BritManToo

1 minute ago, Mike Teavee said:

I've been quoted 8,500 to do mine (Plus 5,000 for a Re-entry Permit) but the lady I spoke to doesn't speak English very well so when I asked her what documentation I needed she just said Passport, but I figure Passport, TM30/Proof of Address, 2 Photos & proof of 800k in the Bank (though can probably get this from the Bank on the day),

No, she just means passport, that's all you need through an agent.

4 minutes ago, cleopatra2 said:

Did the majority of leave vote for no deal

You seem to be a re-incarnation of someone recently banned.

I can't ban you, but I can put you on ignore.

Just now, totally thaied up said:

Thailand in general has changed over the last ten years.

Agreed, ten years back it was great here, now if I wasn't already here, I wouldn't be coming.

17 minutes ago, cleopatra2 said:

The UK representative signed the deal.

I doubt anyone had the authority to sign any deal on behalf of the UK without it being ratified by parliament.

It's a bit like sex, you can say 'no' at any time, and it's all off.

46 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

Why?

You'd need to ask the British (or EU government) that.

One of the reasons I want Brexit.

1 hour ago, Seeall said:

May I ask what bank and account you are using to gain that rate?

SCB have posters on the wall advertising 1.9% for 7 months (just saw it when paying my home loan this morning).

14 minutes ago, Thainesss said:

If you ask a 'chang' to run a new wire or circuit in your roof, do you preface it with who's gonna pay for any damages? 

No need, I run my own wires, aerials, network cables, I can do that balancing on a wall and using a coat hanger.

2 minutes ago, jackdd said:

Probably the members of this gated community made a rule which says that visitors have to present their ID card if they want to enter.

If the rules say 'ID card' why is the gate man asking for a 'passport'.

3 minutes ago, Thainesss said:

For the billionth time you do not have to crawl on the actual ceiling to install insulation. It takes some nimble, small men to climb up there and move it around. 

and when one of these locals slips a falls through, who's gonna pay?

13 hours ago, totally thaied up said:

No honestly they most likely have skin in the game and too much to lose. If it was not for my wife's house and rice fields, I would be long gone

Me too!

Can't answer, gate security always wave white folk through, we're all too rich to rob..

1 hour ago, Thainesss said:

Basically dont worry about the electronics and just lay it down between the ceiling supports in such a way there there is no gaps. Its not scientific at this point, you just want coverage. 

Not in a modern house, we all have hung aluminium frame ceilings, supported by tensioned wires from the roof.

No way you're gonna crawl on that.

14 minutes ago, Uptooyoo said:

How many expat-teachers are contributing to their nation's retirement system? Even if I had earned $5000/month as a teacher, I'm glad I did not move here at a young age. If I had, I wouldn't be looking forward to a monthly social-security check, a company pension, and a company sponsored 401K savings plan. When you're young, such matters seem distant and far into the future; so it's easy to push thoughts of retirement to the back of the mind, until one day, you wake up, look into the mirror, and see a 50 year old man wondering how the years slipped by so quickly. Cold sweat and heart palpitations kick-in when you realize it's too late now, that you're destined to a life of slogging through endless teaching sessions, while others your age are off to a daily round of golf and spa treatments...without the anxiety of needing to earn money. Their only worry?  Where to have dinner after the evening swim.  

Doesn't matter any more, in the Uk the young guys aren't getting company pensions, and little hope of government pensions. The entitlements you expected in the boomer years are all gone now.

1 minute ago, crazykopite said:

I feel for you that in one hell of a long list . Everyone goes on about agents but it’s illegal as far as I am aware , a friend of mine is using an agent it’s costing him 15,000 baht a years extension costs 1,900 baht so someone is making a lot of money I wonder who ! 

I use a 25k agent, she gets 5k, immigration get 20k.

But it's not 1 CM immigration officer getting the money, it's spread right up to head office in Bangkok.

BJ would have been getting his cut.

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I've always made the best of what I have, and that hasn't changed. What has changed is that I no longer have a future that could be different from what I have now. Before there was always hope that next day would be better, more adventures to come. Now it's just hope that next day won't be worse, and adventures are no more.

Don't get me wrong; I relish the glories of sunsets, appreciate being warm, enjoy movies, love chatting with friends, relish gardening and making things that will outlive me. It's just that it's obviously only filling in time. 

Which brings me back to my original comment that a family is what makes it worth while when the adventures and world travel is in the past.

Couple of days ago a good friend some years younger than I had a stroke in front of me. That certainly made me think about what my own future holds for me.

Totally agree, once you're past 60 very little ahead, except chronic illness and death.

If I was 50, I'd probably buy a rural home in France, no point now, not long enough left.

5 years back my best pal died of cancer, aged 50, last month my best pal died of AIDs, aged 59, not even worth making new friends, they don't last long enough for the effort.

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

I would use "raze" but is seems "rase" would also be acceptable.

 

When I was small I always though that saying something was "raised to the ground" was plain weird, that was before I discovered razors (or is it rasors). 

You need to move with the time.

In this age of solar power it's obviously 'rays'.

On 7/10/2019 at 11:44 PM, fhickson said:

why are the bars empty if there are more people around?

Beer too expensive, women too old or too expensive.

10 years back I had a Brit income of 50k, now I have the same Brit income worth 38k.

Got a woman in my house now, I can drink and bang at home, no need to spend 2-3k/night.

Thinking most of the other pensioners are the same.