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 Karen Meltdown Videos - like a train wreck ya can't stop watching ????

Thais are not getting vaccinated at much of a pace either, so there really isn't much for farangs to complain about at this moment.  It's not a plot to discriminate against farangs - it's just chaotic all around. Vaccine distribution will shake out as more vaccine doses are landed in Thailand. Covid prevention and vaccination hasn't gone smoothly anywhere so little surprise things are far from perfect here. 

I'm grateful that Thai society did a lot better at controlling the spread than a lot of other places. Most farangs I know are happier to have weathered the pandemic here than at home. I think our best strategy is to stay as safe as we can and be patient for the situation to shake out. 

<deleted> Public Relations. It's ridiculous to think that decades of environmental destruction  will be recover in a year.  

6. copy of your lease/house book with your name and address

I rent from a condo owner that is outside the country and I don't have a written lease.  Every time I've needed a residence certificate from Chonburi Immigration they have accepted a letter from the Condo office saying I'm a resident there. I used this method to get a Thai drivers license ( original 2 year and 5 year), Vehicle registrations(2), and Retirement Visa extensions (4 times). I don't know if that's national policy or just Chonburi Immigration, but they've never even mentioned it or asked for a lease instead. 

Whining Guests ????    Thai health care is nationalized and supported by tax payers. Health care rights are not included in any of the visa fees we pay so what's the complaint? 

100% deference to Ubon Joe for accurate facts, but from practical experience.... the owner of the condo unit I rent is quite ill and I never got an updated lease from him (4years). The condo office where I live provides a residence letter which Jomtien Immigration has always accepted instead of a lease. I've been able to extend my retirement visa and other business requiring a residence certificate from immigration ( register vehicles,  renew my Thai drivers license etc). 

Two weeks is too short a time to worry about. Loosing weight can be like Karma - you can't count on an instant result but every bit of work you do pays off someday. I find my body works in "set points" - weights at which I've spent a long period of time in the past act like resistance points. Sometimes it takes a while to break through those levels and then I'll loose more than expected in just a few days.  If you are eating fewer calories than you are burning - you're doing it right. 

On 4/12/2021 at 8:26 AM, lamyai3 said:

Was this a postpaid AIS you had for 11 years? And is the new contract also postpaid? This kind of package sounds great - I'm currently paying more than double for my original 4G package, but I'm not using it recently especially since I now have a free sim bundled with my AIS fibre deal.

 

The other alternative is to just lapse the 4G sim completely - are there any implications in doing so mid contract? Am I supposed to inform AIS or can I just stop paying? 

I have never had a post paid. I don't use the phone a lot and just top up like many people. I've had the same # all along. 

2 hours ago, DerbyDan said:

Governments can send extraction teams anywhere and bring you back for prosecution. It's just not real common. Look what they did to that guy in Iran some drone just dropped a shell on him from outer space.

Extradition through legal process - yes. Extraction CIA style NO. "Governments can send extraction teams anywhere and bring you back for prosecution". Even for terrorists suspects no country allows another country to conduct kidnapping/extractions without some legal process. I'm not saying the CIA, Mosad, MI6 etc  have never done it, but it wasn't legal in any country and certainly not something any government would do over a defamation case ????

The Iran case - that was an outright assignation not an extraction ????

7-11 is hardly a convenience store anymore. Between the bill paying, cooking services, cappuccino making, and banking services it now takes forever to pay for a loaf of bread. ????

wrong thread.

It's a problem with their computer so this scene is temporary - yet somehow they still managed to ding me for late reporting ????   I was due to report in early Feb - during covid lockdown #2 - and while online system wasn't working. I thought/hoped they were being forgiving of visa issues during Covid lockdown. I was wrong about that.

Sure - a campaign by Farangs teaching Thais how to drive will be super popular with Thais. 

I notice that about half the time there is an obnoxious unsafe driver weaving in and out of traffic or tailgating because they think they own the road - it's a farang. That's a much higher rate considering the population of Thais vs  Farangs. 

Chill out - Jai Yen Yen, be polite, and stay off my ass ;-)

The question should be: "Who's lived in Thailand 5 years or more and NOT had some sort of Motorbike accident?".  Seem that no matter how defensively we drive there's always an idiot out there that can find us. 

It's strange to calculate as a lump sum with a fixed burn rate, no anticipated return on the investment, and expecting everyone to die at the same age. It's not a very useful calculation. Most people either have a retirement income stream or have their nest egg invested with some expected return.

A more relevant calculation would be a monthly income stream required The napkin math done by members here (about 70k/month) is much more relevant, and kind of tells us what we all already know ????