Chongalulu

You are of course correct about taxes which distort prices. Actually domestic U.K. wine is more expensive than say Australian. U.K. really doesn’t have the geography to efficiently produce wine to compete with the likes of Australia and southern Europe (I worked in the industry). It costs more per bottle to truck a container across Europe to U.K. than a shipping container on a ship from Australia to Southampton docks!

You don’t really understand the mathematics. If I charged you 5% p.a. on a loan of £100 you would pay nothing back until the end of the year when you would pay me £105 . That is true APR and how your bank pays interest on a savings account . If you started paying the loan back via monthly payments say over a year then clearly you haven’t had the benefit of borrowing £100 for a full year,thus you are paying a higher interest rate. If you need that explained in more detail I suggest you google it.

No matter what your salary,or even if you're on unemployment benefit in UK everyone pays the same . Wine here is double the UK price

As another poster pointed out that is not APR (true interest rate) Briefly by halfway through the repayment period you've repaid half the capital but still being charged interest on the whole sum. It roughly works out at double the quoted sum. But at 4% real rate that is still good and beating inflation,so you are actually ahead !

Yes there is. I have Bein sports for 1000 baht whole season. This morning I simply went onto the video on demand catch up which has no spoilers so effectively it was live for me at a convenient time. I watched both matches not knowing either result beforehand. They have the FA cup too

Something of a food connoisseur I notice. Wish I had the money for beans and spam then I could throw off the shackles of my taste for Milano salami ,Black Forest ham and Camembert that I’m stuck with buying from Foodland…

30 baht per litre of diesel or thereabouts I’ll take all day long thanks. More than twice that in Uk!

You sound white and entitled. Go back to the nanny state where your mummy gave birth Do let us know when your mummy finds out who you father was - or can reduce it to half a dozen options…. Oh ,mummy dropped you on a stranger's doorstep ,did she? Never mind ,perhaps you were brought up by soi dogs?

Along with grapes raisins and sultanas are toxic for dogs

But enough about the Swiss...

Here we go with yet another Groundhog Day of comments.. 😴

5 years ago in Uk I bought a Boots (chemist) branded product. You quickly see the Omron brand name on parts of it. My doctors had omron too. Made in Vietnam. Seems the obvious choice so just get the model with the features you want. Basic does the job but mine keeps a record of previous readings to compare with.

Fair enough then. But yes Poe’s law does strike regularly here. 😜

Then make that point coherently. You haven’t really mastered the skill of irony if that’s what you wer3 attempting

"No,Sergei it’s YOUR turn to play Ukraine and mine Mother Russia! Oops,looks like "Donbas" has fallen ! Was that from your "putsch "..? "…

Yup,back in the U.K. happens to me on every visit to Canvey Island 🏝️…. 😡

Which part of ” drunk” were you struggling to understand? If you have to invent something to support an argument then you don't have one

Plaid???

30 years ago went on a dive trip there where you spent one night in a room there . My dive buddy found a scorpion in the bed. They're out to get ya... I tell ya !! 😨

Can you extend that to the rest of the year - put you out of our misery.. ?or at the least let us have songkran in peace ! 😭

I expect,as your friends, they must be very tempted to jump from those high places...?

He has the beginnings of a fu man chu moustache to be fair…

Given the size of him I tend to agree - hasn’t had a bowel movement in decades ! 🤮

Likely Canvey island- the place you’re considered overdressed having more than one ear…

If a fat bloke that size wandered into your bar saying " Quick,I’m touching cloth! " would you really risk it? That self closing seat would never recover ! 🤮