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Thought the title was a misspelling of black hole...555. Ive never heard of a back hoe before.

Applied too soon maybe?

Advocated years ago by the late 'Green' scientist James Lovelock as the only way to produce enough zero carbon energy on a large enough scale to halt climate change. He believed that developing and producing Green energy would take far too long and amounts to no more than p i s s i n g in the wind anyway (my metaphor not his): Nuclear power See also: Nuclear power and climate change Lovelock became concerned about the threat of global warming from the greenhouse effect. In 2004 he broke with many fellow environmentalists by stating that "only nuclear power can now halt global warming".[46] In his view, nuclear energy is the only realistic alternative to fossil fuels that has the capacity to both fulfil the large scale energy needs of humankind while also reducing greenhouse emissions.[47] He was an open member of Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy.[4] In 2005, against the backdrop of renewed UK government interest in nuclear power, Lovelock again publicly announced his support for nuclear energy, stating, "I am a Green, and I entreat my friends in the movement to drop their wrongheaded objection to nuclear energy".[48] Although those interventions in the public debate on nuclear power were in the 21st century, his views on it were longstanding. In his 1988 book The Ages of Gaia he stated: I have never regarded nuclear radiation or nuclear power as anything other than a normal and inevitable part of the environment. Our prokaryotic forebears evolved on a planet-sized lump of fallout from a star-sized nuclear explosion, a supernova that synthesised the elements that go to make our planet and ourselves.[49] In The Revenge of Gaia (2006), where he put forward the concept of sustainable retreat, Lovelock wrote: A television interviewer once asked me, "But what about nuclear waste? Will it not poison the whole biosphere and persist for millions of years?" I knew this to be a nightmare fantasy wholly without substance in the real world... One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife. This is true of the land around Chernobyl, the bomb test sites of the Pacific, and areas near the United States' Savannah River nuclear weapons plant of the Second World War. Wild plants and animals do not perceive radiation as dangerous, and any slight reduction it may cause in their lifespans is far less a hazard than is the presence of people and their pets... I find it sad, but all too human, that there are vast bureaucracies concerned about nuclear waste, huge organisations devoted to decommissioning power stations, but nothing comparable to deal with that truly malign waste, carbon dioxide.[50] In 2019 Lovelock said he thought difficulties in getting nuclear power going again were due to propaganda, that "the coal and oil business fight like mad to tell bad stories about nuclear", and that "the greens played along with it. There's bound to have been some corruption there – I'm sure that various green movements were paid some sums on the side to help with propaganda".[51] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock#Nuclear_power

Rarely soap in a Thai toilet; especially in restaurants!

....and this was the snub of snubs.

Why no photos of protesters? How many were there? Was this a large scale protest or just a few students?

So young.....Very sad.

...And thats after the punch up...555.

As I've posted several times before on here Joe, you cannot rely on the info. on the London embassy website. The website is a mess because, with typical Thai efficiency, they seem to add new requirements without removing the old requirements. The only way to get accurate up to date visa info. is to email them; [email protected], and they do reply quite quickly these days. I have assisted a couple of friends to get this visa through the dreaded Thai evisa website this summer in the UK and one friend has just arrived in Thailand 14/11 using the 1 year ME O visa. I just checked with him and he obtained it on 10/10. So I know that there is no insurance requirement at the moment. But, again, I advise anyone applying for any visa from the UK to email them to double check the requirements before applying. Also for anyone applying for a visa and being asked by the evisa website to upload irrelevant documents or documents no longer required, such as insurance, you just need to upload a blank sheet of paper with N/A written on it.

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No it is not required for a 90 day O visa nor a 1 year multiple entry O visa....unless the requirement has been changed since Aug/Sept 22

I dont know if it was a single or joint account or accounts.

I have no idea. I am just posting what I was told. I would surmise that when an account is opened with a passport the respective embassy could be informed in the same way immigration is informed of our location by TM30. The embassy could then contact the bank/s directly when informed of our demise. Our embassies would have a vested interest in tracking our overseas finances for tax purposes. Not sure what info. a pink ID discloses but I would think that the bank has your nationality.

Where exactly is this bend? anyone know? Its OK, I found Ban Klang on a map.

That is Oz where u and your father are native. This is Thailand where you are a foreigner and different rules apply. A Brit friend died last year in Udon Thani and very shortly afterwards his long-term girlfriend could not access his/their account/s. She was told that when a foreigner dies and the police are informed they immediately inform the foreigner's embassy and all their bank accounts are immediately locked.

Thats the problem with getting 'stoned' or whatever the term for getting high is these days, everyone drifts off on their own train of thought tangent using a language that no-one else understands.....555.

Brexit plus Callous inept elitist Public school controlled Conservative party 12 year austerity and other bad policies who have been in power too long. ...........And of course the sheep; the dumb-a r s e d media controlled suckers who keep voting for them.

Thank you for your replies but I am not asking about the practical requirement of space for stamps. I am asking about the Thai Immigration's official requirement to have at least 2 blank pages in your passport on entry to Thailand. Would they refuse entry if I only have one blank page as I think there is a rule that you must have at least two? Or am I mistaken?

My passport is filling up. Planning ahead, I believe that 2 blank pages are required on airport entry. Is this correct please? And is it also required for a land border entry visa exempt or with a multiple entry visa please?

Not that I'd be bringing in fruit or anything else illegal,, but In 16 years I have never been stopped by customs entering Thailand at Swampy.

From the hand positions the one with the willy is obviously gay....or possibly an Egyptian belly dancer...555.

CC not required these days. In fact in 16 years I dont recall being asked for one.

Good for PR to.

No great loss as their exchange rates were a total rip-off.

**** him too!