Liverpool Lou

It's mainly only UK, US, Canada and EU that have imposed sanctions on Russia, not the entire planet.

In actual fact, nothing at all like that.

No, it's because there was no Buddhist statue involved.

"Bangkok airport taxi scammers" You were told how much they wanted to charge (albeit illegally) and you had the opportunity to reject their offers so there was no "scam".

"I'm sure the Ministry guy had a plausible excuse that 'satisfied' the investigators". Hardly, he was jailed and had assets worth B65m confiscated.

Where was that reported?

It was a bar, the sole purpose of which was to sell alcohol for customers to consume, what do you expect, a bar full of sober people?! By definition, anyone who drinks any amount of alcohol is intoxicated to some degree.

It does for some.

I never knocked about with 16 year old girls. Boys, then, whatever floats your boat. Or were you just a late starter as a lad?

"the operators are requesting to be allowed use the beach to make a living". The illegal operators are requesting permission to obstruct public beaches so that they can charge the public for using the beach that the public are entitled to use free of charge, by law. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Or use the discounted international codes that all the phone service providers here offer. B6/B7 per minute to the UK, typically.

That's why we are discussing it, I sure haven't reached, and won't reach, any verdict. Address your "jury" comment to those who have.

B2.5tn in first 10 months of '22. More than enough to cover their empty promises!

What else did you expect? You couldn't have tried very hard with those numbers before you posted your unwarranted, derogatory remarks about Lloyds. And thanks so much for your shouted reply.

How old were you when you were knocking about with 16-year old girls?

Bloke.

"...mine out of the entertainment industry". Wow, you were lucky, was she a singer, comedienne, chat show host, something like that?! I think the posters on this thread are assuming ex-bar girls are being discussed!

Gawd... If you say so.

"Alleged" that she stole the money ! ? I do not necessarily believe that ! Good for you. Don't quote that as my comment, I did not say that, I was quoting the comment of another poster.

Perhaps you missed the part described where it is alleged that she stole 10k. You go ahead with pretending that she is an innocent angel. "...alleged that she stole 10k". Yes, I did miss that. I didn't miss the part that reported that she had been lent a similar amount by the owner of the resort, though. Perhaps you missed that and they're one and the same? "You go ahead with pretending that she is an innocent angel". And you go ahead with not affording her the right of the presumption of innocence in the absence of any charges or evidence, so far.

The Notices work when there is co-operation between the two countries involved; if the country that the subject of the notice is located in isn't interested in working with the Thai authorities it's hard cheese. It's also worth bearing in mind that there's a huge difference between an extradition/Red Notice detention for a brutal, sadistic kidnapping and murder and a traffic accident causing death.

Did nothing in the links to four separate reports give you a clue?

"...the real motive, what exactly was it again..." Retaliation for the girl's refusing to have sex with one of them.

"...what the heck is 0345 266 8634 and ... +44 1733347007". They are both Lloyds Bank's contact numbers that do connect from here, I just got through on both of them. "0345" is a UK code that, obviously, needs "001 44" or "+44" as a prefix. What the heck did you think that they are?

Even though he's been identified as a Briton?