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The mong?: sponsored /ˈspɒnsəd/ adjective adjective: sponsored 1. (of a project, activity, etc.) provided with funding by a particular organization or body. "in the past, sponsored research made up two-thirds of the budget" See also the other alliteratively named newcomer......"Bangkok Bernie".

Suck it up loser.

Perhaps the perp, who looks like he could be a Hindustani, is one of Modis charming ultra-nationalists and felt a conditioned compulsion to punch the mascot......because it is the colours of the Pakistani flag? Oh, looks like previous posters have already gone that route. Never mind.

See 1.03.50 for a man and his bag:

It's cheap. The law is readily for sale or hire. Rejects, outcasts, "failures", the "disappointed", drunks, asocials, xenophobes, the mentally "troubled", misanthropes, malcontents, misfits, miserable old gits, bitter divorcees, cheats, pirates, crooks and layabouts can easily find partners/co-dependants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherchez_la_femme "There is a woman in every case; as soon as someone brings me a report, I say, 'Look for the woman!"

Yes, it was the government minister who appointed Beeching, Ernest Marples, who was the roadbuilder: "His period as Minister of Transport was controversial. He both oversaw significant road construction (he opened the first section of the M1 motorway) and the closure of a considerable portion of the national railway network with the Beeching cuts. His involvement in the road construction business Marples Ridgway, of which he had been managing director, led to concerns regarding possible conflict of interest. In later life, Marples was elevated to the peerage before fleeing to Monaco at very short notice to avoid prosecution for tax fraud." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Marples Wiki entry makes entertaining reading: "The diaries reported the transport minister's fetish for being whipped while dressed in women's clothing, as described in great detail by one of the prostitutes who had provided these services to Marples, and confirmed at the time by her detailed knowledge of the interior of Marples' home where the events took place. The story was suppressed and did not appear in Denning's final report"

I was thinking "Billy"

Your life sounds like **** I doubt that you can change it or yourself now. Stay away from balconies.......or don't........up to you.

6 months in Thailand and 6 months in the UK has been pretty much my regime since 2010. Both societies have a lot to learn from each other.

Yeah, sure, like Stalin had Trotsky killed because Trotsky was too "nice". This isn't about good vs bad.......it's about bad and worse.

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No, Airbus 332 Flightradar:

No, it was an A332 Airbus.

Nobody knows......because it's irrelevant. The "story" is only here because AI picked up the word Thailand in connection with a criminal case in the UK and bleeped it at a news "editor" connected with AN. So it gets printed here, with no explanation of the Thai background, because nobody in Thailand had/has a clue what was going on and where they were. Notice there is no mention in the AN article of Thai police involvement and no big show put on by the Thai police themselves. They were not extradited, the British police just waited until the clever couple, who had no clue that the whole operation was under surveillance, popped home. The origin of this notreallymuchtodowithThailand story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ggdew76gzo

SOP is to net the bush/tree:

My version was same as yours but with a warning light showing when preparing to land. That would justify the seemingly huge turnout of personnel on the ground. Apparent huge turnout might also be due to massive overreaction on the part of the airport when informed that the aeroplane had problems with sticky gear after landing. UTP looking/hoping for a bit of that congratulatory attention that BKK got a couple of weeks ago?........surely not? 😄

Well done.

It's classed as medium. The RQ4 Global Hawk is big:

.......up the greasy pole?

"The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck; through thought I grasp it." Blaise Pascal

My parents were as blue (UK Conservative) as anyone could be in their voting choices and expressed opinions. But in their personal interactions with other individuals they were the most Socialist minded people I have known (neither had any connection with church or religion). They would have been confused, horrified and angry if anyone had pointed out their contradiction to them. I have never found anyone who would not react similarly. I doubt that you would react differently. "We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves" Blaise Pascal

The context of the "bad guys out" statement was that overstayers were defined as the "bad guys". As long as he is all visa'd up he remains a "good guy".

I was quoted 18,000, by the lady dealing with the TM 30, at an IO office in December '23. All anyone in Thailand can really do is quote their own experience in whatever part of the kingdom they happen to be at any particular time. You might want to poke your head out of Pattaya sometime to find that out for yourself......but of course you won't.

The spokesperson for TAT was unavailable for comment:

Thai people have seized upon "mafia" as a generic term for timeserved criminals whose income derives predominantly/entirely from criminal activity. People who, in 19th century Britain, began to be described as "The Criminal Class". When used in Thailand it does not indicate that those described are operating with the same level of sophistication or integration as the Cosa Nostra, the Yakuza, or any other of the similar criminal societies that exist worldwide. Burglaries around my way, in Thailand, are often described to me as the work of "mafia".