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That's it! Thanks. Recommended from the 3 months or so I went there, prior to COVID closure.

Exactly so. My name is on the building permit for the house I had built. But my daughter owns the land, which of course is a huge blessing. I got a visit from immigration once in 15 years demanding to know why the house owner hadn't filed a TM30. Oh, that'll be me I said. But no, they wanted to speak to my daughter about it. I paid the fine and got rid of them. In reality immovable property on land seems to be assumed to be part of the land. You can argue blue in the face, but I don't think it will make a lot of difference. Unless you have, as I now have, a usufruct on the house and land, in theory you are trespassing every time you cross the land to get to it. Preventing foreigners from owning land is a hidden blessing! It's a minefield.

I went to a school whose name escapes me, on Pattaya Klang, close to Big C Extra, in a sort of lay by next to Bangkok Bank. The teacher was great and the other members of the class, there were only 6 of us, were good. It closed for COVID but I think has reopened. It involved reading, writing and speaking. I went to AUA in Bangkok and hated almost every minute of it. In those days you weren't supposed to use dictionaries nor write anything down. Just listen while sometimes one, sometimes 2, Thais chatted away. I had taught myself to read Thai, and the tone system - yes, there is a system, but you need to learn to read Thai to understand it. AUA steadfastly refused to do either of these things. At least, until I left, frustrated and angry. I told the school principle what I thought of their totally passive teaching method. A complete waste of time for me. But, I will say, some of their teachers were exceptional. Odd, that.

So 20,000 THB leaves my account on Thursday at 7pm. Friday, nothing I can see happens. Sat/Sunday, oh of course, computers don't work at weekends. This is, after all, is simply moving binary digits around from one server to another. No physical entities involved at all. Monday is a holiday in the US, but what's it doing there? Oh, that's our helper bank. Everything goes through it. Then finally on Tuesday the American bank moves it into a UK bank account. None of these exists in the real world. It's just computer code. There is no UK bank account, except as a piece of code. It's all complete nonsense.

I set up a THB transfer from Krungthai to Wise UK on Thursday at 7pm. I'm now told it will arrive Tuesday. After 4pm counts as next day. No transfers at weekend. Holiday in US Monday. What a joke!

Surely restricting the issuance of gun licences will have very little effect as I'd bet most fire arms are unlicensed in any case. Once the public is armed and ready to rumble, there's nothing anybody can do. Thank god in Europe we've somehow kept the need to carry a gun to an absolute minimum.

Easing poverty for a short time is not actually easing poverty at all. Long term poverty is a curse and almost impossible to get out of. This will have next to no effect whatsoever. You might as well buy 10,000 THBs worth of lottery tickets. Maybe whole villages will.

I hope Thaksin realises he will have to spend his in the prison canteen.

Large cache of weapons? A BB gun and some ammo? Oh boy.

People killed in shooting were Chinese and Burmese - police. Just what this madhouse needed.

How does "the itchy side of legal" mean above the age of consent, if that's what you mean? Legal age? You mean the age of majority? A meaningless phrase.

What the heck is the itchy side of legal?

Well, a people moving/processing system is only as good as its busiest milost congested point, ie immigration. So moving 1000s of passengers fast from outlying terminals to one central immigration point is just plain mad. If they can't cope with the volume as it stands, adding another 4 train loads a minute or hour is not going to work. They should build another immigration processing terminal. Just my 300 THB landing fees worth

Can't figure out if this terminal has its own immigration points. If not, surely all the new arrivals will just be shovelled through the existing points. What a total disaster! And will it link to the airport link, or just be stranded out there a mile from anywhere? Coming through at 2345 Saturday night from Manila, whole place deserted. There were more immigration officers than passengers. Note to airlines: try scheduling your flights outside rush hours. Spread the load. Airport authorities also note.

Explain

Seems the best and brightest are doomed to fail in this haven of mediocrity. Pita, Thanathorn and now Pannika. Overseas educated at amongst the top educational establishments in the world., the royalist establishment perceives them as am immediate threat. The non English speaking majority dunces that populate Thai government departments aren't fit for purpose. As usual BS baffles brains in the land of the buffalo.

Gross. Siam Rath hitting a new low in editorial BS. And AN playing along with it. A couple busted for selling fruit without a permit? Everybody cheer when the underdog gets kicked.

She's wearing a mask while drowning? Too weird.

Advertorial. Worthless as news.

Can someone, preferably the journalist from the TNR who wrote this piece, explain exactly how this flat soled lightweight shoe has become "jammed" in the escalator? The pictures reveal nothing except a woman, maybe a mime artist, tugging at a shoe which really does not appear to be stuck in any way.

Bang goes South Asian cuisine

Does he mean weed out? Obviously clueless about agriculture.

Tried over and over. They say not ready yet.

I watched a few reels of the pros at it. Made me think what I'd choose, just one dish mind you. I figure I could put away a bucketful of geng paneng sapparot Kung, prawn and pineapple paneng curry, with rice.

I think Soi Excite is Soi Chalermprakiat 23. Pothole is Chalermprakiat 25. Yes, I used to eat there occasionally too when I was staying at P Plus long ago before it closed and reopened post COVID. Has a gym and pool. Rooms were cheap back then!