BritManToo

7 hours ago, bronzedude said:

Quoting Internet rates is fine and dandy and looks good for the moment. But get real and go to street level, to the exchange booths, or to a bank and you never get close to what's quoted on the internet. 

I get XE internet rates every trade (transferwise).

41.2 last weekend.

41 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

They buy them,  marry them, then hand over  everything. 

Its hardly surprising that so many Thai women think foreign men are mugs and such easy targets. 

I'm good for 10kbht/month plus housing, a scooter and the occasional meal in a restaurant.

There's never been any lack of slim, attractive, much younger takers.

No need to spend any more.

1 minute ago, nausea said:

Facemasks are great, if they're N95, you only wear them once, you make sure they're airtight, you have eye protection, you follow the other advice on washing hands, not touching your face, etc.. I bought a couple in Pattaya (100bt each) and if I'm going into any prolonged exposure to potential risk situation I might wear one of them (i.e. queuing at immigration). For everyday use, forget it. As protection they're pretty useless. The one good thing they do is reduce the risk of other people spreading the infection.

19bht in 7-11, you were robbed!

1 minute ago, bobbin said:

Well.. if you eliminate khon Jeen, khon Asia and khon Thai, not many choices left

You forgot 'Gowlee' & 'Kairk'

2 hours ago, spermwhale said:

 

From immigration? Tell me where in the world immigration is chatty and happy to see you? That's your complaint? They are not the welcoming committee. 

The Philippines, and Malaysia,

The female immigration officers are so smiley and chatty, I've almost got to the point of giving them my phone number for a meetup after work. One lady at KUL even went so far as suggest it was a pity I was just passing through the airport (90 days waiver) and should spend some more time in the country. At Manila the lady immigration officer asked if I liked the Philippines (yes) and should think about spending more time there and less time in Thailand.

I could have definitely got a date with the Filipino.

15 minutes ago, KhaoYai said:

he fact that a foreigner cannot own land is responsible for a hell of a lot of problems between mixed husbands and wives. It is also responsible, although usually through their own lack of knowledge/stupidity, for a great many foreigners 'losing their shirt' in Thailand. That may be their own fault but it doesn't make it right.

It's no problem at all if the foreigner obeys the law, and doesn't attempt to buy land by proxy, or by business.

In any con game it helps if the mark is a bit of a crook.

5 minutes ago, Felt 35 said:

I haven't been out of here for nearly two years so I dont see why should be more prone to have a virus than the locals. Btw, here South where I'm located maybe 1 out of 25 are to seen with a mask. On another not the minister of the great "Making belive ministry" do not need to kick me out.????‍♂️ Waging for and against every day when for the right time to go for when this start to get as bad here as in China we haven't a change to avoid infections.????

Asians are 20% more likely to have and spread the virus than Caucasians.

According to some scientist writing about 'receptors'

54 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Nobody wants to touch the feminists with a barge pole.

I always thought it was more the feminists not wanting to reproduce with white guys.

(Although I admit it might just have been me with whom they didn't want to reproduce)

Anyways, no hard feelings, enjoy your house full of cats.

26 minutes ago, ChiangmaiRob said:

By doing that, you are committing an offence. Besides, if your old address now belongs to a complete stranger, it makes it a bit difficult to collect the new licence. You would also need to time your illegal renewal application to coincide with a time you are actually in the UK.

It's also easier to hire a car using a Thai licence than UK licence if your addresses on your UK licence and credit card don't match, providing of course, the addresses on your Thal licence and credit card do match.

My UK D/L, NHS doctor, debit cards and bank account details are still registered at the last UK address I used.

No reason to change any of it.

My Thai D/L, hospital registration, debit cards and bank details are all for the Thai address where I live.

No reason to change any of them either.

Nobody cares, nobody checks, as long as you have money & income the DVLC, NHS, DWP, banks are happy enough to keep it for you without really caring if you live there or not. No point in telling HMRC about living overseas, all my income is sourced and taxed in the UK. All my UK tax refunds are applied for online, repayment direct to my UK bank account within 14 days.

All the old fools worrying about addresses and offences are just that ........

On 2/5/2020 at 6:24 PM, snoop1130 said:

Minister of Health and Social Affairs Aino-Kaisa Pekonen said the aim of the “radical reform” was both to improve gender equality and to boost a declining birth rate.

How about giving men equal rights to child custody?

3 minutes ago, InsertNameHere said:

Well the issue is the way the account is set up as the bank does not allow that account access to a card or online as it makes you have to go to the bank in person which normally is not really an issue till now where we will start going back and forth to USA and need to be able to move the money to pay bills without going to the bank in person and need the online access as we can move money via the phones

Yeah, I've got one of those with TMB.

Whats wrong with using the Bangkok bank debit card and phone banking?

6 minutes ago, Eindhoven said:

Heard a similar story from a friend many moons ago. Apparently her mother did the same. So she went to Pattaya to work off the debt and obtained the papers for the property. Whilst she was away, her mother managed to do the same again. I stayed out of it.

Same story from my Thai wife, her mom sold her to me in exchange for paying off the loan (100kbht).

A condition of the marriage and payment, was that ownership of the family farm was transferred to our first born, which was done shortly after his birth, one year after the marriage. Mom's other children still don't know about the transfer of ownership eight years later.

I've still got my son and the family farm.

1 minute ago, CLW said:

Forget about the beauty ????????

Once you top the plants the yield will make you more happier.

Unless you are aiming for the biggest bud contest ????

It's also a bit more 'stealthy' not to have a 6' cannabis plant in your back garden.

Just now, Logosone said:

I may be a little bit more particular about face,

I find Filipino and Viet faces much more attractive than Thai for some reason.

But nothing beats a small, slim and firm young body.