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Coolbeano wrote:

uber new years party ready to go and bar hopping list set up
lots of ppl from all over the world back and shit


and some fucking terrorists have to go and fucking blow up half the fucking city


and CNN/BBC STILL haven't reported it.

fuck.


why tonight?!?!?!!!

priceless?

Bangkok.

It's being reported on BBC News Online.

Last edited by m3thod (2006-12-31 04:50:58)

m3thod wrote:

Its Bangkok.

It's being reported on BBC News Online.

Please - don't call it Bangkok. It hasn't been called that for over 200 years.

To quote from 'The Book of General Ignorance' (A Quite Interesting Book) - Foreword by Stephen Fry & Four Words by Alan Davies :-



"What Is The Capital City of Thailand?

Grung Tape.
The city's day-to-day name, which means 'City of Angels' (the same as Los Angeles), is an abbreviation for the official name, which is the longest place name in the world [actually the longest multi-word place name in the world - silly QI!].
Only ignorant foreigners call it Bangkok, which hasn't been used in Thailand for more than 200 years. For Europeans (and every single one of their encyclopaedias) to go on calling the capital of Thailand Bangkok is a bit like Thais insisting that the capital of Britain is called Billingsgate or Winchester.
Grung Tape (the rough pronunciation) is usually spelt Krung Thep.
Bangkok was the name of the small fishing port that used to exist before King Rama I moved his capital there in 1782 [CE], built a city on the site and renamed.
The full official name of Krung Thep is Krungthep Mahanakhon Amorn Rattanakosin Mahintara Yudthaya Mahadilok Pohp Noparat Rajathanee Bureerom Udomrajniwes Mahasatarn Amorn Pimarn Avaltarnsatit Sakatattiya Visanukram Prasit.
In Thai, this is written as a single word of 152 letters or 64 syllables.
It translates roughly as 'Great City of Angels, the supreme repository of divine jewels, the great land unconquerable, the grand and prominent realm, the royal and delightful capital city full of nine noble gems, the highest royal dwelling and grand palace, the divine shelter and living place of the reincarnated spirits.'
The front part of the name Bangkok is the common Thai word bang meanng village. The second word is supposed to have come from an old Thai word makok which means some kind of fruit (either olives or plums or some sort of mixture of the two). So it could be 'Village of Olives' or 'Village of Plums'. Nobody seems to be quite sure which - or to care [!].
Krung Thep (or Bangkok if you insist) is the only city in Thailand. It is almost forty times bigger than the next largest town.
"

So, please leave all 'westernisms' behind you and acknowledge local culture.

~

On a more personal and [possibly] relative note relating to this travesty, I wish all of the people of Krung Thep my best wishes and condolences to any losses of human or animal life, and the disruption to 'normal' life.

All the best,
Andy

TheDarkRaven wrote:

m3thod wrote:

Its Bangkok.

It's being reported on BBC News Online.

Please - don't call it Bangkok. It hasn't been called that for over 200 years.

To quote from 'The Book of General Ignorance' (A Quite Interesting Book) - Foreword by Stephen Fry & Four Words by Alan Davies :-



"What Is The Capital City of Thailand?

Grung Tape.
The city's day-to-day name, which means 'City of Angels' (the same as Los Angeles), is an abbreviation for the official name, which is the longest place name in the world [actually the longest multi-word place name in the world - silly QI!].
Only ignorant foreigners call it Bangkok, which hasn't been used in Thailand for more than 200 years. For Europeans (and every single one of their encyclopaedias) to go on calling the capital of Thailand Bangkok is a bit like Thais insisting that the capital of Britain is called Billingsgate or Winchester.
Grung Tape (the rough pronunciation) is usually spelt Krung Thep.
Bangkok was the name of the small fishing port that used to exist before King Rama I moved his capital there in 1782 [CE], built a city on the site and renamed.
The full official name of Krung Thep is Krungthep Mahanakhon Amorn Rattanakosin Mahintara Yudthaya Mahadilok Pohp Noparat Rajathanee Bureerom Udomrajniwes Mahasatarn Amorn Pimarn Avaltarnsatit Sakatattiya Visanukram Prasit.
In Thai, this is written as a single word of 152 letters or 64 syllables.
It translates roughly as 'Great City of Angels, the supreme repository of divine jewels, the great land unconquerable, the grand and prominent realm, the royal and delightful capital city full of nine noble gems, the highest royal dwelling and grand palace, the divine shelter and living place of the reincarnated spirits.'
The front part of the name Bangkok is the common Thai word bang meanng village. The second word is supposed to have come from an old Thai word makok which means some kind of fruit (either olives or plums or some sort of mixture of the two). So it could be 'Village of Olives' or 'Village of Plums'. Nobody seems to be quite sure which - or to care [!].
Krung Thep (or Bangkok if you insist) is the only city in Thailand. It is almost forty times bigger than the next largest town.
"

So, please leave all 'westernisms' behind you and acknowledge local culture.

~

On a more personal and [possibly] relative note relating to this travesty, I wish all of the people of Krung Thep my best wishes and condolences to any losses of human or animal life, and the disruption to 'normal' life.

All the best,
Andy

oh my god shaddup no one says krung thep around here.


and its not the only city, there's chiang mai and chiang rai and phuket and hua hin/cha am and udon thani etc.

err...beano what state do you live in thailand?

jkohlc wrote:

err...beano what state do you live in thailand?

State of singapore


i'm in nonthaburi tho, 30 mins from bkk.

parth wrote:

I.M.I Militant wrote:

The worst new years was last years... Fuken 40 degree day down here in melbourne and everyone canceled partys an just chilled at home with mates with the air con pumpin

This years was great

Hey in New York City they get less than 40 all the time. Right now it's probably around that, and see how many people were at times square.

I think he means 40C... which is like 100F .

-[Silver.Inc* wrote:

parth wrote:

I.M.I Militant wrote:

The worst new years was last years... Fuken 40 degree day down here in melbourne and everyone canceled partys an just chilled at home with mates with the air con pumpin

This years was great

Hey in New York City they get less than 40 all the time. Right now it's probably around that, and see how many people were at times square.

I think he means 40C... which is like 100F .

lol thats the 1