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and my point is, find a better example. DUI and silly laws in the same sentence: no.

The law is the law. I just got back from a visa run this morning 1am, long, hot and tired uninspiring journey but I did it. He is just lazy, you cant mistake your visa by 3 weeks...maybe 3 days

i overstayed my visa 3 years...no problem. I didn't hurt anyone. so what's the problem? 'The law is the law' is just a cliche. Some laws are just plain silly.

In my youth I used to drink and drive... no problem. I didn't hurt anyone. so what's the problem?

"The law is the law" is just a cliche. Some laws are just plain silly.

Mentioning DUI and non sensical laws in the same sentence does not show much thinking power.

My only point is if you wish to ignore laws you consider silly where do you draw the line? No harm no foul?

The law is the law. I just got back from a visa run this morning 1am, long, hot and tired uninspiring journey but I did it. He is just lazy, you cant mistake your visa by 3 weeks...maybe 3 days

i overstayed my visa 3 years...no problem. I didn't hurt anyone. so what's the problem? 'The law is the law' is just a cliche. Some laws are just plain silly.

In my youth I used to drink and drive... no problem. I didn't hurt anyone. so what's the problem?

"The law is the law" is just a cliche. Some laws are just plain silly.

To be honest ,i am really thinking of getting out,3 years now,and not real happy,fine before Nosferatu moved in.i have offered to put him up in another house,near the temple,but,my wife is worried as he cannot cook or clean,how he can live there,i have to resolve this somehow,but of course it will be against all logic,that i have to leave,her father stays,and they have no money apart from the meagre income from the shop,and then blame it all on the Falang jai dam,i give up.

You're only 3 years down the line? I managed 15 (7 TH, 8 LA) before accepting I could never really adapt and be happy to integrate with the social system i.e. partner's family - and got out. Best move I ever made.

26 years, recently retired and getting a bit narked with constant requests to help the family. Couple of thousand baht now and again is ok. Hundred thousand is taking the pi*s.

But are you happy?

Suppose if I use the term "taking the pis*" the answer is no. Prepared to give a bit of time for her to adjust to my retirement. Less disposable income. Divorce if necessary, choose the moment.

To be honest ,i am really thinking of getting out,3 years now,and not real happy,fine before Nosferatu moved in.i have offered to put him up in another house,near the temple,but,my wife is worried as he cannot cook or clean,how he can live there,i have to resolve this somehow,but of course it will be against all logic,that i have to leave,her father stays,and they have no money apart from the meagre income from the shop,and then blame it all on the Falang jai dam,i give up.

You're only 3 years down the line? I managed 15 (7 TH, 8 LA) before accepting I could never really adapt and be happy to integrate with the social system i.e. partner's family - and got out. Best move I ever made.

26 years, recently retired and getting a bit narked with constant requests to help the family. Couple of thousand baht now and again is ok. Hundred thousand is taking the pi*s.

Don't do it............

Just refused to pay.

To be honest ,i am really thinking of getting out,3 years now,and not real happy,fine before Nosferatu moved in.i have offered to put him up in another house,near the temple,but,my wife is worried as he cannot cook or clean,how he can live there,i have to resolve this somehow,but of course it will be against all logic,that i have to leave,her father stays,and they have no money apart from the meagre income from the shop,and then blame it all on the Falang jai dam,i give up.

You're only 3 years down the line? I managed 15 (7 TH, 8 LA) before accepting I could never really adapt and be happy to integrate with the social system i.e. partner's family - and got out. Best move I ever made.

26 years, recently retired and getting a bit narked with constant requests to help the family. Couple of thousand baht now and again is ok. Hundred thousand is taking the pi*s.

Same thing at the same office for me. I went in 25 days early for my retirement extension. Very quickly completed but with the same under consideration stamp rather than the full extension stamp. I was told to return on the day my existing extension expired for the full stamp.

I explained that I would be away traveling in Thailand and could not come, hence reporting early as per immigration requirements. OK was the reply, you have to pay ฿1000, and we can do now. Extortion paid, stamp inserted and go home ฿1000 the poorer.ImageUploadedByThaivisa Connect1427357221.958129.jpg

So is it possibly done to renew from the same date the previous one expires?

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Do not marry these women, they will drain the life out of you.

You're (OP and a few "lucky ones") just another example of why Thai women and falang's simply do.not.mix.

Get out ASAP.

Rubbish!

Although I'm a confirmed bachelor, I know foreign guys who've married some truly outstanding Thai women.

The difference between them and those with tales of woe or stupid, outmoded opinions on local women is that they didn't grub around the bottom of the barrel while 3 sheets to the wind in a bar.

As someone else said, it's all in the selection process.

Stupid men - young and old - come here and do less due diligence on the women they shack up with than they'd do buying a second-hand car and then complain they're life-sucking leeches.

Due diligence on choosing a wife is a bit hit and miss. Over time various influences can change attitudes and lead to conflict. If I had my life over again and was cynical I would only marry an orphan with no siblings

Another "they" post. The longer it take u to adapt to thai ways the more you will be uncomfortable. Try not to put so much distance as at the end of they its their country their culture and their way.

How much money are you willing to part with to adapt? Bit of a generalization but seems quite common.

This has been reported several times for Udon.Thani immigration. It seems they have to get approval from the regional headquarters for extensions.

No reports for anywhere else.

This seems to make sense- have never had an extension completed in a few minutes- you always have to return the following day- and now at Jomtien receive your passport from uniformed officials . Presumably they take some time checking through past records and making sure every is above board?

But at Maptaput (which is my local office as well as Eff1n2ret's), retirees have always hitherto had their passports stamped with new extensions on the spot. I suppose that I will only find out whether, in common with Udon Thani as suggested by ubonjoe, they, too, have now been instructed to refer all retirement extension applications to regional HQ for final approval when I apply for my next extension there in July (unless other Maptaputian retirees report their experiences on here in the meantime).

22 March on the spot at Wat Raiking.

May be wrong but seems a bit of a fact of life everywhere. If people get things for free and assume it will be replaced for free they do not bother to look after it.

Talked to my university educated son about similar things. His answer was maybe you die tomorrow so why bother.

yup... the other extreme being Europe, where everyone acts as if he was immortal, i.e. mortgages over 40 years, excessively long pans for everything and excessive precautions.

Get your point. A happy median between the two? Reminded of company cars, very hepful to get the job done, everyone abused them because they weren't paying for them, moaned if they broke down. Go figure.

Changed from marriage to retirement on Monday at Nakhon Phatom. No need to report back in a month. Just a question obviously retirement runs for one year from date of application. If you renew does it run for one year from expiry of previous retirement extention or is it one year from application date again?

Talked to my university educated son about similar things. His answer was maybe you die tomorrow so why bother.

What you on about mate?

Don't need noise to prove anything. Had big bikes, bought 4 into ones. Noise was never a consideration. Someone put a Utube link on thread to make exhaust louder. No problem if that is what you want. Personally prefer understated exhausts, my bad.

Well this thread is about the CB 300 F.. and we are not on exhaust systems.. ok, good to go.. well, I wonder, how many times did some look back at you with your modified exhaust system and it made a different, like they did not cut you off.. or cut in front of you.

Granted, I like to hear the varoom, but I am not into the HD xtra round the heart palpations kind..

The 300 series seem fine.. the stock exhaust to me, seem to whine a bit..thus I modified my CBR 300 with the Thai version of the Akpravovic (?) system.. works fine... not ultra loud but it does the job, I don't get cut off as much.. and yes, I try to avoid the situation..

Well on the pegs.

Love the bike standard. Size of exhaust questionable. People do what people do. Fine by me. Not my choice. Only an opinion. Change exhaust? Why not. Personally more noise is not a consideration. Tis only a 300 so power increase is a shade childish as well. In the nicest possible way.

Alcohol has been off the ferries well Seatran anyway for a few weeks now.Have to take my own & sit in the car with my beer & crisps & a good book. The wife drives before we start a lecture.

Apologies. Missed the wife drives when you get off.

Alcohol has been off the ferries well Seatran anyway for a few weeks now.Have to take my own & sit in the car with my beer & crisps & a good book. The wife drives before we start a lecture.

Sit in your car drinking beer, Thainess?

What you on about mate?

Don't need noise to prove anything. Had big bikes, bought 4 into ones. Noise was never a consideration. Someone put a Utube link on thread to make exhaust louder. No problem if that is what you want. Personally prefer understated exhausts, my bad.

Personally like whispery exausts that howl a shade under acceleration. The quiet woof as it were of a serious bike being ridden sensibly is great. Open it up and if good exhaust sound is nice. No need for noise for the sake of noise. Personal opinion.

Just stop serving chicken on the 45 year old jumbos and it should balance out the co2 produced by those inefficient engines....simples

Used to have to travel internal on a Tri Star. Undercarriage locked down for the flight.

Does the fried egg affect things?

Ordered pirelli rossos long time ago but shop couldn't deliver because Pirelli thailand had/have problems with deliveries. Just got call today to come and get my money back.

Time to look some other options. What would be good tyre from Michelin for example?

I am an old boy tyre wise. Used to do Metzler. Had Pirelli but did not like them. Continental used to be a good tyre, can get a set just up the road, 8,500B. Wore out so quickly not sure.

What? Carbon footprint from a certain dish of food? Baked beans are off the menu now to save the world.

I am so wealthy that I have a 300 cc bike. Joyous fun, too slow, married.

You've lost me.

Sorry to confuse you. Mopeds here 125cc are quite quick . Driving in the gutter has to be done if chosen transport can't keep up. Only point was motorbike is good as long as it goes fast enough.

To drive a bus in the UK you need a PCV license (Passenger Carrying Vehicle) so Passenger vehicle refers to buses etc ie all trucks, buses etc and MOTORCYCLES must keep to the left at all times if possible. This does not apply to cars. It's written in plain English.

To turn right or make a U-turn etc you can move to the right lane within a certain distance of the turn. I think it's 60m or 100m and the road has markers to show this. This is why police never(rarely) set up road blocks if a right/U-turn is nearby. I have been done a few times for this but I was always at fault. If I was making a U-turn and indicating that, I have never been stopped. If I was in the left lane I have never been stopped.

This topic has been done to death, we've had a few experts on here clarifying it and the law is correct. You can produce all the bits of paper you want but you are still wrong. Maybe the police will let you go as they can't be bothered to argue with the noisy farang but you are still wrong and there is no debating it.

Yes the law is outdated but it is the law. Anyway stop complaining about it, I'd happily pay 100-200B every now and then rather than being faced with the draconian laws that most of us face in our own countries.

Yes, but are there as many road fatalities in our own countries?

What does this have to do with what I said regarding the topic? Are you suggesting keeping to the left is dangerous?

If you want to be serious keeping to the left can be dangerous. Road surface is generally dodgy due to lorries. Won't touch hard shoulder myself.

I totally agree mate, but let's not reopen that can of worms.

I am so wealthy that I have a 300 cc bike. Joyous fun, too slow, married.