BritManToo

Are you suggesting that bars in your home country never get raided by police checking ID's, looking for under-age drinkers?

I've not been in many 'expat bars' in Thailand where anyone could be thought to be under age.

Number one Bar on Soi one ,just 50 meters off L.K.R .,has excellent Western and Thai food in a nice clean building .(unlike Gecko ) ..Belgian owned with many Continental beers available .

You take your friends to a 'hooker bar'?

Don't know if you can read john,but he has already done that.The gf didn't know it was going to cost 18k.

Just wondering how the doctor knew the Thai lady could pay 18k cash, it's not the norm for most Thais.

And usually the doctors don't rack up a bill, until they are sure the victim patient can pay it.

The clinic near me charges 80bht per person, per visit, usually including the generic meds.

If they presented anyone with a bill for 18k, it wouldn't be paid.

As for your comment that you are not bothered that your country may have further serious problems from uncontrolled immigration, check out my post 46. As I think you are off completely different stock than me.

I don't live in England much any more, I'm more concerned about France, Spain and Thailand.

But my money is sourced in GBP, which does concern me.

Happy to have Muslims running the UK, they can't do any worse than the current crop of entitled Public schoolboys.

thankfully they failed in the 90's when again they talked of economic ruin,if we did not join the Euro.

It cost us in the region of 20% of our money when Britain failed to join the Euro.

Not sure if that's counted as economic ruin, but it's certainly moving in that direction.

GBP = 1.56E when Euro first created, GBP = 1.28E today, a 22% loss for British people.

I'd rather Brussels was in control of the UK than the current government.

At least Brussels isn't trying to sell off everything to the private sector.

NHS, school land, Land Registry, all public land, public roads, all up for grabs now.

I don't care all that much about Muslims et al moving to the UK, but I do care about losing my money.

Skype doesn't work well for me either, I can't connect reliably to someone in the same room.

So I moved to Facebook Messenger video calls, easy to use and none of the Skype connection problems.

It's hardly a minor thing, it's on par with walking up to someone you don't know at a bus stop and exposing yourself,

No, it's more on a par to jogging along a road with no shirt on, just your running shorts.

Considered poor form in Thailand, but not an offence.

Mainstream Thai hooker, mainstream Thai gang member, mainstream Thai religious male.

Not sure it's going, or ever been, mainstream with any other Thai nationals.

Only my ideas on Thais with tattoos, different foreign cultures look at them in different ways.

I think a relaxed stance, exactly in between amused and bemused is best.

By all means follow directions,

I don't speak any Thai, and I can't understand any English spoken by Thais.

You'd be amazed how quickly Thai officials want to get rid of me.

I'm as cooperative as someone who has no idea can be.

If I could only understand their directions, I would be more than pleased to follow them.

('I'm sorry I don't understand what you want', my own version of 'arai na')

I always leave Thai people to sort their own medical problems, on their own, using their own money.

It isn't my business, they don't listen to my advice, let them sort it out on their own.

They have free medical and cheap clinics.

I don't.

If you hadn't been there, you wouldn't have been asked to pay.

Not to mention there's always the risk the gf conspired with the doctor to scam you.

(bill him 18k and we'll split 50/50, some girls are really crafty with the various bill splitting scams)

Never put money in the outstretched hand, pay all invoices, properly itemized, to the billing company by yourself.

I'm sure this wasn't the case with you, but I don't like to think such thoughts, so better I'm never involved.

I would have thought the most likely cause of death would be drowning while out for a holiday swim.

Most of those dying in the sea (that weren't run down by a boat or jetski) are accidental.

I go swimming alone all the time (not in Thailand as it's too dirty for me), but in the UK, France and Spain, car park by a beach, walk down, have a swim.

I'm certainly not contemplating suicide, ever.

How hard can it be to Google an answer:

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/feb/24/uk-trade-exports-imports

We asked 'WHAT' and you answered 'WHERE', two different questions, then if we follow your link it reveals a story from 2011, but this year is 2016. Is a report from 5 years ago valid today? I think not.

If we assume the data is still valid, it suggests the biggest export is cars, but these aren't actually made in Britain, but assembled in Britain from foreign sourced parts. Some may think this a cynical exercise to avoid import duty.

Leaving the second major export oil products, but again this report was from 2011, and the price of oil worldwide is very different today. The Middle East aren't in the EU but they still manage to sell oil there.

Bringing me back to my original question, what does Britain actually export today?

And will being in the EU actually affect any of those exports?

UK pound is over 50 again today.

Up and down it goes.

Oh dear, no insurance and broke, details here, https://www.gofundme.com/xkw9x9v3

So when Harold is 81 or 82, he'll have a teenager on his hands. He's going to be a wonderful male role model for the child.

I don't think many multi-millionaires interact all that much with their children.

Servants, nanny, boarding school, etc.

As Winnie says, these raids are about extortion and not about the law.

The police on the spot will say anything they think they can get away with in order to extort money from the foreigner.

The more timid, submissive or fearful you appear to be, the more forceful their effort will be to extort money from you.

Lucky is the 60 year old who's 24 year old wife does love him in her tiny little uneducated mind cos she doesn't know any better

Do you honestly think such a girl exists?

Obviously not in your life lol...you need charisma and a sense of humour. only idiots or guys who could never get girls in the first place think the oly way they can get a girl is if they have a huge wallet...its complete nonsense made up as an excuse by losers in the love deoartmeng who have no respect for the girls and think money can buy them anything

We are still talking about 60 year old men and 24 year old women, are we?

You have some catching up to do with us Brits.

I agree.

It seems Brits are always in the News for getting lost, raped, killed or killing themselves in Thailand.

For reasons I have yet o figure out,

Brits excel in all fo the aforementioned categories.

Maybe they just take pride in being "Number one" ??

We Brits were last years Darwin award winners, but earlier this year there was a spate of Chinese deaths, fairly recently being overtaken by a series of French deaths.

"Americans are 36 times more likely to die there, with suicide and motorscooter accidents as the leading causes of death to Americans."

Assuming you trust the Thai police to accurately investigate and record the actual cause of death, and not just write down something that requires no work or effort on their part.

'"We will go for IV treatment or what is called a test-tube baby. I want to have a boy or even twins ...' She presumes everyone will want to know all about it ... and, apparently, that most will not know about the IV test tube process, something that has been around for well over thirty years.

Many of the posters on this forum seem to need that knowledge, they keep posting he needs Viagra, age has made him impotent, he's too old to have babies. When none of those has any much effect on reproduction. But his vasectomy, will need a bit of a work around.

Lucky is the 60 year old who's 24 year old wife does love him in her tiny little uneducated mind cos she doesn't know any better

Do you honestly think such a girl exists?

This list suggests different.

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/wrjp255a.html

9/11 got nearly 3,000 in one go.

I doubt any accumulated number of terrorist deaths in the EU can beat that figure.

And that doesn't include 'Black Riots' that are listed as crimes.

I also ride quite often but more in the rural areas where it is a bit safer and there are fewer accidents that I see.

Moron!!! But we both got by safely doing about 75 to 80 kph.

Some might feel that driving at 75Kph on a rural road is madness and totally irresponsible..

68 and he's a mess and I hate to think what he looks like naked!

How good do you think you'll look if you make it to age 68?