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On 11/8/2017 at 8:41 PM, Grumpy Duck said:
As mentioned in the article many of them had no visas seems to indicate the futility of banning certain countries. How did that work out for the coward in the US White House?
He was replaced last November.
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On 11/8/2017 at 12:46 AM, Krungbin said:
Good work. But I thought that the FBI 's juridiction was limited to the USA only....
Did the article say any arrests had been made by the FBI in Thailand? Law enforcement agencies in different countries collaborate with each other routinely; 'certainly nothing new. Sometimes more effectively than others. The entrapment issue however, using children, is a far bigger concern, but one that doesn't really surprise me.
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16 hours ago, Ossy said:
Jumping Jack Flash strikes again, saving a life or two, in the process . . . a good idea from Pattaya, for a change.
"...saving a life or two..."
They'd have to pretty much cancel PATTAYA to do that!
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I pretty much agree with trogers. You can go with your notarization strategy (which is certainly reasonable) and see how far you get, but if your wife is not a Thai national at some point I think Bangkok Bank will finally wake up to that fact and stop the mortgage in its tracks. So DON'T advance any funds of your own until you get some kind of commitment to fund the mortgage, and I have no idea what such a commitment from BB would consist of in Thailand. As for the consulate employee's direction, that's a different issue and simply sounds like a typical Thai making stuff up to save face. Good luck!
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Californians, with their over-priced homes, huge mortgages, and high taxes, aren't going to love it much; that's for sure. Hehe Suck it up blue-staters.
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17 hours ago, Rancid said:
Been quite a few articles discussing modern missile technology and the vulnerability of aircraft carriers, suggesting they are going the way of the battleship. The belief is that they are now only good for intimidating 3rd world countries that can't fight back.
Suspect though the carriers have little to fear form N Korea...or they wouldn't be there.
Here's something to maybe consider: when I was a kid fights were usually one on one, however these days they tend to be gangs picking on one person, and we all agree they are cowardly acts. So why then when we see a massive military power invading poor, weak nations with no credible defense do we regard that as an act of bravery? In fact we are supposed to even go and thank them for their service. Maybe I'm just bone ignorant but what am I missing here?
Ah, so, I guess you've been in some REAL trouble spots where you really DID have to prove your bravery.
Well, oh brave, experienced, intrepid battlefield warrior, you should take a spin through an amputee ward at, say, Walter Reed, and let THEM explain things to you. I'm sure you can get your questions answered there.
And THEN, although I realize your military genius derives from all those "articles", maybe you could "upgrade" your awesome tactical awareness with some reading on why carriers operate in carrier groups with different ships tailored to different threats.
Backbiters who've never seen a day... 'Always bending over backwards to share their ineffable wisdom. How fortunate we all are.
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One thing about Trump you CAN'T accuse him of is being a blind party follower... And many consider that a big plus.
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On 11/6/2017 at 10:04 PM, sikishrory said:
His tripadvisor reviews/replies are quite entertaining.
Charges 20 baht for "showing how to open window" or other things like that.
27% of his reviews are negative.
All he has done here is bring light to the fact that his hotel sucks.
Just looked at the reviews on TripAdvisor. Fully one-third of the 81 reviews currently posted there are either "Poor" or "Terrible". There are lots of good reviews and lots of bad reviews. While I realize it's possible for someone to "buy" bulk reviews, good and bad, the bad reviews include specific gripes which the owner takes the time to specifically rebut (perhaps a little too defensively, IMO), so I don't think that's what's going on with the bad reviews here. So it boils down to sort of a he-said she-said thing. I'd be much too risk averse to make a pre-travel reservation at this place. It I were at all interested, I'd start my stay somewhere else and then stop by in person to check the place out. But undertaking to "sue" reviewers just doesn't sound like good business practice for a hotelier: prospects will write the place off just based on that without even wanting to know anything further.
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On 11/5/2017 at 10:14 PM, Banana7 said:
Also, the minimum payable for loss of life should be set at USD$100,000, to be paid within 30 days of death.
If you polled the average Thai with this number, they'd just think you were another crazy farang. So if the western value on human life is a prerequisite for you, I'm not sure Thailand is where you want to be...
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No wonder Bangkok is sinking...
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On 11/6/2017 at 11:05 PM, Jools said:
I will admit to not understanding the Thai attitude toward the law. Many apparently just ignore it without repercussions. Do police have no way of checking up on hotels and landlords who do not report their tenants?? I can't imagine a similar disdain for the law in the USA or UK.
I actually think there was sort of a "crackdown" awhile back, but as I heard it, it was aimed at hotels & guesthouses that weren't "registered" and therefore not reporting guests as is required of them by law. But to answer your question, if you're in the country on a tourist visa, renting a condo, and that's not the address you listed on your arrival card. and nobody does the TM-30, then how WOULD they know? I doubt they have any capability for correlating foreign condo ownership and actual owner occupancy (rather than rental activity), let alone knowing when a condo is being temporarily occupied by a visitor. I would think the most they could do was check their "database" for a particular foreigner (by name & passport no.) and determine that they do or they don't have a current address for him.
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On 11/6/2017 at 9:13 PM, Chivas said:
Beyond me how anyone wouldnt have at least 50,000 or equivalent as bare minumum when flying cross borders. Cards are all well and good until just maybe things go pear shaped as did with me in 1996. It happens believe me and fortunate I was carrying hard currency at that time
Well, it may be beyond you, but I'll bet only a very few have that much cash on them. I've hardly ever had that much on me, but I do have a Thai bank account and travel with backup plans and backup backup plans for cash in case of problems or emergencies. Passing through international airports as well as taxis and other public transportation getting to and from, and lots of loose cash just don't go safely together IMO.
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16 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:
So many "Thailand is not safe, and this is a classic example" bashers on the main thread, must be eating their words now !
BS. The real story here is that conditions in Thailand are such that he assumed he could get away with this! 'The same for insurance scammers in Pattaya claiming LB theft of their gold chains, jewelry & cash because it happens for real all the time. One foreign lowlife gets caught with a scam of his own and you think that erases the lack of safety that DOES exist. 'Don't know who's eating their words, but I do see a "classic example" of somebody not taking their meds... (And, really, aren't you a bit old for a pacifier?)
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2 hours ago, ilostmypassword said:
So I guess that means that against all the odds Manafort wasn't working for Obama. So disappointing.
He was working - and committing crimes - for himself, failing to declare himself as a Russian "agent" (the highly paid advocate kind, not the 007 kind...) IAW U.S. law and for laundering large sums of money. 'For himself and not for anybody else. Period.
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On 11/6/2017 at 8:28 AM, RichCor said:
On my KasikornBank account they said I'd need to apply for a new card. Haven't done it yet.
Happened to me once. Kasikorn was NOT going to let me reset & change my forgotten PIN (forgotten after a long time away without using it) no matter how much ID I showed them. But something funny happened. During my conversation with the lady helping me she said something which caused me to remember the forgotten PIN. Problem solved.
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19 hours ago, Andaman Al said:
Trump is really testing Karma, and quite soon it is going to come around and bite his head off. So now we have a POTUS congratulating the absolute Monarchs of a country with the worst Human rights violations in the world (the one where all the 9/11 dudes came from). Make America Great Again
LOL. Somebody needs to invent more absorbent crying towels.
People carping right here about corruption ALL the time. But one country DOES something about it, and gets a thumbs-up from Trump for it, and there's just more whining and moaning from the loser wingnut peanut gallery. When Obama issued praise to Saudi Arabia, THAT was supposedly "statesmanship".
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If the time comes, in-theatre interoperability (at multiple levels) is going to be important. 'Makes perfect sense to hold such exercises unless you're a backbiting Ameriphobe who's cheering for the other side. Whether or not it happens to make an impression on a whackjob psychopath dictator who's been threatening the world with death & destruction for years and is addicted to incessant provocation and acts of war, and his sympathizers, is neither here nor there.
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Lately ThaiVisa has been slightly "off". Icons (eg., the "like" icon and bar) weren't loading and sometime ad pics didn't load. At other times it's just plain slow to load a topic by clicking on link in their newsletter, or the newsletter link takes you to the wrong topic or a 'can't-find-it' notice. At the moment all back to normal. But if the cursor problem isn't just with ThaiVisa, then the explanation lies elsewhere. If your experience happened to me, I'd first make sure it was just the one browser doing it and not all other applications as well, and then google that browser by name with "slow cursor" or something like that. If I was having the problem with ALL my software, I'd be thinking about simply reinstalling the mouse driver (and also carefully reviewing any recent changes I'd made - new software, a change to configuration settings, etc.)... If THAT didn't fix it, then malware scans would be in order.
'Just one additional thought: Skype definitely never played well on my PC, and was causing problems not unlike those you described. 'Seemed to interfere with lots of stuff. I got rid of it on a colleague's advice, and the problems immediately cleared up.
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I wonder what the problem with the transit visa actually is. Just curious. That would seem the most logical way of dealing with your initial arrival, and although I've never so far had to do it myself, people must have to do the transfer between Suv. and DM all the time and it's not like Bangkok isn't sort of a regional hub. Did you try inquiring with the airline about the "barcode" thing? They might know what that's all about. But I would have thought your confirmation showing itinerary & details & booking no. would've been enough.
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20 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:
Try the ladyboys then, but be prepared for a snatch.
To avoid the snatch, don't wear any gold !
...and a football helmet wouldn't be a bad idea.
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So everyone's all agape just over the fact that this guy had 3 passports?? THAT'S your gripe with him? Seriously?
'But has as much to do with the purpose of Mueller's investigation as the actual charges against him. Mueller is simply using the time-tested prosecutor tactic of the threat of serious prison time for entirely unrelated offenses to squeeze the nice juicy fabrication out of him against Trump that's he's after. Most people will say anything to escape up to 115 years in the slammer.
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"Four more rape complaints against police officer impersonator"
Did they check to make sure this isn't just another Hollywood actor who got on a plane? They're used to the whole role-playing thing, and some are looking for new jobs...
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5 minutes ago, George FmplesdaCosteedback said:
Indeed!
And the sooner the UK leaves this EU nonsense the better.
Like Europe really ever needed another layer of bureaucracy in the first place...
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4 hours ago, Thai Ron said:
' course they can be sex offenders but they're not the ones showing up in the figures in Thailand, are they???
The sex offenders showing up in the figures in Thailand are Caucasians.
The data doesn't lie
"The data doesn't lie." Catchy. You should put that to music. So what "data"? Please give us a link to this "data". Who collects it and how is it collected? Just plain racist to think this is a white-only crime. It's a form of prostitution, and, like prostitution generally, foreigners most definitely did NOT introduce it to Thailand, though the xenophobes would like you to believe that and the parrots love to repeat it. Foreigners merely avail themselves of something pre-existing, which means they're hardly the only ones participating. Get real.
ko sarn road out of control?
in Bangkok
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It's amazing how many farangs come to Thailand apparently to people-watch fat people. Then the next stop is the forums here to report (for the benefit of those not lucky enough to have any fat people to watch themselves I guess).