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Thank you Doctor Lingba for that technicolor and very interesting presentation.

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D'oh! Is that what the bucket of water is for??!!

Yep that's what i thought.

See? I am learning something from being on TV!

Thanks lb3

I'm at a friends hotel. Theres a customer there with a visa issue.

His 60 day tourist visa is about to expire, with no re-entries

but he wants to stay 35 additional days.

I told him there were at least 3 options

1) do a visa run and get an additional tourist visa (overnight run across the border of his choice)

2) pay the 1900 baht for a 30 day extension and overstay 5 days at 500 baht a day (is that what the overstay charge is?)

and i recall an additional option of an emergency extension of 1 week for various reasons so the option 3 would be

3) pay the 1900 baht for a 30 day, and pay (tbd) for an emergency extension of one week.

So my question is, are the options i laid out correct?

and can someone clarify the process of getting an emergency extension of one week?

OK Maybe i was a bit too flippant.

Watching Cyprus going through its ordeal,

being prudent may be a good thing.

and banks should always be conservative.

Contrary to the popular TV rantings,

TL is one of the nicer asian countries to be in

Note to self

Poke strange rubbish bags, prior to attempted disposal!

Actually, This explains a lot.

Mossfinn, maybe you're right.

"Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor."

That doesn't sound like a "status quo" type of a pope.

OK, i'm an optimist again!

I was incredibly disappointed with the state of TL's wildlife.

(There's a joke involving the sex trade industry in there somewhere! )

The national parks are pretty bad and the oceans are worse.

I cannot express how disappointed i was with the reefs.

I had better time snorkeling in a full wetsuit in California.

So the news does not surprise me at all.

I also don't see a quick solution

Glad to see i'm in like company.

Photo the tags, then step in

Having done this type if thing before,

a lot of time, you just have to break their frenzy.

but like it or not, dangerous or not, i would have stepped in.

One exception, If i had my daughter with me.

I wouldn't leave her side,

but i'd yell, use my car, Honk the horns,

throw something to try to break his frenzy,

but i would not leave my daughters side.

But that's just me.

Another conservative pope. So nothing will change.

Hopefully they will at least do some house cleaning.

We'll have to wait another turn for reform in the catholic church

Wait, let me feel the ground

Yep, cold to the touch

Its Official

HELL FROZE OVER!

Its probably a good idea,

but man would i like to see a business plan.

I'm assuming they've done a feasibility study,

and cost/benefit tradeoffs?

Any tunneling required?

Elevated tracks for flood planes?

Tsunami warning plan for the peninsula tracks?

Why am I suddenly very concerned?

To the people of Saudi Arabia,

Maybe you should let your women drive.

Amen to that!

I read a book a decade or so back called "House of Saud"

The author recalled some of the happenings in SA in the 70's

One account was when the saud family decided that from the oil proceeds

they would give every citizen a car.

So it wasn't uncommon for a Bedouin to ride his camel to the car dealer

and leave with in a car.......... With no DRIVING EXPERIENCE!

Fascinating book if you like nonfiction.

I'd put TL way above that! lol

But every time i'm on the road in TL,

I'm amazed that there aren't more accidents.

The Israelis are using drone wheeled vehicles to monitor the border

http://news.yahoo.com/autonomous-cars-patrol-israeli-border-202028387.html

The age of drones are upon us lol

Personally If I was up for execution,

I'd take a bullet over the gas chamber, or electrocution any day.

I've been drunk to a point where i could not remember what happened after a certain point, walking home ect. Shocking i know! lol, and early 20's was about the age for that sort of thing.

Physical evidence should be able to help shed some light (tissue damage, tearing, ect)

If theres no physical evidence, this is not going to go well for the girl.

Worse for the guys if they are innocent.

But i find it hard to understand why she would make such a claim if she wasn't raped.

And why she went back to his room, if it wasn't for sex.

This entire case is a puzzle.

A death sentence for armed robbery ? Jeez that's a bit harsh.

Yeah. First offence.

No chance of them re offending is there.

Well done Saudi way to go.

If the guy knew it was the penalty for robbery

and the numb-nut went ahead with it anyway

He probably wasn't long for this planet.

Harsh, yep, but it wasnt a secret.

The dude knew, or should have known, what he was getting into.

Prostitution is rife in every nook and cranny in Thailand.

Doesn't embarrass Thai men one iota.

Hmm I need to get out and find me some nooks and crannies

Dude, don't impose your host country's morals and tertiary laws on TL. All your assumptions may not apply.

and if you kept on this path of attention on your GF in the US,

you may have been up for a restraining order in your near future.

She's 32. She can handle it. Can you?

PS, if it was me, i'd be ready to move on soon.

If this is an isolated incident, then its probably ok,

but if shes done or had other odd incidents happen to her.....

the writing is on the wall..... Sorry dude.

Its a slow news day,

And Kobe twisted his ankle so i'm avoiding sports.

So i keep coming back to this topic lol

It seems that the Brit government has tried to get the island back to A's in the past,

but the indigenous population would have none of it.

Also, the indigenous population tried to enter negotiation with the A's and were rejected by the A's.

"Argentina reiterated its position towards the Falklanders in 2012, after a meeting of the UN Decolonization Committee, when its representatives refused to accept a letter from the Falkland Islands offering the opening of direct talks between both governments. Argentina only recognises the UK government as a legitimate partner in negotiations[75][76] and considers the islands, along with South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, as part of the province of Tierra del Fuego.[77]"

The A's cant stop shooting themselves in the foot. If they truly wanted the islands, why didn't they try to win over the population first?

Lastly and interesting timeline in wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_history_of_the_Falkland_Islands

Interesting to be sure but it has the feel of being written with a Brit bias (ya think? lol ). I'd still like to get an A's perspective on the timeline and claims but i cant seem to find any in TV. I'll see if i can find some elsewhere.

These were the A's losses in the last fighting

1 cruiser

1 submarine

4 cargo vessels

2 patrol boats

1 spy trawler

25 helicopters

35 fighters

2 bombers

4 transports

25 COIN aircraft

9 armed trainers

Before they start the next round of fighting, I would suggest they just tally up the cost of the equipment they lost in the last round, and offer it to the inhabitants as a buy out. They could save a lot of lives and really put the conflict to bed.

I wanted to write something funny but i was too busy laughing and clicking "like" buttons!

A "Nicely done" to the posters!

It was a typically British shambles - and no we couldn't do it again. We have no Vulcans or Victors left. We also have no merchant fleet left to commandeer.

"This gripping film tells the humorous yet heroic story of how a crumbling, Cold-War era Vulcan flew the then longest range bombing mission in history and how a WW2 vintage bomb changed the outcome of the Falklands War. On 30th April 1982, the RAF launched a secret mission; to bomb Port Stanley's runway, putting it out of action for Argentine fighter jets. The safety of the British Task Force depended on its success. But the RAF could only get a single Vulcan 8,000 miles south to the Falklands as just one bomber needed an aerial fleet of thirteen Victor tanker planes to refuel it throughout the 16 hour round-trip. From start to finish, the seemingly impossible mission was a comedy of errors, held together by sheer British pluck and ingenuity. On the brink of being scrapped, only three of the ageing nuclear bombers could be fitted out for war, one to fly the mission and two in reserve..."[/size]

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

Thanks for the vid. super low data rate here so had to DL it first lol. I remember seeing the Vulcan in the Bond movie "thunderball" (one of my favorite movies of all time, if nothing else, for the bond girl "Domino" ). I thought then it was the prettiest plane ever. Shame to see it retired. Hopefully someone kept a few flying somewhere.

Back on point, Given the history of the Brits in combat, I'm surprised that the junta actually attempted to take the islands by force back then. Hopefully they have learned their lesson and wont try that again.