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22 hours ago, Max69xl said:
I have a hard time believing that sliding windows are installed permanently. Are you sure you haven't missed anything? Can't you ask an "expert".
If his condo block has a handyman that's who i would be asking ..... I assume the OP has done that already ? As I am sure he would not be the first person who has had to clean or replace a window in that condo block.
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While scrolling through the pdf price list, most of the procedures were a mystery to me, but 1 that I did see was female circumcision ! I guess that must be allowed for the Muslims ?...a bargain at 3000 /6000 baht, and which was the same price as a toe or thumb amputation !
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12 hours ago, madmen said:
There is a (series) of trains that goes from Bangkok to Moscow and can hop on and off for short stays enroute.The website is seat 61 or similar.. on the bucket list
Good luck doing that at the moment....you would have to start from Vietnam. But in the not too far distant future the chinese will have built their (military transport) railway through Laos and on to Thailand, then you will be able to do it.
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1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:Why the immigration powers that be didn't come up with a more suitable idea, can only lack education and organisational skills in my opinion, example: Letter to Landlord, Owner or Occupier as immigration knows where everybody lives: Landlord, Owner or Occupier, Immigration are writing to let you know that the next time you go to do your 90 reporting or your annual extension is due for renewal, whichever comes first, you are to hand in this letter to the immigration officer with your passport advising them to provide you with a password so that you can log online and do your TM30 reporting online instead of waiting for months to get a password and in the meantime waiting in que's in immigration officers for hours. Similar letter to Landlord, i.e. go to immigration with this letter within 7 days to get your password, to report farangs to us each time they return from being away for more than 24 hours.........simple, and if they don't then fines apply ????
It would be much easier if everyone had their password to report online instead of having to wait in immigration que's for an hour or two, just to say, hey Mr/Ms Immigration Officer I am back from going up the road into another province for 24 hours, que's we wouldn't tolerate for that long back in our home country, yes yes I know, huff puff, if you don't like it go back home, brilliant reply, suffice to say, if Thailand wants to enforce a 40 year old rule, then fair enough, however it should first have it's computer system up and running properly, prepare for the enforcement making a simplified system with no waiting time in ques, or have acceptable waiting time in que's 5 minutes, 10 max, or a drop off box for TM30 reporting, I mean do you know how many people have had trouble registering online to get a password, they say everyone must be verified, but they already know where we are, and no one should be fined if they cannot get registered online first.
It would be even easier if Immigration looked after the pink ID cards, and gave one to everybody on a long term visa or extension. Then we use that ID number for TM30s, online 90 day reports, and whatever the next thing they think up is going to be. Store our visa info on the magnetic card or chip so need need for endless copies of passport data pages, visas and TM6s whenever we visit Immigration. Carry a portable card reader and they could do away with passport checks. Would probably obviate the need for residence certificates when opening bank accounts and renewing driver licenses too ....
But we would have to wait for Thailand 40.0, not Thailand 4.0, before anything like that would happen
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There was a story in the “unlinkable paper” recently about a number of people being arrested for this scam.
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50 minutes ago, 2long said:
How about all those cars on red plates. Red plates are effectively 'trade plates' for test driving only and during daylight hours. Thais get these on new cars until their plate arrives and the car is registered. This can take months in some cases. If these cars are seen going through red lights etc, what'll happen?
It's all quite retarded, isn't it really?
So send the penalty notice to the registered owner, they can either pay up or chase after whoever had the car, the car dealers would know whose car the plates were on.
Same with hire cars.....
Same if you let your son/daughter drive ...
It’s all quite simple really.....
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1 hour ago, emptypockets said:
This is NOT the Uk. Brazil have a similar system for low level drink driving. Points only for a few beers. Have an accident and you are in deep doo doo though. A far more practical and realistic system.
Not everyone who has three beers turns into a homicidal driving maniac as the Western Governments want s to believe and artificially construct social pressure to do support this.
The idea is to deter people from drinking and driving before they have an accident, not just to penalize them afterwards.
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12 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:
You've gotta be kidding with your pinky one.
This one was issued for people from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. Not for foreigners.
But people like you believe that they have certain rights? Nope, you don't.
wake up, please.
People from those three countries are foreigners too.....
But white faced foreigners who have the yellow tabien baan can also get the pink ID card too, plenty of posts here on TV.
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On 8/22/2019 at 11:26 AM, kohlenkutscher said:
Where can I buy a shredder for garden waste (thicker branches O 3-4 cm)?
I live in Hua Hin.
You would have been better off starting a new thread instead of resurrecting this old one, but Buriram Builders Merchants, aka " Ruangsangthai ", are supposed to be one of the best places for that sort of stuff, and deliver all over thailand.
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8 hours ago, IsaanAussie said:
Don't waste time apologising. Go cut the grass again. Wash the car AND polish it!
AND do the laundry and leave it out on the line.....or rack, seeing as most places don't have a clothesline.
This is my first full wet season so I cannot really compare, but most of the paddies around our place here in northern Ubon have some water in them.
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5 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:
If that is the case why is she so stupid and block the sidewalk again?
To get her revenge ?
To stick it through the spokes of their wheels ?
Or to hold it up at about head height if they go zooming past ?
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2 minutes ago, Pilotman said:
The ones she admits to fit, the ones that don't fit she sells to others. Been there mate, own the T shirt, but its XXXXl
LOL.....no, she is always quick to try them on and show me as soon as the parcel arrives.
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17 hours ago, Pilotman said:
agreed. In Western terms my 'T' shirt size is 'Large', in Thai terms its XXL , or anywhere between the two. There is no consistency so i never buy clothes online here.
Yes, a few weeks ago I bought a pair of jeans and 2 pairs of shorts from Tesco. The jeans were labeled size 32, but were bigger and looser around the waist than the size 34 shorts, one of which was noticeably looser than the other. And they were all the same brand!!! No way would I buy clothes online yet the missus does and claims they always fit.
I have never had a problem with Lazada for any of the stuff I have bought, mainly small electronics.
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Somebody the strong baht also hurts are the Thais working overseas and sending money back home to their families. Whether working in Korea, the Middle East or wherever they are getting less baht for the local currency they get paid in. And unlike us, they actually have a vote !
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14 minutes ago, IsaanAussie said:Hey guys, take another look at the "jungle" those men are standing in. Now please add some more of your experience and wisedom and suggest just how they could clear 10 or 20 Rai of farm land covered in that stuff to plant their crops.
well, is it jungle or farmland ?
If it is virgin jungle then perhaps it should not be cleared by any means, mechanical or chemical ? and if it is actually farmland what have they been doing for the last year ? Snoozing in their hammocks, 24/365 ?
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12 hours ago, prevaill said:
Also which android box model would u recommend? You think i could find the box in a Thai mall?
the best place to buy one is on Lazada, hundreds available there.....searching for "android smart tv box 2019" gives 388 answers right now, or "streaming media players" gives you 240 (which shows how crap Lazada's search engine is). I think a lot of them are just rebadged generic items, look for ones with the most memory installed. Personally, I've got an NVIDIA Shield which I'm happy with.
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Meanwhile the man in charge has gone into hiding after apparently getting wise to a police and military raid accompanying the forestry officials yesterday.
An alien encounter event planned for tomorrow (Saturday) has now been shelved and it is all quiet at the retreat.
Or maybe he could n't be bothered doing the TM30s for all those aliens and thought it was going to be Immigration coming to get him ....
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1 hour ago, Peterw42 said:The online system works fine, 1,000s of hotels and people use it every hour of everyday. People may have trouble doing the registration and there is a wait for a password but once registered its the simple solution you are looking for. If you really have trouble with the online system there is always a mail in option.
as of today 51,000,000 have used the online system, 45,000 today.
No, that is 51 million who have looked at the website ....not necessarily used it.
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1 hour ago, Froggybanrai said:
AS I know it you cannot cast (at least with CHROMECAST) if your device's VPN is on...
You can if you use Chrome. https://branche.online/how-to-chromecast-on-vpn-the-simple-way/
And of course, instead of casting to the tv you could just use an HDMI cable. Probably the easiest way since OP seems a bit vague about VPNs and casting etc.
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30 minutes ago, jackdd said:
What i wrote is still true, even if your friends did it there.
Immigration police might accept it, but actually it's supposed to be done at your local police station, just look at the law:
For the TM28 it says:
"Shall notify the police official of the local police station where such alien resides"
And if you look at the actual form, (http://www.immigrationbangkok.com/files/visa_forms/tm28.pdf) it says no such thing.... the TM28 starts "To the Immigration officer" and ends as being signed at "xxxxx" Immigration office
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Assuming you have a laptop, it would be easier to put the VPN on that and then cast to your TV. A friend tried to connect his Samsung via VPN but gave up because it would never work effectively ....and he is a software geek. Samsung TVs have their own operating system, not your usual run of the mill Android.
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19 minutes ago, sanemax said:
The UK leased Hong Kong from China for 150 years and that lease expired in 1998
Actually it was only the New Territories and the outlying islands that were leased, under the Nangking Treaty China ceded Hong Kong Island to the British in perpetuity, and also the Kowloon peninsula a few years later. So in theory the UK “could” have kept a lot of Hong Kong but it would not have been practical.
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2 hours ago, Curt1591 said:
Can't wait for the microbuses dropping off and picking up passengers. They will be able to block far more lanes that a simple shuttle van!
Actually they are longer, not wider, so it will still only be one lane they block ????
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Some people would say that Thai government IT is at pre 1994 standard so you may well be right !
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Septic tank rings
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The plastic tanks have media built in to the system for the microbes to live in and multiply, which the effluent has to pass through.
The concrete rings don't have this media, so the microbes do not work as effectively. I'm sure you "could" have a concrete ring cesspit with a media bed for the microbes, but I'm equally sure that 99.99999% do not have one.