billd766

I have osteo-arthritis in both knees and I have to use a walking stick for anything more than about 20 metres. I agree 100% though in the big village near to where I live there are few buildings with steps. I use a walking stick and handrail or not, I make sure that I walk slowly (I have little choice) and that when I climb or descend steps, both feet are on each step before I move to the next one. TBH I find that ramps are much harder than steps, especially when I go down. If my wife or anyone else is with me on ramps, I use my left hand on their shoulder for extra support. Fortunately out here there are always Thai people who are willing to help. The lady at the local pharmacy always helps me down the 3 steps from her shop, as does the manager at the post office which has 6 steps plus a handrail.

I am 80 years old. I was born in 1944. Have reached this age, without taking any advice from ANY "experts" so far, I have no reason to change my life style. I am NOT an expert on anyone but me, nor would I have the audacity to "advise" anybody on what they should or shouldn't eat. What I would suggest is that people should possibly eat a little less and perhaps exercise a little more. I wish I had when I was younger. Most of these fads come along every so often. Some people take notice of them, but the majority just ignore them and carry on as normal.

Please don't blame me. I didn't vote for them, nor the lot that preceded them.

Reading correctly and comprehension is not compulsory on AN, and it shows with some posters.

Here in rural Kamphaeng Phet the government water is dirty, even after being filtered at source. I have 20 ongs cross connected and most of the bigger dirt sinks to the bottom of them. Between the ongs and the pump I have 2 x 5 micron filters. I replace the first one after 3 to 4 weeks as it gets blocked up by dirt bigger than 5 microns and the 2nd filter is replaced wvwry couple of months, Would we drink that water? Not a chance. It is not too bad for cooking, showers and the toilet, but not for anything else. But you can still see the dirt stains in the toilet and on the shower floor, no matter how many times it get scrubbed.

When I used to use the office there, by the time I opened the door and went in and took my passport out, the lady was waiting with her hand out for the passport. Mostly I didn't even have time to sit down before it was done. Another very good Immigration office. The worst one I ever went to was Suan Phlu. Parking was terrible and it was always crowded, usually with agents.

What is over zealous in the Immigration guys doing their job?

And that makes it OK with you? Did he offer to pay the 10,500 baht fine, or was he hoping to sneak out unnoticed? Good for the Immigration guys for doing their job.

Looking at those hoses they should be at least 2 inches in diameter and fire fire pump should be pumping at around 150 psi or 10.3 bar. The problem with that is that you would need at least 3 and probably 4 Thai firemen at the nozzle end just to hold it. The fire truck look as though it has a 5,000 litre water tank which would be empty in 3 of 4 minutes.

Think about it from her point of view. It is HER body, and HER choice. If you support her decision, good for you.

No I haven't but in the first year of my extension I had a 3 hour and 185 km journey each way to Mae Sot. The next year Nakhon Sawan Immigration opened which was only a 2 hour journey and 130 km each way. Several years later Kamphaeng Phet Immigration opened which is only 70 km and just over 1 hour each way. KPP Immigration office has moved location 4 times since then. Oddly enough through all the IO offices since 2009 I have not whined or complained once. How about you?

In my early years with the RAF I served with the last of the National service conscripts. During training, my maths instructor was a qualified chartered accountant. He was offered a short service commission as an officer, but turned it down as he would have had to sign up for 4 or 5 years, He explained that he could make far more money as a chartered accountant (his job was kept open for him for the duration of his National Service) than he would if he had taken the commission and he would also have lost his job. As for drivers being unaware of road closures, (if the government had posted warning notices (apparently they did so), then it was the drivers problem and not the governments.

At the Immigration office in Kamphaeng Phet, if you get there before 10am you are usually their only customer, and it takes between 5 and 10 minutes. It is about a 1 hour drive each way. My wife is my driver and we usually combine it with a bulk shop in the city. So easy. We go 4 times a year, 3 times for a 90 report and the fourth to combine the 90 report and the annual extension. The op seems to find the hardest way to do things. IMO simply to find something to whine and complain about.

No, London, England is in the UK. The UK is no longer a member of the EU since 2016, and the UK is not physically attached to Europe, as the English Channel and the North Sea divide both lands. Perhaps you failed geography and politics. BTW I successfully quit smoking in (for the 5th time) in 1970 whilst I was working in Singapore.

National service was abolished in the UK in 1960. BTW, doing jail time gives you a criminal record and screws up your credit rating if you need credit/debit cards.

There seems to be quite a few of them on AN nowadays.

For me, if I won, I would sign the back along with my wife, (video is something I had not thought about, but it is a good idea) and get her to claim the prize, She would get 50%, as I would get 50% if she won.

What a wonderful thing proof is. Do you have any? BTW, unless London has left the UK. it wasn't in Europe the last time I looked. Also "we" is plural, and I don't remember asking you to speak for me, or speak for anybody else for that matter.

You must be too young to remember conscription or national service then.

Does it really matter when you lose your assets? After all, you can't take them with you when you die anyway.

You seem to think that sex is the be all and end all of life. So what do you do, when you are not having sex with various different partners?

So what? Millions of soldiers, sailors and airmen have died in wars across the world since 1914 yet they are still shown respect on Remembrance Sunday every year in London where parts of the cities roads are shut down every year.

Critics, (possibly concerned netizens) should wind their necks in and show some more respect. Whilst I agree with your response, quote "Up yours the critics! (from a country bumpkin)" I think that your comment is mild compared to the one I would like to have made which may well have given me a long holiday from the forum. (from another country bumpkin)

Did it occur to you, that women might think the same about you?

What power would that be, and why would you need to have it?