Lemsta69

Live in Bangkok, agent is in Soi Post, Pattaya. Hump the bus every 90 days or so from Ekkamai to Patts*, Bolt motosai to the agent's office, hand over passport and 100 baht, head to The Sportsman for a Full English, Bolt motosai to bus station, hump the bus back to Udom Suk BTS then Skytrain the rest of the way back to my shoebox in Lumphini 😂 Agent mails the passport with TM47 receipt back to me by EMS. I could mail my passport to the agent's office but the trip to Pattaya once a quarter is a nice distraction.

Was just in Jomtien, wasn't bothered by the Russians one little bit.

That's beside the point. Fact is that delays happen at any time for any number of reasons other than the simplistic one you mentioned before.

Unfortunately they want foreign passport AND one other foreign ID, eg drivers license. I don't have the latter so it took me a bit of haggling with their KYC team for them to accept a foreign photo card that is issued by the same govt department as drivers licenses. During the chat they mentioned that I could provide some 'local' ID, eg Thai DL as the 2nd form of ID but I can't recover the chat and can't remember the full details. I can't get a TDL easily so couldn't offer it. I can't get Yellow House Book or Pink ID card and am retired so could not offer a work permit, therefore I don't know if they'll accept any of those in lieu of secondary foreign ID.

You go grrrrl!

Hmm...I sent some AUD to my Thai bank account last night, still waiting for the funds.

Somebody in here mentioned Bitazza so I recently created an account. Haven't had the opportunity to use it yet though, so no "trip report".

No, it doesn't. Anyway this is off-topic and I don't want to get bent? babe? banned for bickering.

Well I spent at least three hours yesterday trying to find an easy, simple solution to the CPU temperature issue and came up short. So no, it's not anywhere near as easy as you make it out to be. Anyhoo, good luck to the OP. I hope VBox is as easy to use on Linux Mint as it is on Wondoze 😉

Can it display CPU temperature (all 4 cores) in the system tray without needing an advanced degree in computer science? Oh, and can I run NordVPN with an app instead of having to fart-ass around in the terminal? I'm thinking about taking a break from Windows again but I keep running into the same old Linux problems that I always have. Simple stuff is simple but when you want the really good stuff like Core Temp then you're S.O.L.

Nah, I reckon it was Jan!

I tried to find this 'Ban Chang' place on Google Maps but came up short. Anybody got the GPS co-ords for our Tony's Bangkok hideout?

That is not universally true. Are you sure you've ever been here?

Interesting article but it doesn't have pics. This one does but it doesn't make the slightest bit of sense to me. I thought it was an ancient bar tab at first but apparently it's a trigonometric table... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00473-2

3 months or 90 days? 😉

Yes, at 35 per cent. Best to find another country to live in for the other 180-sonething days 🤣🤣🤣

Happy for you to live under the caliphate or the reconquista but me, I'll be resisting it at all costs.

If you're happy believing that Sharia is democracy then have at it!

So you'd rather live under Islamic or Latinx or Black supremacist facism, but the white version is bad? Mmmkay...

That's a very old story, from 2015!

And exactly what is wrong with that?

Whatever dude.

That's what the high end of the market costs in the Silom area.

Yes.

So around ฿600k per month?