it is what it is

in the 1980s interest rates were as much as 15%, plus negative equity. the current generation have no idea how good they have had it, they'll just have to learn to deal with the situation as my generation did.

interesting derivation; The word soccer comes from a slang abbreviation of the word association (association football), which British players of the day adapted as “assoc,” “assoccer” and eventually soccer or soccer football

wounded in the leg, was conscious after and taken to lahore hospital

reminds me of the tale from a former soldier, he and a mate were in the far east and each had a 'brother' tattoo in chinese characters. they were proud of their tattoos bonding them together. a couple of years later they found out the characters actually spelt 'fairy'. here ends the first lesson.

don;t suppose there's any chance the vehicle was traveling unnecessarily quickly?

why would anyone pay for sex?

this guy gives clear, useful advice on the METV and single entry 60 day tourist visa

not sure about this, their inaction may have led putin to believe they would not respond to his aggression, they had previously been soft in their responses to his previous aggressive actions e.g. crimea, and thus, inadvertently, encouraged him.

you'd think so...

nice temperature inversion.

Harold's ex wife. try to keep up.

and there you have it; complete speculation, hearsay, no evidence, no fact finding, no journalistic investigation. this is pure gossip.

six months validity is usually required for international travel. it's worth paying attention to when your passport expires, and apply for a replacement in good time.

probably got dragged downstream by the current.

haha, i know, i thought this was some kind of satirical thread, but apparently not, these people are serious... ????

why is it ok to give his name, age and nationality but not ok to show his face?

bought an SE five years ago, excellent phone, still going strong, no complaints. software updates have finished now so eventually i'll need to upgrade. cost about 400 GBP so cost/benefit has worked out pretty reasonable costwise for me. cheap phones can be a false economy

where will you find yourself? possibly where you left yourself?

i don't see what the issue is. surely we should be happy, thankful(?) that IOs are doing their job? Any genuine tourist, or anyone with a genuine reason to be entering the kingdom, has absolutely nothing to worry about. just answer their questions honestly and calmly and proceed.

am from the UK, where the insurance is on the driver and the car, yea, but it's dead easy to get other named driver/s included, i'm on my brother's and mate's insurances and vice versa. sometimes the premium even goes down when you add a driver.

do as you'd do at home, just give the insurer a quick ring. if other drivers are not covered, and unless you have a claims history, it's usually quite cheap, depending on the vehicle, to add another driver. next.

this old chestnut seems to pop up with tedious regularity. as a country with a tropical climate there is surely enough water falling from the sky for everyone. surely, what is required is an effective water management strategy to ensure the water provided from above is stored in adequate amounts and infrastructure in place to transport this water to where it is needed. the uk started doing this seriously around a hundred years ago, water is stored hundreds of miles away from where it is needed. isn;t it time thailand caught up?

yea, i kind of get that, but if that's the case why don't they take passenger weight into account and seat people to balance the aircraft? people surely weigh more than bags?! which brings me to my second point... as someone who is slim due a healthy lifestyle i do resent having, on occasion, to give up the (limited enough) seat space i have paid for to the overflowing fat of the overweight individual next to me.

while there are undoubtedly quite a large number of sex pats/sex tourists in thailand they, thankfully, tend to keep themselves, and their activities, to themselves. please don't tar the many westerners in thailand, who want nothing to do with prostitution or the sex industry, with the same brush.

haha, money laundering using rabbit cards... yea, right. in the uk no one bats an eyelid for amounts under 10K GDP