JimmyJ

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You left out "Vikings", which you mentioned in a previous list. Thank you for that - I watched 2 - 3 episodes/night of Seasons 1 - 3. Most or at least a lot of IMDB'ers stated that it goes bad after that, altho I will probably take a look at Season 4 to see if I agree. I've cut and pasted 2 previous lists of yours, this is the 3rd. You also led me to "True Detectives" - I watched 1 and 3 as most people on IMDB hated 2. I agree with you that Season 1 is the one to watch - minus the last 5 -1 0 minutes but engrossing up till then. (Health alert - There are so many cigarettes smoked that simply viewing it may cause lung cancer).

Unforgiven definitely his best. A terrific script with excellent use of language. ("Misfire!")

Here's one way to be an organ donor: On the Howard Stern show during one of their roasts, Sal the Stockbroker was speaking of Baba Booey: "When Gary's father died his father donated his organs. Not the ones in his body. The ones he would grind while Gary danced in the street".

I posted here about 2 years ago asking how to arrange that, but not much guidance resulted from my post. In the US my Driver's License shows me as an Organ Donor, and if I was living there I would arrange something with a Medical School. Once there is some sort of new normal and I can see the Visa situations in a few SEA countries and decide which one I will predominately reside in, I will look into arranging both of these wishes.

So painfully stupid and counterproductive.

HP is a bleach. ("Peroxide blondes"). Standard bleach discolors colored clothes, hydrogen peroxide doesn't.

You are clearly upset by the existence of the Covid Extension. In what way do those who utilize it affect your life?

Also anyone not manipulated by expats with delusions of grandeur calling others "Cheap Charlies".

+1. Town has no tourists so the Thai solution is to raise prices. $900 - That's more than I like to pay to buy a car.

Zero. Not expected. A bizarre American custom.

I am also with April. "Did you have the world-wide insurance or the Thai ex-pat one?" Tropicalevo beat me to it - that is the question I instantly thought of when I saw "April", I have the world wide out of Paris. "I have used them for a few years and no issues (yet)!" Same here, but in my case I chose 'Inpatient Only" and have yet to make a claim.

And the insurer is called...?

No sunscreen due to possible harm to coral reefs? Cannot be worn anywhere? Or cannot be worn at the beach? Is that the rule for the entire country or only certain areas?

A suggestion for those looking for a great but relatively unknown western - "Ride The High Country", Sam Peckinpah's second film and I put it with "The Wild Bunch" as his 2 best films.

Pib - Terms have changed or a serious glitch. Note that at https://www.ultramobile.com/paygo/ it still has a rate finder for finding the amount to call abroad and for USA to Thailand it still shows 25 cents/minute to call either a Landline or Mobile number. If you get the same result I did and get charged in your case $2.39 for a call From USA To Thailand then the next question as I mentioned is what happens when someone in the USA calls one's U/Paygo #, doesn't get an answer because International Phone Roaming is turned off in one's phone, and leaves a Voicemail (assuming the system allows that). Will there be a charge of $2.39 for those in Thailand each time that happens? As mentioned, periodically a phone spammer will get ahold of my # and it's possible to get a dozen messages in a short amount of time.

Was the bogus charge for Spotify? I've gotten several of those on 2 cards this year. Researched it - it's been going on for 7 years. Tons of forum posts on that including several on Spotify's own User Forum dating back to 2014. Haven't figured out how the scammers make money doing that. Ulnless Spotify is the scammer.

Yes, I have never doubted that both U/M and Ting have effective Wi-Fi Calling. It is apparently an issue with my phone.

It is not by choice. I cannot get it to work. Have gone thru it with Ting and Ultra/Paygo with no success. Spent over an hour last night with the manufacturer's CS with no success. The only possibility is a Factory Reset, and I don't want to go through that - at least not currently. It's way out of Warranty, and I bought it through a US carrier but stopped their service a few years ago.

Pib - Ultramobile/Paygo now has finally made a link to their own list of "International Roaming Rates" - although it appears the Voice Call rates are an exact copy of the T-Mobile prices you have linked to previously ( with a few additional locations listed): https://www.ultramobile.com/paygo/international-roaming/ https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/prepaid-international-roaming

Pib wrote - "Testing Results Voice Calls via "Mobile" Connection - US to Thailand: deducted from Voice 100 free monthly minutes (no Wallet charge) - Thailand to US: $2.39/minute deducted from Wallet (no deduction from free monthly minutes)." Pib - The point of my post is that for at least the last 2 months a call From the USA To my Ultra/Paygo #, instead of simply deducting the minutes of the call length from my 100 monthly minutes, is instead charging the same rate ($2.39/minute for you, $5.99/minute for me) as for a call using Ultra/Paygo to call From abroad To the USA. This is not good. Perhaps for those of you on Wi-Fi Calling if you keep all Foreign Call Roaming turned off you will not encounter this issue. Although if one of your banks tries to call you for whatever reason on the U/P # they will not get through if your phone is not hooked up to a Wi-Fi connection at that time. One unresolved question is: What happens if someone tries to call from the USA, doesn't get thru, and leaves a voice mail. Is that now going to be charged the rate for a Foreign call to the USA? Hopefully not, as in the past I've had automated messages left daily for "Your car warranty is expiring soon..", etc.

"The web dashboard has a line-item history: Account history, Transaction history which lists every item. All would be revealed there." No. As I stated, no Call History. The only transactions listed are monthly rental of $3. Also adding money to Wallet. No roaming debits are listed. No info on debits to the 100/100/100 is shown. No info on any Int'l. Call/SMS debits from the 100/100 is shown. No info on Wallet debits for Int'l calls/SMS to/from. Wi-Fi Calling is disabled on my phones so I use the Roaming,

Bad news for Ultramobile/Paygo customers, if my issue of the last 2 months is not somehow unique. In August I checked my balance in my wallet about the time the account does it's monthly $3 charge by removing thst amount from my wallet, but there was about $15 missing instead of $3. One major drawback of Ultra/Paygo is there is no itemization of charges other than the monthly fee - no Call Register/Record, no accounting for money taken from wallet ("wallet" = money on deposit). I called in and ended up luckily with them restoring the funds to my account. For September, I made sure to login just before the renewal and recorded my wallet balance. A day or 2 later I wanted to login to a bank account and they wanted to either call or text a code to me. I opted for them to call my Magicjack phone #, but no call. Tried again, and then logged out/in and tried again, but the call wasn't coming thru. The other # that the site would let me use is my Ultra/Paygo, so I opted to let it call me.with the code which was successful. I then remembered to check my post wallet renewal Utra/Paygo balance and it is missing the $3 renewal (correctly) plus an additional $11.98 is missing.. For the country I am in currently the U/P price for calling from here to the USA is $5.99. Now I did more work on the missing $$$ from August. I just went back and figured out the date that Paygo would have charged my account the $3, and the date I checked balance. There was $11.98 missing also. Anotherwords, for at least the last 2 months U/P is charging the (ridiculously overpriced) foreign call charge to the USA ALSO on USA to foreign calls. If anyone (Pib or TallGuy or anyone else) would like to test this on a less than 1 minute call (have one of your banks call you with a code or whatever) I would be very interested in the result - hard to see how this glitch could be an issue on my account only but anything is possible (for Thailand if you are charged it is $2.39 for 1 minute). I have been with this company long enough to know that the 1st level cs tries to be helpful but the majority of them will not understand this issue even if I explain 10 times, plus even if they could understand, they will write it up, give it to the next level tech support who customers cannot speak to, and nothing will happen. This seriously degrades the value of the U/P #. Even though I mainly use it as a backup # to receive codes, I always felt that if Magicjack is not working well, and the bank wanted to speak to me, I would ask them to call me on that line. I was planning to keep paying the $36/year as a backup in case it was ever important to have a phone number based on a SIM and not VOIP, but now I have to think over if that is worth the expense - an alternative would be to simply stop dealing with a bank that required a SIM # (and so far needing a SIM # for a bank has never been an issue).

Pib - "One of my U.S. bank phone apps will not function to deposit/scan a check when using a VPN connection to the U.S.....the app comes back and says something don't seem right about your location. However, the app functions in all of aspects, like bill payment, funds transfer, just everything except for check cashing--whether using a VPN connection or not. Just that one check cashing function that will not work "if using a VPN connection;" but it will work if "not" using a VPN connection and I've tried using two different VPN service providers and different VPN protocols." "...the app comes back and says something don't seem right about your location." Could be the Time setting on your device - You are using a USA VPN but for your Time/Date setting are you using Thailand's?

It's been obvious forever that this or another torture method is routinely performed. Why else does every suspect go to the police station and within a short amount of time confess?