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I didn't say that. I don't get "90 quid a week". Where from?

Ha.Pension? Luxury..........

Hasn't got a lot of coverage so maybe worth mentioning: all of us British citizens who don't live there are (as of today) eligible again to register to vote. Having been disenfranchised since it was decided that those who live outside UK for 15 years don't count, I can but assume the 3 million affected around the world will start by throwing out the [deleted] who thought it up, but it's your choice again. More useful detail at: https://www.britishineurope.org/articles/136295-bie-seasonal-greetings-getting-ready-to-vote-blog-2-faqs I expect for a lot of us it won't be easy to prove last registered address, but it's something - even if it is conveniently too late for the brexit referendum............

that's where the whole plate-smashing stuff came from. Pity it's not still in the Olympics.

they also do "Hemp" flavour and, for any weirdos out there:

Well, not Thai-bashing, but how many times have you stood at an ATM behind a local who is reading the card PIN from a piece of paper - or the phone - in order to transact? They will not remember a CVV any more than any other number.

so stay off the BTS as well? Skytrain has more than 30 sets of China-built trains and they don't seem to fall apart. Mind you, the ride on the yellow line is so rough I am hardly surprised bits are beng shaken off it.

Think of the extension, that was flat-fare B15 between Bearing and Onnut, being extended south to Kheha. Now 15 baht for any part of that extension as far as Onnut and what you pay from Onnut to Phrakanong (and by extension, ha ha, anywhere from Kheha to Phrakanong) will be the same as it was previously.

where I drink, a large bottle is 80-100 baht, and I don't care much about reducing that. But buying wine is a different matter. As I have always understood it, the annoying pink sticker over the cork says "duty paid". So would retailers get a return of that paid duty for all their stock? Or will they be stuck with unsaleable goods as new stock arrives? Any booze retailers out there?

It was reported elsewhere yesterday that import tariffs on wine (nearly 60 percent) will also be suspended for one year. That would make a difference. Great for us expats and a lot of Thais who like wine. But wine connoisseurs choosing Thailand rather than, say, France or New Zealand? Makes as much sense as a "central hub"......

take your tinfoil hat off and just walk off the edge of the world, why not?

Er, what? No, don't bother. I meant they get shot in pickups in the USA.

Most tourists are "ignorant". Somehow I expected better from you.......... I don't like them either, but I don't call them names. Not on websites, anyway.

Lots of cities have some long interchanges - Paris, for example. But I never saw such a lack of co-ordination in the joining up of interchange stations. Even super-busy (by BKK standards) ones like Asoke have no bridging or such to facilitate the change. But BKK runs the lines as competitors, hence the lack of such helpful infrastructure as well as lack of interest in common ticketing. "We gave the poor a train, but they still want more," say the top families that make the money from the projects. Never forget that the object of a major road or rail construction is to line certain pockets, not for us to actually use..........

Why do you want indicator boards? You unaware which platform you on/ which direction you going? How difficult can it be to navigate BKK systems? It's not exactly Seoul, fer chrrisssake. And I'm not defensive. I spend most of my waking hours cursing Thais, but one thng they do rather well is keep their trains clean and I appreciate it. You need optical advice, as I suggested. If you live away from a railway, it's not exactly the railway company's fault. But I assume you think differently. Get a limo.

wow. Temple chosen for NYE. A temple! There is nothing else in Thailand to see. Of course that's what they choose. A local newspaper today featured "one-day trips" around BKK. Guess what? Every single one was a temple. Seen one, seen 'em all, I say.

Just like the UK itself. Don't forget they sold off the embassy...... it's a dirty little office in a block down the wrong end of Silom these days.

Then you need a white stick, which ironically would not get you a seat. The trains are clean and, remarkably, free of graffiti But at least in HKG there's the wonderful Octopus card, good for every transport mode and much more. That, as has been said by several posters, is the really stupid thing about BKK's systems.

90,000 billion baht is approx two and a half trillion US dollars, around half the US national debt. Thailand is not worth that much, let alone herbs. As so often, one is left wondering how much comes out of Thai officials' mouths and how much from the other end.

more than usually demonstrably nonsensical. Let's just make the maths easy and say 24 million punters. To reach "24 trillion baht" they each have to spend 100,000 baht (nearly USD2,800). Half that number are Malaysians on cross-burder days out. I never met a Thai in or outside the tourism industry who believed a word the authorities said; this is a proof of why.

The H is for Heinz, which owns it, or perhaps for Holland where it's made. The P is what they are taking.....

But the graffiti is much neater as they have both hands free.

I was about to say the same. Three times in my earlier years living central I had to move from spacious and very agreeable condos as construction started, and it was not so well regulated then as to hours. More recently I located literally 30m across the border into Samut Prakan. If I do need to be in, say, Asoke, it's a reliable 20 minutes; BTS is cheaper (as far as On Nut); you can get a seat on a bus (or BTS); and I don't have to go to Chaengwattana.

prompted me to check the news. It's bad. What a genius this man was! So prolific yet I don't think I ever saw a dud. Sadly missed.

nothing new here, they're just running 30 years late. Anyway, surely what's described in the OP is not a "baht bus" but a shuttle service?