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And for those who could not decide on a colour, VW in '96 brought out the Golf Harlequin

Why do meat pies have a hole in them?

So that Wiganners can eat 5 at a time

This one is better spoken in a Wigan accent but I'll try it here

What time is it when you see a pie on a clock tower in Wigan?

Sommat to ate

For me, blue is out - I always seem to have bad luck with blue cars. Green is also a non-starter - birds leave little presents for me, for some reason BRG does not attract these 'donations'. Gold - looks tacky and cheap.

All the shops are crowded at this time of the year so Christmas shopping is h*ll. In October, the shops are not packed. If we move Christmas to October them everyone will be able to shop in peace. What do you think of that?

Sure they are. They are long staying tourists as evidenced by the fact they travel to another country every 30 days.

Going to another country, staying for a few hours for the sole purpose of getting a visa does not make them tourists.

[ But for now, get yourself sorted out with a proper visa.

Thanks for your concern but I have been 'sorted out' for the last 4 years

How are 30 day visa runs an abuse of the system?

30 day visa exempt stamps are issued for tourism purposes. A tourist is someone who travels for pleasure, tourism is the practice of traveling for pleasure. Building a house/running a business/living in the country for X years are activities that cannot be defined as tourism. Before anyone says anything, tourist have been known to build/buy houses in countries other than their own and visit for short spells/rent the property out but their main domicile is in their own country. Long staying visa runners are not tourists and are therefore abusing the system.

Dont know about your country but mine and most will give you a second passport simply.. all you need is a valid reason..

Visiting Cuba and America ?? valid reason..

Visiting Isreal and anywhere else in the middle east valid reason..

Ask your embassy this..

I must carry my passport on me at all times in Thailand correct (yes)

OK I want a Libyan visa and theres no embassy in Thailand.. It has to be posted.. Now what ??

Mine smiled and issued me a second passport..

Touch of genius..

I actually hold 4 passports but thats another story..

I am British so can only speak from a British viewpoint. Libyan visas are strictly controlled and are mainly issued to workers. Saudi Arabia do not issue tourist visas unlike other GCC states and you have to be sponsored and approved for either business or work. If you are Moslem wishing to perform either Hajj or Umrah then you are subjected to your country's quota system. If you have a Saudi visa in your passport and wish to travel to Israel then you will be issued with a temporary passport valid for 12 months, I cannot comment on the US/Cuba visa

Some forms are confusing but there is always a logical procession to them. You state in your first post that you are married "the date we married"

Q9 - fairly straightforward - when and where did you meet?

Q10 - The period of time after you met that you began your relationship.

Q11 - When did you decide to marry your partner

Q12 - when did you marry your partner

So in your original post

Is it the date that --

** we decided to marry, Q11

** the date we became serious Q10

**the date we married!! Q12

Hope that helps you

Does Belgium have a similar divorce law to the UK? If you have been separated for 2 years, you can get divorced if both parties agree. If more than 5 years, you can be granted a divorce even if the other party does not agree. I may have over-simplified things here.

Question 12 mentions the word 'spouse', if you look it up and you are married then the answer is obvious! If you are not married then when did you start having a spouse like relationshop?

I think it will be better not to speculate until there is an official notice.

(clue.. Get a second passport.. wow that was tough)..

Get a second passport and use that! These are definitely the words of a genius! How many people who do not have dual nationality can get a second passport legally? 'Lose' your passport and then file a false police report, a false declaration to your embassy and pick up your new passport. Then, because you still have your old passport with the entry stamp in it, use it to leave the country. That, as I said before, is a touch of genius and now all you have to do is explain why you are leaving the country on a VOID passport.

The 90 days is almost up, on this and other forums posters have been thinking of ways to circumvent the new regulations. There have been schemes suggested that are either illegal, dubious or just stupid. There has been a suggestion that the new regulations are not workable so you can "carry on as usual with your visa runs but I am not brave enough to try it, I've just changed my visa." Get a duplicate passport - that'll work, really?

So will the first person who successfully gets into Thailand with continual visa-run entries exceeding more than 90 days after the October start date or using a duplicate (not a genuine lost/replaced passport) please post here to tell others in the same situation how it was done?

You are here as guests in Thailand and although you may not agree with the laws, you have to abide by them.

There has been and always will be a difference between UK humour and US humour. Slapstick, mime and other types of visual humour work the world over. A lot of humour depends on your mood, age and situation. My ex-wife used to enjoy a British sit-com called 'Bread' and I did not. On a trailer for one episode there was a funny one-liner and I laughed. She said 'Why are you laughing you don't like the programme?' I was laughing at a one-liner that amused me.

American TV comedy seems to rely on canned laughter because we all know that laughter is infectious, to me that does not add anything to the programme but takes it away.

In my opinion, the closest that US and UK humour were almost in sync - Monty Python in the UK and Rowan & Martin in the US. There will be plenty of people who will disagree with me.

CB does seem to have a fixation on Embassy fires, see http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...c=9266&st=0

Post number 1 "There is a huge column of smoke, well south of Wirteless and Ploenchit. I i had to guess I would say the Australian Embassy. ANybody know more?"

Post number 3 "It's not the US embassy, I can see that from my apt building."

Post number 12 "If it's really between Sathorn and Rama V that's possibly the Saudi, UAE, Kuwat, or Omarn embassies."

Are you familiar with Aesop's fable about 'The boy who cried wolf'?

You saw smoke coming from the general area of the American Embassy and automatically thought 'Bomb'? What is the world coming to? CB, you said 'Did you notice the unusual velocity and density of the smoke plume?' In your first posting, you just said 'lots of smoke', now that is very descriptive. Can you describe what you saw?

Yes, VLC player is the best solution I know.

When I bought my first DVD writer, it was altered by the chap who installed it, he either flipped a switch or moved a shunt, so that it will now read any region and play any region. Without this small mod, on the 5th time that you put in a different region DVD then the drive will 'freeze' on that region so you will have to take it and have it reset again - this can only happen 5 times.

Looking at 'Nero InfoTool', the bottom panel 'DVD Features says:-

DVD Features

Region Control RPCII Changes Left User 5 CSS (Tick)

Region Code None Vendor 4 CPRM (Tick)

I suggest that you take the Apple to the dealer and see if he will do it for you.

If anyone wants a copy of the Stanley Holloway 'Yorkshire Pudding' MP3. I'll e-mail it to them - send me a pm.

Both the defrauding an insurance company and the speeding are illegal acts, would the police prosecute the motorist for speeding to get medical aid or would they put their 'blues & twos' on and escort them?

You may throw as many of your scenarios at me, my opinion will not change. Fraud is a criminal act - not matter how well intended it is!

That's not how I view it. I understand it's against their rules. It's just that I place a higher value on a persons life than I do in maintaining arbitrary rules in all cases. If you had a dying person in your car. would you exceed the speed limit getting to the hospital, maybe run a red light if possible? Good rules till a greater need arises.

Now, what type of argument is that? It certainly isn't a logical argument. How can you compare a 'mercy mission' with fraud?

I believe that they are fitted with larger expansion tanks and fans. When I was in Dhahran in 1995, there were about 400 Jeep CJ5s parked in a compound at Half Moon Bay and had been there since Gulf War I. When I asked why they were there, I was told that the manufacturers shipped them over for use with the Allied forces and could not be used because they needed larger expansion tanks and fans. No-one wanted to pay for the modifications so there they stood and it would not surprise me if they are still there today.

Did you leave it to stand for long enough and did you give it a final whisk? What type of oil did you use? Try costing the bun tins in butter. You will get better with time - remember, it's an art, not a craft!

Just noted a typo in my post. It should, of course, say 'Try coating the bun trays in butter' and not 'costing'.

Did you leave it to stand for long enough and did you give it a final whisk? What type of oil did you use? Try costing the bun tins in butter. You will get better with time - remember, it's an art, not a craft!

Yorkshire pudding tips - use plain flour, after mixing let it stand for about 30 minutes, Get the oil in the bun tray smoking.

Toad in the hole tips - prick sausages and then half-cook them. Leave them to drain. Pour half the mix into the oven tin and cook for about 10 minutes, then put in the sausages and pour on the rest of the mixture. Cook til golden brown. This stops the sausages falling to the bottom.

Wlko, you only forgot one thing - pigs in blankets!