thaiophilus

If it really is one-way, most of the commuting locals are in for an unnecessarily long ride at the anticlockwise end of their day 😕

But can you guarantee they won't be Chinese penguins? 🐧🐧🐧

Assuming you used an official airport taxi,, they are supposed to be subject to certain rules... like using the meter without haggling, and I can't remember the last time I had that problem. I hope things haven't changed for the worse since I last used them in 2020. You used to be given a form with the driver's name and vehicle registration, which you can use to report them if there are problems. Never heard of a "baggage fee", but there is a 50B airport surcharge which is added to the meter.

I don't think there's more than one that fits our collective description (key points being coupon and cheap!) and it's definitely not in the basement. More here: https://thaiest.com/thai-food/reviews/food-court-at-bangkok-suvarnabhumi-airport

Aha! The secret for eating at Suvarnabhumi is the Magic Food Point on level 1 landside. It's a food court catering mainly for airport employees (but open to all) and priced accordingly. Naturally it is not advertised on the airport website.

I'm no oenologist but I'd have thought a sweet Cabernet Sauvignon would be highly unusual. Maybe the donor adulterated it with something else? 😉 🍷

First, define "gay hotel". Some would say the only truly "gay hotel" in Bangkok was the now-defunct Babylon Barracks...

This Austrian village was renamed a few years ago, so now it's

Probably named after this town in Bavaria.. .

Pockets, plural. Like @vinapu I have many 😄

A friend of mine who died recently (UK) went for a natural burial. It took place in a nature reserve, with biodegradable (wickerwork) coffin, shallow grave, no headstone, just wild flowers.

Tails on for กุ้งแช่เย็นน้ำปลา, my favourite Thai dish, so you can pick them up without getting fish sauce on your fingers. https://www.sgethai.com/article/5-สูตรเด็ด-กุ้งแช่น้ำปลา/

So far as I can tell, the museum owner's alleged religion, ethnicity and nationality are irrelevant to a cooperative discussion of "Patpong comings and goings", but they are exactly the kind of thing often used as dog-whistle codewords by people not debating in good faith.

Maybe, but in most countries "transit" is not "entry", and passengers in transit to a third country are not required to go through immigration checks if they remain airside. Certainly I have passed through airports in France, Germany, Italy, Dubai, Jordan, Abu Dhabi and Qatar, to name a few, without immigration checks. Only in the USA was it different.

Not at all. Over here, billiards is perceived as a game for gentlemen, whereas snooker is something played by the lower classes (or even, shock horror, by professionals!) PS we generally refer to Ms Braverman as "Cruella".

Not that it matters, but that's incorrect. There's a big difference between true air speed and indicated air speed. True air speed (TAS) is the actual speed relative to the surrounding air. Indicated air speed IAS is (by definition 🙂) the speed indicated by the air speed indicator (ASI), which derives a speed from the pressure at the pitot tube, assuming sea-level air density. At altitude the density is lower and so the IAS reads (a lot) lower than TAS. Sorry, CNN.

Not "homosexuals"; that word couldn't stand on its own. It was always "practising homosexuals", "predatory homosexuals", "avowed homosexuals" or some such Homeric epithet 🙄. And they never had friends, only "rings" .

Try a different browser? I got the same with Firefox but Chrome displayed an animated GIF.

(ความ)กตัญญู. The nearest English word is "gratitude" but that lacks the Thai cultural nuance. My Google search on "katanyu" turned up a Bangkok Post article about it entitled Katanyu Complex

You are staying in a traditional Chinese hotel with rooms around a courtyard. Your friend's room is on the other side of the building but you want to talk to him. Do you: Walk round to his room? Use the room phone kindly provided by the management to call him? Yell across the courtyard?

The official TFL site quotes taxi fares £56.00 - £105.00 (plus Heathrow surcharge £3.60) for a black cab from Heathrow to Paddington. That's about 15 miles. By Elizabeth Line train it's £12.30, by Heathrow Express £25. Stansted to Paddington is nearer 50 miles and minicab websites quote around £100. The train fare is £25.10.

That has a direct translation into Yorkshire: "Tha 'thee' thisen".

There's an old saying that any time you see a newspaper headline phrased as a question, the answer is "no". 😄

Is that fair on the boy? 😄

Strictly, flat width in mm. Double it for the girth. (The diameter when circular is less by a factor 2/pi.)