Chelseafan

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

Somehow i'm sue that there are number of people that these news are great disappointment for them, the same people who were looking forward to hit the big times with this harebrained idea, i wish the TM30 will follow suite quickly...

Why harebrained? This is probably one of the most sensible ideas that the government have come up with.

8 hours ago, samsensam said:

 

if the TM30 system was fit for purpose how come there are so many overstaying foreigners i the country - it should have been easy to round them up without the 2 billion baht spend on a new system...

Ah, good call. That's where the 45,000 figure comes from. Those trying to do TM30's and can't! ????

38 minutes ago, Huckenfell said:

So nothing to do with Farang then ?

Funny, I thought I said " I suspect most of these would be Cambodians, Burmese etc". If I had meant that it's nothing to do with Farang I would of probably said something along the lines of "I suspect all of these would be Cambodians, Burmese etc"

7 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

 

No it doesn't biometrics are at the borders and airport, if you enter thailand you can't be on overstay and if you leave thailand they check the date in your passport stamp since forever and charge you for overstays.

 

Where the heck does biometrics even come into play here catching overstayers?

I said the figures do add up, I'm not saying the 45000 were caught via biometrics.

The majority of overstayers are caught when leaving. Who's to say that there aren't 45,000 overstayers every month pre-bio.

50 minutes ago, PattayaGuy2019 said:

People on this site are always bashing Thailand, yes it's not perfect by far but it has some good points. You talk as if it's the worst country in the world lol I don't understand this constant flaming of Thailand or anything it does. I think this scanner is a good thing so stop bad mouthing it. It helps keep the doggy people out and that is a good thing. But you people constantly ridicule and make fun of Thailand, sure it's funny to start with but please change the the record everything you say is a so negative. I would judge from some of the ridiculous comments posted, people making the posts don't even live in Thailand, you just use this site to sound off your bigoted ignorant views that are so toxic. YOU ARE NOT FUNNY GET A LIFE

When there's so information coming from the Thai authorites that is pure BS it's no wonder that we "bash" Thailand. The TAT are a case in point.

On this occasion the figures DO add up IMHO.

1 hour ago, petedk said:

On Sept 11th 5 were arrested

Sept 12th 3 arrested

Sept 13 1 arrest

 

Long long way to the 45,000 arrests.

 

To be fair he didn't say 45,000 arrests, he said 45,000 were checked and found to be overstaying. I suspect most of these would be Cambodians, Burmese etc.

4 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Course they did. they have undercut their rivals by having a Baldrick style cunning plan of not paying workers to reduce costs

Yes an impressive figure but from a low base. Thailand exports about $2.3b of fruit with Durian making up about a quarter of this. Fruit isn't even in their top 10 list of exports.

2 hours ago, todlad said:

jeez ... my daughter got married in Cambridge, UK, with scads of guests, big hotel venue... nowhere near what you are paying.

 

For reference, I refused the village wedding on the ground that it would be a load of (my) cash spent for the benefit of someone else. We got married properly in Bangkok while staying at my favourite hotel. We had no guests at the wedding, no party, no hangers on. Perfect. Still together all these years later.

 

I fully appreciate it is each to his own so good luck to everyone who lives a bit of glitz.

You can make make weddings as small or as grandiose as you want but bear in mind the average cost of a wedding in 2018 in the UK equated to around £32k so £14k is not such a bad price. I have factored in 200,000 baht of sinsot so a third of the cost is going on that, something that I'm sure your daughter and son-in-law didn't pay. ????

This is the current breakdown

Bride / Groom Dress hire : 14,500 though this does include hair and makeup.

Invitations : 2,000 (80 invites)

Pre-Wedding Photos : 6,900

Flowers / Photographer and video for the day : 77,000

Wedding Venue : 90,000 (no booze, that will be the night before but includes catering)

Monks : 4500 (500 * 9 Monks)

Sinsot : 1,000,000 (Only for show. Actual sinsot will be 200,000, the balance will be used to pay for the wedding)

Rings : 2 x 20,000 (1 baht each)

Souvenirs : 10,000

Total cost 444k baht

I've also factored in £2000 as miscellaneous.

Some of these could of been a lot cheaper but we did our homework on who we wanted and as it's a once in a life time event (I hope) we wanted to do it right.

12 hours ago, SenorJorge said:

My condolences.

 

So, chelseafan, are you registering this?

 

In all seriousness, I wish you all of the absolute best.  At least she told you about her prior marriage.  This is a common theme with these girls.  A marriage with a Thai man doesnt go well so they lose face.  Maybe more than once.  And then they turn to the farang, often with more money anyway.

 

They're not all bad girls.  Sometimes it really was the Thai guy's fault.  But ehh... The chances.  But they can learn from their past mistakes too.  Everyone is capable of learning, I think

I think I'm lucky in that I've found a gem but time will tell. We've been together for over 5 years so know each other very well.

In all honesty I think she would be fine with a less costly village wedding but I want the best for her and am in a fortunate situation financially that the cost isn't going to dent my future savings too much.

It could all end up pear-shaped, who knows? but I've seen many friends in the UK who were very much in love, had a lavish wedding then divorced a couple of years later. Sometimes you have to take a chance, besides she's no spring chicken and neither am I.

I've been coming to Thailand for over 20 years and have a good understanding of the culture including the pitfalls and I do appreciate that the buffalo comes above me in the pecking order ????

33 minutes ago, 55Jay said:

Bro!  Throttle back!  That's like 5,000 Baht for the Fo-tog guy.  Seriously.  Stop!

Not if you want it done right. We've seen the cheap end of the spectrum and it aint pretty.

Also, we're getting married in a hotel so that aint cheap.

Still a lot cheaper than getting married in the UK and the bonus is that we are already in our honeymoon destination ????

18 hours ago, essox essox said:

complete disregard to safety in this country....having said this....looking at the photo there are red plastic barriers that are big....no one should NOT see these...driver would have been alcohol fuelled....

 

Gotta say that roadworks are a nightmare especially when I'm travelling at 90 on the motorway and suddenly the lane stops with very little warning. And another thing, who chose orange signs with black text - They don't exactly stand out in the dark.

1 hour ago, scorecard said:

Agree, usually a village expectation and quite a village event. If you let it, can be quite costly in terms of food and drink, entertainers, payment to the monks and their transport and food etc. Often there's no formal invitations, the whole village is automatically welcome. Plus there's the sin-sod (dowry to the girls parents) which is usually on display for all to see. 

Hell yes. I'm on course for £14k all in including sinsot, rings, venue. Two of the biggest costs of the day are the videographer and flowers.

2 hours ago, SenorJorge said:

I think the vast majority of Thais are actually living in unregistered marriages of some kind.  Ive read that in more than one place.  It makes it even more difficult to find out if your wife has ever been "married".  And even more easily for them to lie about it.  "See me tell you.  Amphur say I never marry"

I wouldn't say the vast majority but I will say that my soon to be Thai wife was married before in a village wedding and never registered it at the Amphur so technically I'll be her first husband ????

Yes McDonalds, KFC, Subway....

8 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

The EU will be in talks with rebels as to procedures of that you can be sure. And the Speaker and his office will be advising. If this happens Farage will say if you want Brexit you need to vote BP - the tories could get slaughtered. Game On !

Not only the Tories but labour too. The winners will be, as you say BP and God-help us, Lib-Dems.

On 8/20/2019 at 1:15 PM, TopDeadSenter said:

Finally!! Time for merit based immigration. 

Which we already have.

https://workpermit.com/immigration/united-kingdom/uk-visa-tier-points-based-immigration-system

Dollar is pegging strong against the pound at the moment so London might be a good bet. Plenty to see of course.

Loads of cheap flights from the US. I take it you are based on the east coast?

3 hours ago, sandyf said:

There is no disputing what you say, until someone can grow pineapple and mango in the UK there will no domestic competition, unlike say apples or tomatoes.

The problem is however that if prices are forced up through additional transport cost some may consider the pineapple no longer the affordable fruit it once was.

Oh absolutely and from documents I have seen internally there's no doubt prices WILL go up especially products such as imported bacon (as much as 35% IIRC). You are right, product groups that we take for granted (such as pineapples) will be hit hard and unless the supplier can find alternative outlets it means job losses in countries such as Guatemala. This has a massive global knock-on effect.