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Found good news

https://www.gov.uk/government/world-location-news/are-you-intending-to-transit-via-the-uk

General changes to the Transit Rules

There is no change for airside transit (where you do not enter the UK through border control). You will still not need a visa to transit the UK.

To transit landside through the UK from 1 December you will need to either:

Apply for a visitor in transit visa www.gov.uk/transit-visa

Or

Fulfill all the following criteria:

• you arrive and depart by air
• have a confirmed onward flight which leaves by 23.59hrs the following day
• have the right documents for your destination (e.g. a visa for that country)

I have been looking on the gov.uk/  website looking for details on a Transit visa through Heathrow, but I am always directed towards Visa4UK service website to sign up and apply.

The online application is a nightmare, with a full application that requires to be filled out, pay 84 dollars. Visit the office in BKK with supporting info, then await a decision ( I think)

Here is the scenario

My wife and I are travelling to Ireland next month from Thailand

She is Thai and has a visa for Ireland (Join Spouse)

I am Irish.

We are landing in Heathrow Terminal 4, going to Terminal 1 then flying to Ireland. Total time in Heathrow is 1.5 hours

Can someone please advise if there is an easier way to go through the UK airport, than the long winded procedure that I am constantly routed to when trying to find an easy way online.

Any help much appreciated. At this stage i am contemplating booking another more expensive route that by passes the UK

She needs to apply online at the INIS website

http://www.inis.gov.ie/en/INIS/Pages/Irish%20Visa%20Information

Is the 3 months notice a written contractual obligation that applies equally to employer and employee ?

Is such an arrangement, to use different words , an open ended contract?

The 3 months works both ways...no one writing a contract will ever use the term "open ended" given in most cases in Thailand the WP is a 12 month duration, yes i know you also get a 2 year WP...but typically the duration of your contract is tied to the duration of your WP, simply because if your WP renewal is declined for some reason, the company could leave thrmselves open to a claim stating an "open ended" contract

In case of the OP he is being paid monthly so a month notice period is appropriate whether the contract term is "open ended" or "fixed"

OK. I understand!

Thanks

Let me just say I would never accept a contract which did not have every i dotted and t crossed but it seems some do.

I'd be suspicious if the contract was hand written and not typed.

“I rushed to the AOT staff at the x-ray point"

"I quickly told the Thai Smile ground staff about the loss"

"Mr Tantai said upon his return, he went straight to the Tourism Assisstance Centre.The staff there said they couldn̕t help and told him to go to the police."

“There was a policeman on duty, but he said he couldn't take a report,” said Mr Tantai"

Maybe he should have went to Subway and asked if it was handed in, or found by a staff member ?

I think when it comes to forces apart from googling where as the SAS are always at number 1, I would have the forces in this order:

1. SAS

2. SBS

3. Royal Marines

4. Paratroopers

5. US Navy feelers

Logics dictates that the seals are better, If the SAS was better why let the US rescue Brits. It was Team Six, not the SAS, which was chosen to try to res- cue British aid worker Linda Norgrove in Afghanistan in 2010.

Other logic also makes it clear why the seals would be better as the SAS.. of course the Brits would never admit it but there is just a far lager pool of able bodies to select from. (USA being a lot bigger). Why do you think big countries usually win the Olympics and small countries only rarely.. not because the big countries are that much better but because of the pool of able bodies to select from. Not to mention the USA has far more financial strength and technological aid.

But hey keep the flag waving going without logic or reason, and no I am not American, I am Dutch.. but they say I hate Americans here on the board because i dared to comment on their extradition laws. So here is a third party unbias who gives some logic please counter it with logic and not flag waving.

It's a well known fact the SAS are number 1. Even every American soldier served with them would admit that. If you Google also you will find they come up as number 1 in every search. The training involved to get into the SAS is horrendous and about a year ago three people died during training. The SAS Success rate is also a key factor them being the number 1 special forces in the world.

They ran away and abandoned their mission in Operation Mikado

The biggest laugh might be the police raid looking for work permits

JingTing

Then I'd go and verbally abuse all the Baht Bus drivers, then run and hide for the rest of the day.

We'd get months of interesting stories from Jingting on his escapades and run ins with all the drivers

Are you the teerak you are talking about?

no she is tilak me ATM hansum man from Perth

Perth in Scotland ??

Unfinished bus shelter

The Friedrich Ebert Foundation -- which has ties to Germany's Social Democratic Party -- describes itself as an organisation promoting "the ideas and principles of social democracy".

Should the press, all press, not be neutral in all matters and not support any particular side in anything, but go about reporting in an unbiased manner ?

Moral of the story, don't try and take a right turn at 65 mph

Had a nice day Took the daughter to feed the ducks at the river. Nice to have a day off and spend it with the family.

I know ye are known as the land down under, but do ye do everything upsidedown

I take ducks to feed my daughter

I'm American. Like I said the vast majority (over 90 percent) of American boys of my generation were circumcised because that was the standard medical practice then. Nothing to do with religion except for a very small segment of the population. Now it is being questioned more, Latinos generally don't cut for cultural reasons, but still quite widespread, and still perfectly OK to do according to the U.S. medical authorities. It is not considered mutilation. It's considered an optional medical procedure for babies and sometimes a medically required one for older males. There are pros and cons of cutting, yes there is some surgical risk but overall a very low risk procedure. The argument that if there is any risk it should never be done is bogus considering there are documented benefits to doing it.

The American medical establishment policy here is relevant to this thread as it's a story about a case of circumcision controversy there.

To wit:

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/news/news/2011-11-15-ama-adopts-new-policies.page

Stop Legal Prohibition of Male Circumcision

Ballot and other legal initiatives have recently been proposed in California that would ban infant male circumcision and penalize any physician who performed it. The AMA voted today to oppose any attempt to legally prohibit male infant circumcision.

"There is strong evidence documenting the health benefits of male circumcision, and it is a low-risk procedure, said Peter W. Carmel, M.D., AMA president. "Today the AMA again made it clear that it will oppose any attempts to intrude into legitimate medical practice and the informed choices of patients."

Is that the same American medical establishment who decided that Lobotomies were a valid procedure for people with mental illness ?

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/03/21/the-surprising-history-of-the-lobotomy/

In 1936, psychiatrist Walter Freeman and another neurosurgeon performed the first U.S. prefrontal lobotomy on a Kansas housewife. (Freeman renamed it “lobotomy.”)

Freeman believed that an overload of emotions led to mental illness and “that cutting certain nerves in the brain could eliminate excess emotion and stabilize a personality,” according to a National Public Radio article.

He wanted to find a more efficient way to perform the procedure without drilling into a person’s head like Moniz did. So he created the 10-minute transorbital lobotomy (known as the “ice-pick” lobotomy), which was first performed at his Washington, D.C. office on January 17, 1946.

(Freeman would go on to perform about 2,500 lobotomies. Known as a showman, he once performed 25 lobotomies in one day. To shock his audiences, he also liked to insert picks in both eyes simultaneously.)

People who do it for religious reasons, are they saying God made a mistake in his creation of man and it's up to mere humans to fix his mistake ?

It's the brain dead mentality of western people, whose conditioning makes it incapable for them to look outside the box.

These shrines work similarly to accident black spot signs that we have in the west.

If a Thai is driving at a fast speed on a stretch of road and sees one of these shrines, then they are more likely to slow down and thus reduce accidents in this area.

Get it now?

Yet the same locations continue to claim lives.

Do YOU get it now?

As do accident black spots in the West

A group of farang was found doing a workout [at a temple], supposedly yoga. They spread their arms and legs while their friends were taking photos. This was done in public view of both locals and tourists," the caption said. Common temple etiquette requires visitors to remain calm, and act in a composed manner"

Boo hoo hoo

If they are doing something wrong then say so to their face instead of this cowardly, chicken crud online BS outrage campaign.

Say you on an Internet forum 555

Lets see: Whose picture did I publish to name and shame…oh, look no one.

If I saw someone doing something that I found offensive I would tell them.

Get me in contact with the knob head who started this campaign and I tell them what I think about their behaviour.

Remember the guy from the BTS who had a hole in his shoe, yet was vilified on the forums for having a camera shoe.

Netziens and their online outrage, make me want to puke.

Confrontation is not appropriate behaviour at a temple.

Why don't you go and get yourself in contact with the person that started the campaign. It's pointless sitting behind your keyboard, doing this and doing that, but in reality doing nothing.

"Common temple etiquette requires visitors to remain calm, and act in a composed manner""

I wonder whether that is all the expats who have suddenly disappeared from BKK over the past week. If so then your mini-boom will end on Sunday tailing off fully 6 days later. We'll see.

Impossible, everyone knows that the high class expats found in BKK would never go to a place like Pattaya

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The beauty of the USA is I can say anything about the government I want to say without fear of reprisal. I have freedom of speech.

On this forum I can't say what I want to say about who I want to say it.

So the topic is open to USA bashing without the opportunity to explain WHY.

So let's bash the USA and ignore what's happening in Thailand.

I have quoted you when replying to your posts. On my initial post in this train I did not quote anyone as my reply was not aimed at you, there were numerous posters that complained of America hating/bashing etc, not just you.

I think it incorrect for America or Wales or any other country to go and speak negatively about another country and try to tell that country what it should and shouldn't do.

If Wales had spoken likewise and there was a topic on Thai visa, then I would also say they were incorrect in their views. If a Welsh poster agreed with the view that Wales was entitled to slate another country and took exception to anyone saying Wales was not then accused them of Wales bashing, then I would also get the impression that they were using double standards.

You wrote, "Why is it that when America speak negatively about Thailand or any other country it is seen as acceptable, but when anyone speaks negatively about America is it "America Bashing" or "America Hating"

Seems as though a lot of Americans on this thread operate a double standard.

Please provide one example.

You wrote, "I think it incorrect for America or Wales or any other country to go and speak negatively about another country and try to tell that country what it should and shouldn't do." This is obviously wrong as there have been many cases of massive human rights violations that all civilized countries of the world are bound to point out. Would you accept the Holocaust again and have other nations remain silent?

Third post in the topic, quoted above, even before anyone disagreed with the USA statement

I think that if a minority in any country is subjected to mass brutality, then other countries should do what they can to extricate these people from that country if they wish to leave and give them a home in their country. Condemning these kinds of actions with words is meaningless waffle.

On WW2, at no time did any of the countries go to war with Germany to protect the Jews or other minorities that were being massacred, this was only added as a reason long after the war finished by people that like to re write history.

There have been many Holocausts throughout history and right up to modern times that have gone unspoken about and ignore, because it was countries of the so called free world that were committing them.

Why do they bother then writing the names of the streets in english ? Why does dtac ais 7/11 etc bother to do english marketing? Lol

So that tourists don't continuously bother the locals by asking them for directions in a language the locals don't understand.

Why is it that when America speak negatively about Thailand or any other country it is seen as acceptable, but when anyone speaks negatively about America is it "America Bashing" or "America Hating"

Seems as though a lot of Americans on this thread operate a double standard.

You are not telling the truth. If you are and I'm wrong then use the quote function instead of general flames against one country or another. Unless you do that the only double standard will continue to be where it is now "in your mind."

You're American. I'm neither Thai nor American. You are biased in favour of America because you are American. I have no axe to grind with America/Americans or anyone else.

Why do you get upset when someone speaks negatively about America, but feel it's acceptable for America to speak negatively about other countries ?

Because you are not telling the truth. I asked a simple question, "If you are and I'm wrong then use the quote function instead of general flames against one country or another. Unless you do that the only double standard will continue to be where it is now "in your mind."

For example (not true just an example). Why is it that when Wales speak negatively about Thailand or any other country it is seen as acceptable, but when anyone speaks negatively about Wales is it "Wales Bashing" or "Wales Hating"

The first thing anyone would ask is where? When? Use the quote function.

You wrote, "Why is it that when America speak negatively about Thailand or any other country it is seen as acceptable." That's a lie. This whole thread is testament to the fact that most of the posters on Thai Visa want America to mind its own business right or wrong.

I have quoted you when replying to your posts. On my initial post in this train I did not quote anyone as my reply was not aimed at you, there were numerous posters that complained of America hating/bashing etc, not just you.

I think it incorrect for America or Wales or any other country to go and speak negatively about another country and try to tell that country what it should and shouldn't do.

If Wales had spoken likewise and there was a topic on Thai visa, then I would also say they were incorrect in their views. If a Welsh poster agreed with the view that Wales was entitled to slate another country and took exception to anyone saying Wales was not then accused them of Wales bashing, then I would also get the impression that they were using double standards.