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hahahaha,brilliant...i hope the british papers get hold of this.

hilarious.

thoughts on best airline's for accruing and using award miles flying from the UK please...

i know some airlines (i.e thai) offer flights in a certain class with no mileage accrual although some people have said a few of the middle east carriers award miles in every class.

thanks for replies in advance.

example: a foreign father buys a house and puts it in his 14 year old half thai childs name.

query: could the child immediately lease the house back to the father for 30 years or would she have to wait until she's 20?

possible problem: when the child turns 20,it listens to thai mother and signs house over to mother.

additional info: parents were divorced.

possible solution: don't buy,just rent and run.

You definitely want to have a 30 year lease as well, just as a backup protection. As the above poster said, your daughter would be free to give it to her mother at any time. And if you ever get divorced, these things can happen...

The only problem is that she could not countersign the lease -- which presents a bit of a legal problem. You'll need a lawyer to crack that nut. I believe you'll have to get a lease from your wife, and then gift the entire house to your daughter without overriding the lease

the mother and i went through a bitter divorce approx ten years ago,the usual happened...daughter banished to the village for a couple of years,not allowed any contact with her etc,etc so she's got to be kept well out of the equation.

in an ideal world my daughter,in the presence of a lawyer,would lease the house to me,but being as she's only 14 i don't know whether this is possible.

thanks to all the replies on here,you've all given me some idea's...i'm off to find a good lawyer.

i'm thinking of buying a house and putting it in my daughters name,she's half thai.

obviously i want to live in it and when i eventually die she'd be left to do whatever she wants with it.

this is where it gets awkward though...her mother and i split up a long time ago and it's still a case of 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'.

the mother scare's the living daylights out of our daughter(age 14) and i know would try to get her hands on the house.

is their any legal way i could make sure my daughter can only sell the house when i die?.

Who is he?

I thought he was a snooker player

That's Jimmy white you fool and long time pattaya "resident"

i think @soutpeel fell into @pattayaphom's trap.

Who is he?

I thought he was a snooker player

hahaha,like it.

@draftvadar..... 'sadly in the Daily Mail'.....spoken like a true self-loathing left wing tree hugger.

the Daily Mail is,in fact, one of the very few paper's that prints common sense.

Sorry to go slightly off topic but the BBC's Jonathan Head says the BBC had never taken side's.

i sincerely hope he's talking about this situation rather than the totally left-wing biased claptrap they come out with in the UK.

Used to come out with.

Time's have changed

no disrespect but 'used to come out with' and 'time's have changed' is absolute codswallop.

subscribe to the Daily Mail and you'll get daily reports of the BBC's left wing bias.

I thought that her problem on this interview was the language barrier. No one can be blamed for that (my English is also terrible). But I have asked my Thai relatives and friends, and they all say that when she talks in Thai Language she sounds no different than on this interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kqVLGS79mA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttU1a81EkaU

uhh,come again??

can just imagine the reporter walking out of the room shaking his head with a wry smile.

Sorry to go slightly off topic but the BBC's Jonathan Head says the BBC had never taken side's.

i sincerely hope he's talking about this situation rather than the totally left-wing biased claptrap they come out with in the UK.

whats wrong with Lufthansa?

they serve,LHR,BHX and MAN.

quality airline,travelled with them many time's.

24 hours fitness hotel? does that make it one of them short time sexercise hotels?

can feel a 'if you don't like the place,don't go/go home' vibe surfacing....boring.

sorry to go slightly off the OP..

if you had a fair amount of spare thai baht around now,during this uncertainty concerning a possible weakening of the currency,would you.... a, buy sterling with it? or b, buy gold with it?,or c, buy a rice field in isaan with it?

please note,one of the above is a trick question!

Hmmm, a hint of bias in the reporting no? Either the writer is a fan of the other team or a friend of one of the victims. Usually 'absolute neutrality' is given in reporting... you wouldn't hear journalists practically refer to rapists and child molesters as 'the rotten scumbag' after all.

In any case, it's quite obvious why he's going to Thailand. Good chance at totally disappearing from the world -- unfortunately in a way that benefits him, and not society. Doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out what's going to happen: first he gets to Thailand, then find a place that can easily remove or deactivate the tag (those clever Asians), then he'll hop over to Cambodia which will welcome him with open arms. As long as he doesn't do anything stupid in Thailand, then the Thai authorities won't bother to track him down in Cambodia like they do some other people with outstanding warrants in Thailand. Once he's in Cambodia, who could care less?

you make it sound like he's on the run from wormwood scrubs or something similar!

The ticket is still expensive and the service terrible. I find Thai domestic cabin staff far superior. I suspect they have to work up to the long haul international flights and many have been doing it for too long.

Thai is on my list to avoid/

If you want a decent airline try Singapore or Emirates A380 long haul.

i fly thai several times a year LHR-BKK and have found the service very good...the cabin crew are out lively with the drinks and food,and unlike a lot of other airlines,the food is also collected lively and more drink's offered,also throughout the flight they're always walking down the aisle's with soft drinks.

the plane's have been updated and you can also dig out some reasonable fare's if you look around.

apart from the service,the main thing that swings it for me is going to sleep and waking up in bkk without having too change plane's.

Easy for the UK officials to tip off immigration in Thailand, stop him at Bangkok airport, send him back. Everyone's a winner. British courts can say they "gave him his holiday", Thailand said "no". Another waster in Thailand.

Only problem with that is: he would go back home screaming about the UK taking away his holiday human rights,and get a holiday refund,and no doubt a fist full of money in compensation,for hurt feelings.......such is the European Court of Human Rights!

yes,it is possible that he will start screaming about his human rights,but what you're forgetting here is...you'll never win a human rights case in england unless you're a terrorist,mass murderer,somali who doesn't want to get deported because he's grown so close to his cat,or some other kind of loony things!

whilst i certainly don't condone thuggery,maybe this lad has realised after the sentence he received that he's got too start behaving.

he's getting a right slating in the above story,and rightly if he has given someone a 'good kicking',but i think you'll find pattaya houses criminal's who've commited crimes far worse than his.

can just picture the scene if they'd been drinking cheap thai whiskey..bottle's over heads,stabbing's and a few gun's fired into the air....ah,all in the spirit of a good night out with thai's involved.

When someone starts to spray police station with bullets, it might be time to start taking things very very seriously.

If this wasn't a drunk cop, but some crims then the cops WILL take it seriously AND they will set an example!!!

don't hold your breath!!

but who would trust a bank nowadays?

In the context of this thread that is a monumentally stupid reply.

o.k,it wasn't the funniest of comment's,but anyone with a light-hearted comment or anything resembling a teeny weeny controversial comment seem to get castigated on this forum.

the amount of post's removed is beyond the joke nowadays,

yes,yes..i'm waiting for it..if you don't like it....

but who would trust a bank nowadays?

try l'arginine 500mg about half hour before you're ready for bed.

it was recommended by jenson button and confirmed by yours truly.

as for travelling through dubai with valium or xanax...only do it if you fancy a mandatory four years in a UAE monkey house.

can only end in tears....sorry,just a joke,couldn't resist it.