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8 hours ago, webfact said:

Paetongtarn shared a video of her father’s visit on her Instagram Story, captioning it with a lighthearted message that read, “Youngest daughter falls ill, Dad rushes over, bringing dinner along - cutest ever! Thanks, Dad!”

And that's our prime minister 

6 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

I met a Thai woman with a throat infection once in a BJ in Pattaya.

Just sayin.

My first thought was - being her father's daughter, who does she have to suck (up to)??

6 hours ago, renaissanc said:

If I had been the pilot, I'd have said something like this to the control tower. "We are going to crash as a result of no fuel left. I want to know each of your names for the plane's voice recorder. The investigation will find out anyway. Then you can all be jailed for life after the crash." I'd have added a few expletives as encouragement.

If I had been the pilot I'd head to the nearest alternate airport.

5 hours ago, Woke to Sounds of Horking said:

The Borg can always deny you travel privileges based on your sociability / alignment with the narrative, whatever that narrative be.

They can and do even with lowtech.

1 hour ago, newbee2022 said:

Is the UN a international body?

Few civilians? Women, mother's and children?

Who gaslighted you? 

Geez😱

Is the UN an international body? Theoretically yes. However, it has been proven without doubt that many of the UNRA personnel ARE Hamas terrorists.

As for UNIFIL in Lebanon - Hizballah terrorist built camps and dug tunnels next to their bases and posts. So are they credible for anything? 

More so - the UN secretary general has admitted that ALL numbers they have announced were supplied by Hamas "officials" and no UN nor any international body has checked the numbers, and he also admitted that the numbers submitted by Hamas were blown up well out of proportion and the numbers are less than half of what was advertised. 

Hamas also count ALL dead as civilians. They never gave any numbers for terrorists.

2 hours ago, brfsa2 said:

cool, how does that work? does it sound an alarm?

 

With the good (and expensive) ones you can set a perimeter on an app. When the dog goes near the "fence" there'll first be a bip sound, if the dog continues there'll be a vibration and then static shock. 

2 hours ago, bigt3116 said:

 

I was also informed that if you take the pension, you can NOT continue with the 432 baht for healthcare, and that is too greater benefit to give up

Don't know how your quote got messed up. 

However, at that time I was told by the officers that I could take the lump-sum and still continue getting medical cover for about 400B / month. They even said I had 6 months to decide AFTER getting my lump-sum.

13 hours ago, KhaoNiaw said:

It's sometimes been suggested here that you get the choice of taking a lump sum. In fact, there is no choice. If you have paid into the system less than 180 months, you get a lump sum. If you've paid 180 months or beyond you get the monthly pension. 

Don't know if there were changed to the system in the last 10 years or so, but around that time I was at the border line and at the right age. I was told by the social security offices that I can choose between a lump-sum and monthly payment, but if I make 1 more payment to them then I could only have the monthly payment.

17 hours ago, iGiveMaximum said:

Hi,

 

been together with my wife for 10 years next month and taking care of her daughter (12yo) for 10 years as well.

I would like to adopt her so that she won’t need her biological dads signature for official stuff like changing schools anymore etc.

 

My wife and I don’t know where to start.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

Thank you🙏🏻

You're mixing 2 issues here. 

When officially married couple have children, both parents have parental rights of the child, even if they later divorce. I guess that's what happened with your wife. If they were not officially married when the child was born only the mother has parental rights, even if the father is registered on the birth certificate.

If both the child's parents are alive and hold parental rights - you won't be able to adopt the child without the father giving up his parental rights willingly or by court order. Only then you'll be able to start the adoption process.

On a side note, if the father has neglected the child or is unavailable to carry his duties such as signing documents needed for the child, the mother can request the court to grant her sole custody of the child and then she won't need the father's signature or approval for anything. So I guess that's what your wife has to do first. However, I'm pretty sure that in order to adopt the child officially you'd still need the father's approval.

23 minutes ago, geisha said:

Do the poor old age living on the streets get anything ? 

Yes they do (or can) - there are government programs for helping the poor. They get an allowance to shop for good and necessaties, tied to their id card, with which they can shop at participating shops. When they reach the age of 60 they get 600B \ month as old age benefits (every Thai citizen gets it regardless of their financial state). There were talks recently to increase it to 1000B \ month, but hasn't happened yet.

25 minutes ago, sambum said:

And you probably knew a few that died in their 20's 30's 40's (Road accidents etc) 

Yes I do, but dying by accident has nothing to do with retirement age

5 minutes ago, brfsa2 said:

 

If you have money (1000Baht) and already have an iPhone: Apple Airtags with a good case (500-1000Baht) so the dog wont eat it.

 

if you are on a budget: I cannot recommend anything, as they are all mostly crappy and nothing works as close as good as the AirTag. Besides the Airtag battery last like 1-2 years (if it's a genuine CR battery)

Problem is airtag only shows you where the dog is. The GPS wireless fence actually limits the dogs from going out of your yard.

26 minutes ago, Hummin said:

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9K1DWNC/ref=sspa_mw_detail_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9kZXRhaWw

Thank you :)

21 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

The 'Body snatchers' as they are called, take you to which ever hospital pays them the most to deliver you !!...  (or thats how it used to be - with these 'foundations').

Not exactly. As those services are local, each organisation works with 1 specific private hospital in their area, so they won't go to a hospital they don't have a deal with. About 10 years ago they'd get 300 BAHT per injured person.

BTW, they are all volunteers without salary or paid expenses. They have to buy the vehicle and equipt it themselves.

3 hours ago, Digitalbanana said:

The same happened to me about 5 years ago using a US card purchase of a computer shipped by Amazon, they used UPS shipping agent at that time and Thai customs held it in their warehouse until I completed formalities for an import with UPS. It was normal procedure for Thai customs to hold onto any product imported until you go in person with pp or maybe send a proxy to do it for you and identify yourself on the Thai customs records as the legal importer of said product using that shippng agent. It costs nothing to do, just had to sign some forms and provide passport ID. After approval within 24 hours they allow the import to continue and the product is delivered to your home, you cannot take it with you when you are there. I understand you only need to register once for each shipping agent, after that any future purchases come straight thro but I never tried again.

I had something sent to me by ups many years ago. Total value was about $75. Ups notified me that they wanted 1500 THB to do the customs clearance which p*ssed me off so I went to their offices and took the paperwork. Went the the holding warehouse at don mueang. Had to pay 30% customs which came to be about $130... As they add the shipping costs and insurance to the price and then vat. But once paid I took it with me.

12 hours ago, Hummin said:

I bought an GPS dog collar, and it was stopped by custom, ordered a new one and used express sending, and received the collar without problem. The payment for the topped/returned collar was refunded. 

Not meaning to hijack the thread, but I've been looking for GPS collar for my dogs for a while now. Would like to hear which one you bought and how it works for you.

3 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

We don’t her in the men’s. They are attracted to men. 

As do gay men. So send them to the ladies as well?

3 hours ago, webfact said:

At this point, the vendor’s younger sister stepped in to inquire what was happening. The foreigner, feeling threatened,

nuff said. I think if they increase the proposed tourist fee from 300 THB to 3K THB we won't have to read such stories...

4 hours ago, Denim said:

Years ago there was a 500 baht departure tax so nothing really new. I can't  imagine it will make a shade of difference to anybodies travel plans since 300 baht is hardly a make or break amount.

Departure tax has nothing to do with this. There still IS a departure tax, 700 THB for the last 20+ years or so. The only difference to the 500 THB you mentioned is that since it was increases to 700 THB it's been added to the ticket price.

4 hours ago, CygnusX1 said:

Amazing that the humble washing machine now comes with a motherboard, just like my gaming PC. My Philips automatic washer at my place in Australia is still going strong after 42 years, never serviced, never needed repairs.

now pretty much everything has a computer in it