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Yes, I already filled out TM30 last year, gave them a copy of my Tambien ban, gave the them a copy of her blue book, still live at the same address.

The story they told her today is every time I leave and return to Thailand, they want me to go to Phibun in person and show my passport and TM6.

I think it's BS and I'm not going to do it unless I hear a compelling reason. Next time I'm doing online 90 day reporting and see if they complain too. I would have done it this time but found out about it 7 days ahead of my 90 day reporting but waited until after midnight to find out I was two hours too late.

I was never asked to do it in past years or when I lived in Bangkok. The last time I got a 1 year extension they told me that the next time I left and returned to Thailand that I had to drive to Phibun to report in. I still live at the same address I did when I got the extension, I recorded my new address when I made the first extension in Phibun. all the previous paperwork is in my passport, I brought my yellow Tambien Ban with, he handed it back without opening it.

My wife was with, he asked to talk to here and said I should have reported in within 24 hours of my last arrival, she said we had to do registration all over again, she went out to the car to get her blue tambien ban and ID and when she was gone, he stapled a with an October date in it and I asked "set læ̂w?" he said chi, I said thanks and left. Why he asked for things unrelated to my 90 day reporting, and then went ahead and gave me a receipt of notification anyway. Main question is why they even asked me to go report in within a day of arriving. I'm in their computer from my arrival, have a TM6 departure card.

If it was one specific woman there asking me to come in and say hi every time I flew back here, maybe then I could see a resaon for it but it seems to serve no purpose and I've never read or heard of any requirement like that before, except from immigration at Phibun.

I live in Ubon on a retirement visa. Last extension I was told that whenever I arrive back in Thailand that I need to drive to Phibun within 24 hours to tell them, hi, I'm back. I have a departure card dated when I arrive. Do I really need to make an 85 km round trip to say hi right after a 12 hour flight ,every time I come and go?

Whats the point of 90 day online reporting if I still have to go there in person every time I return? I was hoping to avoid driving to Phibun for beaurocratic reasons and was hoping the online reporting would eliminate that trip.

Last time I didn't go there to report in and today they told me I should have reported there when I arrived, but they gave me a notice of reporting anyway.

What can they do if I just don't report and do my online reporting if I'm here 90 days without leaving. Seems like a waste of time and gas to me.

Mandalay Industries, the latex company?

It is possible to know a language and not speak it when going through immigration.

One of my guidelines has two rules:

1- Never let people know how much you know.

2-

Buriram must be a lot cheaper than Ubon. I looked at dozens of new and existing homes here and a small, new single story home and 100 talang wa of land (barely enough space for the house and a carport) is 3 mil. 1.5 to. 2 mil if she already owns the land.

I'd say put down as little as possible, have her get at least a 15 year mortgage, show the bank you can pay the mortgage payment, the bank will NOT put you on the mortgage or any other papers and if things are still going well after 3 years you could pay off the mortgage without penalty if you wanted.

I also recommend sticking with the "100km from relatives and in-laws" rule should you two decide to build another house.

Had I understood two words in Thai a couple weeks ago it would have saved me ฿10,000 and $20. I am actively studying Thai again.

You're saying that male and female parents provide different roles, but you think it's in the best interest of the child to stay with its non-biological birth mother and grow up in a poor single-parent household?

I'd think two living and caring parents of means a would be better even if they are the same gender.

I've already given the definition of "natural Parenting", that is a mother & father. Don't know what other citations/ references you require, the majority of world's population are borne through male/ female intercourse & children raised in male/ female relationship. That's been the natural process of the human race, surrogacy is a recent aspect, as is

same sex parenting, it's not natural, is it of benefit to a child to be raised I such a relationship? Don't believe any research has been undertaken, maybe, you're aware of such research??

The thrust of what I'm saying is, the issues/ arguments focus on the couple/ adoptive parents, rather think should be on child/ children....what's best for child!!

Why wouldn't it be best for the child to be raised in a loving home even if the parents were same sex?

Male and female parents provide different roles.

The relationship between a father and daughter is quite different from a mother and daughter. Same with sons - a father/son relationship is very different than a mother/son relationship. There are certain things that both sexes go through during puberty that a parent of that same sex helps with.

Then there is the obvious issue of the fact that kids are just damn cruel. So kids with same sex parents can expect to be teased and bullied about it at school.

There's some interesting experiences outlined in Federal Court here: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/adults-raised-gay-couples-speak-out-against-gay-marriage-federal-court - the upshot being that it wasn't so much the gay parents themselves but being brought up in gay communities and socializing with mostly gay friends. In the end the kids having little exposure to heterosexual couples and their kids.

The bottom line is you should not be able to buy a child. Any couple that cannot have children should be screened for suitability before being able to adopt or go through surrogacy. I think that allowing any couples, gay or otherwise to buy a child is abhorrent.

I don't have a dog in this fight but I'm shocked at the bigotry and ignorance I see in the reactions to this story.

I don't know what you learn from watching Fox News but almost 100% of homosexuals are born to heterosexual couples and last statistic I saw showed that children raised by gay or lesbian couples are 90-95% likely to be heterosexual.

I realize a lot of ex-pats are retired and older (I became an ex-pat at 38) and older people are more likely to be conservative but gawd, how old are you people making these ignorant and judgmental comments? When you sneeze or fart, does dust come out?

I've seen children who suffered from hundreds of seizures a day be able to lead a normal life after being treated with cannabis.

I've seen people with squamous cell and basal cell carcinoma apply Simpson's oil topically and the tumors dissapear within a matter of weeks.

I know people who had prostate cancer and had a PSA in the teens that dropped to 3-5 nanograms/ml after using cannabis oil suppositories and were declared cancer free within months and for years after during follow up checks with their oncologist.

I know people who have chronic pain (no pun intended) whose pain was best treated by using medibles. (Cannabis infused foods). Same with people suffering from neuropathy, and idiopathic myopathy.

Studies published in the Lancet UK medical journal showed cannabinoids to be more effective and safer that conventional antiemetics. For many patients it provides the best relief for nausea from chemotherapy and it was just proven that that cannabinoids kill cancer cells in vitro and in vivo.

Even if it only provided palliative relief for terminal patients, to restrict access to a drug that's safer than aspirin is nothing short of criminal.

One reason there is less evidence is because the U.S. And other governments prohibited universities from conducting research. When government-funded studies showed it effective and safe, those studies were defunded and covered up.

It's not a panacea or a cure-all but its effectiveness and safety compared to prescription drugs is finally coming out. The truth will be know soon.

What's up with the quote marks "Arrested with gun". Was he arrested or not?

Are quotation marks some officially recognized Thai loophole I could use if I ever had to tell my with that I

"Had 'sex' with a bargirl who gave me "head" and I "shot a load" on her face?

No wonder Thai language is so hard to learn.

This quite a radical and logical idea but how about adopting a pragmatic drugs policy whose implementation and administration results in the desired outcome?

First step is to agree on the objective. Now the objective seems to be to fill prisons with primarily poor and desperate women, line the pockets of corrupt government officials and occasionally publish PR photos of cops pointing at users and small time dealers caught with milligrams of drugs to show how well the current policy is working. It isn't working.

Surely the objective shouldn't be increased health risks, more crime,tearing apart families and filling the prisons.

Different approaches in other countries have been much more successful in achieving their goals of decreasing crime, lowering societal costs, fewer health problems, less corruption, removing organized crime and violence from the equation and actually helping people who are addicted to drugs get the help they need.

What constitutes "bad rice". Every third bag at Top Market or Lotus Tesco is crawling with bugs.

I think the name of the drug he is addicted to you were referring to is called "nicotine".

I can't think of any other drug that could be mixed with tobacco where withdrawal would cause someone to be violent like that. Never heard of crack or heroin put in a cigarette.

in Europe some people adulterate perfectly safe cannabis with highly addictive, carcinogenic tobacco but I've never heard of adding dangerous substances to something that's already so bad for your health.

The issue of unruly passengers become a wide spread problems in recent years owning

to the facts that many people are a illicit substances users other than tobacco products,

and they miss their fix while on the plane, compounded with the general attitude of disregard

and ill mannered, selfish people whom only think of them selves, so all the above, at

times, culminate in ugly incidents as we keep reading in the media about....

Great news. I hope the focus is on alcohol, nicotine and crack/ya baa.

I have an account with one of the largest banks in the U.S. And have a U.S. Passport. I sold property in the U.S. last year and wanted to send some of the money to my EU account where I am a resident.

Long story shorter, it took 4 weeks from the time I requested the transfer until the time I received the money, and required a flight to the embassy to get the transfer form notarized before I could even make the request .

Two weeks after I sent it they put me on a 3-way recorded calI verifying my information and confining the transfer. The excuse, eerm, reason was to have a record of the "fees and exchange rate".

I can only imagine what kind of hell I'd go through to try to send my own frickin money to my Thai bank.

My advice is go to your U.S. bank(s) in person and set up transfer request paperwork in advance. It might save a week of the 4 week wait.

200฿ per balloon is a huge rip-off and the only real dangers of NO2 are increased risk of miscarriage, damage to lung tissue by freezing if you're dumb enough to suck it straight out of a tank and asphyxiation if you strap an airtight mask over your nose and mouth and pass out. More injuries occur from people doing it standing up, getting dizzy and falling over than from the gas itself.

I'd bet there have been as many deaths from people inhaling NO2 out of balloons as there have been from people smoking cannabis. Zero.

Maybe it's my lack of any outdoor themometers that makes Ubon feel warm but well within the comfort zone even of a Viking from the great white north. My lawn and garden welcomed the semi-daily rains and a little cloud cover though.

If pepper spray is not an option, make your own. We stayed in a hotel for two days and my wife left a near empty plate of somtam (phet phet) in the shower, just the fumes coming off the plate made my eyes water so bad I had to go outside.

Get the hottest peppers you can find, put them in a blender with some vinegar and a little oil, purée them and strain the juice through a coffee filter and get a good quality squirt gun to put it in. I think after being sprayed once they will leave you be.

Our dogs run at the sight of an electric mosquito tennis racket. They must have stepped on one when it was still charged. Probably won't work on dogs who haven't shocked themselves though

Thanks for both tips. They were planted a couple months ago when it wasn't quite as hot and I thought they'd have taken hold by now. I water them deeply and less frequently than the garden but cutting away more grass should help. Not that many weeds to pull.

The umbrella, aside from looking ting tong, gives them shade from about 10 to 4. Photo was from around 5pm.

Does it look more like too much sun, or not enough water though?

I had tendinitis in my knee, super painful. Went to the hospital in Ubon got a cortisone/zylocaine injection, walked out in under an hour and paid ฿1200 including a strip of diclofenac I only took for two days.

Unless they cured you of something you had that they didn't tell you, that sounds like unnecessary treatment and malpractice.

Too much water, too much direct sun?

No matter which orientation I post the photo, the forum rotates it sideways, the plant is growing vertically.

I'm trying to grow a few papaya, mancoot and champoo trees, tomato, peppers, berries etc. in the yard and seriously, the regrowth of vegetation they clear-cut with a front loader next door is doing better after two weeks than my plants and garden after two months. I know champoo prefer shade so I'm trying to give them shade with an umbrella. Would the 85% green or blue plastic shading screen help them from dying off before things get established, or bring in some mature trees?

Ubonrak Hospital posts their per day rate by room type and it's the same price regardless of your nationality. They post the prices of a few procedures, posting all would be difficult unless it was online or on a hospital PC.

I assumed pharmaceutical prices at hospitals in hospitals were more than at pharmacies. It's not different in the U.S. or Europe? I thought it would that way anyplace with higher overhead; drinks at entertainment venues vs. a pub or neighborhood bar, McDonald's at sn airport vs. a suburban drive through.

A private hospital in Bangkok saved my life when a bacterial infection required four, IV antibiotics for almost a week to to get rid of the infection and get my kidneys working again. I saw the results of every test.

Another private hospital in Ubon did a great job fixing my shoulder when it was broken in five places. I was out in under a week and was able to put up a ceiling fan four months later.

Both of them cost less than 3 days stay in a hospital in the U.S. for a minor accident. 35 years ago. $3000 for a week's stay here, and $3500 for five days including extensive surgery.

I'm sure now a similar treatment and stay in a U.S. vs. a Thai hospital is ten times more costly now.