Tremors In Pattaya?

[HomelessTraveler1]

I dont know where else to post this, and it may get moved, but I wonder if all the quakes and waves we've read about in the last couple of weeks have impacted Pattaya at all...any feedback from the guys who are living there? I heard they felt aftershocks in Bangkok, but who knows...

[rossco]

The only shocks in Pattaya are visual - so far!

[TTChang]

Well there were a couple of shudders in the suburbs of BKK overnight...     ..  in my loom  

Not felt any other tremors recently.

[kahuna]

Wussies...Try living in San Francisco...

[geosight]

On a serious note, it's a fucking disgrace what's going on in Burma at the moment

[stogie bear]

The disgrace is that the rest of the world hasn't got the balls to bypass that government and just march in and take over.

They'd sooner see a million people die of starvation and let these thugs carry on with business as usual.

The real shame of all this is that the rest of the world ponders it's options while a whole country suffers and when it's not news anymore the worlds leaders will stop 'pondering its' options!'

As usual it's the wrong people dying!

[MARKUK]

YEP i agree there has never been a better time for the international community to go into Burma and assist these people
I dont know whats taking so long for someone to act - oh yeah the US and UK are already too committed and no one else has the balls to act on anything.

[Guest]

Do you reckon Burma's reluctance to open the boarders could be a saving face thing?

[rxpharm]

Some of the high rise office buildings in BKK were evacuated as reported in Bangkok Post in The Nation - no mentions of anything happening in Pattaya.

The Myanmar dictators don't have one iota of care about their citizens except for those that can keep them in power. 100,000 dead in that region mean that many fewer potential dissenters. That governments such as Thailand and China continue to do business as usual with these despots is even more disgusting.

Keeping the choice aid for themselves and slapping stickers on distributed supplies that it came from the junta generals is despicable.

[ciobha]

(stogie bear @ May 15 2008,17:44)  The disgrace is that the rest of the world hasn't got the balls to bypass that government and take over.
As usual it's the wrong people dying!

There's no oil in there,otherwise the US and UK would have been  there long ago.Our governments dont give a shit about human life,it's all about the oil!

[bangkoksins]

I did think the earth moved, but my gf just rolled her eyes and said "yeah I wish". Mmm not sure what to make of that!

On a serious note, it is terrible what is happening in both Pattaya and China. Incomprehendible.

But as far as Thailand is concerned, and if the Tsunami is anything to go by, the bars on Soi Bangna were up and running so quickly it was incredible.

BTW - when I first read the title of this thread I thought it said the Terrors in Pattaya. Anyone that occasionally glances at the crime section of the local Pattaya rags will know what I mean.

Why anyone willingly goes there is beyond me.

[azza33]

(ciobha @ May 16 2008,06:54) There's no oil in there,otherwise the US and UK would have been there long ago.Our governments dont give a shit about human life,it's all about the oil!

you'd be of the same believers that afghan was about the oil too hey, I've heard that, funny that no pipeline has been built in 7 years...

And the reason why they don't invade north Korea is because of lack of oil also i bet. Not the fact that there is 1 million north Korean troops sitting on a border that could see them decimate a town like Seoul with 10+ million people... Even the Chinese studies concluded they couldn't stop the north Korean from razing Seoul if the shit hit the fan.

As for oil in Iraq, yup its full of it, but it would have been way cheaper to make friends than spend the amount of cash and lives that that mess has amounted to.

Burma... go see Vietnam... and i wouldn't trust the Chinese government one bit, i reckon they'd happily prop up the Burmese regime just to help kill a few us soldiers....

Chinese government= problems, go read about Korean war and the PVA troops China sent to fight the united nations and the threats to nuke china which was the reason why that war stopped.
- chuck in Vietnam on that Chinese interventionist stuff also


people who talk shit about the war and oil thing just annoy the shit out of me - go learn some history and when you can present a valid and logical argument, i'll be happy to listen - until then don't write antiwest bullshit


Burma is a massive human tradegy and that all -- not a time to be spewing forth your uneducated conspiracy theories.

[azza33]

Gee i must have been in a grumpy mood when i wrote that rant

[BlueBallz]

Fucking brilliant that was! In fact the Chinese are helping prop up the junta in Burma. They do some business with them and are protecing its interests. At what cost?? Do they care? Do they care what the world thinks of THEM?? Like fuck they do...

BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!