OneMoreFarang

What nationality are your partner and daughter? Most travel insurances don't cover anything inside the country where people "come from". If they are Thai nationals, even if they don't normally live in Thailand, most travel insurances won't pay. Travel insurances pay for acute conditions, i.e. food poisoning. They don't pay for anything "foreseeable" like connected to preexisting conditions.

Never ask "why?" in Thailand. There is no why. There just is. 😉

Songkran - so much fun...

Why? She is Thai. Are foreign quota units somehow better?

Cameras are everywhere, that shouldn't surprise anybody. And sometime many of us ask if there was no camera nearby when a crime happened. I think we shouldn't worry too much. Who is interested to analyze who was where when nothing important happened? There is also Google Timeline, with information who was where every minute of their life. It's just there. Is it scary? Yes, a little. But for 99% of us it will never be a problem.

Relax! I asked about what happened? Often people are upset for a reason. I don't know what happened, and I am not defending him.

Just get a stable desk which fits your height. You can check online about best sitting position, desk height, etc. IMHO don't buy anything with a tray for the keyboard. Always put the keyboard directly on the desk. Those trays are always instable and annoying.

They attacked Iran's embassy. Internationally an embassy it seen as the equivalent of the country. An attack on the embassy of country X is equal to an attack on that county. And Israel obviously did this deliberately.

If you like watch the video from Glenn Greenwald, which I included in my original message. He mentions a couple of cases where there would have been "good reasons" to storm embassies, but it didn't happen because in general countries respect embassies from other countries. Israel obviously knows this. They knew that their attack on Iran's embassy would provoke retaliation from Iran. It seems that is what Israel wanted, so that they pull the USA more and more into this conflict. And the USA obviously does what Israel wants. Sad.

Yes. I wrote above because in my experience ThinkPad is about as good as it gets about support and spare part. After a couple of years these devices are treated like obsolete, like nobody would ever use them again - even if they are still working. Sad.

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad with a bad hinge for the screen. The notebook is maybe 7 years old and working fine. I asked Lenovo and they don't have a spare part to fix this issue. And in general Lenovo ThinkPad are notebooks with one of the best supports.

Imagine all those TM6 administrators who store and analyze all those papers. There must be big warehouses full of them. What should all those people do if there wouldn't be the TM6 anymore?

A little misunderstanding, nothing happened. It's hot out there, some people find it hard to relax.

Whatever It is a reminder to all of us how fast things can change. I guess most of us don't kick people, especially no women. But I am also pretty sure most of us do sometimes some things which are not lawful. Maybe traffic violations, maybe we bribe someone (like everybody else does it), etc. After living in Thailand for a while many of us get used to do many things like Thais do them, even if they are against the law. In 99% of the cases that is never a problem. But with the wrong person, on the wrong day, bad things can happen.

I look at the news. And the news from many sources. I don't see anything joyful about how many Israelis treat many Palestinians.

The one big difference between Thaksin and many other corrupt Thais was and is that he is not only corrupt and lying, he does it in your face. Others do illegal things, but they at least try to hide what they are doing. It seems Thaksin wants that people see how corrupt he is. Like: See I can do what I want, and there is nothing you can do about that. It's sad that there are still many people out there who admire this criminal.

Just to be sure: Is she legally your wife? If yes, good. If no, then the embassy will try to contact your farang children, if you have any. And even if you didn't have any contact with those children over many years, it's up to them what happens with your dead body. Dao, from AMAR, see Sheryl's post, can explain this all to you. Her English is perfect.

That is something you should think about. She should have experience with funerals and she should know that 40k will do the job for a basic funeral. Many Thais like to have funerals over many days, which cost more, the thing with the face and all that. So maybe she wants to spend a lot of money on your funeral to show everyone how rich you/she is. Or maybe she has other reasons to tell you a funeral would cost 10 times more than it actually does...

When the police stop you, there are two options (at least for me on motorcycle for the last two decades): a) They want cash there and then. I paid often 100B. b) They give you a ticket and you have to pay that ticket at the police station. Earliest on the next day, and I think officially within the next 10 days or so. If you have a driver license then they confiscate your driver license and keep it. When you pay the fine at the station then they give you back the license.

I think most of the time nothing happens. I had a ticket which I paid maybe a year later. The police told me I am late, but I paid the regular amount, no problem. But I guess as usual there is a difference about what normally happens and what could possibly happen. Maybe they hold him back at the airport and tell him to go to the local police station and pay the fine before he can leaf. I don't say this will happen, but nothing would surprise me in Thailand.

I guess he can call himself lucky that nobody beat him up.

Does any of those politicians in Thailand think at least a minute or two before they open their mouth? In more civilized countries projects like this would take years from an initial idea to a feasibility study to actual planning and execution. In Thailand it seems one day someone has the idea: Let's move that port...

I have no personal experience with any drugs, except alcohol. Obviously, the effects of weed and yaba are vastly different. But they are both, in many countries, illegal. And it seems people who try drug x are more likely also to try drug y. I only talked about weed in above post because in Thailand it is an example how not to legalize drugs. As far as I understand the idea about legalizing drugs is to take the crime out of it. And officially available drugs are cleaner than illegal drugs - at least in general. It should be legal, but it should not be advertised. It is crazy that in Thailand cigarettes are hidden in shops, and I think no advertisements. Weed shops with big advertisement are anywhere, at least where I live in Sukhumvit. There should be no advertising for any drugs.

I agree. But one important part is legalize it and make sure to tell people it is bad and help them if they need it. The recent Thai legalization of weed is a good example how not to do it. Having lots of shops everywhere who advertise weed is certainly not the way to go. The very recent way how Germany implemented this is, IMHO, a good controlled way.

That reminds me of an interview about a retired drug police officer in the UK. The police just confiscated a huge amount of drugs (I think it was cocaine) and the reporter asked what will be the consequences. The retired drug police officer replied: The price will go up. And for that reason there will be more crimes from people who need more money to buy the drugs. Not much else will change. So much about that.