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I hoping to travel to LOS soon, but will have quite a bit of luggage to bring. I'm hoping to have 2 suitcases and 1 or 2 hand luggage. The flight will be from London to Bangkok
I just wondered what peoples experience with having 30-40Kgs+ ? and if you have any recommendations on the best way to manage this.
I have been speaking to a travel agent in London who states that on their Thai Air economy tickets I get 30Kg allowance and as I have a Star Alliance silver card should get another 10kg ?
I've read a few of the other posts and generally people did not comment favorably on using excess luggage companies, unless they deliver to the door. Seems they say the best way is to take it with you if you can. But this post was almost 2 years ago.
Thanks and look forward to hear from you...
I would check with the airline first 30Kg on economy is to say the least not usual. If it does not say 30kg on the ticket you have no comeback at check in and could end with a big excess bill. I sent one unaccompaied last year but the hasltle getting it out of customs wsa not worth the effort don't recommned it.
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Still have to work 3 months per year in the oilfields of the Middle East, when it all goes to plan I'd be working right now, because it's too hot here, but 'Murphys Law' always arranges my contracts for OCT-FEB.
Hope one day to live on interest from savings, but the best U.K. rates are 5% gross, so I either have to triple my savings or hope for the BOE to push up the base rate.
Anyone know anything about these adverts for 'do a few hours work on your PC for big cash'?
Have a look they are crap needs a lot of effort to make anything
goZing Surveys <[email protected]>
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Can some tell me what is Durian
Some of them are larger than a breadbox, almost watermelon-size. they have spikes on them, like the hairstyle of one of those heavy-metal, head-banger kids. If dropped on an unsuspecting tourist, the choices are cremation or internment. They smell worse than your Aunt Mathilda's after-dinner farts.
I have no idea what they taste like; haven't gotten close enough to try.
Funnily enough they actually taste like your Aunt Mathilda's after-dinner farts.
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If you used to work for an airline,then you will realise that planes run on paraffine not petrol...
And if you'd have a clue you'd know that planes run on kerosene and not on candle wax
American planes run on Kerosene..British ones on Paraffin...please don't run people down without checking your facts. Kerosene is just another fine example of the Sceptic Tanks bastardising a word to try and make it their own.. WE invented the jet engine so WE invented what runs it
Huh, I thought the germans were the first ones to fly jets, during the second world war. I saw one of the planes, in a war museum in London! I might be wrong of course.
It was not a jet it was actaully a rocket quite different Sir Frank Whittle from Lutterworth Leicestershire UK invented the Jet Engine
Concerning fuel, I found a very interesting page: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question105.htm
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Wife and I are going to visit Hanoi for the first time soon.Will stay maybe 5 days.
We want to stay in a hotel that is historic,well appointed, has character,interesting architecture, maybe something from the colonial era. Price is not a concern.
Can anyone recommend anything ?
I know an American who stayed at the Hilton back in '72. Bit of a problem when the hotel staff chained him to railing for 6 months.
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just an aside :
is it
1 farang, 2 farang
or
1 farang, 2 farangs
Farang Rights(all farang)
vs
Farangs' Rights(all farang)
vs
Farang's rights(a single farang)
There must be some english teachers in here ???
Dis ees no engleesh- it is phonetic Thai - does the grammer apply
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Got some friends interested in hanging out in Sydney for a year or two and they were asking me about teaching jobs there (availiblity, qualifications required, salaries, etc...). Guess they figured I know since I'm teaching on this side of the planet and Thailand is practically next door to Australia (hope they aren't planning on teaching geography, heheh).
Anyway, does anyone have information on teaching in Australia? Are there language schools there like they have here? Do they require a degree or certificate or can you "wing it" like many people do here? Can you make a living wage in a place like Sydney (expensive? or no?)? Etc....
Also, if you know of any websites or forums that could be useful, let me know and I'll pass along the info.
Thanks for the help.
You will have no chance if you do not speak English with an Australian accent - the last thing the Aussies want is their kids growing up sounding like a POM or a Yank. I have first hand experince of this on our compound scholl in Saudi the Aussie employees insisted that we import an Aussie speaking teacher for the kids because of the above.
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While I was on Koh Tao island, I had some tasty titbits called No Names. These were great either as a snack or with a main meal.
They looked a bit like the Indian Bhajis.
Alas, when I got back to Bkk no-one had heard of them. My son, who lives in Bkk, said that they were exclusively a southern dish and unavailable anywhere else in Thailand.
I'm currently in UK but moving out to Thailand in August. In the meantime, if some one knows how to make these things, I would be very grateful.
Its called a Clint Eastwood - the food with no name
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Ah so it is. Apologies for that. 2 hours sleep on a bus to Mukdahan has affected my concentration more than I thought (knew I should have taken a day bus).
good of you to apologise for a truly blatant remark remark to the other poster. Brits are admired for 'sutle humour' and you sounded like the kind you purport to despise
Americans: next time you get on a bus to Mukdahan. Don't piss people off by waking them up just after they've got off to sleep and asking them if the bus is going all the way to Mukdahan.<deleted>
Oh well....
I remember Faulty Towers being very funnyErm, not to find 'fault' Fw but that should be Fawlty Towers
... one of the few series anywhere I can watch over and over and enjoy everytime. Always thought there were 13 episodes tho???Episode List:
Series 1 (19 Sep 75 - 24 Oct 75)
A Touch Of Class (19 Sep 75)
The Builders (26 Sep 75)
The Wedding Party (3 Oct 75)
The Hotel Inspectors (10 Oct 75)
Gourmet Night (17 Oct 75)
The Germans (24 Oct 75)
Series 2 (19 Feb 79 - 25 Oct 79)
Communication Problems (19 Feb 79)
The Psychiatrist (26 Feb 79)
Waldorf Salad (5 Mar 79)
The Kipper And The Corpse (12 Mar 79)
The Anniversary (26 Mar 79)
Basil The Rat (25 Oct 79)
Watery Fowls
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Are'nt "The Big Strong Boys" a pair of W**kers?
The Americans should watc British comedies so they can learn how to make funny sitcoms.
Father Ted has to be the funniest show for decades.
The Americans have recently tried to copy The Office it was appalling - no real sense of humour the Yanks -. The great gift of British Comedy is laughing at ourselves - the Yanks are far to self important to do this.
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Looks like being the operative phrase:
Decent - dressed modestly, hair not dyed, no tattoo's showing, not covered with peirced extremities.
The visual differance can easily be determined.
As in any society first impressions are important and form the basis of most perceptions.
So if my wife decides to put a colour through her hair,then she is labled as a whore or if some Hiso shelia from TV has a tat, then she is a prostitute as well?
Perceptions is the word that you have used and so many Thais get it wrong.If a farang is married to a Thai, then the thai must be.....blah blah blah
It has never happened to me,but a part of me would almost welcome the challenge if it did.
Unfortunatley when confofronted with a conservative person or a hotel receptionists jealousy this perception will continue to develop. And even more unforualtely the TG who is being targeted will nearly always perceive the attacker to be their superior (culture again) and hardly ever fight back when challenged.
It is a fact of life in Thai society it is still class ridden.
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a snake tatoo from neck to ankle perhaps
Lets be honest many guys on here don't know the difference between what a decent and non-decent lady looks like.
Looks like being the operative phrase:
Decent - dressed modestly, hair not dyed, no tattoo's showing, not covered with peirced extremities.
The visual differance can easily be determined.
As in any society first impressions are important and form the basis of most perceptions.
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Funny,I thought it was called English...from...England
That what they teach in the council estates? Sorry, no.
German: Angeln, Latin: singular Anguls, plural Anglii --> Old English: Englas --> Englisc --> English.
Anglish |
Saxonish |
Jutish |
Latin | --> British English --> American English --> American English
Greek |
Old Norse |
Norman |
Over time the evolutionary improvements of American English are managing to penetrate British, for example, computer program, not programme. There’s far to go.
You may wish to discover how this evolution might have occurred. Begin with Cornwallis' surrender in 1781:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yorktown_(1781)
Send a picture of Noah Webster to your favorite Brit lexicographer and suggest that he find out who he was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster
Demand that his improvements be incorporated into all new dictionaries. Attend rallies; organize demonstrations.
I recall an amusing sign outside a carpet shop in the old part of the town of Taif -Saudi Arabia:
English Spoken - American Understood
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The ultimate goal is no doubt to do what was done to Manila - now its nearly all in Angeles - Bangkok will gradually be more strctly controlled and closed a bit at a time Pattaya and Phuket will be allowed to flourish in the main away from the eyes of foreign busniess vistors and non sex tourists who do not visit either. Thus the perception is reduced.
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The map is a perfect template for trimming the kitty.
Looks like a <deleted> of a place
full with poms though
Its the same shape as South Africa that full of poms to is there a connection?
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I could post the Unoin Jack but wouldn't want to be seeing as getting on my high horse...Illuminati
I had every right to put that flag up there and defend my country as everyone was coming down on Americans for senseless reasons beyond our control. Normally, you would never see me even talking about America at all, let alone defending it. As the times go on though, I will no longer tolerate people labeling me or my compatriots as war-mongers, conservative neo-cons, loud-mouthed and ignorant just because of a government that I have no control over and didn't vote for. If you have had personal problems with an American before then you had problems with a HUMAN BEING that just happened to be American. Where they were born has little to do with anything. All Americans are not how you are generalizing and I certainly am not.
You will never see me criticizing England or any other country for the many flaws that it may possess, and no matter which country you come from, it is flawed no matter what you say. What good is it going to do anyone to point out the things that you feel are negative about a place? Will it change anything? Hardly. If someone were to ask me about England, I would feel inclined to tell them about all the things I like about the place and not the things I don't like. I like how a majority of the English are well-mannered. I like how you have betting parlors everywhere and its not frowned upon. I like puddings very much. You see, it's not so hard to be positive is it?
If you want to be a negative jerk-off all your life than that's you perogative. If so, I still want you to kiss my Red, White and Blue A**!!!!!!!!!!!
I went to work in rural America - Williamsburg last year for 3 months had a great time frendly people. It is very diffrent from the UK culturally. About the only thing we have in common is the language. There is no pub culture at all in the sticks -which drives most adults lives in the UK. Socialising is built around the familiy and eating out which you probably afford to do most days. My only critisim would be the insular nature of the culture. The average Joe does not really have a great deal of awarness of what is really going on outside the USA and in many cases does not really care as they have a high standard of living. This is what probably drives US politcs keep average Joe happy but unaware and all will be rosy.
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the double taxation treaty really implies to income from investments and not by actually paid employmeny. If you receive a wage in thailand the british tax man will have no claim on this and no interest whatsoever. Howveer say you recieved a dividend payment. If you had paid the capital gains tax in britain you would not have to paid tax on this sum again in thailand.
Not so.
If you are returning to the UK after an absence of less than one (Full and Complete) tax year (April4th through one year to April6th in the next) you are liable to pay tax on your income during your absence overseas.
Even the suspicion that you have been working and are unable to prove that you have not can and does result in emergency tax codes being applied. (Ouch!).
If you have been working, but have paid Thai tax, then under the joint tax agreement you can offeset your Thai tax against your British Tax liability.
If you would have paid GBP20K tax in the UK, but can demonstrate you paid GBP8K tax in Thailand then you would be liable to the difference GBP12K in to to the UK Tax.
I have the paperwork and receipts that demonstate this to be the case having been caught with this very rule earlier this year.
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Well I am in Liecester at the moment it is 20 degress and lovely and sunny so i am off down the pub for few pints of Guiuness Extra Cold, or maybe Pedigree or John Smiths even a long cool Stella -a good look at all the foxy Indian chicks then its off for a real Chicken Tikka Madras - now thats real English Food.
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I have just made this up can someone complete the last line:
I came to Thailand to get dead rich,
All I got was a grabbing bitch,
Now I'm at home in she's in heaven,
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With only the girl from the 7 11
How the ###### did you know that - I only went to buy a mouldy sandwich.
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I have just made this up can someone complete the last line:
I came to Thailand to get dead rich,
All I got was a grabbing bitch,
Now I'm at home in she's in heaven,
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Yup, I agree with pretty much everything said about the UK as regards weather, bland food, high taxes, lack of democracy and so on, but I'm not blind to its merits, such as sport, theatre etc. However, life is a compromise, and all told, I'd much rather live in Phuket than anywhere in Britain.
Jackr, the word 'limey' dates from the 18th century, when scurvy was rife in the Royal Navy, and sailors would eat limes and rub them over their gums to get enough Vitamin C to stop their teeth falling out etc. The word was supposedly coined by Brits about the RN and later adopted by Americans, but I don't suppose anyone will ever really know. So a 'limey brit' is a tautology (yeah, I know - so what if it is?)
Just while I'm in truly anal retentive mood, the word 'pom' ('Prisoner of Mother England' or 'Prisoner of His Majesty', depending on who you believe) probably originally excluded Scots prisoners, because (if you can stay awake): English prisoners were originally sold as slaves to plantation owners etc in the Americas in the 17th century, which predates the 1701 (I think) Act of Union which joined England and Scotland. When Africans later began selling their own people (sorry its not pc, but its the truth) as slaves, they undercut the English, who then began using Australia. Market forces were more influential than the anti-slavery lobby. I think I need to lie down and drink. Life's too short for this.
Well some things never change 300 years on and Tony Blair is still selling us to the Yanks
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The map is a perfect template for trimming the kitty.
Looks like a <deleted> of a place
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Actually the correct is Full English Breakfast - beats a petite dejuner or pancakes with Maple Syrup anyday - also a great hangover cure
It doesnt beat fruit, orange juice and vegemite on toast
warm beer, greasy food, <deleted> rugby team, <deleted> cricket team, but the north of the country is absolutely beautiful (where the bairn lives
)Nah the orange juice makes you throw up if your pissed
highly unusual to find a pissed pom
Are Scots poms also - I though it was only the English Prisoner of Mother England???? The English could never catch enough Jocks to make up a shipload!!
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Actually the correct is Full English Breakfast - beats a petite dejuner or pancakes with Maple Syrup anyday - also a great hangover cure
It doesnt beat fruit, orange juice and vegemite on toast
warm beer, greasy food, <deleted> rugby team, <deleted> cricket team, but the north of the country is absolutely beautiful (where the bairn lives
)Nah the orange juice makes you throw up if your pissed
Suda Restaurant, Sukhumvit 14
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