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10 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

yes, but you wouldn't necessarily have to do a visa run.  border bounce will get you another 30 days. 

My ticket is 70 days duration (actually, valid for 12 months, but the return date is beginning of December), so if I don't get a visa, I'm sure there's no way around doing a visa run.

All for the want of 6 bloody days! ????

Thanks, guys... will try the application now!

So, I think I may have just shot myself in the foot!

Stupidly, I thought I could get 75 days worth of (visa exempt) stay already, but it appears that's from 1st October. My company's paid for my ticket (because I'm such a great employee! ????????) and they've booked the ticket on 24th September, for 70 days duration (figured a couple days short, just to be on the safe side!), but it looks like I now need a visa.

The website for the Embassy in London is typically vague/confusing about whether I need to show up in person to get a visa (before I fly on the 24th). Can anyone confirm it's just a "simple" case of applying for an eVisa online, or must I go to London. Alternatively, can I get 30 days on arrival, get an extension, and do an old fashioned visa run for the last 10 days?

As Blackadder would say.... "<deleted>!" ????

On 8/27/2022 at 12:51 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

No, the destroyed goods never had that value.

The "real" goods might have a retail price in that amount. 

 

One reason fake products exists is because many of those brand name products are vastly overpriced. If those products would be sold for reasonable prices, related to what it cost to produce them, then many pirated products wouldn't exist.

And yes, I know there are a few exceptions.

It's astounding when often you can find counterfeit products at 1/10 the price that are identical to the named brand. However, those many of those copies don't have the R&D and and investment/production costs. It's one thing copying a handbag or a pair of sneakers... not much R&D gone into those, but the mechanical goods are another matter. We had products copied in China and sold on Aliexpress within a couple of months of release, that cost us hundreds of thousands of GBP in R&D and tooling. I saw some of "our" products on show cars/bikes at the BKK motor show too... and I might add, liable to be very dangerous copies too.

8 hours ago, harrycallahan said:

Those are rookie numbers.! Get some American police over there to teach them how to neutralise a threat. 

Trigger happy cops in America would've probably just shot him just for being there!

Sad to see the Yanks on a shooting topic almost salivating at the thought of emptying a magazine into someone.

1 hour ago, champers said:

The head of the fire service has been moved from his post. I am keen to see who the owners of this place are.

I doubt it will matter who the owners are. They were probably on the first flight out of U-Tapao this morning!

F1's too corrupt... the Thais could never make any money out of it!

23 hours ago, aussiexpat said:

Says only the people that have no money to invest...what a ridiculous statement 

Plenty of money in my own UK and Channel Islands accounts, thank you. Bare minimum in a Thai account.

8 hours ago, JackGats said:

This charade can still go on and on for years. I need to reside in a country I can enter by default, not a coutry I am prohibited from entering by default. If I did not have substantial money in Thailand I would be out already.

As the saying goes... Only ever invest in Thailand what you are prepared to lose.

18 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Very interesting, looks like those of us that applied in advance like I did for a return in February are grandfathered in for the Test N Go.....keeping my fingers crossed it does not change before I fly out to the States after the new years and then return as I said.

Good luck with that. I suspect they're only thinking about imminent arrivals, just to try and win a little favour.

I hope I'm wrong, but expect to see all arrivals having to quarantine within week or so. Probably anyone after New Year, once Omicron's well and truly established in the populace, which will of course be predominantly blamed on the incoming travellers.

12 hours ago, wombat said:

er....every female is a prostitute...they all get paid for their service to man in many different forms, however you want to look at it we pay.

Or, maybe you're a slave to p*ssy?! You may want to try looking into an equal partnership, with mutual respect.

I can't believe people still "buy" property, that can so easily be taken away from them. And if they think it can't, and that their "investment" is safe, they need a check-up from the neck up!

The old saying will forever ring true in Thailand, and I've seen it happen many times first hand in my 20+ years: Only ever invest what you're prepared to lose.

Renting in Thailand is the only viable proposition. You never know who'll buy the land right next to you and build a bloody great condo, or factory, or something equally obnoxious, or who will move in next door with absolutely zero regard for anyone else around them. Add to that the volatility of government, immigration, and the Thai Baht (in no particular order!), it's a mug's game.

I decided it was only somewhere for holidays a long time ago, and even holidays aren't very appealing any more, when you look at Vietnam, Taiwan, and parts of the Caribbean these days.

9 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Fly half way round the world to drink in a hotel room? Sounds awesome.

Fly halfway around the world just for a drink?! Sounds desperate! ????????????

1 hour ago, James HB said:

Definitely not a coincedence ...

1.  No witnesses ...

2. No pool attendant was present ...

3. The CCTV circuit was off ...

 

Three clues prove it ...

The only thing that proves is T.I.T.

17 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

Tomorrows news: Thailand sets up a Tourist Go fund me page. Now tourists can contribute their money without ever having to visit Thailand ....

Just like some of the bars on YouTube! Desperate plonkers falling over themselves to be the big Richard with the most bell rings and donations. I'm sure the same idiots will happily stump up to it! ????

8 hours ago, internationalism said:

before they come, around  2025, all instructions will be forgotten.

The way of teaching people to behave is to educate them about the world, just basic geography, history, but also languages.

If to try to instil the idea, that thailand is the navel of the universe under the coconut shell and insist, that thai language is a major international language, push nationalism, xenophobia, racism through all the educational system, all ministries and government agencies, you end up with indoctrinated robots which disregard all outside world

Just for a moment I thought you'd gone off on a tangent there, and was talking about the USA! ????????????????

Sounds like more to do with parenting than anything to do with school. I know a few Thais with kids in state schools, and their kids are lovely. I also know a particularly HiSo in BKK, who's son is a popular TV soap star, and both son and daughter again are highly respectable. If kids grow up as druggie loosers, first place I look is the parents!

Yes, I believe I've had it, and believe it was before it was "official" too. Late October/early November 2019.

I suffered a persistent dry cough for a year, and still a little now. I suffer lethargy a little, and also struggle to concentrate at times, but definitely improving. All apparently signs/symptoms of Covid.

I don't know for sure, but personally I'm convinced I've had it.

Well, I for one am saddened to see this video... Why wasn't there a round of applause for the croc?

1 hour ago, mankondang said:

most goldsmiths when they make a ring smaller. ADD gold to the inside of the ring (usually the palm side), This reduces the inner cross sectional area of the ring to fit the smaller fimger. As previously mentioned, temporary ,"clip on" devices can be used.

No they don't!

Never heard of him.

Never heard of you, either. I wonder who's contributed more during their lifetime?!