Lazybones

15 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Trat is Everything same day !  as with many other IO, god knows what happens if you have to use BKB as I hear it takes them days. Yellow bank its 10 mins.

Phetchabun the same.I did mine yesterday and the bank book statement and letter had to be done on the same day.

4 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

“Illegal” prostitute.  Then legal prostitutes are are approved?  Never attempt to understand the why of LOS.  Just accept it and carry on.  In the last 7 years my ability to think analytically and logically has been diminished.  This is because I have been living in CNX almost on a full time basis.  

As far as I'm aware there is no legal prostitution in Thailand. It's all illegal. 

I have not received email asiannews for about 1 week. Have i done something wrong or are you on holidays? 

Thank you for your helpful replies. That answers my question so I can apply 30 days in advance.

My non O extension based on marriage is due to be renewed on the 27th Feb 2023. I have to go overseas on the 15th March which gives me less than the required 30 days for approval. Can I go overseas before the extension is approved and, if so, how do I get back into the country. 

If not, can i apply early enough prior to the extension due date to give me the required 30 days? 

I did enquire at my local IO but they didn't want to know. 

15 hours ago, kokesaat said:

So, my Thai isn't much special, but นางงามเพ็ญ นาคสวัสดิ์ อายุ 79 ปี นั่งอยู่เบาะคนขับ และนายวิโรจน์ นาคสวัสดิ์ อายุ 94 ปี สามีนั่งเบาะข้างคนขับ tells me that the woman was in the driver's seat and the man was in the seat next to the driver.

 

Miss Ngampen Naksawat, 79 years old, sat in the driver's seat.  and Mr. Wiroj Naksawat, 94 years old, her husband sitting in the driver's seat

I'm booked in March to Melbourne. Cheaper than Jetstar

14 hours ago, Tropposurfer said:

In Australia  where a sign indicates, it is permisable to turn left on red light, after stopping, then proceeding to turn left as long traffic from the right through the green is not interfered with. This has been a Traffic Act Law in most States for a decade or more.

Sadly not Victoria although with the bigger roads than most other states slip roads are generally provided which achieves the same thing

18 hours ago, prakhonchai nick said:

Here in Buriram, when opposing lights both change green together, the usual procedure is that cars that want to turn right expect to go before those going straight on. When I happen to be on "pole position" and am going straight, I invariably force the issue and make the wayward drivers turning right stop and allow me to go first........as is my right. Police are often in attendance, but as one would expect never do anything!

I think you will find that Thai law in this is not the same as elsewhere. In Thailand right turners have right of way so they don’t clog up the intersection

They say they have no parents but then one says "it's ok, my dads in the military"?

18 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Very much so. I used to live near Chumphae and know this road well (major Route 12 from Tak (west) across North Thailand to Mukdahan (east). Despite being a well surfaced road, from Lomsak to Chumphae most of it becomes an ordinary 2-way road which ascends and descends, also twisting and turning among the hills of the Nam Nao National Park. The photo below shows the Huai Tong Bridge which has steep approach roads either side and is curved itself. A good view point.

 

 

 

Also the site where a bus failed to turn onto the bridge after a long curvy downhill stretch, I'm guessing, about 8 years ago. Took to the air and ended in the ravine.  30 or 40 people died. Very sad. 

15 hours ago, Scouse123 said:

Tell me a European country that would carry out such ridiculous and extreme measures as you are proposing just to go on holiday!

 

There would be an exodus, all the way back to countries that didn't enforce such nonsense.

 

Where do criminal record checks start and finish by the way? When are they considered minor? When are they considered ;' spent ' convictions?

 

When you have convicted drug traffickers who served time in Australian prisons, (a country with a strong rule of law and order and a good respectable court system) in the present day Thai government, how is that going to work?

 

Many of the Thais wouldn't be able to leave Thailand if such proposals were put in place by other countries as a reciprocal agreement to such a proposal.

I thought every visitor to Australia had to obtain a visa first? 

Same as happened in Hong Kong some years ago. Tourist area, on a hill, narrow lane.

18 hours ago, Muhendis said:

You're showing you're age.

It's been 230v for years.

Australia has 240v

Yes, Phetchabun, not Phetchaburi

Along time since i went there but I'm pretty sure they have song tor's there to take you across. Used to go all the time for 3 month renewals on O visa.

I am no longer receiving news emails. These stopped from the 30th July. 

17 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

For entry to Laos you will need to get a visa on arrival that is available on the Lao side of the crossing. Cost is about $40 or the equivalent in Baht.

Why not Mae Sai?

On 6/26/2022 at 10:21 AM, petermik said:

No big tour groups here....yet....Vogue would be my choice  ????

In Vogue  now, very quiet no big groups. Looks like it has been renovated. Good value.

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

So stop talking about it and do it.

Isn't that what the pink id card is about?

13 hours ago, Grusa said:

A bit off-topic, because it's not LOS, but here we go.......

A few years ago, a group of 11 of us were stranded for a week in a small village on the west coast of Scotland, having flown in in small aeroplanes. The weather was abysmal and showed no signs of abating, and there was a pressing necessity to return to real life to earn a living. 

The owner of the b&b we were staying in also ran the local taxi, which was an mpv taking 10 pax. He was used to doing short local runs, but a trip back to central Scotland,

especially at night, was not something he was used to.

10 of us signed up for the trip, one elected to sit out the weather. The drive was about 2½ hours. After an hour in driving rain, Iain pulled over and said to me, "Ah canny dae it, A'm fa'an asleep. You drive! and I drove the rest of the way. 

Totally illegal, as insurance would be invalid, and I don't have an appropriate licence, 

but at least we were safe, and no harm done. So far as I know he drove back alone and survived. Nothing was said about it, next time we met.

I didn't even get a tip!

 

That happened to me in a taxi from Bangkok to Phetchabun, 370km. After skulling 4 red bulls, the driver said he couldn't drive and I drove from Sara Buri to home, about 280km.

I did two reports on line and got a 'summission registered' message or words to that effect. For my third report I decided to go to the immigration office only to be told that the first two online attempts  had not been recorded and was stung bt4,000 for not registering so be careful. 

16 hours ago, Willy Wombat said:

I take a pcr test 48hrs before leaving Australia.

A 9 hour flight and i need to take another in Bangkok and pay for a hotel

No thanks

It was 72 hours when I came last month