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Negligent posted:When I was last in bkk in April, they had metal detectors/cursory bag checks on the MRT, but not on the skytrain. Which is still a joke really since they didn't check you if, for example, you had a wheeled suitcase that would take too long to open. The MRT security checks are an utter joke, agreed. The people manning them could not give less of a poo poo. Maybe that'll change for the next couple of weeks at least, though.
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They've already started ramping that up--the MRT folks have started actually asking to see inside your bag.
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Chit Lom BTS had people actively searching bags today, but no other stations did.
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Aug 19, 2015 11:51
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CronoGamer posted:Speaking of scapegoats, I'm really curious how the police are going to find a way to tie the red shirt conspiracy onto whatever Burmese migrants they round up
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Aug 19, 2015 14:24
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Look at this thing I found in GBS (GBS is better than it was but is still bad):
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At the risk of distracting from the informative in-depth political analysis occuring in this thread, I'm going to be leaving SEA in the near future and am looking for recommendations for shipping stuff back to the UK. I don't have a whole houseload to move but I got a quote from Allied Pickfords (randomly chosen because they were near the top of search results) for just under RM5000 from Malaysia to the UK. That's kind of on the edge of 'is it just cheaper to leave stuff and buy new things' territory so I'm wondering if that's about standard for part of a container shipping costs or if there's any particularly good services?
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MrNemo posted:At the risk of distracting from the informative in-depth political analysis occuring in this thread, I'm going to be leaving SEA in the near future and am looking for recommendations for shipping stuff back to the UK. I don't have a whole houseload to move but I got a quote from Allied Pickfords (randomly chosen because they were near the top of search results) for just under RM5000 from Malaysia to the UK. That's kind of on the edge of 'is it just cheaper to leave stuff and buy new things' territory so I'm wondering if that's about standard for part of a container shipping costs or if there's any particularly good services? That's what, £1000? It's alot of money, if it's furniture I'd just say gently caress it and take a trip to Ikea when you get back. Sell everything you can on Craigslist and local Facebook groups, abandon the rest. You'll probably save money and stress.
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Depends how much stuff you're shipping really. I think they do these things by 20 ft container, which would put RM5000 at around the normal rates. I'm sure there are other companies that will parcel out your goods into different containers to make it cheaper for them (I only ever shipped a few boxes over the Pacific), but have you thought about trying to see if other foreigners need to ship anything to the UK and splitting a container?
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MrNemo posted:At the risk of distracting from the informative in-depth political analysis occuring in this thread, I'm going to be leaving SEA in the near future and am looking for recommendations for shipping stuff back to the UK. I don't have a whole houseload to move but I got a quote from Allied Pickfords (randomly chosen because they were near the top of search results) for just under RM5000 from Malaysia to the UK. That's kind of on the edge of 'is it just cheaper to leave stuff and buy new things' territory so I'm wondering if that's about standard for part of a container shipping costs or if there's any particularly good services? I used Asian Tigers to move back to Ireland which cost over 10k RM. It was a lot of crap though. In hindsight i think i wouldve been better just leaving it.
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Crossposting this. Wanna find a copy of that pamphlet. From Walter Zenner's "Minorities in the Middle:"     Full text: https://books.google.com.my/books/about/Minorities_in_the_Middle.html?id=FljGSzbhr4oC&redir_esc=y
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MrNemo posted:At the risk of distracting from the informative in-depth political analysis occuring in this thread, I'm going to be leaving SEA in the near future and am looking for recommendations for shipping stuff back to the UK. I don't have a whole houseload to move but I got a quote from Allied Pickfords (randomly chosen because they were near the top of search results) for just under RM5000 from Malaysia to the UK. That's kind of on the edge of 'is it just cheaper to leave stuff and buy new things' territory so I'm wondering if that's about standard for part of a container shipping costs or if there's any particularly good services? if you sell them use http://mudah.my which is what all the malaysians use instead of craigslist or you can give me everything
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CronoGamer posted:Depends how much stuff you're shipping really. I think they do these things by 20 ft container, which would put RM5000 at around the normal rates. I'm sure there are other companies that will parcel out your goods into different containers to make it cheaper for them (I only ever shipped a few boxes over the Pacific), but have you thought about trying to see if other foreigners need to ship anything to the UK and splitting a container? I think that was the quote for the split container option (or rather the get enough people's stuff to fill a container), getting an actual container they quoted at about 10K. It's not really furniture (that's just Ikea crap) but a load of personal effects. It would probably be cheaper to take it all as extra luggage but I don't really think taking 5 or 6 suitcases of stuff is especially practical. Like I said, 5K puts it into nearly as much as it would probably cost to replace everything. I've got the advantage of not having to rebuy a load of stuff but it will also take about 5 weeks to get to me. So currently I can't really decide between leaving it or taking it. I don't think much of it would be resellable, a lot of books (stuff for teaching), clothes and assorted other things. I've also got dive gear which would definitely be worth the price but I'll probably just dump clothes to make room for that.
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MrNemo posted:It would probably be cheaper to take it all as extra luggage but I don't really think taking 5 or 6 suitcases of stuff is especially practical. I saw a toilet being plastic wrapped at Suvarnabhumi once, and that didn't even register as being particularly unusual.
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Aug 20, 2015 10:52
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What I meant was more I have to carry all that poo poo. I would rather pay a couple of hundred pounds extra to have someone else do the heavy lifting /middleclassprivilige
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Aug 20, 2015 14:36
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The less you have the more free you are to move around. Don't let your stuff be an anchor.
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How much time have you got? I'd treat it the same way I treated my parents' overcrowded (*cough*borderline hoarding*cough*) house when I wanted to sell it. I got a few colours of Duck(sic) Tape, and started marking things for Trash, Keep, Donate. Then I'd sleep on it and usually tag more things for Trash. It's exhausting making choices over and over and over again...and the more tired you get it'll swing to Trash or Keep more than it should. It might feel better to leave stuff behind if you're giving it to someone else. Just imagine having to unpack and deal with all that poo poo when you get home. Is it worth taking a boulder-worth of junk to deal along with reverse culture shock when you're home? ...I've spent too much time in E/N.
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Anyone in Jogjakarta? I'll be there for two nights starting tomorrow and I just want to use it as a break in between making my documentary and recharge my battery. (read, get away from family, have a bit of privacy and go back to my hostel tipsy)
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Aug 21, 2015 05:08
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Lmao Thailand Thai TV sorry for bomb re-enactment http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34013540
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MrNemo posted:What I meant was more I have to carry all that poo poo. I would rather pay a couple of hundred pounds extra to have someone else do the heavy lifting /middleclassprivilige Get rid of anything you don't need or can easily replace. I brought so many loving books back with me and when I was unpacking it after coming home I couldn't help but think how I'd just spent about 20 times more transporting the stuff than just rebuying it when I was home. Even after paying the 10k RM to move this garbage we still (my wife and I) ended up bringing about 90KG in luggage as well. That was actually okay though once we got past the racist malay fucker at check in. That only cost us about 500 RM extra for the four bags. Talk to the airline you are planning to use about extra luggage. It might be your cheapest option if you're talking extra suitcases.
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I was on a plane back from thailand once that stopped in dubai and all the people who got on there overloaded the plane with so many big screen tvs and stuff that they had to make an extra fuel stop in hamburg before going on to JFK. So basically i think airlines are used to it (and enjoy charging the requisite fees).
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Police apparently have a name for the bomber and apparently the nationality although officially neither of these things have been shared yet and my source is a Facebook post of a guy saying he writes for the Times. https://m.facebook.com/richardlp/posts/10153567291945645?pnref=story
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Sheep-Goats posted:Police apparently have a name for the bomber and apparently the nationality although officially neither of these things have been shared yet and my source is a Facebook post of a guy saying he writes for the Times. I googled the name and it looks like other sources are carrying it too. http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2015/08/22/bangkok-bomber-mohamad-museyin-named.html
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I spoke to Reindeer about this already, but just in case any other SE Asia goons have had experience arranging visas for locals, any help would be appreciated: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3737882
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CronoGamer posted:I googled the name and it looks like other sources are carrying it too. http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2015/08/22/bangkok-bomber-mohamad-museyin-named.html Also, the Google Translate version indicates that the translation of his name from Thai is "Mohammad Hamad Brunswick Moose" so I am sticking with that. Brunswick Moose for short. Naturally, Pam Gellar and friends, all life long friends of Thailand who care so much for the citizenry are all over the issue. EDIT: Sorry, I should have said that there is no way that it directly emanates from the southern insurgency. Weather some other actor decided to undertake a sympathy campaign is another question. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Aug 22, 2015 |
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My friend made a good point that if this was political or religious or in some other way externally motivated, the parties responsible would claim it. But that's not what's happening here. The guy killed and injured a ton of people and then just vanished and no one hears anything else. That makes it sound personal, like he was specifically upset by something and wanted to get even for it. Now, that's just speculation from my friend who is an armchair psychologist so it could be totally bunk, but I could of like how that sounds.
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Atlas Hugged posted:My friend made a good point that if this was political or religious or in some other way externally motivated, the parties responsible would claim it. But that's not what's happening here. The guy killed and injured a ton of people and then just vanished and no one hears anything else. That makes it sound personal, like he was specifically upset by something and wanted to get even for it. Now, that's just speculation from my friend who is an armchair psychologist so it could be totally bunk, but I could of like how that sounds.
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On the other hand if it's somebody with a personal grievance, you'd expect them to release something by now saying "HEY I DID THIS BECAUSE I'M REALLY, REALLY MAD ABOUT [X]"--or some other sort of significant clue in that direction. It's possible that those signals are there, just not public. And to my mind it's the fake bomb at Nana that seals that this is part of a messaging campaign. If there's no public acknowledgement, if just means that we the public aren't who the message is for.
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Right, I posted earlier that the terror data since 2000 in the GTD shows that less than 14% of terror incidents aren't claimed.
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if your aim is to just gently caress with tourism and potentially undermine the government because they look stupid when they cant catch you, then you wouldn't claim responsibility
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Good point, Atlas, you're exonerated.
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XyrlocShammypants posted:Right, I posted earlier that the terror data since 2000 in the GTD shows that less than 14% of terror incidents aren't claimed. Maybe I'm reading this wrong but isn't the statistic that only 14% of attacks are claimed?
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duckmaster posted:Maybe I'm reading this wrong but isn't the statistic that only 14% of attacks are claimed? Yeah, I'm having a hard time parsing that sentence as well.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Yeah, I'm having a hard time parsing that sentence as well. I've been drinking you cunts. Only 14% aren't claimed
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I don't only claim 14% of my posts, the ones worth reading ~~~ hic
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XyrlocShammypants posted:I've been drinking you cunts. Only 14% aren't claimed http://www.slate.com/articles/news_..._for_their.html You're obviously still drinking! quote:Credible perpetrators claimed responsibility for only 14 percent of the more than 45,000 terrorist acts that have occurred since 1998, according to the University of Maryland’s Global Terrorism Database.
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Yea glad we got that sorted out
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Please mention the figure "14%" whenever responding to future thread tourists dear SE Asia thread. Context independent.
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"I want to visit bangkok to "see the temples" but I am worried, is it safe?" "It's fine, 14% of the time Bangkok is bombed none of the time."
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Duckmaster, a voice of clarity. Edit: 14% of the time.
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