Mel Bourne

Its very hard to take the TAT seriously considering a recent president was the wife of an army general under investigation for murder.

I assume it was all a misunderstanding.

..Thailand's fight with never ending corruption continues.

That's what they said 30 years ago when I first came here and Phuket was a sleepy tourist town with cashew nut farms.

Good to see they have life guards as Phuket is incredibly dangerous for weak swimmers from China and Russian who have never seen coastline before. Imagine them in real  surf with 2 metre waves rolling down!!

Australians laugh at Phuket (surf) they call it a wading pool.

Wait for the next scandal involving life saving funds going missing before next Songkran festival.

TIT

With the world economy sliding into recession and conflict in Iran/SA imminent expect to see significant reductions in global services if it hasn't started already.

The astonishing bubble in world aviation over the past 10 years is over.

Don't train to be a pilot. High demand for pilots is only matched by low demand at the end of the cycle.

4 hours ago, RoadWarrior371 said:

TL;DR

 

Saddam promised the mother of all battles.  I lasted for almost the entire weekend. ????

The Americans are still in Iraq and Afghanistan with no end in sight.

Trillions of Pentagon dollars gone .

You were saying. ......?

A lot of Pakistanis and Africans speak far better english than the farangs you see hanging out in soi bars and many of them have good qualifications. This woman obviously has a problem and no doubt was being paid very little maybe 25k/month.

Immigration is checking all gov schools in Thailand including all the whities who teach not just coloured.

The bus driver was a Thai tourist from Buri-ram, Issan.

He was visiting USA to see his loving "sister" who is married to a 65 year old yank.

He was offered some work paying 6bucks/hour and jumped at it.

Only joking.......maybe .

I've seen all of SEA Asia and its mostly an open rubbish tip. Try the bus trip up the spine of Asia from PP to Vientiane .Never seen a broom &tray.

Cambodia and Laos are waiting for foreigners to pay for the clean up.

Thailand's bad news but Cambodia is disgraceful.

Any award for cleanliness and the environment is farcical.

Just another photo op for corrupt ASEAN officials.

Something to show the grandkids.

Went through Sampeng market last week. Traditionally one of the busiest tourist markets in Bangkok.

Almost empty.

Never seen that before.

Glorified systems managers most of them.They get all sorts  of perks.

Australian airline pilots went on strike when Labor Kingpin BobHawke was PM back in the eighties.

Sacked the lot of them. Spoiled brats with some of the best working  conditions in the world and simply wanted more.

It costs a fortune to maintain and keep planes safe.Pilots don't have to pay for it. They get driven to and from luxuryhotels and airports in courtesy cars,discount holidays,plenty of time off even running private businesses on the side.

BritishAirways aka BOAC went bust years ago.

What's going to happen when 10'000s of Chinese pilots graduate from their acadamies shortly?

The authorities know who  all these cartel scum are so why don't they just carpet bomb their homes, estates,ranches and buildings?

Modern day petrol bombs incinerate everything. They're very cheap to make .

Obviously law enforcement / courts etc is one of America's biggest employers. 

Won't happen like it does in Sicario1&2.

Immigration were correct. Her passport was invalid but UK officials  won't spot it as they simply look at your ID page . She knew.

Instagram model ? What is that?

Maybe she tore out pages that had stamps she didn't want  officials to see. 

What was her real reason for being in Bangkok?

55 minutes ago, shaurene said:

I am ex UK lived in NZ for 30+yrs. NZ will do a deal with UK no problem. UK will buy our lamb, beef, cheese, roan pressed Posum, honey, wine & shell fish. And Australia, Canada, India, West Indies for Sugar etc. We do not need Europe, they need us.

Possum, sugar from Canada?

Whatever you're smoking can I buy a kilo of it?

This topic has nothing to do with Canada or Australia which are two of the worlds highest GDP economies.

NZ GDP is somewhere down with Cambodia or Vietnam.

Was she entering or leaving the hotel?

Either way  I doubt it was her first time. Her Russian 'boyfriend'  will have to start again.

He'll be back with a new passport before Christmas high season with another CIS female. There are thousands of them.

I spent 4 years in Paris. Is Snowden serious?? He must be playing games or its misleading news.

The Americans are all over Paris and London. How long would a white guy wanted by Uncle Sam last there? How many USAF bases are in Europe ?

Take your pick.Easy.

Maybe Trump will say ...'you don't know this (locals) but Australia is a huge island surrounded by water ; deep water , record deepness!'

He's bound to say something ridiculous about India or Australia.

He never reads any briefings or pays attention to anything anyone says.