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Maybe one day some debris will turn up on the beach on Antarctica.

As for Diego Garcia, you can be pretty sure the Russians have spy satellites watching everything that goes in an out. You can be sure they would pipe up if the plane was there.

H-Block dirty protest.. (taps nose knowingly)

as a earlier poster mentioned, can anyone shed any light on how they get the work permits?? it does also baffles me. the indians i mean.

Thailand has an Indian community that hold Thai citizenship. No work permit needed.

Indian immigrants owning tailor shops in Thailand? As if. Next you'll be telling us that the noodle shops in thailand are owned by Chinese immigrants.

The Sikh guy I buy my suits from told me his kids are 4th generation Thai.

Emirates, Etihad, Qatar all usually way cheaper than Eva.

I don't usually find them to be way cheaper - cheaper yes usually by around £100 or so. Guess it depends whether you would rather spend anywhere between 3 - 5 hours stopover one way and often a longer period on the return stuck in some Middle Eastern airport. Personally I think it's worth paying that bit extra to get there in 12 hours with no hassle along the way.

True about the stopover element, but the inference here that being 'stuck in some Middle Eastern' airport is some kind of hardship is way off track. Most Gulf airports (Kuwait and Dammam are the exceptions perhaps) have brand new concourses with facilities that put to shame many others worldwide.

Yes, but at 2am when I could be sleeping on the plane.. pass... It isn't because the airport isn't nice.

Outrage? Where is it when influential figures chop down ship loads of trees for personal gain?

It's there as well. But this is just waste.

Only time I have ever queued for more than about a minute was at Don Mueang after it reopened as DMK and all the taxis were going to BKK instead.

With the recent announcement of the dropping of the LHR flights TG916/917 it looks like a major push to reduce losses...

I must have missed this, they're cancelling flights to London ?

Reducing frequency. No longer daily.

Won't make any difference except to give smugglers second thoughts. Singapore hanged an Australian national about 9 years ago and that went quiet very quickly.

I don't think it would be that protracted. There aren't that many of them, it just seems like there are because they are fighting relatively weak opponents and quickly capture large areas of (mostly) empty territory. They are also making a lot more enemies than friends. Local people aren't going to voluntarily assist them like they did the anti US insurgents. The biggest problem will be tracking down survivors that try to melt back into society in their own countries.

Annihilation is the best policy where IS and then Boko Haram are concerned. Take no prisoners, give no quarter. Just kill them on the spot.

"That makes sense, Thais are know to be much smarter than the rest of the universe."

They take this stuff seriously, so naturally they make the effort.

Well yeah, it's <deleted>, but if they have adopted the same constellations, then you might expect the same system. There are other systems using different constellations, which is fair enough considering they are just random patterns of stars with no relationship to each other except for how they appear to us.

Isn't this just more of the 'war on terror' that was declared in 2001? Where IS/Al Qaeda/Boko Haram etc are concerned, there shouldn't be any question of the need for total war against them.

I've seen it said that our star signs are wrong as over time, the constellations have "moved" so that the dates are no longer correct. Maybe when the Thais adopted 'our' system, they recalculated them.

For long haul, PE is the minimum I will fly. I wish Thai would do this too.

Bought a Chromecast in Fortune IT mall last night for 1800b if anyone is still hunting.

It's now a demolition site. You won't be staying there again. There are a couple of modern places down that soi. Hopefully it's not going legit.

I posted earlier that I used to live where 8 or 9 years old was normal for circumcision.

In today's herald, an article about that same cultural group. And keep in mind, this is done without anaesthetic.

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http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/boys-hospitalised-after-backyard-circumcisions-2015013013#axzz3QMvnbdQw

A couple of years ago in London, I got talking to 2 Nigerian women with a baby boy in a McDonald's. They were laughing that he was going to be circumcised so he would be "big and hard".

It's not my special something. It's my normal something. I wasn't mutilated as a child and learned to live with it. I think it's a bad thing to do to a child, boy or girl, and only justifiable in exceptional cases.

Not sure if you mean you learned to live with a foreskin? I could understand why you would have to though. Or you think those without had to learn to live without it? Surely you don't miss what you didn't have, certainly at an age when you wouldn't know any better!

Hardly a mutilation in the real sense of the word. A tool is only as good as the user after all is said and done!

But I think the last part of your post is a little disturbing! Under what circumstances would it be justifiable to perform clitoral circumcisions on girls? I'm guessing you didn't mean it the way it comes across? Or did you?

It's there from birth, so being uncircumcised is clearly the normal and natural condition. Sometimes circumcisions go wrong and the boy goes through life with no penis. But I suppose it's OK if he doesn't remember it.

Of course it's mutilation.

No it is not.

Removing living tissue is mutilation. Just as much as tribal scars or piercings.

I'm happy for you and your relationship with your special something. Are you happy for me being VERY PLEASED INDEED to be cut and having it done while I was a baby? I think probably not. In my view, the uncut side mostly refuses to see it both ways and the cut side pretty much usually can. Nobody on the cut side thinks everyone should be forced to be cut (except perhaps Jihadist Muslims but best not to go there), but the uncut side seems all about forcing everyone to not be cut and stripping parents of having this choice for their babies. Surely there are much more important CRUSADES in the world. Opposing FEMALE circumcision, an entirely different procedure, might be a good start!

It's not my special something. It's my normal something. I wasn't mutilated as a child and learned to live with it. I think it's a bad thing to do to a child, boy or girl, and only justifiable in exceptional cases.

Not sure if you mean you learned to live with a foreskin? I could understand why you would have to though. Or you think those without had to learn to live without it? Surely you don't miss what you didn't have, certainly at an age when you wouldn't know any better!

Hardly a mutilation in the real sense of the word. A tool is only as good as the user after all is said and done!

But I think the last part of your post is a little disturbing! Under what circumstances would it be justifiable to perform clitoral circumcisions on girls? I'm guessing you didn't mean it the way it comes across? Or did you?

It's there from birth, so being uncircumcised is clearly the normal and natural condition. Sometimes circumcisions go wrong and the boy goes through life with no penis. But I suppose it's OK if he doesn't remember it.

Of course it's mutilation.

I'm in Bangkok at the moment having flown in the new business cabin for the first time. I must say I was a bit disappointed. I suppose I expected more luxury after frequenting the older cabin, but I thought it would at least be more comfortable. With the added benefit of a flat bed, you also get less space for your legs and a feeling of confinement. Also, the food was very ordinary. I prebooked my meal and it wasn't nice. However, unless TG bring in PE or lower the price of business, EVA it will be the next time I book.

Plays like Ravel Morrison. Lets hope he is less of a dick as a person.

Emirates, Etihad, Qatar all usually way cheaper than Eva.

Yes, but they aren't direct. I would rather just get there than have to change plane in the middle of the night.

Further technology advances will have left them behind before they've even dug a hole.

They'll probably invent a way to transmit electricity wirelessly before they get past the first "Lawsuit" from a whining utility company.

Old Nick Tesla has such a system to broadcast electric power, no wires needed. His money partner, Mr. Westinghouse, said no... to difficult to meter and charge for power.

You would think that if there was a practical way of doing it, there would be some form of wireless power transmission on the market somewhere even if the utilities didn't like it. I have never seen it and think there could be uses for it if it was real..

Wow Thailand, welcome to the 1930's. Where have you been the rest of the world has been doing this since Adam was on the beast. What you should also be doing is putting all electric and phone cables under ground when you build all these new estates.

Maybe Australia should do the same now... First thing I notice when I go back is overhead cables and the mangled trees thanks to the council..