Bangkok Barry

No. See the response from me above.

I think r rated mags are called stick books hence the name. I have no idea about that. The origin of his name is as described to me when I interviewed him for his site many, many years ago.

He adopted the name after regularly seeing a man with a cane in the days before he moved to Thailand and started the site. A strange choice to call himself that.

Nothing like. I'll not publish any photos I have because he does appreciate his privacy. You came up with a half-decent description of Mekong Kurt though, less so of Bernard Trink.

That was from me, something I posted here and also passed on to Stickman, who is a long-time friend of mine. He's back for a short period, a plan he mentioned several times as the time of his visit approached. His column published today (Sunday) describes his recent rounds.

When I was a kid in England, 50s into the 60s, the Daily Mail used to have someone called Lobby Lud who would spend a day in various holiday resorts during the summer. Readers were alerted to which town he would be in and if you thought you spotted him you could approach him and say 'You are Lobby Lud and I claim my ten pounds'. And you had to be carrying a copy of the paper to win. Must have annoyed loads of people who weren't him and now, in these PC days, kids would not be encouraged to approach strange men.

Just another example of the total lack of logic here. The way that Thais think is far beyond anything we will ever be able to understand. They live in a different universe.

Useless warning sign. Didn't work, someone should be pointing at it in accusation.

Depends on the area of course, but I just got my one 10 days before the under consideration date was up. I think you're being unduly concerned. If things get desperate then go to speak with them about a solution.

You think so? An ex brother-in-law in the UK sold ice cream from a van, and I went out with him one day. He went to a depot, collected the milk required and then he made around 1000% profit from his ice cream sales. Even more profitable than cafes selling a 2p tea bag for 2.50.

Ideas above their station. Poor business skills. Trying to walk before they can run. A dream without enough finance to back it up. All those things. See it so many times. Planning never thought through properly.

My concern was that the hotel and boys in brown on the street might not know that.

Anyway, as I added later, we received a call today to say my extension is ready, a remarkable 10 days early.

There, You've learned something today. Always good to go to bed wiser than when you woke up.

I hope he isn't a parent, Imagine having a father that dumb.

You are right. Why did he not declare his position? If he didn't then we could have a different kind of corrupt leader running the country. There can be no excuse, surely, for him not knowing that the declaration had to be made. And nor his Party. Something doesn't smell right there either. I'll get my wife's take on it. She's a supporter and will probably say he doesn't have to obey a rule laid down by others. In Thai-style that makes it's someone else's fault, not that of the prospective PM.

With THAI taking on the loss-making routes. Or closing them? Smile used to fly to Roi Et but no longer does.

UPDATE: Immigration called to say that my extension is ready, 10 days early which is a first for me.

So why did they set up two separate companies in the first place, if so much now has to be 'corrected'?

Kalasin fined my wife for not reporting I was back home from Bangkok. They negotiated it down to 500 baht, no receipt. I guess they must have run out of them. As with any IO, be prepared for anything. I'm off to Bangkok for a couple of days again soon, the day after my under consideration period is up. If my extension isn't ready when they say it should be, as it sometimes isn't, then that opens up an interesting question or two. Such as, it will seem to anyone who checks my passport, such as the hotel, that I'm on overstay. And technically I will be, as I only have permission to stay until the 29th (I'll be in Bangkok 30 and 31).

Exactly right.

Using the GPS of an iPad kept under the seat, Nerarit eventually found the motorcycle. He was also shocked to learn that the thief who stole his vehicle had been killed in a collision. Smart man.

What many find ridiculous is that they dictate what colour ink is used.

Correct.

I don't know. The ones in London certainly are. And I'm not sure these are sewers anyway. They are drains, large ones as it tends to rain a bit sometimes.