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He poked it with a stick and then tried to set fire to it. Now that all the science is out of the way we'll just have to guess what it is.

Kudos to your wife sir. Sounds like a keeper.

Any chance you can introduce that Thai wife to mine?

Here you have made a personal belief and stated it as fact. Let me for now term that as a personal fact. ...and here you use that personal fact to help shape your opinion on someone who might not hold the same beliefs as you. Science does not ignore anything. It seeks to find answers, but it seeks to find them within a framework that can be measured, tested, peer reviewed and found to provide consistent results. Right now it struggles (to say the least) to do that in areas that you might call spiritual, but there again perhaps it has not discovered the tools it needs to do that work. The atom was first hypothesised more than 2000 years ago and then proved around 200 years ago. Since then, through science, we've discovered the building blocks of the atom and then the building blocks of those building blocks. It is thought that homo sapiens have existed for around 200,000 years. The idea of continental drift which led to the discovery of tectonic plates only cropped up around 100 years ago. So for 99.95% of the existence of man, we had no idea of the cause of one of nature's most destructive forces. For much of that time it was widely believe that it was (a) god's display of anger. Science has led us to amazing new discoveries. it has changed our lives for the better (arguably) immeasurably just in the last 20 years, even in the last 5 years. It has led us down some false paths too, but it cannot tell lies for eternity because the very foundation of its framework would make that nigh on impossible. Sure some people in a position of power have used the discoveries of science for evil, but that does not make science wrong, or evil itself. I honestly believe that many people who deem themselves to be spiritual have a total fear of science, lest one day science proves their whole belief system wrong. It might also prove it right, perhaps spot on. TLDR; Embrace science as it might well deliver you the proof needed to convince the non-believers. If that's not something you feel you would ever need/want to do, then why discuss at all?

The editor has his work cut out.

With the aircraft they use, at least 1 and much more likely 2 fuel stops would be required for any Thailand > UK flight. I think I'd prefer the direct commercial flight with a row of seats removed or, even better, not need a flight at all.

Arrest yes. Charge no. Arrest needs only reasonable grounds of suspicion of any involvement in a crime. Charging needs a reasonable expectation of a conviction.

Under what jurisdiction are these timescales? If it's UK, they can hold you up to 24 hours without charge (but after arrest). For a serious alleged offence, they can apply to hold you for 36 > 96 hours, again without charge. I expect it gets more complicated when Thailand is involved, but it can be 48 hours here without charge and again longer with a court application.

That amulet was well worth the money. Turned a 10m deep river into a 50cm deep stream. There again my £500 driving lessons were worth even more. Taught me how to not drive into a river.

Indeed. Also: 1.) Being re-incarnated as a soi dog after death 2.) Paper hand job (this was the English translation published by the government a few years ago of one of the jobs restricted to Thais) If I ever gained citizenship, my first task would be to buy an old baht bus, fit some big eff off speakers in it and then drive down an already busy road at <10kph blaring out the most monotonous nonsense that anyone has ever heard. I've always wondered why that is allowed here.

He has the patience of a Saint. Happy Birthday Sir.

Being able to directly purchase land would be a pretty good gain.

I'm here so that certain forum members can't say to me: "You probably don't even live here"

Mainland Russia to mainland USA is roughly half that distance.

Pump time depends on who's used the pool and for how long, whether it's rained and whether I've needed to add chemicals. Sometime it runs 6 hours or more a day. Sometimes less than 1. The only time my pool goes cloudy (rather than green from algae growth) is when I've needed to add large amounts of soda ash, but I now do that less as if it's pH that I need to raise then aeration is a better option.

Amazon knew exactly what JC was before they got into bed with him. Personally I like him. I don't like all his opinion, but most of them are said in jest. I bought Prime purely because of The Grand Tour. Clarkson's Farm was a bonus. Cancelled it because there is very little else worth watching. I loved the Jack Ryan series, but they keep cancelling what I think is good stuff WAY too soon. I'll probably do the same with Netflix soon too.

I'd love you to. My post count would go through the roof (maybe even the firmament! ???? )

I watch so much stuff about Flerfs but never thought I'd actually "meet" one, if you can call this meeting. I thought you lot were all joking. Are you for real? If so, no wonder the talk about doomsday.

I'm pretty sure you know already but spot welding (which your connections will almost certainly be) is very different than soldering. I can't remember which channel but I saw a video recently about trying to DIY replace lithium batteries and re-spot welding them. The main point was that there is a real danger of the battery catching fire / exploding if you make a mistake or are just plain unlucky. They were literally doing it in a box of sand. If I were to do it I'd be very tempted to find a battery holder - ie the black plastic things that you snap batteries into so that they are held in place by springs. Then use the wiring that comes out of that to connect to your existing wiring. That means there must be space for the battery holder of course, but it's much bigger than the battery itself. If your lights have more than 1 battery, and so there are multiple spot welds per light, I'd most definitely do that above, as it becomes significantly harder to spot weld them properly.

No lights on the pumpkin.

30k plus prostitutes. Avoid rent.

To add to what KannikaP writes above, I've tended away from buffet style anything for years now, purely from a hygiene perspective. Even at a 5* hotel now there is little chance that all my fellow buffeters washed their hands the last time they peed, etc. There are plenty of fresh cooked breakfast options from 99 baht and up that a buffet, for me at least, makes little sense. I do understand some of the attractions of it though. Sorry that this doesn't directly answer your question.

Doha airport is big and has plenty of DF options. If you're transferring on the same booking (ie your bags are tagged to your final destination) then you wont be going through either immigration or customs in Doha. You might go through another security check, but they are not looking for tobacco.

I wouldn't care if they deposited it or not. I'd want at least some kind of proof that I handed the cash over to one of their staff.

No, the report clearly says "Initial reports from the injured suggested that the van went out of control", so it was the van, not the driver. ????