Calling "pretentious" something you don't understand doesn't prove much for you. It reminds me of something I read somewhere else : culture is snobbery...


It makes all the charm of our friend Sextile's posts, ..... even if we have sometimes to read them twice !

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-- Yesterday, (27th. of november 2011.), afternoon I was out and about in the general area of SEACON SQUARE, where quite a few private and public buildings had set-up their anti-flood barriers.
- However, a random check of sand-bags indicated that their contents were dry - hence no flooding out there.
- SEACON SQUARE is approx. 06.5.Miles due WEST of SUVANABHUMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT's Passenger-reception area.
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-- Gentle Reader,
- Although I admit to using abbreviations, consistent within the context, I noted what Khun TouristBangkok wrote in his posting #53.
- Thus, and as a check, I availed of Search-engine Google, entered: 'Abbreviations+'TPT.' and awaited the results. Surprisingly - to me, at least - the word that I had in mind: 'Transport.' was not shewn; but that was based-on but one & random sampling of Google's abilities.
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Indeed, and just bad luck, as it seems. When I just searched for "abbreviation tpt", the first result that is shown happens to be TPT - What does TPT stand for? Acronyms and abbreviations by the Free Online Dictionary..

And there, as it so happens, "transport" is the first definition that is given.

I may add that I think that it's easy to understand those abbreviations/acronyms that you use, simply because of the context.

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flew back into BKK last sunday. Immigration as busy as uaual-nearly 30 mins wait. In town about as busy as i remembered. Today morning peak much quieter-schools still closed. After a while I realised that the busgarage for my route was flooded and if buses were kept dry-they would lack the staff locked in their flooded houses. Many gaping holes in tesco and some 7s, but alternatives available. This really seems to vary a lot between shops. Many shops are removing the walls and sandbags they had as precaution.

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Now why the long wait? I experienced the same last week closer to 40mins and yet folk are supposed to be 'staying away'...
By the way I availed myself of my usual tpt to get to my hotel and my driver and I had to walk across mutilple carparks, the high rise bldgs chokker, to his car...
There is a lot of variation here. The Tesco on Pr.RAM IV was 80% empty with no beer etc and the 7-11 virtually next door was full except one could not buy beer as it was not yet the bewitching hour...

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-- Today, 30th. november, St. Andrew's Day, I visited my friend in his hair-dressing salon on Phet Kasem 79.;
- On the OUTbound leg flood waters first seen around soi 75.;
- Soi 79. itself was but partially flooded, and then only to kerb-depth in general; with care it was possible to walk dry-shod for most of the way.
- For the return & INbound leg the flood-waters persisted, to a greater or lesser degree, to as far IN as soi 38.;
- However, the good news is that the area of THE MALL - Bang Khae is virtually dry - to date THE MALL remains CLOSED; but with sales etc.for the NewYear's shopping I'd expect an imminent RE-OPENING.
- I noticed that many people were using the post-flood period for a general clean-up and to dispose of unwanted junk - an early spring-cleaning, possibly?
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I guess you don't understand the phrase "rhetorical question" then.

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