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Must have been something like that. He says in vid they decided not to claim because they needed policies on the other 30 cars. Huh?? Sure the premiums might go up a bit but theft insurance is there to protect in case of, er, theft. Unless they weren't insuring for rental use, in which case anyone driving wouldn't be insured. And then 'Mo' does some ducking and diving, rustles up a stack of cash which he can't bank for obvious reasons - but then then the local rozzers give him a bit of paper saying "we hereby declare this phat stack isn't POC"?? Makes no sense given that presumably the only explanation of where he got the money was "my mate sold some things here and there and gave it to me".

Soon he won't have a leg to stand on ...

The interior was some sort of dark brown velour. The exterior was a sort of weird orangey brown.

Allegro was the first car I drove (my dad bought it). Appalling piece of junk. Back in the days when head restraints and passenger door mirrors were optional extras. And power steering? Pah!

That's one way to make a splash when you visit Thailand.

Far right climate change boners to one side, the main problem with Milliband's crusade for Net Zero is his stubborn refusal to just slow down a bit. 2030 is a wholly unrealistic target. As you note, we will reach net zero given time. If UK hadn't decided to close our last remaining coal-fired plants (the Tories did for Drax in 2023, Labour did for Ratcliffe - two 2GW of capacity - last year) we would have more spare south of the border base load. Sure, it's not green, but it's all particularly galling given that UK didn't build any more coal stations after mid 1980's yet China added 30GW of coal power last year (70% of the global total of new coal power). China has 1,000+ coal stations, India around 300, the USA around 200 and Indonesia around 100 - yet UK policy makers driven by Milliband cleave to an unrealistic virtue signalling time frame for UK to go Net Zero. Maybe he should go and live in his constituency (Doncaster North). for a while and see what normal people really think about it all, especially given Doncaster is one of the more deprived local authorities.

I think this is sound advice. My optometrist in UK said that simplest is best ie monofocal lens and just use reading glasses. Since no surgery has guaranteed results, he also said people who have it and understand that they may still need glasses for all distances post-surgery are less likely to be disappointed. This is a guy I've seen for 30+ years (and is well-respected within the London community of opthalmologists) so I trust his opinion. Basically go for improved clarity of vision as the goal, not 20/20 acuity at all focal distances. There's a diopter range for the surgery outcome (i.e. target 0.0 but may end up +0.5 or - 0.5 or whatever). For some people ending up slightly short-sighted works better than slightly long-sighted post surgery, particularly for near / intermediate vision. But ultimately all really depends on what is important to you / what you do in daily life.

I'm gratified to learn that my current ride qualifies as a 'supercar', based on value.

There's got to be more to this than meets the eye. The RD audited this company and found that, ten years ago, for a period of three months, the company didn't file VAT returns? The legal requirement here is to keep all paper records (invoices etc) for the past 5 years; no-one in their right mind keeps the past 10 years, because why offer RD more rope with which they can try to hang you? If the story is that the company was only live and trading during jul-Oct 2015 then it's even more bizarre. Unless - (warning: conspiracy theory alert) this is some politically driven thing trying to dig dirt and working up a tax / foreign nominee type narrative to cause trouble for someone influential locally - 'information services' = prominent local telco/broadband company with a history of Singapore investment involvement etc

Rotor striking the tail boom sounds like possible low-G mast bump / blade flap; maybe instinctive input of hard aft cyclic to counter sudden nose down pitch caused by wind shear or other strong turbulence? The weather last week or so has not been great.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/this-thing-has-killed-less-than-or-about-as-many-as-flu-would-kill-in-a-normal-year-in-kids-i-say-hardly-any-80-year-olds-their-time-to-death-in-general-is-not-that-long/ Come on, surely you can do better than citing studies published in 2020/2021/2022 - effectively from the 'Dark Ages' of scientific understanding about the disease, risk factors, treatments etc. Or have things moved on such that it's harder nowadays to find such alarmist material, hence the need to resort to ancient history? I really don't understand your apparent obsession with all this stuff - do you feel you're on a one-man mission to 'educate' the unbelievers or something like that?

Yawn. Doesn't the OP get tired of this stuff? People die from poor choices all the time. Yet why this morbid obsession with Covid? Risk of death from smoking, drinking, eating too much salt, not wearing a seatbelt etc etc etc can all be reduced/prevented through choice. Same as with Covid vaccination (or any vaccination).

As is usually the case in Thailand we'll probably never know what actually happened. Bell 212 main rotor has a lot of inertia and is semi-rigid, so even with a dual engine failure rotor RPM won't decay as fast as say an eggbeater light training helo like a Robinso R22. But reports of parts of the aircraft detaching could suggest a rotor separation. In 2021 a 212 crashed in Canada after a retaining pin failure on the main rotor hub. That led to Bell issuing service bulletins and various aviation agencies worldwide (FAA, EASA etc) issuing Emergency ADs mandating compliance with the service bulletins. On 05 July 2021, Bell Textron Inc. (Bell) issued 4 alert service bulletins covering model 204B, 205, 205B, and 212 helicopter fleets. The alerts required the review of the aircraft’s technical record to determine if any main rotor hub strap retaining pins with the serial number prefix FNFS were installed. If pins with the affected prefix were installed, they were to be replaced with pins of a different serial prefix before further flight. https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/2021/a21w0045/a21w0045.html

"Short-term speculative flows" I guess meaning international investment in Thai government debt. Strong baht also helps those here who want to/need to buy dollars for overseas investment or purchases. Thailand still buying a lot of LNG on the spot markets.

It all seems to be more flip-flop decision making on the fly. Anyone who has spent any time in Thailand should be well aware that the worst thing to do is to try and comply with a newly-introduced regulation before the officials that enforce it have received clear guidance as to how to interpret and administer - which they may never get. Just consider the endless threads about the differences in interpretation of various visa regultions by different immigration offices. If they are really going to say "money bought in the same tax year as it is earned or the next year is tax free" then that's good news. Who's to say when said money was earned, especially since by implication the remittances would not need to be declared on tax return (if you file one). The wrinkle I see is 'what does this means for income earned in the past and then remitted': currently if earned before 1 January 2024 it is not taxable. That to me is more of a concern. However I still feel best approach is do nothing with officialdom until directly asked to.

Actually this says "A cloth mask worn over a surgical mask gives 95% protection against Covid" - surely they should be pushing a properly fitted N95 mask - and also advising against removal of facial hair in order to provide a better fit. So I'm guessing this is an ancient history poster from the terror years of 2020/2021 ...

On a more general point - what's happened to the member (the bloke with the masked dog avatar) who used to bombard AN and these Covid threads with reams of stats and doom and gloom projections?

Schools closing classes? Madness. If Thailand cared more about its people it would focus on actually educating its children, rather than pushing a narrative of fear and the importance of simply doing what your 'elders and betters' tell you to do, because 'they know better'.

All very rum - total loss of pressure in both the normal and emergency brake systems? Looks like they were parked up on the West Apron. Surprised there isn't any video 'out in the wild' yet.

Fully agree - I meant more that all too often (both bikes and cars) come back from being serviced, tyre change etc with tyres way over inflated. I've had 50 psi put in some in the past.

Belize? https://www.belizetourismboard.org/programs-events/retirement-program/

Good news. Should lead to a report by Canadian TSB, even if nothing much comes out here. I see that the most senior officer on board is now described as 'pilot trainee': no inference or judgment here but will be interesting to find out from investigation who was PIC / PF / PM [Pilot In Charge / Pilot Flying / Pilot Monitoring] etc.

Good try to insinuate that a Thai might have been missing something when wo stupid foreigners are involved. Right, because it's not like a Thai might be able to read the Thai characters on a number plate. Need a foreigner for that. Fool.

Both props do seem to be turning; I don't know if the RTP Twin Otters have auto-feather but I guess not. Left engine is the critical engine in a Twin Otter but the RH rotation suggests stall and yaw to the right. But all just speculation. Poor buggers. Don't hold your breath for 'a good accident investigation'.