VBF

With every packet of cornflakes? 🙄😂

Possible of course - one does wonder if correct grammar is a priority amongst those who practice bestiality. Then again, perhaps the original quote should have referred to some of the sheep? I could perhaps, be overthinking this.... 🙄

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Oh, so now you're going to throw the book(s) at me are you?

Ah ha! So it's dictionaries at dawn, is it? Have at you Sir 😁

Correct English usage does not change due to the influence of the fashion of the day "Old chap" 😊 it is, or rather should be immutable.

I'm sure you meant to say: American-English is spoken in America which is a derivative lazy bastardisation of British English.

And kindly remove the errant apostrophe! It would be sheeps, but of course you really mean sheep. (The plural is the same as the singular)

Abso-bloody-lutely 👍👍😊 If you don't like it, don't go there....or is that too complicated for these "woke", "politically correct" saddos?

Remember it quite well - one of the few good moves made by government!

Just OOI, if you like Zipper for other reasons, there are loads of WAV to MP3 free converters. I do realise it's tedious, but just a passing mention "FYI" in case it helps.

I do understand, that's exactly what I used to do professionally....it's time consuming but should be done.... IMO

We'll agree to differ....

Who are you flying with - the Wright brothers?

Well said.... Let the Luddites wait and use the archaic systems. Btw....I'm 70 with no intention of letting technology pass me by.😎

Most airliners have power / USB sockets adjacent to the seats. I understand these are still available.

Absolutely wrong!!! The correct way is to test as you say with real world scenarios but the testing should be performed by professional testers with the site inaccessible to others, then when fit for purpose, released as Beta allowing approved users on. Professional testers will ask real world questions, if they're good at the job - I certainly did! Your suggestion is what Microsoft appears to do, relying on the end users to do their bug finding instead of producing a finished product on day one hence the constant flow of updates to Windows.

Probably country of passport will suffice. BUT as @Maestro said earlier, this is still under development and really shouldn't be visible to any of us! As a former software tester, I find this to be extremely poor practice....the site should be on a development server until tested and ready for release to we the users.

Americans can speak English? Well well 🤔😏

None of which matters as long as the stupid vapers (or smokers) stay away from other people when using their filthy products. Harm yourself if you want but leave the air as clean as possible around others.

Corruption?

I do precisely that

They may be TAT official figures but my comment was my IMPRESSION of Pattaya at this time. Many more crowds of Chinese in places I go and have gone in the past. I've no idea if one can trust TATs numbers - have you?

I don't share your pessimism especially looking at the crowds of Chinese in Pattaya at present. I also think that Europeans would regard it as I do - a very minor hurdle. Thing is, we're both conjecturing anyway until some decision is made.....if one is!

True but realistically do you not think that will apply to very few people, and those it does affect will be able to use a combination of SETV and visa free entries of 30 days each if planned correctly? Even if the price doubled, which I doubt, it would still be VFM IMO