Mario Cosmopolite

I'd settle for the wire ties for the steel bars ....

Agreed the rail land bridge was never going to be a sensible project (though that doesn't mean the Chinese wouldn't support it) but I believe this is back to the old canal project.

Myanmar ports are not a practical exit for goods from China to the west, even when Burma was a reasonably stable country.

Agreed the rail connection was not a credible project. This is I believe a return to the canal project, which has been around for much longer - no transshipment needed but much more expensive, especially as the largest container ships have got a lot bigger over the last 20 years.

Better examples than Saville would be all the ones we have never heard of. The ones who are good at it, - like Saville but better.

reigns are for kings. reins are for horses.

I suddenly realised that this was a very old joke... "Open your wallet, and repeat after me: 'help yourself' "

In Terry Pratchett's Diskworld he describes a land called 4X (nothing like any country in our round world of course) in which it is the standard procedure to lock up all politicians as soon as they get elected; as the jailor explained to Rincewind The Wizzard: "it saves time".

· the airport was juggling between 5,000 to 6,000 passengers per hour. · Airports of Thailand (AOT) and Immigration Division 2 are joining hands to tackle a pressing issue Y'see - when you're juggling it's best not to join hands

He could invite Ginge & Whinge - ginge is a maestro of aviation or something ....

Maybe a false alarm: they have since charged for a card renewal.

Basil!

Last month I had to contact Amex Card Services about a matter, which I dealt Ith through their online Chat quite successfully. Afterwards the CSR sent me a message " we note you have had an Amex card for 46 years. Thank you so much for being a long-term customer". I wrote back that their thanks was not appreciated when they had just advised me they would be cancelling my card because I lived outside UK. I got a boiler plate reply that it was changed business practices....

I defer to your greater knowledge of the criminal system ????

Nuns, no sense of humour.