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Death Alley

Dogs looking for a home

Keep it simple stupid

Real fake exposes himself

Atrocious beaches

Death Alley

Editor;
Every day I deliver and collect my small grandson from school and everyday it is becoming increasingly dangerous. Two u-turns on the Sukhumvit Road, one at Bumrungsitsiuksa school kl.178 and the other at the Royal Thai Navy stadium kl.180 have become extremely hazardous with long tailbacks causing traffic jams. Sporadically the Thai Navy put their police to direct the traffic at the stadium and a few months ago there was policeman or volunteer at the school who disappeared after a few days. Was he a traffic victim?
Bearing in mind that Sattahip is a navy garrison town and most of the people using the stadium and school are navy personnel I would have thought that it would be in the navy’s best interest to protect their men, wives and children. Could not the Sattahip Council either fix red, amber and green traffic lights at these u-turns which would come into operation from 0700-0800 and 1530-1700? Operated manually, or liaise with the Navy and police to man the u-turns. This I am sure would reduce the amount of accidents and near misses which occur there.
I thank the Council in anticipation.
Ron Martin,
Sattahip

Dogs looking for a home

Dear Sirs,
I was delighted to read the letter from Paul and Sandra and send them congratulations for their efforts. My wife and I have been trying to help stray dogs for the last 8 years and we now have in our garden something like 90 dogs, including many puppies, which would like a home where they can receive a little more care and attention than we are able to give to that number. We realise of course that dogs are more difficult to re-home than cats as many people live in condos and are prohibited from having pets. If, however, anyone could offer a loving home we would be pleased to hear from you - email - delboy43210@ gmail.com
Derek and Maliwan

Keep it simple stupid

Editor;
I think that Tony Crossley should maybe re-write his letter “Cultural indifference to nudity” from the few paragraphs printed into at least a short novel. Perhaps then more of us could understand what he is trying to say. Scratch that, reading it again, I see he doesn’t really care whether we understand his convoluted phrasing at all. Maybe he is trying for a “mini” Booker prize.
Either way Tony, try an acronym ... KISS (keep it simple stupid).
Regards,
Freddie Clark

Real fake exposes himself

Dear Mr Editor,
When a man has a bee where it shouldn’t be, a sting will make him expose himself. ‘Bob’ did it (1/01/10). I have explained that I represent my English teacher’s Thai friends and students and do it again on my Pattaya Patty web forum. I’ve never mentioned Bob, but his spiteful attack on me demands reply.
Bob repeats gossip that a writer uses pen names, which even if Bob got right is up to the writer, not bossy Bob. As he has only one style, he will not grasp that different styles based on different people require different pen names. His missives would not make sense if signed ‘Einstein’. Telling others to reveal their names but hiding his own, he exposed himself as a real fake.
“We are all at least two people,” said psychologist Jung. Given Bob’s dire dominant persona, he needs to find the other one. He does have use. Our teacher uses Mailbag letters for comprehension class. At first he foxed us in saying Bob was “not a full shilling”, but the old-coin idiom shows that people worlds apart are alike. In Thailand we say ‘mai tem baht’ (not full baht).
“Writing can tell little about a subject but much about the author,” the Mail’s book review quoted our teacher as saying. Is Bob from an abstinence camp? Does ‘Sex In The City’ turn his tummy? Did he miss ‘The Love Boat’? Was Bob a bobby? Is he more half-a-sixpence, a wannabe hero?
[email protected]

Atrocious beaches

Editor;
I did a 4 mile walk along Jomtien Beach New Year’s Day. It was a complete game of “Dodge the Garbage”. This garbage can only come from tourist boats as I seriously doubt that all the commercial Laem Chabang shipping traffic suddenly decides to dump all their plastic on their way in or out of port.
4 miles worth of Jomtien Beach that I walked was a cesspool.
If you’d like to join me in (yet another) grassroots effort to get the Tourist Boat Operators to start to take heed of their pollution, then please contact [email protected].
We just need to change their approach to waste disposal.
Maybe a reward system where every tour boat operator is paid X baht per dry kilo of trash he delivers to the Bali Hai Pier at the end of each day?
Call me a dreamer, this is just one idea to address the root of the problem. Tourist boats and local fishing boats: where else can all this come from every day?
Meanwhile, I have to agree with Tony’s “Cultural Indifference to Nudity” except that topless is not nudity. It is simply topless. Big fat farang men and women that should be wearing bras go topless every day on Pattaya beaches, yet, if a fit female Thai lady does it, it seems to be immediately wrong. If a katoey does it then everyone laughs it off.
Yes, the detractors will say it is against the law; a law I have never seen enforced.
Just my 2 satangs-worth.
Pattayaboat-Ken

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