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Brilliant.......well done.....you've deduced that they might be insane. Did you never think to read what it says on the label?: Ya ba (Thai: ยาบ้า, Lao: ຢາບ້າ, literally 'crazy medicine') https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya_ba

How about current categories are merely being re-grouped under different headings? Fewer individually identified main categories, but several previously individually identified now become sub-categories? Noting more than re-labelling/paper shuffling? 😄

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Grade A "Twerp".

SETV has a validity of 3 months, but can only be utilised ONCE during that period. SETV can be extended ONCE by 30 days, new visa ONCE by 180 days. The new visa may have the same mechanics as SETV, but over a 5 year period instead of 3 months. OR It may be utilised every year for 5 years....but only extended ONCE during that 5 year period. OR Usable every year for 5 years and extendable once every year. OR Something else? Anyway, either of the three possibilities postulated above may have been calculated to appeal to some sort of the typical "digital nomads" strategy.......or it may just have been the result of some obstruse "brainstorming" sessions on the part of the visa designers.....who knows? I'm not making any assumptions right now about how it works It OBVIOUSLY needs to be clarified by somebody who knows for SURE.

"I watch one old guy every morning sit at that mini mart opposite Arcadia resort with the other drinks he then waddles up to his room in a stupor" That sounds very much like a typical example of an alcoholics routine. The truth is that you are a lost soul who does not know where they belong. That is the reason for your non-stop posting tirade against every situation and individual that you have encountered on this visit to Pattaya. How times change:

As is invariably the case with incidents such as this it was not actually about the money. It was about a history of insult and contempt from the person he killed. The money was "the straw that broke the camels back".

What's wrong with these guys? : You really do have your head right up your ****. 😉

George Melly was threatened by a couple of muggers one night in Manchester after he had been doing a show. He was very enthusiastic about Dadaism/Surrealism and starting reciting this Dada poem as loudly and dramatically as he could........it got rid of them:

Her and the other donors get a huge chunk of "Merit" for doing this........that's the deal. That is their thinking.

It is a "Travel Advisory", which is not the same thing as the specific security warning that the US gave to Russia. UK Foreign Office has a standing travel advisory warning UK citizens against visiting the Southern provinces of Thailand. The FO warning is about a permanent danger in a specific geographic location. The SD warning is about increased danger at a specific time of year........unfortunately that is the way things are. The SD warning should be taken as a "seasonal reminder" about the potential dangers around Pride events, rather than suggesting evidence of specific plans and intentions of the usual suspects. Equivalent of "Don't Drink and Drive" messages during New Year etc.

Author couldn't spend 3 minutes fact checking before declaring Chatham "peaceful"?: "Chatham is the most dangerous major town in Kent, and is among the top 20 most dangerous overall out of Kent's 331 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in Chatham in 2023 was 161 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares poorly to Kent's overall crime rate, coming in 78% higher than the Kent rate of 90 per 1,000 daytime population. For England, Wales, and Northern Ireland as a whole, Chatham is among the top 10 most dangerous major towns, and the 271st most dangerous location out of all towns, cities, and villages." "The most common crimes in Chatham are violence and sexual offences, with 4,427 offences during 2023" https://crimerate.co.uk/kent/chatham What a mess "The Thaiger" is. We were supposed to cheer when it took over AN?

The style was all too evident in "The Thaiger " long before AI authorship came along. That individual still churning it out. Grotesque, melodramatic, overwrought, mannered, self-indulgent. This being the third post critiquing it, and not discussing the notional "story", is evidence as to how inappropriate and distracting it is.

A simple "not like" emoji (thumbs down) would forestall a lot of invective. Having 4 different emojis expressing approval, and none to coldly express the opposite, is ridiculous.

"Perhaps I am a minority but I enjoy Gamma's posts and think he would be interesting to talk to over coffee." You would not talk to him. You would be treated to a monologue. You would learn something from the experience........and you would be far from being the first person to undertake to avoid him in future.

https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-global-temperature-record-streak-continues-april-2024-was-hottest-record Could an idiot please step up and post that it always gets hotter at this time of year?

Off you go, have fun: https://onlyfans.com/989157618/dafdarktrailer

If he had been wearing a seatbelt we would still have been watching a video of him. The difference being that we would have been seeing a demonstration of how seatbelts save your life. But they're too ******* clever for that aren't they? Not like us silly westerners.......only good for smirking at when we buckle up. "Som nam na".

The National Insurance act of 1946 stipulated that pensions would not be paid to UK citizens abroad unless they were in one of the "Dominions" of the UK In 1948 the first pension increase was awarded.......but not to those living abroad. It has been the same since then except where reciprocal arrangements have been made with particular countries. Any UK citizen who has not taken the frozen pension into account when planning their future specifically in Thailand (no reciprocality in place) is indeed guilty as you have charged. It was never going to be a good idea for anyone to rely solely (or even primarily for many) on a UK pension to live in Thailand.

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