The North's Annual Haze and Smog Pollution

[Guest fountainhall]

It’s the burning season again up north and I see the smog and haze pollution indices have soared. Although they now seem to have come down from their highs, two days ago Phayao reported 278.71 micrograms of dust level and Chiang Rai was up at 249.88 micrograms. The safety standard is 120.

 

I noted that the government’s Pollution Control Director-General claimed that most of the problem was due to neighbouring countries. Ahem! Well, no doubt that is partly true, but if the government was to implement what I believe is the law against the annual slashing and burning by farmers, surely pollution levels would not be so bad?

 

What is it like in Chiang Mai?

 

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/3-provinces-in-North-still-unsafe-30176928.html

[Bob]

It's fairly bad. Started a couple of weeks ago and we've had a few days that it almost seems like twilight in the middle of the afternoon. On the other hand, there have been some very pretty sunsets (not all that clear but rather colorful which unfortunately is a sign of all the particulates in the air).

 

Last year, for whatever reason, there really wasn't a really bad air season. But this year, right on time (almost always starts within a day or two of February 15th), it's a bit ugly.

 

I remember a couple of years ago when they announced they'd arrest or fine anybody who practiced the open field burning. About two weeks after the burning ban took effect, I rode on a bus to Chiangrai and we counted over 100 open-field fires before we got to Chiangrai. So much for laws against the practice!

 

I've read that much of the problem is also floating in from Burma and obviously the Thais can't do anything about that. But, given this open-field burning practice has been around forever and most Thai farmers simply can't afford to prepare their fields for replanting any other way, it looks like those of us up here in the boonies are just going to have to tolerate it year after year.

 

P.S. I notice it because I can look up at the mountain on the west side of town and I first noticed the problem on Monday the 13th. What was funny was the Bangkok Post the next day or so had some quote from the minister of environment saying that there was no pollution and it was a harmless ozone issue. And three days later the Bangkok post printed articles from the same ministry talking about the bad air pollution in both Lampang and Lamphun (both of which are just south of here). What I'm thinking is we ought to get all those boats they used for the flooding, line them up on Canal Road with their propellers pointing west, and then blow all that nasty stuff to the west. Might not work but you gotta admit that it'd be a major blow job.

[Guest thaiworthy]

. . . you gotta admit that it'd be a major blow job.

 

My boyfriend celebrates his own hazing act each and every day. It comes from a small box with a warning label that he keeps with him at all times. I've tried using Bob's blow job method every night as well, but that never works, either. I'll just have to keep trying, in more ways than one.

[KhorTose]

Yes, i have to agree with Bob and Thaiworthy on this. If Thailand is good for anything it is definitely good for a major blow job. Hell, lets give it a try.

[Guest fountainhall]

Do you think the Guinness Book of World Records would be interested in a "World's Longest Blow Job" category?

 

Since the "World's Longest Kiss" is a category - won recently by two gay guys in Pattaya with a kiss lasting 50 hours, 25 minutes and one second (and that included continuing to kiss whilst being accompanied by a referee when toilet breaks were required ) - is't a longest blow job a natural extension ?

 

Maybe they'd need three categories, though - m2m, m2f, f2f And any couples who became over excited and could not hold back would naturally have to be eliminated!

[KhorTose]

And any couples who became over excited and could not hold back would naturally have to be eliminated!

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I would have a chance then if the old record is under 10 seconds.