Geoff914

A 1000 kg German bomb in Exeter. They buried it under 400 tons of sand before detonation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-56236381

Gas shells as well.

And in the interests of fairness German bombs are regularly discovered across Britain.

I am sure the ones who don't even bother with travel insurance don't but then they fall into the fools category.

Some people don't even have travel insurance so the likelihood people will have a contingency to cover disasters is non existent.

Some poetic licence there I think. If his head had been split in two he would have lasted 2 seconds.

Is is actually a war. Not that I know much about US politics but doesn't the US Congress have to approve a declaration of war? By definition it is not a war. Not sure what you call it though.

This is about trouble makers having tattoos not about fake titles.

I bet there is a lot of celebrating going on in the USA and Israel right now. You do know who Axel Rudakubana is?

There would be if the same happened to Axel Rudakubana.

David Beckham? Now Sir David to you. Do you have Knighthood?

1950 actually. Posthumously pardoned, so that is alright then. Similar miscarriages are "far less likely". So you agree they will continue to happen. Andrew Malkinson 17 years in prison. There are just too many miscarriages. I can't image being in prison for 17 years know I was innocent. Despite DNA there are far too many miscarriages and no they want to do away with jury trials. There is no question that in days gone by there was a fit them up culture in the police and the courts. But it still in a few cases is still going on it would seem. Then we have the greatest miscarriage of all the Post Office Horizon scandal. I don't what the answer is. That is one for the legal profession to sort out.

Well yes but then the next time there is a another Timothy Evans miscarriage, 10 Rillington Place infamy. To be honest I don't know what the answer is. May be just not commit the crime in the first place. There is no way he could have been protected for life. I guess it was only Ian Brady living in solitary confinement that prevented him being done over. I assume Huntley could have done the same.

Well quite clearly he was a marked man. Short of having him in his own prison with no other cons then sooner or later somebody was going to get him. I am sure it was no fun for the warders baby sitting Huntley all the times. I don't know if Huntley was entitled to solitary confinement. I can't expect absolute protection from pipe wielding maniacs out on the street. May be the next time somebody decides to kill two young girls he should give some thought to the consequences.

Yes on another web site a few people have said he should have been made to suffer. But it has never the less happened. He was attacked once before but it wasn't fatal. What did he expect was going to happen in prison. I am surprised he lasted this long.

Today Ian Huntley, killer of Holly Wells and Jessica Wells, had his life support machine switched off. A day to celebrate and wish good riddance.

I don't necessarily blame Americans for voting for him but you would think that the republican party could have chosen a better candidate. Same in the UK with Boris Johnson also an idiot. In the UK you not even voting directly for the idiot, just the party that the idiot is the leader of. In the UK I blame the Conservative MPs and party members for voting him as the leader. Same with the current idiot Starmer.

Supreme leader of the USA, Venezuela, Iran, Canada, Panama and Greenland.

Come on give some credit to to the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat "On 19 August 1953, Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a coup d'état that strengthened the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. It was instigated by the United Kingdom (MI6), under the name Operation Boot and the United States (CIA), under the name TP-AJAX Project[9] or Operation Ajax. A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mosaddegh nationalized the country's oil industry.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w50zzvj1jo "The ASA said the advert depicted a black boy verbally harassing a white girl, and although another white boy appeared in the clip, "the ad did not show him as jointly intimidating the victim" and "the only aggressor in the ad was the black teenage boy". The advert was one of three short social media videos taken from a two minute film. The other versions showed a white male committing a hate crime against a black woman, and a white male committing a hate crime against another white male." So ads featuring black males is racist but the ads containing white males are completely OK.

So we agree they are tourists. There was a suggestion that people who stay longer that the 15 days of your average tourist were not tourists. I was just asking that is they weren't tourists what were they.

Right so we come back to having 800,000 baht sitting in a bank account doing sod all. Not to mention if you release £20,000 from a UK pension you have to pay 40% tax then the Thai tax office will probably want a cut of the money that you send to Thailand.

As far as I am concerned it isn't about the 800,000 baht needed to have the privilege of retiring in Thailand it is about needing it up front. Why is a monthly income in excess of 66,666 baht not good enough? And why set it at such a high figure. The marriage visa is only 400,000 baht, correct? Out of interest what are the several options?

No skin off my nose at all. I thought he said he wasn't a tourist because somebody staying more than 2 or 3 weeks wasn't a tourist. How does the saying go, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck. Just would like to know if somebody staying 60 or ninety days what category are they in if not a tourist?

You told us what you aren't but what are you then? "noun One who travels for pleasure. One who makes a tour, or performs a journey, especially for pleasure. Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business." 90 days in Thailand and 275 days some where else where you home is I assume. Smells like tourist to me. If not what category do to fall into.