JimsKnight

The glory days of the high 60s and 70s are long gone now.

We're lucky to see it in the high 40s the way things are going.

The question is, will it go any lower?

The pathetic low interest rates in the UK, the printing presses running at break-neck speed and the general consensus of having weak £ all looks set to strike a death blow.

How are the struggling pensioners and plucky Brits keeping their head above water?!

ya you should buy some real estate in yangon, laos real estate prices in downtown vientiane have tripled in past 10 years, amid global turmoil too. Something I'd look into right now if I had the $$

Dream on, as a white man you can't own sht in Burma.

That's the way it rolls so quit selling the delusions common to the property dreamers please.

Has anyone else had problems downloading the visa application forms from the Thai Consulate in Hull?

Everytime I download the document from here:

http://www.thaiconsul-uk.com/downloads-and-visas.aspx

The form I download is unreadable by ANY of Adobe programs etc.

Anyone got a form they can send me?

Thanks.

Well the TV lame haters brigade are at their finest.

Can't have anyone enjoying themselves unless it's to 'their' derogatory satisfaction

Maybe that bouncing elephant landed on your head a few too many times SH?

Just get the money exchanged into US $ split it up and walk it through with you...

I did this with £ sterling last year, no hassles

So would a long term apartment rental arranged from outside Thailand be doable for non-immigrant O work for Hull I wonder?

All these windbags whinging about the end of 'friends and family' visa ought to wind their necks in!

Because that now means a lot less single folk choosing Thailand in leui of elsewhere.

Now that non-immigrant O is out of the window it means:

Opening a bank account is a LOT more difficult in Thailand.

Buying a motor car or bike is (correct me if I'm wrong) impossible on a tourist visa

The self-financing under 50s are now being squeezed into 'you must get married'

For me I'll probably have to get a long-term rental document thrown together and sorted for when I get to Thailand next

Agree that the music is weak.

Would you care to suggest chamber music instead then?

Well the OP has a point, for the past five years or so the morbid, miserable expat population has been increasing.

While the younger, more positive expats have been leaving and getting smaller.

All I can say is:

The future ain't what it used to be.

OP, what exactly is it you sell?

Timeshares?

Not every expat in business in SE Asia is a salesman you know

If it's a high interest account the interest payments will more than cover any 'fees' incurred.

the CBR 1100 Blackbird? Honda used to know how to build class leading bikes.

I still have my Blackbird stored oooooooppp North.

Fabulous bike and still hits 290 kph when I use it.

It's not the silver one I see Thais on now and again is it?

Perhaps Caves have an effect on some Cavers GOOD MANNERS.

Perhaps TV has an effect on certain members delicate-minds.

Maybe I blinked, but I don't think I saw a single fish. How sad. Just like diving in Nha Trang.

There were a few, but you blinked I think.

A Dive in Thailand doesn't have to have fish everywhere you know.

Don't worry your wooly mind there Mr Ant.

There was three of us and we are an interested group of cavers.

No hard hats, no hat lights, i assume you are just casual cavers then not a regular caving club?

TIT dude, tropical weather mean's dressing down, not up

In Europe interior temperature in caves is around 8 Celsius, winter or summer, I would assume that it is the same here, after the first 100m into a cave system. I agree the clothes you wear are up to you, Again in Europe we walk to the entrances in whatever, then change before we go in. But a simple hard hat is sensible and a helmet light is practical in a tight passage on hands and knees.

Are these wet or dry caves?

Wet cave in parts.

We wore firm hats but not hard hat type.

It's a shame so many in Thailand do nothing for the most part and are content to idle away while there's so much around to do

Bloopers and Crashes

No need for a license for one of these little in Thailand, get your hand in your pocket and have some fun flying folks

But if he gets away with this again on the grounds of " immunity " it will be a little

bizzare that a sitting US President was put through the embarassment of an impeachement process

for this kind of thing and yet this DSK is set free to do it again

In Monica L's case she was more than a willing participant. Attempted rape is a real crime.

You know this reminds me a bit of that fat swine Ted Kennedy trying it on with a waitress and abusing her. This was back in the 1990s when he was drunk and well and truly washed up...

Anyway not to worry - he has diplomatic immunity.

LOL, is that why his ass in the slammer??!

This nwo scumbag is getting what's due to him.

Hopefully this is just the start for his kind...

No hard hats, no hat lights, i assume you are just casual cavers then not a regular caving club?

TIT dude, tropical weather mean's dressing down, not up

Some off-the-beaten-track adventures you don't normally see on TV...

Pretty sure his chance is zero.

...{and} mai mee rak Farang.:jap:

...and Farang rak Thai.

and Farang rak Farang

How can you own a piece of land? The land was there long before you were borne and shall be long after you have gone. The land can never belong to you, for it feeds you, you do not feed it, it is the mother, for a brief time you may be the keeper, the one who takes care. The land ask nothing of you, most surely not that you should kill for it, For it is the mother of all

Nice sentiments, but the land isn't the reason either, the idea of it appeals to the nationalistic xenophobia of the ordinary Thais and Cambodians, that's all.

The idea that is appeals to the nationalists is something exaggerated, spread and stirred up by the pussified and lame liberals.

If the Thai's back down they lose face, that's not going to happen.

If the pussified one's have a better idea and the will to enforce it then get stuck in and try taking on LoS.

That's not going to happen either so button it.

I am bemused that two Nations that both call themselves Buddhist, can result to killing over a temple, A temple of Buddha,

The temples are Hindu.

The temples are Sanksrit / Khmer.

Why the hell is this news article in Thai Visa?

Is the OP point scoring (or rather trying to) for Obama?