Stocky

Amputee

Victory

Just got a top tip, not sure if it has been posted before so here goes.

Go to Google home page

Type in the word 'failure'

Rather than do a general search, hit I feel lucky

See what pops up!

Not rude, just hilarious (to me at least!)

I got http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html

curious, but as you say, amusing.

ok then Patong is the best resort in Thailand you guys win    hope your bars & guest houses prosper   

Looks like you silenced the tiger.

Beans

Page 88 and still going!

It's 10:45 here in Siberia and 24C.

A good thunder storm this afternoon,

cleared the air and set off the car alarms

Bugs Bunny

I found BKK pleasantly warm today.

No rain thank goodness.

A number of members have expressed a wish to meet me, which is unsurprising as I'm witty, intelligent, knowledgeable & rather wealthy. I will be in the LoS at the beginning of January, if anyone would care to contact me.

I'll have a pint with you Joe.

I was surprised not to see my names mentioned in this thread, an oversight I'm sure!

I'd agree with Ravisher, Scouse gets my vote.

It's been raining here!

I was so moved by the sight of it that I almost, almost, did a Gene Kelly, but then I remembered it was only 7C outside and thought better of it.

I need to obtain a Russian tourist visa for my partner so she can accompany me on a business trip I have to make to Kamchatka in January.

I'm currently in Russia she's in Hat Yai.

Does anyone know of a reliable agency that can do the leg work for us?

Let me answer my own question.

The process turned out to be far less painful than I'd feared, although this post elicited no replies, a PM from Condo_bk to another thread led to his company doing the application for us.

All that was needed was the 'invitation', this is an official invitation issued by an agency in Russia, my company organised this and a letter from the MD explaining the reasons and assuring that they would foot the bill. This was accompanied by a confirmation from the hotel of the hotel booking plus of course the completed visa application form with photograph.

My thanks to Condo_bk for his help.

Still no rain in the English Midlands, had a little light drizzle on the windscreen driving down to Cambridge today, but no rain.

I haven't seen rain in months, snow yes, but no rain. No doubt it will piss down when I get to Thailand next week...

..but will I care?

I don't think so!

It's a pain, but I have a selection of SIMs, which I change depending on the country I'm in.

Friends have a list of possible mobile numbers and don't mind phoning round until they find me.

It is a well know fact that farangs who can't keep their zippers closed are a major cause of the HIV/Aids epidemic that has been sweeping Thailand during the last 10 years or more.

Don't believe me, believe the facts.  etc

Sorry matey but I don't believe anything until I've seen the figures, can you give me your source.

My wife does a great deal of voluntary work with the less fortunate of her fellow countrymen in her capacity with th UN. I have know her to cry after visiting hospital wards full of thai girls/ ladies who have contracted HIV/Aids, following 'encounters' with farangs of a sexual nature.

I can't type anymore as my eyes are watering and a lump has developed in my throat.

Give me a break, I've got a lump in my throat....

..... I think I'm about to throw up!

Would you like a sick bag?

I take the absence of a defence as an admission that you accept your statement, "It is a well know fact that farangs who can't keep their zippers closed are a major cause of the HIV/Aids epidemic that has been sweeping Thailand during the last 10 years or more", is fallacious.

You forgot the myxomatosis rabbit!

Grey, cold and dry in the English Midlands, 2C, still no rain.

Cloudy and dry in Hat Yai, 29C, no rain.

It is a well know fact that farangs who can't keep their zippers closed are a major cause of the HIV/Aids epidemic that has been sweeping Thailand during the last 10 years or more.

"After peaking at around 140,000 cases in 1991, the number of new HIV infections in Thailand declined to an estimated 21,000 in 2003. This dramatic fall was mainly due to increased condom use by men and a reduction in their use of brothels. However, there is mounting evidence that HIV is now spreading largely among the spouses and partners of clients of sex workers, and among injecting drug users. It is estimated that in 2002, 50% of infections were the result of heterosexual transmission in cohabiting partnerships; 20% due to injecting drug use; 15% transmitted from mother to child; and 15% were associated with commercial sex."

source

Whilst 1.5% of Thai's maybe HIV positive, your suggestion that marauding farang are the major cause of "the HIV/Aids epidemic that has been sweeping Thailand" is fallacious.

It is a well know fact that farangs who can't keep their zippers closed are a major cause of the HIV/Aids epidemic that has been sweeping Thailand during the last 10 years or more.

Don't believe me, believe the facts.  etc

Sorry matey but I don't believe anything until I've seen the figures, can you give me your source.

My wife does a great deal of voluntary work with the less fortunate of her fellow countrymen in her capacity with th UN. I have know her to cry after visiting hospital wards full of thai girls/ ladies who have contracted HIV/Aids, following 'encounters' with farangs of a sexual nature.

I can't type anymore as my eyes are watering and a lump has developed in my throat.

Give me a break, I've got a lump in my throat....

..... I think I'm about to throw up!

I haven't seen rain in so long I can't remember. I'm not counting snow.

I've been back in the UK for just over a week and it's not rained.

Hat Yai's had a little rain, so maybe I'll see some in Thailand.

She's getting some seriously warm clothes to go visit Kamchatka in!

In the middle of Russia I'm a little short of English language newspapers so read my news online, I often listen to BBC Radio4 online as well.

My daily read consists of:

The Guardian - a good balance, owned by a trust not a media Mogul

The Independant - another balanced UK broadsheet

BBC News - accused by both the right and left of being biased so they must be getting it right!

BBC Radio4 - Today, World at One and PM also the Archers

International Herald Tribune - the best of the American press

CNN - you have to look in on them

Aljazeera - not impartial but no worse than Fox News

The Moscow Times - what's happening in my neck of the woods

I'll also take a look at The Nation online now and again.

Krasnoyarsk, Eastern Siberia, Russian Federation - 48%

Hat Yai, Songkla, Thailand - 30%

Stourbridge, West Midlands, UK - 22%

Bet it rains at 4.30 in Penang today...

Well ... did it ?

I dunno..my bladder is "tuned" to Bangkok

All quiet here in the English Midlands, a clear evening +7C.

Didn't speak to the little lady today so can only suggest Hat Yai is just a bit warmer.

3 weeks before I get back to Thailand.

My, my, how time slows when you don't want it to!

Weather Bulletin

Thankfully here in the warmth of the English Midlands, +5C this evening, sunny today with a high of +11C. No rain.

Russia

-10C when I left Moscow yesterday.

Hat Yai

High of +31C predicted fot Hat Yai today, Dec 1st, very humid, chance of a thunderstorm.