NanLaew

Christ on a bloody bike! Yet another invented 'surge' of Chinese tourists that won't bloody happen. The world. THE WORLD!!! Mayday!...Mayday!...Mayday!...

But it really IS his fault as PM and more importantly, Chairman of NERC, the regulatory authority that dictates what can be gouged from people's wallets. This to support an unsustainmable reach-around that EGAT has with his government. The heatwave only served to expose the fleecing by his government's accounts payable.

I was reading in The Guardian how only 9% of English people knew that it was St. George's day last Sunday.

Which branch? Sheesh...

And the branch was where? And his non-immigrant entitlement was what?

No Dudley, they don't want you.

We do.

Are we supposed to play at "Guess what bank" now? Sheesh...

The wife of a friend of mine got her degree at Monash in Melbourne but can't find Australia on a map. Regardless of this, the sun still rises.

Switch agents.... you’re dealing with fools !!... Or, try opening an account yourself - Get a letter of Residence from Immigration and that should see you fit... you may have to try a handful of Banks before you get lucky. You should consider that maybe it's the bank staff that are being 'fools' here. We already know that different people can get different answers from staff at different branches so maybe this is simply another branch 'winging it' when it comes to their documentary needs.

Talking from experience, the Dutch can be funny that way.

All the world sporting authorities disagree with you. It's so unfair to have a male (X & Y) competing against the females and rightly so. A bit of respect for the female athletes. ???? It seems that you're on your own here. She was dancing naked during Wan Lai, not competing at the bloody Olympics. It seems you've gone off topic here.

So the same high standard of professional care and conduct as was afforded Jeffrey Epstein at the Manhattan slammer? I see.

In my case, I'm trying to understand what it is about market and commercial structures in UK that make it 5 times as expensive to the end consumer than in Thailand when the fuels cost the same at source. I suspect profit and tax taken at every interface in the supply chain. The Thailand model seems massively more efficient - so worth trying to understand it. No? Feel free to start a thread dedicated to your search for truth back in the UK. There's a whole Home Country sub forum just waiting for your contribution. But here's a something to be going on with regarding the UK's higher energy prices. Old and inefficient power distribution networks, housing stock with inadequate insulation (hot and cold, old and new)... and +12 years of the Tory's willfully hosing their fellow man while being unable to agree on and develop a sustainable energy plan for the future.

China, China, China, China.... can't they get their heads around the fact that these masses of Chinese tourists are just a myth created by TAT? The myth is only being recycled in unproven claims made by similarly witless local tourism mouthpeices and regurgitated on local media.

If in doubt, make a second layer that's offset from (or orthogonal to) the original so the 'grid' is tighter. Now waiting for the Australian civil engineers to spit the dummy.

This is unique to Thai people? I see.

Where? In Bangkok? When?

Terrifying? I see.

Hold on a mo' @nchuckle, let me fire up my stogie...

'bama aint no country.

Nice pictures [insert yawn emoticon here] Why do people like to bang on about how cheap it is compared to the UK? [insert rolleyes emoticon here]

Gotta die o' somethin'

The National Energy Regulatory Committee (NERC), which is chaired by the current caretaker PM, opted to peg the Ft (fuel tarriff) rate for May to August based on the January price of imported LNG. In the meantime, there's been a ~35% decrease in LNG costs since January. I read that the current caretaker PM is going to ask the Election Commission (EC) for permission to allow the caretaker government to intervene with an extraordinary budget to subsidize the public's electric bills. The assumption (mine) is that NERC factored in Songkran and the election and the fact that nobody would be paying attention in this overly long (in my opinion) application of a spot rate. There's a whole lot of bad management (I'm being polite here) going on when EGAT is compelled to sell energy at a lower price than it's paying the private sector for. The consumer is served with strangely factored utility bills that makes it hard to correlate use versus cost at the best of time. At the end of the day, most consumers, private and business, are paying more to subsidize the "losses" of a state entity. I don't really think any money is getting lost here, it's just going somewhere else. This gravy train has probably been massaged and tweaked year-on-year by this flawed administration and would probably have slipped unnoticed through the end of summer as it has always done if it wasn't for this unpredicted and sudden, record-breaking heatwave. Airconditioners and refigeration started working overtime and 'Bam!' most bills shot up by a disproportionate amount.

This fact, albeit true, does nothing to appease Mrs NL who is now whipping the living daylights out of any of our squatters that dare leave a light on, flush twice (water pumps need electricity), use the hot water wash option on the front-loader or spend too long in the shower (see earlier comment on water pumps)!