For what it's worth?

Originally posted by twhitehead
So, considering that the record may be partly due to global warming and is almost certainly due to various changes that are here to stay, it is likely to happen again.
What do you think can be done to prevent a disaster next time?

Flood channels and underground piping from the dams to the sea.

I am no irrigation expert, so there may be obvious flaws, and costs, involved that I have no idea in reality. It needs experts, not mikelom.

Either that, or water purification plants in more numbers, and water exports supported by various governments to drought victims and their areas.

Basic ideas, that could be worked with some enthusiasm and shared government funds!

-m.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/506566-thai-pm-to-ask-bangkok-to-open-all-floodgates/

Originally posted by mikelom
I would hope some of you have seen the news about Thailand.

It is deeply sad, and millions have lost their homes.

I abandoned my home today, and had to wade 5ft thru sewerage that had drained up, as my lounge filled with water and floods.

For what it is worth, if you see a slight option of a 5 dollar/5quid/10 dollar/10quid donation, and you can g ...[text shortened]... wallet out for this one, or are you going to say it's a gift from God for Buddhist atheists?

If you cant do the time - don't do the crime.

Originally posted by Dasa
If you cant do the time - don't do the crime.

Dasa, although your statement technically doesn't make any sense, you have just revealed yourself to be a cold, selfish, Godless person who should forever be snubbed and eschewed by all from this point forward. You're a disgrace to humanity.

Originally posted by sumydid
Dasa, although your statement technically doesn't make any sense, you have just revealed yourself to be a cold, selfish, Godless person who should forever be snubbed and eschewed by all from this point forward. You're a disgrace to humanity.

Recd and seconded. A man who has a heart writes!

-m.

The 'it' man irates me to the point of permissible expletives, and there are few humans who do that to me.... 🙁

How cruel in this adversity can he become?

Originally posted by sumydid
Dasa, although your statement technically doesn't make any sense, you have just revealed yourself to be a cold, selfish, Godless person who should forever be snubbed and eschewed by all from this point forward. You're a disgrace to humanity.

It make perfect sense if you are not ignorant.

Originally posted by Dasa
It make perfect sense if you are not ignorant.

Oh my Buddha! You actually think you are God, don't you?

You are the lowest of the low.

You have just proven how ignorant and arrogant you are, and as sumytid said 'Godless'. You have nothing further to prove to us all. You have just proven to yourself how empty and pathetic your character really is.

Now go jump, please.

-m.

This is at the worst time all year in my finances, so I was thinking I'd put up a meager $25. But Dasa has inspired me to put up $25 more on his behalf.

Is there any way to send you the funds directly?

I can spare about ten bucks.

Dasa, that was terribly insensitive and downright wrong, mate.
Keep you "honest" posts to where they belong, which seems like only the threads you start at the moment.

Originally posted by sumydid
This is at the worst time all year in my finances, so I was thinking I'd put up a meager $25. But Dasa has inspired me to put up $25 more on his behalf.

Is there any way to send you the funds directly?

I cannot accept a personal donation. I may have lost everything, including all 'white goods', but there are people much worse off than me mate.

I think the safest, and reassuring way, to know any donation is going to the peoples' needs directly is vis the International Red Cross.

And, believe me, my wife just read your words and cried. People do care about our country. We are too emotional at this moment, as we don't know where we go next. The car was perished last night, so our potential home is also gone.

But we do have spirit, and know the now we live in can only get better as the now of a tomorrow.

Much obliged sumytid.

-m.

And my apologies for being abusive to Dasa, but he darned well deserved it, under the circumstances!! :'(

Originally posted by karoly aczel
I can spare about ten bucks.

Dasa, that was terribly insensitive and downright wrong, mate.
Keep you "honest" posts to where they belong, which seems like only the threads you start at the moment.

1 buck here is ten meals of some fried rice with a little fish or pork here.

10 bucks is a hundred meals you would be feeding desperate people with.

Please try.

-m.

Originally posted by mikelom
1 buck here is ten meals of some fried rice with a little fish or pork here.

10 bucks is a hundred meals you would be feeding desperate people with.

Please try.

-m.

Next week I'll get mums credit card to donate - ten bucks is the cheapest pack of ciggies here, so it's nothing really and more people should donate, including Dasa.
Even if you are below the poverty line here you would be quite well off in a place like Thailand.

It's just the thing - the poor often help the poor because they know what it's like.
It's always like that when I'm busking where the suits with moblies just walk on by,(often even singing along and enjoying the music), whereas the little old ladies who have just picked up their pensions will throw in 2 buks, which is something to them but virtually nothing for the "suits".
They say that they are rich because they dont give their money away, which is patently ridiculous,(we're talking about a few dollars here), but still people but that arguement.
I find it just appalling how the rich act

Originally posted by sumydid
Dasa, although your statement technically doesn't make any sense, you have just revealed yourself to be a cold, selfish, Godless person who should forever be snubbed and eschewed by all from this point forward. You're a disgrace to humanity.

So you have only just now started reading his posts then!

Originally posted by Dasa
If you cant do the time - don't do the crime.

What was the crime?