Torneyboy
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The guards at the Bts stations have stepped up bag checks.
That is good...ummm
My station is Saphan Taksin when i enter the station..no check..just a smile...when i return if i go out the same way..no check..if i exit the other end as i did today...a random check wad in place..i wonder how long this will be on place.
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Yes interesting site....
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Never take your eyes off your drink...watch the drink being made...u shoukd be fine.
Only heard of one friend getting a spiked drink..in Cowboy 2 years ago.
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I will buy you a bottle for January..
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T plus 27 days, but not counting.......
BB
T28 days ...i can wait
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We just saw the new MI4...
Tom Cruise at his best ..Non stop action lost of gadgets and great stunts ...go see it .
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Drink young wine ...yep i can not keep wine ..it must be drunk i have had some really good wine over the years that would be worth a lot of money now ..but all gone
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Having quoted from it in a post yesterday (dykes) I decided to watch it again last night. Still an excellent film and Robin Williams is superb, especially his radio monologues.
Also his attempt at dating a local girl made me think of Coss's current situation.
Filmed in Thailand it also has a lot of footage of the countryside which is lovely to see.
Just watched White Elephant starring Kevin Bacon .
This movie is set in Bangkok ..a few shots outside Dollhouse and the entrance to Soi Cowboy early on in the movie....fast paced and lots of action ..
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Very good
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...Yulumba ...
...Mai 'BA"...."na" kow jai........
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"A" hope you choke on it....
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Yeah some of those smaller casks are good ...Yulumba and Lindemans jump to mind ..also a good port or two in cardboard down under...
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Any bottle of "good" wine is over 1000...the 300 700 range are petrol..imo
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Found it today in a damn box...795tb for a three ltr box...a bit cheaper i noticed in Villa on Suk the other day..got this one from Big C..
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If we're going to have a fecking boring USA thread then we might as well have a fecking boring Scotland thread (except that nothing can be as boring as USA threads ).
Weir Group fined £3m over Saddam sanctions breaches
One of Scotland's largest companies has been fined £3m for breaching UN sanctions on Iraq by doing business with Saddam Hussein's regime.
Glasgow-based engineering firm Weir Group admitted paying kickbacks to the dictator's government a decade ago to secure lucrative business contracts.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard this had contravened the Oil For Food programme aimed at helping Iraqis.
Judge Lord Carloway also confiscated £13.9m of illegal profits from Weir.
The court was told that Weir Group Plc admitted two charges of breaching United Nations sanctions, imposed on Iraq before the 2003 invasion.
Charges centred on contracts entered into under the Oil For Food programme between 2000 and 2002.
The programme was introduced by the UN to enable exports of Iraqi oil to take place, provided the cash was used for food, medicine and other humanitarian needs.
The engineering group made payments to the tune of £3.1m to the dictatorship through an agent in order to secure contracts worth about £35m.
The court heard the agent was also paid "substantial" sums of money for his services, amounting to £1.4m.
On Tuesday, an apology on behalf of the directors of Weir Group was read out in court.
In his judgement, Lord Carloway said it was appropriate that the firm should face "a substantial financial penalty" for busting UN sanctions and to "deter future offences".
He said he had taken into account "a number of mitigatory factors" such as Weir's acceptance that it had to repay illegal profits of almost £14m and "the remorse shown at current group board level in relation to their betrayal of the confidence of the company, its shareholders and the general public".
The judge said that had it not been for Weir's early guilty plea, he would have imposed a fine of £4.5m.
Speaking outside court, Weir Group chairman Lord Smith said the company had been "transformed" since the time of the offences.
He said: "What happened back in 2001 was wrong and we accept full responsibility. Today's decision finally draws a line under the Crown Office's Oil For Food investigation, which we believe is in the best interests of shareholders.
"Since 2001, Weir has been transformed. We have a different board and we have a different management team, all of whom are committed to doing business at all times in an ethical manner.
"Today, we have in place robust ethical policies and procedures and we operate a zero-tolerance approach to any behaviour that contravenes them.
"The board regards it as an absolute priority ensuring that we operate with integrity. I am personally confident that we have in place the right culture with the necessary policies and procedures to ensure that it does."
The confiscation order for £13.9m of the firm's illegal profits, made under proceeds of crime legislation, is the biggest ever made by a Scottish court.
Do we have to pay MM to read this thread?
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RED :
With Bruce Willis....non stop action he was very good ..
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Very funny
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SALT...Angelina Jolie....good movie ..didn't like the blond hair however...
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Four days ..and counting
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Just saw on DVD The Lost Battalion...Rick Schroder.
A WW1 story ...worth a look
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He needs the cash
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We saw Robin Hood at MBK just before all the go to bed early times started.....Great film ..very different take on him ..
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Are MM will love that one
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Nice work
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Excellent
Increased Baggage Checks At Bts Stations
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I notice the hotels close buy hsve started using the magic mirror under taxi and vans.
I guess to make the guests feel all warm and fuzzy..