Drumbuie

The momentum of a C-130, reverse thrust or no reverse thrust, is considerable.

Legal advice on wills, power of attorney etc, is offered by the Office of the Attorney General for free to all Thai residents, no matter their nationality. I now understand why from a Thai friend whose family spent decades in litigation after the grandparents died without a will - apparently Thais, especially the older ones, are v reluctant to face up to the necessity. Their case tied up the courts and enriched lawyers for years.

If you are in Thailand now, go to the nearest Office of the Attorney General and ask them for assistance. It should be free.

Had a message from Bangkok Bank last week. I'm in the queue at my branch right now to show them that the bill is aid by my son ( but you can do it at any branch).

I've used OpenOffice for years. It's free, it's stable, they don't keep changing it for the sake of change, and it's even better now because it doesn't keep pushing AI doodads at me. Gradually trying to move everything away from US-based software - for reasons which will be obvious to anyone capable of critical thinking. About to try NextCloud for online storage, for example, to remove all my stuff from the Googlesphere.

I would guess that it might be due to the fact that the offices have been closed for three days last week due to Songkran.

I wonder how the Italian tourist would have responded to a Chinese tourist in Italy saying "hallo" to him in Arabic? Or Hindi?

Thanks to the internet I can tell you that acetone ( nail polish remover) and peroxide ( hair bleach) combined can be used to make the explosive mentioned above. Both are commonly available ingredients and it's not impossible that if some of his Thai friends were female, a drop or two if those substances might have contaminated his bag and triggered the sensor.

Also guilty of a very serious crime against fashion.

Good. The influx of oligarchs has ruined London, especially the ones who bought properties as investments and didn't actually live in them. Friends tell me of restaurants closing because there aren't enough actual residents to keep them open, people moving because the oligarch next door's digging three extra basement floors to add a garage, swimming pool and cinema and the structural damage is spreading .. and house prices are completely unaffordable for 99% of Britons.

That would work... IF the raw materials for the stuff the US makes were sourced in the USA. But.... PS Russia is noticeable by its absence from the increased tariff list. Who do you think told Trump to make this move?

Somewhere I saw a note that after 2007, Bangkok buildings were designed to be earthquake- resilient. However, having seen that video of Park Origin's Sky Bridges shearing away, I'm not 100% convinced, tbh.

CREC has seven decades of experience of building railways, smoothing gradients, tracklaying etc - but no experience of building high rises. Contracting them was a bit like asking a bus driver to tailor your suit. CREC was the company whose railway tunnel collapsed last year in Nakhon Ratchasima. Some of their officials were caught yesterday trying to remove files from the Audit building site.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/2758639/italian-thai-development-faces-b108bn-debt-crunch-as-overseas-projects-fail ItalThai is already in financial difficulties. The Chinese company is the same one whose tunnel collapsed in Nakhon Ratchasima, suffocating workers: their expertise is in tracklaying, not building high rises nor, apparently, tunnels. But their bid was the lowest. The whole thing stinks to high heaven.

Actually, young people *do* sometimes drop dead. A friend's 18yo son collapsed and died during a school sports day race, due to an undetected heart abnormality - she and her husband were watching. In this case, the erratic behaviour would tend to indicate drug use, and the nose bleed could relate to a head injury when he fell on the pavement, or to overenthusiastic restraint. Whatever the cause, it's a sad waste of a life.