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(Washington Post) Scary One night in Bangkok and the water's flowing / Canals divert the flood into the sea / One night in Bangkok and you'll soon start rowing / Residents are wading, it's up to their knees / It could be six weeks before it all recedes   (washingtonpost.com) divider line 112
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2011-10-22 10:37:15 AM
You're doing a heckuva job, Yellowie.

/seriously - light years ahead of the Katrina effort
//there's a foot of water on some parts of the road about 5 km from BKK
 
2011-10-22 11:01:23 AM
Well done, subby.
 
2011-10-22 11:44:58 AM
*enthusiastic applause*
 
2011-10-22 11:49:02 AM
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.
 
2011-10-22 12:02:25 PM
Nice!

+1
 
2011-10-22 12:32:42 PM
The bar are temples but the pearls ain't free.

Understated applause for subby.
 
2011-10-22 01:08:09 PM
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Unavailable for comment
 
2011-10-22 01:33:02 PM
I'll volunteer to work at the ladyboy shelter.
 
2011-10-22 02:00:34 PM
If there were floods, I would give those floods every second I had...

/amidoinitrite?
 
2011-10-22 02:15:30 PM
Lucky for me, my area is completely untouched by the flooding. The only effects I get are the supermarkets and convenience stores being pretty cleaned out, especially of bottled water and instant noodles. Luckily, my road, Ramkhamhaeng Rd, has a lot of good street food and they're all open for business.

If I didn't catch bits and pieces through google news and friends posting on Facebook, I wouldn't even know this was happening.
 
2011-10-22 02:22:44 PM
One town is very like another when the flood's up over your hips there, brother.
 
2011-10-22 03:28:20 PM
It's a drag
It's a flood
It's really kinda shiatty
To be wading in sewage
Instead of partying in the city.
 
2011-10-22 03:32:23 PM
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.
 
2011-10-22 03:39:13 PM
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
 
2011-10-22 03:45:31 PM
Cut levees, enjoy trickledown!
 
2011-10-22 03:47:46 PM
Bravo subby! I lol'd.
 
2011-10-22 03:48:16 PM
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.
 
2011-10-22 03:52:05 PM
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.
 
2011-10-22 03:56:35 PM
I get my kicks above the waterline, sunshine.
 
2011-10-22 03:58:09 PM
Siam's gonna be the witness to the ultimate test in aquatic fitness...
 
2011-10-22 03:58:19 PM
namatad:


the solution is:
1)
move
 
2011-10-22 03:58:41 PM
Headline win.

we are done here.
 
2011-10-22 03:58:45 PM
grout: I get my kicks above the waterline, sunshine.

I get my kicks above the floodline, sunshine.
 
2011-10-22 04:01:23 PM
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Anyone up for a game of Chess?
 
2011-10-22 04:02:38 PM
Aye Carumba: namatad:


the solution is:
1) move


I would normally agree with that solution, but. 10 million is a metric shiat ton of people.
At some point, the world society will need to start a number of projects designed to "save" cities like this around the world.

nah, we will continue to be reactive to catastrophes rather than proactive. why would we change now?

on the PLUS SIDE, you look at how the thai face this yearly struggle vs how NOLA just collapsed.
 
2011-10-22 04:03:54 PM
Murray is great and all, but his brother Anthony is better.
 
2011-10-22 04:08:17 PM
namatad: thai face

media.funlol.com

Thai-faced
 
2011-10-22 04:14:32 PM
nopokerface: Well done, subby.

agreed
 
2011-10-22 04:18:55 PM
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!".
 
2011-10-22 04:21:49 PM
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!".


Geography FAIL.
 
2011-10-22 04:22:24 PM
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.
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2011-10-22 04:22:54 PM
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.
 
2011-10-22 04:29:31 PM
*gorf crap*
 
2011-10-22 04:30:39 PM
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?
 
2011-10-22 04:32:26 PM
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.
 
2011-10-22 04:32:59 PM
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.
 
2011-10-22 04:33:05 PM
Headline of the quarter!
 
2011-10-22 04:35:50 PM
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
 
2011-10-22 04:37:24 PM
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.
 
2011-10-22 04:37:31 PM
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.
 
2011-10-22 04:39:55 PM
The dykes we use would not excite you.
 
GBB
2011-10-22 04:40:01 PM
What d'ya mean, You seen one crowded, polluted, flooded town...
 
2011-10-22 04:40:55 PM
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
 
2011-10-22 04:41:57 PM
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
 
2011-10-22 04:44:12 PM
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.

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The real issue is below the waistline.

Confucius say....
 
2011-10-22 04:50:42 PM
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.
 
2011-10-22 04:53:19 PM
Subby for the Win!
 
2011-10-22 04:56:23 PM
Gish21: 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


Firstly: Rangoon is now known as Yangon in Burma, which itself is now called Myanmar.
Secondly: Bangkok's shortened name is Krung Thep; the long one is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Phiman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit.
 
2011-10-22 05:01:12 PM
Tea, girls, warm and sweet, some are submerged in the Somerset Maugham Suite...
 
2011-10-22 05:05:42 PM
Paris1127: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Phiman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit.

You take that back!
 
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