Lemsta69

Your opinions are boring. Constant sniping at the Thais is tiresome and achieves Sweet Fanny Adams.

It does, however the OP wants an 87 not a 47! ????

I live just down the road from Centralworld, this be great for me if it gets off the ground as it were. Bye bye Ekkamai! I don't think I'm their target market though as I have no intention of spending one single cent at either Central mall ????

we've already done that dance. they dumb it down because it's easier to explain. what they put on their website, assuming it's not ten years out of if date, is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the whole visa/extension knowledge base.

Correct, because there is no such thing as a Retirement Visa.

Except it's not as simple as that, as @DrJack54has explained above. If someone says "my retirement visa is expiring on 3rd June what do I do" then you need to know the exact details of their situation in order to give the correct advice. Make the wrong assumptions and you could end up hurting rather than helping. It takes a while to learn this stuff and you have to put in a fair degree of effort, not just snipe from the sidelines.

They dumb it down for the hoi polloi and for themselves probably. Easier to outsource the technicalities to volunteers on websites like this.

Possibly a mask issue? Thankfully I haven't encountered that yet in my little Bangkok bubble.

Branches can do what they want, even opening accounts for people on Tourist Visas with just a passport if you believe the claim made by a very special poster ???? Th. Surawong branch wants a letter from my Embassy confirming the reason why I need the account. Aussie Embassy will laugh in my face if I ask for that. Ergo, no new account for me so I'll have to go branch hopping to find a more lenient branch, or part an agent an extortionate fee. There was another onerous requirement but I'd switched off by then. I'll go in on Monday if I'm not too hungover and ask for a copy ????

What's so odd about it? There's been a tightening of the AML rules recently so it wouldn't surprise me that an individual branch has added this extra requirement. You know that each branch can set their own rules, right? It says on the BBL website now that one should contact the local branch. That list of requirements for opening an FCD account that you keep referring to is most definitely not in force at the Surawong Rd branch of BBL as of a month ago. I didn't take a copy of their new, more onerous requirements but I'm happy to go back and get one and upload a photo. The staff member that I spoke to apologised for the even more burdensome requirements and mentioned it was because of "these times", presumably referring to the fallout from the Chinese mafia business of late. IIRC that list didn't include a home country drivers license but again it wouldn't surprise me that another branch is requesting this; I was asked for the same by Zipmex when I was going through their KYC process. I don't understand why but maybe they think it's less likely for a person to have both a forged passport AND a forged drivers license from the passport country.

dive bars on Patpong I & II. It's only a few stops away on the BTS or MRT ????

This is what Google Lens translates that warning as:

Ser, I have an active internet connection. Your website is not configured correctly, it only works if I take the shields down.

I had a buddy who many moons ago told me he was going on a visa run to Mae Sai. I said "you mean a border run don't you, there's no nearby consulate". He got very angry and I thought he was going to hit me ????

Ho hum.

These kids today! ????

Not very sophisticated are you young man?

Depends on which crowd you fell in with. I was taught the terminology that @bigt3116describes, back in the late '90s.

the sky is falling in! ????

Tastes good but.

Yep. Washed down with some delicious grape Flavor Aid.

I was dragged to an Elvi show in Jomtien at Xmas, never again. A drag show would have been more entertaining. "At first I was afraid, I was petrified" ????

Meh. I struggle with the heat even though I've been here now for 18 months as a retiree. When it all gets a bit too much I'll seek refuge in the nearest aircon venue before sucking up the big ones and heading back out into the sauna. No shortage of A/C venues in Bangers and Patts so it's all good.

Thanks for the tip. I only ever saw them before in Thai-oriented places so what you say makes sense. I fell in love with a Heineken girl in Chumpon many moons ago but didn't have a chance to talk with her before we skipped town. The quiet pub suddenly got busy once the band showed up and she was rushed off her feet. Then next day it was closed ????

What's the first rule of Fight Club? ????