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What a brilliant opportunity to advance the cause of non-vehicle traffic. Just imagine the thousands of pedestrians and cyclists who could use the bridge daily, thus helping to reduce the pollution of central Bangkok.

sorry my bad....inattentive reading

Er, I don't think there's an airport at Hull. But I know what you mean....

I wonder if the guy is a Muslim? Might be his get-out-of-jail-free card if so.

Sorry, that's an Irish punishment.

"Potential collapse"....emphasis on potential ( probably in 2924 AD).

Yup, change since the universe was created....so, the same as the weather (or "climate"as they now call the weather).

Air Canada (certainly not low cost, just low service!) will not make a human voice available. I had to go to the airport in order to find a human. She easily fixed a problem that otherwise would have caused considerable stress.

Presumably, pollution is not restricted in its penetration to riff-raff like us? So, how do the people who ...er..."run" the country plan to evade the high levels of pollution?

I just looked up the Non-O visa on the website of the Vancouver Consulate. It here mentions insurance. (Out of date???) https://www.thaiconsulatevancouver.ca/consulate/documents/visa/non-imm-o-retirement.pdf

anyone know the cost of an entropion operation? Plus ophthalmologist for the job (anywhere in Th)? Entropion = lower lid eyelash growing in instead of out.

IF you had read the thread, you would know that most people on here use subtitles when attempting to watch drama.

slightly off topic, but still about the "sound" we hear thrust at us. I am thinking in particular of BBC drama and its insistent itch to lecture us in desirable wokedom. I was watching in 2022 an episode of "Silent Witness" (with subs natch). I have watched this quite good series since its beginning in 1995 or 6. As the years roll by you can see how BBC (but not necessarily the audience) has just got more and more woke, so that now it is almost a requirement of the script that the police senior person be a woman, preferably a black woman. I do of course believe that "minorities" of various kinds should get a look-in, but not to the point where credulity is strained. For example, this 2022 episode introduced a young woman who was deaf and dumb (as we used to say). So, inevitably, BBC demonstrates how we all need to behave when faced with a d & d person in the workplace, and that means having to "listen" to grown actors "talking" in sign language for all of two minutes. I'm glad I'm old.

When a scene is filmed in the dark, I frequently assume that this is a budgetary matter (or , as someone implied above, actors who need the cover of darkness to save themselves and us from embarrassment (e.g. sex scenes these days are better if we are spared two people going at it with all the grunts and athletics that we are perfectly capable of imagining.)

The way the sound engineers manipulate crowd sound at footy games was laid bare for all to see during the pandemic when football games were played in empty stadiums. At least there was a choice: you could, if you preferred, listen to the commentary without crowd sound - so that goals were scored to no greater sound than at the average school game! But when you listened WITH crowd sound, you could hear/see how ludicrous was the manipulated sound when goals were met with huge roars. It is quite clear, post-pandemic, that the manipulation is as evident as back then. Suspension of disbelief, I guess.

24-hour flight ops???? has anyone experienced the noise over Niman Road as the jets take off, practically overhead. Bad enough eating out, but think of all the condo residents trying to get a good night's sleep.

Don't understand, why is his "history" unusual? Seems more or less in line with most people's experience of getting an extension and counting up the days.

LoL...a good one. Brilliant summation, in a single sentence, of the complete essence of Thai "drama". Sad in a way, but another reflection of an education system that has produced this kind of dreck.

But also the land of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky.

Sorry i failed to entertain you? I will try harder next time. Perapse a song and a bit of dancing might be more agreeable with you? oooo, a bit sensitive we are today. Why would you show to the world that you can't take a bit of AN ribbing?

ah The Times, my good man. But the Dirty Digger from Australia put an end to the broadsheet version in the early 70's. Fake news!

It's all about "face" -- loss of (if kids not looking spic & span).

My second wife used to refer to this sort of stuff as "unpaid labour in the home". (Needless to say, a classic Western feminist.) My third wife does an excellent job on my t-shirts.

Well, cows' lips would be "pure beef", right?

I thought Mac burgers were made of cows' lips, imported (to USA) from Brazil or Argentina or some such cow pasture.