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For me, the memory is of taking month-long holidays on the island of Corfu with my family, when I was about 11 years old. My father was a university professor, and so benefited from long summer holidays. Each July, we would pack our suitcases (my parents and 2 brothers), and travel by train from our home in Leicester to St Pancras station in north London. Then a taxi across the capital city to Victoria station ,where we could catch the 'boat train' to Dover. Across to Calais on the ferry and another train to Gare du Nord station in Paris. Then across Paris and we boarded the night train that ran all the way from Paris and down to Brindisi in southern Italy. We slept as the train traveled through south France and Switzerland, and then woke up in sunny Italy by the lakes. That whole next day was spent traveling down Italy, close to the coast, looking out of the window all the way at the sights. Finally in the late evening, we arrived in Brindisi and boarded the 'Apia' ship to cross the Adriatic to Corfu island, where we arrived the next morning. Then it was into a small boat to sail along the coast to the pretty village of Kassiopi, where we lodged with a local family. Every day, we would walk to the beach. My father would sit on the beach, marking his student exam papers and swigging Retsina! (I think everyone got a good pass mark because my father was definitely tipsy after marking 50 papers!). I would swim in the clear sea, marveling at the coral and brightly coloured fish. For a young boy with an interest in nature, the various centipedes and 'bugs' on the land fascinated me. Each evening, we would eat in a local taverna (there were very few if any other tourists). The taverna staff would play live Greek music and encourage us to join in with their traditional dances, just like Zorba the Greek! Those wonderful memories are ingrained in my memory, and for this reason I love the music of Mikis Theodorakis and similar music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYQGlBqIrQg&list=RD23VZDS36c7k&index=5 If there is one thing that I want to do before I die, it is to return to visit Greece and to smell the fragrance of the flowers and hear this beautiful music in situ. (In reality, it's probably a tourist ghetto strewn with trash!!). How about you?

Now I know where 'anus rings' come from....

A very minor point, but some posters seem to assume that he is a pedo. I may have missed this, but I can't see anywhere in the report that he committed his offences against kids, (and usually that is mentioned in pedo reports). He could have been raping 80 year old grannies in Australia,

I had: hot green tea home-made Kefir milk muesli watermelon

[quote] ... Also a gold band was within 5% tolerance, silver within 10% and no colour was within 20% tolerance. Totally useless nowadays. ... [/quote] Bill, as an 'old skool' shortwave radio ham, I use the resistor colour code almost everyday 🙂

No problem, but completely wrong lol 🙂 . Resistors in parallel always have a combined value that is less than the value of the lowest-value resistor. So 100 and 250 ohms in parallel will have a total value less than 100 ohms. Anyway, this is not a Physics class! Perhaps Bob (I mean Barboy) could remind us of some of the topics from his BSEE course, since his lecturers seem to have forgotten to teach basic resistor circuit theory 🙂

Every time! (But both dogs and humans think I'm crazy!)

I avoid dog attacks by chasing them... True, if an aggressive dog comes towards me then I run straight at it screaming blue murder, and continue to chase it as far as I can (I have been known to chase dogs right into their owner's house, and I once chased an aggressive dog for more than 2Km!). The dogs are completely scared witless by this rather surprising behaviour. Because of this, I find that aggressive dogs leave me well alone after the first encounter, and Thai people have a habit of running into their houses and locking their doors! Anyway, I have yet to be bitten, but it does take some courage to chase an aggressive dog....

Lol, not sure why he didn't give the answer, since it was a simple series/parallel resistance calculation that even a first year electronics student could calculate. Anyway, a quick calculation gives about 198.7 ohms and so using I=V/R, we get a current of about 0.12A (hope I haven't made any maths errors!!) But I'm sure you didn't know the answer, did you Bob?

You haven't replied to my simple electronics question yet....

Congratulations on graduating with a major in electronics. Please tell me the total resistance of this circuit and the current:

When I started teaching in Burma around 2012, I found that the best hotel in Yangon (Trader's Hotel), was fully booked up by staff from Oxfam, Save The Children etc,who would occasionally pop out in their brand new, 4-wheel drive off-road landrovers to visit the local markets. In disgust, and unwilling to donate any money to them I established my own (miniscule) educational charity in Burma, where every penny/cent/yen etc is used for the benefit of young students).

[quote] what can i do? [/quote] What can you do?? You can go and troll some other forum! Another (no probably the same) shill from Thaiger and I'm getting sick of it!!

Rocket scientist.... Seriously, I worked in the space industry as a designer and also integrations manager/testing of radio frequency (RF) equipments and antennas, especially for space-borne satellites, but also for ground stations. These were mostly commercial and scientific satellites. When ill-health forced me to move to a warmer climate than the UK, it was no surprise that there were no jobs for me in the space sector. (Well there was, but as a non-Thai I was barred from these jobs). So I started building and running small hotels instead. I did that for about 14 years, then moved into the teaching sector, mostly in Myanmar and Laos, but now solely online, teaching Science, English, Geography, World History, Thai language and Computing/STEM.

In answer to your question about other countries, I took a brand new bike that I bought in Thailand on the plane to Myanmar and no problems with Myanmar customs.

It's great to be poor. I never have to worry about paying tax ANYWHERE! (and I have not paid tax in any country for more than 22 years because I legally haven't had to pay tax!). 5 flags theory etc... Anyway, I'm off to do some more street-begging. Have a nice day 🙂

I never iron, nor indeed need to iron my clothes. They are all non-crease...

Does he have a valid work permit? 'Fight fire with fire'

When I wrote my SMS AI chat app way back around the year 2,000, I deliberately put spelling mistakes and slang in the replies to fool people into thinking that they were chatting with a real person. You know, something like "Cor luv a duck, you're a rite one ain't you?" 🙂

Well, they did shoot out the tyres, but that didn't stop the driver...

What's a gender neutral partner? Is that some kind of sex doll or mechanical sex gadget?

I bet the filth had a challenge to pronounce his name 🙂 Probably booked him under the name "Mr Ky". Seem that Phangan is having a real crackdown on the 'illegals'. Many reports of foreigners falling foul of the law.

A telltale sign that you have been living in Thailand too long, is when your reaction to the position of this pole is 'Huh? So what?!' 🙂

I bought a licence key for Windows 10 from Microsoft. It didn't work! It displayed a message telling me to completely re-install Windows 10 OS, AND THEN my licence key would work.....

Same here! I bought my laptop in Laos and (as usual), it had a pirated copy of Windows 10, which always displayed the 'activate now' text. So I bought a genuine licence key for about $30. It didn't work!! I just followed this hack and now my Windows 10 is activated 🙂