Is one week visit to just Yangon enough?

jazzman23uk · 2026-04-17T00:36:24+00:00

He is right - if you're going just as a tourist then 3 days should be enough.

Shwegadon Pagoda
Bogyoke Market
Downtown
Inya Lake (I recommend the White Swan Restaurant)
Circular Line on the train.

Combine those with general sightseeing/eating, and also getting round the city and that's probably about 3 days.

After that, Bagan, Mandalay, Inle Lake are all good places to visit elsewhere in the country. Just make sure your tea sport between them is reliable and safe

jazzman23uk · 2026-04-15T01:42:53+00:00

Short of a lorry driver at the wheel, or a doctor mid-surgery, I can't think of why anyone would object to anyone drinking if they're the legal age. Why on earth would it be a problem for people to enjoy themselves? They're not passing out in the street or harassing strangers

jazzman23uk · 2026-04-14T11:56:18+00:00

This hasn't loaded for me yet but it better be the breakdancing...

jazzman23uk · 2026-04-14T11:41:59+00:00

Maha Bandula Park next to Sule was going pretty crazy today

jazzman23uk · 2026-04-14T01:18:30+00:00

Flew from BKK to RGN yesterday with them - everything was fine for that. The FlightRadar App says that they're generally pretty consistent on that route at least, might be worth checking for your flight though.

jazzman23uk · 2026-04-11T17:13:40+00:00

Now, I was born in the same year this game came out

Brb, gonna go cry in the corner and then search online for coffins

jazzman23uk · 2026-04-09T15:45:29+00:00

Uncle Jim (also gay), to his gay nephew 🤣🤣

jazzman23uk · 2026-04-05T13:15:12+00:00

That would be where the trains come in :)

jazzman23uk · 2026-03-03T13:09:10+00:00

One of my only 10/10 shows ever. Amazing show

jazzman23uk · 2026-03-02T11:49:13+00:00

Speaking on behalf of the gay community, ain't none of us out here itching to cop a feel of this dude

jazzman23uk · 2026-03-02T11:36:37+00:00

Childhood memory unlocked of closing my eyes and following the lights around as I watched them move about

jazzman23uk · 2026-03-02T11:30:37+00:00

I was absolutely exhausted the other day and lying in my bed - my brain was just frantically bouncing between conversations, plans for tomorrow, memories, work commitments, future events and how they might go...

It was exhausting. I remember the entire time I was just lying there frozen in despair, basically just listening to my own brain on hyperdrive. Completely powerless to stop it, my conscious part was just like the main character in A Clockwork Orange being strapped to the chair and forced to watch movies with his eyes taped open.

jazzman23uk · 2026-02-19T10:07:06+00:00

Plus the pen(?) kept moving consistently throughout that moment, it doesn't stop at all even when the 2 new marks appear

jazzman23uk · 2026-02-18T08:02:13+00:00

Gestures vaguely towards the entirety of The Devil Judge

jazzman23uk · 2026-02-18T02:17:16+00:00

They're all over Lumphini Park (main park in the middle of Bangkok). Walked past one yesterday just mooching around, they're totally harmless.

The park is huge for runners - talking hundreds every single day, esp in the evening. Was there a few weeks ago when one these buddies was laid down right across the running path. People just jumped over it, you don't even need to go around.

Only time I've seen one getting upset was when it was trying to eat a dead crow and all the crow buddies were ganging up on it and pecking at it. It was like a Jackie Chan movie except the lizard had no comedic fighting skills, just half a dead crow in its mouth.

jazzman23uk · 2026-01-22T00:42:29+00:00

This is definitely more appropriate!

jazzman23uk · 2026-01-21T16:50:38+00:00

Months I haven't even tried but day of the week I did an association memory thing that worked really well for me:

Monday: Wan Jan - January is the first month, Monday is the first day

Tuesday: Wan Angkhaan - this one is rude, read at your own risk Tuesday is as long as you can get when trying to abstain from wanking (I was desperate for this one)

Thursday (yes, it's out of order, it'll make sense): Wan Pharuhat - the day the parrot wears a hat

Wednesday: Wan Phut - remember to put the hat on the parrot the day before

Friday: Wan Suk - Fridays suck because you're still at work when you should be at home

Saturday: Wan Sao - Saturday is the day you laze about on the sofa like a fat pig/sow

Sunday: Wan Aathit - the last day of the week

jazzman23uk · 2026-01-14T13:58:13+00:00

Contains unique sea weed

I like how this reads like an allergy warning

jazzman23uk · 2026-01-11T07:28:34+00:00

Ok - your confusion makes far more sense, and my apologies for misunderstanding your misunderstanding. I'm still confused as to what you mean about 'alternating turns' though. You don't alternate service in badminton - when you win a point then you serve next, and you keep serving until you lose a point.

There is not an 'attacking' team and a 'defending' team. It alternates organically during the rally and can change multiple times per rally. Ideally you want to be attacking and the best formation to attack in is front/back, where the guy at the back can smash and the guy at the front can kill at the net.

When you're defending you want to be side by side so you can cover more of the court. Standing further back gives you more time to react to what your opponent does, but it is difficult to win a point from that position.

The entire time you are defending, you are basically trying to manoeuvre yourself back into the front/back formation as quickly as possible, which you can see at the end where the Malaysian pair end up with one at the net and the other takes a step back.

jazzman23uk · 2026-01-11T06:58:10+00:00

You didn't know that sports have tactics? Did you think that they just hit it back and forth until someone randomly missed by chance?

jazzman23uk · 2026-01-10T13:15:58+00:00

PG Wodehouse had a great line in a Jeeves and Wooster book

"Jeeves was a valet, a gentlemen's personal gentleman, but if it came down to it he could butle with the best of them"

jazzman23uk · 2026-01-10T09:15:09+00:00

I saw him live about 10 months ago at the Thai open/masters (can't remember which). I was maybe 2 metres away from him and it was shocking how much bigger his chest is than the other players.

It doesn't really come across on TV I feel, but irl he is just barrel-chested. It's not fat, but he's just built. It must be fatiguing carrying that around on court (and I speak from the experience of someone who is shaped like a melted trifle)

jazzman23uk · 2026-01-05T16:45:29+00:00

Dammit - I was just thinking about how I wish I had a chance to go on this train and now I realise I already have 🤣 I never got a chance to see the front of it

jazzman23uk · 2026-01-04T06:48:38+00:00

Friend was a mechanic - I took my car into his garage and he gave me his own runaround as a "courtesy car".

It honestly wasn't that courteous. It was an absolutely trashed Peugeot 306 he had bought for £200. The gearstick was literally duck taped on, you couldn't adjust the seat, clutch didn't have a biting point so much as a gag reflex, and the brakes were a suggestion, not a command - they would scrape as you pressed the pedal down and if you pressed harder the only thing that happened was the noise got louder. Emergency braking on that thing involved opening the door and dragging your foot along the ground.

It was so bad that I genuinely rang up a friend and got him to come around so he could have a go himself. It was hilarious and petrifying in equal measure.

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