maxcorrigan

Are there any updates on this ie. Thai passport holder fliying from BKK to LHR with ILR UK visa would be allowed to leave and return?

2 minutes ago, Whackjob said:

He's not Irish.... 

When i visited Belfast a couple of years back the people i met classed themselves Scots/Irish so you are half right!

As another said Colin you need an emergency escape route, maybe one of those Roman catapult machines you sit on in your chair with a parachute attached then up up and away!

Glad you're alright mate, you've certainly put Preston on the map with your exploits, take care and stay safe!

The jaguar bonnet emblem looks much better. lucky cop though!

On 4/21/2020 at 8:12 AM, VocalNeal said:

 

I believe you will find the alternative was German, not Spanish.

True!

1 hour ago, possum1931 said:

i have always lived with my policy of that if anyone wants to see me, then they come to me, I don't go to them, unless I know it is something to my advantage.

Don't quite get what you mean, they do come to you, did you think i go to them?

1 hour ago, yankee99 said:

 

10 years never a visit from Jomtien 

Maybe it depends how far you are from IO i'm in Sattahip so not far from Jomtien!

On 4/19/2020 at 3:15 PM, ubonjoe said:

Not many offices do a 2nd visit. They will inform you if one will be done when you do the application.

Jomtiem will visit, two extension two visits, since these new rules came in!

4 minutes ago, maxcorrigan said:

I will wait for my P60 then maybe get back to you then, if you don't mind!

How far back can you claim ie.previous years or just the year ending?

21 hours ago, sandyf said:

The code only dictates how much tax is to be paid. I am in the same boat as Dave just above but I have never bothered about it. I pay a bit too much tax each month and then just claim it back at the end of the year.

The tax is taken from another pension and I will get a P60 in another week or so. Once I have that I will do an online tax return and you get the money in about a week.

 

I hate to tell you this but you have just dipped out. The year 2018/19 had 14 payments, only happens every 21 years.

I will wait for my P60 then maybe get back to you then, if you don't mind!

19 minutes ago, sandyf said:

I never told them anything. They just sent me a new code and I just claim the refund every year.

Sandy i have not seen anything on a refund, maybe i'm missing the obvious, i just get the yearly coding and left it at that, will look closer this time though, now they've stopped allowance for wife (can't recall exact name for this so called benefit)

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

He was in hibernation, they just warmed him up from his slumber and wheeled him out.

They would have to warm him up slowly then, in case he he got a screaming case of the tom tits and have to make a bolt for the nearest bog, poor old sod!

A bit of lightheartedness straight from the horses mouth as it were!

6 hours ago, madmitch said:

At least it hide his disgustingly smug grin!

More of a disgusting smirk than a grin, i would say!

17 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Available from Iherb.

Strangely enough when i visited North Carolina a few years back speaking of Irish tea, i was looking in a big store for English Breakfast Tea as it is usually called every where i've been, could'nt it find in the tea section, then found Irish Breakfast Tea, for some reason it seems Americans don't like giving credit too England or the English maybe with some justification, this is not to say of course that the Irish don't drink tea, as i'm sure they do!

57 minutes ago, sawadee1947 said:

And what about Italian ice Cream, Pizza, Pasta, Olives, wines? Not to forget Mafia? ????

And Gorgeous Sofia Loren don't forget!

1 hour ago, gamini said:

What do you mean by home country? I have always understood that those of us who live here call Thailand our home. Why are you here if its not your home. I am just curious. Sometimes Thais ask me where I am from. I cant answer that question. I was born in a British colony. I have UK and NZ passports but I have Irish, British,  Dutch, German and Italian blood! 

You're a mongrel then?????

I have been using a "Street Guardian" dash cam it has worked perfectly for the last 5+ years here Thailand the later ones (I believe) have rear view camera connected by WIFI worth checking out, Or look at! "Dash Cam Talk", they survey and do reviews and price lists on a lot of these dash cameras!

1 hour ago, VocalNeal said:

To go to "the" University implies a college in Oxford? In your example the Brits are correct. 

Only Brits and the like omit articles in front of words like school, hospital, university and bank. An American or Canadian would say that I go to "a university" or "the university" and not simply "university".

You're are joking when Americans say things like Play ball, skip rope, Play Guitar, not Play the Guitar, Play Piano  not play the piano etc. as the English would say.

The rest of your post is complete rubbish cliches that a lot of Americans love not all though thank goodness!

2 hours ago, Andyfez said:

Yes. Many kids start speaking Philipino/American English.

The word I always question is 'gotten'.

It is an old genuine English word clunky though it is, if you read old books like Charles Dickens etc. the word is used a lot, although not used much in southern England still apparently used in the North and Scotland!

3 hours ago, ehs818 said:

I find it amusing when Brits and Australians make fun of American speaking English. We don't speak British style English, we speak American English. While similar, it's quite different than British style English. I come from California and am regularly praised for speaking in a clear and understandable voice. I've no accent and can't understand much of what Brits from certain parts of English say. There's a mumble to there speech that I find very hard to unpack. And as for Aussies, I've learned that they simply pronounce the vowels, (aeiou and y) differently that I do. Their A sounds like my I. But once I train my ear to understand their pronunciation, I've little trouble understanding them.. They are generally good natured and friendly people. But hey, how 'bout them Brits!?

I speak London English (not cockney) there are many accents in London again not all cockney, as everyone likes to think, when in America i get asked if i'm Australian I tell them no and that they the Ozzies get their accents mainly from London English before strangling a bit, but all good fun and banter laughing at each other!

Mind you the way London is going it'll be Islamic in a few years, i am now classed as a minority in the place i was born and bred in, sad really!

3 hours ago, soalbundy said:

I don't know where this myth originated, None of the people in the occupied countries were forced to speak German and many Germans could and can speak better English than many Americans without the "errm you know, like erm" etc. As for WW2 'Johnny come lately's production capabilities definitively was a contributing factor to victory but the country that bled Nazi Germany dry was Russia.

I think it originated from the US as to how they won the war, both WW. 1and2 that is!

19 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said:

Yeah, my daughter has the same problem. When I take her home to Liverpool everyone asks why she has an American accent.

 

It's the mid-Atlantic accent influence of the international school system where they don't correct them. She can't even say aluminium the way it's spelled!!

 spelled =US spelling, spelt =UK