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2 hours ago, thaiflyer1 said:

Not sure if that qualifies under JT,s strict posting criteria?............????

I checked carefully before posting. ???? My motivation: not long ago the responses to an appeal from some Jomtien noob about how to transport himself to Tesco made me think (perhaps wrongly) that a lot of Jomtien dwellers aren't taking advantage of online ordering when it would seem logical do so.  Give it a try if you haven't.

Oh, do what I do: order fresh meat & veggies from Tesco and cook it yourself. Much healthier, no minimum, 30 baht delivery charge. Add a bottle of wine for that special evening. ????

9 minutes ago, Almer said:

Leaving 400k in the bank for ever will do wonders for the balance sheet of banks but do little to help the local economy, who need it more.

Can the bank not use it for lending in the local economy just like other deposits? Any special restriction? It may be that the bank, assessing creditworthiness, can ensure that the deposit is used more productively than for just paying bar fines and buying bottles of Chang at the 7/11.

46 minutes ago, Jack Mountain said:

No need for proof of residence? House book, rental contract etc?

What's not clear in the OP about "one each copy of passport, TM30, rental contract?"

One the recurring "issues" here on our beloved forum. Here it is in 2009:

Why Was Thailand Never Colonised ?

The reason for the "issue" is merely that we have so many members who don't like the Thai claim that it was never colonized. So what we do is redefine the common, standard, legal sense of the word to prove colonization. Sometimes the spuriousness of the argument is even admitted while insisting it's not spurious:

On 6/16/2019 at 6:02 AM, Somtamnication said:

Yes, Thailand was colonized, albeit, not the way we understand colonization to be.

And we'll update our list of colonizers, adding, say, modern-day mainland Chinese. Or, if Thailand wasn't colonized, then it should have been (by Brits of course); or we'll use a Thai-bashing reason or swipe at Immigration--90-day report, work permit, blah blah.

7 pages now, same old thing. Are we close to being done for this round?

It's never worked for me either and I do everything about it correctly, read all the threads. I told the IO in Jomtien it wasn't working for me and he wrote down the URL (same URL) and told me to file there. ????

1 hour ago, mikebell said:

I joined the queue at Da Nang airport.  There were three desks in operation: ASEAN; Viets; & others.  This latter got quite long (hordes of farangs casing out where to take their pensions?).  A smiling official opened another gate and halved this queue. 

Was the smiling "official" one of the IOs that normally check passports as we're discussing? "Cattle queue director" is a trivial low-level job much more conducive to a smile.

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I felt welcomed, valued even.

No doubt you did after the simply unspeakable mistreatment you've long suffered in Thailand. Me, I usually feel welcomed to be back in Thailand. ????

10 minutes ago, Graviton said:

Who said..... FREEDOM is when the governments fear the people?

Another irrelevancy. Not your government anyway. Their gov't, their rules, like 'em or not.

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Whinging isn't the same as asking a question that demands an answer

It only "demands" in an answer in your own mind. And it is, because you know you will not only not get an answer but even if you did, you'd merely disagree and propose an alternative comfortable for yourself. The point is, you don't like the requirement regardless of any "reason." Hence, just a whinge.

19 hours ago, Graviton said:

What and not ask why?

You can of course but why ask why when the purpose is really just to whinge and display one's brilliance by proposing alternative "solutions" to perpetuate the constant "Thais are stupid and irrational" narrative. Same useless hot air filling page after page. Nor does the Thai gov't, like any in the West, regard itself in the least obligated to answer questions it regards as irrelevant or unimportant. Note that the big 3 embassies have given no reason they won't verify income despite being hammered w/ questions from expats. They won't, and that's all there is to it.

Even if your question were answered, you'd merely disagree with reason given and propose some arrangement more comfortable for yourself. In the end you'll follow the law/regs or you'll leave. Whether you do either w/ equanimity is up to you. As Viktor E. Frankl said, the last of human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. Roll with flow. 

4 hours ago, AlexCanada said:

OP wrote "5mill sitting gathering dust "

 

Why not throw a huge party for us TV members?  Money likely better invested.

Why not? Because mods would have no power to keep order. Would get violent very quickly. Arrests, publicity, fines, deportation, the whole bit. 

3 hours ago, gaff said:

Hello,

 

Can you tell me if you are still happy with Hitachi aircon ?

 

And also inverter ?

 

I already had an inverter at another place but I have never seen any decrease of my bills, so are you sure that all inverters use less juice ?

 

The only great point is to be able to eat under the outside unit and almost do not hear it.

 

Thanks.

Time flies. Four years on and mine's still working great. Serviced regularly by Numchai, no problems. Seems quiet enough, but I don't eat outside under it, so YMMV. My electric bill went down substantially 'cause it replaced an ancient "crappy no-name thingy." Perhaps an inverter would do even better but of course they do cost more and you may read various opinions about inverters in previous forum threads.

Numchai will always recommend Daikin or Mitsubishi but the sale I found when I was in dire need was on Hitachis at HomePro. Maybe they are better, even probably, but again you can always find disgruntled purchasers here. 

1 hour ago, wgdanson said:

Wow, which two are they please?

 

Beautiful Day and Mysterious Ways. She also loves City Of Blinding Lights. 

2 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

It's never wrong to show empathy for the suffering of others.

 

To not do so is worrying.

Most Thais do so, however.

42 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

But they do not surround us. That is the whole point.

As has been said, Thais are also individuals. My own gf has all of her life been curious not so much about current events in other parts of the world but certainly about other cultures. She's always known Elvis and The Beatles and can name several songs by U2 she likes. She's formally studied both Marketing and English lit and she's well-traveled in Europe. In farangland, I had gfs who were interested in current events but then had their own spin on them that merely led to arguments. Me, I'm glad to be away from the feminazis.

But I don't see a "right and wrong" here in typical TVF judgmental binary thinking. I don't see how being incurious about matters that don't directly affect one is all the different from the sentiment expressed in The Serenity Prayer. On the other hand, farangs are often most incurious about things that Thais regard as of interest and may well be useful to know about for a more successful adaptation to their adopted country. Lack of helpful Thai attitude explains why so many of our posters are plagued by the hideous brain-eating Whither Thailand? and Whither Pattaya? space monkeys. Once they invade, the only cure is leave Thailand to regain happiness. 

33 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

I am sure that nobody is suggesting that your wife is dumb, and that word sounds slightly wrong to me.

Actually I'm sure some new troll is. The reason it sounds wrong is the OP is talking about "incurious." By making the mistake of saying his wife is "bright," an idea so many posters can't accept in Thais, he left himself open to the expected bashing. 

23 hours ago, robblok said:

Sure gas attacks should be punished but had this happened in an African country without oil  and or oil infrastructure nothing would have happened. 

A bit overly simplistic. In general without potential (here conferred by oil revenues) to threaten our friends and the USA, without using WMD, and with no effort or ability by the official gov't to do anything themselves (on the contrary here, as it was the official gov't perpetrating the crime). 

Finger pointing scenes are staged for the TVF trollertariat who love to point fingers at finger pointing scenes. Leads to many more page views and clicks. I can say no more. 

On 4/8/2018 at 8:59 PM, wildewillie89 said:

The Mrs, and also her folks, like to have a lot of useless stuff laying around the house that makes it look a tad clattered, but the houses are cleaned everyday. Whereas back home, nowhere near as much stuff laying about the place, but by no means was the place cleaned as often.

We just added a storage space when we built the outdoor kitchen, so now inside is a win win.

It all depends. Most Thais I've known have been pretty neat and clean. Sometimes housekeepers help with that.

Back home I have some friends fanatically neat & clean while others practically live in a pig sty. The older they are, though, the more junk they've accumulated. I can hardly turn around in one friend's house w/o knocking over something. Open the drawers and closets of some of the neatest and there you'll find a big mess--the neatness is only outward. :) As some poster has said, Westerners have more non-family guests over.