Texpat

The £5.50 increase reflects a new Manners and Ettiquette Class that accompanies each new passport and renewal.

How often do passengers have serious medical emergencies on flights? Not very often.

Require all flight attendants be registered nurses? Bit overkill ain't it?

Perhaps they should have a few certified astronauts on board each flight in case the plane jets out of the atmosphere -- you know ... just in case.

I've sanded off my fingerprints and hologrammed my face -- just in case.

If you think the cardkey is the only place the hotel stores your personal information, you're sadly mistaken.

Any rogue employee can access your info on the hotel's computer.

If it's a KSR backpacker hotel without a computer, the liklihood of them having cardkeys is remote.

Not that surprising considering how many airline maintenance workers are offered reduced fare or free flights.

I've been on at least a dozen flights where onboard MX personnel have made last minute fixes. Most very minor. Some not.

The Frogs will find a way to disqualify him.

Wrong color shoes.

Forgot to stand at attention during the national anthem.

Didn't shave on day 28.

I can't see a photo.

That's me out.

Why do so many TD posters find it necessary to pick a side?

Seems almost everyone either LOVES Thais and Thailand or thinks it's a garbage heap.

The truth is in the middle and you waste your time and energy trying to convince each other.

he may find a greater degree of sympathy in his home country.

You mean almost an entire nation of excuse-making bleeding hearts that will pardon just about anything.

Adults deal in actions and consequences.

My advice is that he grow up before travelling abroad.

And didn't cry like a little girl like Fed usually does.

Actually Roddick broke Federer twice and Fed only broke Roddick once.

Tennis has become a one-dimmensional, boring, repetitious replay. Serve big and trot along the baseline. It's all any of them do anymore.

Wish he would have kept swimming ... to Tahiti.

Scummy scum.

Who goes out drinking when they don't have money?

I wouldn't trust the results of a Thai necropsy.

You're as likely to be told what they think you'd prefer to hear as the actual results -- assuming they even open the dog.

He can sign up with a US service until his eligibility for Thai service expires.

Who knows, he might make a career of it, retire to Thailand and employ some of those Thai generals as pool boys and gardenerers.

US Embassy always very thorough and courteous.

They won't translate your documents? Last I checked they were an Embassy, not a translation service.

Do you throw a fit when MK can't serve you a burrito and a cerveza?

If any one religion proves to be correct and only its followers recah the promised land -- that means the vast majority of the planet's population is doomed to eternal damnation.

Highly unlikely.

Christians can do almost anything if they say sorry.

Buddhists can do anything if they don't mind being a dung beetle next life.

I can't. Maybe you can, but I can't. Car, UBC, elec, phone, Internet -- that's $400 gone already and I need a house and I'm still hungry.

In Bangkok it would be more like $2,000. Upcountry $1,500. And that doesn't include any savings or take into account any emergencies.

I like going out to a nice restaurant with my wife.

Enjoying delicious food and good conversation.

While driving home a Krungthep Fortuner almost wipes us off the road.

I really smile when I see the same Fortuner upside down and on fire in the ditch a few cliks up the road.

And my dog. My dog makes me smile every morning when I come downstairs and she's waiting for me.

I presume you mean diaper.

How was the Pom identified? He was naked, right? Someone evidently was close enough to see the wee evidence.

That's a tax issue, not based on the color of your skin.

It amazes me what some people consider living.

There's a big difference between living and surviving.

If you try to find happyness [sic] in less, you can find it.

No thanks. I couldn't be happy living such a frugal, miserable life.

Thirty bucks a month for a place to live in Chiang Mai? I can only imagine.

barbarians

It amazes me what some people consider living.

There's a big difference between living and surviving.

Thai constitution?

That's a joke, right?

Changed more often than my underwear.

CNN and BBC reporters are biased stooges. Their opinionated reporting is as transparent as FOX.

The best reports are from ABC (Oz) and CCTV (China).

Lawns are prettier than dirt, but require work to maintain.

Dirt it is.