Andrew65

The UK just reconfirmed having a higher record high temperature than Hong Kong (strange but true).

I actually go to work an hour or so early every day and do 20-30 minutes walking around the supermarket car park to get some exercise. My job actually involves driving, 90% of it, so I have to get some exercise.

I'm only 57. Occasionally I visit my mother's grave. Not too far away are the plots where children, many of them very young are buried. I think to myself how increbibly lucky we have been to reach the age that we have.

Just because he's a regular jogger doesn't necessarily mean he's healthy. He could be a borderline alcoholic, and a smoker, unhealthy diet, for most of his life, and still manage to go for a jog.

To save a bit of money on a Laos visa-on-arrival make sure you have US$ for the visa fee. If you pay in Baht it costs more.

And guns aren't used to kill people by people that don't have guns. Furthermore, I've long thought that the average person is too careless and irresponsible to own firearms.

I agree, and I've never been into illicit drugs. The "war on drugs" has been lost. Time for a different approach.

The last time I did one it was 1800 Baht. Qualified? I lived in Bangkok for 20 years.

They would have worked out how much revenue they raise from issuing visas or extensions (1800 Baht for an extension), a way of 'self-financing' embassies and the immigration dept, also a job creation scheme at the immigration dept. Have you ever noticed how many people work at the Laksi immigration office, if they gave people 90 days on arrival many of those people would have nothing to do.

One problem being I think, in the UK anyway, is that people have been turning on the TV to see scenes of people queueing out of the doors of airports for several hours, mass-flight cancellations, and thought they would leave flying abroad on holiday until next year. Another thing being that airfares have risen considerably. I just looked at the Eva Air flight from LHR to BKK rtn, you're now looking at £850, pre-pandemic it was £550.

He must have been taking time off extorting money from tourists for discarding fag ends, which I thought was the main function of the TP.

That would have about as much effect as telling the sun not to rise in the morning!???? (Some of them would be the same kinds of idiots who turn British town centers into war zones on Saturday nights, mainly because they can't handle booze).

I'm not looking for any relationships, also no kids or grandkids.

I've done both. I had a few girlfriends in Thailand who weren't hookers. I went off going with bar girls in my later years in Thailand, for various reason. I'm 57 and have spent the last 4 years living in the UK, having returned from Thailand. What are the chances of me getting a young, slim, attractive woman here? Zero.

All men pay for sex, it's just that some aren't man enough to admit it.

I used to sit out the front of Tilac Bar, sometimes watch the Football there too. In the years when I did mess around I would often bar fine a girl at 9pm, and then go around the other bars getting sozzled till 11pm. Then get the girl and go home, way too drunk. I often thought that I was the guy who all the girls wanted to sleep with, cos that's all they had to do.????

I know someone who does it. One thing being, it means 4 trips a year to Pattaya, when if you're doing it the legit way you can do your 90 day reports by mail, as I did for a few years. (I'm now living back in the UK).

It's funny that you mention 20,000 Baht, that's around how much it costs to get the retirement visa without having the requisite 400,000/800,000 Baht in the bank,

I know about roid-rage, but booze is as bad with some guys. I had an old friend in Bangkok many years ago who I used to drink with at the hotel that we stopped at. By the time he was finishing his second large bottle of Chang he had changed from quite a nice guy into a not nice guy. If there were people sat a few tables away he would start loudly talking bad things about them, so that they could hear. Another mutual friend there used to refuse to go out drinking with him. This guy also used to like Pattaya.

Me too. I thought it only applied to take-away sales from 7-11's. Mainly to prevent kids from buying booze.

An observation after many years of TM6's. Female immigration officers tend to staple it inside your passport, male IO's tend not to. (A few times over the years people lost this, and probably why).

RIP. When I was a kid motorbikes were known as 'death-traps'. I knew quite a few guys who died on, or very shorthly after they'd been on motorbikes.

Apparently, in ancient China, a senoir local official was known as a Mandarin. This was an unpaid position, but anyone wanting something approved by the Mandarin was expected to give him a 'present'.

Many years ago a police General died. His wife and mia-noi were fighting like rats in a sack over his $100 million fortune. At that time his only income during his lifetime was a salary of around US$25,000. He was 'unusually wealthy'.

They think that by changing leader they'll have a better chance at the next general election, the only thing being, at the next GE there'll be no Jeremy Corbyn, and no Brexit to help them. They're forecast to lose 30 seats when the 'Red Wall' collapses.