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2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Have Jomtiem required you to submit a TM30 previously, for eg when doing a 90 day report or Re-Entry permit? 

In your circumstances, I would not do a report, as I have been told it is not necessary by Jomtiem. I am on a retirement extension, living in the same place for many years. 

Same here.

2 hours ago, unamazedloso said:

Whats interesting is that there are people demending government funding and a new taskforce to go out and catch people and put out fires but this already exists. Police, forestry department and army are there to up hold the law and all have the right or i should say duty to stop this and fire brigades are supposed to put out out fires. Its just these idiots are too stupid and lazy. Nothing will ever be done. Stupid government allows continuing burning which serves absolutely no purposes what's so ever apart from killing the population Its insanity!

I wonder if the government believes that the slow killing of people is justified so that just a small group of people can take mushrooms, illegally farm, save time clearing/mulching fields. Seems backwards to me and far more effective to put a bullet in every idiot lighting fires. Who's more important a pathetic undedicated few or the rest...??

"Whats interesting is that there are people demending government funding and a new taskforce to go out and catch people and put out fires but this already exists."

Demanding, or dementing?  ????

9 hours ago, nauseus said:

We can petition!!

They paid no attention to the referendum, they pay no attention to their constituents, they pay no attention to their party leaders. Do you seriously think they will pay attention to a petition - particularly one from TV members.

Maybe they would pay attention to a tank in front of Parliament. But I doubt it.

12 hours ago, nauseus said:

We're just brainstorming - someone might come up with a good idea. 

And what if they do? You think anyone that matters is listening? The MPs certainly are not!

Gaia always wins-eventually. Homo Sapiens has not existed for long, and will not remain for long - in terms of geological time. There may have been earlier versions, now extinct. There may come later versions - they will become extinct. The Earth will continue to rotate uncaring, until it too dies, who knows how, aeons from now.

I seriously doubt that humanity will last long enough to be able to develop a lifeboat so it can abandon the planet. Meantime, there is a problem......too many people. Gaias' answer? A cull. Generally known as "war", sometimes "plague" or "famine", occasionally "genocide". And of course, "natural disaster". All normal and continuing processes to cull the population and reduce the pressure of numbers. Wring your hands, blame politicians, or industrialists, or terrorists, religious extremists, insane dictators, you name it - it is all Gaia at work, protecting herself. Not even from You, individually or collectively, but from the pressures put upon her. It is mere hubris to believe you matter.

What a surprise. Could be LOS.

Do any of you seriously think that your opinions, expressed here on TV, will make one whit of difference to the process or outcome, one way or another? All just hot air.

23 hours ago, essox essox said:

I have been told inverters are MORE expensive but in the long run they actually save money on electric....am thinking of getting two myself.....what is the best make??

Daikin. Quiet, efficient, reliable. 

Look out for triffids......

https://images.app.goo.gl/6qtMGA7Ssomay6kK7

Nongprue is and has always been one of the dirtiest municipalities in Thailand. Every road verge is full of litter, and dotted with fly-tipping concentrations. The fly-tippers are quite blatant, and every so often someone sets light to the tips, resulting in clouds of toxic black smoke. Cement lorries wash out their drums into the ditches, leaving solid lumps of concrete. 

The roads in Nongprue are a disgrace, collections of potholes joined together by sub-standard blacktop, and filled with gravel which washes out with any rain.

The road around Chaknork has collapsed twice because of poor drainage, design and construction. 

Time for a cull at  the top.

There are card limits, account limits, and machine limits. The card and account limits are personal to you, and it may or may not be possible for you to change them, and may be possible at the atm if you have additional id. Machine limits are set by the bank, and depend on location. A 7/11 site atm will have a  much lower limit than an enclosed bank cubicle, or a 5 star hotel lobby.

9 hours ago, Thakkar said:

 

Let me help.

Study after study after study shows that the vast majority of Americans are in favor of gun control. So what’s preventing such legislation—which can be done without breaching the 2nd Amendment—from being enacted? Various local,  state and federal congresspeople, the vast majority of them Republican, but a good number of Dems and independents as well, are beholden, not to their voters, but to pro gun interests.

 

It’s really that simple. You don’t have to be American to understand it.

 

Also, the 2nd A is not God’s law. It’s Man’s law—it too can be changed.

There is a good reason for US gun laws, ISIS, Al Quaeda, IRA, Palestine, radical Islam, the Gulf War, ,....the list is long. 

Follow the money.

1 hour ago, dlclark97 said:

Coming from Sukumvit down to where there is a 'Y' junction 1-2 km from Sukumvit turn right, there is a Thai outdoor furniture store on the corner.  After turning there take the first left before the 7/11 and procede a few meters.  You will see it on your right.  A GPS location to search is Samui Tek a SCUBA/diving service and repair facility.   

Why not just post a Google Maps link?

Was he an oxygen thief?

It's also possible that the height was posted, and the truck should have fitted. But after years of road "maintenance", adding layer upon layer of blacktop, and not re-surveying the site, the hole is no longer as tall as it was?

10 hours ago, Kieran00001 said:

How the hell can anyone stab themsleves in the stomach repeatedly until dead?  Unbelievable!

Japanese do it. Seppuku.`

I always use Centrepoint. It adds a few km and sailing time to the journey, both sides, but rarely any great queue. Ferries are in better condition, (not saying much). I believe there is a mafia war going on, signs to the ferry keep disappearing. 

The shortest road to centrepoint is quiet, but very potholed. Mr Google is your friend!

1 hour ago, Andre0720 said:

Quite right.

The only thing that can explain these accidents that happen just about al the time is that 'hell came down' in this part of the world.

So far as I am concerned, Phuket IS hell.

Certainly on the roads.

Green = Police can stop you and fine you, but they must invent a good reason.

Amber = Police can stop you and fine you, but they must invent a reason.7

Red = Police can stop you and fine you.

Flashing Amber = Police can stop you and fine you, if they are fast enough.

Flashing Red = Police can shoot you.

Flashing Green = Lights have gone fawlty.

2 minutes ago, GalaxyMan said:

I have a dark blue 'house book' that we got when we bought the house, but it is only in GF's name. What would I need to do to acquire the yellow house book in order to get the pink ID card?

My farang wife and I "own" our house on usufruct, our names in Thai appear on the chanote on the last entry, the previous entry is the legal landowner, a trusted Thai friend. We have a blue book, with no name showing as resident.

We are in the frustrating process of getting a yellow book. The Amphur (Sattahip) wants to see, and copies of:-

The Chanote

The blue book

Power of Attorney from Thai owner

Signed copy of the Thai owners Id card.

Our passports, all the usual visa, extension, etc. pages

Translation of the passport pages into Thai

Names and transcriptions into Thai of our parents' full names.

Certificates of Residence, fresh, from Immigration.

Ourselves both to be present

A Thai witness who knows us personally to be present, with copies of I'd and blue book. (Any old Thai from the street won't do!)

An appointment with the boss lady is required, phone before you go. No queue!

All this has been done, last week. "All three of you to attend in two weeks time to collect the book. We will phone you."

No money asked for as yet, and we will try for pink cards immediately on getting the book.

I will post a progress report in due course.

10 days and waiting. This is our third attempt to get the yellow book, best yet, always something wrong on previous attempts, its like herding cats.

and they wonder why they have "poor air quality" throughout the province!

7 minutes ago, simon43 said:

I think you are confusing territorial waters with economic zone.  Territorial waters end at 12 nautical miles from shore, economic zone is 200 nautical miles.  Thailand is moaning because this seastead was within it's 200 mile economic zone.

Never let factoids stand in the way of a good court case - or a good lynching.

1 hour ago, Dumbastheycome said:

I am  wondering if Thanathorn  had put the sale of his shares in process and thereby assumed that  covered the  legality of his political aspirations. But te EC is  pushing the  point of law  on the basis that  until the shares were actually transferred from his  name he technically contravened the  regulations.

Sadly it would seem that the legal argument will most likely  follow the petty course of  nobbling him.

 

10 years in jail is hardly just "nobbling" him.