Well done, subby.

I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.

The bar are temples but the pearls ain't free.

Understated applause for subby.

Cut levees, enjoy trickledown!

Bravo subby! I lol'd.

namatad: so the city, mostly built on clay, is SINKING 4 inches a year, mostly due to pumping of water from the aquifiers. the ocean is rising .1 inch a year.

so WHICH is to blame for bangkok sinking beneath the water?
ZOMG GLOBAL WARMING!!@!#!~#!#!#!#!@!@

please ignore the fact that it will take 40 years for the ocean to rise as much as the city is sinking per year.

the solution is:
1) stop the sinking
2) start massive dike and levee building projects
3) convince america to cut back on carbon emissions

But when the levee breaks they'll have no place to stay.

namatad: so this is the worst since 1940s. but.
doesnt this happen to some degree every year?
at some point, if your city is at or below sea-level, you have to start building sea walls, dikes, and levees. or just accept the yearly flooding as normal.

I really tried, but I can't get that to flow with the song.

I get my kicks above the waterline, sunshine.

Siam's gonna be the witness to the ultimate test in aquatic fitness...

namatad:


the solution is:
1) move

Headline win.

we are done here.

grout: I get my kicks above the waterline, sunshine.

I get my kicks above the floodline, sunshine.

Anyone up for a game of Chess?

Murray is great and all, but his brother Anthony is better.

namatad: thai face



Thai-faced

nopokerface: Well done, subby.

agreed

Why does the Western Media continue to refer to Rangoon as Bangkok? It hasn't been called Bangkok by anybody in Thailand in close to 200 years.

My guess is that the media can't get over it's dick fixtation. "Bang-KOK!AHAHAHAHA!".

Yaxe: Why does the Western Media continue to refer to Rangoon as Bangkok? It hasn't been called Bangkok by anybody in Thailand in close to 200 years.

Yaxe: Why does the Western Media continue to refer to Rangoon as Bangkok? It hasn't been called Bangkok by anybody in Thailand in close to 200 years.

My guess is that the media can't get over it's dick fixtation. "Bang-KOK!AHAHAHAHA!".

Either that or they realize that Thailand and Myanmar/Burma are two completely different countries with different capitals.

Yaxe: Why does the Western Media continue to refer to Rangoon as Bangkok? It hasn't been called Bangkok by anybody in Thailand in close to 200 years.

Why they'd change it?

namatad: so this is the worst since 1940s. but.
doesnt this happen to some degree every year?
at some point, if your city is at or below sea-level, you have to start building sea walls, dikes, and levees. or just accept the yearly flooding as normal.

They already have many hundreds of kilometers of dikes, drainage canals, flood walls etc. That's why this doesn't normally happen. It's just not enough for this huge amount of water. There is flooding every year but it's minor and more localized compared to this. This is on an entirelly different scale.

The last time the city flooded like this was 1942, but there were no flood defenses back then and only a couple hundred thousand people in the city, so that might not be on the same scale either.

This is Thailand's Royal Families Katrina. King Bhumibol Adulyadej should stop spending all his time letting Bangkok ladyboys drill him in the pooper and take care of his country.

/ Yeah, I insulted the King.

Headline of the quarter!

Quantum Apostrophe: namatad: so this is the worst since 1940s. but.
doesnt this happen to some degree every year?
at some point, if your city is at or below sea-level, you have to start building sea walls, dikes, and levees. or just accept the yearly flooding as normal.

I really tried, but I can't get that to flow with the song.

Yeah, I would have gone with:

Time flies, doesn't seem a minute
Since the nineteen forty-two deluge like a spigot
All change, don't you know that when you
Flood at this level, you should fortify the venue?

Like Dhaka... or the Netherlands... or Venice... or... or this place!



/subby

Yaxe: Why does the Western Media continue to refer to Rangoon as Bangkok? It hasn't been called Bangkok by anybody in Thailand in close to 200 years.

My guess is that the media can't get over it's dick fixtation. "Bang-KOK!AHAHAHAHA!".

Why do you continue to refer to ITS as IT IS? My guess is you can't get over your apostrophe fixation. Oh, and you know, we have instant access to information these days. Just saying.

Yaxe: Why does the Western Media continue to refer to Rangoon as Bangkok? It hasn't been called Bangkok by anybody in Thailand in close to 200 years.

My guess is that the media can't get over it's dick fixtation. "Bang-KOK!AHAHAHAHA!".

So you think our western culture should just passively submit to eastern cultural norms?

Oriental-supremacist!

/and seriously, what's the deal with Istanbul? First it's constantinople then istanbul. Why they changed it . . . well certainly I can't say. I guess really it's nobodies business but the turks.

What d'ya mean, You seen one crowded, polluted, flooded town...

Yaxe: Why does the Western Media continue to refer to Rangoon as Bangkok? It hasn't been called Bangkok by anybody in Thailand in close to 200 years.

My guess is that the media can't get over it's dick fixtation. "Bang-KOK!AHAHAHAHA!".

It's not called RANGOON by Thais, that's in Burma. The Thai name is Krung Thep. You're right though, no one in Thailand says Bangkok unless they are speaking in English to a foreigner. It's not the name of the city.

Bangkok is Western corruption of bong magok, which was the closest place name on Western maps when the Thais founded the city of Krungthep so that's just what it was called by foreigners instead of the real name. Thais don't care if foreigners call it the right name or not

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.


The real issue is below the waistline.

Confucius say....

StreetlightInTheGhetto: watson.t.hamster: Yaxe: Why does the Western Media continue to refer to Rangoon as Bangkok? It hasn't been called Bangkok by anybody in Thailand in close to 200 years.

My guess is that the media can't get over it's dick fixtation. "Bang-KOK!AHAHAHAHA!".

So you think our western culture should just passively submit to eastern cultural norms?

Oriental-supremacist!

/and seriously, what's the deal with Istanbul? First it's constantinople then istanbul. Why they changed it . . . well certainly I can't say. I guess really it's nobodies business but the turks.

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.

/nods solemnly

I still call it New Amsterdam, why just yesterday I was thinking of visiting The Five Points.

Subby for the Win!

Tea, girls, warm and sweet, some are submerged in the Somerset Maugham Suite...