Lemondropkid

1 hour ago, Glasseye said:

Grab can be a real mess at times. But it has all my info. so I have been hesitant to start using Bolt up here in CM.  I may start considering using Bolt more often to see how that goes.

I know guys who much prefer Grab. I've had 2 poor experiences using them in BKK, so am reluctant to use them.

Have probably just been unlucky but Grabs drop off search doesn't work as well as Bolt's. That's the clincher for me, the single most important function in the app.

One thing aside though, many drivers use both. You can see them flicking between apps, not when their busy sending Line messages though 😔

At the moment I use Bolt, Grab, K Bank and Lazada. Occasionally look at the AIS app but that's really flaky.

Find Bolt easiest to use of my ride hailing apps. Nice clean functionally and a search that works. I regularly enter a venue on Bolt, that Grab couldn't find.

I too have had issues with Lazada figuring out things that should be simple. Found the app worked better than the website.

Aside from Bolt all the above suffer from a really poor user interface. They are cluttered with functionally, that I doubt 99 percent of users will even touch.

Useful topic.

I also like the idea of calling the Force, the Force😜

24 minutes ago, Horizondave said:

Yes, when I look on my HDPrime streaming app, I don't look on the Sports section anymore for Spurs, their games are now always in the comedy section on Sky lol

...Pot...Kettle...Black.

15 minutes ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

When "normal" people sell him after the FA Cup games he will drop in price even further next week I think ...

I was surprised by your post, but the 2 greatest Fantasy League plotters have just made the same move.🤔 Do player values change that often?

I guess either could get injured on international duty?

I'm lost, but then I'm convinced the Head to Head table is upside down!!

9 hours ago, boydeste said:

Probably Spurs playing.

 

 

 

 

Ouch! 

We are one of the most , if not the most entertaining teams in the  league, an outrageous statement !!!

4 minutes ago, Blue Streak said:

Danny's Sport Bar on Soi Buakhao where the old K Bank used to be.....

Not one customer watching a TV😀

7 minutes ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

 

 With a Grolsch flip top !!!

Can't beat it!! Made that satisfying popping sound on cracking it open😀

Spiced Weizen Bock beer, made by a German master brewer in Phnom Penh.

Just picked my laundry from a little family run place in Phnom Pehn. Dropped it off in a large red Tops cloth shopping bag.

It's of little value but useful for the dirty clothes and carrying laundry on trips. The lady owner said not to worry she'd return the bag with laundry.

So in I go, there's my washing all wrapped in plastic but no carrier bag. I did a bag mime and she looked in a draw, but didn't have one.

She then points and the washing and sure enough  I can see a little bit of red buried in the centre of my washing. 

There sellotaped and stapled in, wrapped in plastic is the bag I wanted to carry to carry the washing home in🤤😀

I saw security at a Steve Earle concert stopping a fan taking a picture, it played out very differently to Chappelle.

He told them very politely to leave the fan to take her picture. Said it was he fans show, they'd paid for it and he was fine with them taking pictures. He then apologized to security for himself and his team if they hadn't communicated things properly.

I think Chappelle's gone way over the top. He's f*****d off 6,999 punters because of one idiot.

Christy Moore's( Krapow's post above)handled it much better. Noisy people talking loudly through a concert in a theatre should get kicked out, as they are ruining the concert from everyone in earshot. 

But don't punish the real fans who've done nothing wrong.

Latte almost too good looking to drink.

Was just about to order, till I realised @Nightcrawler was in the kitchen 😝

7 hours ago, Butch said:

I'm inspired to throw this topic up as after reading @Lemondropkid 'srecent experiences whereby an Indian guy approached him, I thought it might be an idea to put up any experiences we've had or even advice on how not to get scammed either leaving or being inside the Airport, as they are ripe areas for pickpockets and scammers. All credit for this Topic goes to him! 🙂

I've got a few anecdotal experiences to share. Bombay airport exit area is full of guys looking for new arrivals to scam. Basically they offer to help, get hold of your trolley and won't let you push it, so they then expect a tip or direct you to a friend who has a taxi. Same applies going in, guys will say they're free airport service, grab your trolley and expect a tip for pushing it 20 yards.

Manila airport also has helpers, (NAIA), but these guys actually do help. If the Queue outside the terminal is long, for the rough amount of 300php (£5 or so) depending on the amount of cases you have , they will bypass the queues, put your luggage through the scanner and get you to the other side. Not a scam, more of a premium service option.

Careful in the smaller Airports of the PI though, one trick is for someone to get close to your luggage and hide a bullet in it (live). It gets picked up by the scanner, where the Policeman is part of the scam, and a "settlement" is asked for.

I've been approached twice , once in Singapore (Changi) back in the 90's picking up my luggage. A young guy asked me if I could help him put his case on top of mine on my trolley as he had hurt his back and couldn't push one. I told him that there's plenty of Policemen and security to help him through customs, but I'm not one of them. Second time was at Kuala Lumpur, again in the 90's, a Russian guy asked me if I wanted to change his leftover Ringgits for USD at what was a really favourable price. I just ignored him. notes were probably fake.

My strangest experience was being pulled in for a search at LHR in '91. Guy said he was from the Airline and flashed a HMRC badge!, took me into a room with 2 coppers and asked me to empty my luggage. Nothing was said when I offered all my ID. I knew he was lying so gave him a bit of an attitude, doing my "resisting interrogation" routine but with extra added cuntishness, I started asking awkward questions, making life difficult and generally giving him a headache, making disparaging comments about how the collective IQ of the MET was less than the average farmyard etc etc. After the search, I got no explanation, no apology as I was clean, and just told to f**k off. Still to this day I've no idea why I was pulled in.

Had 2 weird airport experiences yesterday, the second one more worrying.

I had my boarding pass for Bangkok Airways on my phone.

At the bag drop I was given card one didn't even look at it. Went down the gate and for the first time I can recall at BKK airport there was no passport check before you entered the gate.

As I was getting up to board I noticed my seat number had changed from 20C to 24D. Didn't think too much of it, odd but maybe they had a large group to sit together.

I'm then sat on the plane, and there a passenger announcement of my name!

Identify myself and a security lady appears, and ask for my boarding pass. She looks it at it, and then asks me why am I carrying another passagers boarding pass!!!

I looked at it, the surname was mine but a different first and forename, I was stunned 😯

She wasn't happy, luckily I had my phone, and was able to show my "real" boarding pass.

However she was then grilling me on my baggage tag, that also wasn't in my name!!

After a couple of minutes of the walkie talkie, she nodded and walked off. Didn't tell me things were ok, I was just relieved I wasn't hauled off the flight.

Luckily on landing there was no boarding pass check, or I'd have been screwed with immigration.

Thankfully my bag was there on the carousel.

I took photos later of the real, and wrong boarding pass. I privately shared them with a fellow BM, in a did that really just happen moment.

To top the day I then got a taxi to the wrong hotel.

Somehow I never suspected that since I was last in PP, my hotel had opened a second branch.

Can't make it up😛

4 hours ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

My first thought was that he was going to enquire your flight details and ask if you could check in a suitcase for him as he had excess baggage. Perhaps all his baggage was elsewhere with his family ..

It has happened to me multiple times over the years at different airports ..

 

Fair point, and I can understand in a different scenario I might have been more amenable.

But he was a conman.

He'd made a semi effort putting a shirt and trousers aside from the red flags I'd mentioned above, his shoes were absolutely filthy.

Mud caked around them.

About my only lucid moment of the day mind you. Dropped my guard after that and did multiple daft things!!

20 minutes ago, Glasseye said:

Almost every day I am reminded that making the decision to move here was the right thing to do. I will do some really stupid things from time to time, but relocating to here is not one of them.

Brilliant, you can't wish for any better. I'm starting to feel the same way. Enjoying life in Thailand 😁

Just discovered there are two Sun & Moon hotels in Phnom Penh?!

Sun & Moon Urban, and Sun & Moon riverside.

The former is in an area known as the Riverside!!!

I selected the wrong one, now the Passap driver is cheerfully taking me to the correct one!

The fare is the dreaded up to you!! 

Have checked the correct fare, will give him a decent tip, nice lad and good to be back in Cambodia.

2 hours ago, boydeste said:

Enjoying a coffee in a new place to me recommended by @Lemondropkid

Very friendly staff and very nice coffee. 

There goes the neighborhood 😁

2 hours ago, boydeste said:

Did you have that alluring after shave on again? 😊

I was smartly dressed, most of the other customers were more back Packers.

Sachin I'd say had me  down as the mark most likely to have a few baht

2 hours ago, Glasseye said:

 

That is an interesting scenario. I say this because I am thinking how I might respond with a similar circumstance.

Many of those folks travelling are completely out of their element. In otherwords frightened about something, or even feel it as abnormal to eat alone.

If I was in a position where I had time I might actually of said yes. More for purpose of self entertainment to see what was going through his head. 

I almost always eat alone. Never give it a second thought. Some people come close to having a nervous fcuking breakdown without being able to eat with others. Partly cultural, partly habit, and maybe partly pure stupidity. 

Sometimes people just want to "pick your brain" because they are too ignorant to figure things out for themsleves. I used to hate being "used" for questions to answers that were right in front of their noses. A legit question, I would bend over backwards to help someone. When they are just being lazy they can fcuk off.

This was the basement of the airport, near the metro station for airport.

He had no luggage, not even a small rusack. Unlike every other customer around me who had luggage.

Long odds on it was a sob story with a request for money at the end of it.

Occam's razor.

Just passed through Swampy departures at 11.30AM

Zero queue at Bangkok Airways, but some of the other lines I walked by were long and chaotic, Vietjet notably.

Only 10 people in front of me at immigration. Queue moved at glacial speed, possibly caused by the finger print scanner.

I'd hate to leave on a really busy day. Clearing immigration to exit the country would take forever.

Automated gates were there but only for Thais, people were passing through them in seconds.

Having a coffee in Swampy basement.

Indian chap comes up to my table, asks if I speak English and then wether he could sit with me.

There were 4 empty tables next to me.

I declined his offer, he span back around walked off.

At least he didn't try to sell me a "vatch" or want to read my fortune 😛

Really sorry to hear this news Gal. 

Rest in peace Jan.

46 minutes ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

Let's hope Palmer grabs 9 points to drag @Lemondropkid over the line into the 1,000 club .. with everybody else soon to follow next game week !!!

Thanks for the thought. Have backed Wolves, draw no bet so am happy to wait a week😁