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I've seen some ugly SUVs before, but that takes the biscuit. Is that an early concept or is it really what they are going with? The current 'Tuna is probably the prettiest of all SUVs.

I resemble that remark!

I've never flown the A380 but I'm told It flies similar to the A320. Obviously it would be a little different on the ground... I've flown the A330 but that handles like a boat. You have to make control inputs based on where you will be a few seconds later. I have 30 or so hours in the 737 classic (300, 400, 500) but I'd still take the A320 CEO all the time. A 3000 baht discount on the A380 no longer sounds like value. Thai have mothballed them as have most airlines. Emirates is still the major customer and will have them for another 15 years or so. I'd love to make Thai an offer on their old sims... they will be worth next to nothing in a few years time.

I should have mentioned - no experience at all is required. Just an interest in airliner operations. The basic take off / flying is really easy, the rest can be learned as part of the experience.

I regularly use professional A320 Level-D simulators, the kind that cost $10,000,000+ (for a cheap one). In the US I was paying crazy money ($500+ per hour), but here in Thailand they are relatively cheap. Costs shared (I can give you costs in PM) and travel from Pattaya area available or can meet closer to Bangkok. You'l need passport ID (although its rarely checked as I've been using this company for a few years. Spectators also possible (at little cost). This is a full motion simulator, the ones that the airlines use with full wrap around visuals, real cockpit controls / instruments / scenarios. Normal session for me is 2 hours, but I've done 1 hour (not really worth it), 3 hour and 4 hour sessions on occasion too. General questions can be answered here. Specifics in PM. Thanks.

Don't forget Rene Artois please. A hero of my time. Allo Allo

My old Click went from Pattaya up to the top of Issan via the bus company. The wife sorted it and I think it was around 500 baht or so including collection.

Bollards.

I recall a similar thread not so long ago (within the last 6 months or so) asking very similar questions. IIRC, the logic was that if you are on an ED visa then you should be studying at a school, not leaving the country for several weeks.

Great find. It's definitely there and not Bang Sare.

Does not compute.

Wouldn't they work anywhere?

Thought it through just fine. My comment was "I'm not sure why people who have lived or been here keep quoting just the law and not what really happens." and I gave 2 examples. One where an apparent false law was being enforced and one where a law wasn't being enforced. The point, as I'm pretty sure you know, was to show that what the law is or isn't here often doesn't make much of a difference in every day life.

We could, but in the 8 years I've been here (driving most of the locations you mention plus a few more).... Before I had my Thai license I was asked at least twice for an IDP to back up my UK license and was fined for not having it (500 baht one time and 400 the other). Since having a Thai license that has always sufficed on its own. IDP may not be required by law, but having one would be one less reason for a fine that you're probably not getting out of. Or just pay the 400 baht fine on the slim chance it's asked for which would likely still be cheaper and easier than getting an IDP. I'm not sure why people who have lived or been here keep quoting just the law and not what really happens. Prostitution is illegal, so there can't be any here, right?

With his telescope he should have seen the police coming from miles away.

Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me. Would like to explain, but got to go. Mama just killed a man.

If it was £2k per annum then any hike in the zero allowance wouldn't help as they already pay no tax. For clarity, the answer I gave to your £13k / £50k was based on annual earnings, as that was clearly your intent. The current allowance being only a little under £13k would mean any hike would take that lower scale person out of income tax altogether. I would have no issue with a single personal allowance and a single tax bracket. That still means that the wealthy pay more tax, considerably in many circumstances, although this would need to go hand in hand with a massive tightening of the tax avoidance loop holes. However, we live in a world where the poor can't always do too much to improve their circumstances, although that shouldn't be an excuse for them not to at least try, so the wealthy are expected to pay a larger share. It's a fine balance between attracting those that can create wealth to pay UK tax without punishing the peasants who don't have a choice.

Sure. I was talking about monthly earnings. I would not class someone earning £200k per year as being anywhere near the top end of wealthy even though 50k of those earnings would have attracted the 45% tax bracket. Someone earning 50k is paying way more tax than someone earning 13k, even if there was a single tax bracket covering them both (but there are at least 3). If you can't understand why £100 is worth way more to someone earning £2k (per month, before you ask again) than someone earning £200k per month then there really is little point in continuing.

Any raise in the zero tax allowance alone would help the poor more than the wealthy. £100 extra a month in the pocket is worth a lot more to a £2000 earner than a £200,000 earner.

Looking at the photos on the linked article, the place was a pigsty. If there was anything valuable in that house it would likely have been ruined anyway by mould or whatever. Sentimental items that can't be replaced? Yeah right, that's why you left them in that place. The contractors should have made 100% sure they were in the right house, but looks like they actually did the house owners a huge favour.

Even better if your current phone can accept 2 SIM cards. Put a UK SIM in it and set to default for calls and data. Will still accept calls and SMS for the Thai SIM.

If you haven't already taken your wife up the Khyber Pass then that might be a first goal.

Is your condo in a civilised country?

Are you sure it's because of the lack of mask? I've never put my visa on my helmet. Could be that?

I always found Septic Peg to be more accurate: Septic Peg