GanDoonToonPet

Address everyone as 'comrade' or 'thetan'. Problem solved

I'm going to send this guy...😂

Hard to predict inflation but Thai food / drinks, cost of labour etc not likely to increase in proportion to the UK pension. If you own your own home, minimal increase in costs. Hopefully the 800k threshold for retirement visa will still be in place, giving a comfortable cushion.

£230.25 per week = £921 every 4 weeks with 13 four-weekly payments

Currently £230.25 per week = £997 a month When I retire in 2041 projected to be £2284 a month or over 100 000 THB at current rates

I managed to complete the process last month...easy when you know how 🤪 The deadline has now passed but for anyone else who has made payments and still has questions, HMRC have a discussion forum where you can post questions and they will be answered by HMRC staff. The best thing to do is trawl through previous posts because people ask the same questions over and over again: https://community.hmrc.gov.uk/customerforums/ni

Read the news much? Eleanor Williams (criminal) woman jailed 10 years false rape claims https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-64536882 I could go on...these are just recently and in the UK!

All because 'she said' Wrongful conviction of Andrew Malkinson

The very definition of a witch hunt!

Yes, just for the 60 day stamp. I'll be staying in Bangkok with my (soon to be) wife. I'm getting a bit too old to do the minivan runs except maybe the now defunct run to Pu Nam Ron, Myanmar if that ever comes back. Plus I have friends in PP so it's nice to make a proper holiday of it.

Rather worrying. I worked for 6 years in China, only coming to Thailand once or twice a year for a month maximum; actually I couldn't leave China for 3 years during COVID. After that, I flew into Thailand near the end of Mar 2024, spending 7 months there, and flew back to my home country (UK) around the end of Oct 2024. I'm due to fly to Thailand at the end of next month (Apr 2025) and stay until I go back to work in China in Aug 2025. I'm more worried because after my first 60+30, I'll likely fly to Phnom Penh for a week and fly back in to get another 60. 🤔

It's likely that 'they' have a condition called ' 5α-Reductase 2 deficiency' or '5ARD'. This is where someone has XY chromosomes but a faulty gene on the Y chromosome leads to incomplete development of external genitalia (micropenis) but they still develop, partially or completely, secondary sexual characteristics during puberty.

2010 gave us the (final) abollition of the Christian blasphemy laws and the Equality Act with the following protected characteristics: - age - disability - gender reassignment - marriage and civil partnership - pregnancy and maternity - race - religion or belief - sex - sexual orientation https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/4 2020 gave us Section 66 of the Sentencing Act which states that judges must consider 'hostility towards' the following groups as an aggravating factor: - race - religion - disability - sexual orientation - transgender identity https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/17/section/66 Now here's where things take a dark turn. Currently working its way through parliament is the Hate Crime (Misogyny) Bill which states that judges must consider 'hostility towards' the following groups as an aggravating factor:: - women https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3072 Now we're on the verge of introducing an Islamic blasphemy law. We seem to be moving from legislation that protects everyone to legislation that protects only very specific groups or specific sub-groups.

Insanity! Imagine the amount of tax the government could have raised and spent on public services instead. Actually, it's a double whammy as they've wasted taxpayers money on the 'eight months of diligent undercover investigation'.

It was only implemented as a short-term measure anyway so nobody should be surprised.

Do 'red' and 'reed' sound similar in Hebrew?

Yes. You can open the calorimeter afterward and feel the heat with your hands or see it with an infra-red camera. Similarly, you can feel the wind with your hand by putting your hand behind the sensor or hear it by putting your ear behind it. Also, you can see the wind using smoke or opaque gas instead of air. This is a common method when studying fluid dynamics.

Yes by using a calorimeter and E = mc^2 By using a pressure gauge or anemometer

I've just reached this stage but have hit a bit of a snag 🤪 This morning I received my response letter, with the shortfall tables, giving a breakdown of how much I need to pay in class 2 and 3 past NICs for each year, for the past 15 years. For some years, I have to pay a mixture of class 2 and 3 due to short periods of unemployment. I've read the site you linked to, and the corresponding one for class 2 NICs, but can't fathom how I inform them of which year or type I want to pay for.

What a complete Tosapol !!!

Management restructuring, eliminating loss-making parts of the business and replacing staff with automation / technology are all things that they would have done anyway...very convenient for them that the budget came along. Sainsbury's made almost a billion in profit last year, and are projected to make over a billion this year, so the 140m added costs won't break the bank. They have 1431 stores in the UK so I expect most of those 3000 job cuts (actually they announced 1500 before the budget) will be bread-cutting bakery staff. 🤪

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Journal_of_Vaccine_Theory,_Practice,_and_Research

No description of the attackers? 🤨

Do you mean you're eligible for class 2 for past gaps or for future contributions as well. The Gov recently abolished class 2 so must pay class 3 now...currently about 900 GBP per year. 🤔

In the vast majority of Bangkok pubs I go to, the advertised / menu price is what you pay. The only place I remember that pulls that crap is the Irish bar at the end of KSR whereas all the British / Irish pubs I go to on Suk don't.