ChrisKC

No, you are the only one!!

Roads are not dangerous - drivers are. My points remain valid in my first post and in my response to your comment. In addition, I have never had an accident myself either in my car or, on my bicycle for the last 25,000 kms. I KNOW there are lots of accidents all over the place, I read about them and I have commented many times on this forum.

What I have written is absolutely correct. I have seen the aftermath of accidents - quite a few - but I didn't witness anything myself which is my main point. In the overall scheme of things there are trillions of precise points where accidents can happen and still I have to be there at a precise time to see anything actually happen and only once - last year in fact; a motorbike crashing into a car.

Nowhere in the world is 100% safe if one is in the wrong place at the wrong time. I am not scared of anything! Even very bad driving in Thailand has me having seen only one accident actually happen in more than twenty years and that didn't involve me or my bike or my car!

You could move to Phuket, Its official - The Governor there says the fog and smog are normal natural phenomena

That will save the Governor from doing anything!

She is a pretty girl but I would prefer 10,000 police on the road doing their job!

I got mine when I was 65 (2010)

100 checkpoints- 10,000 checkpoints wouldn't be enough for reasonable Thailand coverage. As long as you don't meet a checkpoint or turn around when you see one, you will be fine - drunk or not.

The chart below shows my figures for blood pressure for the last seven weeks. They show three consecutive measurements, early morning and late evening Three measurements recorded plus the average in the next column and a final column for the two averages to calculate the average daily measurements The 1's and 1/2's in the rows reflect the medication. either a whole tablet or just half - they are made to easily break in half. My readings show I am within acceptable levels with the odd blip for which I have no explanation. I use an Omron.

Another conjugation of the word is pedantry - idiomatically, the "splitting of hairs". Possibly arguing a point that does little to change the subject/object of it! For example. "I have 2000 friends on Facebook". Pedant replies, "I happen to know you have only 1998". ie, the pedant makes a point that is not fully denying it but feels the need to refute on the basis of it being incorrect - but in reality of no significance to the original claim that remains valid and unnecessarily requiring correction! I am now being circumloquacious or a perennial sufferer of logorrhea. ( the spellchecker for this word suggested gonorrhea - Ha! ha).

I am interested in the "stamp" in the OP. It refers to a retirement "visa" Also there is no reference to the Immigration Office it is issued at. It looks a little mickey mouseish to me

Good point. I would also argue why B800,000, when after retirement extension granted, only B400,000 needs to be in the bank!

I should have pre-fixed my story with a disclaimer of it not being an April Fools joke.

A French friend of mine while doing his 90 Day report at Lampang Immigration yesterday, 31 March, was told through his Thai wife, that from 1st of April, upon entering Thailand with a re-entry visa (while on retirement extension), would need to show B800,000 in the bank. This information relayed to me by my wife who's Thai friend was discussing this with an Immigration Officer. As it relates to me, I am returning from Malaysia (after about four days) to Chiang Mai by air in late June and need to be sure this is a fact. I do use an Agent and yesterday they told me they knew nothing of it. In the meantime, I ask on this forum if anyone else knows anything that resembles the opening sentence or if something has been lost in translation. In my written conversation later with the Agent they told me something I am not prepared to publish direct in this forum. Please PM me to find out out what it was - it was very surprising!

Is "suspicion" enough for imprisonment? Another ill-thought headline I think.

Politicians and ethics do not make happy bedfellows.

They are just a load of gizas.

Certainly this is true of many: No such thing as a smiling Thai driver or a jealousThai woman

Control yourself - manage others. Some teachers make the students angry.

I am thinking mountains and molehills here. It happens the other way round as well, if my wife is pushing the trolley through the cash desk area, she pays and while the trolley is moved forward to let other customers start their process, they hand the change to me - because I am closer - nothing "cultural" going on! if it happened in ways described by others during my 20 years here, I didn't notice - that shows how important it - isn't!

It matters not to me where they come from or their race - i only go for those with whom I believe there can be compatibility in love and everyday life. I have had a farang wife for 47 years with incredible qualities and I would choose the same woman again. My current wife is Thai and she also has wonderful qualities that suit me just about 100%. Oh, and I know she thinks equally of me! And I have good reason to believe it for ever! But I don't claim to know the future,

As a Brit, or anyone from a western foreign country, it is almost certain he would have worn a helmet by habit, but knew, here in Thailand, can ride around with impunity from the law and if he doesn't have an accident, he will be fine. He has been unlucky and foolish and these factors have seriously affected the consequences. This man didn't deserve his current predicament but it is understandable it has to come to that. It is interesting that even the time putting on a helmet would have placed him in a slightly different location and a different time and that particular accident would not have occurred; So go most accidents - in the wrong place at the wrong time.

When losing all the 12 points, it is clear they are persistent offenders but most of these will never be caught anyway, as there is no enforcement. Everybody is driving around with virtual impunity. In any event, nothing noteworthy will change.

Is there a test for improvements to bad attitude?