mikebell

Since when have Thais been bothered about bad odours when the National Dish is Som Tam?

What a waste of a birthday cake!

Cupid Stunts?

'3.48 Trillion Baht Budget For 2024 Due For Cabinet Nod' That's all the cabinet or the senate do for their money.

She's going on Coke Zero once the car is sold.

I doubt it. Most Thais would sooner guard buffalos or watch rice grow than learn something new.

28 in Pattaya at 8.30. It will be 33 by 2pm.

According to DWP, HMRC were the guilty ones.

Are the mosquitoes drawn to the blood of the large number of dogs surrounding every wat?

Is this another attempt to define 'Thainess'?

Not just the legal system but the Casinos; banks; loan sharks; anything where money changes hands.

I'd love to see some UK Bobbies on patrol in Pattaya, working nights & weekends staggering the Thai police who do neither. There'd certainly be fewer deaths on the roads.

I'd have done it for 500 baht - maybe less dependent on photo.

There'll soon be another two hours a night of this mayhem.

The police station was empty as all the officers were enjoying a jolly down Walking Street. See story above.

Why did the thieves cut cables? The local authorities are tidying up the tangle near me & leave yards of it by the road overnight.

So not her fault.

Well they can't do any worse than what we've got at the moment.

ThaiGov proudly declare 98.9% employment yet 1.74 million job opportunities? Could this be due to the local genetic indisposition to work.

Is this instead of the two policemen working the night shift across the nation?

Thai politicians are always promising; always some time soon; never materialising.

PS My friend has just started drawing his State Pension (he's 67 so 10K pa). They've not taxed any of it so he phoned HMRC and DWP from T/land via Skype. One was free, the other cost him. aseannow.com/topic/1301846-press-release-end-frozen-pensions-for-british-ex-pats-in-thailand/page/6/#comment-18486747

My daughter discovered this by accident when she inexplicably received a notice of coding sent to her address in Yorkshire. (This after NOT receiving anything for years either there or in Thailand.) So I checked the YouGov site to find they had credited me with a full State Pension of 10K & not what I was receiving (nearer 5000!) On my next UK visit we phoned up; endured the hour waiting for a human. We were told the fault lay with the DWP. Again with the wait only to be told in no uncertain terms that they had sent the reduced rate HMRC every year as it never varied for 15 years (I am 81.) So back we went & eventually got through to an operative who went the extra mile. He confirmed my worst fears: I have been taxed on money I never received. You could start here - www.gov.uk/complain-about-hmrc I have received over 5K in back tax for two years with a promise of some more for one other year tho' this has not been forthcoming nor anything for the previous dozen or so years!

'Pattaya Police Intensify Search' - it happened on Thursday. It is a well-known fact that Plod works only part-time on Fridays & not at all on Saturdays and Sundays. Intensification may start tomorrow.