BKKBike09

Depends largely where you live. I lived in Kentish town for years; my daughter lived in Peckham. Plenty of violence in both those areas both then and now. And try getting from Kentish Town to Peckham on public transport - at least an hour. Quicker to cycle.

Traffic is non-existent? If only. Traffic is as bad now as it ever was, thanks in no small measure to expansion of the ridiculous 20 mph limits (Park Lane, Finchley Road, Southbank ... you name it, all 20 mph). No wonder average bus speeds have gone down in recent years, blamed in part on an increase in road traffic congestion. All from the horse's mouth (TfL), in case you're wondering, at https://content.tfl.gov.uk/travel-in-london-2024-annual-overview-acc.pdf Try driving in and out of London at any time of day and I guarantee you it's a solid hour plus.

Yesterday's TG night flight from London (TG917) was diverted to Don Muang to refuel after an aborted landing and an earlier hold. The lucky passengers got to spend the best part of four hours waiting on the tarmac at DMK before being flown back to SVB.

Out of interest, how much is 'thousands'? Thousands of baht? Baht equivalent of thousands of USD?

"empowering educations" ... bodes well for the project! I'll proofread the project materials for a measly 0.1% of that 29 billion baht.

Don't worry. Reeves will save the day ... "Chancellor Rachel Reeves has defended her decision to travel to China to improve economic ties at a time when soaring government borrowing costs threaten to squeeze UK public finances. She says she wants a long-term relationship with China that is "squarely in our national interest" and on Saturday said agreements reached in Beijing would be worth £600m to the UK over the next five years ..." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx9jggw9ndo Oooohh. A day's funding for the NHS (over 5 years). That will really turn the tide.

Based on the picture, you could say "Uzi come, Uzi go".

They're proposing a THB 5,000 entry fee for Thai nationals. That will be a deal killer for any serious major overseas operator, as would any regulation stating 'casinos for foreigners only'. Casinos need the local mass market. I suspect it's a sly effort to make casinos effectively foreigner only without actually imposing that restriction. It plays to the domestic anti-casino lobby - and also, of course, to the underground casino operators and the Poipet operators, all of whom will be vehemently opposed to any realistic competition from international-standard legal casinos in Thailand.

Yawn. Isn't that exactly what you're doing?

"But the data is incomplete, as the NPCC said the information on ethnicity was available for only 34% of suspects in the whole of 2023 and for only 39% of suspects in the first nine months of 2024". Take note of the the qualification 'where ethnicity data was available'. Would not surprise me if - as was the case with the abusers in Rochford, Telford, Rotherham etc - ethnicity data was deliberately not collected, or collected in a very non-specific manner. Regardless of the ethnicity of those involved, there should be a national enquiry into the paedophile rape gangs.

A more accurate title for this thread would be: Convicted Paedophile Rochdale Rape Gang Leader Still in the Town & not Deported It's not enough for the government to obfuscate the ethnicity of these depraved individuals, but also to describe them as 'grooming' gangs rather than the more accurate 'gangs of paedophile rapists'.

If such cartoons were published in the UK today, the cartoonist and the magazine editors would be arrested and imprisoned for "racism" faster than you can say "but officer, it's free speech".

I know nothing about bananas so will take your word for it. All I know is that my favourite are Kluai Khai (กล้วยไข่) - small fruits with firm sweet flesh and very thin deep yellow skins (steady on Matron!)

If you Google the Thai for "Cavendish banana shoots for sale" (ขายหน่อกล้วย คาเวนดิช) there are loads of places selling shoots for way less than THB 1,000 e.g. https://agrimark.dit.go.th/frontendV1/productDetail.php?submit=init&bidOfferCode=20181006201251624

I couldn't agree more. Do you know if it's safe to listen to heavy metal?