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Assume you are joking

More 'animal lovers' who you can bet your life stuff themselves with pork raised in appalling conditions. See a fluffy puppy and its all tears and rescue

How do you expect them to process asylum claims on a pack of lies? They throw away passports, phones then give false names and a fake story of 'persecution' often from a country they have never even been to. Unless they have a passport claims should be rejected straight away, and the liar deported.

One of my friends back in the UK used to process asylum claims, she said 95% were fake. She ought to know as originally she was an illegal over stayer who managed to claim 'asylum'. As soon as she got leave to remain she went back to Africa on a holiday. While here as an illegal she not only got a job and an NI number but an upmarket housing association flat in London. Asylum is mainly just a scam

Not everyone speaks Englsih in UK cities these days, in several it's a minority language

Had a heavy Mitsu since 2012, very, very noisy and had it stripped down twice, hate it. Stayed in a hotel last week that had a Central Air unit which was noiseless, might get one of those as a replacement

Unless it's a sleeper I am never going on a Thai train again. Last time 13 hours on an 'express' from Ubon to Bkk, carriages looked 70 years old. Stopped at almost every station for vendors to get on- then off, 45 mins down the line repeat. Window jammed fully open, guard could not move it. Bit of string over the open connect door at the end where a foreigner fell out of recently to his death, and all the doors tied back for some reason. They have that flashy new station, but the rest looks like it's still in the 1950's.

This seems to get reported quite often, one airline will refuse and another sees no problem. Usually the damage is almost invisible

Reminds me of when we moved in to this house and had an 'electrician' installing a shower. Told the mrs to tell him to make sure it was earthed, he wanted to know what that meant!

Few and far between here, especially electricians. We helped the Mrs brother through college to become an electrician a few years back. He seemed clueless when we asked him anything about electrical problems and ended up working illegally in Korea.

Go home every year anyway

Rubbish, only worth anything if uncirculated anyway

Well they promised 10k baht bribes for votes, then lost-so pay up, inflation to follow!

Best kept away from, nothing but pests

Bitten by dogs three times, how did you manage that?

Just keep well away from dogs especially, never touch the filthy things in the sois, or feed these vermin.

We helped an American guy do it at Samut Prakan. They said his TM30 printout from the hotel was not enough, they wanted the receipt from the hotel detailing payment. He had 4 forms to fill out, my Mrs did it all for him as being his first visit he was a bit lost. Being a black guy he had some sad stories of the way he had been treated here and said it was a bit like Georgia in the 60's.

Spent 5 days in Angeles in 1998, cherry girls, scammers and pay up front then do as little as possible, if at all. Blackouts and a stink from a pig farm near the Woodlands resort, horrible never went back. Pattaya was little better, apart from being on the coast and no pig farm.

Who writes this rubbish? How can getting 34% of the vote be an 'immense achievement'? They only won by default as the Tories were a total failure, it was a vote against them rather than a vote for Labour.

If the cash is taken out and spent how can they tell what it's spent on, or even who spent it? impossible. If it's a gift it can be spent on anything the giftee chooses

Can't possibly be policed though can it

Never ever seen them going after mosquitos, they are usually in the rubbish bin or <deleted>ting down the walls. I kill them any chance I get, hate the little bastards.

Music, the rest is of no interest, luktung, lukrung, morlam, kantrum, ramwong etc that's why I am here

Vile they are, Brooke or Watties beans from NZ are far superior, also some Italian ones in Tops.

I don't think it's possible to tarnish the reputation of Pattaya, attracts the worst type of foreigners and Thais. Despite the decades of pretending to develop it into a family resort, or 'top tourist destination' it remains famous worldwide as a town with thousands of prostitutes and tacky bars. As such it's full of crime, greed and scams.