Aberdeen FC have an "impressive" new manager and support team who will be taking over AFTER the current season ends. In the meantime, the current (former assistant) manager has four games remaining in which to steer the Dons clear of relegation, something they've easily avoided since their Inception...

... or, in biblical terms, "and there will be a great wailing and gnashing of teeth."

The shortcoming of ASEAN is their constitution pretty much prohibits telling a neighbour what to do. It's a toothless and gutless entity that only serves to make one of the countries look important for a year when they hold the chair. The common southeast Asian cultural trait of "My sh*t don't stink...

Is she always getting food when she asks? A friend of mine loved his beagles to a fat untimely death with uncontrolled snacks and three meals a day. We had to stop the various squatters from giving our mongrels snacks every time they 'asked'. I think it may be worse in a Thai household with their in...

I recall that current forex rates make paying in cash THB the cheapest option versus cash USD. When I went to Savanakhet last year, I applied/paid for the eVisa online. It cost a bit more than the cash USD fee but was super convenient as the processing at the border was way faster. The Lao eVisa sti...

Stantheman wrote: ↑

April 17, 2024, 11:47 pm

tamada wrote: ↑

April 17, 2024, 9:08 pm

It says "Long stay" qualifies. What's that?

You will get many answers to this question, but based on Thai Embassy web site long stay is someone on a O-A or O-X visa.

Good clarification, thanks. Now, back to the conga line.

It says "Long stay" qualifies. What's that?

tamada wrote: ↑

April 1, 2024, 9:09 pm

What's the difference between a person's opinion and that same person's conclusion? Anyone with an AI account to help me out here?

Does one let one's conclusions form one's opinions or, is it the opinion that creates the conclusion.

And are facts required, or are they optional?

I would factor in at least an extra 10 minutes to your 'usual' gate time after immigration and security checks. More. If your flight leaves from one of the gates further away from the mid-terminal, where you come out after the train, add anther 5-10 minutes for the walk. Good point, I recall readin...

Doodoo wrote: ↑

April 10, 2024, 9:04 pm

OK Tam once again what are you saying?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investig ... sion-loss/

Read an interesting opinion piece on Euronews on how every time a cow burps, an oil executive laughs. Pretty much pillories the hyped-up ruminants methane emission threat when compared with what the downstream fossil fuel chains are "burping" and the attendant misinformation about how substituting m...

It's been open and in use since late last year but I had the first opportunity to use it earlier this month departing on Austrian to Vienna. Check-in, security and immigration is unchanged and still done in the main terminal. The entrance to the long escalator to the S gates is clearly marked with p...

I'm not a Brit, just an observer. If it were my country, I would resent a huge bureaucratic group making rules for my country. I certainly would have supported leaving. Obviously the majority of Brits felt the same way. The USA has already signed dozens of International conventions. The Geneva Conv...

Doodoo wrote: ↑

April 15, 2024, 9:45 am

"Loads of infants and kids can't reach the light switch but."

Simple solution, its called Parent

So Thailand has 69 million parents?

Ta
tam

Yes, diplomatic missions have always had their military attachés and been part of the counterintelligence and espionage business. But that was back in the simpler times of 007, George Smiley, wars (hot and cold), colonialism and empire where it was all "tolerated as part of the international system...

"With Iran’s Strikes, Arab Countries Fear an Expanding Conflict" https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-strikes-arab-countries-fear-113144048.html With the Arabs kicking up a suggestion would be for the USA< UK, etc to keep their noses out. It has long been known that the Tribes want to solve their own is...

rick wrote: ↑

April 16, 2024, 1:33 am

What happened to my post?

Repost it.

The BBC celebrating a girls team beating the boys. Ridiculous when the development of kids at this age far exceeds the difference in sexuality. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-68816466 It gives me the chance for a quick rant though. I was listening to a podcast from a sports phone in in t...

I always thought that Kevin Costner had it right with 'Waterworld'.