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15 hours ago, happy chappie said:

Nothing like my story.i once landed back in the uk and the very next day while going through my mail/bills I found someone had used my card details and withdrew £2499.99.i was straight on the phone to the company and they said my details were used in a fraud.i was told not to worry and was reimbursed within a couple of days.i was actually on my long haul flight to London when the transaction took place.

I had a new credit card stolen in the post years ago that was used to pay for a load of bills.

It was several hundred pounds not thousands.

Credit card took responsibility. They don't send them by regular post any more.

Unless this person has a big credit facility it would have been bounced.

I guess the restaurant just wanted to get paid for what they had?

Doesn't say how they got the money back, I guess the transaction was cancelled and a new one done for the correct amount.

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5 hours ago, tw25rw said:

He's right though. There are 2.

5 hours ago, tw25rw said:

He's right though. There are 2.

Maybe you need to learn how to count.

I can think of 4 and many other bars that have Katoys.

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Big Boss: Section 44 solves little guy getting ahead of his position.

Too many toes and Swiss bank accounts bruised.

Desk and ignominy for him.

Big Joke, remember: "He who laughs last laughs longest..." 

The UK Daily Mail reported today Phuket International Airport deputy chief Wichit Kaeothaithiam last week said: "Taking photos at the nearby Mai Khao Beach will soon be illegal". He continued: "Under tough new rules beach goers who take photos on the beach risk being slapped with hefty fines or could be sentenced to death. The maximum penalty is the death sentence," he said. 

So not just no smoking or drinking when you sunbathe, take a picture and face execution in Phuket.

Public on tenterhooks? Give me a break.

I would think more like eager to see the back of this jumped-up numbskull.

The only thing in his favour is a work ethic, unlike most Thai Plod.

11 hours ago, GBK said:

Agreed, it was Buckskin Joe's and did look old when I arrived just after you.

 

Belgian Bob and Det 5 was next to a bar that I used to use, but I can't remember it's name now. A couple of great girls in there as I remember.

Upstairs on the left there was Hog's Breath and Lady Night.  Hollywood Stars was my favourite.

Det 5 I remember vaguely but DC 10 is still going I think, and of course Casanova, the original lady boy bar in Nana.

Ah, mammaries from the past!

10 hours ago, thedemon said:

 

Isn't that what was previously known as Buckskin Joe's Village?

 

If so, it already looked old when I arrived in 1990.

Well remembered, when they knocked down the night market in about '88 they built Buckskin Joe's in Matchim, the other side of the railway track. (Matchim was under the express-way and there was an apartment building deep at the back, a snooker hall and a tourist centre at the front.)

Where the night market was became a new road for a WTO meeting in about '90.

Anyone remember the little bar beside the magazine stall next to the railway crossing?

The regulations should be amended asap with another "directive".

Proof of an average yearly income from Thai bank statements and an average of the deposit over a year from the same or another Thai bank account, totalling 800k, is logical.

Sadly logic and common sense is seriously lacking here.

Same old story: Lawyers touting for business.

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On 1/11/2017 at 3:06 PM, NickJ said:

About thirty years ago. I would guess. I remember when the Plaza was pretty much it on the whole soi. Is the John your referring to English Johnny? The guy that later came to run quite a few of the bars.

Hollywood Johnny I knew well, he had fingers in lots of bars, but his first success was Hollywood Stars. He opened a few more go gos in Nana but packed up and sold out about 10 years ago.

Woodstock belonged to American Peter, but he had investors too. Nice guy, and moved to a new venue but I have no idea if that is still open.

I knew most of the Cowboy and Nana farang bosses in the 90s, and a couple in Pat Pong and Pattaya.

Nothing else on Soi 4 back then, just the Grace Hotel coffee shop (Nana Nua) after hours that wasn't my cup of tea.

Thermae was the best place in those days for a late, late drink.

It was Thaksin who closed down the late drinking venues.

And Soi Zero had the railway track ramshackle bars, the other side of Sukhumvit was Matchim Center and the night market bars either side of the tracks.

All history now.

33 minutes ago, Jajazazajaja said:

That’s not true at all, there are 2 and one of them only opened last month....

Try Specsavers...

This is an old topic.

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On 2/17/2019 at 5:17 AM, seahorse said:

Didn't you read the opening post? She was doing some cleaning. 

Was she cleaning the outside of the balcony wall/railings?

Did we ever get an answer to what happened?

Sad as it is, there is a fair chance they were busy updating their social media and not watching the road.

Badly lit trucks do pull out without looking on Thai roads at night, you need to keep your wits about you at all times.

RIP girls.

I love this idea.

It should also include 1 January and both should include two days before and three after.

The Thais and tourists will be all for it.

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15 hours ago, BritManToo said:

No spelling mistakes?

Not a scouser then?

Grandmother/cleaner falls from balcony.

Did she slip or was she pushed?

TV Sherlock's will investigate. ????

I hope she gets well soon and can give us the answer.

Conscript the monkeys into the police, immigration or army.

They would get fed and feel right at home.

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Too much squabbling as usual on here.

The fact is this diktat by Big Joke has not been thought through as usual. The muddle is in the lack of clarity in the "directive".

All this does as it stands is increase the opportunities for corruption at the Immigration offices.

I fully expect Big Joke(er) will benefit financially from this, and the extra money in Thai banks who will also be appreciative.

That is the biggest joke!

On 2/7/2019 at 4:01 AM, elviajero said:

Then leave it wherever you want and transfer 65K to Thailand every month and use the income method.

 

It’s not an investment visa/permit. It’s based on retirement so they want to see the money you live on in or coming in to the country.

 

A retirement extension is meant for retirees that have a monthly income or cash in the bank. 

 

If you receive income less frequently you’ll have to juggle it and send it monthly.

 

Of course it’s legal. 

 

Immigration law gives the Immigration Commission, Director General of the Police and Minister of the Interior the necessary powers.

 

Maybe some, but not many. 

 

Why would someone already with the required 800K plus living expenses need to leave because of these changes?

 

Okay,

1/ If you have less than 65K income and money invested that gives a variable income paid quarterly this is not an option unless the old system is still working where you can have less investment the nearer to 65k you can get so you need less in a "dead" bank account. Say you get 55k, you should only need 200k in the Thai bank rather than making money in an investment portfolio.

2/ Money in property is as much collateral as 800k in a Thai bank, if it is shackled 7 months of the year and you still need 400k in for the other 5 months.

3/ You say the Immigration head is legally allowed to change the law. This is not a local by-law, how can they possibly have that much power, and it is often changed day to day and office to office, not by a "Directive".

4/ I suppose if you are already set up it doesn't make much difference. At 90 he might need better access to the money for medical bills, and assets elsewhere making money he can liquidate later.

Big Joke was doing a good job getting rid of over-stayers, illegal entry, frauds, scammers, drug peddlers and thieves, but this is targeting law abiding people that have pensions, cause no trouble and just want to live in the warm with their loved ones.

Much like a car park attendant, with a uniform and a whistle you own the country...

On 1/24/2019 at 10:23 PM, nong38 said:

Education has not been working for a long time here and yet some of the brightest, well, you would think that would be a pre requisite of Government. seem to rise to amazing heights but then that just reflects standards, you either have them or don't.

You don't need to be intelligent to be a Thai politician. Even the UK has plenty of MPs that can't even add up and subtract, have a look at the Shadow Home Secretary's record.

Many of those that rise to the heights here are educated overseas, whichever way you look at it most that do are well connected and supported.

Influence, power and connections makes money...

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I see the latest news is that the IOs are rebelling.

They have enough none productive rubbish to do.

As others have said, and I have said many times, nothing is ever thought through before it is announced, just knee jerk nonsense. And, changes to Immigration regulations must go through parliament to be legal.

Big Joke seems to have forgotten he cannot do a 'section 44' without permission.

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