Bar Closures And PPP Hardly Have Their Foot In The Door

In the last few days, a number of Pattaya bars have been shut for 30 days by the Bangkok police for not having the correct licences:

• Two bars in Soi 7 including the one with all the TVs opposite Happiness Bar
• 4-5 bars in Soi Post Office including Coops Bar, Kittens and one of the blow job bars
• and rumours of many more around Pattaya

[via 7robbie7 @ Pattaya Secrets]

Ed. It looks like the smaller bars that are being hit but why it's the Bangkok police I'm not sure. I mean, we are between governments, so it's not as if it's a new Thaksin clampdown. Unless the BIB want to show they've been doing a good job in his absence.

 

Sierra Tangos

• Pattaya Rag Quiz sponsored by Club Blu (opens in just 5 days)

I will post questions most days from my Jan 19 post until Jan 30. You should  e-mail your answers to me at pattaya.rag@gmail.com . You can e-mail me each time there are questions are you can mail me one time with all answers before midnight (Thai time) Jan 31. The questions will be sequentially numbered so you will know if you've missed any. Include in the mail the name you want to be known by if you win. I don't want to use a mail address to identify the winner. The winner will be announced on Feb 1.

The prize for the most correct answers is a free 'barf' in Club Blu so it will be of most interest to residents and regular visitors to Thailand. Here's the next question:

Q14. In which Clint Eastwood film was the catchphrase `Go ahead, make my day` first used??

Q15. Which character has been played by Robert Donat, Kenneth More and Robert Powell in three versions of a British movie?

Note: Barf covers the barfine only and not ST/LT fees. Also, it's up to you to get your choice to say "yes".

 

• Aviation and ground units from the Royal Thai Air Force and Army, US Air Force and Marine Corps, and Republic of Singapore Air Force have begun Cope Tiger 2008, a multi-nation field training exercise in Thailand.

The war games began on Saturday and will last until Feb. 5. Cope Tiger is an annual, multilateral large force exercise conducted in the Asia-Pacific region and is the only multilateral field training exercise held in Thailand. Headquarters are at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Nakhom Ratchasima, and at Udon Thani Royal Thai Air Force Base. [via Bangkok Post]

Ed. Will Pattaya see any additional business from the visiting forces?

 

• Living the dream in Pattaya according to YouTube 

 

• The Meteorological Department has issued a storm warning for the Gulf of Thailand for the next two days as the northeasterly monsoon strengthens in the region. Tourists were urged not to swim in the ocean, especially in the area of Cape Samila of Songkhal in the South, where strong winds and high waves have been forecast. [via Bangkok Post]

 

• Northern train lines were halted on Sunday morning after a train on the Tapan Hin – Bangkok line derailed in Nakhon Sawan province. [via Bangkok Post]

 

• A Finnish man was beaten up by six or seven Thai men after the tourist, who appeared drunk, destroyed properties of some bars early Sunday. Police said Numela Matti Juhani, 54, was hit by the Thai men until he became unconscious. The attack happened at about 3 am. The Finnish tourist suffered a severe cut on his head apart from bruises all over his body.

Witnesses told police that the man damaged some tables and chairs in a bar where he was drinking and paid for the damages and left. While he was walking through Soi Pattaya 8, he also damaged more properties of other bars until he was attacked. Police are hunting for the Thai men. [via The Nation]

 

• Miss Michigan Kristen Haglund is the new Miss America for 2008

 

• MAGMYPIC - fake magazine covers with your picture

 

• Six Most Useful Web Hosted Apps

Great Google offers high profile applications that aren’t necessarily the best. You may want to check out the alternatives. Many load faster, bristle with more functionality and simple offer more usability for the average Joe.

Calendars

1) Remember The Milk. This bizarrely named but smoothly designed app focuses on three lists- tasks due tomorrow, due today and simply overdue. The locations for the jobs are pinpointed on a Google map and allows you to share delegation with other Milk users. With Google Gears support, you can take them offline and sync with a Windows Mobile Phone.

2) Planzo. Similar to Milk and Google Calendar, good ole Planzo shares your itinerary with the web browsing public. The service throws in the basic to do lists and notebook features at you.

Document Creation

3) Think Free. It looks like MS Office and sure acts like it. There’s a Word, Excel, and Powerpoint variant which clones the MS Office interface. Throw in real time collaboration and 1GB storage and you’ll wonder what’s so smart about forking $340 for MS Office!

4) Zoho Office. Like Thinkfree, Zoho behaves just like MS Office. There’s a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, database and word pad program. Now the service goes beyond and bundles in CRM, project management, poll taking, wiki and even web conferencing facilities! With it’s 1GB storage, your laptop will run leaner and meaner by offloading those megabytes to the company’s server.

File Storage

5) Scribd. The service is the Digg of documents and takes in Word, txt, PDF, PPT, excel and a host of other files for public and private sharing. Forget rapidshare. Scribd’s got more functionality and security.

6) Windows Live Skydrive. Create and account and be awarded 500MB of storage that you can keep private or share with others. You’ll need a windows Live ID for this baby.

[via Connected Internet]

 

• Busty Iga in bed

 

•  Top 10 Blonde Celebrity Topless Scenes
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Clips from all the above can be found at Unibrow

 

• Saw a billboard that said:

Need help, call Jesus.

1-800-005-3787

Out of curiosity I did.

A Mexican showed up with a tow truck.

 

• Prince Charles decided to take up jogging. Every day, he'd jog past a hooker standing on the same street corner. He learned to brace himself as he approached her for what was almost certain to follow.

"One hundred and fifty pounds!" she'd shout from the curb.

"No! Five pounds!" He would fire back, just to shut her up.

This ritual between him and the hooker became a daily occurrence.

He'd run by and she'd yell, "One hundred and Fifty pounds!"

He'd yell back, "Five pounds!"

One day, Camilla decided that she wanted to accompany her husband on his jog.

As the jogging couple neared the working woman's street corner, Prince Charles realised she'd bark her 150 pounds offer and Camilla would wonder what he'd really been doing on all his past outings. He figured he'd better have a good explanation for his wife.

As they jogged into the turn that would take them past the corner, he became even more apprehensive than usual. Sure enough, there was the hooker.

He tried to avoid the prostitute's eyes as she watched the pair jog past.

Then, from her corner, the hooker yelled,

"See what you get for five pounds, you tight bastard?!"

Ed. This was originally a Bill and Hillary Clinton joke but it works just as well with Charles and Camilla

 

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