MikeN

One more tattoo “decorating” their body perhaps ? Especially the girls at Crazy House, without bikinis.

Did you get a COVID vaccination here ? If you did then try the 13 digit number on your certificate, it has worked for a few other cases that needed a 13 digit Thai ID. I am sure PayPal doesn’t have access to the Interior Ministry’s computer to check if the number is legit, it just needs 13 digits.

The price is on the embassy website, but yes, there is an overseas surcharge.

You really should read it more carefully....there is a link to the passport office, where you are asked a few questions to see if you can do the online verification. If you pass that hurdle you print out the application and take it to the embassy on your appointment date. The embassy official verifies your ID using your current passport, takes your money (card only !) and photos and sends it off to Australia. When the new passport is ready you get an email from Passport Office. It's pretty painless but you should allow at least 3 months for the whole process.

New passports "should" take 6 weeks but there is a backlog. Mine took exactly 2 months, embassy interview Aug 24, email saying my passport was ready arrived Oct 24...BUT I had to wait 2 weeks for an interview appointment , so 10 weeks altogether. Plus if you don't live in BKK allow time to book and travel. So start the ball rolling now ! Edit ..out of curiosity I looked at the embassy appointments available, bad news, first one is Dec 7. Plus 6 weeks minimum processing. That's late January. All assuming you qualify for the online process ! Better jump on to their website right now .... And from their website : "The priority processing service is not available in Thailand."

Well either eliminate the dogs or their owners. Take your pick.

Or just plant bamboo alongside the wall so that it shades them out and drops leaves all over their side

The “Corner Bar” has moved around the corner into soi 81, about 500m from Sukhumwit, with more food options than before. It’s just before the klong and the dreary Sawadee bar. On Nut started going downhill when the original beer garden was torn down for yet another hotel and mall

It’s a Trinkism for explain anything weird and wonderful that happens here...”This Is Thailand” What, you don’t know what a Trinkism is ? You don’t know who Bernard Trink was ?

Currently to turn on/off the bedroom light I have to get out of bed, I want to enable switching off the bedroom light from the bed with a switch either side of the headboard and at the door. Elsewhere I would need 2 3way and a 4way switch as in the diagram : sparky says "mai dai, mai mee"....looking through Thai watsadu website I found that 3 way switches (common,L1,L2 terminals) are called 2 way here. I assumed that would make 4 way switches 3 way but I cannot find anything listed at Homepro, Dohome or Thai Watsadu. Only one way or two way. Are "4 way" switches not available here ?

The Thailand Tigers for a start. https://thailand-tigers.com/index.php

So the vast majority of people would pay a fine of zero baht, in line with their tax paid ? If people obeyed the traffic laws they wouldn’t need to pay any fines, something that this MP seems to have overlooked.

What is there to consider ? Whether being the leader of a military coup counts as being PM or not. My guess is the answer will be no, and that his time as PM started after the election. I don’t think they will announce that yet though, for appearances sake they will consider the new evidence for a while. I will make no comment or speculation on the size of the envelope containing the new “evidence”

The monks at our local forest wat only eat once per day, and walk about 6km on their alms round, but there are still a few that are overweight, the problem comes from the junk food they are given. It is easier to buy packaged food, or make something that is quick and easy...usually fried. Both lead to obesity and diabetes. As the monk in the OP said, exercising is one thing but they shouldn’t be posting on social media.

You know that taxis do run on gas, not petrol, don’t you ? But I do agree with your sentiments about motorbikes on the road ...and Americans ! ????

That depends on who is in government at the time of asking.

Having loose, unrestrained cargo piled high on that bench seat would be dangerous for the driver ! The rear seat is designed for passengers by Toyota, Isuzu etc ( after all, parcels don’t need a padded seat) and my (made in Thailand) Hilux back in Australia has seat belts fitted in the rear. Smart cabs here are sold has cargo vehicles and incur less tax than 4 door pickups or cars, that’s why there are no seat belts fitted. I wouldn’t be surprised if the mounting points are there though, just hidden under the plastic trim. Otherwise the vehicle makers would have to retool just to make a Thai version of the same car body’s, probably cheaper to just hide the mounting points. But I am not going to rip my pickup apart to look ????

As people were talking about foreign tourists using their credit cards from home, including Australia, it is relevant, unlike talking about getting a credit card here.

He used to post regularly in the Bangkok Photographers Facebook group but haven’t seen him there lately. Perhaps he got tired of people pointing out that his “fame” from a few magazine articles didn’t mean he was above the law .... he had a habit of breaking in to private property to shoot his pics. Also used to fly his drone in prohibited areas.

Last week I was in the narrow rural soi out the front of our place when i saw a girl of about 15 coming home from school on her scooter, she had her phone in hand in front of her face so either taking a selfie or reading a text. Hit a pothole a few meters behind me and lost control, luckily she went right and into a flooded rice paddy and not left into a brick wall. She was n't hurt but worried about her phone somewhere in the rice paddy.

Well our Scoopy does, so you think wrong. It’s a Honda sticker, from the factory. And it’s 91, although my missus always goes to the nearest servo and fills up with 95.

Before I moved out of Bangkok I cancelled my 3BB internet ....or at least I thought that I had. I told the woman at their desk at Tesco Onnut to turn it off 'tomorrow" (the day I was leaving), she did something on her terminal and said it was done. Then today I was uninstalling various apps on my phone that I was not using, one of them being the 3BB app. Before deleting it I opened the app, to find that I owed them approx 2700 baht ! Evidently she had not cancelled it after all. I was well over the minimum 12 month contract so I was free to cancel at any time. So my main question is, if anybody else has cancelled their 3BB service did you get any sort of acknowledgement in writing ? before ringing them I'd like to be sure of my ground in case they ask for a cancellation number or something. Not that they have any chance of me paying it, I use True now and have no intention of ever using 3BB again (the True service here in Ubon is faster than 3BB in BKK, includes a basic cable tv AND is cheaper than 3BB ! ) I would have thought that if somebody did not pay for a service they would simply disconnect the customer after a while, but apparently not !