alanrchase

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Yes the law is outdated but it is the law.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.

"Each dish of stir fried chicken with basil leaves emits 1,320 grams of greenhouse gas"

I know that I am probably being stupid, but how do you weigh a gas?

Had one the other day. No fart. Perhaps I am a carrier?

That's great to know! However, the methane produced when I fart after eating airline chicken massaman curry sort of cancels out the 'low footprint'.

Hope you cover that up with a cough and denial.

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?

No idea where you come from. Riding motorbikes is a shade dangerous anywhere. Road deaths here are high somewhat due to the number of motorcycles. Riders should do more but here is here. Helmets mess the hairstyle up. Make helmets fashionable they will all wear one.

"Over the time here she has become increasing Thai, wanting more and more money for her family etc and doing less and less."

Do you have a sociological study to support this assertion?

And have you become increasingly English, American, or wherever you are from? Drinking excessively, eating like a pig, swearing every third word, ogling girls half your age on the train, visiting prostitute bars, making generalisations about entire races of people based on your experience of one or two, etc...?

Not particularly interested in thread. Same old same old. Your post is a shade harsh but off you go.

There's some miserable gits on this forum!!

Why? Because they are not impressed by sensational Mirror news? That's like Guardian readers saying that all Mirror readers are idiots. Is everyone supposed to applaud this story even though they don't think anything about it? 555! So let me get this right. If someone says what a great story mate, they get a lot of likes, but if someone says what a load of horse c-rap they are miserable gits.....beautiful logic mate! Cheers for that

You're welcome, ya miserable git!

So we should accept the joy given to us by the media? True? Made up? Apparently if it makes you happy it is true? Buy a book

Are motorbikes allowed to overtake on the inside lane?

I'm referring to travelling along on the nearside lane, the one on the left, and being overtaken by a motorbike on the inside, my left side.

There are enough things to watch out for when driving without the constant hazard of bikes zipping past on the inside.

Actually according to those rules we have too.. and in Thailand everyone can undertake.. there is no law against it.

Yep.

As long as it's two or more lanes you can undertake.

Agreed. Here you adjust your driving for the conditions. Personally some of it is stupid. As long as you know what other road users may do you can hopefully survive.

and in the meantime, you sit with your ass in that plane that pollutes and pollutes , much more than the little chicken you will dump not so much later in the toilet, emitting more greenhouse gasses

Wonderful. Trying to think of more to say but may take battery power and introduce more harmful emissions into the world.

Flew out from Manchester a few years back. Be very surprised if they will let you go anywhere in the airport if you are obviously drunk. Nice story though. Not actually daft enough to be true. The most unbelievable are normally true.

Certain ghosts shrink your penis as well.

And I bet they bedded a couple of gorgeous girls and ended up in the morning with their brothers complete with 'five a clock shadows'

Anyway, still prettier than the ugly totty in their home town

Not quite sure how you drive to Manchester airport and jump on a plane bound for Thailand? i've always had to book

Sounds like those fantastical tales we used to concoct for our English composition tests, which always used to end with 'and then I woke up'

I just love TVF - so high brow!

Prettier than Totti in their home town? Haven't been to Bangkok for a while, not that pretty last time I was there.

The rules for motorbikes are based on 125cc. Bigger bikes are relatively cheap and more available now. Live in a small non tourist place and saw two Ducati in an hour, second one ridden by a 15 year old school kid. Two school kids on a Ducati Monster, Thailand. The fine for being stopped is so low as is the chance of being stopped. Do not suggest breaking the law but what is the law.

In 1988, a work colleague of mine in Saudi Arabia went off on his bi-annual holiday.

A week later, his wife contacted the company admin cell in UK, asking why her husband had not shown up at home. When the company checked up on his flight itinerary, it transpired that he had booked to travel via Bangkok and had included a week’s stopover. The date he’d given his wife was the day he was due to return from there.

But oh dear, it all went wrong for him. He chose to fly back on Kuwait Airways and whilst on the BKK/KWI leg, the aircraft was high-jacked and ended up in Algiers.

He finally made it home some16 days late, with his tail between his legs and a lot of explaining to do.

Yer, I know it’s a bit off topic, but it lightens things up a bit, doesn’t it.

With regard to the ‘English lessons’, if I suddenly decide to go for a swim, that’s spontaneous is it not? It doesn’t matter if I’ve been for a swim a thousand times before, it is still spontaneous.

Enjoy your day everyone.

Are you sure it was Algiers? Remember one that landed in Iraq with a friend on board.

This is news because.....?

Because it is humorous.......we've all done stupid things in our lives...let's have a laugh at a couple of decent lads who "wandered off" for a bit!!!

Hope they will enjoy telling their grand-kids about this bit of a lark!!

Will they live long enough for grandkids? Taste of Thailand, few years time will probably be moaning on here about the lady that took them for everything.

On Thai visa along with all of the other old farts (sorry alanrchase just seen on here)

I am an old fart. Not proud of it but what can a person do? Age is age.

This is news because.....?

Because it is humorous.......we've all done stupid things in our lives...let's have a laugh at a couple of decent lads who "wandered off" for a bit!!!

Hope they will enjoy telling their grand-kids about this bit of a lark!!

Will they live long enough for grandkids? Taste of Thailand, few years time will probably be moaning on here about the lady that took them for everything.

"What is your point? Undertaking is legal here"

Is it ?

"Wanted to undertake a motorway police car once in slow traffic in UK. Asked him to roll the window down to check he was ok with it."

If that is the case things sure have changed

What is the point of slow vehicles keeping to the left lane? They should be allowed in any lane and be overtaken on all sides.

Sorry if my post wound you up. Traffic jam/ accident caused the slow traffic. Police police in UK so just asked if he was OK with it. Many countries have road systems with legal undertaking. As long as you are aware of the fact no problem.

You cannot *win* when a woman chooses to not cooperate with you. The legal system is biased against you, ESPECIALLY when it comes to marriages, legal or common law. It doesn't matter if you are *right*, morally, or legally. You will not win. You will be adjudicated as being at fault by a judge or a jury if that is such an option in Thailand.

The longer you persist in cohabitation when you are in an adversarial relationship, you are at risk, financially, and in your personal safety.

Aerosmith. So jaded.

Are motorbikes allowed to overtake on the inside lane?

I'm referring to travelling along on the nearside lane, the one on the left, and being overtaken by a motorbike on the inside, my left side.

There are enough things to watch out for when driving without the constant hazard of bikes zipping past on the inside.

Actually according to those rules we have too.. and in Thailand everyone can undertake.. there is no law against it.

What is your point? Undertaking is legal here. Wanted to undertake a motorway police car once in slow traffic in UK. Asked him to roll the window down to check he was ok with it.

Yesterday on the way from Nakhon Phatom to Wat Raiking (AH 4 as far as I know) highway patrol decided to sit up my ass on the bike. Had been in outside lane so not sure if they wanted to fine me. Far too close for comfort so undertook the car in front of me, moved to the outside lane, no problem. (Been done in the car for it but they fined my wife who was sat in the back because she had a Thai driving license. )

I was in the middle of Rayong on my way back from Ko Chang once. Had the wife with me & a couple American friends on vacation.

This was downtown traffic. It'd be like giving everyone in the inside lane of Pattaya Klang (in front of Foodland) a ticket.

Cop gave me a ticket for being in the wrong lane.

I asked the wife what he was talking about & she blurted out, "Just give him some money!"

My American friends were duly and truly impressed with the RTP. I had already told my buddy Charlie that it wasn't a matter of IF, but WHEN we'd get pulled over for some imaginary offense.

200 baht tea Mekong whisky money & we were on our way.

Sorry, not a tea money point. I was in the wrong. Just amusing they fined my wife who was sat in the back seat.

Only one brit has shaved his head !

That will not do, the rest will have to go straight to the barber so they will blend in perfectly in Pattaya.

Tats as well?

Yesterday on the way from Nakhon Phatom to Wat Raiking (AH 4 as far as I know) highway patrol decided to sit up my ass on the bike. Had been in outside lane so not sure if they wanted to fine me. Far too close for comfort so undertook the car in front of me, moved to the outside lane, no problem. (Been done in the car for it but they fined my wife who was sat in the back because she had a Thai driving license. )

Fortunately we have two houses. Strangely still love the wife but no way am I putting up with the extended families free loading presence every day. Their antics for a freebe are a bit amusing.

You Have To Admire Their Spontaneity...

Really? These days anything for publicity.

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pmarlin,

I just did a 90 day report on Wednesday in CM Immigration office......(2nd 90 day on the retirement visa). Was there at 8am, and finished at 9am.......

What exactly do I need to extend the retirement visa? I didn't see any forms or exact details needed for the extension?

I know, I need new photos, verification of income and savings accounts to show a total of 800,000B.......but other forms, such as address or whatever, I'm clueless? I have 2 more 90 day copies for reporting, but don't know what else is needed for the 2nd year extention, (forms. etc)?

. Thanks.....any info would be appreciated...

It will be the same as the first extension. A TM7 form and your financial proof. If using money in the bank it will need to there for 3 months prior to the date you apply for the extension of stay.

I am doing mine next week. For the financial side I have had the 800,000B in the bank for the required 3 months. Do they want a bank letter or will the bank book on its own be accepted?

You will require a letter from the bank.

Thanks.

pmarlin,

I just did a 90 day report on Wednesday in CM Immigration office......(2nd 90 day on the retirement visa). Was there at 8am, and finished at 9am.......

What exactly do I need to extend the retirement visa? I didn't see any forms or exact details needed for the extension?

I know, I need new photos, verification of income and savings accounts to show a total of 800,000B.......but other forms, such as address or whatever, I'm clueless? I have 2 more 90 day copies for reporting, but don't know what else is needed for the 2nd year extention, (forms. etc)?

. Thanks.....any info would be appreciated...

It will be the same as the first extension. A TM7 form and your financial proof. If using money in the bank it will need to there for 3 months prior to the date you apply for the extension of stay.

I am doing mine next week. For the financial side I have had the 800,000B in the bank for the required 3 months. Do they want a bank letter or will the bank book on its own be accepted?