Crackdown?

Pattaya bars are being told by the local licensing department that there is a new law requiring bars to stay closed in the afternoon up until 18:00. Bars previously licensed until 2am will now get a license from 6pm until 1am. Bars that break the laws are subject to 60 day closure orders. It is not clear at the moment when the new law will start from, albeit soon, nor whether it will be enforced. [via Thai Anxiety]

Ed. Hard to tell if this is the start of a crackdown or just laws that are always there but not enforced. I expected some fallout from the bad press of recent weeks but whether this is it or not we won't know for a few more weeks. Soi 6 will be hardest hit by 6.00pm opening and  it will also be the soi to watch to see if the laws are actually being enforced. 

 

Comment on yesterday's QOQ post by Paul

IMHO, QOQ is the same as it's always been, you're just older and more desperate!

Ed. to Paul - We must have met.....

 

 

Sierra Tangos

 

• John's Back To The Living Party - U Too Bar Tuesday Nov 13. Promises to be an explosive evening. Don't miss it. Bandages optional !!!!

 

• Metered taxis for Pattaya? Pattaya Mail is reporting that 25 yellow metered taxis will be added to the 700 Baht Buses already in service.

 

• Thanksgiving at Bob's B.B.Q. & Grill, Nov 22 - All you can eat for 499Baht with 2 sittings, 5.00pm and 7.00pm. What's on offer:
  • Lightly smoked Butter Ball Turkey
  • Cornbread dressing
  • Giblet gravy
  • Candied Yams
  • Green Bean casserole
  • Mashed Potatoes
  • Broccoli & Rice Casserole
  • Honey Glazed Ham
  • Cranberry Sauce
  • Home Made Apple Pie from our Bakery
  • Home Made Pumpkin Pie from our Bakery
  • Whipped cream
  • 1 Free glass of Wine

 

 

• Google Notebook is, in my opinion, one of the best tools for saving content from websites. It just got a lot better, too, with some of the most requested features getting implemented. The most notable addition is support for labels, which in Google terminology means tags. Just like in Gmail you can label each of your notes, and then you can view notes according to the labels. I tested out the new system and I have to say that it is rather impressive.

Interestingly enough Google Notebook also pulls in all of your Google Bookmarks and places them under the Unfiled notebook. Naturally you would expect the notebook to be called “Bookmarks” because “Unfiled” isn’t very descriptive, but I guess that was Google’s call. From the Unfiled notebook you can add/remove labels and comments from your b

ookmarks. A word of caution though: once you move a bookmark into another notebook it will no longer be accessible from your bookmarks.

There are also some more advanced sorting and filtering options, such as one for finding notes that haven’t been labeled and another for sorting notes from A to Z or by date. All of these features are available on both the web interface and in the Firefox extension.

This makes me really happy to see Google integrating some of their services together. What they really need to do now is get Google Notebook inside of Gmail, because I’d have to imagine that a lot of people would use this as an alternative to emailing themselves a reminder. [via CyberNet]

 

• There was a guy riding through the desert on his camel. He had been traveling so long that he felt the need to have sex. Obviously there were no women in the desert so the man turned to his camel. He tried to position himself to have sex with his camel but the camel ran away. The man ran to catch up to the camel and got back on and started to ride again. Soon he was feeling the urge to have sex again so once again he turned to his camel. The camel refused by running away. So he caught up to it again and goes on it again.

Finally after riding the camel through the whole desert the man came to a road. There was a broken down car with three beautiful blondes sitting in it. He went up to them and asked the women if they needed any help. The hottest girl said, 'If you fix our car we will do anything you want.' The man luckily knew a thing or two about cars and fixed it in a flash. When he finished are three girls asked, 'How could we ever repay you?' After thinking for a short while he replied, 'Can you hold my camel?'

 

 

 

 

 

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