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2 hours ago, jackdd said:

Might be because the shaky camera is giving people headaches and the music doesn't make it better

One can’t expect stable camera work on these ‘roads’ - maybe putting the camera in a chest harness instead of on the helmet would help a little,

20 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Have the Chagosians had  a referendum on voted on whether they wanted to leave or not ?

No, the British wouldn’t allow that????.

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.