Britboy

Good work Phil, you got some great plugs in there mate.

I'm in Binlid - my team name is Boolean Bombers. Took me a couple of hours to get the team down to £100m, bloody hard. My initial squad of 15 was £30m over . . . 😩

I'll have a go mate, not done it before. Bit late here, will register over the weekend. But only if there's some Ipswich players I can pick (not) . . . 😩

There's only 9 left Phil . . . . Is someone having a pool party? 😉

Interesting . . . UK mentioned. No doubt will still have to do the quarantine, but looks like a step forward . . https://pattayaone.news/thai-airways-ready-to-carry-foreign-tourists/?fbclid=IwAR32NWby3D1G7m6peiz4eQGLmL8H4HtI130WR04h-4nPfTVK1brfwHYVQNM

Can't see Thailand opening up to travellers from India any time soon. India is getting around 1,000 deaths per day but more worryingly 60,000-70,000 new infections every day.

Could well be . . . . that must be really, really old one with that many platters for 200 mb . . . 😉

That's the old 300 mb - can tell by the number of platters. Here's the 80 mb drive itself with some packs on the top . .

It's fun to reminisce Grayray . . . Promise not to bore you any more with technical shit . . . . 😉

While the modern day languages are more powerful, it's a shitload easier to write code these days. I can remember writing Assembler that had to perform some pretty complex functions with only 8k, sometimes 16k of memory to handle it. And don't get me going on the restriction of a maximum of 6 character filenames. As for disk space, that was at a premium too, both for programming and physically moving them. I can remember the time when it was a real struggle to carry an 80mb disc drive. The disc packs were ok, but the drives themselves weighed a ton . . 😩

Back in the day it was all Assembler for me. Wrote shed-loads of it (and corrected just as much from my dummy colleagues . . 😉). Used to love working in hexadecimal . . .

Tommy, I just sent 2,000 baht to [email protected]. Can you please confirm receipt?

WTF has happened to our country (UK)? It's gone PC mad nowadays. Really pisses me off that "they're" wiping out our history. It is what it is, or more correctly, it is what it was. Sure, things change and thinking changes. But that doesn't detract from what things were, just 20 or 30 years ago. On another thread I put up a couple of clips of a British Sitcom from the 70's/early 80's. There's even a few lines in that which on hearing there's no way they could broadcast nowadays. It was a bit of fun in a sitcom FFS.

I'd like to donate some funds to help, though as @Bazle has said it's costly to send money to Thailand from UK, or any other country outside of Thailand, then transfer it back out again. A bank account would probably work better and no doubt prove more cost effective. I'd be happy to assist by using one of my bank accounts if it would help.

Yep, that's very similar to what we were given, though each vaccination had it's own sheet. They were made so that when folded they'd fit into the British Passport as it was then, folded in half, all held in with an elastic band. I definitely have all my old passports in a cardboard box somewhere, but do recall throwing away all the vaccination certificates.

Yes, it did. I joined a company in Redhill, Surrey, in 1977 and travelled consistently all over the world for the next 8 years. It was a prerequisite that all our jabs had to be up to date as we would sometimes travel at a moment's notice. Gatwick airport was only a short drive away and they used to have an inoculation centre up on the top floor (only 1 terminal at Gatwick then). Some jabs would last 10 years (Yellow Fever being one and f**k did that one hurt) but at that time Cholera was one that needed 6 month top-ups. We were regular visitors and the centre gave us a certified certificate for each jab that were held in our passports with an elastic band. It got quite thick, as to ensure countries we visited could see we were current, we'd sometimes have to show the original jab and all the top-ups, to prove everything was up to date. I can remember I had a set of jabs in May 1978 on a Friday, the next day being FA Cup final day and my team (Ipswich) were in it. What the doc didn't tell me was that for one of the jabs I must abstain from alcohol for 48 hours. I had two pints on the coach on the way to Wembley and felt utter shite. I just couldn't eat or drink anything and was as white as a sheet and nauseous all day. Couldn't even celebrate with all my mates after we won.

Probably, cos our defence is shite . . .

Isn't that Harry's lighter and younger brother?

Ok, thanks. I hadn't considered Phi Phi and Krabi as down south, was thinking more of the mainland. Not been to either, but the restaurant waitress (now working in a Pharmacy) is going to come with me for a few days in Krabi when I get back. Furthest south I've been is Hua Hin . . .

So where's the best place to go find them Code? Isn't it dangerous "down south"?

This is really sad news. 2020 has been an utterly shit year all round. I hadn't met Phil, only via this board and a few PM's. Came across as a top bloke and the messages here show that. He'll be in a better place now and pain free. God bless him and God bless his wife and son.

The protests are obviously building up and I expect them to escalate. I remember when I left Thailand when the red/yellow shirts was at it's peak. It was the night they shut the airport, I was one of the last to get in and only because the cabbie knew a back way to the rear of the terminal. Protests, etc. could actually work the other way though - the PM will want to deflect attention away from them, allowing tourism in might be one way of helping that.

Good for you Phil. Hope you get loads in for it mate.

Maybe a bit more than a glimmer of hope . . . I'm sure Pattaya won't accept this just happening in Phuket . . . https://pattayaone.news/thailand-to-allow-long-stay-tourists-in-island-of-phuket-from-october/?fbclid=IwAR08V3gzYgBNie4OK9rj50QjsiHRR8XyE2hYerqiXPRXIodLAgrAqbhlcjI

That's correct, as things stand at the moment. Interesting thought as to whether I can renew the visa in UK, even if I can't travel back there yet. Though as mentioned, technically I don't have a permanent address in Thailand, which you need for a retirement visa. I'm sure I could "manufacture" one though. Any BM in Thailand want a temporary room mate? 😉