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Tourists instructed to Smoke weed in private.
This is an old report . Most of the Israelis left and went elsewhere and then the locals complained about the lack of tourists in town -
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Snail-resistant container plants
Sorry, I probably should have said, I've already tried repellents (diatomaceous earth, copper, etc.) with pretty much zero effect. Partly because they also drop down from the wall/fence/ roof, and partly because there are so many of them, they just crawl over each other. It's the giant ones that do all the damage. I spent a year trying to prevent them getting into the pots, and gave up. I'd rather just go for things they won't eat. -
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Recent trip to UK with Qatar air- A very sad, heartbreaking visit.
I arrived in Bangkok from Isaarn the day before and stayed at Novotel Sukhumvit 4 area of Nana. Good hotel, but it's still Nana plaza, and no getting away from that. Plush rooms, but I think I will revert to Nana hotel in the future, as I say, you can't escape the area. I left Thailand, and I am on retirement extension, but left using the e gates without a hitch. I was actually on a free flight this time using Avios points with Qatar and able to choose seats free of charge, due to Gold membership. Not only that, but I was on the A380 as far as Doha and opted for the front seat 40A downstairs with loads of legroom. I was then on the A350, Doha to Manchester, again a decent seat with good legroom. I was travelling alone as my other half chose not to come even though she has a 10-year tourist visa (more later). Both flights were very good, great attentive staff and decent planes. I was a bit worried as Qatar have been in the news lately for not so good reviews. I found everything to be great, to be honest. The weather in the UK for my three weeks was amazing, and I was very fortunate to have caught a good spring. Now the bad stuff. Supermarket prices have gone through the roof since my visit last year, and prices were very noticeable and much higher than previous visits. Drinking in decent places, unless you want to spend three weeks in Wetherspoon's, which I didn't, you don't get much change from a fiver for a pint. Outside the supermarkets, I visited about three different store brands from Tesco to Asda during my time there, plenty of beggars asking for change, These were white British people, many on drugs. It was like rough areas of the USA we see on TV. I drove past and saw queues outside food banks. I was told by my son, that many were not desperate, they were begging food then selling it cheap to buy drugs, We drove through an area where I was brought up as a child, which has now become a Pakistani stronghold, and they have built a large mosque. It was unrecognizable. Litter everywhere on the streets, as well as discarded sofas, fridges, just dumped anywhere and everywhere. It was like a filthy slum. There were rats scurrying around and these were visible in the daytime. Overflowing rubbish bins from takeaways not sealed. The town centres and city centres have been overrun by drug addicts aggressively asking people for money in the streets and not a policeman in sight. I was also stopped by shoplifters selling everything from cheap perfume to bulk packs of washing powder. There were groups of East Europeans on street corners, leering at passers-by. They were obviously up to no good. The city centres, I visited a few, are now full of vape shops or alleged ' TURKISH BARBER SHOPS ' which are not Turkish, they are Pakistani money laundering shops that only take cash. All the shops of yesteryear are gone. Everybody buys online. I saw women in the towns with children and babies, holding and waving bottles of booze and drunk at 11am in the morning. A couple of what used to be good hotels in the centre are now fully occupied with migrants. I was told the government is offering HMO owners, (houses for multiple occupancy) 50 GBP per room per night to house migrants on a 5-year contract. I did take a trip out and up to North Yorkshire, and I was in the England of old, and it was refreshing. Those people are living in a different universe. Horse riders out for a canter, lovely food based pubs with staff with impeccable manners and clean streets and no migrants. I must state I was there for business reasons, but I have never been as happy to get on a plane back to Thailand. Now, do you wonder why my other half said she didn't want to go and thought it better I went alone, and she would look after the farmstead and her mother. I don't blame her, nor can I understand any Thai wanting to visit the UK. The trip was heartbreaking. However, Kier Starmer and his millionaire lefties cabinet colleagues are not seeing any of this. They are living far away in leafy suburbs, driving around in police convoys with armed bodyguards, oblivious as to what is going on in the North of England. -
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Greta Thunberg’s Gaza Aid Voyage Sparks Controversy After Senator’s Mocking Remark
No one is starving??? Are you kidding now? Or are you really that blinkered? -
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£1 billion a month: Rising Benefit Claims by Foreign Nationals Fuel Political Tensions
No, the Rwanda plan was delayed by human rights activists and lawyers, and then scrapped by Labour. It wasn't a perfect plan but it was already deterring illegal migrants even before being implemented. What is a better deterrent - the threat of being sent to Rwanda, or the 'threat' of being put up in a UK hotel? Have boat crossing increased since the Rwanda plan was scrapped? -
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Crime American Arrested in Pattaya for Attempting to Exchange Fake US Dollars
I've seen the fake $100 bills that CLEARLY state "Prop Copy ... for motion picture use only". Often handed out as a gag, or used during play "casino" parties. I've even seen a guy throw out a stack of them at a go-go, thinking he was being funny. At a quick glance, they look real, until you zero in on the aforementioned stamp, which you can't miss. But furthermore, they don't even feel real. It feels obviously fake. So I'm not sure what this guy thought he was going to accomplish. Even if I wanted to play a joke on someone, I certainly would never try to take it to a money exchange or a bank or attempt to actually use it for a transaction.
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