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So basically what you're saying is that this can be a nice little earner for anyone in Thailand, and even more so if you don't have to split the award with an attorney? If I decide to retire there, I may take up "defamation victim" as a career. Seems like AirBNB is the perfect venue, and leaving a filthy property is the perfect bait to elicit a defamatory review. Then hire a lawyer to split the award. And I'm only halfway kidding. It wouldn't surprise me if the lawyer of the OP's story has carved out a nice living doing little to nothing else.

I'd add that if you start out with the cylinder 1/2 or 3/4 full, you have a huge safety margin leaving it in a hot car. It may be more convenient to bleed off a little pressure (understanding that it'll cost you money because you'll need to refill it) than it is to lug it around all day. Out of curiosity, with just a 4 kg cylinder, do you have a larger bottle at home to refill it, or do you have to haul it in each time?

Probably so, but the guy came here for advice, not for judgment and not for sympathy. Besides, he seems to be contrite, and hopefully has learned a valuable lesson. And maybe some other guys can learn from his experience. As much as it embarrasses me, I've had a few visa faux pas in my travels over the past 25 years or so.

There's a fishing section in this forum https://aseannow.com/forum/143-fishing-in-thailand/ Though I hear some of the venues have changed since Covid. If you've got the bucks and can get over to Krabi, Gillhams is world class. Never been there myself, but have talked to several avid guys I met fishing closer to Bangkok. And they were favorable. But I worry about a venue that doesn't post pricing... (I'm not even sure they're still open) And they go well beyond a few days of soaking worms with a few beers. https://www.gillhamsfishingresorts.com/ Hopefully, someone will come along with some other venues in the area. They are all over Thailand. It all depends on how serious and what you want to fish for.

More like suggesting to homeless people that they just need to buy a house... Reading along, it seems the OP left his cash and cards in Thailand with his GF, he's running low on pages in his passport, and he's not sure they'll let him back into Vietnam to even go to get a visa. He's got an extensive history with Thailand (including a long term GF) and this is the first time in 20 years this has happened. (I hope I haven't conflated posts from other guys) I don't have any advice for the OP. But I would point out that this could be a great cautionary tale for anyone in a similar situation. When you fly out, be prepared for contingencies like a difficult re-entry. That means backup cash, cards, extra socks and underwear, etc. I wish the OP well, because I have met a lot of good guys whose visa loopholes slammed shut since the 2014 coup when the rules (and enforcement) really started tightening up. It was sad to see them have to leave their life in Thailand behind.

Depends on whether they're investigating the opposition party politicians. They'll go to jail...

You're thinking blackmail. Extortion is any threat of harm if you don't pay up (in some form or another). Even if you've done nothing wrong.

Punish them or rehabilitate them, I'm not going to pretend I have an answer. But at the very least, keep them away from decent people until it's proven that they aren't going to harm anyone else. Which requires a custodial solution, whatever it's called. And it can be as humane as the people are willing to pay for... Or better yet, as their parents are willing to pay for.

Do they pack in enough seats that they require an actual emergency exit at that location?

On January 27, there was an excellent opinion piece in RT.com on the state of Boeing and how it got that way. It was an opinion piece, and it is in a Russia centric news source, so I will neither post a link here, nor quote it. But it's well worth a read.

Hopefully, Boeing will teach their assembly guys how to use a torque wrench... And count the parts that are left over when they're done. https://samchui.com/2022/07/10/how-a-loose-bolt-caused-china-airlines-boeing-737-haul-loss/ https://themalaysianreserve.com/2023/12/30/boeing-warns-airlines-about-potential-loose-bolt-in-737-max-jets/ https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/08/us/what-happened-alaska-airlines-flight-1282/index.html

Next week: Massive Extortion Network Within the Police now Probed by the Gub'ment. News at 11:00...

You mean like it has on this forum? Where I already see 10x as many negative remarks about the airline and its performance than the guy's now deleted critique for which he's getting sued. And it seems, they're just getting started. Multiply that by hundreds of other travel forums and the self inflicted damage to the brand will be huge.

Did you read to page 63 of the exclusions? I still recall a Canadian documentary on YouTube about travel insurance policies from several years back. Their conclusion was that neither a doctor nor a lawyer could decipher them independently. You needed a doctor to decipher the medical parts and a lawyer to decipher the legal components. The driver behind the documentary was the large number of people getting stiffed by their travel insurance. The title is Travel Insurance Are you actually covered (CBC Marketplace). Worth a watch if you travel.

I'd cut them some slack on that. I challenge you to find a policy that fully covers anyone for a scooter accident. But usually, those exclusions are around page 63 of the fine print. Not to mention, speaking to several former co-workers about their expat insurance plans in Thailand, they're paying between $500 and $1200 a month just for health care coverage, depending on age and pre-existing conditions. The idea that a typical $150 a month travel policy is going to provide adequate cover is pretty unrealistic. Bottom line, most tourists that think they're well covered, really aren't. Sadly, they only find out when they actually need to claim.

If Aus is anything like the USA, it's not the same place we left many years ago. Not sure someone would want to tie up 80% of their assets in buying a home, especially given that he hasn't lived in Aus for many years. He may want to spend a year or 3 getting the lay of the land before he ties himself so firmly to one location. There's also a reasonable chance that he may decide he's better off back in Thailand, just not in the same situation.

It's always a great idea to make important life decisions when you're on powerful drugs.

A poorly considered (and retracted) customer review would have been water under the bridge in a few nanoseconds in interweb time. Suing your customers will reverberate for eons. Edit: And not in a good way.

'Be like moving to Pamplona then griping about those bulls...

I wonder how many Ukrainian men they just doomed to die. They can spend that money to rebuild, or they can squander it and be in even worse shape in 4 more years.

No, you didn't say that. It was worse. You accused people who disagreed "transphobes". As if disagreeing with someone constitutes being afraid of (or hating) them. Personally, I didn't even look at my DL to see if they got it right. Until today. It was that important to me. Not at all a matter of endangering me. These folks don't seem to want equality. They want special treatment. Ever since driver's licenses and birth certificates existed, the gender on one matched the other. That's been fine for decades and decades, and for hundreds of millions of people. But not for these folks. They want the rules written the way they want the rules written. That's not equality.

So how, exactly, does having the wrong gender on their DL put anyone at risk? Look at the title on the OP video and it reveals this to be just another attempt to discredit Florida and hurt Florida tourism. Mostly to hurt DeSantis. Which, if they succeed, will hurt thousands of innocent people in the Florida tourism business.

How quickly those goalposts change. Last year, those machines were invulnerable- no proof they were hackable. This year: well, they're hackable, but there's no proof they were hacked. Next, it'll be okay, there was hacking, but there's no proof it changed the results. And by that time, it'll be the 2028 election and the vulnerabilities still won't be fixed.

Even last year, the vulnerabilities were well known. Results of a study done in 2021 by the same guy (Haldeman) that hacked the machines again during the current trial. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/14/politics/dominion-voting-georgia-vulnerabilities-2024/index.html Now the judge has to decide what to do and it seems the biggest concern of the "election officials" is that if she acknowledges the vulnerabilities and bans the machines, that'll basically confirm what the election deniers have been saying all along. But most of all, more than a dozen officials stressed their dread that ordering changes just months ahead of the 2024 presidential vote could undermine trust in the election, overwhelming local election officials and emboldening election deniers all in one breath. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/30/federal-judge-voting-machine-ruling-00138681 So I suspect that Georgia will continue using what CNN refers to as "vulnerable Dominion software" through the 2024 presidential election. I hope not, but it looks likely.

Tucker Carlson helped found the Daily Caller in 2010. Other than occasional mentions of him and some of his interviews, in 6 or 7 years of tuning into the DNCF (one of the 45 news websites in my bookmarks), I've never seen anything by Carlson on DC. If you want to catch Carlson today, he's on X and he has his own website. Though I've never been a Tucker fan, some of the guys he has on for interviews are well worth a listen (if you can get past Tucker's occasional cackling). Sadly, long format. But that means no edited soundbites. https://tuckercarlson.com/the-tucker-carlson-encounter/ But if you're a lefty, you probably want to stay away.