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You're getting phased out or forced to improve your behaviour by a simple app. Karma has arrived. It's lovely to watch.

This article reads like when a Thai tries to tell you something but in a long round about way because they can't just say what they mean.

It's ingrained in the culture in Phuket

Register with who exactly? The amphoe office? Is it necessary to register it?

Ah no comment from police in this story? Surprise surprise

Same in Australia. It comes down to the driver not the owner. Except that the onus is on the owner to pass the demerit points and find to who was driving. That's a bit complicated for a Thai I imagine. Also they would have to do extra work and enforce. The crossing right in front of the Pattaya station is a shining beacon of the ineffectiveness of Thai police to enforce traffic law. Nobody must have told them the amount of revenue they are missing out on. No longer would their police box need to be sponsored by burger king or shark. Aussie coppers are laughing all the way to the bank

Maybe I'm wrong but it's my understanding that for DNA testing even Bangkok hospitals will send their samples to mahidol for testing. If I were you I would first contact a lab such as mlab in Pattaya or andalab in Phuket. That will probably be over their heads. Then I'd try mahidol directly. They took about a month to do my DNA testing. However, mine needed to be done for medical reasons and was with a reference from BKK hospital. Not sure how you would go with your request.

Den janlaphan at eagle gym is a former WBC world champ and his boxing is phenomenal. Trained here over a year and enjoyed it. Price is reasonable and there was a few in similar age to you https://maps.app.goo.gl/tv2XhiBqzac9a4kY7

I would never rent a condo from someone who doesn't provide a copy of their id card... Let alone a name. That's insane and incredibly stupid.

I'd be careful using wishbeer. I have the same issue except I like nice bourbons and they're very hard to find in your average shops. I made a selection on wishbeer of about 10,000 baht of nice whiskies. Soon after I got an email saying exactly "Thank you for your order. As we don't have all the Spirits available in stock. It take 3-5 working days to re-order. We will update you again when we got the information from supplier. Would that be ok for you?" I had to leave Thailand to travel in a couple of weeks so I said I was concerned it's not enough time. They replied exactly "We have followed up with the supplier and they keep postponing the delivery date" It turned into a drama. Communication was crap. 1 reply email from them took 1-2 days each. Tried calling but literally nobody picks up the phone ever. So I cancelled and they say ok the money has been refunded. Except it wasn't. I ended up calling the bank and SCB were very diligent in chasing it up and getting the money refunded. I was very impressed with SCB. I would never use wishbeer again. I should add there was nothing during checkout to say anything was out of stock. There is another place that sells top whiskies called "the wine Merchant" but I find they're way way overpriced selling some bottles 30000+ that are maybe worth 10000. So I just gave up getting good whiskeys in the end. I always is through duty free and grab something interesting from there instead

This was my one as well. I was at a bar drinking cocktails a couple of months ago. They had put a word peice of grey meringue on the top. The 3 girls all wanted to try it. One commented it was like "semen". There was background music and a lot happening so I just smiled and said yea. Then in my brain I thought, no I really need to get to the bottom of this. So I asked "it's like what"? Semen! It took 3 times for me to realise she was saying cement but leaving the t off. I immediately knew I had discovered a new favourite word to get Thais to say. Old favourite was Ralph. There's a good clip on this topic I'll try find.

But it's ok for every reggae bar in patong and the surrounding area to sell as many as they like? That's different!

A bit weird your story but one thing I would say is to approach immigration at Melbourne on arrival as a couple. Not separately. Last time I went with my ex wife we weren't sure if you could do that and she went first with me standing behind her in the queue. At Melbourne airport. They started grilling her. Her English wasn't great and she looked back at me for help. They called me over and it was all good. They said next time to just come to the counter together.

You need a priest or a doctor or something

I used to go to mlab. It's next door to that Tony's gym thing on the corner somewhere. There's also a couple of labs in naklua but not as good

And how many of the comments under that video think it's funny and a joke. Most of them. Just goes to show the attitude is miles away from where it should be. Conversely I remember a story in Australia where an African refugee knowingly have it to a number of girls. He went to court and got sent to jail and the story was in the local paper.

Yeh 159 a month. Like a lot of these online services you get it for half the price of your mates at home in the west. No ads. YouTube music. Background play. Ability to download and save anything. Yes there's some workarounds for both those things but a few dollars a month isn't much in my opinion. I use it extensively and when I see people using YouTube with these massive ads I want to smash my face with a rock. I did notice when travelling that ads in Australia now seem much more frequent than I remember them in the Thailand free version.

Died at his own hands? Here we go again. The old repeatedly stabbing yourself in the neck way of suicide. I guess it's one of those hotels with no CCTV or security guard.

Don't ride elephants. Problem solved.

Backwards. You'd think it would be the opposite. If anything they should tax it more. Lots of Thais I know always have to say "hwan noi" when ordering drinks. Not all Thais love it yet it's everywhere.

I'd use a lawyer and do due diligence. I got a lot of benefit from using the lawyer and he picked up on things that I wouldn't have noticed. It varies with different lawyers though. The developer in my case presented due diligence another buyer had supposedly done with another lawyer. Then my lawyer found a number of things he wasn't happy with and changed. He also negotiated much better payment terms and discounts. This is off plan. I think if I was to buy an existing one I would still run it (the contract) by my lawyer for piece of mind. For the bank letters I found dealing with the banks through calling and emails much simpler than trying to deal with actual banks which were trying to complicate things. You call them and tell them you want the credit advice for a certain transfer and they email it to you. For me personally developer kept saying to just transfer from overseas direct into their account. This is problematic if your transfer goes missing (it happens often) as you can only rely on the developer following up his side of it and you have no control. Also the I believe the developer gets the credit advice documents and not you. According to my lawyer you may need those documents in future if you wish to transfer that same money out of Thailand. Maybe some of this is not applicable to you but someone might find it helpful.

cry me a river. Might have to start selling some real drinks instead of diabetes in a cup.

Perfect video example of your average Thai man and the fragile ego and fake balls they hold inside. No wonder all their women love us instead

As a bit of a relevant update to this thread please see the news article from today. Basically, Kasikorn Bank have aquired Satangpro https://watcher.guru/news/thailands-second-largest-bank-acquires-local-crypto-exchange Furthermore, I will post an update to my account block soon. I visited them in person a few days ago to do the KYC in person with the correct documents (non-imm, work permit, passport). They said great we'll unlock your account today and then followed up with a number of emails of excuses and rubbish when I complained it is still locked. They don't want to unlock it basically. It may be something to do with this news. Either way I gave them an ultimatum of 2nd Nov then I will contact my lawyer and the SEC of Thailand to lodge a formal complaint. Will update the outcome. It's clear from the reviews on google maps of satang corp and reviews of the app in google play that lots of people are struggling with locked accounts at the moment. I also know of a friend of a friend having a similar issue.

Thanks for the replies. I got 3 or 4 suggestions to follow up now and will probably find something for a reasonable price I imagine.