jacko

Apocalypse Now

Catch Me If You Can

They need a financial adviser to give them a few pointers, and whippet into shape.

Coming up Blanc

Yul Brynner

Excellent, I had a reasonable run the week before. Got a ticket fairly quick and was then waiting about 40 minutes. Nice chat with an American as I waited. As you say a shuffle and reordering of the papers by the lady, money please, here is your change, a ticket, come back tomorrow after 10. Some say get there when they open, not sure about that, there has always been many before me when I do so, and such a trial to get there so early, living on the North of Pattaya. I chose a Tuesday, as I was busy Wednesday AM, avoiding the black days of Monday and Friday. But I went to the bank first to get my letter.....that was quick too. To be honest the biggest drag was driving back there around midday in heavy lunchtime traffic on Wednesday. Then they just told me I had to wait until 1pm (in the past I had managed to pick up my passport at lunch-break). Simple Simon a good place for a snack, or a rub-n-tug in the next street! Done with for another year, a nice new retirement extension. I think you did right going before their NY break.

Yeah right, that was what my mother said as she couldn't afford Tizer!

Yeah I got stuck in a room watching a video when I renewed my 5 year licence. I was called out before it finished and felt they had put me in there to be out of the way until things were ready.

Return from Witch Mountain.

Shit, what happened there, I think something popped up .....? You're a liar, boy. You were reared by the Indians - how could you learn to drive a buggy? We shall have to beat the lying out of you

The video would not play for me, seemingly going into some repetitive loop. A simple response to the original taunt.... when and where was the first ever football club formed?

I think yours is Bull Durham. (Kevin Costner)

Rio Grande

The Dark Knight Rises. Christian Bale.? Hey you bastards, I'm still here

The Story of Mankind (24hr)

I think the only ever time for me was eons ago when I had one of those 100$ bills that were in the 'we do not accept' serial number group. I changed it in a bank and was asked for my PP. I better put my FF card in my wallet I guess.

I passed a Russian at the TT exchange last night and he was discreetly trying to count a substantial pile of 1000 baht notes. I did not see whether he had changed roubles or another currency, but you can imagine rouble carriers fairly sprinting to the exchange booth. The linked article suggests it becomes more difficult for all but the wealthiest to take money out of their home country. This cannot bode well for Pattaya which has focussed heavily on their custom. Although like MM, I would not be a sad man to see fewer huge Pegas coaches impeding traffic.

Perhaps I will spend NYE in town.... so long as there is no damned obligatory Gala Dinner!

You have to worry for them. If the booths did stop accepting their currency, many could be stranded here without funds. Many may cancel if they thought they could not exchange their money, and are they still selling USD/Euros in Moscow. The Russian rouble was not on the list for currency exchange when I was sat in the Bangkok Bank yesterday, It is on their internet list. It is still on the SCB internet page at 0.34 baht, used to be parity.

Burt Lancaster

I believe you are required to have a Non-Imm Visa to obtain a 5 year licence. Source.

When the Russians arrive in Pattaya, are they loaded up with USD, or mostly bringing their sadly declining rouble with them? They will be desperately trying to change their roubles into property surely, even at inflated relative prices. I still see what appears to be a lot of them making a home shopping in Homeworks and Homepro.

Hombre starring Paul Newman The only way you're going to see the inside of a spaceship is if you were cleaning it.

Airplane

High Noon.