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recom273

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  1. Not really, a lot of them are trying to escape something - benefits, what benefits? After processing they get a room in an old broken down hotel, a couple of quid a day for some cup noodles which they can heat up in a shared microwave. They are coming because, let’s face it, who wants to stay in France? Coming to the UK is far more appealing, moving to an area where they may already have family and friends, a community of people from the same country, familiar food, an opportunity to get a job. Surprising as it seems, they don’t get iPhones handed to them as they get out on the beach, quite the contrary, when they do start work, they pay a higher national insurance contribution from their salary, they don’t just get eternal unemployment benefits. (Charities have been distributing phones because how else do they make appointments with courts, social services and lawyers?). There will always be a bad element in any migration, it’s true that the Somalians make up one of the highest groups in UK prisons, but that might have something to do with the successive Tory governments refusal to process any asylum claims for the past x years, and just allowing them to just remain. Tommy, a true Brit, savior of the people .. someone remind me where he’s hiding out these days? He’s another grifter, the disenfranchised are the easiest group to manipulate to achieve your goal. We learned this from Hitler. Farage, Andrew Tait, Tommy ten names - all running the same grift. When John Lyndon wasnt a fat old hasbeen he said “have you ever been conned?”
  2. sorry, someone pointed out to me that last night was the finale and I watched a trailer to the next season at the end, which looks off the scale, with the whole Frank Harkness universe expanding. We all know Gary Olman one of the UK’s finest, we have had enough posts about his believable filthy appearance but I thought the scene with Jack Lowden was pretty true to life, he looked so pissed off.
  3. I really enjoyed this mini series, yes, based on a true story. A well worthy recommendation.
  4. if you are appreciate Brit humour, I started S01 of the cleaner the other day, it’s ok. Its just started a third series, so I thought it was worth a look, my mum rates it too. One of the best comedy shows in my recent memory was King Gary - everyone knows a Gary King from around my way. Funny as you like. Brassic has been mentioned here a few times recently. I caught the first couple of the new series, sometimes the series are a bit wobbly, but this one looks solid enough, starting out with Shirley watching 80s Lycra aerobic porn with cling film over the keyboard of his laptop.
  5. it was called, under the dome, I thought it was excellent. The first time Hank from BB appeared on my TV. Another show around that time was Hero’s .. probably quite dated now. The current series and episode of Slow Horses is pretty tense, and it’s not even the finale. (Darkness) Those who kill started off pretty pedestrian but ended up in a pretty dark complex plot, I enjoyed it.
  6. Do the cameras use rtsp? You could setup a shinobi or motioneye on your laptop and then login via the web from your Mac. You are better off setting this up on a small mini computer running Debian and logging in via a vpn, wireguard, tail scale or reverse proxy - then you can have remote access from wherever you are, interesting job, if your interested in internet security, best practices, etc.
  7. Thanks, my schiit modi gave up last week, I have others but schiit gear looks great on my desk. CD players? Who has them these days? I sold some gear from my stash in the UK last week. I sold a technics amp for a prize, apparently it is a much sought after model in retro hifi circles but I could only get 20 quid for a CD player.
  8. would any of those countries be in SE Asia? is it that just because they don’t have entry stamps, when leaving to a neighboring country, Thai immigration don’t have a record of you leaving? You aren’t going to win .. it used to be that you could visit Malaysia, send your passport to Hull consulate for a ME 12 month and then get it FedEx’d back. They worked that out too ..
  9. Yes .. mine does .. PIA, but how does that benefit you? When you activate your visa, it will be when you enter. When you enter they will want to see a VN entry stamp on the day applied. These people aren’t stupid, why does everyone try to game the system?
  10. You should speak to BMS - they will sell and setup an Olin’s setup for you.
  11. this makes perfect sense, it should be priority. My marriage extension has become a joke, the same paperwork with the exception of the kr2, every year. Digital photos that serve no purpose, printed and stuck to an A4 sheet. They have assistants in my local office that check everything, I then proceeed to the officer who then rechecks them in silence, stamps, signature and consideration after 20 mins. I don’t begrudge it, it’s pretty easy but what country wouldn’t have an online form and a place to submit scanned or photo documents? They are just obsessed with stamps and signatures here.
  12. They were prevented from getting the free handouts over Covid because they didn’t have a contracted job. However, doesn’t stop them paying into the national pension plan as the article mentions, everyone can do it, they have offices in every city. Also, it’s not an issue to register and pay tax here, is it? I’m not too sure what benefits paying tax would bring.
  13. The idea of a Bangkok GP has been touted since 1934, by Prince Bira - there is already drawings for the circuit. I think last time the idea was promoted in 2015, the opposition from environmental groups forced legislation to prevent it happening. I was looking for the link which I’m sure was in BP, so couldn’t be posted here. But there is a proper law preventing a Grand Prix event in BKK.
  14. The concept or Buriram is great, stadium and track, but the hotels can’t accommodate all visiting fans for domestic football games, even the finest hotel in the city probably wouldn’t meet the expected standards. I know nothing of GP but I gather the circuit is fine for bikes but not much else.
  15. You can get a work permit on a non-o marriage, working on a retirement is prohibited. If you are on a marriage extension, there is no need to go back to a non-b. I always had a marriage visa (I had multiple entry at that time) and a work permit, I taught in a school and didn’t want to be beholding to a school who would remove my ability to stay here, if I left their employment.
  16. I don’t really get into the city much, but I have started to see a bit of disturbing habit amongst the young, in the west, the placement of zebras are usually on smaller streets with low traffic flow, but here there seems no similar town planning rules. There are crossings in the town near a school, crossing a 4 lane main road, and another near to the uni - in the UK, as pedestrians we are taught to consider the driver, you wouldn’t just step out giving the motorist no time to stop, but I have seen young students just crossing using a variety of techniques, one technique is sheepishly standing at the side of the road and for no reason jump into the road and crossing in short spurts, often stopping in the path of moving traffic to grab hold of another kid attempting the manouve, the worrying one is entitled walk giving no consideration to wether the car can stop safely. I will always consider stopping at a crossing unless I have a fast moving car close to my rear, which happens a lot here, in which case I would defend my right not to stop. It’s all down to education on both sides. Students should be taught to not run on a crossing, to proceed at a uniform speed when it safe for vehicles to stop, not because they think they are entitled to cross.
  17. idk about international flights in Asia, but when I fly I feel a sense of frustration and laughter at the locals, especially on a Sunday night out of Bangkok. The locals have a backpack, a purse, a wheeled hard case outside of the size limits but can still be squeezed into the locker with a shoehorn, a bag of Krispy kreme, another couple of plastic bag of food items or shopping and no one says a word! Yes, Asian budget airlines will charge you if you volunteer to pay but if you just do whatever you want, you won’t be challenged. Sometimes the assistants will take larger items at the door and put them in the hold or another locker for free.
  18. The series is 3 episodes as you say correctly, is aired on ITV at around 90 mins per episode - then it seems to be rebroadcast on other channels, maybe they cut them to 6 episodes. Sometimes happens with long episodes, for example Rocco Schiavone.
  19. No need to replace the Huawei , but possible - just put it into bridge mode and like your buddy said, hardwire to the extender and use AP mode. 3BB will supply you with a ONT if you ask and pester them - you can even buy your own - this is an optical terminal that has no routing capability - if you want to buy your own from lazada @Mutt Daeng wrote a guide on how to config it, then run an ethernet cable to your TP link router. ETS: Bridge mode to ethernet > router > AP - you will need something to handle the routing of your traffic over the whole system.
  20. It sounds like you need a decent home network, like you said, put your router into bridge mode, connect a series of mesh wifi access points throughout your house. I have used TP deco mesh in the past, but moved to unifi because I wanted PoE rather than mains powered. The deco M9 was a solid choice, although not always great for range. I would run some external cat6 cable in hdpe pipe underground to the annex, or an outhouse and place a AP to cover the annex. A drum of cable isnt expensive and hdpe is just cheap irrigation pipe. Cheap range extenders and power line might seem like an alternative, but I think with a network, you just want to setup and forget, there's nothing worse than being pestered to restart the router or the extender keeps on dropping out, maybe you want to expand one day and you have to rethink again. I installed a cat6 infrastructure to points around my property, then I can run switches and AP's into that to ensure coverage, I can add or adjust as necessary. Unifi have an online tool to assist with network design, https://design.ui.com/wizard - I uploaded the floorpan of my house, provided a scale and I can visualize the wifi coverage over my land - I'm not suggesting you should go out and buy a unifi system, but you can use their online tools to see what would be a viable solution rater than use trial and error.
  21. That's quite strange, with regard to working parties / village life (I never get asked anyway, my wife is just one of the "madam" Mia farang anyway) but when you speak to locals they are unaware of the hoops we need to jump through to get a visa, or the need for a wp, they just presume because we are married that we can just do whatever we want, and that most westerners dont do anything because they are loaded or incapable - I remember painting my road facing lounge and attracting an audience who watched in disbelief as they couldn't paint a wall with a roller themselves.
  22. Yeah, I have seen them all so subs are available. I think one season was Google translate tho’ - The new seasons, S06 doesn’t have English subs, but I’m sure they will appear one day.
  23. New series this week. Also, a new series of mocro mafia and the Danish, those who kill, but I'm unsure if it will come with English subtitles.
  24. I’m pretty sure he means this https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11016042/ It also has a title In capital letters, putting 2 and 2 together. No, 🤦‍♂️ not the talented my ripely. Ripley is the story of a 50s / 60s (idk, seems to be a little vague on the time) grifter who takes a simple job in Italy. The locations are excellent, as is the tale, it’s quite slow and drawn out, lots of artsy shots, in a neo noir fashion. I enjoyed it, but I like stuff like this, a lot of folks won’t.
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