THIS WOMAN LOOKS LIKE SHE DOES
The great thing about Thailand is the consistency. There isn’t any. So people who were surprised by the arrest of Canadian-Hong Kong journalist Anthony Kwan for carrying a helmet and flak jacket will of course not be surprised by this picture of a woman jokingly taking an axe to her head in a brand new military’ surplus store in Pattaya.
These stores tend to multiply in Third World countries after military coups.
Bayonets, axes, knives and helmets are on offer to the public, says the narrator of the Pattaya People video who, I believe I might have already mentioned, sounds exactly like the late Cyril Fletcher, a well know British gardener and actor and creator of the ‘Odd Ode’ on the former ‘That’s Life’ consumer programme.
All this stuff comes ‘fresh from the warehouses’ of NATO’ goes the monologue.
Though those bayonets look rather ancient.
I happened across the ad when I was perusing the Pattaya People to see what celebrities attended what the Pattaya People described as the wedding of the year.
That may of course be because it was the wedding of Pattaya People boss Niels Colov, our famous former Copenhagen pimp who also became head of the Pattaya Police volunteers, chairman of Rotary and possible the most decorated foreigner in Thailand.
Unfortunately I cannot give you Cyril reciting one of his odd odes but I can give you an edition of ‘Not the Nine O’clock News’ where at 3 minutes or so there is a good mickey take.