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There were hoards of people who couldn't speak a work of English waving British passports and going straight through.

Good gawd man where were you, sounds as if you had landed at the Hadj terminal at Bradford.

Two assumptive posts intimating that

A - You know the ethnic background of the immigration officer (which was not indicated in any way by the person who posted about the situation)

B - That it is in somehow relevant to the scenario.

It's offensive and bigoted and you need calling out on it. Projecting your own racist views onto someone else's experience with the intimation that race is in any way relevant is offensive, bigoted and illogical.

Just to reassure people that, whatever is on the Hull website, you DO NOT need 800k in the bank, UK or Thai, to get a 1 year Non-O multiple entry visa from them for over 50 retirement. You just need to send last 3 mths UK bank statements showing income/receipts into that account per month of over 1400 GBP...

Do they care at all about payslips? ie if someone happened to have an offshore account and ensured that 3 transfers for £1400 occurred each month for the 3 months prior to application, would that be sufficient?

If so you could just transfer 1400 back and forth perhaps..

looking at the charts on the bbc today I see the £ is up against the $ yet £ is down against the bht, strangely it looks like the rate in the UK is better than here! Still its above 50 so hey ho.

On primarily blind faith, and a bit of amateur technical analysis I think there's some growth left in the £, I think $1.62 and B$52 within the next 30 days.

Did you order on a western card? If so, state you wish to cancel all orders and inform them that you will file a chargeback if they do not cancel and give a full refund. Refuse any delivery, and if they do not refund file a chargeback - you have not 'received the goods as promised at the time of purchase' which covers you for a claim on most western issued cards.

Might also be worth finding out from your card issuer whether the payment was presented as a 'cardholder present' transaction - often in Thailand this is done for phone and web orders, in breach of all t's and c's for the merchant.

If you paid via bank transfer - you might be a bit stuffed unfortunately.

Well..... Allah has going very tech-warrior, hasn't he... lol

Any idea what platform the site ran on?

They ('hackers') have blocked 2nd mouse click.. Assuming to avoid people checking source code.... They haven't coded it correctly to stop it been viewable though..

Makes me think some teenage kids have exploited a wordpress site... Just guesing though

Looks like wordpress from googling for 2bangkok wp-content - http://2bangkok.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/

Probably an out of date self-hosted install as usual..

I order a couple of kilos of Bluekoff online every couple of months, usually the blends (Number 2 and Hama) - excellent stuff

They do sell them in MBK, 4th floor I believe, just ask around.

Do you pay a fee for using sedo ? Ie could I advertise elsewhere the domains for sale and get sedo to conduct to sale ?

There's no advertising fee but there's a high commission on sales - 20% - this was fine for me since I wasn't actively marketing, just have a load of domains sat there.

If you're marketing yourself you might want to consider using the Domain Escrow service from Moniker - https://www.moniker.com/domainappraisalbrokerage/domainescrow.jsp in the event of a successful sale, the rates are lower than Sedo.

There's nothing to stop you listing on Sedo with a 20% increase in your desired price for them to market the domains to active domain buyers, and doing some marketing yourself and using Moniker Domain Escrow in the event you find a passive buyer personally - then you get the best of both worlds.

I'm rather surprised by these results so far! Perhaps we young'uns just have the energy, foolhardiness and keyboard skills to participate

I've sold a few on sedo, but only ever had luck with .com domains there and both of them were listed for years before they got a bite. They did make good profit though

I've looked at this several times including freeze framing. The guy with the gold and black t-shirt does not look Thai to me. You can't see a good shot of his face but look at his profile features. He, his friend in the white shirt, and the guy who pulls him off all look similar nationality - but not Thai.

Have a look - maybe I'm wrong, the eyes are getting old now!

I think it's your eyes. He looks Issan to me if I had to be precise but a number of them look Thai, including the guy in the white shirt that is hitting that gets pulled away by the Thai girl. One of the Thai guys doing the beating pops back into a stall with a shifty looking step at 16 seconds in after getting a few digs in and never reappears - looks like he works there to me. The rest of the people doing the beating go off at 2 or 3 different times with distinct groups of people taking them away - I'm not convinced that they were all together before the altercation since they are long gone when others remain.

The other Middle Eastern / South European looking guy in a white shirt that the one in the black and gold shirt is next to at the end was not involved in the fighting in the video, he looks like a passer-by stopping black-and-gold shirt guy from going back again.

Extra respect for the Middle Eastern guy in the dark shirt though - having watched it more closely, he was straight in there and pulling people away all through the video.

Whatever triggered it it's a very difficult situation, if the victim happened to put up a decent fight he'd probably end up murdered - even not retaliating he got a nasty kicking. Anyone getting involved (I'd say particularly a foreigner) is likely to receive the same treatment, the Middle Eastern guy was very brave in that situation. If a group of foreigners got involved I'd place bets on bystanders joining in on the other side with no knowledge of how it started - it would just mushroom in that kind of environment.

What started it could have been anything, I could easily imagine that he could have stumbled into them given he was drunk, stepped on their feet or something. Whatever it was it seems to me that the only course of action for the victim once kicks and punches started flying was to play dead.

These new designer drugs might have cute names , but i have seen the heart breaking damage they do to the abusers. Chemicals are bombarding our cells every moment, no need to introduce new and toxic ones.

Just breathing city air and eating fast food will keep your synapse busy enough.

It's not one of these new batch of 'bath salts' type drugs by the way - has been around for decades, since the early sixties.

I'm so out of it I don't even have a clue as to what sort of reality altering this stuff does! And why no photo and finger pointing?

It's a dissociative, whilst it's commonly stated that it's 'horse tranquiliser' it is (also) used in medical environments for humans usually in conjunction with sedatives for anaesthesia.

Without the sedative, it doesn't make people sleep but from the users perspective it alters perception of reality - depnding how much they take this can be anything from minor visual hallucinations to intense dream-like states in a similar manner to LSD.

From an outward perspective it makes users drool, slobber, stagger (or fall over) and talk gibberish for half an hour or so. This video is almost certainly of someone on it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Xvj4Ud-RKrM#t=304

Aside from the obvious health risks associated with not being able to control your body when things like buses and trains exist, and aside from some very rare cases of respiratory failure (caused by people doing things like falling asleep in the bath), it's not generally considered to be a potential instant killer like, for example Heroin. For many years it was unclassified in the UK - its Class C (the lowest level of illegal) now. Tolerance increases with heavy, repeated use and long term effects of heavy usage are known to include kidney damage, to the point of the need for kidney transplants.

Tried to sign up for the Ebay account tonight with the SCB debit card and it would not go thru,

Plus ebays sign - up page will not let you use an email the same as your account name , so now I have to get another gmail account

I've never been able to link my SCB debit card, I think because of Thai script in the name (and SCB wouldn't give me it in westernised form)

In terms of the email though, if you use gmail there is a hidden feature that means you can have multiple accounts with the same email address. If your email address is dave@gmail, you can also use dave+ebay1@, dave+ebay2@, dave+ebay3@ with gmail, all of these will come to your inbox, and you can set up filters to label them if you want. Basically realemail+anythingyouwant@ works

Thank you very much for the detailed response, some very good information there

Whilst the guidance states that there is no requirement for an applicant for a long term visit visa to have held a shorter term one previously, anecdotal evidence suggests that, in Bangkok at least, applicants are unlikely to be granted a long term one unless they have previously had at least one 6 month one.

It is up to you how long she applies for; but remember that if they issue her with a shorter term than she applied for they will not refund the difference in fees.

She did previously have a 6 month Tourist Visa so hopefully this may help!

Or you could consider returning to the UK to live long enough for her to be naturalised as British. Even with the long absence this year, it would only be about three years from when she first entered the UK with he settlement visa. Though you'd have to make sure she didn't spend more than 270 days out of the UK during that period and no more than 90 days in the final year.

Just to clarify, since I will also be doing this soon - does this mean you must apply within the last 30 days of the active entry stamp, or before the last 30 days?

Also, on a related note, if the Visa has expired (ie, you entered and received a 90 day stamp on the last day of the visa validity) does this matter?

The visa was issued for the purpose of settlement, and your wife no longer intends to settle, so no that visa couldn't be used for a family visit.

Your wife may get away with using it and may be admitted to the UK without question, on the other hand if the IO at the border questioned your wife and was satisfied that there was a change of circumstances, which there is, she could be denied landing and returned home, this could effect any future application.

That's a worst case scenario, but it could happen.

Thanks for the reply theoldgit - it's pretty much what I thought was the case.

It's a tricky situation though since I'm not certain we'd get a Tourist Visa, I expect applying for one would nullify the Settlement one, and it was an expensive rigamarole to secure (and I'm sure even worse now with the new rules)

I guess we have to try and sort out meeting the requirements for and applying for one of these 5 year / 10 year family visit visas. It's not worth the risk of her being refused entry on the Settlement Visa and the impact that will have on any potential future visits.

Hi, wonder if anyone has been in a similar situation

My wife was granted a Settlement Visa to the UK last year, at the time I had a UK co, accommodation etc but the former is now dormant and the latter is no longer rented by me.

After 6 months living in London, our situation changed and we're now able to live in Thailand, which we prefer. We moved back out early this year.

At present my wife still has 12 months or so on her Settlement Visa, we'd like to visit the UK for a couple of weeks to see family with our baby but I'm concerned that the Settlement Visa is not designed for this, and that we might struggle to obtain a Tourist Visa now that there is no financial connection to the UK - we have no interests there any more besides family.

Our baby has a British passport, but really we'd all like to go to visit and I'm worried my wife may be turned away from immigration on the Settlement Visa for entering without the intention to settle.

Has anyone dealt with a similar scenario? Entering the UK for family visits on a Settlement Visa?

Was half expecting that to be honest, looks like I might end up paying 75% import duty unfortunately

I get devices and consumables from http://www.ukecigstore.com/ (and often liquid too) - tend to make a batch order every couple of months for liquids, clearomizers, replacement chargers.

Have found that the batteries wear down after 4 months or so and I just order a whole new base battery unit, I'm sure you can take these units apart and just put a new battery in if you want and save quite a bit.

Anyway I like new shiny things just got 2 new 1300mAh Vision Spinners, adjustable voltage - they are great. http://www.ukecigstore.com/accessories/batteries/Vision-Spinner-1300-big-boi-ego just over 1000 baht, all original, and cheaper than the copies of less powerful models on sale here. Arrived within a week.

If this is in the wrong place I apologise, wasn't sure of the best forum to use so went for General. There have been a few similar topics but they have been archived.

I'd like to find a standing desk supplier in Thailand, ideally an electric / mechanical one - something like this (ideally exactly this):

http://store.focaluprightfurniture.com/locus-Desk.html

or this

https://sites.google.com/site/electriclifter/501-27

Budget is not a big problem, and I know I can make my own / hack some ikea furniture, but I would really like to source a warrantied, purpose-built unit in Thailand (import tax looks like 80% on this, hence the 'in Thailand' bit)

Does anyone know of a supplier?

The conclusion you have come is logically incomplete.

You are assuming the alcohol is changing your personality, perhaps because you do not like the personality that reveals itself when you drink.

It is commendable that you recognise the effect alcohol has on you and moderate your drinking to avoid the effect, but the anger and aggression did not come out of the bottle.

Anger and aggression do have causes, often hidden or forgotten.

I agree that for some it may be the case that they repress (consciously or unconsciously) anger and aggression when sober, but my viewpoint is that for some the anger and aggression arises due to chemical changes in the brain via the introduction of a certain level of alcohol.

It's a bit of a Schrodinger's Cat, if we have an individual who has never thrown a punch or angry words in their life, yet will if they drink too much, if this person never touches a drop of alcohol in their life, are they an angry and violent individual? I'd consider them to not be.

Anyway this is derailing the topic slightly, I just wanted to express an alternative opinion.

As an aside, to the poster @britgent - your comment is of exactly the sort I'd make to a complete stranger when I'd had too much.

I beg to differ Guesthouse, I have known a few guys back in Scotland who were very mild mannered people who would not say boo to a goose, but when they started drinking, they wanted to take on everybody.

You knew a few violent people who presented a persona of being mild mannered, the facade fell away when they got drunk.

Embarrassed to write this but I have to disagree with this.

Unfortunately I suffer from strong personality alteration after too many drinks, and I believe it to be a form of alcoholism more than anything else. Since a teenager, having hit a certain point of intoxication I quite suddenly switch. I get belligerent and offensive until someone rises to the bait.

For me it's verbal aggression, I'm don't go around throwing physical punches (though I certainly trigger others to do so). I have no idea why I do this - it's completely illogical, but I will state opinions that I don't hold simply to provoke conflict. There have been some serious incidents along the way.

Thankfully I've learnt to get better at stopping before I hit this point, and loved ones know the signs and help me away from the situation, but to this day I regularly have sleepless nights thinking back ashamed about things I've done under the influence of alcohol. It's debilitating to be honest.

I'm not on a sympathy-trawl here though, my point is, I strongly believe that for some people alcohol triggers strong personality alteration, and that this is a form of alcoholism. I can accept that this type of behaviour could be symptomatic of a disorder (APSD perhaps) however I believe that in many of the cases of the 'mild-mannered sober person to violent drunk person', it's the addition of alcohol that causes the right chemical conditions in the brain for the disorder to exist. For many, without the introduction of alcohol, it is not there.

Cafe Bicycle a 1 min walk from Ploenchit - (really) great coffee, good food, lots of tables, an upstairs area and wifi

http://www.cafebicycle.com/