Trip Hop

Totally correct in that if you are married, there is a not very well known law that states you are allowed to help in a small family run business without a work permit in order to provide for your family. The issue is how the local BIB or immigration interpret this and whether someone if charged, would have access to a honourable lawyer to fight the case on its merits and not just see it as a meal ticket with no care for the outcome? My lawyer brother-in-law once told me that me helping to clear up after hours or occasionally carrying a bag of rice or similar for my other half in her roadside cafe/restaurant in the suburbs will not be a problem although waiting tables full time would. I'll be honest though in stating that I wouldn't want to test it in your average bar/restaurant in the centre of a tourist hotspot.

Ooh, hark at you? It would help if you had some knowledge of what you were talking about and a sense of reality before making such a crass suggestion? Hence the opening comment! My father always taught me that if I had nothing sensible to say, say nothing; and you could obviously learn from this? Social inferiority eh? From your obvious ignorance and lack of real world experience, which is profound from your initial comment, I would be taking a long look in the mirror before suggesting this of others. Just FYI though I don't have any trouble jetting back and forth the US with work when I need to, so I doubt that anything Thailand brings in will have any effect on me.

If you read my other post you would have seen that I clarified this position in that whilst it is compressed it does not suffer from the additional compression created by the tank being at depth. Hence why using conventional scuba you will always burn more air the deeper you go.

Are you for real? Enhanced DBS are only available to employers and registered organisations that can justify their need. Do you honestly think that the UK is going to release that kind of data in to the hands of a country that ranks fairly low on the least corruption index and wouldn't know what data protection is if it fell on one of their heads?

From 6 metres, no chance. Explain how I never suffered an embolism when as a kid we used to dive to touch the bottom of the 6m deep diving pool at the local swimming pool? Additionally and whilst not advisable I've also seen plenty of dive students having breathed compressed air, panic and bolt to the surface without exhaling from a bit deeper than that and never suffered an embolism. Maybe I should have explained in a bit more detail in that the air is tank supplied and compressed but at surface pressure so it doesn't suffer the same additional compression as if the tank was at the same depth as the user? However, you still might want to check up on your physics as the pressure in water is linear with depth and therefore you will get the same percentage of expansion/compression going from say 10m to 7m as you would from 3m to the surface. Boyle's Law is a linear equation (P1.V1=P2.V2) and therefore your claim regarding it being more important closer to the surface is a total load of tosh as it's all based on the pressure difference between the 2 points (depths) in the water.

It's definitely a nice feeling when you get your buoyancy just right enabling you to do this.

The system is known as Snuba (or a variation of this) and has been around for about 20 years. Quite safe at 6m depth even at with fast ascents due to the air being surface supplied and not compressed. At this depth, no risk of the bends either unless they were down there for an unimaginable time whereby hypothermia would most probably have set in first. There should be a divemaster keeping an eye on them though.

The air is surface supplied i.e. not compressed and therefore there will be little or no expansion upon ascent, so no worry of pulmonary barotrauma. At the 6m they will be diving at, there will not be enough pressure for there to be a worry of a build up of nitrogen bubbles in the joints and therefore your suggestion of possible decompression sickness i.e. the bends is rather ludicrous. The system that they are using is called Snuba (or a variation of it), has been around for about 20 years and is quite safe for use at 6m for these exact reasons.

I flew in December with EVA whilst carrying some cordless power tools. After researching their conditions thoroughly, they will not allow any lithium batteries in the hold (even if attached) unless it is pre-cleared with them. Therefore the actual tools went in the hold in a suitcase and I carried the batteries (72Wh each) in my hand luggage in li-po bags. The li-po bags were not a stated requirement by them but I did it to avoid any possible hassle at security.

Someone from my locality who I knew very vaguely, went on the run in Thailand several years ago after teaching a nightclub bouncer a lesson after he tried picking on him. I haven’t seen him around since pre-Covid days but he was at large for several years (and still maybe), despite having an interpol red notice on him. Had a Thai wife and a couple of kids too.

The pool at the bottom of Hin Lad is barely deep enough to swim in and in order to jump off you’d have to be able to accelerate like Yousain Bolt to clear the rocks on the way down. Most probably either hurt herself on the 30 minute hike through the jungle to get there or a slip on the rocks of the stream that flows to the waterfall? I’ve had many a travel insurance policy over the years and often paid extra for other hazardous activities. However I cannot recall walking up a mountain ever being classed as such!

Sounds like it may be a similar scam to where sometimes if you get a trial version of a software or app, they still ask for your debit card details? What they don't tell you clearly though is that they sign you up for automatic renewal every month unless you cancel. Got caught very similarly a couple of months ago by an online merchant website that I bought something from whereby they automatically signed me up for their discount club and starting debiting about £8/month from my account. By the time that I had noticed it, they'd already taken 3 months but luckily I had the original invoice for my purchase which clearly stated that membership to their discount club was free and therefore everything was refunded immediately by my bank.

Give it up will you? You have no experience whatsoever of dealing with this local authority yourself yet you talk as if you are the Oracle? OT at this authority couldn't even organise getting the small adaptions required for my mother during the latter stages of her Alzheimer's so we ended up paying ourselves, let alone something like this? It was the same for a close friend who was at risk of falling due to a back condition causing her to lose feeling in her one leg. One of my closest and oldest friends in this world has not long recently left her job of 14 years as Policy Manager for a well known charity that supports people like this because she couldn't take the stress anymore of seeing people who genuinely deserved help but were constantly being let down by this authority amongst others. Such was her knowledge on the laws regarding this subject that she even used to attend the Senedd and advise the Welsh Ministers on any policy changes they were proposing. Yet apparently you know more than all of us?

Have personal experience of dealing with Taff Ely CBC regarding disability adaptations have we? I have as I'm originally from not far from this guy and whilst in theory what you say is correct, the reality is far from it, especially if you want to remain in your own home. Due to the time that it takes to get everything approved and budget allocated, people often end up paying for it themselves. Keep your nasty comments and bull***t to yourself until you know what you're talking about!

The Click 155i/160i were made in response to the loss of sales to the more powerful Yamaha Aerox. 5Kg should be negligible to a rider especially with it being slung so low in the frame?

Take a look at the appearance of say Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Harold Shipman, et al? Judge a person just by their looks? A self-righteous, bigoted opinion if ever I have heard one!

Something I’ve never been able to understand myself. Even the Mrs rants that they done nothing when Covid was around and nothing in low season. Come high season they’re digging up everywhere without a care on how it portrays the place to visitors but expects them to not only come back but also increase in ridiculous numbers? If Pattaya had a real rainy season like other parts of the country then I could understand but it doesn’t except for the very occasional flooding?

Let's put a bit of common sense in your argument? Thailand wants investment, period. In the case of an individual wanting to buy say a condo, under your rhetoric they'd have to remit say 20% over the purchase price to cover the withholding tax on the chance that they may get it back at the end of the year or possibly several months after that? Need I say any more?

Not always but these 2 just happened to mention where they were from when they were trying to coax a couple of bar girls out of the bar without paying the bar fine. The use of the word DUDE and similar others are a dead giveaway though! 😘 Nothing against Yanks or Canadians and got quite a few decent friends from both countries. Just making a point to the OP that it's not just the Brits walking around shirtless. You sound like you need some anger management counselling?

Funny you should say that? Seen a couple of shirtless yanks with goldie looking chains, strutting their stuff up Beach Road early yesterday evening. Spotted them again still with shirts off long after the sun had gone down in Buakhao They looked like they fitted carpets for a living?

Because my other half thinks exactly the same as the dog and she’s a very street wise Bangkok girl. I’d trust both of them with my life. Stop being so pedantic just to sound smart as who mentioned anything about snarling dogs? As stated in my original post, unless you’re a shady looking person you wouldn’t have a problem!

We have a 3 legged Thai Ridgeback that is soppy as anything but is exactly the same. If anyone pulls up at our restaurant in a car or on a motorbike, he greets them with his tail wagging and a big smile. Anyone shady looking walks by and he shows them his teeth, just so they know the score if they should come around visiting one night. It's strange how they know who most probably won't be trouble and who possibly might?

I came in last Saturday afternoon and the 1st immigration queue was down to the bottom of the ramp. Went to the 2nd and that was at the bottom of the ramp too but didn’t have the zig zag lines. Friends came in exactly the same time this Thursday and it was exactly the same.

Nope, not at all. I was expecting it to ask on the application but it didn’t. I don’t even have physical statements so would have to print one to pdf if I did. Even thought about it after and considered whether I had missed it on the application and expected it to be rejected but it wasn’t. From your unfounded accusations I’m obviously a better person than you, perhaps the visa office seen that too?

Sorry for the late reply but only just seen this due to the site being down. Standard 60 day SETV applied for online from the UK. Hope you’ve got yours sorted by now?