BritManToo

Just now, Tayaout said:

They use an older system. Some airport will pretty soon not need any passport or boarding pass anymore: https://gulfnews.com/uae/transport/new-biometric-system-at-dubai-airport-no-passport-or-boarding-pass-needed-1.66949849

You believe Thailand can get any system to work (new or old) better than the FBI?

6 hours ago, Farang two dot zero said:

My condo juristic person / manager has nothing to do with the payment of my electricity especially if the PEA took away the meter !

Maybe they disconnected the wrong meter.

They took my water meter once, after the bill had been paid. My gf shouted at them down the phone until they brought it back, no charge.

23 minutes ago, Tayaout said:

t doesn't work like this. The system has been put in place to defeat fake passport. I'm not sure what implementation is used but if a database is too slow then a bloom filter can be used to search a huge amount of data instantly. 

The FBI takes two hours to do a fingerprint search of it's database (55M).

You're claiming Thai immigration can do it instantly with all foreigners that have ever entered?

And there's 40M a year added to the Thai database.

https://www.livescience.com/4843-reality-fingerprinting-tv-crime-labs.html

11 minutes ago, Leaver said:

I am under the belief a farang husband can remain in the property for 12 months, in which time the property must be transferred into another Thai name. 

I was under the belief you can live in it forever, but you can't register the property in your name.

(So you just leave it in your dead wife's name)

1 hour ago, lirans1 said:

immigration Catch me work without work permit 

i stay 8 night at idc jail (hell) in Bangkok and after flight to home country 

in air port immigration told me i have 99 yer black list

I always thought it was the labour department looking for illegal foreign workers?

Don't they write the blacklist details in your passport?

Story seems unlikely.

3 minutes ago, trainman34014 said:

We were told at the beginning of the year by TAT  there would be 40 million visitors this year; now this bloke is saying there could be 5 million less, i.e. there will still be 35 million coming.    Anyone who believes that should never be in a senior position at any bank because they are dreaming !

I predict 35M less tourists, and only 5M turning up.

If I'm closer than them .......... can I have their job?

23 minutes ago, Samuel Smith said:

Anything worth having on Lazada?

Not now that China has pulled out of online selling, although Lazada was always a bit uptight.

Before the virus Shoppee, AliExpress and Facebook marketplace sold all sorts of naughty stuff. 

5 minutes ago, samsensam said:

i suggest you watch documentary series; surviving r kelly.

No need, I don't imagine rap stars make the best boyfriends.

The girls must get a little bit of a hint of the forthcoming action, just by listening to the songs, before they offer themselves up.

Next they'll be claiming he killed Aaliyah!

1 minute ago, Titan1962 said:

As I am sure if the money is yours!,,,,,,,, you would have been doing some withdrawals from that account. A bank account with 800,000 baht in it does not really mean it’s your money.

Quite a lot of people say they never touch the 800/400k in the bank.

I didn't either when I was getting extensions (as I always used 1 year fixed interest accounts).

Different account and money for living.

I managed to listen to 20 seconds of this.

It's so depressing any longer and I would have topped myself.

One hit wonder - Bellyache was good, everything else not so.

It seems you don't need much talent to win all the awards these days.

42 minutes ago, herwin1234 said:

"Multiple facts are missing." Its hilarious, if a farang kills himself, or has an accident, it has to be a cover up for a  murder

Reminds me, did they ever identify the white guy, found in the sea with a rock round his neck?

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Drug dealer tells cops how he ordered an M-16 war weapon online

Back to the OP, I'm amazed at the stuff I've been able to order online, and have delivered in the post to Thailand using the ubiquitous 'stealthy packaging'. Not quite worked my way up to automatic weapons yet, wonder if I can find a rocket launcher?

1 minute ago, orchidfan said:

Young Male IO, friendly, with ok English,  did the extension stamp and re entry visa.

No Tips signs have vanished , but I let him keep the B200 change, as he was very polite and obliging.

Should have asked if he could 'help you' with the 90 day report.

On 2/14/2020 at 2:10 PM, wealthychef said:

I currently hold a non-immigrant retirement O visa with a multiple re-entry permit

Not likely, that would only be good for a 90 days stay.

15 hours ago, jackdd said:

Why didn't you pay the tax?

What he said ........... was it your 'Thainess' that stopped you?

16 hours ago, brianthainess said:

I don't want to sell it as spares, so any other options anyone ??

Give it to a girlfriend, she won't care about having tax or insurance.

1 minute ago, Sparkles said:

Do you have a reliable source for that number of expats living here on a permanent basis or just an educated guess ?

It's what google told me.

3 minutes ago, Sparkles said:

Not sure what is going on at our bright ,shiny, new Immigration office that was supposed to overcome all the chaos that was evident at Promenada and haven't there been reports of foreigners leaving the country in droves for new pastures which should make numbers at Immigration less.

50,000-100,000 expats living around Chiang Mai, if they all went to immigration for an extension once a year, that would be 200-400 per working day. Now add the tourists and the Burmese labourers.

1 hour ago, WaveHunter said:

If you had bothered to read my reply to you just now you would have seen that I said I agreed with what you said, "...it is true that anyone (even the young, strong and healthy) can be done in by a viral infection..., but then went on and added, "...but impairment of the immune response vastly increases the odds of becoming infected,"

I've been ill with flu like symptoms since I returned from Vietnam last month.

Blocked ears, mild cough, normal temperature (white guy 65 years old), didn't stop me doing anything, just the mild cough left after 3 weeks.

My son got it last week, high fever, vomiting, mild cough (Thai/Brit 8 years old), again 3 days totally washed out, just the cough now. (His entire school is ill).

My gf has had it a few days, high fever, vomiting, mild cough (Thai mid 30s) been lying on the sofa three days now.

Don't know what this is, but the old white guy with the lowered immune system came through it with the least effect.

12 minutes ago, jesimps said:

Even if Chiang Mai didn't have all its other faults like choking smog, rubbish bars, heavy vehicle traffic, lack of entertainment, being out on a limb, the grim and inefficient local immigration officers would definitely put me off living there. Fancy getting up in the middle of the night, driving a long way, queuing for hours while being berated, only to find that you'd committed a slight infringement in one or two of your documents and having to repeat the same the following day. No thanks, there are plenty of nice places to live in this country with half decent immig offices.

It does have an airport with direct flights to Vietnam, which is where I get my VISA now.

5 minutes ago, WaveHunter said:

Of course it is true that anyone can catch a viral bug, irregardless of whether or not their immune system is impaired or not, but impairment vastly increases the odds of becoming infected.  I really don't see how anyone can argue with this.

You wanted a scientific discussion, but don't appear to understand the science.

Spanish Flu killed the young and strong, children and the elderly survived.

That is not an argument, that is fact.