12,000,000 souls live in and around Bangkok. Put that many people into a big sauna, crank it up to about 105 humid degrees (thank goodness it's winter), put in a tray of fish and let it sit for 3 or 4 days, add a garbage can that's been sitting in the heat for about a month, drive a blue-smoke-belching two-stroke engine or 2 or 2,000,000 into it for good measure, put in a sewer system running 2" under the sauna sidewalk with ventholes every 18", and then for the hell of it pour in about 100,000 chain-smoking Europeans and Australians that really like their beer...and...that's Bangkok. Well that's the small piece of Bangkok I've seen and undoubtably an unfair, myopic portrayal but I'll leave the cool, peaceful, calm parts of Bangkok to those that have found
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