NanLaew

Come on bert, share a link to this event or else we'll start to think you're trolling the thread with all this "the paper" stuff.

If both of Bangkok's airports are temporarily not accessible, aircraft then get diverted to U-Tapao. That's another infrequent occurrence. Now that was built for B-52's so I imagine a A-380 would look like a Tonka toy taxiing to and fro there. I am sure that if and when an A-380 gets diverted there, the Swampy/Thai bashers will have a(nother) field day (if it hasn't happened already).

Yes it is about rain. When the downpour is intense and prolonged enough, the runway drainage will be temporarily overwhelmed and there will be standing water that reduces the safety margins. It is not the same as flood water. That's the nature of tropical downpours. It can be hammering down within a few square kilometers and still be dry in the next village or suburb. There's maybe around 30 km between BKK and DMK. DMK was flooded in 2011. That was proper flooding and not the same as runway drainage being temporarily overwhelmed. Aircraft have been routinely diverting between both airports for years, especially during rainy season. The only reason this has made the news is because of the aircraft type and it being a first for DMK.

Hundreds? All week? It appears that a few, cherry-picked video clips of a few isolated incidents of violence between those of Pakistan and India heritage after a cricket match in Leicester are now appearing on south Asian websites that propagate Muslim and Hindu bigotry and violence. No "rivers of blood" to be seen here. Move along now. Who won the cricket BTW?

No he wasn't. No he wasn't. No he wasn't ...and no. No he wasn't.

Just register a charity and open an account for it. Then you can accept great gobs of cash in suitcases and holdalls, just like our new British king did.

Certainly wiped out a lot of pubs in Aberdeen where Friday's workers could get tanked on cheap cans of beer and cider from the supermarkets before they went clubbing. They were off their heads before 9 pm and when the clubs emptied around 2 am, you didn't want to be on the street. The cops would park up the side streets and only come out around 3 am after the brawls were over and nick the wounded and passed out. I think the government eventually passed legislation to curb the two-for-one and BOGOF specials on six-packs but it as already too late and the culture well ingrained. Not a dark-skinned chap to be seen among the drunk and disorderly either.

The nearest pub to my mate's gaff in Ossie is a pikey hangout. Even we give that one a wide berth. Well, you kind of have to as they park their Beemers and Range Rovers on the bloody pavement!

Why so coy? We don't know you from Adam. Or you could play @transam's game of telling us where you're NOT from, post some YouTubes, etc., etc..

Four new pubs and a new chippie opened in about three years in Oswaldtwistle. All within stumbling distance of my mate's gaff. OK, one of the pubs is a bloody long stumble but it's still new. A two minute drive away, you'll find the 'Sharialand' enclave I mentioned earlier.

Also keep in mind that a head-on view of a scooter or motorbike presents a very narrow object that can be missed when the time isn't taken to look and look again or, if the drivers vision is partially obscured (dark tinted glass or an 'A' pillar thickened by those useless tinted wind deflectors) or the drivers vision just isn't what it used to be.

AKA British citizens of a different ethnicity. It's their home as much as it's yours so they can give the police a hard time same as the British citizens of the "native British ethnicity" can. There's plenty white ghettos where cops only go in pairs. Most every major city council still have their 'affordable housing' estates where their own mainly white dole collectors and benefits breeders are corralled. Ah, OK. So you're NOT in Bradford. Thought so. You have? When? Never mind. You can go ahead and answer that with another cherry-picked YouTube of an incident that happened in a place you've never been and claim it's validation of the subject matter. Enoch Powell never had a vision of the future no matter how many times you say so. Now you can go ahead and believe it with all your might. No problem with that. That's your right just as it's my right to believe otherwise. So @transam is (still) barking up the wrong tree? Thought so.

This. Who?

Maybe not overtly blaming the victims here but the first page and a half are thick with general opinions on motorbike accidents, speeding, lack of helmets, three-on-a-bike, irresponsible parents with hardly a word spoken about the behavior of the SUV driver.

Not saying this contributed to the accident either but when I bought a pickup about 12 years ago, the dealership fitted those standard, dark-tinted plastic wind/rain deflectors around the door frames. I found the driver-side deflector easily doubled the A pillar blind spot by completely blocking the gap between it and the wing mirror. The effect on the passenger side A pillar blind spot was even worse. I removed all of them after that and have always refused to have them when offered as a freebie by a dealership.

How is he managing this? What sort of visa does he have? Will it be renewed? ...and who really cares anyway?

My understanding is they have a gadget that checks if the applied window tint is within their specifications so it's not an arbitrary 'too dark' opinion.

Is Richard Branson squatting here on retirement extensions then? Somewhere out by Ubon maybe? Living the relatively easy life while posting opinions on an empire lost the loss of something he already abandoned decades ago and can hardly remember with any degree of accuracy or relevancy?

Is that a different way of saying, "Do you own research"?

Where have I said I live in Bradford...? Thought so. It's just that I asked you where you lived. That simple question in a single, separate paragraph. Hardly confusing but your response was a video related to some police incident in Bradford. Throughout this thread, you have been demanding various members that hold an opposing view to the thread's flawed premise to answer your questions. When they don't you accuse them of somehow being at best disingenuous at ignorant at worst before casting them off as an irrelevancy. I just want to make sure I've got it right before I try it myself. Thanks (again).

So, you live in Bradford now? Or have you borrowed someone elses cherry picker are you just feeling other people's pain?

Speak for yourself BMT. I'm sixty-five and I pulled a proper stunner in the Tap Select in Oswaldtwistle one Saturday night last year. Said she was thirty-something but I reckon +10 on that . Anyway, we grabbed an Indian on the way back to my mate's gaff. Made a right mess on the sofa mind you.

Where do you live now? I live in Thailand now but in the past five years or so, I have spent at least two months of the year in Lancashire around Blackburn, Burnley, Preston and Chorley. Last March, I drove into Accrington to collect an online purchase from Argos. I went through what some people probably call a no-go area? Looked clean and tidy with decent row houses and newer cars. Not a broken or boarded up window in sight and no graffiti either. The only thing that made me think I was in a "bad" part of the town were the ladies out shopping or walking on the pavement with kids or crossing the road with a pram. They were all those black-clad "letterbox" ones that soon-to-be former PM found entertaining.

Foreigners strutting around maskless feel empowered. That's all. They still can't vote, can't speak the lingo, get messed about by bureaucracy while being double charged or otherwise ripped off but Hey!...Look at me! No mask!

Next you'll be telling us about he defended his Egyptian helper and stormed out of a Cairo restaurant when the latter was refused admission. (as was already mentioned around Page 8 or 9)