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stratocaster

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  1. Not exactly new as both aircraft are almost 4 years old and are from a batch of cancellations. One plane is ex Hainan airways but never carried out commercial flights. Cost per plane is estimated at 110,175,000 US.
  2. Reminds me of the American V/logger in Thailand who brought is 70 year old mother to retire here. Last month the video was titled " mum lives like a millionairess on small pension". Next video was "mum has road accident and needs hip replacement". Next video was "thanks to all the people who used the gofundme to pay for her 15,000 US operation.
  3. This is why my niece had to stop exporting to Europe with the loss of 42 jobs. https://www.itv.com/news/2023-05-26/worrying-levels-of-e-coli-in-uks-shellfish-as-sewage-spills-into-sea
  4. As I posted previously my UK mates bought a buy to rent condo in Laem Mae Phim. In the first year they only got one rental for one month. It has been on the market to sell for 18 months. Main drawback is it a one bedroom condo with 32 sq mts and there are loads for sale 10% cheaper than they paid.
  5. To me the best bike he has build is the Velocette lookalike. Can't understand why nobody has thought of reproducing them.
  6. There was a bill proposed in Parliament to require all retailers to continue to accept cash for products and services. It failed at the first petition stage. So, yes at present they are under no obligation to accept cash.
  7. My apologies . The unemployment rate used for my hometown is actually the economically inactive rate among 16 to 64 year olds. the unemployment rate is 5%.
  8. Comparing rents is impossible unless the comparisons are like for like. For an example, an identical property with no off road parking is around 300 pounds a month cheaper than a property with a 2 car off road parking in London. A completely unscientific take on property rents using 5 in a scale 1 to 10 for area, which is the biggest factor in any kind of property, renting or buying. My home town 15.6% unemployment rate and 25,000 average salary, shows an average rental of 574 pounds for a studio and 1200 pounds for a 2 bedroom semi. London, close to Heathrow with an unemployment rate of 4.5% and an average salary of 35,000 shows an average rent of a studio at 1200 pounds and 2700 pounds for a 2 bedroom semi. As you can see leveling up has been a massive success. Cheap rents but no work, expensive rents buts lots of work. The average mortgage holder in the UK is now paying 46% of their income in mortgage repayments a 15 year high.
  9. The OP needs to show some patience. One of my mates in Bangkok has finally sold his condo in Bangkok after being on the market for almost 3 years. Got what he paid for it.
  10. Latest breaking news from the Daily Fail. (The paper that keeps racism alive and well in the UK) Those bloody EU foreigners are at it again. They have just announced that in the near future, UK citizens will be subjected to requiring a visa to visit the EU. To add injury to insult they will treat us as common criminals requiring a photograph and fingerprints. Who do they think they are, treating gods gift to mankind as ruffians and scallywags. Calling us a third country nation is just not cricket. (We are world leaders at that as well). They need to realise that the last time we were restricted to visiting a country we gathered a task force and gave them a damn good thrashing. We at the Daily Fail say stop buying Johnny Foreigners EU goods so that their economy collapses and they come cap in hand to join the Empire Of The UK to access our wonderful trade deals. Continued on pages 2,3,4,5,6,7,8. On another page but well hidden from readers. Hundreds of Brits expelled from Sweden, Portugal, Spain, France and Germany in the last week. Unfortunately space limits restrict reporting on their fate.
  11. Three years ago I used Elite for my 90 day report. There were 9 people that week using their 90 day report. Due to change of address, immigration would not accept my online 90 day report last week. I got Elite to do it for me and there were 172 people using it that week.
  12. And last year Nadine Dorries claimed 161,234 pounds in expenses.
  13. A mortgage monthly repayment 12 months ago was 989 pounds per week. This month repayment was 1,690 pounds. That is for a 300,000 pound house slightly up from the 225,000 average UK price. Yearly motor car insurance 12 months ago 438 pounds, this month 657 pounds for a Dacia Jogger the cheapest seven seater in the UK. My niece has a maximum no claims bonus, clean license, and pays 2,345 pounds for a 4 year old Audi TT up from last renewal of 1,766 pounds.
  14. Breaking news from the Daily Fail. Today the greatest prime minister since Winston Churchill was basking in the glory of turning a 7000 majority into a 495 majority. Taking the battle plan from his colleague Rees Mogg, from the 1860 faction of the Tory party, dishy Rishi pushed home the plan that perambulators over 50 years old should no longer have to have a man carrying a red flag in front. Local resident Mr Clint Abdulla said it was a victory for democracy that the great and deeply missed Boris Johnston had been returned to his rightful place as MP for Uxbridge and that other names. (some mistake surely). There were two other by-elections.
  15. An under discussed fact regarding CPTTC. The UK already had individual barrier free trade agreements in place with 10 of the 11 member states. The only new one is Malaysia. Headlines from the Malaysian Straits Times is that due to the UK joining CPTTC the 12% tariff on palm oil is to be removed. So the UK will allow unsustainable and environmentally unfriendly produce to enter Britain to the detriment of all the rape seed oil farmers who have to follow UK imposed rules. Still the good news is there, will be no farmers voting conservative in the by-elections.
  16. I wonder if Kemi Badenoch had a glance at a map to see where the CPTTC countries are located and where EU countries are. Now this is a trade deal. RCEP is a big deal, literally and metaphorically. When it’s signed off, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership will create a free trade zone covering about 30% of the world’s gross domestic product, trade and population. It also marks the first time Japan has had an agreement with China and with South Korea. The Japanese government approved the deal at the end of April – and expects it to boost GDP by 2.7% and create more than half a million jobs.
  17. O the irony of it. The Daily Mail holding company have put down their loss in advertising revenue as due to reduced adverts from EU clients due to Brexit.
  18. Regarding Thai visa in Vietnam a guy did not realise he needed an appointment for HCMC which was first slot open in 12 days time. He went to Hanoi were a slot was available the next day. Hanoi refused to accept his Agoda booking for accommodation.
  19. From Vientiane consulate. Visa Application Hours:09.00 – 12.00 hours, Monday – Friday (except Thai & Lao official holidays) Visa Collection Hours:13.30 – 16.00 hours, 2 days after submitting the application, e.g. Monday submission, Wednesday collection; Friday submission, Tuesday collection
  20. I am a Brit and bank with RBC Jersey. They sent the same form to me as previously posted. Regarding TIN I just write reason A "Not Legally Required". I also have a Wells Fargo US account and they have a box to tick regarding TIN with "not legally required" as reason for no TIN.
  21. The problem with incidents like this is that they tend to have a knock on effect for all westerners. I have just watched a 15 minute report on Thai tv and the two words combined at least 100 times were "Pattaya Mafia". Big Joke, in his 1 minute interview, said that in future closer scrutiny will be given to people on retirement visas.
  22. Seeing the title can anyone tell me which visas are issued at counter N. Last time at CW I noticed that there were at least 50 Chinese all with their individual agents queuing up.
  23. Most super markets in the UK sell packs of what they call world beer which is three large bottles for 5 pounds. A well known UK aficionado has just done a review of one such pack containing San Miguel, Tiger and Singha. What was weird was the Tiger is brewed in Edinburgh by Heineken. The San Mig is brewed in Nottingham by Carlsberg and the Singha is brewed by Shepherd Neane in Kent. By the way the Singha won.
  24. Being watching a load of condo adverts on Thai TV and noticed that they no longer feature the interior shots of the units. They concentrate solely on the swimming pool area, the gym, the public spaces, the reception area, the view, the car parking etc, etc. I suppose as all units look the same there is no point featuring them.

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