billd766

Ian Dury and the Blockheads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WGVgfjnLqc

IMHO Starmer is starting to realise that talking the talk is a lot easier than actually walking the walk. Being in Opposition and complaining about the government is one thing. Being in government and having to deal with real life is not as it looks. Being surrounded by people who have no real idea is simply self inflicted and his personal problem to sort out.

How strange. I ordered 1 kg of black raisins on Monday morning from a company in Bangkok. The stuff was collected by Flash from the supplier on Monday afternoon and delivered to the house in rural Kamphaeng Phet by 4pm this afternoon, Wednesday 19th February. It took about 52 hours from order to delivery some, 350 to 400km.

More likely to have got it at the Trump University which closed down in 2010 and only ran from 2005 to 2010.

But that is not always correct. As a taxpayer I paid NIC for 44 years and my reward for coming to live in Thailand my pension was frozen from my 65th birthday. In addition if I were to return to the UK, unless I were at deaths door, I would have to wait for a NHS appointment and pay for my treatment at a higher rate than I would if I were in Thailand. Fortunately many years ago I registered with the Thai authorities and get treated the same as a Thai though I pay more than a Thai. If I want to see a doctor in Thailand I just register and join a queue. I have nothing against the NHS who do a great job though they are well understaffed, very underpaid and overworked.

At todays KBank forex rate of USD $33.51 my wife buys a tray of 30 size 0 eggs at the local market for 150 thb, or about 1.16$ USD for a dozen large eggs.

It will only affect you and your family personally IF you or they make a donation, and donations are purely voluntary.

Another one? Perhaps the USA is no longer the promised land, and perhaps Trump is no longer the messiah he claimed to be. Well he was voted into power, and those that voted for him may start to regret that decision soon.

It won't hurt Trump either, as ALL his bills will be covered by the US taxpayers, so why should he care what the price is? He doesn't even care about the US taxpayers or the US citizens in general.

And who should pay his bills? Thailand, the British tax payer, Go Fund Me, his previous insurance company, his family, you, me, somebody else?

Says a poster who lives in NZ where many of the population are leaving for other countries. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8j88gym3ro Meanwhile, people are moving out of the country in record numbers. Official figures show that there were nearly 130,000 departures last year - though that was offset by the arrival of nearly 160,000 immigrants. "New Zealanders are voting with their feet, leaving in record high numbers," Labour MP Barbara Edmonds wrote on X on Monday. "Is their real tourism plan 'Everyone Must Go' - for Kiwis?"

That may be a good idea though where Starmer thinks he can find extra troops from I have no idea. Troops on the ground isn't simply a bunch of fighting men, it is all the logistical back up that is required. Vehicles and their support, cooks and their support, medics and their support, suppliers and their support, fuel, oil, lubricants and their support, artillery, ammunition and their support, tanks and their support. If you include aircraft and helicopters, they will also need similar support. The supply chain will run all the way from the UK to the Ukraine and most of it will need wheeled transport to get it there. Politicians are very good with their promises, but rarely back things up when push comes to shove. At a rough guess, for every fighting soldier there will probably be 6 or 7 support troops so to put 1,000 infantry soldiers into the field may require perhaps another 7,000 support troops and a supply chain maybe 1,500 km long. The supply chain is also part of Russia problem as it stretches from the Ukraine to the far side of Moscow.

Yes, but why would the Daily Wail let facts get in the way of a story. The Daily Wail shows a picture of a Thai Boeing 747 with a crack in the right windscreen, even though Thai does not use Boeing 747s, yet the Bangkok Post yesterday, said that the aircraft was an Airbus A320 series with a crack in the left windscreen. https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/THA401 However this link says it was a Aircraft Information Aircraft Type Boeing 787-8 (twin-jet) (B788) Photos Airline Information Airline Thai Airways "Thai" all flights

Please don't feed the troll. Put him on ignore and starve him of a response.

And close it behind themselves, quietly.

The problem is not of his personal making. but that of ALL UK politicians going back decades. Cut the size of ALL the military branches and at the same time increase the commitments that the service people have to do. It is also the responsibility of ALL the service chiefs for NOT speaking out in support of the troops and not resigning on protest. Don't talk to the chiefs, but talk to the troops instead and keep the bean counters away from ANY increase in costs. Then try to recruit a 20% increase across ALL branches per year for at least 3 years to build a fully trained military. Do NOT commit the troops to suit any vanity project.

I am getting old. From the OP I can remember both Beales and Bealsons in Bournemouth in the 1950s and early 1960's when I was growing up in Poole.

Isn't proof a wonderful thing? Do you have any?

Thailand probably IS a safe country to travel to. However there are many places that tourists go to which are not as safe as other places, at the wrong time of day or night.

Nor me.

And who made YOU the Grand Poo Bah to decide who can post or not? If you post on an open thread, anybody can answer. If you don't like the post, then ask for clarification, but don't attack the poster, it shows your immaturity that you have no answer but an insult.

Russia invaded the Ukraine and took the Crimea, now they have invaded the Ukraine once again. If you don't understand that you should do at lot more research and go back to school to relearn modern history.

Or not.

Do you believe everything that you read on FB?

TBH Sandy, it is just 2 agents on FB only in Pattaya. Nothing has been released (that I have seen or read from Immigration and if I were to believe everything posted on FB I doubt if I would ever leave my house. Instead of posting unsubstantiated rumours from FB, it is better as you say, to wait and see IF anything official pops up. If there was an Olympic event called "Jumping to Conclusions" there are a few posters on AN who would be vying for first place.