26 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

The track has never been approved by the FIA, NEVER. Which part of that is t that you don't get in your head?

 

Show us 1 source that says the circuit was approved by the FIA

 

Ecclestone agreed IN PRINCIPLE

 

https://www.ttgasia.com/2012/10/04/buyers-welcome-f1-in-thailand/

 

The kingdom is inching closer to securing a race for the 2014 F1 season after the Sports Authority of Thailand announced that F1 chairman, Bernie Ecclestone, had agreed in principle to a night race on the streets of Bangkok.

I have better things to do than argue about nothing for absolutely no reason. Bye bye.

48 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

Why you post fake news, as usual?

 

2015 Thailand Grand Prix track route approved, awaits FIA nod

 

What the Hell are you talking about and why the attack? Why would I lie about something so trivial?? The article I shared was for the route and was correct at the time of publishing nearly 12 freaking years ago! 

Thailand was confirmed to have a slot on the 2015 calendar by Bernie Ecclestone himself. Good enough for you? What is your problem exactly?

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2012/12/20/Events-and-Attractions/Bangkok-GP.aspx

And if anyone is interested this was the approved circuit on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?msa=0&mid=1l7qC8cFD0dMJz_7wp4uyUiFLVrc&ll=13.755163157151644%2C100.497163&z=15

17 minutes ago, soi3eddie said:

Chatuchak would be a rather boring place - just park areas and not much to see. Far better to hold it in the Hualampong, China Town, Rattanakosin, Sanam Luang areas. Would be a great showcase for promoting Thailand. Would totally <deleted> the traffic for a week, but look at the exposure it would bring to the country. They would definitely breach the precious 40 million visitors per year once they did this. Here's a street circuit that would give good visuals and get a 50 lap race in the F1 alloted time. 

 

They actually had an agreement with the FIA to be added to the calendar around ten years ago and it was a street circuit around the Grand Palace, Rattanakosin etc. It would have been great, but then politics got in the way.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/f1/2015-thailand-grand-prix-track-route-approved-awaits-fia-nod

4 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Predictable in 2 Tier Britain. Throw milkshake in Farage's face? No jail. Same as the guy who threw rocks at him. No jail time in that case either. 

 

Criticize/repeat Labours immigration policy on Facebook? Do not stop. Go to jail.

 

It's open season on Farage. I wonder how long before someone is empowered to throw acid at him like Jo Brand suggested? Also, no charges for that incitement to violence, obviously...

 

They've also buried the trial of the Labour violence inciter Ricky Jones (who publicly called for throats to be slit) on Trump's inauguration day so I think we all know how much jail time he will get. 

My God you are an incessant bore. And your ever shifting "two tier" goalposts are getting tiresome.

I thought "two tier Kier" let brown people off but white people get the book thrown at them. (As if the PM tells the courts what to do). And here is a white person escaping prison and it is still "two tier Kier"! Make your mind up - you are all over the place, driven by your hatred of an elected government that isn't super right wing.

And the sentence seems right to me - quite harsh for throwing a milkshake. 13 weeks suspended sentence, a fine, compensation, community service and "rehabilitation". Would you like them to be hung drawn and quartered too?

6 minutes ago, transam said:

So no constructive comment then, just a put-down, as the click here generally does.............Oh well...🤔

Seems I must have missed all your constructive comments somewhere. Do you have a link to one?

5 minutes ago, transam said:

So, are THAI (not farangy) EV buyers off loading them, didn't like the fuss of getting them to actually move, the gas station was easy, where ever you were.........?    🤔

Hey look what I found! A Thai selling a car.

https://www.facebook.com/share/17wCPQWLyu/

So, are Thai ICEV buyers offloading them, didn't like the fuss of driving to petrol stations, didn't like the poisonous fumes, the noise, the smell, the lack of performance?

Just more nonsense from Transam.

People sell cars. Sometimes they trade up. Sometimes they can't keep up the payments. But oh no, Transam has to make up some stupid reasons instead.

19 minutes ago, geisha said:

If you’re in the UK passport line at Heathrow you go through the scan gate, no immigration officer.

If it works. Last time it took me 90 minutes to get through. Massive queue for the scan gate, (two operational), it didn't work, I had to go and queue up for the one IO who was working.

Absolutely disgusting and disgraceful mess arriving at our main point of entry for foreign tourists.

Suvarnabhumi is infinitely more efficient.

21 minutes ago, liddelljohn said:

Second hand values on ICE  vehicles are still very good   Insurance in EU and UK on ICE vehicles is half  of EVs   80% of vehicles sold are ICE  , no one actually wants EVs  most EVs are forced sales to company users due to business taxation  , very few private buyers want them or could ever afford them...But my main point is that they  have no value  as second hand vehicles  and that is worrying the banks, finance companies as they lose money on every one sold or financed ...

Here comes another one.....

4 hours ago, simon43 said:

Friday is a part-time teaching day for me, and I planned to pop home after the morning lessons.  However the young, pretty female teachers (they all seem to be like that in Myanmar!) had other ideas.

 

"Teacher Simon, we want to make a movie with you" they chorused!

 

Well, that sounds more fun,and I was ready to strip off my kit and lube up the rusty banana when they explained "The school is making a promo video for our winter sports festival, and the other foreign teachers have nominated you to be the presenter of this promo video".

 

My first thought was that the appearance of the oldest teacher in the whole school to promote a sports video was not a good idea.  However, after briefly considering the apparent health (or lack of it) of my fellow foreign teachers, I decided that I was maybe the better candidate.

 

So myself and 3 lovely young Burmese teachers squeezed onto 2 motor bikes and rode the short distance to the Mandalar Thiri sports stadium to make our movie.  30 or so grade 2 students arrived shortly by bus and they busied themselves in running around the sports hall and generally acting like errant cats, whilst the gym teachers tried to herd them.

 

I was given a sheet of paper with the various phrases and sentences to read out.  We didn't have any professional recording equipment, so one teacher videoed me with her mobile phone and I spoke my lines into my own phone voice recorder, to ensure an adequate sound level.  Videos and audio clips will be spliced together by the highly-skilled post-production facility (that means the computer teacher...).

 

Well, I have to say that the Burmese teachers were suitably 'wowed' by my professional presentation.  Little did they know that they were face-to-face with none other than 'Barry Lancaster', a famous radio DJ from Radio Delmare, from the days of the offshore pirate radio stations in the 1970's!  (Actually I spent most of my stint on that ship being seasick, but I need to keep the illusion going).

 

We completed the promo video by the kids all jumping in the air to a raucous scream.

 

So, the winter sports event will be on the last day of this month.  That gives me plenty of time to 'plot' my revenge on my fellow foreign teachers!

 

Addendum: For anyone interested in my 'radio' career, here are links to information about Radio Delmare:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Delmare

https://www.dxarchive.com/offshore_radio_delmare_english_service.html

 

 

 

Simon, I have only been to Myanmar once and that was a quick trip for work so I have nothing meaningful to contribute here. I just wanted to thank you for your posts - I really enjoy reading them and you are doing a lot of good for a lot of people. Please keep them coming.

It's also reassuring to know there is a corner of this forum which is worthwhile and positive.

1 hour ago, PJ71 said:

Should it be needed, how would you prove your exit from thailand without a stamp.

 

I travel a lot and have all my old passports and stamps, which in the past i've had to dig out and supply entry / exit stamps for various reasons, hence that's why i ask?

Who do you need to prove it to? It's all in the database.

I have been in and out of the egates a few times now. Super fast and easy going out, go to a usual IO on return, stamp, no problem. (On 12 month non O extension of stay with multi entry re-entry permit).