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1 hour ago, StreetCowboy said:

The words UCI and ‘world’ cropped up in the TV titles; but the queries remain valid whether it was UCI world championships or Scunthorpe Cyclocross Municipal Challenge.

 

Surely riding through mud, an adapted road bike is not the solution; but most of us ride a lot more gravel than mud.  And there should be more kerbs and steps (up and down) that you might choose to ride, or choose not to.

So you made the situation up. It is irrelevant whether ‘most of us’ ride a lot more gravel than mud. Local circumstances dictate the kind of track - e.g, in Belgium (where the races attract enormous crowds) where you wouldn’t find any gravel at all, but lots of mud. BMX tracks are completely different.

Are you sure you are watching the UCI Cyclocross World Championships? The 2019 version was in Denmark, in February, and next February the 2020 edition will be held in Switzerland.

An extremely popular and very, very demanding winter sports in some European countries. The bikes are not road bikes, but have been specifically designed for this purpose.

1 hour ago, pixelaoffy said:

Looking at the police around the big 5 star hotels in central Bangkok the last 3 days its a big junket at tax payers expense . One big waste of money , That is all this ASEAN is. A meaningless "make up" of countries.

ASEAN appears to be mostly talk and very little action. Members don’t seem to trust each other, there is very little sense of common interests.

23 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Nah this is a widowmaker .. even with a disc up front .. 

 

Mainly because of the hinge in that frame.......

8 minutes ago, nauseus said:

True but negotiations were held with the Council. Small changes and no extra opts outs that were not already in place. No good Juncker saying this now. The genie has left the building bottle.

It took you a while but there it is, that bottle again. Keep bringing it back so that we know who to blame for the Brexit shambles.

23 minutes ago, TopDeadSenter said:

Not funny at all, it's just sour grapes. When the UK finally gets free of the EU, the EU will be left with a gaping hole in their finances. The UK was a very rare thing, a giver not a taker. To the tune of untold billions of pounds per annum. No wonder the European nations (and their hack cartoonists) have run the gamut of emotions from denial immediately after the Referendum, through fear, loathing, more fear, more loathing. Ending up where we are today. With more fear of Brexit, and more loathing of the winner here, the UK.

Not funny? What happened to that British sense of humor? Sour grapes? Gaping holes? UK the winner?? You obviously haven’t got a clue how the general public in the EU looks at the shambles you got yourself in. The UK has become a laughing stock. 

8 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

The last few times I've flown into Bangkok with Emirates and with Thai Airways (i.e. within the past couple of months) I have not been issued with a Premium Lane Pass.

 

Maybe they ran out or just never bothered to have the passes on those flights?

A couple of years ago when there were no passes and I asked the FA said they'd ran out, they also sometimes run out of TM6 cards.

 

 

Thai Elite take me through anyway, so its not an issue, however, if I didn't have Thai Elite to escort me, when holding a Business Class boarding pass I wouldn't hesitate to use the Premium Lane and show the Boarding Pass - I can't see an Immigration Officer taking issue with this. 

 

 

As far as I know, the possession of a business class ticket as such is - formally - not enough for the use of the premium/priority lane. 
Airlines have to pay into the system and in return they can hand out access cards to their passengers. Not all airlines participate though, so having a business class ticket would not automatically mean access. As this is Thailand, it could well be different in practice, depending on the security staff that controle entry to the lane.

Yes you will receive a card for the Premium Lane.

Chiang Khong, 290 km from Chiang Mai.

3 hours ago, kingdong said:

What agreements?a disputed sum plucked from the air by the eu?

A sum agreed upon in the negotiations and so far not challenged by BJ........

30 minutes ago, fruitman said:

Free trade where Thailand puts 4-500% importtax on the European products....what a joke.

Well, a Free Trade Agreement would change that, wouldn’t it, After a transitional period, goods originating in the EU wouldn’t be subjected to import duties in Thailand anymore. Same same the other way round,

17 minutes ago, Eligius said:

E.U. aims to resume free trade talks with Thailand.

 

Shame on them. Should be NO negotiations until Thailand returns to democracy and holds HONEST elections - and imprisons its traitorous criminals for the rest of their days!

 

Too late for that - EU has already concluded similar agreements with two non-democratic ASEAN Member States: Vietnam and Singapore.

16 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

Neither Britain's parliament nor the EU will ever agree to Britain leaving. This is all a waste of time.

You still don’t know that the EU does not need to agree on the UK leaving? It is the UK’s decision - but you choose to ignore that so that you can blame the EU, don’t you...........

Import duties are calculated on the value of the goods plus shipping cost to Thailand. Rules laid down in World Trade Organization’s agreement on Customs Valuation.

1 hour ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

And the EU Medicines Agency was headquartered in London until quite recently 500 high paying , professional jobs which led to yet another reason to have most of the major Pharma/Biotech companies to be HQ'd and have R&d in the UK. I used to visit it often now it's in Frankfurt. Also a lot of clinical trial companies located here and through the EUMA an approval in one country meant it was an approval for all the EU - it's called regulatory alignment. Post Brexit we will have to mirror that agency to sell drugs in to the EU. It's called the cluster effect. But Bob the Cowboy Builder wouldn't know anything about that or care. 25 of the top 100 selling drugs in the world were discovered here thanks to our world class universities and research centres populated with the best of the world scientists and innovators. The EU turbocharged this already great centre in sector after sector. More wealth should have trickled down to the less well off but that was Tories, the sale of council houses , the banking collapse and offshoring globalists not the EU. Now the working class look to tories and spivs to bat for their side. Pathetic slimey cap-doffery of the most ignorant sort. 

I agree with your argumentation, just want to correct two mistakes: The EU Medicines Agency (EMA) moved from London to Amsterdam, not Frankfurt. The EUMA you mention is the European Microwave Association, with HQ in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

16 hours ago, Pennekamp said:

The EU should change its name to Hotel California and adopt a new anthem: "You can check out any time you want but you can never leave".

Another EU basher reporting for duty?

12 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Extra online banking security, middle of last month, which made it harder for all us expats to access our UK accounts.

Need UK SIM, Debit card and debit card security reader to get anywhere.

Annoying as heck.

Well, if that is based on EU legislation, the UK government voted in favour of, so what’s left of ‘imposed’ by the EU?