Vulva Cologne… The Worst Idea – EVER?
March 14, 2010 by Vern
There is a new perfume coming out – Vulva. It smells like – what else?
Someone please, please put a stop to this before it’s too late and people start WEARING THIS STUFF.
Oh – and it’s a MAN’S cologne… like every man wants to smell like a woman’s privates? And, who is this man attracting with a scent like that? Dogs in heat? WTF?
You gotta read this article – an interview with the creator of the stuff…
Click the blossoming rosebud for the article…
How can we ban this from entering the USA and Thailand?
Thailand Sites I Like…
March 3, 2010 by Vern
I don’t read much about Thailand – but I wish I did.
What I mean is, I wish there was more to read.
I don’t read the Thailand sites focused on politics much. I just don’t care. I care less about Thai politics than I ever did about American politics. It’s just not interesting to me much. The Thaksin situation and the violence in Bangkok is interesting and I read that some.
Where in the world are all the Thailand writers at?
We need more good websites… with more articles written per day. It’s like the whole country is bereft of people that want to churn out interesting articles on a daily basis.
Here’s what I read as often as they put something out. Please, feel free to share your suggestions in the comments – and I’ll go check them out. Be forewarned… if they’re junk – I’ll call them junk and give you one rebuttal. I may then rebut your rebuttal. I get the last word on junk.
If it’s great – I’ll say so.
My List of Favorites:
Steve’s Thailand Musings – www.ThailandMusings.com
Catherine’s Women Learning Thai – www.WomenLearnThai.com
Jason’s Isaan Style – isaanstyle.blogspot.com
Richard Barrow’s sites, like Thailand Voice – www.thailandvoice.com
The Thai Pirate – www.thethaipirate.com/thailand/
Jaime Monk (in Phuket) – jamie-monk.blogspot.com/
My Thai Village Life – villagefarang.blogspot.com/
My Thailand Diary – www.mythailanddiary.com/
Heatwave
March 1, 2010 by Vern
It’s been blistering hot now for about 2 months. We’ve had a couple rain showers in 60 days, but it’s noticeably hotter and dryer than the last couple years.
Moving into a house I thought it’d be cooler than the flat we used to stay in. Not so.
It’s so hot we had the huge Tokay Gecko I caught in our kitchen – move back into the kitchen. She’s hanging out behind the counter. I’ve been splashing water down the wall and throwing 4 inch geckos back there to keep her appeased. No sense her running around the kitchen looking for food and having wifey scream out regularly.
Is it hot where you’re at?
How’s the northeast these days? Like a volcano?
4 Puppies – My Good Deed
February 28, 2010 by Vern
Some bitch abandoned her pups across the street in a hole of dirt. We didn’t see her come by to feed them for four days. There were some other neighbors over there looking at the pups and I was spying on them from the window – cheering them on to take not just the one they had picked up, but all 5.
They took just 1.
It was night time and they sat across the street from them – a busy street, every vehicle is doing over 70 kph on that road. They were holed-up about 2 meters from the road and sometimes wander around close to it.
The ladies were probably waiting for the mom – which didn’t come. I saw them on the phones – presumably with their husbands – “Oh honey – there are 5 and they’re all gonna die if we don’t take them now… Please honey, just this one time…”
They took just 1.
We have a new baby and she’s quite a handful – but I know if started seeing month old puppies splattered all over the road in front of our house every day or so – it would get to be a bit for the conscience.
I strapped the cavelight to my head and headed over with a plastic drawer and pulled them out of the hole. Four pups, skinny as twigs. I bathed them and made a pen in the garage, covered it and set off to buy some milk and puppy grub.
On day 1 in the garage I saw mom wander across the street. I whistled and picked up one of her pups and showed her – and put the pup down and walked away…
So did she!
That was about 10 days ago. They’re much stronger, bigger, and have 1/10th the fleas they did have. They’re due for another flea powdering. Then, as planned, I’m taking at least 3 of them… to the local wat and dropping them off with some money tied to their necks.
That’s reality… I can’t keep 4 dogs. The owner of the mother dog that abandoned them didn’t care enough to go looking for the pups… The owner didn’t give a care about fixing her female dog either… that dog has probably had 5-10 litters over her lifetime, maybe with 5 dogs a pop. Let’s say 35 pups… and you know what? Probably 30 of them died on the street being hit by cars, motorbikes, and trucks.
It seems every dog in Thailand meets it’s eventual fate – the tire of a vehicle.
Did I tell you about my 6 overnight bus trips in Thailand?
3 dogs were hit. There must be THOUSANDS per year just hit by buses alone! One time a bus I was in hit a COW in the middle of a busy intersection… why? The bus driver just beeped the farking horn and never slowed. We were only doing 25 kph… we could have easily stopped 20 meters before we hit the cow… nope, in typical Thai fashion this jackass laid on the horn and never slowed.
Anyway, if you haven’t noticed… the dogs are not cared for – enough.
When do you think that will change?
When they get a new government?
Thaksin’s Loss
February 26, 2010 by Vern
Everyone by now knows Taksin lost over a billion US Dollars yesterday.
You know, in the big picture it’s not such a big deal. He may make a big deal over it – but he still has a billion dollars left that we know of. He’s a crafty guy… crafty being defined as intelligent + street-smart. Do you really think all the money he has is in the public eye? I don’t.
If I were Thaksin I would probably do this…
Come back to Thailand and face the music. Plead not guilty. Face a year of jail. Someone will let him out early on good behavior. He’ll be back in politics in a very big way in the coming years.
He can still roll with it and come out a winner – a very big winner in 2 years time.
Not that I agree that it’s the best thing for the country… but honestly, I cannot come up with a best-case scenario for a government in Thailand.
Can you?
I don’t forsee anything good – really good, coming out of Thailand for many years… I hope I’m wrong. I wonder what Thailand would be like with an amazing government in place – everyone fighting for the same thing – the good of the NATION.
It’s not happening anytime soon… that’s my guess. I hope I’m way the hell off – but I’m not.
Anybody think Thailand is ready to be the number two economy in Asia after China? Could it be in 5 years? 15?
Tiger Don’t Owe You Shite
February 20, 2010 by Vern
I have to admit – I don’t “get it”. Why in the world Tiger Woods went on TV to apologize to someone about what he did… the only apology due is his wife… his family – for farking everything up…
This chart is not mine – it came from: Post Bourgie >
Is Thailand Blocking Email Attachments & YouTube Uploads?
February 17, 2010 by Vern
I’m having trouble with two things lately – within the last 5 days.
Email attachments in Google mail don’t work – at all. I’ve tried .zip files, jpgs, and .doc files.
YouTube uploads don’t work in the regular uploader – but I just tried the bulk-uploader to upload just 1 video – and it appears to be working.
Is anyone else having trouble? This is a totally new error for me – never had this before.
I wonder if it might be… ahhh, nevermind. I’m not talking about it…
Is Thailand Safe (Feb 2010) for Visitors?
February 16, 2010 by Vern
Again – the question.
I have same answer as always… Thailand as a country – is safe. Come and visit and ignore the craziness going on – if there is any.
Bangkok is probably not safe at this time – as 2 embassies – AUS and CA (That’s Canada… lol) have issued statements that Bangkok might not be a good place to be in the near future.
Tourists are not being targeted. Have they EVER been? Not from my understanding of it all.
Stay away from Bangkok and the southernmost 3 provinces and you’ll likely be fine. Things are coming to a head soon because Thaksin Shinawatra, ex PM is set to lose about 2 billion US Dollars. Of course he doesn’t want that to happen. He has millions of followers, mostly in the northeast of Thailand – the red shirt country.
Look for some excitement in the next few weeks… or a total non-issue.
Fuji Apples at Big C – 29 THB
February 5, 2010 by Vern
Farang Food Alert:
Awesome apples, these FUJI brand from Big C. I can sometimes find them in the open market – but there is another kind that looks similar to Fuji apples and they’re junk.
Usually the way I tell them at the market is they are like 12-15 baht each.
So – 4 Fuji apples at Big C for 29 Baht is a winner. Go get some, they’re amazing. It even says “Organic” on the wrapper… for what it’s worth…
