damian7000

don't know if the is the strangest i've seen, but strangest that happened to me was walking along minding my own business, and some small young woman i'd never seen before when running past me and punched me in the shoulder ...took a few more strides and looked back at me without the slightest hint of any sort of smile and kept on running down the street... i looked to a few thai people who had witnessed it and asked "tom ai?" ...they didn't know either.

i see this ALL THE TIME when i go into thai banks....in major cities and little village towns too. people coming in and depositing hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of baht. one day i was in a bank in a village an hour from chantaburi... about half an hour waiting to be waited on and AT LEAST half the people in there were making deposits of B100k or more. one guy came in...no joke with a tight stack of 1000 baht notes at least 2 feet wide on the counter.

i don't know about you, but where i'm from, 90% of the people in line are depositing their $248 weekly check, or taking out $60 to pay their phone bill....

the place they showed in the video is sayuri in chiang mai. i've never seen any girls that look younger than 20.

I would imagine that they just took some footage to show people that have never seen this sort of thing. Helps people visualise whats going on. Perhaps the pickup full of children was unrelated as well, but it gives people a picture to put with the words.

i understand. bit misleading, the news, isn't it. videos of kids who weren't rescued child sex workers and of brothels where no children work. i understand the purpose and i'll leave it at that before i get off topic and start ranting about pictures painted by media.

the place they showed in the video is sayuri in chiang mai. i've never seen any girls that look younger than 20.

any format downloadable on the net for ebooks should also be readable on the computer. google calibre converter and mobipocket to name just a couple.

this was a difficult article to read. if they don't like the conditions, they can stay in their own countries and work for a fifth of what they're making here and under worse conditions. same with the mexicans in america. people complaining about the high price of stuff in thailand and the rise in cost of living? how about we give all the migrant workers 500 baht a day and full medical benefits and then see how you like the cost of living here.

No you are incorrect...the sender can waive the recipient ID requirement on the money transfer form and then the money can be retrieved with only the PIN # and order/control number. As I said, this is because in many poor third-world countries, people often don't have formal identification documents (let alone a picture ID or passport). Often, births are not even formally recorded in many of these countries.

you're forgetting 3 important factors. laziness, power tripping, and racism. what's written down officially as WU procedure and what gets done are 2 entirely different things in thailand. as i said earlier, i had MoneyGram tell me i needed a special paper from the government to wire money . i'm 100% sure this isn't MoneyGram or even Thai policy because i've sent money through moneygram before in thailand.

You only have to show passport if the sender have crossed it as a ID, else you just need the transfer number MTCN and thats it. I tryed myself, losing my pasport in Laos 6 months ago.

I think you are trying to scam some idiot to loan/give you money!

it depends what WU you end up at and the mood of the girl behind the counter. they don't all play by the same set of rules. written or not.

farangbudha is correct, I see no need to call him sarcastic : You do not need a passport to get money send through Western Union.

So I guess the easiest way is to ask somebody back home to Send money through western union, get a temporarily travel document from your embassy and you are own your way.

You are right about WU's policy of not always requiring a passport. HOWEVER, this is Thailand and I have regularly come across some little girls at various WU agents that simply don't know their own rules and it becomes the usual "Mai dai, can not!" Gosh how often have I heard that and maybe this guy heard it too? Doesn't matter how much you try and explain something to these clueless, yet very polite and beautifully made up girls; it simply AIN'T happening!!! Very annoying here, but TIT. That's the downside of being part of the Thai community, a lack of general education, as companies regularly fail to adequately train staff; in fact amazingly poor internal training of their own services and products, (oh yes, AMAZING Thailand! ). Girls here prefer instead for their professional training to rely on makeup courses; seriously, the company I work for, all the Thai women opted out for their very low PD yearly budget on makeup courses over any other real course they could have chosen! This appeared normal! Clearly this is indicative of Thai culture in making everything look good, just like if a car body has just been painted over but underneath it's still just a massive rusty car!

If the guy did encouter this problem, though annoying, I'd advise don't even THINK about arguing here, you'll go even nowhere even more than before! Simply go to another agent, or perhaps use a secret question for WU as they have a section on the form for inadequate identification and advise the sender to complete that section.

Good luck!

This is the truth. There's no solid set of rules these clerks play by. It's also commonly called a 'power trip' or downright laziness or shudder to think: racism. I was trying to MoneyGram money to someone and they said I needed a special paper from the Thai government.

Panthip Plaza at the night bazaar or Icon Square.

don't forget prostitution is illegal too... i'm sure none of you have ever partaken...

In case your unaware you can not work in Thailand without a non immigrant visa entry and a work permit.

laughing...

This is getting to be an everyday occurrence.

I was at the bank the other day and many Thai were depositing huge sums of money. The clerk just put it in an unlocked drawer. Too easy.

It is up to the OP to post as he sees fit. As it is he has posted something which is nice to browse through once or twice....a coffee table book....but of little lasting value. If the poster wishes to add more information...ie what it is and source it changes from that to a world class historical resource.

I think he may have that at home now. Maybe he doesn't want others to have it.

I'm sure he's just being selfish and keeping all the information for himself.

Again, this a simple photo posting thread, not a world class historical resource or database. He's already invested many hours posting and changing filenames.

You and Deeral should get together and have a research shindig and come back and post all your findings. Or keep being lazy and telling other people how they should post.

Okay, maybe you're just standing there. Now get your ass out there and do some research instead of complaining about someone else. Plenty of museum's and libraries you can start with right now.

So go find out yourself. You're just sitting there while all this valuable historical data is out there to be recorded.

Stop complaining and get your ass to the library and start researching. Valuable history is going to be lost. Your laziness really is starting to get to me.

It doesn't matter how much effort you put into something - if you are doping a pointless task, it's a waste of time.

It is apparent you have no idea what could be done with this catalogue if handled correctly methodically and intelligently - unfortunately I suspect that this is not the case.

Who are you to say it's pointless? You're the only one whining about this guy's efforts. Everyone else is commending him. Again, this isn't a historical database. It's a picture posting forum.

Maybe it's time you handle things correctly, methodically, and intelligently and go out and catalog and document every old photo in Thailand. Laew laew now...Time is a wastin' and there's precious historical data going to waste out there.

I get the feeling that we may be losing valuable historical documents that are being mistreated in the hands of an albeit well meaning amateur.THere does not seem to be any approach to properly conserve these documents.

ID - is not really an issue - at least only a small one - provenance and context plus analysis of content - but I don't see this happening.

I'm not trying to "do down" the posters efforts but THere just doesn't seem t be a structured plan behind these artifacts...or is there?

bTW - anyone who has handled early photos will tell you that the Detail and definition is phenomenal - just because they were B&W or Sepia tone doesn't preclude the ability to capture detail - often better than home digital photos

We already saw your complaint first time around. I would imagine the renaming and uploading and posting took this guy many hours already. It's a photo thread, not a historical database. How are we "losing valuable historical documents" if he's posting them up here for all to see. The real loss is if he took offense to your repeated whining and stopped posting them at all.

Here's an idea, save all the photos and go research them yourself. Or better yet, go to every museum and library in Thailand and photograph the pictures. Don't forget to write down where each photo came from and the history behind it. Then come and post your thread here at thaivisa.

Or you could just look at the pictures and enjoy his efforts so far.

you took your time!

it's quite clear you don't know the first thing about history, let alone photo history.

It makes me sad to see comments like yours because ignorance like this can lead to the loss of potentially valuable historical documents.

unfortunately you don't appear to have even the slightest inkling of how to approach this problem.

effort alone is no justification - making a bonfire takes effort - and if this poster is not going to approach these photos in a responsible manner - he might as well be lighting a bonfire.

You're the sad, ignorant one here. Guy spends hours sharing his pictures with us and you're complaining. Just because he's not slaving away to one silly member's whim doesn't mean we're losing valuable historical documents. You almost sound absurd to me.

Like I said, go to the museums and libraries and do it yourself. I'm tired of your lack of effort and there's lots of history we're losing because you're just sitting on your ass instead of researching this stuff.

Go...Go now. Put some effort in and get to work researching valuable almost lost Thai history....Or stop whining and enjoy the photos.

I get the feeling that we may be losing valuable historical documents that are being mistreated in the hands of an albeit well meaning amateur.THere does not seem to be any approach to properly conserve these documents.

ID - is not really an issue - at least only a small one - provenance and context plus analysis of content - but I don't see this happening.

I'm not trying to "do down" the posters efforts but THere just doesn't seem t be a structured plan behind these artifacts...or is there?

bTW - anyone who has handled early photos will tell you that the Detail and definition is phenomenal - just because they were B&W or Sepia tone doesn't preclude the ability to capture detail - often better than home digital photos

We already saw your complaint first time around. I would imagine the renaming and uploading and posting took this guy many hours already. It's a photo thread, not a historical database. How are we "losing valuable historical documents" if he's posting them up here for all to see. The real loss is if he took offense to your repeated whining and stopped posting them at all.

Here's an idea, save all the photos and go research them yourself. Or better yet, go to every museum and library in Thailand and photograph the pictures. Don't forget to write down where each photo came from and the history behind it. Then come and post your thread here at thaivisa.

Or you could just look at the pictures and enjoy his efforts so far.