaze of gritted teeth as her exhibition extended into its second excruciating minute.

“She’s a good sport about all this sex industry stuff,” he said. “A really, really, good sport.”

When asked about unauthorized dancers on stage, the Super Pussy manager “Nat” reiterated the bar’s no-interruption, no-bouncers policy.

“No need bouncer here,” Nat said. “Farang man have lot of sex so no more fighting. Farang woman want feel sexy so she dance. When she feel stupid she stop. Make farang man want Thai lady more.”

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I thought life as I knew it had ended.

Consternation across the globe, was evident, from quarters we didn't know about.

The board's back.

Good on you, KS and Jigger.

Thanks

Coss

these are the same Somchai & Sons who smoke while filling their cars with petrol

Arkansas...

not Oppenheimer, the one with no hair à la  a Chemo patient, Sinead...

famous for looking like chemo patient

And as no music is good, unless it has a link to Brian Eno, in some way or form, I give you: 

Sinead O'Connor, Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer), Ronnie Wood and Brian Eno collaborate for Armistice Day.

'One More Yard’ adapting the words of a fallen Irish soldier in WW1

Who knew that Oppenheimer used to sing?

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Unfortunately the following links, require one, desirous of listening to the music, to form some sort of geographical or monetary relationship, with the respective website owners.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06r8d3g

https://music.apple.com/us/album/one-more-yard-ep/1440258510

4 hours ago, Shibuya said:

The last person on earth you would take advice from, which didn’t stop him from dispensing his wisdom on how to deal with girls in Pattaya to everyone he met. 

Sounds like the fellows on ThaiVisa - which I now see has rebranded as AseanNow.

52 minutes ago, buffalo_bill said:

Asking a gogodancer for boomboom without condom, what an idiot.

Dear Bubi, we could be underestimating Mr Punter - vis -

"If I ask her for BoomBoom no condom, she will provide one, thereto saving me the price of one condom, being x bht. What a cunning spendthrift I am. But she no have, now she no want boom boom. Officer, come quick I have a crime to report!"  etc etc

4 hours ago, Mekong said:

Sorry Joe, I was with Sinead on this one, ‘‘twas you who deserved the slap you righteous cunt.

Ditto 

I knew a family of Catholics very well, three gorgeous daughters...

Father? well that's a novella for another day.

Apparently in the new movie Barbie (I wont watch that one), there is a monologue from a character that is this:

"It is literally impossible to be a woman," Gloria says. "You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough... I'm just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us. And if all of that is also true for a doll just representing a woman, then I don't even know." - America Ferrera's "Gloria".

And this monologue, is striking a chord and gaining extreme popularity (read viral), amongst the female species across the planet.

I think it was Coco Chanel who coined the quote - "Men desire Women, Women desire, that desire".

I can re-hash Coco's quote to:

Men want naked women. Women want men. Negotiate.

Problem solved.

futher

Wolf of Wall Street - accurate representation of Margo Robbie who plays Barbie in the movie Barbie.

As I get older, people are dropping like flies, but when there is a connection, even 2nd or third hand like this, I get sad.

Not something I'd have ever admitted to when younger.

But I guess with age, comes not only wisdom, but compassion.