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Whippets are a bit of a greyh̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ area legally.

Not sure what country you're from, but as far as the pound is concerned the only two major resets in the past 20 years were after the global financial crash in 2008, and Brexit in 2016. Thai coups had nothing to do with it, and exchange rates were recovering significantly in the first couple of years after the last coup in 2014. If you're from the US you'll no doubt remember the lamentable exchange rates around 2011-13 when the USD regularly dipped below 30.

Looks likely that she was - the amount of a full state pension in 2000 (frozen 3 years after she retired) would have been £67.50pw / £292.50 per month.

The UK - Philippines reciprocal agreement was signed in 1989.

This was instigated by the Philippines government in the 1980's. https://www.sss.gov.ph/sss/appmanager/pages.jsp?page=SocSecAgreement

It always has been in the past when longer visa exempt entries are brought in for a temporary period.

Elite was too successful. Membership increased around fivefold over the past five years, hence the need to increase prices and reduce numbers. Interestingly one of main the target areas for the new packages they released last summer was tax advantages for digital nomads, just a few weeks before the tax changes were announced by the new government.

I guess "grey-zone" as it's the area that immigration have always admitted they have no interest in or capacity for policing.

They roll these out from time to time, usually for six months. Last time was the increase to 45 days visa exempt entry between October 2022 - March 2023.

These seem to be temporary stimulus measures - for instance, prior to the latest announcement India and Taiwan were put on the visa exempt entry list for six months expiring 24th May.

Visa on arrival is only applicable to the limited list of nationalities in the table above. These countries are not approved to receive a visa exempt entry.

This is incorrect, visa on arrival is not a visa purchased in advance from an embassy. VOA are typically non extendable and valid for just 15 days.

She weighs less than 2 kg?

They were never going to get far with that misplaced apostrophe!

They would have spoken to him sooner but he was feeling a little hoarse.

Apprehended for walking in a loud shirt in a built-up area during the hours of darkness.

Meanwhile, in other news today, the PM announced Thailand is offering itself up as host for the 2028 LGBTQ+ summit, "ready to embrace its role as the host of what Thavisin enthusiastically terms the “world cup” of LGBTQ+ festivities." https://thai.news/news/thailand/thailand-to-host-historic-lgbtq-summit-in-2028-a-leap-towards-global-inclusivity

The hotel was robbed of it's turf cladding.

This would be a good name for a band.

Someone should inform the ladyboy in the orange dress that a turf war doesn't mean literally scaling the building and tearing up the astroturf cladding.

2023 - wine paeng paeng. 2024 - wine tuk tuk.

I just remembered that sketch Dave Allen did, where he observed his name was an anagram of Anal Delve 😂

He'd have been a very bad precedent.

His ego may never recover...

Two significant developments since you opened the thread in May: 1) Existing Elite packages have been discontinued and cost is now between 50% (5 year) and 500% (20 year) higher than before if you applied after 15th September. 2) The government has announced that from 1st January 2024 it will tax monies brought into the country for all tax residents, meaning anyone here over 180 days per year.