NIrishGuy

What you mean that after BREXIT the UK passport isn't Number ONE in the world........why that would almost sound like Boris is on lying sod who lead people up a garden path on promises of glory that he hasn't yet been able to deliver on or something ! lol * perhaps with the exception of buying vaccines early, where to be fair the UK does appear to have royally stuffed the EU, mind you as they screwed up their Covid handling so badly I think they needed to SOMETHING radical to offset that perhaps so it sort of all balances out in the end.

As airport to hotel taxi rip offs go the world over 100 baht is hardly at the upper end of the rip off scam scale though.......

Because I want to be sure I’m buried somewhere that at least has a nice view “of course” :-)

Im just glad that it seems I've quickly made it past the "collaborator" stage - as we all know how THAT usually ends up i.e a firing squad at dawn and being buried in a hole in the ground in the woods somewhere ! :-)

I guess that all depends in what you got more experienced at and for how long perhaps !!? :-))

Maybe once you've been you'll perhaps remember to come back and drop us all a quick "trip report" lol as to how that went - this time perhaps not so much the "now many guys were available and what the price of a beer was" :-) but more how the cruise handled the whole Covid end of things and was it no masks everywhere on board - or the opposite ! and as to whether you had the nice relaxing trip you'd hoped for or did Covid make the whole thing just a bit to annoying / stressful for you perhaps to bother anyway soon again perhaps?? This being for those of us perhaps thinking of booking a cruise ourselves but waiting to hear how others get on of course. Tks.

Im disgusted to say that my first flight after vaccines and tests etc will be nothing more exciting that Gibraltar - but as that's purely to visit family there I'm pretending ( to myself ) that that doesn't even count as a holiday destination just - mind you I'm that bored and stressed out here in the UK it's ridiculous how much I'm even looking forward to getting away, even if only to there !

Or if it's the Ph's Govt we're referring to and how they're handling things then perhaps INGOT might be closer to the truth !

I've told you before - you better chew that more before swallowing it or you're going to end up with wind !

Pass the warm chocolate sauce and jug of whipped cream please.....:)

OMG that's way to salty !

So he basically said "think on guys, this could cost us points!" - But at no time ( in the above comments anyway) did he actually say "Look please STOP doing this guys, it is wrong and it's not what we ever want to hear from you!" Interesting. Perhaps THAT is the message the Mexican Football Federation should be reinforcing more forcibly to it's supporters and enough with the carefully clinically worded PR statements !

Sad mind you that even writing that excellent piece above that the BBC still couldn't bring themselves to inform people of the terrible homophobia that Alan Turing faced during his career which lead to him being castrated no less and his feeling that he would have to end his own life because of it !!! And people ask us why we need "PRIDE" - it's to remind others ( and the BBC it seems) that LGBT DO actually exist and shouldn't and CANT be treated like that any longer !

On this day in 1954, University of Manchester hero Alan Turing took his own life, two years after he was prosecuted for gross indecency during a time when homosexuality was illegal in the UK. He was chemically castrated for his sexuality just a few short years after his groundbreaking ingenuity and determination saved tens of millions of lives during World War II. He must never be forgotten.

"a friend who had too much, of course it didn't allow it. Went to a counter and through it went with no issue, no fee" Yep you're right there Anddy and that also was my own experience too. We have all at some point i'm sure carried out the inadvertent ( or intentional) turning up at the desk with one or two ( or 10 ! ) Kilos "over" and either turned up early in the hope of sweet talking the check in operator, hoping that as it was the start of the check in that they were feeling lenient or just didn't care. Or perhaps knowingly timing it so that we were verging on "late" and so knew the staff would be busy just trying to get everyone checked in and ON the plane and so we knew / or hoped they wouldn't stop / charge us anything - or it has even been known for people to slid a foot under the weighing scales to save a few kilos even ( not me, I read about it in a magazine once just Im sure :-). For me I can say that such rouses worked probably about 75% of the time or more even perhaps. Now however, with the advent of the introduction of these infernal machines this means that there's ZERO tolerance for even just a one Kilo over AND as Anddy had said all payments MUST now be made at the machine with your credit card BEFORE a boarding card will be spat out at you. This then results in ridiculously long queues forming of people either totally disgruntled at being charged at all, or for whatever reason perhaps finding themselves unable (or unwilling) to pay the ( granted ridiculously high) "over at the desk" charges! Either way these machines are not a good thing and we should all rise up and take a wrecking screw driver to each and every one of them we find before they become "the norm" ! :-) This is one machine that the luddites may have had a point about !!! :-( And yes, before anyone says it 'yes of COURSE we could all just turn up with the correct baggage limits, all correctly weighed and pre-checked" - but a) sometimes that's hardly that it sounds when returning from holiday at least and mainly.......sure where would be the fun in THAT !

"Charges for exceeding weight allowances can also be paid on the spot via the interface" In my experience ^ THIS is more about why airports are installing self check in baggage machines - and each and every airport I've seen them in I've also seen queues of furious people wanting to argue with airline staff and an equal number of airline staff wanting to try to avoid the passengers as they too know that the machines are there solely to generate income for the airlines - whilst putting a load of their colleagues out of work at the same time !

At least he was sure of a good drilling !

Yes but the big question is "DOES HE SWALLOW" ! :-)

Last time I checked it wasn't mandatory - if YOU dont like the idea of being gay then you can simply "stop" being gay ( yeah good luck with that) - the rest of us who are gay will I'm sure just carry on just fine thanks.

If you're in Thailand and can only find a dick to suck WHEN the bars are open then i hate to break it to you but you're doing something terribly wrong !

All I can tell you is that he is American and "no one is going to tell him what to do" and "it's his right to move wherever he wants and he'll just deal with whatever he finds when he gets there as it couldn't be THAT bad" and "Im sick of being told what to do here in the US and having to wear stupid masks that dont work so I'm going to Thailand where I wont be told what to do every two minutes and my right to chose will be respected" HA !!! Hilarious then that one of his first video blog posts thereafter was to complain that he was being "forced" to now "wear 'a stupid mask" again in Thailand "and it was a nonsense and this was just the Thai Government trying to control the people just like in the US " - meanwhile two weeks later lockdown took place and even then he couldn't / wouldn't see any correlation between those two facts and was just angry that his "rights" were being trampled on "again" and repeated how it was all a Thai government conspiracy by the elite to control the people for political reasons. Quite funny too as before he departed the US several people had asked / goaded him online as to was he going to Thailand to find "a girl" and he was very offended and made lots of speeches about "not all of us are like that you know, that's NOT whyI'm relocating there" and stating his aims where more about perhaps doing charity work to "help the poor Thai locals" ( not in terms of Covid mind just in general there by the way as they obviously needed it as they "looked so poor". So it was hilarious to then watch as literally on his FIRST full day on the beach when released from quarantine he was posted a video, where a nice (attractive) young Thai lady "|just happened to bump into him and speak with him ' as "wow, these Thai's are SO friendly to us US citizens and they love us and they love America it seems" (apparently ) - and then listen love on his video to the whole "hello, what your name, how long you stay routine being played out "live" ending in him issuing an invite for dinner later that night :-). BUT he stressed this lady "is different" and did not seem like the usual Thai girls you see in bars but seemed very respectable and upper class. ( perhaps he's right about that I dont know) Either way, the bottom line is that she's now in every video he makes, every day 24.7 and "at his request" she volunteered to take time out of her busy day him to take him to a local state school and after him witnessing "the poor Thai children who had nothing", he made a sizeable donation to help those same "poor children" to the teacher. His new lady also apparently has several other ideas lined up for him too as to where she can take him so give over some more money to other poor Thai's :-) So, he's very pleased and he's posting how pleased he is as he's finding "all Thai's so warn and welcoming everywhere he goes when giving out his money" ( during a lockdown when they've no other income no less - they must have thought that Buddha literally sent them a money angel all the way direct from the USA ) But as for your "he is totally stupid" thought...... I couldn't possibly comment ! lol Either way I've a feeling that his is a story that's going to run and run somehow :) Good luck to him !

Certainly when watching a few videos last night of a 50 year old guy who had relocated there from the US about 6 weeks ago the place is a ghost town ! Everywhere closed up, restaurants that are open are closing by 9pm, no alcohol being served, bars are closed, gyms closed, shops closed - and closed DOWN and basically street after street shuttered and locked up. He has been told by the Thai's there "oh but it'll all be great again as all open again by the Government on the 1st of June as the tourists are coming back on that day" - I fear they are in for a bad shock ! :-( He has also spoken to other locals there who have told him whether shutters come up or not is almost irrelevant as alot ( MANY) of the staff and residents of the City have returned home to their villages and wont be returning anytime soon no matter what happens now. He has actually posted now that he feels it's so bad that he's now actively looking to relocate to live somewhere else, totally outside of Thailand as the current state of Phuket certainly wasn't what he signed up for ( this even though I and plenty of other people did try to warn him what he was letting himself in for by going in the first place!)

Same as some humans / politicians who can when it's needed talk for long periods through their arse it seems ! :-)

So, this now leads nicely on to that other seemingly hot potato topic in Hollywood these days - so, if apparently it isn't cool or acceptable for straight actors to play gay roles, is it then no longer cool or acceptable for Colton Underwood ( being that he has played the "role" of the epitome of a hot "straight" guy in The Bachelor) to continue on playing THAT "role", or should he now be fired as it being "not acceptable for a " gay guy to continue on in that show" ?? .....I think not !

Yeah but don't be fooled as we may be "nice" but be certain that as we were carrying the round to your table we'd be sure to veer off to the toilets to make sure we sneakily pissed in it first mind !! :-)) Revenge is a dish served....in this case piss luke warm it seems !! :-) So, perhaps NOW you understand why that English Real Ale you tried was a tad warm and smelt a bit rank ! lol