GinBoy2

Well @ChipButty you tweaked my interest, and I looked it up at work in Timatic, and UK is one of a handful of countries that don't allow an urn to be carried in a carry on, but can travel in checked baggage. Not sure I understand why the UK would have that restriction, but I'm sure some apparatchik sat at a desk in London could come up with a perfectly reasonable explanation why carrying ashes in the main cabin was a threat to security or health, or both. So buy a hard sided case and some bubble wrap and that loved one will arrive safe and sound in LHR

Obviously not $400, but the point I was trying to make was that freight is always cheaper than a human sat in a seat on the same aircraft. So just look at the price of a one way ticket from BKK-LHR and the freight charge on that same aircraft will be significantly lower than that. Add in the embalming costs, the inevitable Thai admin fees etc, but still not even close to 34K. I personally don't get the point of shipping corpses. If you need to bring loved ones home, cremation and take the ashes home in an urn in your carry on bag

I'm always sorry for anyone's loss. But the numbers don't add up. I work for an airline, and I've shipped my fair share of Human Remains, albeit all within the US. But the cost is pretty cheap since it's classed as freight. Typical HR shipment within the US is around $400. No way you can multiply that to GBP35K to ship an HR from Thailand to the UK, the everyday math doesn't work

Well I'm one who lived in Thailand full time for a decade, then called it quits and now it's annual vacation. Don't hate Thailand, but I did bore of it. I am American and I don't think I have ever posted anything about Trump, or US politics at all. This is a Thai forum. Our aim, now all the kids are settled is 1-2 months every year back in our Thai house, that for us at least is the perfect balance between Thai craziness and a life in the US

If you are worried about flying on a 737 your options are going to be pretty limited At the end of the day you are more likely to die driving to or from the airport than you are actually on the aircraft

Wow wow wow, this is ridiculous. I am latino, and I along with most other latino men don't or ever have, thought of myself as some sort of sex God from a Mexican telenovela. Yes I was married to a Anglo, but our marriage didn't break down because of cheating, but more a case of drifting apart because of me being away from home 80% of the time due to work. When I met my Thai wife at work in Singapore, don't think she saw me any different to the other westerners in the office. Maybe it is just the attraction opposites. My Thai/American latino son has ended up a quite a handsome young man, and he ended up with a white American woman. now married and with my second grandchild, they look like any other happily married couple. People love to justify stereotypes with mangled statistics to prove their point. Now back to my current telenovela, basically a Thai lakorn but the women have huge breasts, just proving the 'fact' that all latina's are well endowed in the breast department!

I just listened to an aviation expert on situation. Whatever the reason the landing gear didn't deploy will be discovered later. However what killed everyone was the solid wall at the end of the runway. What he stated was normal construction would be the ILS antenna as a stand alone and designed to collapse in the event of an aircraft overrun, certainly not running into a wall which caused the aircraft to explode.. Now many of you know I work for an airline, but I'd never been out to the movement area before, but I did take a trip out today, and sure enough I saw the ILS antenna and then basically an open field. This guy contented that the Capt. performed a perfect gear up landing, and without that wall everyone would be alive!

I hate myself for doing this, but well this is a chat room not accident investigation. If Jeju was a birdstrike and it took out both engines resulting in a total loss of electrical power, the RAT would be deployed restoring electrical power, and subsequently keeping hydraulics online. Thats why I'm puzzled by the lack of landing gear

It's been a bad week for aviation, but it's an outlier in the overall picture of air safety. I think most folks understand that air travel is the safest of all transportation. But somehow back in the primordial brain stem, it's the fear that if it all goes tits up everyone dies. This week I think it's pretty clear the Azerbaijan crash, wasn't a crash and was shot down by Russian air defenses. Jeju well lets wait and see. But what I would say watching the video, the reasons given so far suggest weather and a bird strike. I'll go with bird strike, but the weather looks perfect, and if you look, I can't see the main gear, but the nose gear certainly wasn't deployed

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, that post makes no sense whatsoever in the context of this thread I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that maybe it was written after a few too many drinks at a bar

I'm hoping Night Manager Season 2 will work. The original season was the perfect mini series and ended spectacularly well. I always worry when something so great is brought back I hope the story isn't too contrived Will Roper be back? We all assumed he was going to be killed after that last scene in the paddy wagon

A very good point

The issue of racial 'superiority' seems to be somewhat hard wired into us. I used to think this was just some vestige of European colonialism, which was completely awful and racist. But then I began to reflect on my own life. I'm a whitey hispanic, and if I don't open my mouth and speak Spanish I blend into white America. But as a kid, other hispanic kids would tease me for being too white, and the white kids would tease me for being too Mexican So I'm conflicted if this is a learned trait, or something from deep in our DNA

The whole story is past horrific What decent man does that to his wife or partner? The guy is a monster, as well as the guys who participated in the abuse I thought the sentences for the abusing men were crazy lenient But at least Pelicot himself will rot and die in prison

Yeah I had a pretty happy childhood. Wasn't rich that's for sure, both my Mom and Dad were farm workers in the CA Central Valley. But I felt very loved, and as a rare thing back in the 60's, especially as an Hispanic I was an only child, so they poured their love into me. It was a happy time, all us kids played out in the street, and of course back then during the summer vacation you told after breakfast, "Go out and play" and you weren't expected to come home until dinner! My parents, especially my Mom pushed me hard at school and I ended up at UC Berkeley That said saw a bunch of school friends who were from less loving families fall to the drugs, gangs and ultimately prison. It's not a cliche to say that our childhood 'can' make or destroy your life

Hmm google translate is a wonderful thing, but it's a far cry from actually having a conversation. I'm a bit of a polyglot, I speak English, Spanish, my native languages, then Mandarin, Thai and Lao as my learned languages, plus a little bit of terrible French I've tried the translate app for languages I don't speak. They work OK but a far cry from actually having a conversation

Drop a pin in any city/town in Issan and forget about seeing many farangs. You can make it what you want, but won't be the Soi 6 world for sure I like Khon Kaen. Fairly cosmopolitan, infrastructure not bad. Decent night life, without the hooker shops and not bad restaurants A lot depends of course on language skills. In the tourist traps, hate them or not you can live without speaking Thai. Live upcountry and you better learn Thai pretty quick or you're going to find yourself in a pickle

Jeez three pages of total nonsense We're all human, I can disagree with the views and lifestyle of someone from my own country, but I don't think they are lessor, inferior to me. The English/Aussie thing, well you got some issues which deserve therapy

As stupid as it sounds, with endless posts from AI or deranged folks, I kinda enjoy a little human to human antagonism banter.. At least I think it's real not some bot churning out nonsense clickbate

OMG how many times do we have to go through this clickbate? Might as well resurrect the 'do you wai' threads! I hate myself for even responding to this

I wasn't trying to be negative, but more practical. I tried to tell my kids, unsuccessfully as it turned out, was something that can look great on 20 year old skin, may not be quite so great on a 50/60/70 year old body. Aging has a cruel way of tat's looking ridiculous Piercing, well get fed up with it, take out the hardware and soon enough you're back to normal. Tat's remember you live with them forever

Thats actually quite true I think. The young kids who work for me are at a total loss with mental arithmetic, and without the calculator on their phones go into a tailspin. I'm pretty sure most of us here are of an age when we recited multiplication tables at school, and did what I consider basic mental math. Doesn't work like like that anymore. As a high schooler one of my part time jobs was working as a cashier at a local store. Long before electronic cash registers, you did the math to calculate change in your head. A skill long gone I fear. One good solar flare to knock out the electricity grid, and we'll be back in the dark ages. So no, this is a problem not confined to Thailand, but given the Thai education system a little worse

My car insurance is cheaper. I talk to the young boys at work and what they pay is eye watering As you age you clutch onto the small things lol

You're a braver man than me to have ended up with four!

I've never experienced the OP's premise of a farang with western wife in tow leave for a much younger Thai woman. Seen plenty of older divorced guys fall for the 20-30 year old younger than them and it end in tears. At the end of the day, guys can delude themselves that a woman, Thai or whatever, is actually attracted to a man old enough to be their father