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17 minutes ago, SteveK said:

I got into a small bit of trouble once, well nothing serious, but the bar staff made it quite clear that I was not welcome. Many years ago (yes I should have known better), I had been buying "vodka and orange" drinks for some of the girls in the bar. Tasted one - no vodka. Complained about it and it was apparent that the girls did not want vodka, but the bar was very happy to charge me for it. I had figured out their scam! Ended up spending several hundred baht on a few hundred millilitres of awful orange juice and making myself persona non-grata from a girly bar. Lesson learned.

4 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I'd roger that as well, but I wouldn't try for a relationship with that.

I wouldn,t want to buy a porsche,what with high maintenance,wouldn,t mind hiring one for the night though.

3 hours ago, nauseus said:

 

So funny, when everyone else has noticed that it's the EU doing the real foot-dragging now.

And I don,t think it's because they,'ll miss out company,just the Nelson Eddie's perhaps?

25 minutes ago, nauseus said:

That is the general idea. This EU circus tent is in tatters, the acts are dated and there is an entire herd of elephants in there.

Are you referring to the migrant crisis in the eu?

9 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Countries issue their own passports and have embassies and consulates in other countries, if they don't, they aren't.

Perhaps they don,t but they print their own money which no one wants to change up.

9 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

So maybe you know the answer to the question that I have posed many times on these threads, but never received a satisfactory reply - if Scotland is a drain on England's resources, why would a country that happily allows ex servicemen to live and die on the streets, hang on to an ungrateful and unsupportive people who do nothing but agitate against them?

There's nowt as queer as folks.

7 hours ago, billd766 said:

 

 

In the UK case it is that the UK is the EU member and NOT the individual countries separately. AFAIK Scotland will have to leave the UK and meet all the requirements for EU membership then apply as a separate country which they cannot do at this time as they are still part of the UK.

 

In a similar situation if Catalonia wants to become an EU member it has to leave Spain first.

The last point is why the eu would never vote for it if Scotland should get their independence.

9 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Beats me, but it's probably something to do with the Queen wanting to hang on to all that land she has up there.

A mere pittance when one looks at what uk had to give up when we joined the eu.

10 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

Here we go again. Bill is stating that the rest of the UK should get to vote in any Scottish independence referendum.

Once again I point out the hypocrisy in demanding this when Brexiteers would have had a mass collective hissy fit if the same rule had been applied for leaving the EU.

  

Don,t worry mate if you do get your independence,rest assured the eu will all have vote on your bid to remain before it gets the Spanish archer.

On 1/11/2020 at 8:26 PM, blackcab said:

 

Yes, for sure. It's 3am and I've just got home.

Don,t tell me you ordered an uber at 23.00hr, s and his sat nav went for a burton.

1 hour ago, Rookiescot said:

Was everyone in the EU given a vote on Brexit?

No,should they have?

the working classes don,t need envy to keep them in their plac e Labour has done that.

2 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

You should perhaps focus on your own pension and perhaps consider learning from French.

Your concern for me is touching thank you,however I took other plans as opposed to pension so i,m ok financially,and regarding your remark about envy I just begrudge paying over 20% of my rates to prop up government pensions to people didn,t pay enough into their pensions and other people have to make up the shortfall or go to prison.

1 minute ago, bannork said:

Morris dancing is a rural activity undertaken by those yearning for ye olde England, i.e Brexiteers.

Champagne socialists, on the other hand, are more likely to reside in urban areas, both gentrified and old money areas.

Surely they're more likely to attend community festivals, briefly mingling with neo hippies and leaders of ethnic minorities before retreating to a chic restaurant, only affordable to those earning fat salaries.

I did say armchair as opposed to champagne socialists,an armchair socialist is one who spouts off about how people should act whilst not willing to get involved,a form of " don,t do as I do,do as I say"chomper  however as well as writing such posts typical of an armchair socialist indulged in Morris dancing,wether it is a form of protest against contemporary society using the medium of dance,who knows?.

8 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

You seem to have unique knowledge about the future of the North Sea. Possibly you should share that with the likes of Equinor, who is currently developing the Mariner field at a cost of £7.7 billion, or CNOOC who recently discovered the Glengorm field, said to be the largest gas find in a decade. In reality, however, if you were remotely aware of the O&G industry in the UK, you would know that there continues to be significant finds, and operators continue to make significant investment in exploration. The days of the elephant fields may be over, but technological advances are opening up frontiers and also opening up previously marginal fields.

 

That said, hidden within your latest post of ill informed nonsense was, surprisingly, one little kernel of accuracy. It is true that we need to move away from our dependency upon fossil fuels and develop renewables such that they become the backbone of our power requirements. And Scotland is already at the forefront. We generate more than a quarter of all renewable energy in the UK including 90% of all hydro electric generation. Moving forward, we have a quarter of the wind and tidal energy potential for the whole of Europe and 10% of Europe's wave power potential - we are well placed to move into the next era of clean energy as an innovative leader, as we were at the height of the oil years. 

They,'ll always be a market for oil,nothing like a drop or  two to stop your boots squeaking.

8 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

For the eradication of doubt, just exactly what is a people's election? Are there characteristics which make it different from every other election, or are you simply regurgitating empty words designed to inspire and enthuse the more insipid thinkers among us?

Perhaps you would be better off asking a fully paid up member of the remain party,who were unable to accept a democratic referendum.since then we,ve had " people's referendum " and all other manner of nonsense coming from a minority of people unable to accept result of a vote where They lost to a majority.p.s is Gina Miller a relative of max Miller the comedian?

2 minutes ago, kinyara said:

There's a lot more tourists arriving in Thailand than that sample, that seems to represent less than 15%, I can see why you might think tourist numbers have collapsed using those figures. 3m Chinese !!! If only that were true.

I,'ll be arriving shortly  3 nights in partying to vietnam 2 nites iin Bangkok then home don,t know how that,'ll go down as on the records.

27 minutes ago, sandyf said:

Exactly. Bojo and his merry brexiteers think that 43% is an overwhelming mandate for brexit. Scared stiff of the result of a second referendum he manipulated the result he was after on anti Corbyn sentiment.

Blair manipulated the UK into bed with the US and look what happened. Scotland has a right to self determination and would be right to reject being ruled by a UK/US administration.

Stone the bleeders,I thought it was thai visa not birth of a nation.

1 hour ago, sammieuk1 said:

I would have thought the French government looked at the UK's Tory policy of stiffing the pensioners with envy unlucky for them they have unions with backbone????

And what union in Britain has got the power to go on strike to any effect?thanks to the European union and freedom of movement there's a glut of cheap Labour willing to walk through a picket line.

20 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Let’s look at that another way.

 

French worker’s have seen how the UK Government has stiffed British worker’s, and then used their collective power in unions to fight back and protect their rights.

It would appear the gold plated index linked retire at 50 with a large payment, pensions inare extinct unless one worked for the government,then you cop it subsidised by the ratepayers of the uk,and if you can,t afford it you are put in prison.Thatcher bought out a raft of draconian anti union laws that were not rescinded in the next 3 terms of Labour with lionel,sorry Tony Blair proudly stating we,'re not going back to the dark days of mass pickets,pity the slag didn,t recollect how the union's financed his financially ( and as it turned out ) morally bankrupt party.

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

I aspire to chasing happy hours around town to get drunk... then when I get hungry, it's balloon chasing time!

You,'re a geezer,and make no error

4 hours ago, Leaver said:

Not sure why the "LOL."  I obviously wasn't including 7/11's and Family Marts.

 

Have you ever been to Vietnam?

I have and do,3 bottled of beer £1 in hotel happy hour,£1 for 2 when the happy hour ends and we adjourn to a bar round the corner where the happy hours just starting.

On 10/13/2019 at 9:33 PM, sunnyboy2018 said:

If 50% closed We would NOT be losing a variety of choice. I repeat that the lazy formula of footie and hand sup music is NO CHOICE at all. Most Pattaya bars are undifferentiated,  mediocre,  lazy badly run, cliches. A sad reflection of their clientele. I can think of less than 10 well designed bars in Pattaya.....As for irish theme pubs! Just dreadful...a hangover from 70s Britain. And the constant drivel of black 'dance' music from the MTV charts have no place in a bar. Any bar that closes deserves to close for pandering to the lowest common denominator of entertainment......and driving out discerning customers with money. I view the closure of <deleted> bars as a protest and boycott which is finally beginning to bite. Some idiot bar owners think they must must let the bar girls dictate music policy to keep them happy!! <deleted>!

And throw the exchange rate and London pub prices charged there you go