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Snowden.......proof that stupid people do exist

AVG all the way and have used it for years.......the free version. never had a problem.

I remember the "good old days" in 1997 when condos were selling for 25 cents on the dollar if you took into account the discount you could get and the fact the exchange rate went from $1=B25 to $1=>B50 in a few hours. I still have my condo bought at 25 cents on the dollar.

I predict a repeat of this but on a smaller scale. 2% ain't a good start yet

"A lot of the 7-11s were looted"...oh, REALLY? A LOT of them? In Thailand, where there's a 7-11 on pretty much every corner (literally, sometimes they're pretty much across the street from each other)? Thailand, the country with the 3rd most 7-11s (I think that's the statistic) of any country on earth?

NO. "A lot" of them were not looted. Maybe 2-3 located right in the midst of the worst of the burning (across from Central World? I'm guessing here...)...but no. For the most part, your friend is LYING.

The looters better bring big big lunches in case they want to loot ALL 7/11 branches and a few hundred years of spare time.

I have no family that wants me or cares about me

I have no friends at all

Every day im alone...

That makes me jealous, I wish I was you. I like peace and quiet along with being by myself. ha ha

Somehow I feel this is the material for a good song or at a minimum a mediocre reality show.

Watch out Pinocchio, your nose is growing

I am launching an anti-TFRD campaign along with a E-Learning course on how to mind your own business that we will offer members of the TFRD.

If you are not married when the child is born it will be difficult to get a passport of your own country for your kid.

Your name on the birth certificate without (legal) marriage will not give you parental rights under Thai law.

Not a USA passport I can assure you, that's pretty easy. Other countries mileage may vary

Definitely not 7/11. Company policy will not hire male or female with tattoo.

I have seen 7/11 employees with tatts at least up country. Not Pro or Con myself but I have seen it.

This is not quite the same as the problem the OP has but:

Many many years ago I sent 2 kids to a what was at the time considered to be a very good multi-lingual school in a large up country town. The kids hated it pretty much, they were not learning English all that well and their Thai was marginal. After 3 years we sent them to normal Thai school, they liked it much better, learned Thai very well but lacked in English. In the end one of the kids caught up on English and while not totally fluent she is very close to it. She went to a university in Thailand with almost all subjects in English and will graduate very soon. She is planning on going to nursing school in the west and after speaking with her the entrance office says she gets extra points for entrance as she is fluent in 2 languages. I guess there are 2 lines of thought on the education process as to Thai education or outside Thailand. I believe either solution works with the right child under the right conditions.

I notice that the police are not smiling in this picture. In fact, they look quite annoyed with him.

Maybe it was a police Mia Noi he set on fire. Looks like he is "taped up" on the hands for his next bout in the prison shower when he drops his bar of soap.

Because they wouldn't suffer as much.

Thats a good reason, they should suffer. Have a read of Texas Death Row last words. Most of these guys start to say they are sorry for killing Joe & raping 87 year old Mary. It is sick. They deserve what they get.

Move out and leave the place to her, change the area you stay in, change bars you go to, change your phone number and delete her phone number for when you get weak & drunk.

It is MOVEON.ORG time mate.

Use better judgement next time for anything longer than a dirty weekend.

I really know at least 2 guys who did meet them and marry them. The real thing now. And boy are they both sorry. One in particular has literally been made a prisoner of his own home, told what to wear and when to eat along with the menu.

Both these guys are miserable.

Well at least there is some good news today. Hope this helps clear the backlog of death row inmates in all the states with the death sentence

Another candidate for the ultimate fine

If there is an event that causes a banking collapse in Thailand, it will likely be a global thing.

I trust my money in Thai banks more than I do my money in USA accounts.

For good reason in my opinion, the USA economy is wrecked with the Nanny Welfare mentality but the government will not admit it

The western economies, in several cases, are also failing if you have a look. When the baht went from 25 to over 50 in a few short days in 1997 the economy did not fail.

Cheap lesson learned, take the loss and be a better informed buyer next time you start making major purchases. Put yourself in the seller position. Buying is a two way street, the seller made what he felt was a reasonable offer. I assume you thought it was a reasonable offer or you would not put the deposit down. Stick with the deal you made or forfeit the B20K.

Your asking us farang about thai parents. Sorry, I never had thai parents however I do know this, I was not allowed to bang my wife until we were married, not with her parents knowledge anyway so it was sneaking around for us as we were getting married anyway Not all parents allow the daughters to bed farang, I guess it would depend on the parents and their lack of morals that probably rub off on the children, don't you know any girls whose parents don't allow it,lol. Sent from my iPad using Thaivisa Connect Thailand

I like the adjective "Bang".

Wonder how long it'll be before possession of marijuana is decriminalised throughout the World, as is now the case in North America & the UK ?

Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

Hopefully never

After a frantic search of the internet, and in satisfaction of completing yet another item on my bucket list, I now have the answer to pre-existing condition coverage by WalMart. The answer is in their catastrophic coverage and is found in the PDF file...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CEQQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fedoqs.com%2Fdownload%2Fd7d673928d34de1a7523d4fab4f8580d&ei=wDfWUu6eMcyXiQe5pIHYCw&usg=AFQjCNGcOBZCo5F6sKu0GQtQB8T1qbX9fw&bvm=bv.59378465,d.aGc

Sadly, it would seem WalMart does not come up to the high standards set by Obamacare, even though it is much cheaper, has a much broader doctor and hospital base and pays a number of things Obamacare doesn't cover.

Looks like another couple of million will lose their coverage next year.

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Pre-existing Condition Definition and Limitation - A pre-existing

condition means any critical illness for which you or each covered

family member has sought medical advice or treatment in the

12 months immediately before the effective date of coverage.

A pre-existing condition may exist even though a diagnosis

has not yet been made. Preventative care and maintenance

treatment are not treatment of a critical illness, even if such care

and maintenance would not have occurred but for you or each

covered family member being diagnosed previously with the

critical illness. • Some critical illness benefits indicate that they

are subject to the pre-existing condition limitation. For those

benefits, unless the benefit for the particular critical illness states

otherwise, if you or each covered family member has a critical

illness that meets the definition of pre-existing condition, as

defined above, benefits under the policy will be payable

for that critical illness only after you or each covered

family member has been symptom and treatment free

of such critical illness for any 12 consecutive months

after the effective date of their coverage. Some critical

illnesses described in this brochure indicate they are

never paid if the critical illness is diagnosed prior to the

effective date or meets the definition of pre-existing

condition as defined on this page. For those benefits,

unless the benefit for the particular critical illness states

otherwise, if you or a covered family member has a

critical illness that has been diagnosed prior to the

effective date of coverage or if the critical illness meets

the definition of pre-existing condition as defined

above, that critical illness is excluded from coverage for

you or each covered family member.

High standards and Obama. Can these 2 words be used in the same sentence?

The whole world is in a mess, not just Thailand. Look at Greece, the USA, North Korea just to mention a few. High debts, leaders with their own agenda & no real direction in governments trying to please everybody and in the end pleasing nobody has become the normal.

The Philippines have already stopped sending domestic staff abroad. Indonesia will do so in the near future. Myanmar, and other countries, such as Cambodia and Bangladesh, may fill the void temporarily

Last but not least, you will not get a housekeeper straight from Myanmar through legal channels, because the Myanmar government allows for domestic staff to be sent to only to Singapore or Hong Kong.

Nice post, but my question is more of a general one,

How can a country make a law that limits and dictates where a person goes and works? If a person can get a visa to travel and or work abroad, what does a persons Government have to do with this? I have been based in 13 countries while working mainly for multi-nationals, you re inferring that a Gov has the right to tell me where I can go in the world and what I do there or in this case citizens of these countries. In the majority of the countries I have worked in, the same employer, employed Phillipino's. Everyone of them was making over $100,000 USD after tax. I do not believe for one min that their Gov had any influence what so ever on their employment.

Can you please further explain how this works?

Yes Governments do have the legal (if not moral rights to stop you going anywhere you want or working wherever you want) In the case of USA it was always ilegal to travel to Libya and when you returned you could get charged for it in the USA,

A true mark of the Nanny Socialist state