Formaleins

Got to earn a penny or two eh!

I went to school with "Mark" back in the UK. He wasn't a bad lad actually, quite a nice bloke - Don't know the politics, but they could do a lot worse.

Surely such "Holy" people do not need these sorts of reminders, or do they?

There's a surprise! NOT.

How totally ridiculous can anyone get? To base your forecasts of GDP and foreign revenue on a two week slice of tourist arrivals, and then come up with that ridiculous "7.08%" ....Di they get some 5 year olds to draw this up as a school project? Maybe they see their future in politics with dear Keith back in the UK? They are measuring and trying to micro manage the unmanageable. Thailand appears to have gone from a Kleptocracy to an Idiocracy.

How can you set a new password if the old one is supposedly wrong? You need to be logged in to change it - Have you checked your keyboard settings? i.e. US / ENG etc? as if you use special characters, like " or @ they can be in the wrong position depending upon the keyboard settings. (don't ask how I know)

You see, this is the way to go, take note! The usual doubling of the prices whilst simultaneously reducing the portion size by half is not how you win new customers or retain existing ones, no matter how much you don't like it, price manipulation will not strengthen your business.

Well what to make of it indeed! I'll go to the foot of our stairs!

Where's that sick bag?

Did they manage to remove restrictions from 7/11? The worst thing about this idiot law is that if you read the signs in the shops regarding the sale of booze, it appears to be perfectly legal to buy booze in the "restricted" hours, providing the amount of booze purchased is obviously for a business or a raging alcoholic - I forget the amount, it might be a case or two. Try getting the shops to abide by this "NON LAW" - I have not found one single shop that is willing to sell booze during these hours for the amount stated to be legal by the government, you can even point to their own damn signs at checkout telling them this but they refuse to sell. No helping some people.

Another generation has their English ability crushed!

No it is not normal! I bought the Click for my wife a year or so ago and the bike is as smooth as silk, no judder no vibration. I would take it back and get them to check the belt drive, other than that it sounds like wheel / tyre suspension rather than anything with the motor.

Why don't they stop this continuous, never ending drivel about exchange rates, tourist numbers, bloody discount coupons.... Why not just sell hotel rooms for 100 Baht, a pint of beer 20 Baht, a plate of food 40 Baht, problem solved and shut the F up FFS!

"Ahh, you have the Bar Fine" Coupon, that gives you a 50% discount, and w2ould sir prefer front or rear entry? That coupon will do very nicely sir, could I interest you in this 75% Oral discount special one time offer?"

I used a removal company a few years back - they offered the best prices with better than average service. They come in, pack everything and do all the paperwork. Santa Fe Shipping, was the name of the company.

"Binmen," "Dustbinmen" and "lazy council bastards" were words often used to describe this profession when I was a young man.

Obviously the Indians will be the main target of this protracted initiative to increase tourist numbers and thus revenue. The Indians are particularly popular with TAT as they quite happily live, eat and <deleted> on the local beaches, and hey TAT, the Indians don't even need a bloody tent! So its a win win situation, camping on the beaches, ablutions dug in and lurking beneath the sand, eventually it will fill up under the beach like a huge fecal plateau stretching as far as the eye can see. future generations will marvel at this rich bio diversity beneath the sand, eventually marvelling in how it is almost turning to crude oil, but a bit browner, looser and smellier.

How about some bloody training for bike riders and car drivers instead of the ridiculous 1 day or even 2 day gala event of obtaining your driving licence. where you sit for one or two days looking at illegible road situations on their "AI" Computer - like an Etch A Sketch but in colour and with less resolution - 45 out of 50 points to continue to the next level! Before you manage to get to the Boss Level of having your photo taken, paying a fee, you will attend the "Depth perception" class, where one eyed octogenarians pass with flying colours. where the contestant has to move a pencil like object back and forth over an extended distance to try to match the pencil position with a previously setup reference pencil. Next, comes the Traffic Light" Test - This involves shouting out the colour of the "Traffic Light" in front of you - "Deng, Deng, Leung, Kieow, kieow, Deng! as you practice your skills at driving straight through them. The only practical test for the motorcycle is to negotiate a raised platform about 1 foot wide 4 inches high and about 8 foot long, as long as you don't fall on your arse then the pass is in the bag! Obviously, obtaining your licence automatically makes you Thailand's number one driver, like all the rest of them, and don't worry if you are really <deleted> at driving, you can pay the head guy 2500-3000 Baht and he will waive the technicalities!

It means you will pay more for any sub standard room than you did before and now it will probably be called an hotel.

(3K up here)

The outpouring of hatred towards poor Keir and Sadiq is alarming, Such vicious racism here is quite shocking. All of this hatred and violence over hanging flags from lamp posts. Let's end all of this infighting and simply hang Keir and that POS Hahn from any available lamp post. In fact, I believe TREASON is still on the books in the UK, so hopefully a nice public hanging, followed by a spot of "drawing" and "quartering" should do the trick, but making sure that their intestines are wound onto a rod and roasted in front of them both on an open fire. Seems about fair to me.

FFS, what next?

Amazing Thailand, where everyone except the culprit gets charged!!

A soldering iron and some 60/40 tin lead with flux core will make a much better job.

Can you not get it sealed in one of those "Duty Free " bags? - Amazing how you cannot take more than 100 mls of liquid, but they are happy to sell you a couple of litres of Vodka or similar, of course duty free Vodka is non flammable!