Enoon

In the photo the agreement appears to be getting signed/stamped by a colonel of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. Well done "The Thaiger".

People pay to bring extra cabin baggage on board. Very much looking forward to reading AN newsletter the day after someone sees you unloading their gear from the overhead locker. My choices would be to find space elsewhere or get an attendant to find it for me.

They certainly can, given that the advice given so often here is to get the extension a week to 10 days before VE permissions expire. The fault lies entirely with the person who has not bothered to plan properly. However that is not to say that the IO will make life uncomfortable for the individual concerned.

A friend of mine owns a basement flat a few minutes walk from where she died. Forget abut "Upmarket Westminster", the area is Bayswater, this is a "Bayswater Murder", that is how Londoners would refer to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayswater I worked "just down the road", 200yds East of Marble Arch, for 7 years in 80's/90's. In those days telephone boxes were full of business cards advertising "services" in Bayswater (as described in the link below). Move on to 2015: "Bayswater, or at least parts of it were historically a red light district, and every now and again there are reports of brothels being busted, mainly of the type involving captive immigrant sex slaves held as their 'debts' are unpaid. This isn't likely to be apparent to tourists as it isn't the 'streetwalking' kind of prostitution - there is more of that in Paddington, albeit not what it was even a few years back. Do an internet search and plenty of escort agencies based in the Bayswater area are shown" https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/england/bayswater-section-of-london It's no different now, except more internet contacts and many more LBs on offer.

But you, by your own admission, complied with the rule that compelled you to leave the country every 90 days: "I refused to ever do 90 day reporting, I would just leave the country....."

A contagious disease is one that transmitted from one human to another. Legionnaires is not a contagious disease: "Legionellosis is not contagious, meaning it is not spread from person-to-person. Disease transmission primarily occurs through inhaling Legionella-contaminated, aerosolized water. While rare, exposure is also possible from breathing in (i.e., aspirating) Legionella contaminated soil or while drinking water." https://www.osha.gov/legionnaires-disease/medical-information

The annular rocket festival, shown in the video in the post preceding this one, is in Kutwa, Kuchinari amphoe, Kalasin province. It is held a week after the Yasothon festival so it will be 17th-19th May.

The fact of there being very few collapsed buildings (and very few deaths) indicates that the Taiwanese, unlike the Turks, have built them to withstand earthquakes very well. That building is probably doing exactly what it as supposed to do in an earthquake. I suspect that it sits on a massively strong foundation, which was designed to move instead of breaking, and that the building itself is very well secured to that foundation and also built to withstand a large angle of tilt without collapsing. I googled "Buildings taiwan earthquake" and as well as the headline photo in this article I got these two examples:

It would also be possible to just add a question mark, thus: "I could give a ****?" or "Like I could give a ****?" I believe those are popular ways to express lack of concern.

Great photo choice for the article. That's the Indonesian KRI Nanggala......lost with all hands off Bali in 2021.

I (in an adjacent province) picked that up 2-3 weeks ago.....took about 10 days before recovery commenced. Self diagnosed as Bronchitis. Ok now.

I do not believe for one moment that the scientists were "spooked".

It's nothing to do with parental consent. Age of consent in Thailand (the age of the person engaging in the sexual activity) is 15. They are the person who gives the consent. However the law provides for the individual to withdraw their consent after the activity, parents often pressuring them to do so. That is what gets people in trouble. This is advice for teenagers who may think that because they are over 15 they are not liable to prosecution even though both consenting partners are over 15: "In Thailand sexual encounters with a minor under the age of 18 may be classed as a compoundable offence, even if this was with a person over 15 and with their explicit consent. To clarify (I hope!), what this means is that a young person having sex with another person aged 15, 16, or 17 may be prosecuted for this “compoundable offence” if one participant (normally the girl), or their parent, were to file charges against the other side when they later decided they regretted what they had done. In effect, this makes the unfettered Thai age of consent to sex to be 18 years of age." https://www.lannaist.ac.th/keeping-our-teenage-children-safe/

Recycle, re-manufacture, replace. You poor old sods really do not get it do you?

When you speak in Thai they gain an insight into your character that they would not get if you only spoke English......because they do not speak English so well and are unable to read you very well. Because you speak Thai you reveal yourself to them in the same way that you reveal yourself on AseanNow. I find you to be a typically tiresome, alcoholic bore. It seems that many people, perhaps the majority, who respond to you on AN think you to be a complete ****...............why should Thai people think otherwise? Do you get it?........people treat you as they find you. That's all the "attention" you'll be getting from me today........carry on.