freedomnow

How dare they post my bedroom on social media.

Are you saying they are changing the foreigner visas AGAIN ?

Haha, never seen a country tinker with these rules so much in my life.

Well thought-out stable rules are what is needed - not this endless flip-flop.

Thankfully such a rare thing in LoS along with beggars tailing you relentlessly...or hawkers...bag snatches by scooter guys etc....in Viet Nam

Thought pricey electronic audio gear would get stolen in post coming to LoS international in-bound...NEVER in my case anyway...wow !

You could not make this stuff up its better than a Christmas cliff-hanger of Eastenders.

Is Dot Cotton going to call an ambulance for Nick Cotton...hahaha !

Better off the streets with the mix of meth, a gun and impulsive youngsters in the mix..crazy stuff.

15 hours ago, Jiggo said:

Another one  hope you get locked up..

I hope you don't suffer from sarcasm blindness mate.

Better get vaxed.

" I'm sorry for having fun. "

8 minutes ago, Bim Smith said:

He is sneaking in to Chang Mai by bus from Laos. He ain't coming. The deal is off

That is how I usually came in due to 10 years straight on tourist visas.

5 minutes ago, Jiggo said:

we had a guy running around the Condo naked the other night, heard this is a common occurrence with this drug.

Yes, everytime I smoked it I felt to run around naked.

YOU ARE WELL INFORMED.

8 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Lost a few thousand baht, not closed.

Literalisms.....it's a film name..........

The inventive spark of cannabis use shining again...though it always seems to circle round to a megapipe tunnel device invention.

Aka...."Duuuuuuuuuuude, lets make an ULTRAbong."

1 hour ago, transam said:

Last time I went was on a Monday, I couldn't change it, the queue was out of the consulate yard, up the street and back, I stood in the sun for I think 2.5 hours, if Mrs. T didn't bring an umbrella, I would have been in trouble...????

Tha tan would have gone well with your long neck length hair...

18 hours ago, sikishrory said:

Riding past a 7/11 yesterday a man sitting out the font rubbing a live turtles belly all over his face while staring blankly into the distance.

 

Haha, yip that kind of stuff makes it worth it being in LoS.

A snake fell off a telephone cable or some such cable in front of my motorbike

with a massive WHACK..one second and it would be my head.

Million years ago looking up in Suk to see I'm nearly walking straight into face of a baby elephant.

20 hours ago, bignok said:

Whats your fav one?

I only heard of them 3rd hand.....................................................................................thankfully.

Visit a go-go with all trannies.

That should sort you out end of the night.

4 hours ago, Negita43 said:

I’m approaching 80 years with the normal issues that come with age (knees, aches and pains, etc).

I have had a Thai partner (not wife) for 12 years (in her 60’s) and I want to make the situation easy for her when I finally “pop off”.

Up until now each year we have spent time in Europe and Thailand (50/50) - she has a 10 year tourist visa (expiring in a couple of years).

The journey to and from the UK is becoming more and more of a chore, plus I have to pay the ever increasing community charge and heating etc. whilst it is unoccupied when we are in Thailand. It is in Scotland – so not possible to let on short term basis. I also have to monitor the flat whilst I am away using WIFI – heating, cameras, alarm etc.

 I find that the UK is becoming increasingly spoiled by “politically correct” bureaucracy and rules about what you can and cannot do with your own property/life.

Plus the medical services are now in crisis.

Although I have wills in both countries (with a Scottish Solicitor as the executor in the UK) I worry that when I do go, my assets in the UK flat, bank accounts, ISA - not enough to attract death duties - may prove difficult for her to manage the process of actually getting the monetary value of the assets to her. And what if I die whilst we are in the UK - I think that might be overwhelming for her.

So I am seriously considering selling the flat and living permanently in Thailand (I have Non O retirement and extensions).

Of course there are major considerations with this (what if she dies before me, will the environment for Non Os stay reasonably friendly) but the main one is money – leaving the UK implies losing my UK bank accounts credit cards, etc.

Apart from the issue of how to transfer it I am not sure I want all my money sitting in a Thai bank account.

So should I or shouldn’t I?

And has anyone else “bit the bullet” and what advice would you give me on all aspects of such a move?

You could at least do a royal mail redirect for a while on the banking paperwork

to the likes of 'Mailboxes etc' shops which are all over. I had looked at that but decided to keep my place in the UK.

In my case it would be zero just now.

Buying them an ice cream cone or tub much cheaper....that is to say - filter by profession or education.

8 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

why are you so bothered about their stock that is of no consequence, whatsoever, to you?

Got time on my hands.

Is there anything healthy in any of these places...?

Sugar overload drinks, toxic Thai booze, sodium overload at every turn....and that frink' door chime at 7...beee booo...beee boo

...and people paying 5 kinds of bills in front in the queue.

Portugal great.

But the guys are here for the low bar to access wivvvves, hookurz, special massage and easy cheap dating..no matter what they say.

They put up with immi circus and the pollution and everthing else the other countries don't have as bad - for that.

11 minutes ago, sabaiguy said:

Nope.  Not my experience.

That is due to pervasive inconsistency between Thai consulates in how they apply the rules - so someone who may be time-constrained...better to just buy a cheap ticket out eh, than receive an SETV over something minor like that ?

15 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

Where do you get the solid story line from?

God sake...from a HUMAN.

I already said AI generated scifi concept art - its just a fast way to dial on the visual style at least.

1 minute ago, StreetCowboy said:

Although THX1138 was well directed and well produced, the story line was what was important - and not the words of the story.  AI wiill give us a superlative substitute for human thought, which eventually will make "Terminator" obsolete - we will not know that we are subservient to machines, ...
Maybe that will happen in the future, maybe it happened five or ten or twenty years ago.

I'm talking about the visual stuff for AI - with a solid storyline.