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On 4/13/2025 at 2:39 AM, TedG said:

 

Why should a soldier from the USA be willing to die for Europe when they refuse to fund their own defense?  

You really should do the homework before making such ludicrous statements.

You seem to forget that Bush conned Blair into taking the UK to war against the will of the population. Nothing more than a US face saving exercise where British forces were killed by US pilots,  justice was never served and the US population should be hanging their heads in shame.

Time all US forces packed their bags and went back to where they came from, world would be far better off.

54 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Your time here and visa means <deleted> all,.... you are not Thai so you enter the country of your passport... hardly rocket science.

Bit of an unhelpful answer.

Following your suggestion it would then be necessary to provide a city in country of passport and a telephone number in country of passport; are you saying just make things up.

I don't have a problem but there may well be those that do and possibly reluctant to be telling porkies.

The paper TM6 did not ask this information, just an address in Thailand. It is a significant difference and could be awkward for those that renew visas in neighbouring countries.

Time will tell, it always does.

4 hours ago, Upnotover said:

Hopefully they will make the completion on arrival very time consuming, should soon dissuade those not willing/capable of doing it earlier.

When they had the paper TM6 there was often someone checking it had been filled in before being allowed to a desk.

I can see the same thing happening, if you don't have the QR code, sent to one side to do it.

22 hours ago, blaze master said:

 

Maybe they should of made the phone in America in the first place ?

Steve Jobs explained to President Obama in 2011 why iphones could not be made in the US and nothing has changed.

It is all about labour aptitude and attitude, rather than labour costs.

Asians don't have the same aversion to repetitive work as in the western world with greater dexterity and efficiency.

9 minutes ago, daveAustin said:

Agreed. It won’t go on though. He’s just angling for a deal. But probably not a good idea to take on the CCP. 

It would be foolish to ignore a relationship between the tariffs, Ukraine and Greenland, a bigger plan in play.

https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/JIPA/Display/Article/2820750/chinas-polar-silk-road-implications-for-the-arctic-region/

45 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

I was still grandfathered in last month using my old Elder Card on the MRT.  I was curious so I checked.  Half fare. But they apparently won't offer it to foreigners who buy new cards. 

I don't go to BKK very often maybe a couple of times a year, have never had a problem getting the senior fare even when alone. 

We went to VFS a couple of weeks ago for wife's visa and they wouldn't give the senior fare for me even with her buying the tickets.

It's no big deal for me and people should bear in mind other countries are beginning to look at how much public money is being given to foreign nationals.

13 hours ago, Cardano said:

You're talking rubbish, if you are granted a 12 months visa then that visa is valid for 12 months from date of entry then it expires 12 months after that date. After that it is invalid and has no validity.

TM.47 has no requirement for visa number only arrival card number.

You are free to believe what you want.

It would be helpful If you could tell the forum where they can get a visa that would allow an entry of 12 months.

5 minutes ago, blaze master said:

 

And ? 

" a U.S.-made iPhone could cost 25% more than they do now."

Apologies, didn't realise that was what the US population want to come about.

11 hours ago, blaze master said:

 I know a lot of liberals who will be happy about the iPhone news.

 

Hashtag not a single mobile phone is manufactured in USA anymore. 

One analyst estimates that on labor wages alone, a U.S.-made iPhone could cost 25% more than they do now. Another analyst pegged the price of a stars-and-stripes iPhone at $3,500.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/heres-how-much-a-made-in-the-usa-iphone-would-cost.html#:~:text=One analyst estimates that on,and-stripes iPhone at %243%2C500.

7 hours ago, Tomtomtom69 said:

 

I notice things much more than your average person; clearly, Thailand is number one in mask wearing worldwide although Japan and Taiwan come very close.

Thailand had a fraction of the deaths from covid compared to most western  countries  and you want to make an issue over masks.

See where your priority lies.

22 hours ago, blaze master said:

 

Because it wasn't there. Yes some people wore masks before covid but it was a very small percent of the population. 

 

A quick search on YouTube settles this. 

If YouTube satisfies your desires, so be it.

20 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

 

If we cannot trust his perception, how can we trust yours?

There is no trust in perception, it is an individuals assessment.

I don't see the need for the pontification over masks, it is another individual assessment.

The Thai bashers want to make a mountain out of a molehill just for the sake of it and the covid skeptics don't want to admit that alot was learned from the outbreak.

22 hours ago, Cardano said:

Your visa expires after 1 year, then its 1 year extensions of stay. I haven't had a visa since 2004.

Of course you have, visas don't disappear.

A SE visa is annotated "used" the day you enter the country and will remain on your travel  history for evermore. A ME visa would  be annotated "used" on expiry.

The form TM47 requires you put the last visa number used to enter the country.

Of course you may well use an office that does not insist on the visa numbers.

7 minutes ago, Tomtomtom69 said:

 

I don't recall many Thais wearing masks during SARS. I spent some time here then. 

 

It is true that even in the west, be it America, the UK, Australia, there are some mask wearers now, that you wouldn't have seen at all pre-Covid, but the percentages are way below that of Thailand.

 

Even in August 2022, when I visited Australia for the first time pre-Covid, I could go all day without seeing a single mask, depending on where I was. In some places, I did estimate there to be around 3% of people wearing masks but this reduced to well under 1% by my next trip in April 2023. In September-October 2022 when I went to Europe, I counted about 15 people in total wearing masks on my entire trip. Out of probably thousands upon thousands I saw, excluding the 5% or so masked on the flights over and back. 

It is all about perception, if you don't want to see it you won't.

7 minutes ago, Rob Browder said:

The politicians lie, people vote for the lying promises, then they betray us.

There is a huge difference between a politician that has never been in office, and someone who has.

On 4/11/2025 at 12:31 PM, 2long said:

Still so many locals wear masks.

What do you mean "still"

When I first came here in 1999 quite a number of Thais wore masks for various reasons, mainly pollution in the cities.

Along came SARS and that added some more but covid really highlighted the benefits and some institutions have adopted it as a preferred policy rather than compulsory.

I go back  to the UK regularly, latest being Oct, and use the buses quite a lot. Generally speaking during the day there is about 20% of the passengers wearing masks,  much lower when a higher percentage of younger people such as school kids and when the bars shut.

2 minutes ago, Rob Browder said:

They "learned" it was very profitable for Raytheon, Bechtel, Halliburton, etc.  It's wrecking OUR future with massive-debt and lost / broken lives, but they don't care about us lowly types.

But surely the administration doesn't become the administration without support from the "lowly types".

I would have thought that Jan 6th 2021  was a clear indication of what the US population was letting itself in for.

5 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

No matter who needs whom, we will be at war soon, over Taiwan.

Nothing new for the US, always sticking their nose into other countries affairs.

Didn't learn anything from Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

21 hours ago, Cardano said:

That is not country of residense and if you do that you need to input a visa number, which many here on extensions do not have.

You cannot get a long term extension without having a visa.

Short term extensions such as visa exempt wouldn't change your residence.

7 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

But, for sure, China needs the income derived from exporting to the USA.

A fallacy, any loss in trade to the US can be made up in Asia.

They are now talking to the EU, Trump's worst nightmare.

15 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Trump has not forgotten it, or us.

 

Go Trump Go???

Trump likes to play cards but doesn't seem to realise he is playing against all the aces.

Just look at the damage Japan did to the bond market and China holds a great deal more.

At the end of the day the US needs China a great deal more than China needs the US.

21 hours ago, RAZZELL said:

My question is: will Songkran effect my application as I intend to fly next weekend ? Or is it only effected by the holiday situation in my home country?

The e-visa is on a central platform run by the MFA with applications then dealt with locally.

There is every chance that the holiday will affect application times.