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Those U S citizens should note that Social Security is exempt from taxation under the Double Tax agreement it is listed as such. I'm not sure about VA `Disability as its not listed and not taxed in the US. It's an award from the US for disabled vets.

It isn't a hard process. Print out forms. (DS-82) Get photos done. Go to the gov pay on line (www.pay.gov) and pay your 130 dollars.( use a credit card) Print out the you paid email sent to you.Go to Bangkok Bank get a cashiers type check for 100 baht Put forms, email you paid, check for 100 baht, photos, and your old passport in a envelope. Go to post office and mail it to the Address given I think it's Telegraph road but it's on the page of the embassy somewhere. I did it last year for me and this year for my wife. They say up to 6 weeks or more. Mine was 2 weeks my wife's over three weeks

I utilize a little knead system. I like seeded bread, but on the no knead method sometimes it get a little thick distribution. Basically 4  cups white flour 2 teaspoons salt 1/2 to 1 cup whole wheat, and 1/4 cup of mixed white and black sesame seeds and 2 cups water.  I put a 1/4 teaspoon of saf instant yeast in the flour and dissolve 1 teaspoon yeast in the water. I want a wet dough. flour up a surface and knead it together  for a couple of minutes if you think it's too wet add a little more flour. throw into bowl cover for 8 hours. Lightly butter or oil your baking pan sheet. cover the middle of the pan with black sesame seeds and place the dough on top of pan. Sprinkle white sesame seeds on the top pat lightly and cover for and hour and a half . Uncover, slice the top and put into oven. Turn the pan 180 degrees halfway through bake. With the whole wheat and seeds and the slightly shorter proof time you'll not get the large holes in the bread that you get without them. A too wet dough will make a shorter wider loaf but preferable to a too dry loaf. There is a happy medium

Glaciers have been melting since the last ice age. They'll continue to melt but at an increasing rate. Ever watch an ice cube on the hot pavement? At first it melts a little and it's fairly slow for the first 20% or so mass loss, but the melting curve goes up with the loss of mass till it's really quick at the end even without  a change in ambient temperature. Now if the temperature goes don't quickly the rate will slow or if it gets to freezing it'll add to it's mass by the melt joining it again although it won't gain upward mass as it'll just be a fringe around the bottom. Temperatures have been changing on the planet for billions of years and the cycles won't stop with governments robbing our pockets for their own use. Now if you wanna talk about trash and what it's doing, I'm behind ya but man caused global warming, naw

I cannot understand a noise being made about a satellite photo. You can get almost the same images from google earth. Come on Iran has a missile program and has uttered threats against the US and the west. It'd be moronic to think a satellite isn't stationed above the area. Russia has them around the world China, Israel etc have them. All the communication sats put into orbit aren't for telephone use only. Optics have improved tremendously. Just another jab at Trump when most folks with two or more working brain cells have this already figured out

On ‎7‎/‎30‎/‎2019 at 10:04 PM, my friend I said:

Go thru the Khlong Yai crossing in Trat. Expect to pay some services charges on the Cambodian side. The road in Cambodia runs down to Koh Kong town. You will get to a four way crossing with a structure in the middle of the road after about 10 minutes. You turn left here for Koh Kong town but if you go straight you will get to some uncrowded beaches, one has a restaurant and very basic accommodation. Maybe better to stay in town.

 

Thais get a 4 week visa. Son needs a passport.

Ty for info. Grandson is Thai

We're thinking of going to Cambodia for a vacation when grandson is outta school in the spring. We'd like to drive our Thai car there and back, and we'd want to bring our two dogs there and back. Vet certificates to and fro I guess would be necessary if we could bring them. My grandson and wife are Thai (although she also has an American citizenship) Does grandson son need a passport? he'd be 11 then. Where would be the best crossing points in the south as we'd wanna go stay at a beach, to stay away from the smog. And of course a good b uncrowded beach area. thanks

Ty all for replys

21 hours ago, elektrified said:

Every Thai market has a vendor that sells old newspapers by the kg. The last time I bought some was at Talaat Thanin. I had to ask around but was eventually led to an out of the way, cluttered shopfront with newspapers stacked to the ceiling. I'm fairly certain I bought them at Talaat San Pakoy as well.

On ‎7‎/‎14‎/‎2019 at 5:17 PM, eyecatcher said:

I assume you want to use the newspapers as a weed suppressant, and not give the worms something the read.

they work well and will break down naturally....heres the but...

However I dont advise using sawdust in conjuction with the paper, as it will get wet and claggy and start to introduce termites.

 

A tip to get rid of weeds

Give them a weed kill spray then lay new turf over the top. Healthy grass will not tolerate weeds.

I should have asked the egg store where they get their paper ty for the market idea.                      As for the newspaper I do wanna suppress the weeds and the saw dust will keep it in place and with a gazillion termites after every heavy rain won't bother me or the saw dust and I'll will add more sawdust for the next year. I'm after a great growth area with improved soil. The saw dust and the composted surface under the newspaper with a dusting of chicken poop I think will do the job by the next rainy season with so much of it breaking down. I use no chemicals and I'm bored with slow regeneration

Got a good sized garden plot I wanna cover with news papers and sawdust and seek to find a place that sells old newspapers. Additionally I seek a place to purchase painting supplies for our household Picasso, our grandson. I gave him an easel and a boxed set of paints and brushes. Now I need something for him to practice on other than the walls and our dogs. Thank you

4 hours ago, mikebell said:

Can/do the Thai police track every one's phone? If so, why the need for TM 30s?

Maybe cause unlike most folks I haven't caught the carry a cell phone with me everywhere disease that most people have. Clean living and a good diet I guess. It normally can be found in my car dusty and uncharged. Only when I make my monthly sojourn into the various attractions of big city living does my wife charge it (if she remembers) in case I find something at Yok, Big C Makro, Jira Honey and other emporiums that cater to our needs. If my wife is with me what use would I have carrying a cell phone as she is the only I call 99 % of the time

there might be restrictions, call the embassy for correct info

On ‎6‎/‎29‎/‎2019 at 3:16 PM, CLW said:

Because the cannabis extract what is now available is dangerous homemade crap.
They use pesticide laced brick weed from Laos and no proper extraction method with non-food ethanol, methanol or even naphta.
No label or information about the strength on it.
I would never trust it or buy this $hit.

From what I've read the Thai government has set up a system of locals that grow organic cannabis that under goes testing to insure purity. They originally thought they could use pot that had been seized by the police, but that prove to be the stuff you described, full of chemicals. The government wants to get in at the bottom of the market with a purity approved product for export and has no need or desire to destroy a potential market.

On 9/17/2018 at 9:48 AM, SoilSpoil said:

Or the biggest polluter per capita, the US.

Check the stats. The US has continuously lowered it's pollutants for many years. How many other countries can say the same. I looked at this page www.ourworldindata.org/air-pollution and despite it's somewhat bias report, what it really shows at the botton graphs and data it's particulate matter which is the big killer. The impression they want you to take from above it's the US as the big bad guy but I submit it isn't so much CO2 gases killing folks it's common dust and particulates in smoke which are the problem, not so much the west who are siupposed to be the culprits. What this really is about is shaking down the west in particular the US for a wealth transfer to other countries. That's what a UN official said about it's use of environmental issues to destroy capitalism.

I think if your 75 or disabled you might be able to get your needed visa stuff done on the second floor. But I'm not disabled or 75 yet so I've not tried.

I didn't see Kongyot playing on the team in the Montreux tourney and Thailand looked really over matched there after doing so well the year before. But a big Congrats for beating Brazil.

My wife and grandson are going to the pool tomorrow, I imagine they'll get wet. I'm staying home with my dogs and we'll wait till grandson to come home and have at it. 15 minutes later we'll stop and I'll go back to a good book. Songkran's not a problem when the closet people to you are 1/2 a kilometer away.

39 minutes ago, globin said:

And we all thought time travel was impossible.  How far back will this government take us?

If you were going backwards in time, the bras wouldn't be worn. I'm not sure of the exact time maybe the 1920-30s a law was enacted that women had to have their tops covered in public. Until that time it was optional.

I don't know if Marcus Charles is on Thaivisa, but he just installed a system. You can find him on facebook. Chiang Mai home grown; home building; self sufficiency; survival. I'm putting one in but you'd be better off with him as I'm just winging it, but as an old pool man I've an idea on how to distribute water. And while mine will be a bit of trial and error, it'll work, eventually.

Any outlet around a swimming pool should be on a ground fault breaker or gfi

On 12/29/2016 at 8:41 AM, CharlieK said:

LG are good

We've a large capacity LG with no problems in it's operation although to me I rather it play a different tune when it through with it's cycle

There is a section of Hollywood Blvd called Thaitown. I believe it's in between 5400 -5800 blocks. Several Thai restaurants with good food. There has to be other good Thai restaurants in LA though I never encountered them

On 12/22/2016 at 10:37 PM, AlQaholic said:

I am a little bit confused, If you are a farmer, by definition you would have a "farm". The definition of a farm in my mind is a plot of land where the farmer can cultivate the land and produce farm products.

 

Soooooo where did these "landless" farmers come from? If you gamble away your land or loose your land in some other way for example to the Creditors or sell your land, then you are not a farmer anymore.

 

Can I just raise my hand and say "I'm a landless farmer!"?

There are many landless farmers. My wife has owned, for longer than I've known her, rice paddies which she rents out to be farmed yearly. She gives the money to her mom. They cannot grow a second rice crop as a nitrogen fixer must be planted between crops. Other than that she has little say what they do. But in the true sense of the word they are landless farmers. In the US they'd be called share croppers