bkk_mike

Only by how low the fines are.

One thing. Diabetes is actually far more common in Thailand because white rice is really high on the glycemic index. Admittedly I greatly prefer a Massaman or a green curry over a phad Thai. With somtam as a starter. Doesn't mean I didn't pick up black pudding from Yorkies in Jomtien when we were near, before it closed, for cooking at home in Bangkok.

Pie and mash - yes. Jellied eels, not so much.

Said by someone who's almost certainly never eaten haggis, and has no clue how good it is.

Let the people who voted for the Tories who literally stopped processing asylum claims pay. They let the numbers in the system shoot up as nobody was either getting through and allowed in as a genuine asylum seeker (once you're through the process, you're allowed to work), or deported as a non-genuine asylum seeker. Putting up people while they're being processed is supposed to be temporary...

Great unless you're an identical twin... (And your twin is wanted for something). Or you have a doppelganger like Will Ferrell and the drummer from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

Meanwhile, my Thai wife has significantly more money in her Thai bank accounts than I have in mine. (I have more abroad).

Bull<deleted> - Nobody waits a month for a GP appointment. Bull<deleted> - There's less than 1500 knife crimes a month which includes people caught carrying a knife (which is a lot more common than stabbing someone). Any free education in Thailand is in Thai. Pretty sure his kids wouldn't be eligible because who knows what sort of visa they'll be in the country on. I had the income (just) to pay for international school for my kids. But I'm not an HGV driver...

Why have the racists come out from under their rocks and started their usual rants about Islam - when the guy is supposedly a Sikh?

It was developed in the UK after all, so the UK will have the people who've received Viagra for the longest (since the initial trials happened there also). But yes any benefit is probably not restricted to Brits.

Preflight checks tends to be at airports in places like Ireland and Bermuda, where there tends to be no issues with immigration anyway. Has the advantage that it allows for flights into LaGuardia from Bermuda, for example, as LaGuardia doesn't have enough space for immigration.

It used to be the case that some embassies would just sign whatever income statement their citizen gave them, with no checks that it was actually true. Thailand asked the embassies to actually check, which is when letters from the UK, for example, stopped. But actually checking has a cost in staff time, and it's, as Norway has stated, not really the reason they have an embassy...

Rich Thais tend to stick their kids into International schools. It means they have good enough English to go to Universities in the UK, USA or Australia. It also means they have qualifications to enter without having to do a foundation year (required for students with a Thai education). Admittedly, it often means their Thai isn't always up to the standard required for the better Thai universities.

At least he's going to jail. Certain people in other countries get found guilty, then sentencing gets delayed until they're elected to a position where the Supreme Court says they can't be jailed.

Between? I've used Wise to transfer money TO Thailand (from UK and Hong Kong), but I don't think it lets you transfer FROM Thailand. As everyone else is saying... Small amounts, you use Wise as it's costs are based on the amount being transferred. For large amounts (somewhere north of $10K) it can be worth checking if Swift is cheaper, but you have to make 100% sure your home country bank doesn't do the FX conversion to Thai Baht. One thing, if you're transferring money to buy property, I think you have to use Swift, AND it has to enter Thailand in the foreign currency. Because you need the bank to sign off that the money was transferred from abroad.