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1 hour ago, Sheryl said:

You probably activated it before the new policy came into effect. People who already had it activated can still use it but foreigners can no longer newly activate Wallet.

I have just had an issue with them.

I bought an Anti Virus programme that did not work.

I tried the form filling for the wallet and had similar problems to everyone else, regarding Thai ID and names in Thai script etc.

But when I messed around on the Lazada site, and there was an option to refund, I think in the wallet area of the site,

Anyway this was a couple of days ago, it asked me my name and bank account.

When I looked back, the wallet area was empty, and it said pending and to be patient and that the money will be refunded to my bank. I just checked five minutes ago, and it still says pending.

It's peanuts, but I will see if it works as I have bought quite a bit from Lazada, usually COD, including this item. I have no wallet account and there is no Thai account holder.

If you can prove you brought the  funds in and they are the same funds,you can legally take them out.

I have no work permit and have done this many times including large amounts.

For smaller amounts I go online with Krung Thai up to 100,000 baht a day and send to UK within 24 hours.

If they won't allow you to do this then wait until just before you are going to UK, withdraw in cash and go to Super Rich at the airport. 

Keep bank book and withdrawal slip from Bangkok bank and exchange note from Super Rich to show at the other end to customs and your own bank if necessary.

Not ideal but I won't be bullied by this lot when it is my own legitimate funds.

Usually the ones with biggest  opinions in the banks are the ones who do not know the rules

15 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I thought they were all adopted?

I feel sorry for Brad, fame fortune, good looks, and a total nutjob for a wife.

Nothing anyone says will make me believe he was anything but a total saint in that marriage, and she was the devil.

She epitomises everything that is socially and mentally wrong with many modern white women.

No, I think at least three of the kids are biological, the twins are anyway.

16 hours ago, mfd101 said:

The one thing you can say about the Thais on international policy, over many many years going back to the C19th, is that they're pretty good at playing both ends against the middle and sneaking thru the little gaps ... They even managed to survive 1941-44 as a Japanese flunky and then get invited to San Francisco for the founding of the UN!

They are past masters at it!

Grovelling to your face and stabbing you in the back!

28 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

Then you'll never understand how it started in the first place. Or to prevent it happening again.

And you certainly do not know how it all started and please don't say the Arab Springs uprising.

Muslims will never live in peace because when they aren't attacking us, they are killing each other. It is all they know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism_in_Europe

5 minutes ago, ivor bigun said:

doesnt seem very peacfull to me ,or to most of the world .

As they say, ' All Muslims are not terrorists ' but as we see on a daily basis ' All terrorists and terrorist acts seem to be carried out by and are Muslims '

Their Qu'ran is full of hate against us and passages about killing and eradicating the Apostates and Atheists. Never been a religion of peace.

One thing it says to me and this covers all religions, how can an intelligent human being in the 21st century believe any nonsense written in any of these books by people not far better than cavemen, two thousand years plus ago.

5 hours ago, DannyCarlton said:

Nope. Playing devil's advocate, ISIS aren't carrying out indescriminate bombing raids where more innocent civilians, women and children are killed than actual combatants.

Those are military operations decided by state governments.

They have nothing to do with the previous comments of the poster who was referring to civilian people, who hold views that are extreme in their opposition and ways  of dealing with Muslim terrorists.

It is also a well known fact that the cowardly terrorists ensconse themselves within towns and villages of civilian populations, and use these people as human shields,  to deter bombings from the military.

They are pretty tough though at raping young girls, and beheading aid workers and missionaries and people trying to help.

I honestly do not care what <deleted> and propaganda ISIS use, to try to justify anything.

On 11/1/2019 at 2:35 PM, observer90210 said:

Quite true...just because the church had many a pedophile scandal, it definately does not mean that all christians are pedos !...got the point?...

.....but the haters, should they be the muslim extremists or the caucasian extremists are no better then each other.

No The Caucasians point out and complain and scream and shout about what the Muslim extremists are doing.

The Caucasians as you call them,are not raping,pillaging,plundering, beheading,murdering, and bombing innocent people, just because rheir faiths and beliefs are not compatible with the ISIS terrorists world views. THAT is what the Muslim fanatics are doing

See the difference?

On 11/1/2019 at 8:27 AM, mberbae said:

As more news comes out, it seems that the wealthy benefactor was indeed NOT what she said she was.

There is no record of any business that she owned. The wealth was gained through other means.

 Hint - Egypt has many of them.

 

 

Pyramid......schemes!

Where is the evidence for this?

1 hour ago, DannyCarlton said:

They already have one. Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight.

I would upgrade the structure for the 21st century, beef it up security wise and extend it.

18 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

 

Indeed they do not have the expertise, to put it mildly. Nowhere in Cambodia does the capacity to do a proper post mortem exam exist as far as I know.

 

Hard to believe that a woman described by everyone as cautious and always doing things as part of a group would suddenly go alone, at night, into the water fully clothes for a swim, alcohol or not. Also the waters there are very calm and shallow.

 

Women typically look for somewhere to  put their bags  when at a party  She may have put the backpack down on the rocks on arrival ,  and been attacked after that when she did not have it on her. . Robbery would probably not have been the motive since she wasn't carrying a bag etc at that point.

 

Ah,

I thought she had left her clothing on the beach with her valuables!

Nope, I did not know she was fully clothed. Well, that adds fuel to the fire that something sinister has occurred.

It definitely doesn't look good. Why didn't she go with her new found friends, beggars belief,....................... or did she?  I thought I read some CCTV saw her leaving alone?

Also, you must take into consideration, would anybody, male or female, stray too far voluntarily away from their wallet and phone?

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Maybe he inherited HIV ? 

A bit tacky, that remark.

14 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

The hairdresser clearly didn't inherit a lot...

He got nothing except eviction from George's house.

11 hours ago, trigpoint said:

common public knowledge about him having HIV . Sour grapes from some non benefactor I guess. 

Yup!

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On a different note.

George Michael did an unbelievable amount of charity work quietly and helped others without fanfare, a great deal of which never came to light until after his death.

He kept himself humble in that regard. There were big donations to hospitals, HIV charities, he even paid a girl he met in a bar her University fees when he found out she was a struggling student.

The guy now slagging him off probably had four years of high living and then felt ' entitled ' as did many of George Michaels hangers on. It was said he wanted away from that guy for a long time, but was too kind hearted to say and didn't want the big drama.

Just now, DannyCarlton said:

Wasn't always the case in the UK. Certainly not in the 70s. Don't forget that Thailand is at least 50 years behind the West.

I totally agree,

I am well aware of that, I worked in the industry from 1980. It wasn't even good in the 1980s, with hard men and thugs operating the doors.

That's why I am saying, the UK has come a long way in improving security since those days.

It does seems very strange does this because they found all her belongings intact and together.

If this was a group of males up to no good, one would have thought her possessions would have been taken as well, especially in a very poor country. It goes hand in hand, if she was taken against her will, then her possessions have been as well.

To be found in the water some 30 miles away makes you consider the possibility of swimming under the effects of alcohol and drowning.

I would be very wary of putting the post mortem in the hands of the Cambodian authorities though, and only that will lead us to get near what actually happened to the girl.

However, it needs to be done by competent professionals and I just don't believe they have that expertise there.

A sad day anyway and so sorry for the poor girl and her family. Her first time away by herself on a trip two years in the planning. RIP