Lemsta69

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True, except that it's not a mystical outside force that is responsible for that, it's just cause and effect. If you're clever enough you can get up to all sorts of no good and nothing will come of it.

Yes it's a very big risk and one that I reckon a lot of geezers won't be able to recover from. If it does go South then luckily "my friend" has enough readies to flee to Cambodia ????

So ALL agents do it that way? Yeah right. "My friend" just hands over his passport and ฿12,500 and Bob's your uncle. Just like not being asked for an onward ticket at BNE, your experience is not universal.

You don't use an agent so how would you know what they do?

If you go down this route then you need to be aware of the implications of what you're doing. If you don't understand the nuances then maybe it's not for you, or maybe you need to read some of the dozens of old threads on this subject. As @DrJack54said, sounds like TVC. They usually send your passport upcountry for the stamps so that should give you a little insight in to how it all works. PS. I'm not against the use of agents so don't lump me in with the resident morality police ???? PPS. Could using Wise to transfer the ฿800k get around the need to return to the USA to initiate the funds transfer?

Don't forget that the OP has spent the last little while driving around the kingdom visiting all the one horse towns and eating 50 baht slop and pronouncing it as good, or better than Nobu. Oh, and avoiding farang like the plague. But he secretly wants to be loved by his fellow whiteys so now he is overcompensating by spamming us with his "interesting" and "too derp for you" inane topics ????

So it's nothing to do with bacteria, you just want to show us all how superior you are because you cook your own food. Thanks for the virtue signaling.

Throwaway. As in posting simplistic advice and then not backing it up when challenged/letting someone else do the hard yakka.

Grab priority delivery. GPS tracking. I use it here in Bangkok at least once a day, never had a problem yet. The only times I've had issues is when I put too much chili powder on my pizza (guts aren't coping like they used to). You think too much.

I know you didn't say that, it was the person I originally responded to. For some reason you jumped in and decided that I'm pro-minivan when all I was doing was asking the fella to justify his position. I was responding to a throwaway line with a throwaway line, Shirley you're clever enough to have figured that out?

Thailand is notoriously lax about visas. There, I fixed it for you ????

Nope, just asking a question. Motorway crashes are big news so is expect that if they were happening every day then we'd hear about it via the various channels. At any rate, you seem to have missed my original point. It is insufficient to say "minivan bad, big bus good". Provide at least some background to that assertion, not everyone is dialled in on this stuff.

Yerr I know but thanks for including the details, unlike the person I originally replied to ????

Must be a very strange village if they use English pounds as their currency. Is that even legal? ????

No I don't look down on Thai people - at least not the man in the street - I'm not insecure and simply do not care what they think about me or any other foreigner.

OP ain't from the UK as far I know. Singapore I think.

another tired old argument.

You're living in the past old pops. You also seem to be living in a fantasy land where everybody drives a car or rides a motorcycle. If I want, say a pizza or two whilst I watch a movie then why would I hump the BTS then walk for 15 minutes in the sauna that is Bangkok, pick up my pizza then head home via the same route? Pizza will be cold by then and I'll be all hot and bothered. Waste of time and money when all I have to do is fire up Grab, choose priority delivery and the nice, polite delivery man or lady will get it to me piping hot (most of the time) and without all the mess and fuss. Also, calling the delivery guys grubby, well that's just sad man. They're just normal people trying to eke out a living. You're taking food off their table by not using them, or worse not leaving a tip.

A tired, boring old argument. people are free to choose whatever method they do desire to stay in the kingdom, ain't nobody's business but their own.

To give nok noi a little ego boost. He hates farang but seems to care deeply about their opinions on various trivial subjects, hence his prolific posting.

They're probably starfish but little Goaty will never find out because he's invisible to them.

I very much doubt that you're getting high standard for free. Real high class women wouldn't look twice at you, let alone get suckered into driving lessons so you can sleaze on to them.

If Pattaya to Bangkok minivans are so dangerous why do we not see daily reports of the mounting death toll?

Providing factual information is not pedantry.