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Teenage Brit Involved in Fatal Road Collision in Pattaya
BritManToo replied to Georgealbert's topic in Pattaya News
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Went cycling this morning at MaeJo, not much smog, lake was nice, sun shining, a little cold at 12c, stopped for 2 coffees at an outside coffee shop total cost 80bht. Passed some cows walking in the road. Don't really encounter corruption, dual pricing, airport queuing, political instability and my wife is quite a reasonable price. Life is good!
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Horrible tourist trap IMHO, only managed to tolerate an hour there, but did take a nice photo of some Chinese tourists.
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Minimum required to live comfortably at a young retirement age
BritManToo replied to PomPolo's topic in General Topics
SanSai hospital in CM has all new equipment, I've never had X-rays in bed using a portable X-ray machine before. I didn't even know such machines existed (13k5bht for 4 months in/out patient care as a foreigner), sure it takes all day for non-urgent care, but I can read my book anywhere. My wife also arraigned for an elderly Nordic foreigner to have a broken hip repaired after he toppled off his m/c in his driveway (paid by his gov min m/c insurance after a bit of haggling). My MIL was referred to Suan Dok hospital in central CM for operations (free), top care in some ways better than the NHS as no waiting at all. My son born in NakornPing hospital (free), again as good as the NHS, they even had home visits after. You live in the wrong place! Although sometimes I think some Thai people pay because too proud, or unable to complete the government hospital paperwork, or just too ignorant/uneducated to know what to get and where to get it. -
Well this reliable source was in the newsroom from 10:30pm to 9am that night and 'we' controlled nearly every news source in the UK at that moment in time. And if we 'the big boys' didn't hear about it, then it wasn't broadcast.
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Which is sort of odd as I was in the UK newsroom when it happened, and our information was she was dead immediately, and we never broadcast she was walking. Reuters and AP wire services reports were the same as ours.
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Gender recognition bill considered for identity self-determination
BritManToo replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
This is a good reason to not give them an inch ........ they always want more. And if I'm out on a date, I want to have advance warning of the equipment they're potentially bringing to the party. -
Minimum required to live comfortably at a young retirement age
BritManToo replied to PomPolo's topic in General Topics
They could always use the government hospital, which is free for Thais. It's good enough for me, so it should be good enough for them! -
In my 15 years in Thailand, a Thai has only tried to murder me (using his pickup) once. 15 months after the event, 2nd court hearing next month, justice is slow for non-Thais. Petty crime non-existent though, can leave shopping on scooter or pickup bed and it's still there when you come back, leave keys in car/mc, house doors and windows unlocked all day whether home or not .........no problem.
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Farage Urges Musk to Remove Terror Videos Linked to Southport Killer
BritManToo replied to Social Media's topic in World News
I have to agree with Musk. Muslim crimes in the west shouldn't be hidden, Tommy Robinson is clearly a political prisoner jailed for trying to expose Muslim crime in the UK.- 10 replies
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Hanoi is great for sightseeing, also worth a train ride to Ninh Binh, Tam Coc/Trang An for the caves and lakes (2 hour rowing boat ride at either), then the cast peak Hang Mua. Not much at Da Nang apart from a nice beach. Hang Mua Trang An Hanoi
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Clarity and volume good .......... but often sound/sync problems. I've found the Lenovo HE5 to be the best of the bunch, not expensive, last for years, battery gives 5-8hrs use. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/lenovo-he05-bluetooth-headphones-waterproof-bluetooth-50-hifi-in-ear-sports-i3686523200-s13927187544.html
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5 years back you could find photos with shadows all over the shop, they've been disappeared, and now you can only easily find the photos you have just shown, which are explained away as parallax problems (even though those don't happen with point light sources like the sun). I find that disturbing, someone has taken the time to hide all the old problematic photos. You also get pages and pages of 'moon landing not faked' stories, and the original conspiracy sites are all gone, no matter how hard you look or what words you type in your search engine.
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I don't deny anything, but do point out some very questionable facts and photos that NASA produced. And what's even more odd, if I'd typed "fake moon landing shadows" into Google 5 years back, I would have got 50 photos with dodgy shadows going in all directions. Now they've all disappeared.
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Start at Dainty coffee, up to wat Doi tairn, then round the front of maejo golf course past Lakeview coffee. Hardly any traffic, loads of cows and buffalo though.
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Thaksin Prioritises Handouts to Boost Economy
BritManToo replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
My mil got the 10k, no shops for 15km, a shop van calls around everyday. If it hadn't been cash, she couldn't have used it. Lots of rural poor with no access to shops. As for tobacco, she lives on a tobacco farm, could smoke as much as she wanted at no charge, but doesn't smoke. -
Thaksin Prioritises Handouts to Boost Economy
BritManToo replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Free food is always available from any Temple. -
The problem being, UK police are only interested in a conviction, and don't really care if the convicted is guilty or innocent. When you co-operate with the UK police, they are only interested in getting you to incriminate yourself, therefore it's best not to co-operate in the first place. I agree, it's a sad state of affairs that there is no justice in the UK, but better not to convict yourself. My lawyers advice was always not to co-operate, and not to 'chat' with any police conducting any investigation. I left the UK on the advice of my (EU human rights) lawyer, so the police couldn't question me so easily (and frequently), it's gets old very quickly when they decide to collect you from your place of work for questioning, and don't even give you a lift back after (that's if you still have a job). I suspect the same advice was given to the husband in the OP.
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DWP doesn't use Royal Mail for posting proof of life forms, as far as I know they use a reposting/forwarding service provided by a European country as it's cheaper.
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Visit immigration office with TM30 (from his hotel), passport, and 1,900bht.