Comments on: Recently, In The Wild http://absolutelybangkok.com/recently-in-the-wild/ The Portal for the Bangkok Connoisseur - The Elaborate & Profane of Big Mango Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:40:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: geomark http://absolutelybangkok.com/recently-in-the-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-4533 geomark Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:12:28 +0000 http://absolutelybangkok.com/?p=5285#comment-4533 You're lucky. A friend was passing through Khao Yai from Prachinburi to Pak Chong in the evening and happened upon some wild elephants in the road. He stopped the car, shut the engine, and waited a while, then started the car and proceeded slowly. One large adult was unhappy with the approach and leaned against the car, breaking the driver's side window. No injuries, just one driver scared sh*tless. You’re lucky. A friend was passing through Khao Yai from Prachinburi to Pak Chong in the evening and happened upon some wild elephants in the road. He stopped the car, shut the engine, and waited a while, then started the car and proceeded slowly. One large adult was unhappy with the approach and leaned against the car, breaking the driver’s side window. No injuries, just one driver scared sh*tless.

]]> By: Jaded http://absolutelybangkok.com/recently-in-the-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-4531 Jaded Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:38:29 +0000 http://absolutelybangkok.com/?p=5285#comment-4531 Same place is on the front page of yesterday's Bangkok Post? Looked like the people in that car were having a special moment ... Same place is on the front page of yesterday’s Bangkok Post? Looked like the people in that car were having a special moment …

]]> By: whoopla http://absolutelybangkok.com/recently-in-the-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-4524 whoopla Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:14:53 +0000 http://absolutelybangkok.com/?p=5285#comment-4524 Panda Roti Boy - very appropriate article Dan. That THB 60 million for the panda house in CM would go a long way to help the plight of the nation's symbolic beast, the elephant. National chracteristics such as turning ones back on murky unwieldly problems (what to do with elephants) remind us of the current fascination with pandas, which are cute until they become big and smelly, and god forbid, unhealthy, and their fate might follow that of the millions of stray dogs that infest the country. Fads: Anyone remember the block-long lines waiting for the Roti Boy buns? What happened to that franchise? Bored already. Surely if something has real value (like a Chinese bear in tropical Thailand) it will sustain itself beyond the initial cuteness factor? Of course one wonders who orchestrates these fads that appear to be impeccably timed to obfuscate the real sores that are festering deep within Thai society. Panda Roti Boy – very appropriate article Dan. That THB 60 million for the panda house in CM would go a long way to help the plight of the nation’s symbolic beast, the elephant.

National chracteristics such as turning ones back on murky unwieldly problems (what to do with elephants) remind us of the current fascination with pandas, which are cute until they become big and smelly, and god forbid, unhealthy, and their fate might follow that of the millions of stray dogs that infest the country. Fads: Anyone remember the block-long lines waiting for the Roti Boy buns? What happened to that franchise? Bored already.

Surely if something has real value (like a Chinese bear in tropical Thailand) it will sustain itself beyond the initial cuteness factor?

Of course one wonders who orchestrates these fads that appear to be impeccably timed to obfuscate the real sores that are festering deep within Thai society.

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