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Gsxrnz

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  1. I remember when texting first came out. 

     

    I said it would never take off because it seems we'd progressed from runners and smoke signals, to the carrier-pigeon, to the postal service, to the telegraph, to the telephone, to automatic dialling, to progressively cheaper international calls, to cellphones. So why would we want to revert to texting which is essentially a p2p telegram.

     

    I was wrong.

     

    My daughter thinks "old skool" is a matchbox size cellphone where hitting the 1 button three times got you the letter C.  :coffee1:

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  2. I think it depends if the hotel actually files a TM30.  I've had both situations - stayed one night in a hotel and next online 90 day declined, stayed a week in a hotel and had next online 90 day approved.

     

    However, the slight twist may have been that for the week's stay, I checked in using only my Thai license - and that license had my expired passport number on it.

     

    TIT, and luck of the draw.

  3. I picked up on the phrase "diploma in lesbian dance theory" being used to epitomize left wing woke education lunacy a number of years ago. I often wondered where the term originated.

     

    I'm now reasonably confident that Elon and DOGE will eventually find a USAID donation specifically to an allegedly altruist organisation that does in fact, promote the theory of lesbian dancing. 

     

    I mean, they've come pretty close to it with transgender operas and comic books, and DEI musicals - but surely the pièce de résistance would be to finally reveal why this particular phrase came into existence. :coffee1:

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  4. Use mine all the time across the counter and never had a problem. I don't use it at ATM's as there is a charge (I think 200B a time) and fairly low monthly limits.  

     

    Obviously you have to maintain a balance in Wise. It will debit your THB balance if you hold THB. Otherwise it will debit your home currency and convert to THB at their standard rate/fee structure.

     

    Occasionally it may debit a third currency in your balances - I think it does a multiple cross rate comparison amongst the balances and if it concludes that you save 3 cents of your USD by converting GBP to THB instead, it will do so.  Kind of an arbitrage thing.

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