radioman

Likely few patrons of the South American eatery are Thai. Most patrons probably speak some English, even the Russian and Chinese ones, possibly even French ones. No point employing Thai's who's knowledge of English extends as far as them being able to screw up every order. English speaking Thais can generally get better paid jobs at 300B/day these days.

It's about fake monks, not Thai politicians and policemen!

Words mouth mine out of taken sir

Not really my type, well equipped enough in the shirt potatoes department and a body that could appeal, just not really the look, but kudos to you Charly, sure she could give a good performance, but for all that cash it would need to be wayyyyyy more than good!

A Walk Among The Tombstones: A twist on the usual Neeson kidnap movie, 6.5 Will go and see Taken 3 this Friday, if only to see how they can make that story go three rounds Topkapi: Classic 60's caper movie, lighthearted enough, the chef sketch is great.

Pay when the beer arrives. Some are too good to be missed

I've actually done some of those

Take it to work with you. Have it sleep in your office and train it to grumble and pace about whenever any comes in. A lot of Thai's are nervous around dogs so you'll get loads of work done.

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I would have thought so too. I have some big old vacuum tube iron that certainly causes an imbalance at start up, even with some fairly heavy duty soft start switching on it. 5kW Resonant choke power supplies. That takes the trip out at the low level, really can't remember where it's actually set, I'll look next week though. There's plenty of 5mA RCCD's out there. Maybe they have other uses. A quick google, https://www.bluesea.com/articles/577 Though this is aimed at boats the suggestion that 5mA is appropriate for single branch circuits seems a (semi-)rational approach to other systems as well. As they say, lots of nuisance tripping risk if fitted on a main incomer. The regs are an upper limit.

You can get both the fixed (or switched level) on demand heaters or a regular shower unit. We used the switched demand heaters for the sinks and showers but in the upcountry house just a regular shower unit. The regular shower unit has adjustable flow rate and temperature so there is no need for mixing. Horses for courses I guess. Think some GFCI's are set for a 5mA trip level. Our BKK House has one of those whole house Safe-T-Cut devices, can be set at 5 or 15mA I think.

Interesting. A route change because it was "cloudy"? I don;t think so. There were six foreigners on board the flight, reports say, three from South Korea and one each from the UK Malaysia and Singapore. The rest of the passengers were Indonesian. An official with the transport ministry, Hadi Mustofa, told local media the plane lost contact over the Java Sea, between the islands of Kalimantan and Java. He said the plane had asked for an unusual route before it lost contact and that the weather had been cloudy.

I think I understood what you wrote, but I could be wrong.

Yeah me too. In fact I didn't consciously think that until I read your comment, then I realised I'd thought that too, Chinese person or somewhere in China.

I went to "infants" school in 1965, what the colonists call kindergarten I Would have been 4, and a bit. My mother had taught me to read before then and I think most of the other kids starting at the same time could also read. We were hardly great readers but we could certainly manage. A lot of my early school included some element of rote learning for the simper basics, reading, writing and simple arithmetic. We had 20 words a week spelling tests right through high school, and it paid off. My father could lay a fire before he started school and skin a pheasant, I never learned how to do either, then again we had gas fires and supermarkets so it was hardly a necessity. Had I been caught out in the woods on a cold night I would have been stuffed, but of course it never happened. I think some of the thinking in modern schooling to overlook some of those more basic elements is that we have tools, calculators and spell checkers to do the work leaving the individual to focus on other matters. The requirement of course is that the tools be ubiquitous and accurate, they pretty much are.

Clarkson's last comment seems to sum it up quite well.

Joe Cocker, 70 I would have thought him older.

Sounds about right. Someone is giving you access to their service it seems.

Interesting. The Wi-Fi must connect to something. Usually it's a phone line. Who's Wi-Fi is it? It has Wi-Fi "installed" or Wi-Fi coverage is available? Very different methinks.

I think you have to remove those large male "bubbles" to see a truer picture. What is clear from looking at most countries is the generally reducing birth rates even in more conservative cultures and under developed countries that tend to have higher reproductive rates.

Think some of the middle east ones are flawed. I've been working in Qatar the last couple of years and out of a 2.7 million persons in country only about 10% are Qatari national, 90% are transient labour, and predominantly male. That seems to be skewing the figures which are probably based on ID cards issued rather than national births and deaths. Further the immigrant workforce will likely have a more stable age grouping than that shown for the reasons that as it ages the individuals return to their home countries to retire and die.

Really!

Is there another limit for "gifts"?

Ah, then the UK navy could have HMS Twatt, or several equally thrilling names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names