jacko

Sorry if I repeat what GS Joe posted above, but I just got an email from Etihad on this. Seems to imply I would not be impacted flying via Abu Dhabii to the UK, although this contradicts what I was led to believe on a TV report yesterday. Following a directive from US authorities, we have been advised that guests travelling to the United States from Abu Dhabi International Airport are not permitted to carry electronic devices larger than a cell phone or smart phone on board. Mobile phones and medical devices are permitted but larger items including laptops, tablets, cameras and e-readers will need to be placed into baggage that is checked in. This must be done at the start of your journey. The ban does not affect flights leaving from the US towards Abu Dhabi and beyond. These new rules come into effect for flights to the US via Abu Dhabi, starting 25 March. Any guests travelling to the UK via Abu Dhabi are not affected by the directive from the UK authorities.

Ashley Judd

In my environment of living on savings, a few years ago I set myself a monthly budget, a spending limit. If I don't keep to it, I will need to schedule my death sooner. I look at the bank balance on the 1st, and see how we are on the next number one. A substantial figure I thought at the time, well surely sufficient if not generous! It was a nice round number easily guessed. In Thai baht of course, what use would other currencies be. Damned good I didn't set a sterling limit, Brexit would have made that impossible last year. It swung my mood, as on day one, her indoors gets her spending money. Twenty five percent gone already!! On the 24th or so I would get quite optimistic, being below budget, perhaps a night out. Of course I had always forgotten the electric bill is due, as well as pool service! The darned credit card bill too, I had used it to stay on budget, but like many do, I was only deferring the inevitable. Where does it go....the weekly massage, the 2- 3 nights out, or maybe 4. Meals out, usual household bills, something broke, truck needs gas. It used to be easy, but I lately find I chip it or bounce over...... Living here isn't so cheap any more! How is your budget doing?

Yes Somalian I believe..... I always fly via the Middle East to/from UK and from what I see on the news I am to be affected. (I travel with a laptop and use it when in the UK). Booked my next trip already so too late to go non-ME--stop, ie KLM, BA etc

I could manage taking the battery out and checking that in, but would then be hunting power points in the lounges and on board. Woman on BBC seems to think this will become more commonplace like the liquids ban, and will be extended to include mobile phones. I expect the thieving sods at LHR baggage handling are wetting themselves with glee!

Anything else still dripping?

I just upgraded my Kodi. On my Win7 laptop I just loaded 17.0 over the 16.1 and it took care of everything. All my Add-Ons are intact and the record of what I have watched previously. On my Win10 pad I screwed up slightly and loaded the 17.1 App not the program (apparently it is different)! My Add-Ons etc are intact on the 17.1 App but I still appear to have the 16.1 there too. It is a waste of the rather limited storage on my pad, but I don't want to screw things up by trying to uninstall the 16.1 Jarvis. Things are getting just too complex for me as I age!

Indians? Once had a room next to a gang of them, had to move.

In relation to Kodi and pre-loaded Kodi boxes. Are Kodi boxes legal in the UK? How authorities are cracking down on 'plug and play' piracy. Daily Mirror..

I never knew the New York Post was also blocked here in Thailand! Your quote says 'recently' but isn't it from way back in 2015?

Michelle Pfeifer...(or however it is spelt.)

Not the bloody way my suitcase looked when it arrived in Bangkok last trip. I admit it was a bit heavy but it looked like it had been chucked out of a window. There has also been quite a bit of discussion wrt pilfering at Bangkok. Celphones can trigger bombs, but I would like to think security would notice the 2 sticks of dynamite taped to it. Why have we only heard of this from Royal Jordanian, not exactly the biggest carrier in the world?

Sean Penn.

The Singing Detective

Surely you have to expect BMs to believe qualified scientists rather than someone who just arrived on a board, whose qualifications we know little of, and who cannot spell. Science appears to have extended almost without limit those infected in more modern times. In the UK we were losing the gay entertainers like flies, Freddy mercury, Kenny Everett etc and in less than 10 years. All I can say is, despite so many men around here trying to justify their cavalier attitude with talk of low to zero risk, I would not go near an infected woman knowingly. And there have been a lot of deaths of women within Thailand due to Aids, but generally it is something they try to hide. My thoughts are that those women were infected during heterosexual relationships... by men. Interesting to put it here for discussion, although not many are qualified.

Sorry,used already here.

George Segal

They don't seem to see anything wrong in this do they? Even the buses from Rung Ruen do it. Many a trip to Bangkok or back has taken much longer than necessary due to this, despite them claiming it is a direct service. I can appreciate letting people off for the BTS rather than sitting there doing walking pace to Ekamai down Sukhumvit. But last trip about 35km out he came off the Expressway into traffic jams to let a Thai couple off and it added 30 minutes by the time we got back on again, then bloody well did it again a few miles further. . Then I told the conductress on the way back I wanted dropping at Rhong Poh, which is on Sukhumvit just before the Hwy 36 junction. When I got off I realized that just because of me, 60+ people had been taken on a confusing trip to Laem Chabang rather than whizzing to the end of the motorway. I use Mr T from the airport, and so far so good in many many years, although I do have to go to the car-park. I like the security of knowing I have a ride waiting. But like MM, he only has to let me down once and he loses my business. The drivers often seem familiar with Pattaya, and I too can give basic directions to my home.

I use Kodi but from my Laptop and got subtitles on it. I just searched around for instructions on the internet..... plenty of helpful advice there. Here is an example. My subtitles are on by default, and I usually turn them off. Always mostly way out of sync anyhow.

You are right, got hit for a quid access to drop a pal off at Newcastle too!

That is Manchester.... I hope someone will be along soon to tell us what LHR does.

Swings and roundabouts. Usually I find the guy easily as I am told which gate area he will be at (same one for a few years now). I always grab one of those luggage carts and he takes that off me and all I have to do is follow him in my zombie like state, worrying whether he will run off with my suitcase. Although it is a few years since I did it the taxi queue once had me stood waiting, hot and sweaty, for a good while which I certainly didn't enjoy. The driver did appear happy to get a Pattaya run, and his fixed price indeed included tolls. I also hold a grudge as once, the taxi took me a few km from the airport and tried to swap me into his mates tattier vehicle. Bloody UK requires me to find £1 coins to get a cart, bastards! Do the idiots think people flying in from all corners have them handy!

I expect it will still be high enough even if they do remove those floors!