Just a Link re: Foreigners Charged on Les Majeste
July 1, 2009 by Vern
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/07/02/politics/politics_30106547.php
I’m not saying anything man. This topic is hotter than what David Carradine was wearing in his hotel room when he passed.
Snakes, Glue Sniffers, Se* Toys, and Blind Snakes
July 1, 2009 by Vern
A lot of videos coming up at the ThaiPulse Travel Channel on YouTube.
King Cobras – a guy kissing one on the face and pushing one with his hand (in the face)
Monocled Cobras – striking, hissing
Snake Hunting goes awry… Huge sex toy found, Glue cans, and lost misplaced flip flops.
A Golden Tree Snake climbs my motorbike, hides behind the plastic and goes for a ride.
A Centipede
A Small Lizard Attempting to Eat a Caterpillar he couldn’t possibly eat.
And I think there are some others – can’t remember them all right now.
Electric F-1 Racing?
June 28, 2009 by Vern
I’d like to see these electric cars start their own F-1 races. Look at how badly this electric car dusts the Ferrari and Porsche. Sure it’s got 1,000 lbs less weight (at least), but F-1 races would be ridiculously fast I think using some souped-up electric cars – yes? Or are they already as fast as this?
This looks like some guy’s garage car project. Probably the electric cars could be made crazy fast. I’ve seen an electric motorcycle that was really quick…
Wait a second… you know what? It wouldn’t work. Part of the attraction of F-1 is that the engines are SCREAMING at high revs… how much would an electric car scream? Hmmm. Ok, nevermind.
(I found movie due to Shawn Rill’s post on Facebook.)
Thailand’s Hash House Harriers (HHH)
June 27, 2009 by Vern
Here are some Hash House Harrier groups I could find online in Thailand. What got me started on this post is that I was floored to learn of an Ubon Hash House Harrier group that started 8/2008.
Ubon? I lived in Ubon for over a year and I gotta tell you… I didn’t know even one person that could run the short-trail, not to mention the long. Maybe times have changed there.
I ran in the Aloha Hash House Harriers for a bunch of runs. Apparently they were considering my name – based on an especially appealing dress I wore during the red dress run one time, but, thankfully I didn’t get one before I moved.
Hash House Harrier runs / groups are not right for everyone. When I heard the explanation of what it was – I wasn’t interested. However, when I went to my first run – I was hooked. It’s a good time – a great time really. Try it – even if you think it will suck – you’ll have a lot of fun. You can’t help but have a good time.
Here’s an old article I just found at ThaiPulse that I wrote about the Ko Samui HHH, I wrote a long description about what the group is and what they’re about…
Here are some Thailand Hash House Harrier groups…
Chiang Mai Underground Male Hash House Harriers
Chiang Mai Bunny Hash House Harriettes
Chiang Mai Happy Hash House Harriers
Chiang Mai Hash House Harriers
Chiang Mai Saturday Hash House Harriers
Photo credit: Ko Samui Hash House Harriers.
New Video: Durian Tasting
June 26, 2009 by Vern
I posted a new video at my youtube Thailand Travel Channel the other day and forget to post it here. You might see it pop up in the video box to the right. If not you can go to my new Channel layout at:
Those Big Black Flying Bees That Don’t Sting
June 23, 2009 by Vern
These monstrous bees don't seem to bite or sting...
These things are big and they make a noise like a humming bird as they fly by, prompting foreigners to duck and find some cover.
Thais say these things don’t bite… I guess that’s true because I’m holding this one in my hand. Proof enough? I assure you I was ready to fling this thing across the room at a wall at the first sign of pain.
I have a video of one terrorizing us (me) by flying around our place a couple years back.
Here’s the YouTube video:
Hiking in Thailand
June 9, 2009 by Vern
I went hiking in Thailand yesterday. Snake hunting really. It’s a nice mountain climb – about 90 minutes up, 40 down. I saw some footprints ahead of me – fresh. I never did see the hikers though. That was odd. There’s supposed to be one way up the mountain and one way down.
There are some great hikes here in Thailand but you can get lost if you don’t have a guide that’s familiar with the trail. Last night I was up until after midnight with a group of about 50 Thai rescuers trying to locate a visitor and his wife that had become lost on a mountain climb. They’d been gone 13 hours before being found. It should have taken them 3 hours. They were quite happy to be found before having to stay all night there. They were burning pages from a book to keep the insects away.
There are plenty of poisonous snakes and other pitfalls in the Thailand jungle – made worse by nightfall.
Always have a couple things… LOTS of water. Mosquito repellant. Flashlight – even small. 7-11 sells them for 70 baht + AA batteries. Long sleeves and long pants and socks with sport sandals or sports shoes.
Sound does NOT travel far in a jungle I learned yesterday. As I approached some monkeys in the trees I noticed – it sounded like they weren’t that close – they were almost right above me. Sure, 60 feet above me… but, it was weird and I noticed. Then, after I’d passed I realized I’d only gone 50 meters and the sound was very reduced…these were the howling monkees that make that supercool bombs dropping noise.
The idea of sound not traveling well in the jungle was later reinforced as I realized the lost couple couldn’t hear the beeping of my motorbike horn as I went all around the base of the mountain – even within 1km of where the guy and his wife were resting (because it was pitch black even with the full-moon).
Later I really got a shock when the policeman I was with fired two shots from his pistol into the air. I was on the phone with the lost guy – and he said he heard one shot just faintly and the other shot – not at all. He was only about 1km from there!
A whistle would still be a good investment to bring if you’re hiking – it will go further than your voice. Their voices were hoarse after yelling for so many hours.
Be careful in Thailand – it’s fun, but it’s literally wild too. There are Asiatic black bears that could attack you while you’re hiking. They’re supposedly the most aggressive bears on the planet and only about 100lbs.
Watch out!
Frog Sex Gets Animalistic on Back Porch
May 30, 2009 by Vern
Ok, there’s vanilla frogsex and there’s that which approaches the boundaries of extreme… this is somewhere in between. If you picture a female human being panting like this frog was – it would be banned from YouTube, I’m sure of that…
Anyway, here’s the video – stick it out until the end where the action is…
Vern Slapped Down by Snake Expert…
May 22, 2009 by Vern
If you didn’t see my last post – here it is:
I was a little bit stumped by the snake I found last night on the porch but I gave it a shot -and was completely wrong as to which one it is…
I thought it was Hagen’s viper. The pics are close enough. The coloring is very similar… the head wasn’t as long as the Hagen’s viper on my snake. Nor was the snake aggressive at all – no strikes in 30 minutes of working with it… Nor did the size make sense. The snake I was looking at was 1.5 meters plus. The Hagen’s viper doesn’t get over somewhere around 116cm.
Snake expert, Joachim Bulian, an expert from Germany residing in Thailand slapped me down with his assessment…
“That is not a Pitviper. That is a green cat snake. Boiga cyanea!”
So, if you don’t mind, I’d like to change my guess to what he said. He had a photo of the green cat snake – and I’ve seen it on his site before but didn’t see it recently when I was looking up my snake… yep, this is exactly the snake I saw…
Boiga cyanea, a green cat snake. Photo: Joachim Bulian. www.Siam-Info.de
