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I submitted around 4pm - received an email confirming my online submission = PENDING. Several days later I hadn't received an APPROVED email, so I checked status online and found I'd be approved 2hrs after submission. I downloaded the APPROVED tm47 form from the website.

OPs "Thai partner" should be able to do submissions at immigration office or coordinating on his behalf with an agent.

Visited Monster Aquarium in Pattaya earlier this week with my thai family / grandkids. It has dual pricing, but i was surprised and impressed that they very clearly display that foreigners showing their work permit or Thai driving licence can pay local price 👏. Can't think of anywhere else I've been that clearly offers us farlangs the local price.

I bought it (came with 4 cassettes) in Australia almost 40 years ago. Very little competition for linguaphone back then. It's very good. Leads you progressively in to learning Thai. I still have the course in its case.

"Road signs in Thailand are standardised and are uniform throughout the country...Road signs are often written in Thai language and display in metric units. In tourist areas, English is also used for important public places such as tourist attractions, airports, railway stations, and immigration checkpoints. Destinations on direction signage is written are written in both Thai and English." "The Royal Thai General System of Transcription (RTGS) is used for rendering Thai names in the Latin alphabet. This is the official standard for road signs and government publications, though its usage can sometimes be inconsistent." Happy?

I keep giving the thumbs down to you and your mate's pathetic oneupmanship.

Topic title of "Gas" is misleading, be better if it was amended to "Gas / Petrol". Maybe a mod can do.

From what I've heard over the years the majority of farlangs pronounce Pattaya wrongly, especially those in Pattaya. But your comment is correct, most thai place names transliterated in to English on road signs are wrong. Near where I live is BangBo which would be better written as BangBor.

At first the OP's post was being answered, but then as usual, a perfectly decent thread descends in to petty squabbling, oneupmanship and im smarter than you by the usual suspects. Sad!

As you NEVER go to gyms, how could you conclude that: "I think most of those gym guys are actually closet gays....."?

Yep definitely plenty of people sitting on exercise machines and spending too long scrolling their phones. I wear headphones in the gym: to listen to podcasts (rarely listen to music in the gym, concentrating on listening to the talking makes time pass). So no bugger will talk to me. It works and I like it that way.

I ordered some from the link referred to by Bert got kinky post. Tried them on in the garden and didn't notice any difference between them on or off. Then did online colourblind test first with them off and then again with them on. Got exactly the same result = proton colourblind. They had no affect upon my vision at all. The conclusion is either: The pair I received don't work / have no affect, or, They do work, but don't for me, or They don't work and are a scam. Back to the drawing board ☹️

You've just described life in France for non-french.😁

To amuse myself, I like to count how many posts before the shenanigans start 🤣

I used to take lessons from my sons' thai teacher from their school on a Saturday morning. My sons had extra lessons, i had to take them and sit and wait, so my wife arranged some lessons for me. Teacher couldn't speak English. It meant I had 55 minutes of speaking or trying to speak Thai - no slipping in to English. In around 10 lessons or so there was only one occasion when we couldn't understand each other. I was trying to explain that I only liked coffee from coffee beans (เมล็ดกาแฟ met karfae) but I was wrongly saying ถั่ว (tua) for beans. Teacher couldn't even guess what I was trying to say. My bilingual sons translated my explanation to the teacher after my lesson was over. So I disagree with your post.