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My first ever: Night in Thailand B/fine Three-some All happened in Patpong! 🤩

I switched TV Channels in time to catch the England game. I was quite prepared just to watch the first half but got hooked on the result and watched to the end. A strange thing then happened today. I received a prospective sales letter from a credit card company that I would have thrown straight in the bin unopened except it had on it a real stamp. Since I have been back in the UK I am absolutely certain this is the first letter I have received with an actual stamp on the envelope. Or at least, it looks like a real stamp, except I did not instantly recognize whose picture it was? What has the stamp got to do with the England game you may ask? Eureka! It dawned finally on me that when the England team lined up I had sung along with the National Anthem: " Send her victorious, happy and glorious, Long to reign over us, God save the Queen!" The picture was Prince..............What's his name?"

I have no idea how many commercial flights I have made in my lifetime but it must number hundreds. I have paid, a relatively very few times, for basic "upgrades" such as particular seats near to exits etc but not once have I paid for (or been offered) a free upgrade out of cattle class. I must really be unlucky, as everyone seems to get upgraded from time to time ..............except me! Many times, I tried using my good looks and natural charm to bull shit the check-in lady into giving me a free upgrade. It's really cruel when they just laugh! Even my youngest daughter flew Business Class before I ever did. A 19-year-old travel Agent and they flew her business class to do a round tour of some of the best hotels in Dubai. A five-night trip and she gets a marriage proposal (politely declined) from some Arab who sent over a bucket- load of Champagne to their Hotel dinner table. Apparently, he was overcome by her blond hair! 😂

Six hours with a strong tailwind. Eight hours if the pilot is doing zigzags around the sand box to avoid Iran locking on. How many glasses of vintage bubbly can you drink for £600:00 ? Don't mind me. I am only jealous! 😘

I finally have a date for my second hip replacement operation. The Pre-op meeting is 6th August with the main operation on the 21st August. I hope I recover as quickly and completely this time as I did for the left leg. That will be in total some 4 1/2 years of my life severely affected.

You were lucky it was not the usual compulsory (for gender political correctness) batch of female TV talking heads who try, and fail, to make out they know what the f**k they are babbling on about. The role of females at football matches should be strictly limited to handing out pies and bovril's at half-time.

So am I. I will always be a Gooner, however in addition to the Arsenal I have also held season tickets at the Villa and Hearts. By coincidence the guy who sat behind me at Tynecastle also came from North London and still holds a season ticket at the Arsenal as well as Hearts. I used to go everywhere watching England live but I gave up after they let me down just once too often. To quote the famous TV commentator: "They think its all over...........It is now!" That was 60 years ago! I hope we beat Mexico but I am f***d if I can be bothered to try and stay awake on the off chance we can find some defenders from somewhere. I bet the Manager plays both Rice and Saka! Both should be recovering not making their injuries worse!

Quote: "This World Cup has for me been a wonderful return to football that's great to watch." All I can say is that you are a lucky man to have missed watching England. And Scotland!

Personally, after what seems like a lifetime of disappointment, I take little if any interest in International football. Rice will be completely f***d by the time we get knocked out. He will probably already miss the first half of next season recovering. If I was the Arsenal Manager, I would have pulled all the Arsenal players out before the tournament even started based upon physical and mental exhaustion.

Guy's, Assuming........ one was to postpone seeing and admiring anything resembling cultural/sight-seeing activities to a possible subsequent trip, where would you recommend basing oneself for, say, an initial visit? Think AC, 10 years ago. 😂

You post so many excellent photo's of Vietnam and I pick the one of the girl with great tits! 🤣 Everything there is to say about me! I have to say that without your topic I would know virtually nothing about what Vietnam is like right now. I never really ever considered going there for a visit, based entirely on "recent" history reinforced by films such as Apocalypse Now and Good Morning Vietnam. The above may seem irrational but I also vowed never, ever, would I visit Turkey based solely on watching the film Midnight Express. I never have and I never will. I just re-read your whole topic (some, I admit, for the first time) which left me with the overriding feeling that I have made a big mistake in not including a Vietnam trip. Anyway, thanks for posting and keep it going. There is nothing like photo's to bring a topic to life.

Apparently....... (What's his name, England's Jeerman Manager) was so impressed with the Scotland team slinking back on a middle-of-the-night arrival, that he has organised a similar flight for die Englander team in the likely event of us getting humped by Mexico. Getting home from Prestwick Airport at 02:00 am is a bit cruel.

Sawasdee krap (ka?). I am English but live in Scotland. It is not safe for me at the moment since Scotland's team were absolute mince in the World Cup. 😂