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If he had saved the money he had used for his full body tattoos, then perhaps there would be enough money in the kitty to help him – – priorities!

Oh dear, you might want to stay away from that thread as it's full of Jesus believers/Bible thumpers/miracle workers/mystics and anything else you want to throw into the mix. The discussions they have on that thread are akin to discussions about, "how many fairies you can fit on a pinhead". Best not go there if you want to retain your sanity.

I did watch the Jimmy Savile expose and I never did like the character anyway, but this documentary really laid bare his disgusting habits, and what an evil man he was. Don't remember a great deal about the Rolf Harris conviction, but what I do remember is that I thought it was a bit harsh at the time, but then a friend of his daughter came out with the fact that she had been abused by him, so that changed my mind.

Phuket and everything was in order.......bank statements showing monthly pension deposits, along with my own monthly deposits, plus all other necessary p/work. He seemed agitated when I got there; maybe having a bad day??

I read some offices might basically deny combination method. I was in the same situation as you, and I decided to free up some money by going the state pension (from two countries) route and topping it up on a monthly basis. However the IO got very annoyed looking through the paperwork I had presented to him and basically shouted at me that next year I should put all of the money in the bank. So I have done that ever since as I really didn't need any hassle with immigration.

Well he was about 67 years old when he said it, and it raised quite a few giggles amongst the audience. I've never heard a man of that age call his mother, "mummy". Anyway as I said it's all over and done now and Camilla can help the poor boy get dressed as he obviously needs some help with this!.

And it's all over and done with now.....GB has a king who talks to trees and called the late Queen "Mummy" even when he was in his sixties, and Camilla has her own personal King sized tampon. Sorted.

Thanks for the lowdown on this place and let's hope your condition is not too serious.....and please keep the posters here informed as to your progress. All the very best to you Tiber.

Wrong on a number of accounts, but then again that is par for the course from a trump supporter! Daniel Ball, 38, of Homosassa is facing multiple charges in connection with his involvement in the Capitol attack after being arrested last week by the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office for allegedly assaulting seven people including two law enforcement officers in unrelated charges in Florida. Put him away for a few years!!

I have just read about his case on the link provided, and just cannot see how this could go ahead, given what is known – – and what is definitely known is that Richard Glossip did not murder anyone. That he may have been connected in some way is very possible, but to get the death sentence for a murder that someone else committed, seems to me to be a travesty of justice.

Now it's an old git with weird eccentric ideas who talks to trees ..........And wants to be a tampon!!!

Have seen some pretty bad experiences with large bangers (firework that is) in my time, and if one exploded near your ears or eyes, then you could be in trouble, so prosecute the thrower, and some.

I was quite looking forward to seeing "The Pope's Exorcist", however would say that it was only just above average at best, borrowing from the original "Exorcist", "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Romancing the Stone". And the movie wasn't really about the actual "possession" per se, but about a secret buried a long time ago – – will stop there because I don't want to give anything away. If anyone hasn't seen the original "Exorcist" movie then they should, because that is the movie which makes every other movie about that subject, pale into insignificance. Also watched one that I wasn't too sure about, called "Jesus Revolution" and as I am an atheist I was a bit reluctant to watch it, but some feedback on it suggested it wasn't quite how it sounded, although I have to say that sitting through it, was a bit "difficult". However, it was based on an actual movement around the 60s hippie era, which continued for many years, and is based on a true story.

When I'm in my car I get overtaken on the outside and inside by motorcyclists, and on one thread here, or maybe a few, posters have argued that if I am going to turn left I should check in my mirror just in case there is a motorcycle coming up on the inside, which they do more often than not, because I would be prosecuted/at fault – – so what is the case? I agree about undertaking trucks is a risky business. And just to add to the post, when I am travelling up Patong Hill, very often there is a slow truck/bus/dilapidated baht bus travelling in the right-hand lane, so basically everybody has to "undertake"!!

And that one is not a particularly good example!

According to the article, yes he does rent the place and has done for about 12 years, and that brings in another factor – – would the owner of the house (the renter) willingly give over his/her Chanote to a foreigner to take to immigration? Never been the case in the rented places in which I have lived, and even when I owned a house, as far as I recall, immigration didn't want to see the Chanote (memory might be a bit hazy on this though). Very puzzling.

You may be right, however that's not how the article reads (to me anyway) because it says the following: – "The requirement for a foreigner to provide a copy of the Chanote title for a property the foreigner does not own appears to be an attempt by Phuket immigration to hold foreigners staying in Phuket responsible under "section 38 of the immigration act" which applies only to landlords and householders". So my understanding of this is that they are applying section 38 of the immigration act to this guy who rents a house, and this section only applies to landlords and householders? Not altogether clear, but then again, TIT.

Only when he cheats at golf!!

Oooh, seems like a nice boy!

A friend of mine who has recently left Thailand for a visit to Malaysia has sent me this link and asked me if I've heard anything about it, and I haven't..........Having said that, I do recall that Phuket immigration required a photograph of the foreigner standing in front of his residence, so how true is this latest snippet/headline? Or is he misunderstanding what is being said?? https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-immigration-demands-title-deeds-home-walk-throughs-for-permit-to-stay-extensions-88012.php

That's the first time I've seen reference to what caused his death, as I couldn't find it anywhere else. Sad, very sad.

Yes, and if they don't have it in stock, they can order it for you. As another poster, voyagerUSA, has said, it was often prescribed for women, especially with cystitis, and because it is a broad-spectrum antibiotic, and there is very little antibiotic resistance to it, it is a useful "old" drug that has been revisited for use in those with cystitis/urethritis/prostatitis by a few knowledgeable urologists, and I am so pleased that I found it/was recommended it by a professor specialising in this field.

Thankfully after trying fosfomycin, with a backup of doxycycline, the problem has not returned and it has been more than a year now, so I'm very thankful for the advice I got from the professor I contacted. Sadly he recently passed away, so my avenue to him is no longer available, but as I said, I don't have the symptoms anymore, so thank you Professor and RIP.

Try "Format Factory" as that does most things!!

You ask a very searching question Dart, because none of the urologists I saw did anything other than to prescribe antibiotics, which was common and still is to a certain extent. Although I will say apart from the doxycycline, that the other doses of antibiotics were only for a couple of weeks, which really didn't make much of a difference in the long run. Looking back and trying to remember all of the urologist/hospital visits is a bit hazy now because it was some 40+ years ago, but with the benefit of hindsight I will say that early on in the piece I did have an STI or two (being a lad about town) and I think that's what led to my prostatitis, which was totally different because it resulted in aching testicles, an ache in the perineum and also sometimes in the buttocks, and that would come and go. Because it was treated no differently than a UTI/STI, doxycycline was dished out and did calm it down for a while, until it didn't. Earlier in life, the general approach by doctors and urologists to anything approaching a UTI/cystitis/urethritis/prostatitis was dishing out antibiotics, without really getting to the bottom of it. So there's not much that I could have done earlier in life, but for the younger folks out there a, couple of bits of advice: – – visit the toilet and empty your bladder whenever you can, something I didn't do because of a high-pressure job, so put off visits to the toilet in order to carry on working. – Wear a condom when having sexual intercourse; always. – Don't settle for the advice of any old Doctor, seek out the best urologist, although it didn't help me much, but these days more is known about these conditions. And I will repeat something which I have repeated often and which the Professor of urology (sadly now deceased) told me; "this area is like a medical wasteland" so seek out the best available and don't settle for being palmed off with an antibiotic, until you have done all of the tests and procedures to determine exactly what the cause is.