One of the risks of putting your thoughts out onto the wide wide world of web is that you lay yourself open to abuse from those who might disagree with your views. Billy solves this problem by making his site ‘members only’. Of course he still gets insulted and I like to thing I am in the top five abusers on his site, but at least he knows where I live if he wants to do something about it. My personal experience has been almost entirely positive, with nearly 2,000 comments containing wisdom, banter and amusement; thank you all.
Unfortunately, the unbroken record of quality was broken yesterday in response to my entirely reasonable, if not exactly compassionate, argument regarding those who choose to whizz at speed around Pattaya on large bikes. Still it could have been worse.
Pattaya Daily News, a source from which I regularly steal stories to twist for my own purposes, carried extensive coverage of the Iranian couple copulating on the beach for the entertainment of onlookers, another story I bastardised in the same post. Supporting the story, they included photos of the bonking couple and shots of the embarrassed duo at the police station. All entertaining stuff.
However, this story did not amuse a bunch of hackers in Iran who took over the Pattaya Daily News site and posted some friendly messages:
(screen captures taken from teakdoor.com)
In an admirable show of defiance, Pattaya Daily News have now removed all traces of the original story. Pattaya Days will not be intimidated; but I have changed my admin password to something stronger, just in case.
Comments 🔗
2009-09-07| bart saysThe signature is too obvious. It can’t be the Iranians. I would blame it on the Frenchmen!
2009-09-08| Lloyd saysSpelling’s to good for French hackers!
2009-09-08| Phuket Observer saysPeople of the whole world are our toys and entertainment means in Pattaya!
The entertaining video is still on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv2S7l_QJq8
2009-09-08| genuinej saysLloyd. That sould be “too” good. And you are commenting on spelling!
2009-09-08| Pete saysAhem — “sould” ????
2009-09-08| Spike saysHow delightful.
2009-09-08| genuinej saysSorry. I’m always dropping my h’s.
2009-09-09| Spike saysWell recovered!
2009-09-09| Billy saysYep, humility and humour can work when all else has failed .. goddamit, have even had to use it myself a few times …
2009-09-09| Spike saysHumility? You? Don’t you mean “humiliation”?