BritManToo

Not a problem in Thailand, I see people dressed like that all the time.

Yes, I agree the sex industry permeates the whole town. And you would need to walk around with your hands over your eyes not to see it.

I don't believe kids really pay attention to stuff they don't understand. Sex, drugs, alcohol, mental illness almost invisible to most of them Adults that want something banned always use 'but the children' as an excuse to promote their agenda.

I don't consider Pattaya beach as suitable for children, sand too dirty, water too dirty.

You don't think the Chinese are foreigners?

I translate that to LuckyGoodPussy ......... but the story doesn't support the name!

Most of the UK population barely earn enough to pay for food and housing. They have no money to speculate on investments and pension plans. And if they did, their wife would get most of it in the divorce.

But why the desperate need to come to Thailand? Vietnam 45 days Malaysia 90 days Philippines 30 days, but can stay 3 years. If I didn't have a Thai family, I probably wouldn't be here.

Same game for me ........ an nothing they did worked until I insisted they set up facial recognition. Then all the problems and locked account disappeared. Counter staff seem to have no idea what they're doing, and little interest in troubling themselves. First line of refusal ....... 'Sorry, you must do this at your home branch' nearly every time.

Saving money, in no particular order ........ They could stop giving foreign aid They could stop giving billions to the Ukraine Disband the army, navy, air force Cut free money for women Not fund illegal immigrants No private jets for elected officials and civil servants Get rid of the royal family Forget green energy and net zero Stop funding the BBC I could probably think of a lot more ways to save money than cutting back on the pensions of UK citizens.

I remember Monkey (1978) Tripitaka was the cute teen girl riding the horse.

No but I'd complain if he couldn't operate his equipment!

Don't think there are any that support pension rises for expats.

I went to a well known opticians with two attractive young ladies serving. They couldn't speak English and couldn't operate the eye test equipment. I had to show them how to do an eye test for glasses. Think this is normal in Thailand. Accept and move on!

Depends where they live and what they need doing.

I retired from full time work over 25 years ago. Did a bit of part time for another 6 years (60 days/year). Done nothing at all for the past 18 years.

I don't know about other pensioners, but I'm paying around 2,000 pounds a year to HMRC.

What I see from your charts ........ We're fed up with COVID injections, so we'll give MMR a miss to compensate. Now nobody is forcing the COVID injections, MMR injections are rising again.

Seems like a lot of effort, normally you pay teacher and they just do the test for you. Teacher destroys your test, then slips in the one teacher did with your name on it.

All my SIMs are in my wifes name, when I went to my bank to change the number to a SIM in my name they wanted a certificate and said it would take 7 days to process. So still using the SIM in my wifes name, and BKB said all OK now. Looks to me like the usual Thai bank foulups, where all the staff insist on different requirements. REALLY what the lazy Thai bank staff in BKB wanted me to do, was get another branch to deal with it. TMB (now TTB) didn't care about phone numbers at all, but did insist on verifying my email on the app by typing in a code from an email they sent me. But like everything in this country, problem will go away after a while. 7-11 and Big-C now handing out free plastic carrier bags again, that no bag 'new edict' lasted the longest of any.

State pension increases for the past 3 years were, 5%, 10%, 4%. That's 20% in 3 years.

The bank have no idea about the name holder of the SIM. They want you to go to your SIM provider, pay for a certificate stating the SIM owner, an then taking the certificate to the bank.

I also like air con and a swimming pool, if there's no clean beach within walking distance. Don't think I've ever needed to pay more than 1,000bht to achieve that in SEA.

For all my faults, I consider myself a man of honour. And if I were to post in a thread my participation was finished. I'd keep to that! I think less of posters that go back on their word! There's another thread, what is a real man? I'd have said, a real man is one who tries his best to keep his word.

I don't update my passbook until immigration want to see it. I present passbook with today's entry and almost no transactions 6 month bank statement Bank letter Statement and letter required the bank stamp on them