simon43

Off-topic for this thread, but very briefly my annual 'retirement' visa costs about $700 USD, with no financial/savings requirements needed. I say 'retirement' visa because there is no such thing really, but the immigration department are happy to give me an annual business visa with 'no work allowed' stamped across it!

On the contrary, I realised many years ago that money does not buy happiness. I used to be a $ millionaire, but nowadays my total assets are probably less than 1 million baht. Has that made me want to top my self? Absolutely not!! I have more than enough money for my needs, including renting a big house and garden, paying for private medical insurance etc etc. I have zero debts and no liabilities. I live in a beautiful and cheap location (Luang Prabang) and have to pay no personal tax, no council tax etc etc. My daily spend on food, petrol etc is less than 500 baht. I have an enjoyable hobby (ham radio) and have a daily income from teaching science online (I have about 280 private 1-1 students across the world). My health is reasonably good and I kicked my 3 ex wives into touch yonks ago! Given all the above, who should top themselves? Me or you? :)

There are only 3 things that my neighbours and friends need to know: 1 - I have no money 2 - The matches are in the top drawer in the kitchen 3 - After using 2) to incinerate me, bin day is on Fridays :) Life is so much more simple when you have no money and no family who cares about you! :)

I would have told her to get out as soon as she said "You can't use that door".... (Having said that, I did make changes [about 20 years ago] to my first small hotel bathroom layout when my mad ex #2 told me that I couldn't have toilets facing north - nowadays I ... er ... poo,poo such talk!)

You do not need to return and live in the UK for a few months to 'restart' your UK state pension at the current rate. You can relocate to the Philippines for that time period because the Philippines is within the UK state pension agreement on not freezing pensions, (so just like EU countries). Move to the Philippines, open a bank account, rent an apartment with rental contract, inform the UK state pension overseas office that you now live in the Philippines, provide evidence of this (bank account, utility bill in your name etc), and your state pension should be restarted at the current amount. After that, move back to Thailand :)

[quote] The department elaborated that the system depends on data from several buoys in the Andaman Sea and other agencies, including the Royal Thai Navy’s Hydrographic Department. [/quote] Not very reassuring when the majority of those other buoys also seem to be 'off-air'...... And what is a 'positional issue'? That suggests that the buoy is no longer in the location where it should be (dragged anchor etc so that the acoustic transponder on the seabed can no longer communicate with the surface buoy.

I had one of those 'extensions' many years ago. It lasted 1 month each time and every time that I had to extend by a further month I had to pay a bribe of about 5,000 baht to the local police in order to get the paperwork to apply to Immigration for the extension. It was an expensive time - you do not want to go there...

I keep an eye/ear on the UK news so that I'm alerted if the British police have finally tracked me down :)

I'm beginning to think you are yet another of the forum shills designed to increase clicks and comments...

I just read the story in his post. IMHO, it is exactly that - a fictional story. So enjoy it as such.

I think if you have high blood pressure, then that could be an opt-out for almost any reason to deny an insurance claim. My claim for prostate cancer investigation was denied because I had failed to disclose my mildly-enlarged prostate BPH), even though an enlarged prostate doesn't cause prostate cancer. When I insured again with a different company, I disclosed absolutely every single medical incident/treatment etc from birth, including a bunion on my right foot and a small scar on my leg when a motorbike hit me when I was11 years old. The insurer probably laughed at my page-long list of minor ailments from 40 years ago, but as a result of disclosing all these things I'm fairly sure that no opt-out reason can be used to deny a future claim. They insured me for everything except my BPH. However, apart from BPH, I'm pretty healthy, no high BP, no high cholesterol, not a lard-bucket etc.

Generally I think Aseannow is not the 'right' forum for long stories like this split into episodes. I think you would get a more favourable response if you posted it on Stickman.

A new coat of paint and it will be as new....

Here in north Laos I have plenty of hens, chickens and ducks that wander around my garden day and night. They belong to my neighbours but can easily access my garden and it doesn't bother me - if you live in the countryside then you must expect animal noise. There are a few dogs here but I find Lao dogs to be very laid back and of the non-barking variety.

This is certainly my aim, and I've been perfecting this idea for many years :)

Your idea would go down like a lead balloon with the local authorities! Do they really want a foreigner to publicise how bad the air quality is?

What 'moron' posted a happy smilie on this post?

Here in Laos the locals decided that 'gly' and 'gly' were indeed too similar. They use 'gy' (far) and 'mor' (near). I speak/read/write Thai to a good level, and my Lao is fast catching up. One 'annoying' factor is that while many Lao words are the same as Thai, the tone is different! So 'song' (number 2) in Thai with a rising tone is 'song' in Lao with a high tone!

They probably squirted some veggie oil at him and rolled him down the road to the jail.....

But he has lots of competition for that position......

Not Thailand, but nowadays I teach science and English 'online' to many young Russian and Ukrainian students who left Russia with their families when the war started. Most of my students have settled in Spain. All of my students are studious and are interested in technical topics, a trait that I often find with Russian/Ukrainian students.

"Gaza could have been like Monaco or Dubai had it not spent its entire existence fighting Israel " Well, perhaps a little exaggeration there :) Gaza is a sh*t hole and the only people to blame are the Hamas leadership and every Gazan citizen that supports Hamas or allows them to stay in power. As for the large number of civilian deaths in Gaza, that's hardly surprising when the civilians allowed Hamas to build tunnels under their homes, hospitals, schools and mosques....

He already has one >>> arguing with and annoying people!

Probably not the best choice of words!!

Having considered all my symptoms and having consulted with the second-best doctor available (Dr Google, Sheryl being the best doctor of course!), I consider this to be a rotator cuff injury. All the symptoms point to that. I'm not keen to go down the surgery route. I've had this injury for 20 years, (and regularly "refreshed" this injury every few years!). I studied a website about physiotherapy exercises that I can do and I'll start these on a daily basis to strengthen my shoulder/injury region. I don't expect to completely resolve the issue just with exercises, but so long as the pain is minor and I have reasonable movement of my arm, then I'm happy. Reminder to self: Stop lifting heavy radio antennas......