thaiophilus

There's a flaw in that idea. You are assuming that everyone, including senior management, is competent to follow highly technical instructions like "wipe gadget to factory setup". Experience suggests that the more senior the employee, the less likely they are to get it right 😄

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_and_chips, "The British tradition of eating fish battered and fried in oil was introduced to the country by the Chuts: Spanish and Portuguese Jewish immigrants, who had lived in the Netherlands before settling in the UK. These immigrants arrived as early as the 16th century; the main immigration to London being during the 1850s. They prepared fried fish in a manner similar to pescado frito, which is coated in flour then fried in oil.[7] Fish fried for Shabbat for dinner on Friday evenings could be eaten cold the following afternoon for shalosh seudot, palatable this way as liquid vegetable oil was used rather than a hard fat, such as butter." The French or Belgians contributed the deep-fried chips. Combining the two ingredients in one meal happened in the 1860s, or maybe before. Then Italian, and later Chinese, immigrants spread the concept all around the UK.

no, but they had learned the hard way "what They don't know can't be used against you"

Because of that, my former employer had an absolute rule: no employee was to carry company-owned IT (smartphones, laptops, whatever) across the US border under any circumstances. Going to the US on business? Once safely across the border, buy a new device, connect to the corporate VPN and download whatever you need. Before returning, wipe and discard the device.

That's precisely why it was so horrible (and overpriced.) They are catering to an endless stream of royalty-struck tourists who will never visit the place again, so reputation is not a priority. Of course, that quintessentially "British" dish is actually a fusion of French/Belgian and Jewish cuisines, later sold by Italians. Its contribution to the flag-waving "Britishness" mythos may be because it was one of the few foods that wasn't rationed in WW2.

Offing a ghost would probably be very bad for your karma.

Also, that map doesn't show the JR network, which is equally complex: A tip if you can't work out the fare: just buy any value of ticket and make your journey. At the exit, find the fare adjustment machine and put your ticket in. If you've overpaid it will refund the appropriate amount; if youo've underpaid it will tell you how much more to pay.

I think no, not again. Patanawet was responding to a post from several weeks ago.

Don't sit, recline! Or stroll down to the bar:

I've never transited through BKK, but I can't recall the last time (except when travelling via the USA, which doesn't seem to understand the concept of transit) I had to check in twice. On all my recent journeys with connecting flights (variously through DXB, AMS and CDG), the online checkin process was for both flights and I had PDF boarding cards for both before leaving home - so technically no checkin at either airport, just baggage drop at the first (and security at both). Before online checkin existed, on occasions I've certainly been issued two boarding cards on checking in at the first airport. Having to collect the second one from the transit desk is a distant memory.

I just looked at the desktop version of Google Calendar, and this is what I see (YMMV): When creating an event, choose the (start) date, then click on the "add time" button, then tick the "Time zone" box. You then get a tick box for "use separate start and end time zones". Tick that, and there are two drop-down boxes where you can choose the start and end zones. At that point you have to be careful, because the default zone appears to be the one it thinks you are in right now.

... and probably no help, since I'd expect a typical LLM (I refuse to call it AI) to recognise "seventeen twenty" as a time and "correct" you anyway. Worse, it might see it as a date 😵

Everywhere is located near the metro. Have you never seen a Tokyo subway map? 🤣 PS If you need to get cash from an ATM, the 7Bank ones inside 7-11 stores don't charge for using foreign cards.

Conversation between a friend of mine and their departing guest while in a car well on the way to the airport: "which terminal, North or South?" "No, Four". It's a good thing LHR and LGW label their terminals differently, or the mistake might not have been noticed until much too late.

False. "The Coriolis effect is so small that it plays no role in determining the direction in which water rotates as it exits from a draining sink or toilet. The Coriolis effect produces a measurable influence over huge distances and long periods of time, neither of which applies to the typical terrestrial bathroom. " https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/coriolis-effect/ Also, they got the direction wrong.

Whataboutism noted.

quoting someone else's tired old trope of flawed logic. The reality is like the "fire triangle" we are taught in fire safety courses: to start a fire you need fuel, oxidizer and heat. Remove any one and the result is no fire. With firearms there's also a triangle: the weapon, the person firing it, and the person getting shot. Same logic applies, but ease of removal is different.

veni, vidi, vici? or perhaps vidi, veni, vicerunt would be nearer the mark?

Belated "me too". On the admiral's peak I deduced that some people don't just go there to admire the view, as there were heaps of condom wrappers .strewed around the path like exotic flowers 😲

Undergarments are usually non-refundable once worn. I don't know what that does to your metaphor 🩲🙂

You don't just marry him, you marry his entire family. What are the advantages and disadvantages of that?

+1 for expanding my vocabulary

Abusive private messages (if that's what they are) probably breach the forum Code of Conduct, and are therefore a matter for the admins to deal with..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_by_country A legal minefield, so do your own research and don't believe anything some random stranger here tells you.

To deal with that, you need a friend in the Royal Thai Army. One sight of an Army hat covered with gold braid and the BiB will never trouble you again 🙂