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5 minutes ago, lexilis said:

Should have used a photo of an A380, not a B777...

They're all still parked up in the desert waiting for a change of spark plugs and an Earl change before they hand them over to the CTD's.

There are only two professions in which you can be wrong 70% of the time and remain employed.

Economists and Meteorologists.  

On 11/12/2021 at 8:08 AM, BangkokReady said:

Yes.  Not wishing to be rude, but she appears to be not particularly attractive.  Older and quite fat.  I wonder how she competes with the twenty something slim and cute girls.  Must have very low prices.

 

Good luck to her though.

Yeah but you need to put on your beer-glasses and check again. 

It usually takes about eight beers to turn a dog into a fox in every country in the world, except maybe Nepal.

20 hours ago, xylophone said:

This video confirms what I heard from a couple of youngish guys I met last week in a rock band bar in Patong, as they had come from Pattaya to experience the nightlife here, as they said that Pattaya was dead!

Not only is it dead, the funeral was last week. 

In the real world rent is calculated as a percentage return on investment - ROI.

Thailand is not the real world.

Thai math is different, and very special.

Do the math.

Say 50,000,000 committing 10 infringements per day at 20k Baht for a year.

That's the definition of infinity and it's a freaking lot of zeroes

This writer is living in an alternate universe.  What's he smokin'?

My favorite song is by Bachman Turner Overdrive.

Yyyyou ain't seen nnnnnnnothing yet.

15 hours ago, PoorSucker said:

You do know that an important immigrations family has been printing the TM6

I don't believe you.  There are no spelling mistakes on the TM6. 

Q.E.D.

Locks and alarms are no obstacle to a professional tealeaf. You could bolt a scooter to the concrete with MF dynabolts and a sea anchor chain from an aircraft carrier and if somebody wants it bad enough, they'll get it.

It's common practice all over SE Asia (except Thailand) to park your scooter inside the house. Ok, a problem if you live on level 28, but that's what they do in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Philippines. 

International logistics are currently a mess.  The delay you're experiencing is the new normal. I'd say don't start panicking too much until 14 days have passed.

However I would have suggested that something as critical as bank cards might have warranted DHL/Fedex or similar to ensure a better chance of eventual receipt.

While you might consider Her Majesty's Royal Mail to be an impeccable service provider, the same can probably not be said of the Thailand equivalent.

A good idea when sending cards via mail or courier is to scratch off the 3-digit code number.  Not 100% foolproof but it does limit the potential for fraud if it gets nicked while in transit.

Four people scrapping in two different incidents does not constitute a brawl.  Just sayin'.

1 minute ago, Salerno said:

Baht or the equivalent in foreign currency - still a requirement, chances of being asked virtually nil.

The only guy I ever heard tell me he was asked to prove he had money at the border literally looked, smelled and dressed like a skid-row wino. Dunno why he found my local bar so comfortable.

Actually true story - this guy looked atrocious and claimed he'd been asked to "show me the money", which apparently he did.

3 minutes ago, HashBrownHarry said:

But they'll have insurance, this is one of the required documents before TP issued.

Wait for the thousands of positive tests to start occurring and we'll find that Thailand is inserted into the exclusions clause of many contracts, or the excess will be one arm and half a leg.

Of course, nobody will illegally import tons of Cambodian rice and pass it off as domestic product to get the subsidy, resulting in a mountain of rice that will just rot in government warehouses and depress the international price.

Back to the future.

8 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

Similarities between Prayut and King Canute?

 

Actually the precise opposite. 

Cnute ordered the sea not to advance as a demonstration of the futility of doing so, and that no matter how much earthly power any mortal soul possessed, the power of the sea and the earth shall obey His (God's) eternal laws regardless of mankind's vanity, and that mans power is empty and worthless.

Cnute's lesson has of course been misunderstood over the last 1,000 years and the gradual death of God in the last two centuries has rendered his wisdom of little value to the present world's ruling elites.