Mosha

The UK does recognise Thai legal marriages. Go talk to the Citizens Advice Bureau, they will fix you up with a free 30 minute chat with a solicitor.

Around here it's normally done twice per year. Once just before the rainy season starts, and again just as it's ending My wife buys 20 bags for 25 Rai.

We've had 2 cats which for some reason couldn't give birth. In both cases the vet cut the by now dead kittens out and neutered the cats. My wife is in the don't do it camp, as I will be neutered in the next life.

From the news article quoted in the OP: flight TG0303 from Ubon Ratchathani to Bangkok made an emergency landing Ubon Ratchathani airport shortly after it took off at 9:30 pm.

From flightstats.com (www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStatus/flightStatusByFlightExtendedDetails.do?id=180547122&airlineCode=TG&flightNumber=303)

TG 303 Flight Status

Flight: (TG) Thai Airways International 303

Departure Date: Fri Jan 08, 2010

Route: From (BKK) Bangkok, TH to (RGN) Yangon, MM

Equipment: Airbus Industrie A300-600 Passenger (Scheduled)

Equipment: Airbus Industrie A300-600 Passenger (Actual)

Departure Information

Departure Status Details

Airport: (BKK) Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, TH

Scheduled: 8:45 AM - Fri Jan 08, 2010

Actual: 8:46 AM - Fri Jan 08, 2010

Arrival information

Arrival Status Details

Airport: (RGN) Mingaladon Airport, Yangon, MM

Scheduled: 8:45 AM - Fri Jan 08, 2010

Actual: 8:46 AM - Fri Jan 08, 2010

Somebody somewhere must have got something wrong.

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Maestro

That flight should be

TG;303;BKK;RGN;08:00;08:45;134567;AB6

TG;303;BKK;RGN;08:00;08:45;2;AB6

TG;304;RGN;BKK;09:50;11:45;134567;AB6

TG;304;RGN;BKK;09:50;11:45;2;AB6

Flightstats isn't exactly a reliable flight soursce

It was the refs fault.

Fergie votes for Leeds. (Well he would wouldn't he )

http://www.leedsunited.com/news/fergie-vot...2247585_1925542

The captain informed passengers before landing that the windshield cracked and one of the four engines stopped.

To be perfectly honest I'd rather hear that after we'd landed.

You wouldn't have wanted to have been on BA9 a few decades ago then

Despite the lack of time, Captain Eric Moody made an announcement to the passengers that has been described as "a masterpiece of understatement":

“ Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get it under control. I trust you are not in too much distress. ”

A fellow walks into a bar, notices a very large jar on the counter, and sees that it's filled to the brim with $10 bills. He guesses there must be more than ten thousand dollars in it.

He approaches the bartender and asks,

'What's with the money in the jar?'

'Well......you pay $10 and if you pass three tests, you get all the money and the keys to a brand new Lexus.'

The man certainly isn't going to pass this up. And so he asks, 'What are the three tests?'

'You must pay first...... Those are the rules,' says the bartender.

So, after thinking it over a while, the man gives the bartender the $10 and the bartender drops it into the jar.

'Okay,' the bartender says, 'Here's what you need to do:

First - You have to drink a whole quart of tequila, in a minute or less, and you can't make a face while doing it.

Second - There's a pit bull chained in the back with a bad tooth. You have to remove that tooth with your bare hands.

Third - There's a 90-year old lady upstairs who has never had sex.... You have to take care of that problem!'

The man is stunned. 'I know I paid my $10, but I'm not an idiot! I won't do it! You'd have to be nuts to drink a quart of tequila, and then do all those other things...'

'Your call,' says the bartender..... 'But, your money stays where it is.'

As time goes on, and the man has a few more drinks, he finally says, 'Where's the dam_n tequila?'

He grabs the bottle with both hands and drinks it as fast as he can. Tears stream down both cheeks... but he doesn't make a face, and he did it in fifty-eight seconds!

Next, he staggers out the back door, where he sees the pit bull chained to a pole. Soon the people inside the bar hear growling , biting, and screaming sounds...

then nothing but silence! Just when they think that the man surely must be dead, he staggers back into the bar, with his shirt ripped open and there are scratches and he's bleeding all over his body.

He says, 'Now where's that old woman with the bad tooth?'

If she can't get by on 25,000, she needs to talk with my wife's cousin in Bangkok. She works for AIA in Bang Na and gets half that. She pays 6000 on a house loan and about 3000 on school fees. Has to pay for her mum's medication, so she hasn't much left at the months end.

Thais marry Farangs so they have someone to blame when they fart. That's my experience anyway.

MSN and the Leeds Utd website say Beckford has handed in a transfer request

It's not blazing rows that start it in our house. We don't have blazing rows, we get on very well, and agree on most things. I narrowly avoided one silent treatment yesterday.

Sopha . "Ven!" She shortens my name to the last sounding syllable so Stephen becomes Ven.

Me from two doors away. "Yes."

Sopha a little louder. "Ven!"

Me also louder. "Yes."

Sopha louder still "Ven!"

Me matching her volume "Yes!"

Then silence, I finished what I was doing on the PC and went to see what she wanted, she was applying her war paint to go to a wake or what ever they call it.

So I asked her what she wanted. "Why do you talk so loud, I don't like it." <deleted>

This is so stupid, she can't hear me and when I make myself heard she starts sulking.

If it's any consolation, it's not an expat thing. A couple of our Thai friends are doing it to one another just now. It's quite comical to watch as one enters a room the other leaves. With mine I just wait her out. As long as she cooks I just put up with it, eventually she cracks. Then I give a mock "Are you talking to me?"

Older than 4?

When waiting to pull out, pick a shiny one.

Health issues aside. You can't blame a chemical because it's used in suicides. People drown themselves, hang themselves etc. If they are that desperate they'll find away.

Thanks George. Can you sticky the topic please?

Fergie's like a stuck record. Blames the ref cos 5 minutes extra time wasn't enough. I was like a young kid last night, dancing around the room, I still have a silly grin this morning. Man of the match? All of them. Just a few times when the defence got sloppy. Wes Brown was lucky not to get a 2nd yellow. I wish I had a clean Leeds shirt to where into town

Fergie didn't b;ame the reff It must have been his fault thehn.

Who is Fergie going to blame? 1st time they have gone out in the 3rd under him, as we know it's never his fault. Oh to be in Yorkshire tonight. Chaiyo

You can concentrate on the league now. Well done Leeds.

0-1 at half time, and far from disgraced, C'mon lads only 45 mins left.

1st post in this thread this year. So 1st off, Happy New Year folks. Now as for Mercedes, I don't think Nico will easily be persuaded to play 2nd fiddle.

http://www.crash.net/f1/news/155650/1/rosb..._dangerous.html

Thanks.

Is the match been shown tomorrow? Leeds are 11/1 favourites. I must fish out my Leeds Shirt.