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1 hour ago, Darcula said:

How is that even possible without the help of locals and BIB? When even to buy a pack of gum you need to provide 3 signed copies of your passport including the page with latest entry stamp.

Rather proved what I have suspected all along, no -one actually looks at the reams of copies of passports, immigration forms, and various other varieties of paperwork which we provide for the slightest reason.

Yesterday I wanted to change some B1000 notes for smaller notes to pay the "Tribes of Issan" who have been helping best beloved on the farm.

I went into a bank where I have had an account for 5 years, and had my driving licence copied, and gave them telephone numbers and email address, all solemnly written out , signed dated and countersigned...

Girl behind the counter was jolly pretty though...

How can it be?

The "great deal maker had it sorted..."

10 hours ago, Grouse said:

Trumpsters, Brexiters and hangers are the same team I suspect. Maybe I'm incorrect but I suspect my hypothesis is correct. 

 

There are no grounds for the suggestion that thinking that the UK should leave the EU means that one is automatically an enthusiast for Mr Trump, nor for being an advocate for capital punishment.

But there again it is not really a hypothesis is it? Rather, like so many of your posts," Grouse" it is really a "troll post" isn't it? Cleverly crafted, masquerading as informed debate, but really intended to annoy and provoke a response from those whose opinions you disagree with.

Returning to the topic, for what it is worth, in my opinion, these characters should have been hunted down and killed on the battlefield where they committed their atrocities.

But it has NOTHING to do with "Brexit" or "Trump".

On 7/20/2018 at 7:03 PM, RuamRudy said:

Not all of them...

 

 

Just most of them.

A majority of them.

More than voted to remain.

I somehow suspect that a "coalition" will be harder to put together for this one, if it comes down to it, than for the USA's last two attempts to fight regimes that they dislike in this part of the world.

Even allowing for Mr Trump's inspired leadership of Western Democracy!

2 hours ago, worgeordie said:

America must be really proud to have such a President,who cages children,

denies global warming,is taking animals off the threatened list,just so big

business can move in and exploit the wilderness, who is a whore monger,

woman abuser,a bankrupt,and a hell of a liar,anything I have missed ?

 

regards worgeordie

Draft dodger ( who accuses pilots who are shot down and taken prisoner of cowardice.

Oh, and a good old fashioned rascist...

That "draining the swamp" business, to end sleaze and duplicity in government and associated circles worked frightfully well didn't it?

1 hour ago, colinneil said:

Latest rumour is the culture ministry has already chosen the main characters for the film.

Lead role little p, main supporting actor Ole Fatty, 1 scene already deleted, Ole Fatty getting stuck in the narrow passage.

You are being very negative Colin. The production values enshrined in the planned level of Government involvement in the project, mean that we can look forward to a costume drama set in a ruthlessly sanitised period from the glory days of old Siam. The boys plight will be brought to the attention of a stern yet brave nobleman, by a winsome serving girl, for whom he has the raging hots - sorry I meant has a secret love - the former, as we all now never happened in those noble times. Venturing into the steaming jungles of Lanna, constantly hassled by evil Burmese ruffians clad in black pyjamas and sporting stick-on long straggly moustaches, our hero, helped by the winsome serving girl who it now appears is a suitably hi so orphan taken in by his father, rescue the boys from the cave, and emerge to the ecstatic applause of the local population, clad in an assortment of polyester traditional garments.

The closing titles will be accompanied by a sentimental yet rather martial ballad, penned by a mystery benefactor, and sung by a chorus of remarkably handsome soldiers with astonishingly white straight teeth.

I can't wait...

It is really quite astonishing how many ministries and agencies can cling on to a passing bandwagon...

9 hours ago, My Thai Life said:

I doubt very much that all the Central staff were at a single briefing - it wouldn't be logistically feasible - or maybe you meant the Starbucks staff?

 

I personally don't spend any time in Starbucks Central (or McDonalds, burger bars etc) , after all I could do that in the USA, and I'm sure your knowledge of Starbucks is much greater than mine; but aren't they on the 1st floor (UK numbering) and therefore closed before 11?

 

Back to facts: 30% of the parking is not closed off. Central opens at 11, it does all over Thailand, and has done ever since there's been Centrals.

 

Sadly, the commercial deathwish that forum experts have wished upon Central since prior to its opening has not materialised except in the fantasies of disgruntled expats. But we live in hope.

1) Starbucks overlooks the big terrace outside Central. It opens, I believe it opens at 0900. It is on the ground floor (UK)

2) On the day we are talking about, staff from all the major shops were formed up behind signs for each outlet, whilst a squad of firemen in front of them, some wearing breathing apparatus, were giving some sort of demonstration. Several hundred were present. It lasted about twenty minutes. I watched

3) Large swathes of the outside parking, on two sides of Central have been fenced off with metal fences and are now some sort of construction site.

4) I am not really bothered whether or not you spend time in Starbucks or Macdonald's. I had a reason to be there on Tuesday.

 If you are going to take people to task about 'facts", or suggest that they are indulging in fantasy, perhaps you should make sure that you are right first?

I am, by the way, normally fairly "gruntled"!

What about the university?

I've nearly saved up enough for my Masters....

1 minute ago, dufusdonald said:

Oh yeah. All those stupid, uneducated, liberal American jurists in California are so easily manipulated unlike the highly educated Brexit for breakfast Brits.  lol

Oh dear, chip on your shoulder getting a bit heavy is it?