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Spot the guy who lost out to a "macho guy".....

Education and prestige no less!

What is a big mini quiche?

I am, thank you.

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear. The "Entire quiche" in the UK is this big. It is not much bigger than a slice. Compare to the entire quiche the OP refers to in Tops. One slice of that is far bigger than the UK supermarket "entire quiches". See the difference? Let me know how your visit to Top Charoen goes. Price is not that different.

Wow, you're so tough. Wish I was as tough as you penalising random Thais - go you! Seriously what a pathetic attitude. And almost certainly made up.

So when they see you speeding from a distance they know you are a farang? Or they let you go past, see you are a farang then give chase? Wow, exciting. Which one is it? Or are you just making stuff up and have a paranoid farang chip on your shoulder like so many people here?

Yes, they do. The service is excellent. They wipe too.

Please tell me where in the world you can get an entire quiche for 290 baht. Even in the UK supermarkets for a bog standard mass produced quiche slice you are looking at 100-150 baht. Jeez, how some people live... https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/tried-supermarket-quiche-aldi-asda-26819006

Got a notification today that the passport is ready for collection, so a little over eight weeks.

Yes, that is correct. And it is telling that even though he was the arch-Brexiteer no one thought to ask his advise. I wonder what the reason might be? This is obviously personal opinion (shared by many others), but Farage had no clue on how the country should be run, he didn't care what happened after Brexit, he only had one goal and it was mostly for his personal gain. Once achieved he moves on, he has no interest in ongoing work, he just pops up whenever he wants a bit of time in the spotlight. It is also telling that not only has no government ever asked for his advice but the electorate have never decided he was worth having as an MP. Because (luckily) we don't want his division at the national level. I think we know. There is nothing in his history to show he is a visionary, a leader, an intellectual, or particularly insightful. And we also know that Brexit was doomed to be a failure from the very start - that was always very obvious. And alas it has come to pass.

Obviously not directly involved in government policy as such (I can see where you are going with this), but all MPs are represented, they get to debate, vote, table motions etc. So actually any elected MP can have a direct voice at the top. Shame he failed seven times and so didn't get an opportunity to get his voice heard - although he certainly does like the sound of it.

"Allowed to be involved". Ha ha ha. Perhaps if he had won on any of the seven occasions he had stood for office he would have been "allowed" to be involved. That's generally how it works. Of course we all know he failed on each of those seven occasions. Poor Nigel, not being allowed to be involved in things....

Staff / family of staff is entirely different. These are concessional tickets and, like you say, all airlines have them and it is one of the perks for working for an airline. Usually they are subject to many restrictions such as availability and full fare paying passengers taking priority. I don't think Thai is any different. Ex-staff I don't know, I would imagine if any it would only be ones with certain seniority or years of service. But anyway, this is standard airline stuff and not what I was talking about. What I was specifically talking about was free first class travel for politicians, VIPs, army that people on here always bang on about. No one can provide evidence at all. I believe it used to happen 25 years ago but it was stopped at least 20 years ago. It is a TVF Myth (unless someone can show me otherwise - I'd be happy to be corrected).

Well done, thanks for posting the review and I am glad you liked it. All too often people ask questions, get responses and recommendations then never come back to the thread which is a bit rude, so personally I always appreciate someone who follows up. I actually popped in this afternoon for a couple of beers so I was looking out for anyone taking photos of their food and I planned to say hello. But it looks like you were sat upstairs and were there later than me anyway - downstairs was full when I was there (around 4pm). I haven't had a roast in there for a long time as I normally cook my own but saw someone have one today and it looked good, as do your pictures. And yeah, the bangers and mash is excellent.

That's because they are ok. They're not the best but they're not bad. They are my preferred regional airline but not my preferred long haul airline (Emirates et al are far better for that). You have to remember that most of the people on here talking smack have not left their village for years and certainly don't fly regularly - it is just an automatic anti-Thai reaction. And the stuff about generals, politicians, VIPs traveling in first for free is a TVF myth and hasn't happened for probably 20 years or more. Yet the myth persists. And whenever I have challenged anyone to provide a link to support it they can't. Surely there's a news report about it somewhere in the world?

If you board a flight to Taipei instead of London you have some issues.

Let me correct you: Disapornting Mansion. ????

Rumbled.

This is the most ridiculous reasoning I have ever heard. Didn't Brexit already happen? Weren't we told - over and over again - that "Brexit is done, get over it", "You lost, deal with it", "Brexit means Brexit" etc etc.? But now you say we can't evaluate it because it is "ongoing". So please, how long will it go on for? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? Eternally? It's nearly seven years since the vote. We have now been out of the EU for several years. It is a failure by almost any metric. A failure then, now, and the period in-between. You won, deal with it.

I disagree, but I guess it depends on the tour guide. We hired a guide and it was so rewarding - he took us off the beaten track, he had impeccable knowledge (he had studied it all his life), he could even read the inscriptions and tell us what they meant. Without that we just have been looking at (amazing) ruined buildings, but with the guide we knew how they were constructed, when, how, what used to happen there, what they would have looked like in their prime, fascinating. But yes, I imagine there are some guides who don't have that knowledge so it is potluck. We also took a helicopter tour and took him with us as he had never been on a helicopter or seen AW from the air - that was priceless as 1) he was very scared, and 2) his beaming smile upon getting up there and seeing it in a new perspective was amazing.

Because they pass their dirty cash through the till and it comes out clean - they don't need real customers putting real money through the till.

And on an island.

These two photos taken from my condo on May 19th 2010. So it was the anniversary of setting fire to Bangkok they were commemorating, bless.

Ah that was a good day.