Trip Hop

I don't think that there is a set period. You just go back, inform the DSS/HMRC that you are back living in the country and give them an address. I suppose it will take a few weeks for any paperwork to be sent out and completed but as soon as that's done you can technically leave again.

The guy has made a few mistakes, there's no need to be nasty. I personally wouldn't wish any ill on yourself, even if you do come across as a right d*ck! You must have a very empty life to have nothing better to do!

Where have you been for the last 20 years or so, maximum 100ml for each individual container has been the standard since these rules were brought in worldwide? A standard Ventolin inhaler is 100ml so you could carry 10 if you so desired?

Yep, they’re trying to catch up with the rest of the world! 😁

i honestly don’t see what your point is here? Respect the underwater environment, don’t touch it and leave it as you found it is drummed into every student at the outset. Correct buoyancy appreciation and control is a skill that comes with experience and practice. A certificate stating you can take reasonable underwater photos is not really going to add anything more. When I was diving regularly I wasn’t exactly the best at taking photos, however give me a wreck to penetrate (where correct buoyancy is crucial) and it was a different matter.

I agree 100%, not just to protect the reef etc but also for their own safety. As a former DM who only occasionally dives these days, over the years I’ve had to stop quite a few runaway ascents where an inexperienced or trainee diver has had their mind anywhere else except on their buoyancy.

I agree with your first point regarding being able to have correct buoyancy control whilst your mind is elsewhere i.e. the camera and the subject. However an underwater photography course will add very little, as these are mainly concerned with preparing the camera, basic photography principles and how they are affected by the underwater environment.

Very true. I abhor the use of knives but as you say we don’t know what has gone on previously. Threats may have been made towards the assailant or his family and he just decided to settle it on his timeframe. If this is the case though, he could have done things differently.

No BS but either he has a doppelgänger or I seen him on Koh Chang earlier today.

I thought it was strange when I seen that the original plea for information of Facebook a couple of days ago was made by his aunt and not his parents? As you say, people should not judge him as you never know what is going/has gone on in his personal life. When I was in my late teens, I had a former school friend whose parents were going through a divorce. He got so fed up of being piggy in the middle with them continually bitching to him about each other that he waited until he got his grant for university, left the country and ended up working on a kibbutz in Israel to get some peace.

I wouldn't quite go that far. I've personally bought about 5 tickets over the last year including over xmas and I would say they are averaging about 30-40% up on pre-Covid. That's for directs and one-stops with short transfer times on the London-BKK route, bought 2-3 months before. Take into account the increases in APD and whilst it's gone up, it's not that bad.

It’s worst than they expected. 36% ooft!

Ah, that old chestnut. If you knew anything you wouldn’t have made such a crass comment. I repeat, your ignorance is profound.

Whilst you may like to portray that you know what you're talking about, your ignorance is profound!

As someone else has stated, he has that "I'm Billy Big Balls" look about him and his attitude has got him in trouble. No doubt he has kicked off in the cells thinking the consulate is going to rescue him and that he can get away with it in exactly the same way he can in the UK. In doing so he has alienated not only the police but the rest of the detainees and has suffered the consequences. I've been banged up here once for DUI and whilst the cells aren't great they're nothing like he describes. Whilst there might not have been an endless supply, he would have had enough water to sustain himself and if he didn't have the common sense to preserve it, that is even more evident of his immaturity. There are also farang charities that come around the cells to check on farang detainees, offering a bottle of water and a few slices of bread or similar to make sure that you're getting some food. Even whilst in the cells, once I had engaged with the locals and they had seen that I was just a normal guy and I had no attitude or air of superiority to myself, I found them compassionate and friendly, offering to share their drinks and chocolate with me. Obviously the guy has found out the hard way that regardless of where you are from and who you think you are, it makes no difference here. The £5k story for flights is also BS too unless they didn't fly economy. Like a spoilt child he's now doing his best to do a character assassination attempt on the country whilst expecting others to pay for his mistakes.

And if you've got your years in, you're perfectly entitled to.

Fair point about the real fraudsters but if you are paying your taxes in the UK why shouldn't you be entitled to NHS treatment and pension increases? With the upcoming changes to non-dom status, this will get even more complicated.

Utapao is officially Rayong despite it being promoted as Pattaya airport. Although Utapao would make sense with the expansion of the airport and the proposed Eastern Aviation City.

I wouldn't quite say that. For it to continue to work I had to set the date back on my trusty Psion II that was full with programs that I used for work. 😁

Be real will you? It would be a similar situation if it was smoking, alcohol or yaba. What everyone should really be concerned with here is how a 12 year old has had access to vapes and why no one stopped it?

He's also been connected to fatty since a young age too, through his mother. Although he appears to be rather irrelevant these days?

It’s not just Bangkok and the north either. A couple of weeks ago I was in Bang Saray on a sunny day, looking north towards Pattaya about 20Km away and it was fully encompassed in it.

Sandra I think? Oh,Lordy!

Which one do you reckon, Sandra or Tracey? 🤣

You can’t beat a bit of Satellite City! An amusing take on some aspects of valley life. 🤣