luk AJ

 
Actually, no. I don't know any single person who has married in the last 20 years in this country, Thai or foreigner, and not had the sinsot returned. I've been to dozens of village ceremonies. If there are villages in Thailand who don't follow this trend, I don't know where they are. Based on my experience they must be the exception rather than the rule.

You didn’t try Google...


Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect

I had eye lens replacement (multi focus) and at a different eye clinic they peeled of the retina and filtered eye liquid.
Further I had triple coronary bypass some complications but I am still alive. I am confident if you thoroughly select a specialist your chances are as good as home. Big difference even a coronary bypass can be performed within one week after diagnose. Where else in the world is this possible? Also service is 10 times better in Bangkok.


Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect

Everyone I know who married in Thailand displayed sinsot. And everyone I know who married in Thailand had it returned after the ceremony. This has been going on for 20 years. It is a ritual, that's all.  If you are "paying" sinsot, refuse.
 
 

Bangkok duty free will sell ya whatever you want regardless of the arrival countries limits

Sent from my SM-A510F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app

This is another really dumb question here on Thai Visa. The durian tree has to grow over a period of at least 7 years. That means watering and fertilizing for SEVEN years with no return. Then when it finally does start to bear fruit, a huge 30 foot tall tree might have 6-10 fruit on it. Not like a mango tree that has upwards of 50 fruit.

With so much in one fruit, don’t you fear durian rustlers during the fruit season? 

 

we Know people with a few trees hidden in their gardens, but nothing on a commercial scale 

Indeed a worry but it is fenced and there are 2 guard houses on the property. So yes it is a worry and we will need to address this seriously.

Sent from my iPhone using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app

How does this work?

From an outsider’s perspective, sometimes a whistleblower is declared enemy of the state but in this case he is a hero?


Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect

last i checked, Thailand was not a western country.

the limits and the penalties are clearly stated.

I wonder if a western country would have waived the fine and let him walk with his allowance had he been in the same situation.

what i am interested to know is if he walked through customs with the 2 bottles clearly displayed in their duty free bags of if they had been packed away in carry on. I suspect the former.

In which case he was just begging to be stopped.

last i checked, Thailand was not a western country.

the limits and the penalties are clearly stated.

I wonder if a western country would have waived the fine and let him walk with his allowance had he been in the same situation.

what i am interested to know is if he walked through customs with the 2 bottles clearly displayed in their duty free bags of if they had been packed away in carry on. I suspect the former.

In which case he was just begging to be stopped.

Just landed in Suvarnabhumi airport, went swiftly through immigration and customs. I bought 2 bottles of Champagne in Dubai (75cl each both packed together in the same carton)

When I already passed customs and was in the arrival hall, I was stopped by a customs officer and had to follow him to the office.

They told me I was allowed only 1 bottle. So both bottles were confiscated plus fine approx 10.000 THB or 10 times the import tax.

I could talk my way out but I just wanted to warn TV members to be careful when you bring in alcoholic beverages. Even if you would go to the red line you are not allowed to take more than one bottle but you can avoid the fine by keeping 1 bottle but the rest will be confiscated.

Sent from my iPhone using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app

I was agreeing with your post, but this sentence leaves me perplexed.
I think the simple fact that people are caring is quite a positive thing, sometimes uneducated doesn't mean stupid, as educated is not necessarily honest.

I think most agree that we should continue the path of less pollution by improving alternative energy and yes, most if not all agree we should not throw plastic bags in the sea. And i do believe humans are partly the cause of global climate change. The question here is; do we need Greta for this?
The reference to Hitler was not to support his evil disgusting actions but the comparison how some individuals can influence the masses is valid. Lenin would have been a safer reference but with the same symptoms that people blindly believe and follow. So people like Greta could speed up our down fall rather than being a cure. The world is not a simplistic model about stolen youth and dreams but a very balanced act between politics, religion and countries. I don’t like to see uneducated people have a say in this.


Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect

And how is that?
We already are seeing migration, away from countries and regions, that don't offer enough opportunities to the people living there!
What do you think will happen, when the last well dries up, due to even longer and more devastating droughts?
The people from those regions will not just sit there and wait for death!
The right is already screaming bloody murder about the "waves of immigrants", coming into Europe or the US!
What do you think the future holds in that regard?

I would think twice about trying so hard to put him in jail.  What do people learn in jail?  They learn how to become better criminals and get more criminal friends usually.  If this man is going to be in your family ...I would try a more long term approach and you would have some resentment to deal with after.  Plus, I don’t believe anyone will do it for this petty thing ...the family, the police, etc.
 
They might take your money, and then his Mom will just pay them more.  Which will probably come from you somehow.

Thanks, finally someone with some good input and based on your # of post, you have some experience and rationality, you are 100% on the family thing and they have a nice home there, the Grandfather is actually really great and helpful and agrees he should have beaten the brothers ass when he was very young and starting to become a troublemaker! Also I think the Grandfather finally gets it and the girlfriend is slowly coming around that the brother is not just crazy ting tong haha but criminally insane and has no sense of reality and nothing to lose by hurting anyone, no job, no money and a drug and alcohol addiction and they need to wake the heck up, also the mother is the brothers only source of income and that is very limited and she will get most of the daily abuse! Tomorrow we will try the issue with the motorbike since the value is way more than drugs and he has to produce some kind of paperwork to prove it's his and not stolen which he won't be able to do and hopefully a little ahem, friendly donation for doing such a standup job will help get him locked up where he needs to be and should have been years ago, some time in the monkey house will sort him out when he has to deal with bigger and badder psychopaths than him on a daily basis, I am sure he will turn into a lifer eventually in that environment!

We have not found any aliens , because the distance is simply too big . There will be no travel at the speed of light or above .
And even the light needs thousands and millions of years to reach us . We only have this planet and other species have their's .

Certainly! It's all about having a good personality.

 

Maybe the title suggest that people with healthier brains decide to drink tea?


Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect

Durian is an exotic/tropical fruit.

The fruit named “farang” is guava originating from around Mexico..

Sent from my iPhone using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app

Thai people call us " farang", it seems they don't meaning nothing bad with calling us a fruit name.
 
Durian is a fruit that most of the Thai like very much.
 
i suppose  we can call the Thai, " durian ", a fruit name as well.