Matt K

No one is going to spend the vacation time, quarantine, and money to fly halfway around the world & not be able to drink & party. If that’s Thailand’s intent, remain closed until you’re hungry enough to reopen everything, unrestricted. I’ll be spending my money elsewhere, as will the majority of people who would potentially visit Thailand. It’s got to be said.

All I can say is, Dream On!!!

If they’re serious about it, better start recruiting heavily from countries who actually have a space program, while refocusing their efforts on science & education. Not happening in my lifetime...

Bwahahaha! He’s SERIOUS?!

Stupid stupid decision...

10 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Others should not be made to suffer for your size.

I should not be made to suffer due to others lack of size either. Fair is fair.

I wholeheartedly disagree with penalizing a large frame person for something they cannot control. Discrimination based on size is still discrimination. It’s not my fault that I’m 6’5” tall, and have a large frame. That’s genetics. Even when I was single & a gym rat, and down to 7% body fat, I was still 275 pounds. Older and married at age 46, that’s not something I can maintain anymore, so I hover between 315-340, based on my activity and lack of time/availability to work out.

I can still get into a standard airline seat & attach the belt without requiring an extension, but it’s never comfortable for me...especially my long legs. It’s downright tortuous sometimes, especially after having several knee surgeries. What helps me is having a petite Chinese wife, so that there’s always enough room when we sit together, although my poor knees suffer.

For big & tall guys like me: Most airlines will work with you to stick you into an exit row or a front row if you ask nicely & well enough in advance. 

2 hours ago, farcanell said:

??? now that would be just luv...ly ( providing the slingshot used rubber pellets, of course)

 

seriously though, I nearly freaked out the first time I encountered assault rifles in an airport ( Singapore perhaps).... but that was a long time ago, and nowadays, I would seriously question the standards of any (lawful) force that did not use assault weapons. (That said... I'm still seriously anti assault weapons in the hands of the general public... very OTT as a recreational tool)

Ooga booga! ?

22 minutes ago, Emster23 said:

I'm an American, and if I were asked my opinion of embassy and visa section, I would need to use lots of **** in my expression. Friends ask "Why don't you bring wife to US? Won't Thailand let her go?" They don't believe me when I say it's the tw*ts at embassy that are stopping her.

I've been fighting this myself. My wife was denied when we were living in the UAE. We owned a house there, here in Thailand had an apartment, made good money, her name is on everything...denied. Her family also lived in the region, owning their own home and business. They seem to have a big problem with asians at the US embassy. Keep in mind that she's also a retired US military dependent. They never looked at our paperwork. Not once. Now we have to do a green card even though we didn't want to emigrate originally...

Can't help but wonder how that fight went down...

4 hours ago, Moonmoon said:

10 years for rape, since he confessed he will get reduced sentence 5 years. After serving 1 year n 10months he will be released on Amnesty on the King's birthday. Next.

Miserable POS deserves full castration

O remember it well. I was stationed at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Japan as a C-130 Loadmaster from 2000-2006. I was on the first plane we sent from Okinawa to assist, we arrived the morning after it happened. The first 2 weeks we were based out of Don Muang, and flew maximum crew day permitted each day, shuttling in humanitarian aid from Bangkok to multiple places in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and taking people, empty pallets, and bodies away. After a few days, the airport was full of planes from around the world, who also were there to assist.

After two weeks of nonstop flying, we moved to Langkawi and did our missions out of there for the next month. I remember taking in an all terrain forklift, loading team, and air traffic controllers into Banda Ace, as the entire island looked like it had been leveled, and there was zero existing support services, personnel, and equipment. The controllers set up a tent and began to direct the flow of aircraft into and out of the airfield, while our loading teams worked around the clock downloading aircraft, and coordinating cargo. 

It was was one of the most challenging deployments I ever was involved with. You never knew what was going to show up or where you were going to go. I used every single trick I had to load/unload my aircraft at fields with no material handling equipment or support...coordinating what could and couldn't be safely transported, dealing with completely chaotic situations. There wasn't a moments rest to be had. We all were driven to work as hard as we could, because we knew people's lives depended on us, and you could see the immediate impact of what you did on a daily basis. I never felt as motivated to push further and try harder than I did during the relief missions. It was unbelievably tiring, but also personally rewarding...knowing I was making a huge difference.

So much fail here...I don't require permission to protect my life...free men don't need permission, slaves do. If you think you're in a better position to make decisions about what's best for me, congratulations-YOU are the problem.

But you can actually change your fingerprints...so an intelligent criminal can still avoid detection. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14001-bond-gadgets-never-say-they-will-never-work.html

Matt K, you will be telling me next that you can't get a drink in the ME. How is the Sid?

Sent from my GT-I9500 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

I don't know what "Sid" is...sorry?

When is this "ban" finished? I'm coming to Pattaya from work in the Middle East this Thursday, and it would really suck not being able to indulge after the forced dry spell here...