liddelljohn

In my experience its totally useless ,, they dont care lazy sods ,, I actually ended up with an apology from the Thais who actually got British embassy to pay them and me compensation when They let me down back in 2007 , its a long story , Thai officials tore a strip of the Ambassador ond consolar officials on my behalf it was lovely to see their embarassment . Fortunately I also now have an Austrian Passport and they are proper people in the Embassy

Netenyahu is a Psychopath and fanatic only interested in his own power , the Fanatics , sephardic jews racists and Ultra Religious jews are in control , but they are a minority ,, most secular Israelis I know just want peace , If Israel does not come to an accomodation with moderate palestinians who are also a majority the It is ultimately doomed . I have relations there , have worked and lived there ... I have also worked with palestinians all over middle east , problem is Fanatics and vested interests , nasty minorities that ruin the majorities regular citizens life on both sides .. Jews and Arabs ... its a mess Netenyahu should be in Jail anyway ,, another Bolsonaro, Trump, Assad, Putin, type monster

The cops here dont just try it on with tourists and foreigners , they do the same to Thais , but the Thais seem to have ways of deflecting the cops using humour , influence or acting dumb for my self I find out quickly if officer can speak english , if he cant I act dumb pretending not to understand anything , they usually get bored and also see other potential victims passing by so give up. f officer speaks english , and its a shakedown i will either do some Pamot stuff and mumble things in welsh or ancient hebrew ,, they usually get spooked as do most Thais and back off ,, or trump them with my soldier and police biker pals who are senior officers , if they are fake cops ,,they can go to hell in an ambulance If im genuinely in the wrong I will negotiate ....or pay ticket at station There is one traffic Officer based in Chonburi who is a notorious scammer , interesting thing is that although he is now in his late 40s he is still only a leiutenant when he should be captain or major but he is very wealthy and HISO looks like a movie star , he is actually despised by many of his co workers ,but he is connected to the Kunphloen family ,, he has a ferrari, 3 HDs, 3 Bmws and a big house ,,he is a real pain to deal with , when dealing with him let him write u a ticket , half the time the guys at the station pay point will lose it when they see his signature and number .

try going into a bank in Uk , most branches have been closed Thailand has some weird systems but plenty of banks you can go in a speak to people ..

Phillipines is OK but its got worst food in the world , and terrible transport system,, be prepared to wait up to 6 hours for your bags at airport , I have spent much time there working and holidays ,, people are nice , but its not as user friendly as Thailand

Close all the scam , ripoff NWG bars would make the place great again

Residency Cert is only 200bt at Jomtien I did one 5 weeks ago you were scammed , also go in the morning not 3pm , avoid Bangkok Bank Go to SCB or Krungsri ,, they will open account easy peasy

Electric cars are an expensive limited dead end technology , already in UK and Norway many elctric cars users are giving up on the things due to charger problems range and reliability, Most Norweigans families have an electric car for local journeys but also have a massive gas guzzler SUV, 4X4 or limo or yank Tank for pleasure and long journeys , I know many people in Uk who had electric cars but due to lack of chargers or range problems have sold them for petrol vehicles, , My Brotheris a power train development engineer in Motor industry and he says same thing future will be Hydrogen fuel cells, or Hydrogen Internal Combustion engines and synthetic fuels ..

Human Rights and Equity from a bunch of greedy , arrogant , incompetent , fascist xenophobes ,, some one is talking complete rubbish out of their bottom

All fanatics be they religious, political, managerial, military , left wing , right wing fascists , commies , liberals , greens, environmentalists etc etc all of them need to be culled , to save humanity, freedom , rational thought ,democracy and common sense , and true natural justice ,

Going back to Uk temporary may not be effective there are now very long waits for cancer diagnosis and treatments UK has worst outcomes in Europe for cancer treatment ,you will need a UK address they are now denying some long term expats treatment

lots of Thai women in other real jobs, 7-11, factories, receptionists etc freelance at night and weekends they are not bargirls but they are available for a price and a lottery win

go on hotel booking sites and there are plenty of rooms in Pattaya , no where near full capacity and still loads of businesses closed .

4 days ago on Valaris 121 in North sea the Valaris 121 is on tow to Dundee , but during a storm the crane driver who had been inspecting lashings was swept over board by a large wave , Now presumed dead no survival suit . Rig is stuck outside Dundee due to weather and police are waiting to interview all crew when it docks . my mate is ROV super on board

DO NOT USE BOOKING .CON hopelesss company zero customer service , they screw over customers and hotel often fail to book rooms but still charge You anyway Use Agoda in Thailand

give them the evil eye back , speak an incantation out loud in welsh or old hebrew and wave your hands around with satanic intentions ,, freaks them out every time they either scuttle away in fear muttering , ''Pa Mot Farang Pisat'' or similar , or they bow and scrape for forgiveness ,,

Thailand has good pathologists and it is normal in any police investigation and suspicious death to conduct an autopsy with 48 hours ,, but KoTao is not run by the Thai state it is run by a Cabal of influential Thai families like a mafia Clan . many of the members hold positions in Town hall , local government police etc , many Thais know of the places reputation and would never visit and many ordinary Thai locals live in fear of the families they are exploited for bribes , tea money for pitches or just making a living any who complain get punished lose jobs or worse , so without streams of ingnorant naive foreigners the place would fail.

Took it to Toyota rayong and the put the OBD scanner on and noticed something weird ,, The MAF sensor is wrong type for our model Revo its amuch older one ?? , then going into Toyota warranty service records data downloads it seems Toyota Pattaya changed it last year ?????? but I dont recall that at all , it went in for a basic service oil , and filters change and thats all and the bill was only 2870Baht and im certain MAF unit is a lot more money than that ,,, something fishy here ?? Why was it swopped ???? for a second hand or old wrong item ?? Rayong and I are getting on to Toyota Customer services as the vehicle needs the correct unit and I need to unravel what is going on ?? Someone at the Pattaya dealer is bent

when will they allow Big bikes 500cc plus to go on the Motorways like in civilised countries

prices for legal hash and weed in Pattaya are ridiculous , up to 4or 5 times more than the Illegal stuff I can buy easily in UK ,, also most of the Thai weed I have smoked tastes crummy but yes it does get you off nicely , I prefer hash though as I can chose the mix off tobacco or use a bong ..

saw my first wife who was irish dancing naked covered in silver paint on stage for hawkwind in 1969 I was 11 years old we met again in a bar when I was 17 and playing in a band she was 31 , we married and were together for 18 years with 3 kids but she died of cancer .Second wife is Thai met her at a bus stop in 1995 , she was a famous professional Thai cabaret singer we are still married but I now live with the mia noi who i met in Whats up when she was 35 and the best dancer in pattaya and Bkk she won every agogo competition 4 years running in her 30s , she is 53 now and runs a market garden and durian farm , still loves dancing on nights out also had another 2nd mia noi who I met at Pattaya Bangkok hospital she was main Trauma Doctor in the emergency room when I had a motorcycle accident we were together for 9 years but she is now working in a hospital in Tulsa USA and married to a lawyer interesting thing is that she sometimes freelanced in TQ1 for extra money as Thai hospital junior doctors salary was not great

this scam is also rife in UK , certain shopping apps can install scam software also certain Fintech apps from legitimate companies are compromised . the scammers can then access your bank accounts , cradit cards and empty them , some UK banks are aware and compensate but HSBC is denying victims by saying its impossible and many people have lost large sums of money but the Police and other banks admit its a problem , HSBC will eventually have to pay up too . , Its a new development started in May last year obviously now in Thailand , the original software is Russian , Itonly affects Phone financial app software on Both android and I phone ,, best thing is not to have any bank or shopping software on your phone .. Computers are OK for now

Be very careful Booking with Qatar they code share with BA for UK part of flight, apart from BA planes being filhy, food terrible and not great inflight entertainment or service BA cancel many flights and Qatar have no influence ,on one BA flight most of us got Food poisoning and where puking and <deleted>ting ourselves silly In Qatar airport , spent 2 days in hospital, it was nasty , upsetting embarrasing etc BA could not give a Toss , still waiting for compensation from BA 11 months later . The Qatar part of journey to LOS is good its the BA part that is rubbish ,, and BA accept no responsibility , I normally travel emirates but due to emergency had to get tickets on Qatar twice last year ,

Citibank which I used here faultlessly for business reasons for 12 years is now UOB and im happy as they have top ratings and super services as well as 158 Branches wheras Citi only had 3 but for overseas transaction and investments they were great . tried HSBC thailand but it was hopeless compared to HSBC Singapore which superb when I worked there . SCB I have used for 29 years never had a problem , very efficient compared to but when I used Bangkok bank and Thai farmers had many errors , poor service and recently My wife who had Bangkok Bank accounts for 25 years has closed them due to scams, bad service and account errors she lost 200,000 baht and it is now in a sort of class action with Thai banking regulators as BKB stonewall and there are many complainants , .She is now with KrungSri for her business and SCB for personel I will never ever touch Bangkok Bank again or Thai farmers . Fastest growing Thai bank for customer base and branches is Krung Sri as many people leaving Bangkok Bank and TF due to issues they are opening more branches when BKB and TF close down many also their technology seems better .. Have recently seen many people in UK very unhappy with their banks , HSBC are closing branches and also having terrible customer service issues , last year I closed my 55 years old HSBC UK accounts and switched to Nationwide for better service, better products and also because I had seen many friends and my Daughter having appalling issues with HSBC who would stonewall until taken to court or Ombudsman when HSBC were clearly in error ..Ombudsman recovered £15k plus 10k compensation for my daughter from HSBC but it took 2 years and the report said they should have dealt with it immediately as it was their error instead they closed her accounts and blacklisted her , this has all been put right obviously she uses other banks now .

I use my 4g phone hotspot in Thailand to send signal wifi to laptop or smart TV which vpn would you reccomend , I tried Nord and it was bad for UK sports and BBC got some results with windscribe but a bit slow