bananafish

Slinging drugs in Thailand at age 64. Deary, deary me.

Thailand have done that forever. And Thailand evict people who are in the country illegally every day. Thai peopel don't protest against their officials evicting people in Thailand illegally.

Thailand already don't offer USA citizens this type of visa. Thailand only really offer foreigners various types of tourist visa, essentially. The USA still offer Thai people tourist visas.

They'll be bickering over the cleanliness of a piece of fruit next! "I told you that pear was washed!"

This would definitely work and be easy to police.

Staying in Blighty.

Going through Vietnam immigration is a formality. A stress-free, even welcoming experience. Going through Thai immigration is like waiting in line for a rectal examination. A cold, hostile experience. But Thai culture is relaxing, polite and considerate. Very easy to live in. Vietnamese culture I find hard to put up with for long periods. Vietnamese people seem to exist in a world where only their experience matters. If it isn't negatively affecting them, it isn't happening at all. This seems to be changing among the younger Vietnamese, but it's still in the general culture. They aren't deliberately rude, it just seems like the concept of being considerate of others doesn't exist. Bunking queues, littering, being noisy at 2am or 5am, any time whatsoever. The experience of the people trying to sleep on the same floor isn't a concept, they will shout down hallways at 5am, bang doors, make all the noise they like. I stayed in a hotel once and woke up at 6am with staff scraping paint off the skirting board in the hallway, there's no way anyone on the floor could have slept through it. On a number of occasions, different hotels, different cities, different years. I've been woken up by staff seeming to have a jovial staff meeting, at 6am. Full of laughs and conversation. Not a thought given to the fact people are trying to sleep. There's a lot to like about Vietnam, but I could never call it home, after a while, I need to get out of the place. And when I arrive back in Thailand, I breathe a sigh of relief, but not until I'm finished having my ass examined by the b!tch at immigration.

The dumbest immigration policy of any country I've heard in quite a while.

She was muling it from Malaysia, not Thailand.

Lights on 24/7, too.

Great idea, send rent through the roof, then have a crisis where ordinary working people can't afford rent. But who cares, the economy will be bigger.

I haven't tried it, but when I saw the 'Pay like a local' QR payment feature in the Wise app, I looked into it. You can use it in some other SEA countries, but not yet Thailand. I'm sure Wise are asking to be allowed access to that feature of PromptPay, but not yet granted.

The Wise app already has QR payment functionality - https://wise.com/us/blog/qr-code-payment

Now all we need is for Thailand to allow Wise QR payments to use PromptPay, they already accept instant PromptPay bank transfers from Wise.

100kg stuffed up your ass might get a bit tight.

I know people who have already applied for the DTV. It's not so easy. They submitted all documents and they were requested to provide much more. Official tax documents and such. And yes, it's a 5-year visa, and you can come and go as you like for 5 years. Every time you enter, you get stamped for another 180 days.

In the UK, if you win £100 million in the Euromillions or whatever, you get £100 million tax-free. And I just looked it up, and I was wrong, you don't pay tax on poker winnings even if it is your job. I thought I read somewhere that professional poker players had to pay tax.

Speeding up their plans by 10- years is life-changing.

Gambling winnings are tax-free in the UK. Unless gambling is your profession, such as a poker player. For regular punters, you don't pay tax on winnings.

Time inside must have aged him, looks closer to 50 than 30.

Yea, and they weren't complaining or trying to buy beans. But everyone likes to chime in without knowing what the frick they're talking about.

You said. He's not incarcerated in Thailand. He's in Scotland.

How? And what has that got to do with this case? Considering he was apprehended and held in Scotland?

When I click on a thread, it takes between 8 and 15 seconds to go to it. Also, the only way I ever come to this forum, is via the emails. However, since the Thaiger takeover, when I click the links in the emails, it takes much longer to load, again about 15 seconds. Also, every time I visit the forum, I am logged out. Like I am obviously logged in now, but if I go to my email right now and click on a link from the AN email, it will bring me to the forum, but I will be logged out again. No doubt this is murdering engagement.

In exchange for a 90-day visa-waiver entry for UK, I'm all for it. The issue is, when UK people are caught overstaying in Thailand, they just get deported without hassle. When the UK try to deport illegals, the whacky lefties step in and make it difficult for the government to enforce its own rules.