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The OP's premise is nonsense. USD is NOT appreciating vs baht. Apart from that, it's fine......... as usual.

Recommend BNH on Convent. I haven't had to go there for a couple of years but have had good service and a doc (can't remember her name) who evidently knew her job (and spoke good English).

You sound like them! The only time I ever use a bank book is for Immigration on the annual extension. It's such a weird system and I have neer understood why Thais attach such mystic importance to it; likewise, when was the last time anyone actually did a "counter transaction"?

Something wrong if the IO keeps your passport. Never leave their office without it.

But who for? In almost 30 years I have never been required to show passport, EOS, 90-day, TM30 or any other doc - except when going to IO to renew same! Why do people get so wound up about this stuff? I had to get a new bank book last week and that caused a row because the passport had changed since the bank last saw it. This concept of changing a passport always throws Thai businesses for some reason, as if they don't do the same; bank gets more hot under the collar than Immigration ever does.

I am given to understand de Gaulle was 1.96 and the US' Lincoln was 1.93. Otherwise most of the nasties are/have been short: Putin 1.70, Kim Jong Il 1.60, Hitler 1.73, Thatch 1.65. The guy in Iran is just 1.52. I have a good idea which end of the spectrum this latest Thai one is at……..

Ability to laugh is not the same as a sense of humour, as the fabulous Rich Hall points out in his act.

If you were brought up on the Goons, how could you forget?! And there must be kids out there, Americans, things like that, that have not got a clue what we are on about. I almost feel pity for them............

Bluebottle: "he's fallen in the water!"

.... and in the West they call them wildfires. Some posters questioning the validity of the OP's enquiry. Why? Only point I would make is that few outlets will want bodies of the age of most of these readers.

I identify as a lesbian. Does that count?

while checking, I noted that an absent (presumably stoned or Fallen in the Water) Sellars was subbed by Valentine Dyall in one episode entitled "Who Is Pink Oboe?". Pleased as I am, it still takes my breath away that censors in those days could be so dim!

sorry to be possibly pedantic, but surely "silly twisted boy" was Grytte-Pipe Thynne?

at least he's sometimes funny, unlike some.........

it was on the original map earlier, so why?

Definitely got barked at for not having it 2 years ago and made sure last year, so Madam will go to amphoe (yes, another poster,ANY amphoe) tomorrow just before we trek to that godawful empty mall in mid-nowhere! Luck of the draw, isn't it. Seems many on this thread can't see the difference between 22 and 2. It's the latter - or its update - we have been talking about.

Pratts Bottom in Kent

............. Ugley, Hampton...............

Mine too (Samut Prakan).

Rubbish. And there are more stories of cabbies returning cash than stealing it. They sure are not perfect but this is just unjustified muckraking nonsense.

Posted twice in an hour. Can anyone explain why it was posted even once? Who are these people?

Hannibal crossed the Alps with an elephant and got a mountain that never forgets.

the Bangkok community? Really? In Bang Phli? It didn't rock people in Samut Prakan, let alone BKK. The usual hyperbolic nonsense.

I would rather suggest "I belong to Glasgow"

Purple Reign?