NancyL

Might be a bit tricky with Songkran luke, you could maybe postpone? If not, then if you dont have a car, then as others have said, a taxi meter would be the way to go. Not sure how bad the traffic will be though. Good luck and well done for realising that it DOES mean a lot to women to have important dates remembered.

NancyL, on 2012-04-14 18:15:55, said:

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Brilliantly put Nancy!
I honestly dont get why some men havent worked this out! Women are made up totally different from guys. The differences in thinking and body language etc, are well studied and documented. The problem is it seems women are the ones reading about it, whilst most men i guess consider it wummins rubbish! So then, they shoot themselves in the foot by not realising that a little bit of research and understanding will be like being given a key to a womans heart and adoration. His relationship would be gold!

There is a funny saying that whatever you give a woman, she multiplies:
If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby.
If you give her a house, she'll give you a home.
If you give her groceries,she'll give you a meal.
If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart.
She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.
So - if you give her any crap, you will receive a ton of ****.

We DO care about birthday,Valentines, anniversaries, etc, etc, and IF we say we arent bothered (which often is the case) know that it ISNT true. Dont think about the sense or logic in this, in mans thinking, there is none, we have our reasons, and all you need to really record is that yes, important dates DO matter to us. For better or worse we deal in subtleties, We may even point out things for weeks leading up to an important event, but you didnt clock it. Ie: at one point i kept stopping often at flowers i saw and would point out how beautiful they are, and mention how i love to get flowers, and what my favorite flowers are, and, as frivolous as it is, and would be so nice to receive some time on a special occasion. Did my bf pick up on that, lol no..! After the "special day" went past and totally unplanned for, i said to him that any significant date is a day i would like us do to something that marks the occasion. Doesnt mean spending lots of money, means just doing something! The actual gesture means more to women than men realise.

So guys, think about it this way, even if any special date seems silly to you, if you forget or do nothing, you will get a stale wife/gf, like the air has been let out of her bounce. If you make her feel special, youve actually given YOURSELF the biggest gift of all. Youve given yourself a loving, adoring, passionate woman because she feels loved. You will get back tenfold what you give (well unless shes a spoiled selfish woman that is!)

Good luck luke, hope you both have a lovely day!

I wonder if 'digging toes in sand, watching every sunset' is a new visa category. If so, form a queue to the left, I'm first.

It takes all sorts to make the world, and accepting that this guy is most likely in violation of visa requirements, in the pantheon of criminal offences in his case it looks low.

You never know what this guy may do in the future, maybe there is a Pulitzer prize novel waiting to burst out of him.

There is a more sinister level of overstaying, the sponging malcontents that hang around looking for good hearted victims. I won't bore you with the description, you see them every day.

I have zero empathy for them, these are the same guys that walk into bars penniless all over the world and shamelessly sponge, and when they get a bit of money, they disappear.

Grass them up? No, give them the time of day? No chance.

Everywhere you go in the world you get people that fall off the norm of society, in as much as I understand that they may affect visa policy in Thailand, they are a minimal problem in the scheme of things.

So I say live and let live, but they won't be living out of my pocket.

The other category, the self funding overstayers, I couldn't care less, if they want to risk being jailed and deported every day then up to them. We all know that if you leave yourself susceptible in Thailand bad things can happen, and these people are doing exactly that. I don't wish ill on them, but equally I don't want to hear their pathetic squeals when they get caught.

When I retire and find my rainbow, I want to know it's my rainbow and I can keep it. So  I will be staying on the right side of the law.

I probably shouldn't say this, being a mod and all that...but I will anyway.
I am thoroughly disappointed in Tops, particularly the KSK branch that I usually patronize.
The floods impacted all retailers in Thailand, and I'm aware that there were serious supply chain problems all around.
But long after all the other majors like Tesco and Big C had pretty much restocked everything- Tops was still a joke. For weeks and months in some cases.
As in no toilet tissue. No paper towels. No butter. No soup, mayo, lettuce, mouthwash, toothpaste....the list goes on and on.
Maybe I'm being a paranoiac, or perhaps an amateur logistics maven.
I have a sense, just a feeling....that Tops being owned by Central Pattana (CPN) is a very Bangkok-centric company.
When the flit hit the shan, so to speak, whatever (limited) supply was directed to the Bangkok area stores. Their core Sino-Thai market.
As in fark the provinces, let those peasants use a bum squirter.

Back on topic somewhat, I find their prices on Brit imported goods utterly laughable. Saw an ad spread today in That Paper We Are Not Allowed To Quote, for various imported Waitrose brand frozen vegetables.
Does anyone actually buy veggies grown in Tunisia or Israel, flown to the UK, processed and frozen in some factory in the Midlands, and shipped to Thailand- sold for 10X the price of local produce? Talk about carbon footprint....that is a Godzilla footprint. Of course I am aware CPN has an investment stake in Waitrose. I do buy (occasionally) some of the CPN store branded products like olive oil, red wine vinegar, etc. when I don't want to make the trek to Rimping or Big C (Carrefour) for similar or better products.

My advice to Tops is that they need to sharpen their game a lot. The growth picture in retail is in the provinces, not Bangkok.

My 25 satang.

The UK law is very clear and has been discussed at length on a recent thread in General topics.

Any British citizen is entitled to emergency medical assistance during a visit to England. If he has spent at least 10 years of his life in the UK and is a state pensioner he has even more entitlements.

Once a British citizen returns to the UK and 'declares his intention' of becoming resident then he becomes re-entitled to the full gamut of National health services.

I am absolutely positive that if this man is somehow returned to the UK, then he will be taken care of by the State. They will not turn him away and they will not refuse to treat him. It may be a bit of a hassle when he first arrives, but presumably by involving the embassy, his path can be smoothed.

I am sure he is not the first British expat that has been in this situation.

The current regulations are specifically designed to prevent expats from returning to the UK just to receive free medical treatment, and then going back overseas.

But if they fall ill during a visit, they will get emergency treatment free of charge and if an operation is required, they will get it it, and only later will they try to recover the costs.They will NOT be refused to treatment, even  if they have no money.

Here is the back page of my passport with the bar code sticker and also printed onto the passport page directly.  The 90 day report is stapled onto a separate page.  I cut pieces of the code out for privacy reasons but gives you the idea.


Actually if you look on the left page you can see all the staple holes from the 90 day reports.