Stocky

Phuket 28 years ago.

WTF - your keyboard set-up doesn't change when you go to a different country, if you have a Thai keyboard, as I do on my laptop, if I'm in the UK it's still a Thai keyboard! Just enter the password as you did in Thailand, nothing has changed unless you've damaged your keyboard during travel. If your keyboard is damaged and shift+3 no longer gives you a hash, use the magnifying glass and search for Character Map and open, select the hash sign and copy.

I've lost a credit card one, and I've had fraudulent use of a card once. In the instance of fraud the standard bank transaction notification SMS alerted me and I was able to cancel the card, the money was refunded. There was no cost to replace the cards as HSBC Singapore always use DHL to courier replacement cards to my address in Thailand.

I'm sure he's had it upgraded

So the Batcomputer connects to what to gather all its intelligence?

Batman does!

It has little to do with 'empire', you would think if the Dutch, with a GDP a third the size of the UK, can resist selling up and moving into a condo the UK might show a little more mettle.

That's your interpretation, however a hermit is simply a person who chooses to live a solitary life, a withdrawal from social interaction and worldly life, possibly for spiritual reasons (mental health). That could equally be living in a caravan half way up a mountain as retreating to a bedsit in Luton, personally I'd prefer the former, your situation is obviously the latter.

So long as the hermit isn't an anchorite they can do stuff out doors, just solitary, not social stuff.

Does the hermit job description preclude doing stuff?

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." Of course it was a mammoth loss of prestige having to flog off the old embassy compound, you can paint it whatever colour you wish

No ways he would stray that far south, no further than Krabi

Yes, Brioni made in Italy (now +20% tariff)

Actually, given he just says 'the South', assuming that's PKK and down, that covers an area of over 2,000km2 , larger than Isaan (NE Thailand), bigger than CM/CR NW Thailand too.

Sure it's not the Devil looking out for him!

It's only for the week. Here we've got convoys, with a front truck playing music followed by another with the candidate standing in the tray shouting his slogans (they're all men) followed in turn by another full of supporters and hangers on giving out leaflets.

I don't, expensive farang ghetto

Exactly where my location says I do, Hat Yai

Seeing as the UK took 3 years for a full trade deal with India recently announced, whatever they've just knocked up with the Americans ain't going to be 'full and comprehensive' - possibly full of something

German, Japanese, Korean or whatever, there's no money to be made from inefficiency, you want them to run a business or a charity?

When BMW revitalised the Cowley factory producing the Mini it didn't bring jobs. Instead it went from this To this

Ours is probably 25 years old, no lights, only addition are the pots the legs stand in that you keep topped up with water to keep ants out. People in the west have just gone soft.

Couple years since I last changed phones but my recollection of moving Samsung to Samsung was surprisingly painless.

Other way round I think, the modern Western fixation with trying to live in a totally sanitised environment means westerners have lost that immunity or resilience to bacteria.

It's like this one from Watsadu.