Thaiger Talk Quiz #299 - The Boxing Day Tsunami

[BigHewer]

Quiz #299 - Boxing Day 2024 marks 20 years since one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history.

Answers follow...

[rattlesnake]

3/5.

I lived in Phuket in 2011/2012. An establishment I occasionally frequented was called "Tsunami Massage", in Patong. It had a sign depicting a cartoonish guy running away from a giant wave. Thai humour and spirit…

[SnapDragon]

I am rubbish. Just one.

Sad at the mo. Waiting for the full moon to cheer me up.

[BigHewer]

  On 12/26/2024 at 8:18 PM, rattlesnake said:

3/5.

I lived in Phuket in 2011/2012. An establishment I occasionally frequented was called "Tsunami Massage", in Patong. It had a sign depicting a cartoonish guy running away from a giant wave. Thai humour and spirit…

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I was there on a work stay in 2005 around March / April.

Walking along Kata Beach, one wave came up a few meters further than the others, beach vendors scatter, howls of laughter, splashing and shrieks of “tsunami”. I thought it was a bit too soon for humor, but they would know better than me.

[Grumpish]

4/5

I probably would have been there at the time if I hadn't broken my leg in a motorcycle accident a couple of months before (a London cabbie u-turned in front of me while signaling that he was pulling over). 

[NonThaiKiwi]

Just the 2 correct this time.  Hard to believe 20 years has passed. 

With all the technology about, one can never predict or control the forces of mother nature. 

Earthquakes, volcanoes and fierce/strong/bad weather... So much power can be unleashed and there is bugger all us meer humans can do about it. 

It may make us stop and think for a while... meanwhile the earth keeps revolving as it always has, and probably always will unless some idiots decide to push their big red buttons. 

But nature is a bigger power and will continue to remind us on occasion. Some will take notice. 

Another good quiz Big H. Keep em coming!