A 'wetter than thou' attitude
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Jirayu "Jo" Wattanasin waded out of his submerged neighbourhood next to the Prapa Canal on the weekend to attend a flood fund-raiser at Siam Paragon.
It was a chance to hear – live and in person – one of Twitter’s greatest critics of water mismanagement.
“Had they let the water flow naturally there wouldn’t have been any fighting at the flood barriers,” he said, while advising everyone to remember who was who in the Great Soak of 2011. Some politicians will be boasting that they protected their home turf.
Jo proposed a “reconciliation” plan of sorts. People who stayed nice and dry on the happy side of the “big bag” barrier should give Bt5,000 to those who’ve grown fins on the moist side.
“I think it’s fair. Those people have to fix their houses now, but you don’t!”
First(-class) aid
Neurosurgeon Prompong Peerabul kept right on visiting his patients at inundated Vibhavadi Hospital, getting there by train instead of car, and we don’t mean the bullet train in the sky.
The good doctor rode the Bangkok-Don Muang snail line, got off at Bang Kaen and hiked across a flyover.
The floodwater has receded at the hospital, but for those still in need, Prompong has established temporary clinics at Mo Chit Skytrain station, IT square, The Mall Ngam Wong Wan and the Directorate of Operations on Kaset Navamin Road. Service is free, 10am to 5pm.
Nor is Prompong charging outpatients at Vibhavadi anything.
Knuckleheads
Former House Speaker Chai Chidchob wasn’t around to goose along Sunday’s censure debate with his wit, but there were still some memorable lines.
Charoen Chankomol was in charge and told one MP to sit down because he wasn’t making sense. The MP said he should be allowed to finish before the chairman interrupts.
Even better was when Udon Thani MP Kiat-udom Maenasawat announced that he was “protesting the MP who is going to protest”. Charoen couldn’t resist: “How do you know he’s going to protest?”
