^ Don't apply for an HGV licence, the wait with DVLA is even longer.
^ Don't apply for an HGV licence, the wait with DVLA is even longer.
OZ welcomes you with welcome arms.
No need to travel to a 7/11 or Africa:
• Chart: Where Smoking Breaks the Bank | Statista
Phillip Morris, L&M, 200 class A cigarettes cartons, from our village supply lady are ฿500. Stamped with USA Tax Exempt, probably from the Cambodia border/Philippines.
One packet of 20 cigarettes, ฿50, (≈ £1 or USD1.6)
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A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.
Superman comes out as bisexual in new issues of DC comic book
The new storyline, which features Jon Kent, the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, was announced on National Coming Out Day, an annual LGBTQ+ awareness day.
(Not a moan, before people start jumping up and down in excitement )
^
One wonders what a TD poll might reveal.
A. About time.
B. Whatever.
C. xxxxxxxxx
Thread: Daily Moan
Wrong thread.
Personally I can't wait until the usual suspects get all triggered that a character they don't know in a book they don't read is triggering their latent / closeted desires and making them uncomfortable...
^^^ Does this mean they will have to go back and change Lois to Larry the Trans?
^ Duller than dishwater, you really don't get fun do you where your pet subjects are concerned
Anyway, back on theme. Just back from doing my 90 day reporting. Exactly 3 weeks after going there do do my visa yearly renewal (/extension).
As said, they will NOT reset the clock when I am there to do the extension. They really just miss that these minor, unnecessary shite just annoy the crap out of people.
Sounds like a job Ant would enjoy.
I got an answer today!
Not a good answer though...
...your application can take up to 60 working days to be serviced from the date of arrival. You will be notified of the success of your application in the coming weeks...
Oh Lordy, Lordy!! That's 3 freaking months to stamp a fooking passport to allow a wife into the country.
Thank-you for your prompt reply. Please return my Passport immediately as I need it to go to more interesting places than fooking Little Brexit Britain...
Time to get the bot out and working on complaints@homeoffice.gov.uk.
^ too much it seems. I like to think of this as a COVID problem, Brexit gets blamed for everything.
£2.74 for the e-mail query but no charge for the follow up. It is 69p/minute to call them but not sure if that was from UK only.
This is to get a free permit that should be dealt with on arrival.
Anyway, it means no trip to Scotland next year. We'll go camping in Austria and Switzerland instead.
Reminds me of the section in a book by Douglas Adams where a chirpy computerized voice says " Please wait, you will be attended to shortly", but then there is a buzzing, crackling and humming, and the voice breaks up,
with that same phrase repeated a few times, then half of it, and finally breaking up completely.
Inspires a lot of confidence in the system, doesn't it ?
I went outside and found that the fresh water pipe across the lane to my house had been disconnected from the village water supply. Not at my request. It had been fine. You might think someone could have had the courtesy to inform me. This pipe goes only to my house.
This being Thailand, things just get curiouser and curiouser.
Where is the worker who cut the pipe? Not to be seen.
If I understood things correctly, someone for some reason needed to dig out the pipe. (I suspect neighbours fitting a new meter might have dislodged the joint. I don't know, no one is 'fessing up to anything.)
So when will it be fixed? Soon. (It is always soon. It is like manana, but without the sense of urgency.) The problem is this massive Caterpillar road grader that is going up and down the lane, scraping the dirt surface flat. That didn't cause the problem, allegedly, but the worker cannot get to fix the pipe until this monster machine is gone.
Why is there a giant scraper going up and down the lane? Are they planning to concrete the road? No one knows. FFS! It goes past our doors and no one knows anything. I call the gf at work, she speaks to neighbours. Nope, no idea what is happening. I'm living in a parallel universe, The Hitchiker's Guide to Nongbua Lamphu. Maybe it is aliens come to scrape this excrescence from the planet.
When all else fails, go to Makro, stop somewhere for coffee and come back refreshed, to find the grader gone and the pipe reburied. Sorted!
But wait! Why is there a river starting at my wall and running down the newly scraped lane? One of the old blokes who knows everyone was driving past so I flagged him down and showed him my new pond inside the wall. Mendip would have been envious. It had spread far enough to find an escape route to the street, hence the river. What was obvious even to the uninformed observer (which is lucky because they are all uninformed observers) was that when fixing the pipe on the other side of the street Somchai had obviously tugged it hard enough to break the joint on my side of the street. We all know this is easily done, the builders probably never bothered with any glue.
So old bloke tracks down Somchai, who is an even older bloke, and now we have three old blokes, if I include myself, all looking at the water bubbling up from the ground in my garden. A plan was hatched in some opaque Isan dialect which I'll never learn but I understand the sign language for a saw, so I give them a saw and a tin of pipe glue that happened to be in the shed and I left them to get on with it.
By the time the gf got home from work the pipe was fixed and the river was only a muddy memory. I asked her why they had dug up my pipe and she claimed to have no idea. I suggested she ask someone. Why, when it is fixed already? So how about the road scraper, was it just flattening out the seriously rutted mud or was it preparing the base for a concrete road that was promised 3 years ago? She claimed to have no idea. I suggested she ask someone. Why, when they don't know anything?
Sometimes you just need to let it go.
Moans that are just too long for me to read.
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