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1 hour ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

A person for whom English is not the first language would be proof reading the mould for making rubber stamps in reverse. Imagine, as a foreigner, trying to read Thai script in reverse. ????

You can practice from inside a shop or massage parlour by trying to read what's written on the outside of the window. When I'm bored, I'm very very bored!

And they will know to test the stamp by a few trial stamps, I guess. If they can't read it, well, there's a reason, right?

1 minute ago, TunnelRat69 said:

Oh, well I donated all food to Staff before I departed.................Peace

Second time round I did the same. Cheers!

How about 3%? Much easier to understand.

18 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Sathorn is spelled Sathon and many other locations are spelled differently, so as you say This is Thailand.  Once spotted the error and told someone of importance and they just shrugged there shoulders and said not my issue.

Is that "there" instead of "their"?

3 hours ago, TunnelRat69 said:

The most important one has all the beer and Vintage Drambui in it................????..........Management cleans and checks every two weeks...............

Take your point, but in 2 weeks anything perishable is going to go right off. I had that experience recently. Had to throw away meat and veg and all dairy.

20 hours ago, webfact said:

The Thai man was convicted after admitting to taking a prohibited liquid drug and acquiring funds illegally. 

 

He was fined 4,200 baht reduced in half due to admission. 

This is the relevant case. The others for some reason all got larger fines and heftier sentences, suspended. I don't know what "acquiring funds illegally" means. Dealing?

14 minutes ago, carlyai said:

Chinese aren't Farangs, they are Khun Jeen.

Have you ever looked at one? Something wrong with your eyes if their features look anything like a Stale White Person. ????

Do you mean Khon Jeen? Chinese person/people? Like Khon Farang, Khon Kairk, Khon Allab, etc etc. Khun Jeen means something else, a respectful form of address to someone called Jeen.

6 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

Yes, but everyone is anonymous, nobody knows who you are or where you are, assuming when you registered you didn't put your real name?????

But it does say something, in that the police just dont seem to care if they get found out?

Protected by their colleagues and senior officers. Impunity almost same as immunity. Until the wheels come off, and the lid!

On 10/23/2022 at 8:20 AM, TunnelRat69 said:

I know, it ain't a fair comparison, I am not in-country at this time, so only the fridge's are running  ????????????????????  but my place is smallish, only 60 sq meters and even when running all aircons never went cost more than 22-2800.............Peace

Hope you don't get a power outage with those fridges running.

6 hours ago, IAMHERE said:

Yep, that happens more often than you'd think. Besides, how'd these Chinese get out of China, thought there was total Covid lockdown up there.

Not so. I've met a few Chinese here in Pattaya. Not the gambling mafia call centre scammer types, but normal like you and me tourists, long stayers, digital nomads. They say it's ok leaving, depending where from, of course, but getting back in can be a problem. Quarantine and numerous checks. China is a big country. I think maybe it varies province to province, and depends a lot on the 0 COVID rules at that time and place.  If Thailand wants to attract educated, intelligent, long stay migrants they should hurry up the process of issuing digital nomad visas, and drop the forever "we want high net worth applicants who are damn fool enough to hand over 40m in order to buy 1600 sq m of land".

I don't see anywhere the results of his investigation, just an update to an ongoing investigation. She had some amphetamine in her body. So what? And the 4 guys breaking into her room? And all this happened on the night of September 16th, 6 weeks ago.

33 minutes ago, SW Happy said:

OR!                                                                                                                                                                          Dr. you have 5 mins left to live.

Patient. Is there anything you can do

Dr. I could boil you an egg

Dr

Or

Dr. You have 3 months to live, and here's my bill

Patient. But I can't pay that!

Dr. Ok, have another 3 months!

10,000 THB compensation? To keep quiet? And the council has no public liability insurance? What happens when somebody falls down an open drain, trips on the endless repaving, gets strung up by a dangling wire? Of course. "Mayor pays from his own pocket". As if!

Note, just saw above post

On 10/22/2022 at 10:53 AM, 1FinickyOne said:

I would argue to take 4 months off the sentence... 2 months is more than enough.

So you'd shoot yourself, right?

37 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

112 @ Macro.... out of stock about 10% of the times I went to get it

Yes, Makro is not that reliable. The Sukhumvit road branch was out of it, so were both big Cs and Lotus. But the Makro on p. nua had lots of it.

Some of the supermarkets here don't seem to have stock control systems or if they do, they don't seem to work very well. It's a real hit and miss affair.

2 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

You started the thread and now you can't be bothered to read it!  Not very helpful.

When I last checked, ie at my last notification, there were maybe 4 or 5 pages. I'd already made up my mind what I was going to do by then.

I don't want to upload the letter because

1 it is between AA and their clients, and

2 there may be issues I don't want to get involved in, in publishing it.

I'm sure if people were that interested they would visit the office themselves. AA are a good company in my experience. I am signed up with Wrlife for better or worse. I did visit one other broker in person, which was MTL on Pattaya Tai, close to the 3rd Road junction. They were also very helpful. They offered me a more expensive policy, but with more cover. They might well be worth a visit. They are a Thai company, but the policy is bilingual. The 2 ladies I spoke to speak good English.

I think that's it for now. I never imagined this thread would run so long, so my apologies for not reading every post. I read a fair amount on AN. Some I just skim through though. I hope people find what they're looking for in the way of insurance, or something like it.

BTW, two separate brokers and an insurer, confirmed my health policy would cover an accident that leads to inpatient treatment. So I've not renewed my Personal Accident Insurance.

I can't read through 8 pages of this thread, but just to say AA now issue a disclaimer regarding Wrlife. Although they still offer their policies, they have a list of 3 caveats. I don't have a copy to hand but I'm sure anyone that's interested could drop by their office and pick one up.

2 hours ago, lopburi3 said:

Actually it is not expensive.  Mine on April 1 was 826 baht as part of normal visit (cost for shot alone) here in Bangkok.

It's 500 at Jomtien Hospital, so I'd count 826 as expensive. Over 60% more.

15 minutes ago, Longwood50 said:

I got mine at Jomtien earlier this year.  Don't remember the price but myself and GF got one it was buy two and get the second one even cheaper. 

Once again, flu or COVID?

46 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Flu (the thread is about the flu jab, not Covid).

Yes I know. I started it. But the poster doesn't say if the 650 was for a flu or COVID jab. Seems expensive for a flu jab, and cheap for a COVID jab.

12 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

We had ours at Pattaya Memorial.  They have a "special offer" available until 31 December - 650 baht, including all the service charges.

For flu, or COVID?

14 minutes ago, moogradod said:

Jomtien Hospital is the perfect choice. Why change ? They do it on a walk in basis and are not overcrowded. They have a discount from time to time and use the latest 4-strain vaccine. My wife and myself always go there. And as a bonus it is usually on our way home directly at Sukhumvit.

Hmmm, maybe but 800 for Moderna and 500 for flu. Flu at public hospital only for Thais. No have.