Old Croc

I met a Brit in Phuket who climbed Everest. Funny, I couldn't find his name on the comprehensive lists of those who have achieved it. (I can confirm Bear Grills was there)

Not so much a press conference as a propaganda rally. Is Nikolay Goebbels gong to show some videos?

A little bit further back the divider is a couple of feet high. I'm not sure if the loss of control happened from there.

Everything comes to he who waits. Approval email received, outside working hours, last night.

No it's not, there are limits. Under those limits they are not speeding. The road speed limits in Thailand Vehicle Type Within the built-up areas (km/h) Outside the built-up areas (km/h) Within the motorway[3] (km/h) Car weighing 1,200 kg (2,646 lb) or less 80 90 120 Bus and truck without a trailer 60 80 100

Poor maintenance and build quality of buses in Thailand is not a secret nor a conspiracy among members of this forum. It is a fact easily researched on the internet and demonstrated by scores of well documented cases involving fatalities. You would remember all the brake failures of buses on Phuket hills resulting in many deaths. In your arrogant and insulting rants (and calling out typos) you seem to think people here need to prove to you everything they state.

I didn't notice that google glitch when I posted. lol

Thanks. It's been a calendar week which means 5 working days. Submitted 0642 (am) on Monday 7 March. I'll give it a couple more days and try to submit it again.

The new reporting system worked well for me last time around, and when I received a reminder email this time I happily spent a couple of minutes to again endorse it. (This despite thoughts about the uselessness of a system where they complete all the paperwork including my address) However, it has been languishing in the pending box for more than a week now. What's my next move - wait longer, ignore it altogether, go old school and post in all the paperwork (IO is too far to visit for this purpose), ring my local office or something else?

Forgoing theories on demographics, kinetics, Lord of the Flies law making. lectures on glass thickness, flight trajectories of struck bike riders and rich men's "get out of jail free cards", I usually tend to go with the Occams Razor Principal. That leads me to believe that the rich, entitled driver of the exotic sportscar was probably driving very fast and recklessly. This from the link supports my thoughts: "It is reported that Mr Pornmet, the 3rd and youngest son of Ms Jiratha Songmetta and Police General Wirachai, hit the Yamaha Fino motorcycle from the rear while making a sudden lane switch on the motorway. He admitted to causing the accident by carelessly making an unexpected and sudden lane change in his high-powered car."

This is where it happened - opposite view to the camera. It seems the bus collected the dividing curb, took out the pole in the centre picture and then the 90 k sign just before the overpass. Opinions on whether he was under that speed in the outside lane may vary.

I once had a post deleted and was warned about insulting language because I used the word "P-m" to describe a fine English gentleman. (The o is deleted in case someone reading now becomes incensed) My rejoinder that even the BBC uses it on air occasionally was ignored. Try a search of the forum for the word now..

The wife is the one who cheated.

On the same basis I believe Ecuador is claiming Middle Earth.

I did exactly that last year basically for the same reasons. You don't need to leave the country to change your extension from retirement to marriage as long as you entered on a NON-IMMI visa. It doesn't specify it has to be an "O". The "O-A" also allows the change. See section #18 here: Visa Extension – สำนักงานตรวจคนเข้าเมือง – Immigration Bureau There is a lot of extra work for the officer to process the initial marriage extension and many will be reluctant, lie about the legality or even just refuse to do the change. Palms may need greasing, up to you. The TM7 form is used. I was with my lady for more than a decade so the relationship was easy to prove with many photos, passport movements etc, If your relationship started recently they may doubt your motives. Either way they will visit your home as part of the initial application and take pictures of your living arrangements get statements from neighbors , etc.

As about the forth person to point out that I hadn't addressed the OPs question, makes your post somewhat irrelevant! You failed to read my follow-up post where I admitted that error, and where I pointed out I was answering other subsequent posts that were also not strictly on subject. Interesting that your slightly hysterical, hot and sticky under the collar, attack was centered on me not the others who initially committed the grievous crime.

Probably plenty of members here are ancient enough to remember "The Ipcress File" with Harry Palmer playing spy games in the sixties cold war. A new mini-series has just been made and is available now. He's no Michael Caine, but Joe Cole, in the main role, grows on you. The Ipcress File (TV Mini Series 2022– ) - IMDb

That's how religions work. They thank their "gods" for the good things, but explain away the bad by blaming others.

Oh my! The topic was hijacked (expanded) and discussion evolved to include limits for in-bound funds. Never has such a thing occurred before! I plead guilty to answering some latter questions and not the original query! I guess I thought someone would have addressed this fairly common inquiry. If the OP is still hoping for answers to his original questions, I can advise it rarely comes from those ever ready to jump in just to criticize. I'm fairly sure Wise doesn't transfer funds out of Thailand, but best to ask them. DeeMoney does transfer funds from Thailand. Try them.

Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions about Thai baht (THB) transfers. How much can I send? You can send up to 2 million THB per transfer. Please note that you’ll only be able to send 50,000 THB or above per transfer to the following banks starting from 7 January 2022 due to regulatory changes: Bangkok Bank Public Company Kasikorn Bank Siam Commercial Bank You can still send money to recipient accounts that use other banks, but you’ll only be allowed to send them up to 49,999 THB per transfer. There’s no limit on how many transfers you can create.

Two cricketing legends, Rod Marsh and Shane Warne, passed away within a day of each other. Olympic gold medalist cyclist Dean Woods also dead at just 55yo. Also gone is John Landy, the second man to break 4 minutes in the mile and who pushed Bannister to be the first. He was 91. Bad times for Australian sport.

Historically, Russians launder their money in the small EU states of Malta and Cypress. Corruption abounds on these Islands. The latter is colloquially known as "Moscow in the Med". Many have bought "golden" passports (citizenship) from these countries. Under pressure from the EU and US this is changing.

Wise transferred over 23oK in to my K bank this week.

I can't see how they hoped to make money from Chinese covid medicine. They can't even give the real stuff away!

Again, abusing the system to live long term in a foreign country because of vagueness in the law and it's interpretation by individual officials, is fraught with risk. Whining about it when it becomes more difficult is dumb. (A "d" word) I commented on these pages some time ago about the possibility of tightened entry rules following the border closures. Never any sympathy from this 800k baht, enforced scam insurance buying, temporary entrant.