Bangkok Barry

That was a true heatwave with very unusually high maximums. The same as we've been having in Thailand for the last month+. But Europe definitely isn't designed for hot. I was there in July a few years back, partly for work, and it hit mid-30s in Austria. It was so hot the aircon on the train failed and the guard came through unlocking all the windows.

Apps work until the system goes down. and one time they tried contactless payments on the Airport A1-A4 buses in Bangkok but that didn't seem to last long.

By comparison, a couple of years ago around 70,000 died from the heat in Europe.

Please do not confuse Thailand with the real world.

Where will you go where things are not getting worse? I guess many of us would like to know so we can follow you.

The System has been activated again. He has spoken, made his recommendations, and his job is done. Anything that happens later is not his responsibility. You, I, he and everyone else knows that what is said will be ignored and is unenforceable and will quickly be forgotten, but that is not the point. He has acted, done what he considers to be his job, while actually doing nothing. This happens all the time, at least once a week. Someone makes a declaration and the next day it's ignored and forgotten. But that person has done their job by 'acting'. In future weeks we'll have 'crackdowns' on selling fake Viagra on the street, riding motorcycles on the pavement/sidewalk, vaping equipment on sale etc etc etc

And how will they find the drivers who are overcharging? Np point in calling the taxi complaint number. I did once, and they told me to call the tourist police. I called the tourist police, and they told me to call the taxi number. And I've been reading of these 'crackdowns' ever since metered taxis were introduced. It can't change as cheating is in their DNA.

and more than likely armed with a gun or knife. Don't forget a machete. A taxi driver killed an American with one in an argument over 100 baht.

There. Fixed it.

Bad news for my wife, who spends 2-3 hours a day watering our garden, plus going off with bins full of water filling the back of the pickup a few times a week to attended plants on some land she has. Condo dwellers don't know how lucky they are 😕

Nice to know that when you get into a taxi in Bangkok the driver might be as high as a kite and ready to kill at any moment.

Yes, I know all that. I don't think Thai check-in agents in Bangkok care about UK laws. They only care about helping fellow Thais.

They did know that riding in the back of a pickup is illegal, didn't they? For a reason. But Thais have a built-in belief that the law only applies to others, not them, and so people die and everyone starts wailing. Same with parents letting underage kids ride motorcycles, and there are tears when he's scrapped off of the road. And it doesn't matter a rat's fart if the law is enforced or not. Common sense, totally absent in Thailand, tells you not to do it because it's dangerous. But they just love to roll the dice.

It might depend on the airline and your nationality. My wife flew to London from Bangkok and her suitcase weighed around 60 kilos. I couldn't lift it when she arrived, and instead of going to our destination by train I had to pay over 50 pounds for a taxi. Similarly, her friend flew to Germany with a suitcase that weighed over 50 kilos. Both passengers were Thai. Both were not charged extra. Both flew Thai. I was 5 kilos over flying to Tokyo and was charged.

There are so many inconsistencies and ridiculous sums being quoted that I don't believe a word of it.

There. Fixed it.

I'd be all for shooting this serial offender's kneecaps first, so he can regret for the rest of his life what he did.

Not to my knowledge, apart from the UK can't afford it.

In related news, as The Thaiger would say, a Dutchman I know says if his government discovered he is married he would lose 500 Euros a month from his pension. He this week divorced his Thai wife and is moving to the Philippines. I'll make no comment on that.

Agreed. There is absolutely no justification at all for denying the increase. Quite the opposite as we are not calling on UK services. We paid into the system the same as UK residents, but then are treated as outcasts. No chance of it being changed as there are no votes in it for MPs. The Daily Telegraph has campaigned against the policy, but it falls on deaf ears. The government says it can't afford it. One of the biggest lies ever told by any government, and that's really saying something.

I think 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_state_pension Two people who clearly didn't bother to read the whole article before asking questions. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), despite mounting criticism, stands by this policy, asserting that it has been in place for over 70 years.

His company should do that. But employing someone illegally is a bit of a handicap to that.

On the subject of the 747, I found a shop stuffed with old magazines in a small backstreet in Stockholm. Most were old Playboys, but there were Life magazines too, and I bought one which had an advert from Boeing announcing the launch of the 747. Interesting to see how many ads there were too for cigarettes back then. How times change.

Oh, the irony. Those claiming there was election fraud are charged with attempting election fraud themselves. Wonderful stuff. You couldn't make it up.

A week or so ago we had a photo of a New York street, seemingly from decades ago, in an article about Thailand. And TAT has used a photo of a Philipine beach to promote Thailand.