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When she gets to Brum and wants to meet some other Thai girls take her to on a sunday morning
WAT SANGHATHAN
107 HANDSWORTH WOOD RD.
HANDSWORTH WOOD,
BIRMINGHAM (B20 2 PH) ENGLAND
TEL. (021) 551-5729
There is also one in Warwick there are loads of Thai girls in the area my missus is never at home loves the Midlands loads of Thai food as well.
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Did not Marsellie get kicked out for corrupion the year they won it
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know along with rugby, golf, football,badminton, tennis, table tennis, modern boxing, darts, hockey, billiards, rounders.
Wait a minute, golf was not invented by the English!
That's right! It were them "See You, Jimmies" from up north!
and one or 2 others......
for a country whose population has never been much in excess of 5 million, native Scots or those descended directly from them have been the recipients of some 11% of all the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded.
A steam car: William Murdoch (1754-1839)
Tarmac roads: John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836)
Driving on the left: Determined by a Scottish-inspired Act of Parliament in 1772
The pedal bicycle: Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878)
The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson (1822-1873) and John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921)
The speedometer: Sir Keith Elphinstone (1864-1944)
The motor lorry: John Yule in 1870
The steam tricycle: Andrew Lawson in 1895
Bridges
Bridge design: Sir William Arrol (1838-1913), Thomas Telford (1757-1834) & John Rennie (1761-1821)
Suspension bridge improvements: Sir Samuel Brown (1776-1852)
Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)
Canals & Docks
Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757-1834)
Dock design: John Rennie (1761-1821)
The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781-1832)
Crane design: James Bremner (1784-1856)
Lighthouses
Lighthouse design: Robert Stevenson (1772-1850)
The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797-1840)
Steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736-1819)
Coal-gas lighting: William Murdock (1754-1839)
The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790-1878)
Electro-magnetic innovations: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79)
Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849-1936)
The Clerk cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clerk (1854-1932)
Wireless transformer improvements: Sir James Swinburne (1858-1958)
Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869-1959)
Wave-powered electricity generator: Stephen Salter in 1977
The steamship paddle wheel: Patrick Miller (1731-1815)
The steam boat: William Symington (1763-1831)
Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767-1830)
The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)
The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803-1882)
Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832-1913)
Scottish shipbuilding firsts:
The first all-steel ship
The first steel ship to cross the Atlantic
The first paddle steamer to cross the Atlantic
The first ship to cross the Atlantic in less than a week
The first all-welded ship
The first merchant ship to run on oil
The first set of triple-expansion engines for a twin-screw steamer
The first ship to be fitted with two engines
The first steam whaler
The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723-1809)
Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772-1847)
Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783-1865)
The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792-1865)
The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808-1890)
Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889)
Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831-1881)
Narrow gauge, double-bogey railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831-1885)
Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719-1811)
Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700-1753)
The 'Scotch Plough': James Anderson (1739-1808)
Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789-1850)
The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799-1869)
The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979
Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690-1749)
The balloon post: John Anderson (1726-1796)
The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782-1853)
The post office
The mail-van service
Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)
Light signalling between ships: Philip H. Colomb (1831-1899)
The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871-1957)
The television: John Logie Baird (1888-1946)
Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)
Some Scottish publishing firsts:
The first book translated from English into a foreign language
The first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1768-81)
The first English textbook on surgery (1597)
The first modern pharmacopaedia, the Materia Medica Catalogue (1776)
The first textbook on Newtonian science
The first colour newspaper advertisement
The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK
Logarithms: John Napier (1550-1617)
The decimal point: John Napier (1550-1617)
The reflecting telescope: James Gregory (1638-1675)
The concept of Latent Heat: Joseph Black (1728-1799)
The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766-1832)
Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Browen (1773-1858)
Hypnosis: James Braid (1795-1860)
Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805-1869)
The Kelvin scale of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922)
Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843-1930)
The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)
Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)
The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)
Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955
The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980
The first cloned mammal: The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996
The piano with footpedals: John Broadwood (1732-1812)
The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766-1843)
Marmalade: James Keiller (1775-1839)
The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)
The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801-1845)
The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaaac Holden (1807-1897)
Paraffin: James Young (1811-1883)
The fountain pen: Robert Thomson (1822-1873)
The vacuum flask: Sir James Dewar (1847-1932)
Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley
Marmalade with peel: James Robertson in 1850
Cornflour: John Polson in 1854
Lime Cordial: Lachlan Rose in 1867
Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874
Devising the cure for scurvy: James Lind (1716-1794)
Discovering quinine as the cure for malaria: George Cleghorn (1716-1794)
Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia: Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870)
The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817-1884)
Pioneering the use of anitseptics: Joseph Lister (1827-1912)
Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922)
Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855-1931)
Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865-1926)
Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876-1935) with others
Pencillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
Discovering an effective treatment to eradicate TB: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s
Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964
Bank of England-Bill Patterson
US Navy-John Paul Jones
Economics.Adam Smith
...............and Whisky.... ...and loads of ither things
wee scunners...
Football hooliganism - Jimmy Maclumfart 1972 East of of Glasgow Green and White Hoops
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Depends who cooks it I'd say....Full English Breakfast comes in many formats, depending on origins of bar/rest. owner. But in the UK, the breakfast cafe's who make it, mainly for builders etc, are mostly run by Europeans as I remember, or Chinese, or occasionally Greek Cypriots, but not often real Brits.
It's about time the Brits got a hold of themselves here, and start pointing out to foreigners who have been subjected to English fast food that we have a real cuisine which is not unlike French ,some German Dutch and Belgian foods. A lot of Game dishes and the like which you have to pay a fortune for now. The supermarkets and marketing companies have conspired to bring down the great traditional English cuisine. How many of us grew up on Heinz Baked Beans?
The game pie has long been surpassed by the chicken tikka masala goodbye to the pie.
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The supermarkets and marketing companies have conspired to bring down the great traditional English cuisine. How many of us grew up on Heinz Baked Beans?
Now you're talking....Heinz baked beans on toast...
Unfortunately for the topic of this thread "why do lovely Brits live in Thailand" the absence of original Heinz baked beans (excluding the sweet veggie variety) is one mark against LOS...
The Beans are best with breakfast
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Are any credit cards worth it ???
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if you were British you would be so I guess so if there are no problems from the USA side - my son was in the same situation now got both UK and Thai passports. If you still have your birth cert I think you will have to get yourself registerd for a Thai ID card then take it from there.
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The Indian restautrants here in Samui are <deleted>, but i've been trying in Sukhumvit area too, and there's a couple on the brink of greatness. Anyone know a good one?
Not in Samui, I know Samui fairly well but have yet to see an Indian. (Restaurant )
I've tried two or three in Sukhumvit and my favourite is Bakkharus? ...Something like that, anyway, it has a blue sign and is beside the steps to a walkway in Nana.
Hopefully somebody can elaborate further, forgive my abysmal directions.
Mrs Balibirs in Soi 11 used to be great but it went down hill after she become a TV Star - The Vindaloo is still great if that all your after.
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Pickled Gouramy Fish
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Those without clothes are without fear
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Does it work if you drink it - or just start eating loads of salad with a good olive oil base - virgin olive oli is proably better.
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Another respected cousin of philosophy
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Would you rather be able to get a bus in a few seconds or possibly have to wait in the sun or rain - you would proably have to pay more and increase the chance of some prick stopping the bus mid journey to go somewhere else the multiplicy of buses generally makes life easier for the tourist. and to be quite honest no one in authority in Thailand gives a crap about the opinions of foreign residents or the enviornment. Money comes first.
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All I can say is invest in a Samsonite and lock it. They will only go for zipped bags easy to open.
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You state that your thai wife has a friend who works in the consulate, etc. This information already traveled such a long way (from someone to the friend of your wife, from the friend to your wife, from you to here) that it likely picked up and also lost some things along the way and in translation. And perhaps those changes are only proposed for that specific consulate.
And she said she can't give 'too many details' as she could get removed. She's basically said it all already, according to your statement above. Not questioning your post, your wife or anyone here, but it does seem a little bit more of a story than reality right now.
It may be a proposal from a politician or minister ...but that's long ways from taking effect, if taking effect at all.
Actaully came to me dircetly from the person who saw the Thai governmental request for task evaluation read my post properly it is very much first hand. Sorry if it upsets you young un's but it does look like something is brewing.
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Above is corrcet my son born Thailand register the birth at the embassy as your son with a copt of the Thai birth cert and they will give him a UK birth cert has both Thai and Uk passport he can chose what and were he wants to be - remember to get the child a Thai Id card when the time comes.
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I agree with what you are saying there are other ways to approach this - but the info I was given this morning suggests the moralists in the Thai goverment do not consider some to worthy tourists. Therefore their value as tourists do become a matter of percpetion. Think of what could be done if you could clear the backpackers out of samui and develop it all in the style of say hua hin. The moralists do seem to shouting with a louder voice. Maybe they reckon if they cleared out the backpackers and the lager louts they would attract more affluent tourists less of - but would spend more money - I don't know I am only guessing but the info is genuine.
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Would 30 MINUTES be a reasonable amount of time between touristic trips?
You may jest - but think about the ramifications if the proposals do come to fruition - it would be virtually impossible to do the 30 day runs - fortuanltely I am older than 35 so it won't effect. The resaonable time would be I suggest enough time to back to your own country and re apply . Which would be what you would need to do - the entry requirment being the visa pre issued in your country of residence. If you think back in to the late eighties you needed a pre issued visa for a stay of 14 days or more or go through a huge rigmarole on arrival - this used to cause difficulties coming to Thailand from Saudi as you could not apply for your Thai visa until you had your exit re entry from Saudi - and the timing was always very tight. Some of the older hands (over 35) may remember these days. So it is not outside the realms of possibility that this will happen it was far stricter in the past.
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He replied, “All political systems are like oranges. Wonderful when they are young and ripe. But as time passes, they rot, stink and then die. The only effective system is one built upon constant renewal and revolution.”
i cant argue with that.
I still think the NHS service is poor and unfair to higher tax payers - the amount of money I am forced to pay into the NHS would give me a 5 star private service, because the service is poor to have peace of mind I also buy a private policy. But I am not allowed to opt out of the NHS - being forced to subsidise many who don't want to work or live of benefits that is unfair in my book.
You could retire to Thailand, and then you would have no worries - until you became ill.
My point exactly my BUPA policy covers Thialand for my six month stays peace of mind guarnteed the best Thai hospitals are better the NHS in many, many cases.
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He replied, “All political systems are like oranges. Wonderful when they are young and ripe. But as time passes, they rot, stink and then die. The only effective system is one built upon constant renewal and revolution.”
i cant argue with that.
I still think the NHS service is poor and unfair to higher tax payers - the amount of money I am forced to pay into the NHS would give me a 5 star private service, because the service is poor to have peace of mind I also buy a private policy. But I am not allowed to opt out of the NHS - being forced to subsidise many who don't want to work or live of benefits that is unfair in my book.
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i doubt that it will happen as thailand is crying for any tourism right now, even thai airways is promoting low fares. proposals will always be thrown around...
They have been asked to comment on effcets in terms of projceted increase in workload.
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Anyone but the Tories. Thatcher did more to <deleted> the UK and its inhabitants than Blair could ever do.
Scouse.
Maggie was only a touch behind Winston in terms of greatness. Got rid of all those wasteful polluting coal mines and at last made the working classes pay a decent share of costs towards local services. She was truly the Iron Lady.
Oh, alex, you know there is virtually nobody in Britain who would express views such as yours.
Did all Thatcherites take their money and run off to Thailand?
No I took the money I got from a Forces Pension greatly increased by Maggie invested it in a busniess which allows me to spend 6 months of every year in Thailand and six in the UK - she was truley a lovely lady.
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Anyone but the Tories. Thatcher did more to <deleted> the UK and its inhabitants than Blair could ever do.
Scouse.
Maggie was only a touch behind Winston in terms of greatness. Got rid of all those wasteful polluting coal mines and at last made the working classes pay a decent share of costs towards local services. She was truly the Iron Lady.
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Seems like some big changes being proposed it is 0815 on Sunday morning in sunny Midlands UK. My TW has a friend who works in the consulate in Birmingham don;t want to give to many details as she could get removed - she has just picked up the missus and the kids to go to the Thai Temple in Warwick. She says last week she viewed some real radical proposals to change is visa laws surrounding tourist visas and the 30 day senario. Proposals include pre entry visa stamps (non on entry) for tourist's between the ages of 17 and 35 years old with proof of funds hotel and flight bookings needed to be proved for holiday. And although she was not quite clear on this I understand they 30 day in out will be totally done away with the proposal roughly translates to a resonable amount of time between toursit trips. Nothing about other visa types. The proposal is all built around a statement about morality and discouraging what is reffered to as low grade tourism and public bad behaviour by said tourists. Any news on this in LOS.
I should have added there is a caviate about families with kids having exememptions.
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Maybe he means thers are load of Antipodean friends working in London Pubs