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When modern cars crash, they are often write-offs because nowadays they are made of plastic and the thinnest of metal. I continue to drive my 25-year-old Isuzu pick-up truck because back when it was made, they were made with thick and heavy metal. I can use a pinky finger to lift the bonnet of a modern vehicle, but you need strength to lift the bonnet of an old pick-up truck.

I should have gone to the provincial Immigration Office today, but yet again, the extension of my Marriage Visa has not yet been approved by the given date, which is a month after the application. This delay has started to happen more often in recent years. I don't think that Immigration in Bangkok can manage to check and approve the piles of visa renewal documents of hundreds of thousands of foreigners that are sent to them by the provincial Immigration Offices every day. There are just too many foreigners living in Thailand now. It might take another generation or two before this happens, still, it is time for a daring Immigration employee to suggest to the Big Bosses that provincial Immigration Offices should be allowed to approve visa extensions on their own. If the employee is really daring, s/he should suggest to the Big Bosses that visa extensions could be done online, though it might take three to four generations for the Big Bosses to approve this devilishly novel and creative idea.

I'd like to commend the boyfriend for ditching her at once. Very wise! She's not wife material.

Stupid is as stupid does. Double the fine. Make him watch hours of Thai game shows and lakorns (in Thai) and he'll be on his knees begging for mercy and promising to behave perfectly.

Foreigners who do this sort of thing obviously don't know that they will be caught eventually and then deported after jail time followed by time in a hellish airport detention centre, which can be limitless if they cannot get someone to buy an air ticket for them.

It's the prisons and airport Immigration Detention Centres that need upgrading from the (19)th century to the 21st century. Police stations nationwide are limited by money and space to implement change. If the laws about drug possession were changed, I expect prison cells could be emptied by one-quarter to half.

Having 28 cats there is a simple way to know if the world is flat or not.

I have never had a problem with Lazada sellers. I wouldn't buy a laptop or printer from China via Laada though because I don't trust the quality of Chinese goods or the integrity of China-based suppliers.

You can buy for around 800 Baht devices to measure your blood sugar levels. You don't need to buy the kind that takes blood from you. That's old style. If your blood sugar level is too high you can buy many foods on Lazada to reduce your blood sugar to prevent you from getting diabetes. Obviously, stay away from chocolate (unless it's 80-90% cocoa), biscuits, supermarket processed "food", and kanom for a while. Your body will go back to normal and all will be well.

It is so easy to live on that amount if you don't have to pay rent and public area fees. My wife and I spend 5,000-6,000 Baht a month and don't go without. It's easy to do. We spend another 4,000-5,000 Baht on our 28 cats per month. But we live in a small village not in a city. We have a garden and grow some of our food. From January we will add three 2m x 4m raised garden beds and grow all of our vegetables and spices/herbs organically so the expenses will drop further after the investment of wood, soil, and compost (we make most of our own compost anyway). We don't eat out in restaurants as there is no need to do so. We have more clothes than we can use in 30 more years, so we don't buy any.

"Hypothetically..... all those stories of poor Thai women being so poor so they have only 1 option in life is probably a bunch lies." I agree with you. Bar girls could find another job. They are just lazy.

"The Medical Association of Surat would like to welcome all the heavy drinkers on the flight to our medical facilities to treat your livers and kidneys." 😁 Ignorance about the effects of alcohol consumption on the body is bliss, I suppose.

In my 40 years in Thailand, I have rarely interacted with foreigners here. Occasionally, I meet a foreigner at Immigration or Tesco Lotus, but that's all. Going by the online Forums there are many I would not like to meet because of their rudeness and lack of empathy towards people in distress. I did not use to encounter such behaviour in the 1980s and 1990s even on the Bangkok Post Forum, which has turned into a cesspit of undesirables. I live in a quiet village with 28 loving cats and I'm happy here.

The woman and her family will receive their karma. All that stolen money will bring them unhappiness, squabbling, debts, car accidents. Ill health, and goodness knows what else. Soon it will all have gone.

The Pattaya ladyboys will be happy. So many more gold necklaces and wallets to steal!

"Be not troubled in poverty nor confident in riches, for poverty is followed by riches, and riches are followed by poverty." Baha'u'llah Hyperinflation can make one's wealth (bread) vanish overnight.

It's a waste of billions of Baht. Also, Bangkok companies and shops will have to declare a holiday for 2 or 3 days in advance plus on the race day, so they will suffer financially.

I expect that many people jockeyed to be on the NACC committee. They know they'll be paid off handsomely and rich for the rest of their lives in exchange for voting in favour of Thaksin being innocent.

If you read the linked article, the writer is clearly an anti-GOP, Trump-hating, progressive Democrat. I'm surprised that she didn't say in the article "Trump is a Nazi."

I've lived in Thailand for 40 years and I've never used an Agent either to obtain or extend a visa. They are completely unnecessary. You can do everything yourself.

To all the unhappy posters who are being so unkind and rude to the man, you clearly haven't written a book before. I have. It involves a lot of time and effort over many months. He should be commended for setting about this task, not criticised and insulted.

Why do you want to be so rude to a stranger? How mean!!

I'm happy that they both survived. If they had gone out during the day the man would have seen where the jet ski and his wife were, and as a result, he could have swum over to her and returned on the jet ski.

It's not very nice, I know, but another solution is to kill all of the nuclear bomb scientists. As they are killed one by one, the rest will not want to be involved anymore.

Barron has to be so careful while there. If he goes into a quiet area with a female student, she might accuse him of rape in (30-40) years when she's short of money. The woman won't say anything to anyone about the "rape" until then, of course, then suddenly: "He raped me (30/40) years ago. I have no evidence, but he did it. I've suffered emotionally ever since. Sob. Sob." She'll be hoping for a huge out-of-court settlement. This pathetic behaviour seems to be common nowadays.