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Put them in their own room, if you have one, when you bring them home from the hospital.

If you're worried about them at night you can buy an audio monitor for a thousand baht or so.

I have a 4-dr Vigo, 3.0 liter. It costs ~7K.

If I pay police fines at every shakedown stop, I wonder if it would exceed 7K over the course of a year.

Happy for your neice, but karaoke should be a jailable offense.

My ears bleed. There's a reason most people aren't singers, dancers and musicians.

People get paid good money to weed through the morass to find talent. There's no way in hel_l I would willingly, voluntarily listen to people try.

The good stuff was served to Americans only.

Why waste a good hot dog on someone who showed up only to find things to be unhappy about?

Nice shot.

Harder than it looks -- to shoot the moon.

I've listened to various expats forecast a slump of the baht for the past three years. They claimed its being propped artificially by this method or that institution.

It really hasn't done anything but strengthen in that period. I'm not convinced the baht is weak at all. I'm not optimistic it'll do anything but strengthen vis a vis the buck or pound.

I have a cup of coffee every morning with my platypus steak and mashed potatoes in my ears Q tip.

What?

I wouldn't run home splashing money around, so how would the cops know I had hit the jackpot?

Thai Town in Los Angeles between Hollywood Blvd and Normandie Ave. Restaurants, bars, video stores, supermarkets, gift shops, newspapers, magazines, books -- all in Thai. Oddly the Thai Consulate is on Melrose a few km away from the neighborhood.

More than 80,000 of California's estimated 120,000 Thai Americans live in Los Angeles.

No go-go.

If it's a 12M house, the builder ain't gonna sweat 500K being a few weeks late.

Tell the ladies to chill and find someone who can go with you to have a chat with the builder.

Their hysterics aren't useful at the moment.

A garden-variety tourist visa requires a guarantor?

Sounds odd but looking at the Thai Embassy-Tokyo website, here it is: http://www.thaiembassy.jp/rte2/content/view/93/147/

1. Company employee must prepare company work certificate (Business card is not acceptable)

2. Self-employed applicant must prepare business registration/license and bank statement.

3. Student must prepare guarantee letter from university or student card.

4. Pensioner must prepare bank statement or pension fund

5. House wife must prepare husband's passport copy.

Very odd indeed. I'd offer your husband's passport (#5) and see what they say.

They'll likely say these rules only apply to Japanese tourists. If that's the case, tell them you're not Japanese and Americans aren't required to provide such documentation -- we're not.

They also won't allow you to come with an open ticket -- so any complications would jam up your return.

I wonder why Japanese tourist visas are more restrictive than many of the less civilized barbarians that crawl through these sois?

Why do you need a non-immigrant visa?

You'll be here fewer than 90 days, right?

I'd look into a deal with the hospital where they could extend your tourist "visa" without making you do a border run.

Visiting friends is legitimate grounds for a non-imm O?

Sounds like a tourist to me. Can't find any mention on this page either:

http://www.thaivisa.com/278.0.html

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.

most travellers are generally too stupid to know when they arrived and when they become illegal. The problems are not with the bureacrats but Joe Blow traveller who probably shouldn't be let loose on the world.

As of May, 2009 more than a million passport cards have been issued to Americans. They seem to work, albeit in a limited capacity (land and sea borders in N America / Carib).

Perhaps those travellers are simply more sophisticated than Joe B.

I'm not from Texas, retard.

And a real professional, as you will find in the embassy, isn't as shallow and judgemental as you and Thai immigration. As long as you aren't wearing something lewd or offensive, you will be served. And if the clerk/officer./agent serving you is a professional, you'll get good, efficient service whether you're wearing a tudedo or a T-shirt.

A great spectacle to mark his passing for sure.

I celebrated, too.

in Asia we have some of the most modern technically advanced aiports in the world - likely candidates to be able to handle newer technologies.

Then certainly passport cards are widespread and the poster who raised the question is merely uninformed, eh?

Perhaps you might provide an example of other passport cards, as I have.

Does E. Timor have capacity to process passport cards?

limited usage means what then mate? only between certain states in the USA?

Oh dear ...

You didn't need to open the link to understand that "very limited usage," would exclude Swampy.

Keep your glib comments to yourself and you won't have one thrown back.

Comments about being well-dressed make me laugh.

The staff is there to do a job no matter if the customer is wearing an Armani suit or a banana leaf.

As long as its not offensive or lewd, your manner of dress has no bearing on the service. Manners, patience, some understanding and politeness are rightfully expected.

Some folks will parrot nonsense endlessly.

Reading not your strong suit?

"very limited usage" means cannot be used everywhere. Indeed, can only be used in a small number of border crossings.

Will not become ubiquitous (widespread, widely used) until many other countries adopt the idea. Thailand will likely adopt this technology sometime after the turn of the century.

It already exists.

But of very limited usage until the rest of the stragglers catch up. * Notice the appropriately clothed photo of the cardholder.

http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppt_card/ppt_card_3926.html

Weak humor does little to mask your inadequacy.

Lemme guess, you ride a phantom.

I don't know if it's still a 10 year validity, (my old g/f had one issued in 2005 for 10 years) but the passports issued outside of the USA switched to 1 year only.

Oh dear. Seems they (Naha, Japan) issued me a 10-year jobbie by mistake. Perhaps I should notify them of their error.

Last year wife went for the full monty.

Pap

tittygram

EKG

cholesterol

blood pressure

a few other probes and pinches

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