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Before we get too prim and proper about Lieutenant-Commander Tos$er and the Thai navy, let's not forget how prominent digital manipulators in the West get away with this kind of creepy perversion.

You miss the point, Squire. What's important is not how long it takes to do the 90-day thing. It's the bleeding principle of the thing. Most countries do not demand that foreigners check in at all. Thailand does, and this, frankly, smacks of racism.

Beg to differ. Many on this thread mention Portugal and other places as possible destinations, and the topic also seems to deal with visa problems. So, no, the USA it is...all for free. If you know somebody in Haiti who needs a new knee, send him to Mexico, where some kind gentleman will show him the way to Texas...

Of course, if you want to retire to a place that doesn't visas at all, try approaching the USA from its southern border and you will be treated with the ultimate in welcome mats, and you will be put on a nice charter plane to an obscure part of NY state and from there you can catch a Greyhound to anywhere that takes your fancy. No fuss, no muss.

No mention of how hospitable the kind Immigration Officers are when we go to get our 90-day stamp to prove we are not involved in criminal activity....

Too bad. He's going to miss out on his 50th birthday in November. RIP

Yet another rag story persuading people worldwide to stay away from this military dictatorship where everyone with the slightest connection to "Authority" acts like a Nazi.

There was a lot of rain on the road.....

Rich foreigners (which most of us are in comparison with vast swathes of the Thai population) should be ashamed of themselves for whining about minuscule increases in prices for items that they can well afford (unlike Thais "living" on wages of 9,000bt per month).

Yes, all retirees just LOVE those 90-day visits to Immigration to prove they still exist and have not recently committed any crimes. The sense of security it gives the retiree to meet a genuine Immigration Officer who has our best interests at heart is precisely why we come to Thailand, and stay away from those countries like Mexico or Spain which don't invite us to their offices every 90 days and who just let us get on with our lives.

As an Arsenal supporter, I am sorry to see that you do not include in your calculations all the unfit-for-purpose referees in the EPL.

I only eat my wife's jasmine rice when I am too lazy to make roast potatoes. Even my VERY Thai wife (gastronomically) admits that roast potatoes are best for taste in the whole world....

thanks for this comprehensive account. It is a persuasive document - persuades me that taking a vacation in Thailand for the next year or so will be off my wish-list. The nightmare I fear would be (I have had 2 jabs and a booster) to go through all that bs of 72-hour testing, long flight, AND THEN on arrival at BKK found to be symptomatic because I had been sitting on the plane by some unknown person who was symptomatic. To me, what you describe (in interesting and literate detail) is a living nightmare.....

Canada??? Our prime mincer, when he's not applying blacking to his face, responds to pandemics by sending $2000 per month to all who prefer to sit at home and watch Netflix. "I'm a lumberjack, and I don't care...."

My son and family recently flew from Vancouver to New York. All four of them (all vaccinated) had a 72-hour test before flying. (Cost 4 x $300). At the airport (YVR) no one asked to see the positive test result. In other words, this whole testing system (no matter which country you are in) is a hideous scam. And you are a prisoner of the system, since no one can take the risk of assuming that they will not be asked for their negative "proof."

The contrast between yesterday's pic of Prayut and his cronies on some Krabi beach and this horror show brilliantly described here in excruciating detail could not be more stark. Everything about these details and the Krabi beach screams "Stay Home".

A true gnome of Zurich....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudia_Flight_163 This accident was, as I recall from 1980, attributed to someone using a primus stove at the back of the passenger cabin to cook his supper (the pilgrims get hungry during Ramadan). The account in Wiki says this was never proved. At any rate, all lives were lost after the plane caught fire.... A hair-raising tale, one which should encourage all travellers to stay away from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Wait till you see the fatties blocking the aisle on Air Canada. Feminist woke ensures that all positions in the gift of the government (especially the #1 Wokest government in the world, that of Blackface Trudeau) are apportioned about 75% to the obese population. This includes news readers on what used to be the main news outlet in Canada, CBC.

Looks like a lot of revellers coming to hear Kamala Harris speak. At the southern border that she is supposed to be boss of.

So, 3,000 intrepid visitors per day. Say 300 passengers per plane. So, 10 planes per day? The airport will not be exactly "swamped"....

The fact that Canada is #2 shows how absurd this survey is. As a Canadian I can assure anyone who wants to hear that this is the last place in the world one would want to immigrate to post-65. One could rant on about the corrupt and brain-dead Prime Minister, but one need go no further than look into real estate costs in any one of the four most desirable cities to live in. Canadians can only afford housing if they have inherited a sh!teload of money, are old and have spent a lifetime paying off the mortgage, are Chinese capitalists, are drug rich, or able to pay down a mortgage that costs over 70% of household income. Plus... surveys more reliable than this show that 50% of Canadians would be in serious financial trouble if interest rates were to rise a mere 1/4 percent. I will say nothing about the weather, which is bearable year-round only on the British Columbia west coast. And the less said about the medical system the better. So, bah humbug to this ludicrous survey....

when even 100mg of Viagra will not do it any more.....

The Eagle. I remember walking home on a bright sunny day (in April, I think, 1950), gently cradling the first issue of this brand new magazine, which my father then proceeded to read from cover to cover. (For many years after!) I wonder if any one on this thread used to read Biggles books (author, W.E. Johns) or the Boys Own Paper (published from about 1879 to 1967). I would also love to hear of the "reading history" of other people. In particular, the jump from teenage fiction (say 13-17) to "adult' fiction. For me, that would have been Billy Bunter books at about 10-11 to (at about 12) The Woman of Rome by Alberto Moravia, a novel about the life of an Italian prostitute. A friend at school told me about the book, available at W.H. Smith. It was not at all "smutty", though my mother assumed it was.....

Preferred the Dandy and Desperate Dan.....