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I know that I should have variety and change in my diet, but the Catering Manager at this hospital seems to have gone too far:

A sophisticated way to keep a toilet clean perhaps?

To be fair to nod - he is not on a tourist visa. You guys have it easy. Not much they can do with an extension for a tourist visa. It is the one year extensions where you get taken into the little room and asked for more money. It happened to me until I changed things.

To answer your question nod - I get my one year extensions/re-entry permits/90 reports and work permit all from Suratthani - but I do it through my agent. Costs more - takes up zero time. I am stilll working so time is money for me.

After years of putting up with the dreadful annual experience in Samui, I have pretty much decided that enough is enough, and plan to get extension and re entry stuff in Suratthani, despite all the trouble of getting there.

Has anyone had any experience of getting the process done there?

I wonder if it's a more civilized experience or maybe just "out of the frying pan, into the fire"?

Cheers.

Sorry to hear that it's always an ordeal for you. Presumably, you've never tried to buy something in the January sales back in England then? ?

I have been coming to Samui on various tourist visas since January 2012, so I've been to the Samui office loads of times to get extensions to my visa entries. Indeed, I've just completed my 8th trip. High Season, Low Season, never had a problem, even when I haven't completed the form the night before. I just make sure I have a photo, 2x 1000 THB notes and a 20 THB note for their photocopying charges. I give them my passport, collect my ticket number and then go into Nathon to have something to eat. Return two hours or so later, collect my passport, and then jump on my bike in order to head back to Lamai. The staff, despite loads of people waving hands, money and passports at them, always remain calm, polite and helpful.

My enquiry regarding doing the extensions somewhere else has nothing to do with not wanting to queue or wait or anything of a snobbish nature.

In fact doing it elsewhere would be much more time consuming.

It's to do with attitude.

Perhaps when you've been doing it for more than a couple of years and are looking for a more complicated visa, you might be more qualified to comment on other peoples experiences rather than making smart a*43 comments!

Perhaps you should consider applying for a job at immigration. You should fit in well !

Hello nod,

I apologise.

Having read Tropicalevo's helpful post, quoted above, I understand now why your experience would be different from mine.You posted your query hoping for practical advice, which, after all, is the whole purpose of ThaiVisa. I agree that my post did not take the matter forward for you. Sorry about that.

Good luck with your future applications.

After years of putting up with the dreadful annual experience in Samui, I have pretty much decided that enough is enough, and plan to get extension and re entry stuff in Suratthani, despite all the trouble of getting there.

Has anyone had any experience of getting the process done there?

I wonder if it's a more civilized experience or maybe just "out of the frying pan, into the fire"?

Cheers.

Sorry to hear that it's always an ordeal for you. Presumably, you've never tried to buy something in the January sales back in England then? ?

I have been coming to Samui on various tourist visas since January 2012, so I've been to the Samui office loads of times to get extensions to my visa entries. Indeed, I've just completed my 8th trip. High Season, Low Season, never had a problem, even when I haven't completed the form the night before. I just make sure I have a photo, 2x 1000 THB notes and a 20 THB note for their photocopying charges. I give them my passport, collect my ticket number and then go into Nathon to have something to eat. Return two hours or so later, collect my passport, and then jump on my bike in order to head back to Lamai. The staff, despite loads of people waving hands, money and passports at them, always remain calm, polite and helpful.

To hear how the English poet, Philip Larkin, sees it, click

Alternatively:

Mothers! Some kids do 'ave 'em!

According to my gf, tipping in Thailand is an insult. Bar girls and the indigent are the only ones to be tipped. Tipping really is an archaic system for bwana to deign his blessings on the 'little people.'

If this is the case, then why do coffee shops and restaurants, staffed by Thais, have a Tip Box, rather than a Charity Box (for the indigent), next to the till?

Due to a water shortage in Ireland, Dublin swimming baths have announced that they are closing lanes 7 and 8.

Just to add a bit of balance, and to show that you should never underestimate the Irish:

Murphy calls to see his old English pal, George, who has a broken leg.

George says: "Me feet are f***ing freezing mate. Could you nip upstairs and get me f***ing slippers."

"No bother", he says. He runs upstairs, and there are George's two very beautiful 19 year old twin daughters, who are sitting on their beds, stark naked.

"Hello, dere girls. Your Da sent me up here to shag ya both, he did."

"F*** off you liar!"

"I'll prove it," says Murphy. So he shouts down the stairs: "You did say both of them didn't you, George?"

"Of course I did. What's the use of only f***ing one!"

Due to a water shortage in Ireland, Dublin swimming baths have announced that they are closing lanes 7 and 8.

I got a letter from Screw Fix Direct thanking me for my interest, but explaining that they were not a dating agency.

"F U N E X ?"

"S V F X"

"F U N E M ?"

"S V F M"

"OK L F M N X 4 T"

Thanks Ronnie Barker !

Are yes well remembered. Click

You're obviously too young, laislica, to remember having seen it first in the BEANO in 1950 ?

I've just opened a new restaurant called Karma. There's no menu; we just give you what you deserve.

Q: What do you call a man with no body and just a nose?

A: Nobody nose.

Q: What's the difference between a fish and a piano?

A: You can't tune-a fish.

Q: What do you call a fat psychic?

A: A four chin teller.

Q: What happened to the wooden car with wooden wheels and wooden engine?

A: It wooden go!

Q: What happens if you eat yeast and shoe polish?

A: Every morning you'll rise and shine.

I married a woman from Newmarket, because I wanted a stable relationship.