Pattaya's like a punch drunk boxer who keeps getting knocked down only to get up and battle on for a few more rounds before hitting the canvas again.
So far Pattaya has been knocked down by SARS, Bird Flu, HIV and Army Coups and winded by blows from Pedos, Tsunamis and Muslim unrest in the south. Just when it looked as though Pattaya would go the distance it get's blind sided by assaults on tourists. If these assaults are allowed to continue and heaven forbid increase, then it will at least be another knock down and could even be a knockout. Who wants to holiday where you are at risk of assault. BM's will continue to come regardless but the much sought after family business will drift away. I imagine the media headlines in Estonia today will hardly encourage a flood of visitors from that country to Thailand.
For me this is the most surprising blow of all. Influential Thais with sizeable investments in Pattaya are at risk of having their profits hit by the actions of the Dog Pack. On the surface, this is Thai v Falang but in reality it is Low-so Thais v Hi-so Thai profits. Now to my mind there can only be one outcome. The Dog Pack will end up in the pound if they're lucky. If unlucky, they will be neutered. For once, I am fully on the side of the Hi-so/mafia Thais.
Ed: Following conflicting reports in today's media it is unclear if the Estonian actually died last night or not. Let's hope not but accept that it's only a matter of time before somebody does suffer that fate at the hands of the cowardly Dog Pack.
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- Pattaya Rag Quiz sponsored by Club Blu (opens in just 10 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:
Q8. What do Hercules and Mr. Ed have in common?
Note: Barf covers the barfine only and not ST/LT fees. Also, it's up to you to get your choice to say "yes".
- Spicy Girls Go Go 9th Anniversary Party, 29th Jan, Soi Post Office
- Construction of the new Pattya City Government Hospital will begin next to the Public Health Building, (Soi BuaKhao I think) on 17 March. Cheap health care for farangs as well as Thais. No more 1,200 Baht daily fees to change your bandages. [via Pattaya City News]
- Some 'dirtbag' in Polk County Florida who got pulled over in a routine traffic stop ended up 'executing' the deputy who stopped him. The deputy was shot eight times, including twice behind his right ear at close range. Another deputy was wounded and a police dog killed. The deputy had three young children.
A statewide manhunt ensued. The low-life was found hiding in a wooded area with his own gun and that taken from the murdered police officer. SWAT team officers fired and hit the guy 68 times. Now here's the kicker. Naturally, the media asked why they shot him 68 times. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, told the Orlando Sentinel, 'That's all the bullets we had !!' (That's one in the rear for the PC crowd !!!)
- Most people listen to songs from bands they like and sometimes search for the lyrics of a song if they can’t quite make out what’s being sung. However, for those of us who happen to listen to the lyrics of a song and want to find out who sang it, there are some useful lyric search engines that do just that.
If you know some of the lyrics for the song you’re looking for, you can try out a few of these lyric search engines to try and find the band or song name. Actually, there are quite a few of them out there, but only a few really have large databases of song lyrics. So I put a couple to the test to try and find a song by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers called Californication with the query "the sun may rise in the east".
These are the search engines that actually found the song:
1. Get Lyrical - You can also search by Artist, by Song, or by Album.
2. Search Lyrics - This site also has some non-English lyrics and you can translate any of the English lyrics to another language on the lyric pages. Get Lyrical finds an exact match for your lyrics whereas Search Lyrics searches for those words anywhere in a particular song and will return a result even if the words are all not together.
3. LyricsFly - Found my song also, but make sure you click on Lyrics first before performing a search. [via Online Tech Tips]
There’s another cool way you can identify a song and that’s by having a piece of software listen to it, identify it within a few seconds and then tell you what it is! Tunatic is a freeware application for Windows and Mac OS X that will listen to a song and transmit the song’s features to the Tunatic servers to search for a matching song.
If you don’t have a mic, you might still be able to get it to work by plugging in your sound source (i.e. radio, etc) directly into your computer’s microphone jack. You’ll have to get an inexpensive audio cable for this setup.
So can Tunatic identify any type of music? It can identify music from any genre except for classical. Also, Tunatic can only identify songs that are in it’s database, which is kept-up-to-date by a community of Tunatic users using a program called Tunalyzer. If someone is not showing up, you can add it to the Tunalyzer database easily.
Tunatic can only identify recorded songs, so you can’t record yourself singing a Britney Spears song and expect Tunatic to figure that out! (Ed. Unless you're really bad)
If you get an error message saying the server is unreachable, you need to make sure ports 5747 and 5748 are open on your firewall. Also, Tunatic will not work through a proxy server. If you get a message saying “Signal too weak” that means the music is not loud enough. [via Online Tech Tips]
- Just recently, Google added a new feature so that you can associate non-Gmail addresses to your Google account. What I mean by this is that you can inform Google that you have other email accounts - maybe a Windows Live or Yahoo account. At this point, there are only two main advantages for doing this. One advantage is that you can now log into your Google account with one of the added email addresses. The second advantage is that now if someone were to invite you to an event on Google Calendar using one of your other non-Gmail addresses, Google will know that it’s you and the invitation will be displayed.
So how do you go about doing this? Go to www.google.com and sign in. Then click on the edit link next to your personal information. There’s a box (shown below) where you can enter in additional email addresses.
Once you enter an address, you’ll notice that it’ll say “pending verification.” Google will send you an email to the email address that you entered where you’ll have to verify that it is in fact your account.
Keep in mind that if you decide to sign in to Google with one of the associated email addresses, you’ll enter the complete address (e.g., yourname@hotmail.com) and then you’ll enter your Gmail password (not the password for the associated account). If by chance you associate an email address with your Google account and you later decide that you no longer want it to be, you can easily remove it. Hopefully in the future, Google will add more benefits to using this feature other than the Calendar and the fact you can sign in to your Google account with another non-Google email address. [via CyberNet]
- I don't think she'll be alona for long... Awful I know but I couldn't resist it.
- Cali Logan In Penthouse
- We had a dinner party the other night, and I overheard my wife telling her best friend that "My husband says I've got a bum like J-Lo" I couldn't help but interrupt and correct her "No, I said JELLO!!"
- 2 woman were talking about their sexual experiences. One woman says to the other "Do you know, I once had a really bad one night stand". The other says "What Happened". "Well, we've been married for ten years now!"
- What do men and car parking spaces have in common? The best ones are gone, the nearest ones are already taken, the rest are over the hill!!!!
