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Is she always relieved when she can get off again?

I do it every Thursday, must have just missed you.

Ooooooh look at you with your 100 baht an hour!!

You literally just made that up.

Not sure if this has been posted anywhere else (I can't see it if it has been) but sounds very interesting indeed. 10 super fast DC charging parks coming with 30 chargers in each one. https://www.nationthailand.com/business/corporate/40029157

Having a tizzy because I asked if Skype is still a thing?? I haven't used Skype for probably 8 years so it was a genuine question as I thought it had been beaten into submission by Zoom, MS Teams, Google Meet etc. Anyway, if you use AIS you can use the 003 prefix (rather than 001) to get cheaper international calls. 159 baht gets you 40 minutes of call time to the UK. https://www.ais.th/003/en/ DTAC do a similar thing with 004 but they don't say what the rates are. https://www.dtac.co.th/en/idd.html

Yes, the bridge is made out of matchsticks but luckily we have you to call it out. Please tell me the context of this bridge support and why it is too thin - you seem to know about it, so when will it fall down in your estimation? It is a cropped picture and you don't see the column before or after or anything else. And you really think they just put the thinnest columns up and be damned? Thailand has one of the most extensive network of viaducts and they are sturdily built (even if the safety standards during construction can be a bit poor). So please enlighten us why this is too thin for the load. Thank you.

How many bridges or expressways or elevated train lines have you seen collapse here? They must happen all the time right? Typical AN thread full of nasty negativity when the OP has nothing of substance at all. I wonder what people get out of sitting at their computers posting negative nonsense on every single thread.

Is Skype still a thing?

Nonsense. Plenty of people use hard drugs recreationally for no other reason than it's fun. Then on Monday morning they go to work, no underlying issues at all. I think you are out of touch.

No one has done this for about 18 months at least, surely they can't mean it.

I hope you are joking.

I admire Teslas for the technology and the fact they really changed the industry. I have ridden in a few as Ubers in Dubai and they are cool, but I find them pretty ugly and dumpy and not special. I am all for EVs and my next car will definitely be one, but Teslas just don't do it for me. Almost certainly I will go with an EX30 or one of the Chinese brands (depending on what's on the market in a year or so from now) - I don't think a Tesla will come in to the reckoning. Not sure why I felt the need to post that but there you go. ????

Nice rant, but what on earth has the BBC got to do with this?

I love an early morning grab.

....says the man who has repeatedly judged all Thais. You really have a massive chip on your shoulder.

Yeah, it's kind of equidistant to both and really not that far. A 3-4 minute walk max, probably less - I haven't tried it, just been past it a few times. The station is pretty much directly connected to Paradise Place though (not Paradise Park) but I've never been in there so no idea if that is good or not. Hua Mark ARL couldn't really be anywhere other than where it is. It is about 200 metres to Srinakarin Road. If it was any closer it would jam up Srinakarin road as people got dropped off / picked up on the main road. Now people drive down the little street and there is a loop for dropping off and picking up. A lot of moo bans in the area have shuttle busses, lots of private vehicles doing the drop off / pick up. If all that was happening on the main road it would be a nightmare. Agree it is a bit sparse on the taxi front unless you walk to the main road. Plenty of motorbikes though. But I really don't see where else the station could have been. Also it remains to be seen if they will ever build a direct walkway between there and the Yellow Line. No sign of anything happening at the moment. Yeah, the green line connections are great. But mostly they didn't exist when it was first opened. Hopefully over time we get more of those on other lines as private businesses fund connections to their own locations (as happens on the green line I believe).

Saw it parked outside Villa Thonglor (assuming this has to be the same one). Also a couple of days later I saw a beautiful Ferrari F40 drive down Thonglor, my favourite car of all time.

Wow, that does look like a cool place.

Yes, I know. They also fly to about 20 other destinations around the region where they don't own the airport.

It's not a monopoly by any definition of the word. It doesn't only fly to Samui you know.

Why? What is wrong in the criteria of the World Airline Awards?

If applying in person you can't use cash. You don't need a UK card, they accept Thai credit and debit cards, you just fill out the details and submit with your application. Your card will be charged once the submission has made its way to the UK. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/190989/OS_Payment__Instruction_07.13.pdf I did it recently and they said 11 weeks. Finally I think it was about eight and a half weeks.

I recently made a thread with questions about import duties for hand carrying a wood fired pizza oven and 20kg of oak pellets back from the UK. Got some good info and I carried it back with no issues. Some people were interested in the oven and asked me to post a review once I'd used it, so here it is. @richard_smith237 It's a brilliant bit of kit. So nicely engineered, easy to put together (took one minute), easy to use. It gets to around 450 celcius in 15 minutes or so and cooks the pizza in 60 seconds. I had to cure it for 30 minutes the first time (just burn wood in there at maximum temp) then it was ready to use. The very first pizza I cooked in there burnt as I put it in and came back 90 seconds later to check - too late; the second was great. The heat is so intense that 10-15 seconds is the difference between being underdone, perfect, and burnt - literally - so you have to be vigilant. The taste is amazing, the texture is amazing. The machine needs no looking after other than cleaning soot out of the chimney. I just fired it up for the second time tonight. Honestly better than most pizzas I've ever ordered, but definitely room for improvement still. So my review is it is well worth it. Needs a learning curve as to how to cook at such high heat (how thick should your base be, how sloppy your toppings can be, how devoted you need to be about watching it cook and turning it around and removing it in time), but overall it is 10/10. If you were thinking of getting one I recommend it. I should point out I have absolutely no affiliation with the company, they don't even ship to Thailand, but I had wanted one for a while, I had a trip to the UK booked so I ordered one to be delivered there then carried it back. https://ooni.com/collections/ovens/products/ooni-fyra Some pictures from today.