Lemsta69

not if you're all thumbs like me. I've got an Intel NUC that needs the fan cleaned and there's no way I'm going to try following the internet tear-down instructions. any suggestions for a competent, reasonably priced place in Bangkok that will do it for me?

Hopefully the dead robber was one of the mongrels who killed a customer in this February 12 gold shop robbery in Tak... https://thainewsroom.com/2022/02/12/customer-shot-dead-in-tak-gold-shop-robbery/

How did this thread suddenly become about an ignorant farang instead of poor Celine? ????

In Thailand?

Not according to the app ...

Alien ID card is also known as the Pink ID card. It's mentioned in here a lot but for the life of me I can't remember how you get one ???? Yellow Book ... I asked my condo office to get one for me, even showed them a picture, but they gave me a blank Blue Book instead ???? Thai DL ... I don't drive and to be perfectly honest I cannot be bothered to go through the process to get one just for setting up the True Money Wallet. So no soup for me!

In addition to passport scan and scan of your face you'll need one of these secondary forms of ID which they ask for after you've submitted everything else...

Hey TAT, don't forget the cashed up bogans!

Cambodians aren't farang.

What should be have done, wait for them to break in then offer them a glass of cold water whilst they ransack his store? At any rate, what do the laws in your soft-on-crime country have to do with Thailand?

your country sounds like a criminal's paradise

I'm scared of them too but I don't tell anybody that because it's just way too embarrassing.

Something that, judging by the responses, most posters in here have never experienced.

Yes I know. I already responded to another fella who said the same...in short I posted a flippant response to what I assumed (and I think rightly) was an uninformed opinion. As of yet Indonesia is yet to sink into the morass of what they call locally Darul Islam. I spent a considerable amount of time in Jakarta in the late '90s and early '00s so I'm quite aware of the slow progression towards full Islamic rule. I wasn't there for the fall of Soeharto but I did have some exposure to the aftermath. At one point the FPI (Islamic Defenders Front), emboldened by their new found freedom from being disappeared, decide to smash up JJ's in Tanah Abang because of alcohol, drugs and prostitution. ie. all the good things about Jakarta. That and Diskotek Stadium ???? I was on Jalan Jaksa when a rumour went around that the FPI was coming down to smash up the place too. Luckily that didn't transpire although we were kind of hoping they'd come down so that the local mafia could sort them out. Obviously that was a long time ago but that was when, imho, the rot set. The thin end of the wedge as you said.

Yes, I understand all of that and thanks for a concise summation of the current state of affairs. I gave a flippant answer to what I assumed was an uninformed comment. The creeping 'Arabasition' is of great concern. The descent into the dreaded Darul Islam seems inevitable but one still hopes for a more positive outcome.

Indonesia is NOT a "Muslim country" at all. Ever heard of Pancasila?

Where I see it being a problem for tourists or long-stay foreigners is if you're shacked up with a local and you p##s someone off. Then they go to the family and press them to make a police complaint.

Yes, but only with a certain type of girl. The nastier the better ????

Because Indonesian girls are sexy and they like sex. Well the ones I used to date were like that ????

Why were you shocked? That's the reason Pattaya was invented, so you could have a sunrise beer at the beach and then stagger back to your cheap digs. Safer that way too, all the pickpockets should have skedaddled by then.

tl;dr CBDCs are bad mmm'kay?

Same here. That's why I used an agent to facilitate my 'retirement visa' and is why I break as many laws as I think I can get away with. Oh, and I keep a nice big wedge in my pocket because money talks here. 500 baht and a wai ????????????

neither have I, had to look it up. here's one of the the wee beasties. I think he's saying "See You Jimmy"

745 days is tiddlywinks.

Not to the young people who listen to all that hippity hop music. You put a clip in yo' gat and dead all them homeys. That's the G-rated version because this is a family show ????