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Cheesy scrambled eggs on wheat with the last scoop of leftover baked beans.

Take note Sexist Sid, no more, "Tits oot fer the lads."

So said the man offering not only one but two stiff middle fingers to the grammar police.

Backfire? Usually it comes prematurely in their hands.

Just in from the nanny state, replete with 'protect their children' for good measure... OMG!... Hold on, they could be Palestinian chidren!!! It doesn't really matter which branch of what restauarant chain this one-off event occured. Panties gotta bunch. Thailand's abuse of their draconian defamation laws goes way, way deeper than rubbish kitchen hygiene.

Well you started it.

Meanwhile, many western chip developers and manufacturers have factories in China. It has already gone way, way beyond fake designer clothing and domestic applicances.

Very good reading, thanks.

So a higher quality, western-style construction that will be reliably producing Russian oil and gas until the cows come home. If they are anything like the Chinese, where I lived and worked for 8 years, the Russians will have copied any technology needed to keep pumping. They probably have legions of Chinese doing this for them already.

Sorry @mikebike, struggling to see the relevance here. Can you expand that opinion a wee bit?

You do remember how a few Met police officers variously faced derision or condemnation after they chose to "take the knee" at BLM demonstrations. Silly buggers.

Yes, told. That's what british union "workplace initiatives" are all about. Union members being told what to do by their union. Be it "work to rule" or "overtime bans" or wearing fancy dress to goad your employer to fit a politically driven and, in this instance, a transparently woke narrative.

Because it's not their job to produce such a granular list for public consumption? Anyway, they give the raw data to TAT and they cherry-pick and massage the numbers to fit their part of the government's agenda. In this way, relevant factual data is obscured by what they want people to believe, ie. the Chinese are Thailand's saviours.

No hole here @Dan O, none whatsoever. Despite being incorrect, if you think that your interpretation of the meaning of "expat" fits the discussion, that's entirely up to you and I'm happy to leave you in your world of low comprehension. And please don't preach to anyone about reading the whole thread either. It's not a good look. Especially when the OP is not about taxation.

With Russia STILL the world's second biggest oil exporter, where everything is paid in Benjamins, the rubles forex correction means absolutely nothing. Despite the Nordstream outage and so-called embargos, Europe is still buying loads of Russian gas, it just comes the 'long way round' to get there. If not via southern Europe and Turkish pipelines, there's at least two, huge, Russian-owned but Hong Kong flagged, icebreaker-hulled LNG carriers traversing the Baltic to discharge gas into import pipelines in Zeebrugge. The Vladimir Rusanov departed there about ten days ago, and sailing back to Yamal for another load. Earlier this year, they started regular deliveries to Jiangsu in China. One of the deals that was signed on the cusp of COP 29 in Baku was the 'rebranding' of Russian oil as Azerbajani oil so that the European importers can avoid those nasty sanctions for buying the stuff, something that India's Modi has absolutely no qualms about.

None. Because the BBC, quite rightly, are not saying dicky bird as it is up to the employees who are TUC or NUK members to do what they've been told, or otherwise.

It was initially reported in The Times. Now, pay attention!

It's the TUC that's asking union members employed by the BBC to dress up for Hamas at work, not the BBC. Hopr this helps.

It's taken some time to catch up with the lodgers but my son confirms that the 5 GHz wi-fi connection on his laptop is fast enough for watching movies and gaming in his room in the annex. So, I reckon the full capabilities and benefits of having mesh on the new main router and the relocated mesh extender are being realised. My next project will be to check if my Imou CCTV wi-fi will cover the furthest camera over the new back gate to the property after it gets installed. The host NVR is in my shed at the front of the lot. Since this runs on 2.4 GHz, and the camera will be mounted about 5 meters high, I am assuming wi-fi range (not more than 3 meters beyond the annex) won't be an issue. If the system supports camera repeater capability, no worries. Otherwise I will be exploring repeaters for that as well.

Ah yes, the old but irrelevant, "if it's dodgy for me at Heathrow, then it's going to be apocalyptically rubbish for everyone else at Suvarnabhumi" argument again. The Aussies were too right about the whingeing Poms.

The picture accompanying the OP shows immigration staff and the facial recognition and biometrics scanners at inbound immigration. Outbound immigration has these scanners. If your passport is machine readable with a chip, you use these gates with no interaction with an immigration person required. If there's an issue and passing through is declined, the passenger will be referred to the few manned immigration booths that still exist. For info, the chip embedded in my passport doesn't work, so the scan was refused and I used the old fashioned way. From my observations yesterday mid-afternoon, the self-scan is very fast and trouble-free with few referrals to the manned kiosk. There was only a couple or three people queueing there. With regard to the check-in, bag-drop to boarding system mentioned by AoT in the OP, this system is separate but runs in parallel with the immigration self-scan system. The airline self-service kiosks are capable of taking your picture as part of this process. It is not fully implemented yet but when it is, the facial picture will be linked to the boarding pass QR code. When the passenger scans their boarding pass to go "air side", their face will be scanned and compared with the check-in picture. Once though immigration (as above), and while boarding at the gate, the QR code and face will be checked a final time for a match. Earlier news articles talked about eventually eliminating boarding passes but since a lot of passengers can't even find their assigned seat while having a boarding pass let alone the correct gate, I don't see facial recognition as ever being the ONLY way to pass through airports.

I was specifically addressing the misunderstanding and misuse of the term expat. I am not interested in debating other people's tax status, just how they describe themselves. Note that the term "expat" isn't used to define a person's income tax status in any jurisdiction. I'm not dismissive of anyone's argument or opinion. I'm just clarifying the meaning if the word expat and how it has no bearing with regard to tax.

Yes, very true. I have signed the disclaimer forms at immigration despite being unable to read the text. But that's part of a specific procedure that's completed while you wait. A blank tax form that needs to be completed and sent to head office by other staff after you've left the bank doesn't have the same sense of being completed. If I was dealing with KB on this issue, I would still submit via email in addition to letting branch staff complete things for me, just in case someone stuffs up. And I wouldn't rush either. I think too many are reading too much into the date that KB says it needs to be completed by. Since KB seem to be the only bank chasing up customers at this time, I see this as an internal deadline rather than an international compliance deadline.

You signed a 'blank' form? Interesting (if you did).

Semantics Expat is from the Latin 'ex-patria' and you live outside (ex) your birth country (patria). It has nothing to do with residence or permanent home. When you are repatriated, you are returning to your birth country. Nomad is a catchy modern distortion of the original meaning of nomadic which infers travelling people of no fixed abode. They are still expatriates if they are outside their birth country.